Passages
- L.A.
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Heddy Honigmann at 70.
- colinr0380
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Interesting to find out that according to imdb he was also a consultant for the design of the computer graphics for WarGames.
- MichaelB
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Director Lívia Gyarmathy, best known outside Hungary for her 1969 debut feature Do You Remember Sunday-Monday?.
- domino harvey
- Dot Com Dom
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Damn, RIP
- swo17
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It looks like he was in the middle of filming a few things too. Very sad. Instead of merely being typecast after Something Wild and Goodfellas, he often got to play roles that took your preconceived notions of him in interesting directions, and he was always a pleasure to watch
- Mr Sausage
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One of my favourite performances of his was as the weary, beaten down cop taking his bad conscience out on the world in Narc. A forceful, unglamorous performance.
- hearthesilence
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It's not a very good movie, but Liotta's performance is a pleasant surprise in Corrina, Corrina, a good example of him breaking through the typecasting that could have plagued his entire career. But he's so good in Something Wild and GoodFellas, and both film are so great, it's no surprise lesser talents wanted to replicate that element in whatever they were putting out.
- L.A.
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R.I.P. Ray Liotta and Yes drummer Alan White.
- hearthesilence
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Going for the One was pretty good, probably the only Yes I'd listen to after the "holy trinity" of The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge (all with Bill Bruford on drums before he moved on to greater things with King Crimson).
But "Instant Karma," Imagine and All Things Must Pass are even greater, some of my favorite records by any of the Beatles.
- swo17
- Bloodthirsty Butcher
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I don't even generally like prog but Tales from Topographic Oceans is incredible in my book
- soundchaser
- Leave Her to Beaver
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Alan was a classic powerhouse drummer, no doubt about it. He and Squire made for a hell of a rhythm section.
(And as someone whose username comes from the album, it will surprise no one that I think Relayer is an astonishing achievement, especially rhythmically.)
(And as someone whose username comes from the album, it will surprise no one that I think Relayer is an astonishing achievement, especially rhythmically.)
- therewillbeblus
- Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2015 3:40 pm
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This. The album was the standout recommendation for the band my my friend’s dad (who is still the most knowledgeable audiophile I’ve ever met and a huge Yes fan) and I’ve never understood why it didn’t top more lists of their ranked albums
- soundchaser
- Leave Her to Beaver
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I think Tales can be kind of a meandering album at times, even among Yes’s discography. Certainly I’ve wavered on it over the years. But the middle section of “Ritual” is a fantastic showcase for White’s talents as a driving force.
- hearthesilence
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I forgot about Marriage Story - as soon as I saw Liotta at that desk in that suit, he actually reminded me of quite a few partners and employers my friends in the legal and corporate world worked under.
- soundchaser
- Leave Her to Beaver
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For anyone interested in hearing Alan White stretch his chops, I'd highly recommend the album Levin Torn White, which is full of intense instrumental tracks that never let up.
- colinr0380
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Very surprising news about Liotta. He had a great run of crazy characters in the mid 90s with his roles in Unlawful Entry, his starring role in Unforgettable (which was infamously the film that brought John Dahl's career back down to earth as the too-hyped film following the impossible to follow up The Last Seduction. It is a bit absurdly fantastical in its high concept premise, but not entirely deserving of all the negativity) and especially the escaped lunatic in Turbulence, in which Liotta seems to be having a ball. In terms of 1997 airplane hijack thrillers, I remember much preferring it at the time to the more po-facedly serious (and therefore more politically iffy) Air Force One, and about as much as Con Air.
There's also Liotta's very amusing performance in the dinner scene of Hannibal (NSFW)!
There's also Liotta's very amusing performance in the dinner scene of Hannibal (NSFW)!
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colinr0380 wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 2:11 pmThere's also Liotta's very amusing performance in the dinner scene of Hannibal (NSFW)!
My sister had to run out of the theatre when we saw that. She came very close to passing out!
- colinr0380
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Its amazing to think that the final scene is actually toned down (if just in a moral sense) from the same scene in the original novel, in which:
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Clarice shares the meal with Lecter before they go off on the run together!
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- L.A.
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Andrew Fletcher of Depeche Mode.
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- hearthesilence
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Jesus, what the hell is happening this week.
- hearthesilence
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- flyonthewall2983
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I prefer Going for the One over Fragile, which is hampered a little by those short solo tracks, good as they are it makes the whole experience a little mushy for me even if in between those are some of their best songs ever. I think I even prefer the aforementioned Relayer over it, for just how wild the instrumentation is.hearthesilence wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 1:31 pmGoing for the One was pretty good, probably the only Yes I'd listen to after the "holy trinity" of The Yes Album, Fragile and Close to the Edge (all with Bill Bruford on drums before he moved on to greater things with King Crimson).