Passages

[Mr Sausage]

No better occassion than a person's death to be rude and snidely critical.

[Antares]

Charlton had far more presence than virtually any other actor. Flags should be at half-mast

Well I don't think I'd go THAT far.

[domino harvey]

Barmy's just on a roll... AN EYE-ROLL

[Barmy]

God damn you all to hell!

[tavernier]

Said with more conviction than Chuck!

[tavernier]

Manohla Loves Chuck.

[manicsounds]

Apparently, SOYLENT GREEN in region 1 has gone out of print and is fetching big bucks. It's a nice DVD for anyone who doesn't have it yet, featurettes, commentary, trailer included, but I'd just get it from some other region if you think $50 is outrageous for a snapper-case.

EDIT: Amazon.com has it new for $7.99 at the moment

[HerrSchreck]

It'll be back. They'll probably box it up w some other stuff in tribute or something.

It is a nice disc though, snapper notwithstanding. If I didn't own it (I do) I would probably hold off, though. Like I said, it'll probably come back out.

[tavernier]

The Onion is (gasp!) disrespectful to Heston.

EDIT: And here's Armond's praise of Heston in his review of the Tim Burton Apes remake.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Lloyd Lamble, Australian actor prominent in British films and TV, has died at 94.

[Barmy]

Stanley Fish celebrates the Godlike Chuck Heston.

[HelenLawson]

Ingmar Bergman's longtime costume designer Max Goldstein, who professionally went by the more flamboyant name of Mago, passed away on April 4. He could do wonders with black turtlenecks and straw hats.

[Saturnome]

Blog say Ollie Johnston, last of Disney's Nine old men, passed away but I can't find any articles for now.

[Jeff]

Blog say Ollie Johnston, last of Disney's Nine old men, passed away but I can't find any articles for now.

Jerry Beck confirms, with a few words from Roy Disney.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

According to the Monster Bash website, Hazel Court died yesterday aged 82.

[Forrest Taft]

Cinematographer Larry Pizer has died. He shot De Palma´s Phantom of the Paradise and even worked on The 49th Parallel.

[colinr0380]

According to the Monster Bash website, Hazel Court died yesterday aged 82.

Tim Lucas tribute. I'd like to put a word in for Doctor Blood's Coffin in which Court had a nice role as the nurse!

[Richard72]

1930's movie-actress JUNE TRAVIS had died.
She was 93 years old.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Composer Tristram Cary, son of Joyce Cary, died on April 24. He wrote the score for the original The Ladykillers and several other films.

Kay Linaker, a minor actress of the 30s and 40s who later turned to scriptwriting and co-authored the screenplay of The Blob, died on April 18.

Joy Page.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joy Page, the stepdaughter of former Warner Bros. studio chief Jack L. Warner who made her film acting debut as a Bulgarian newlywed in "Casablanca," has died. She was 83.

Page died of complications from a stroke and pneumonia Friday at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said her son, Gregory Orr.

Born Nov. 9, 1924 in Los Angeles, Page was the daughter of silent screen star Don Alvarado (also known as Don Page) and Ann Boyar, who married Warner after she and Alvarado divorced.

A dark-haired beauty, Page was 17 and a high school senior when she snagged the role of Annina Brandel in the 1942 classic "Casablanca" starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman.

Warner had brought home an early draft of the film. Page's acting coach Sophie Rosenstein suggested Page read for the part, Orr said.

In the movie, Page's character is caught in a moral pickle because she and her husband, a gambler, need exit visas to get out of Casablanca and go to America. The only way for them to leave is if she sleeps with Capt. Renault (Claude Rains). Bogart, playing the owner of Rick's Cafe Americaine, lets her husband win at roulette so he can buy the visas.

Orr said that while Warner liked Page's work in the film, he would not sign her to a studio contract or cast her in other Warner Bros. films.

Her other screen credits include the 1944 MGM film "Kismet" with Marlene Dietrich and 1948's "Man-Eater of Kumaon."

In 1945, she married actor William T. Orr, who later headed up Warner Bros.' TV department. She retired from acting in 1962. The couple divorced in 1970.

[tryavna]

Composer Tristram Cary, son of Joyce Cary, died on April 24. He wrote the score for the original The Ladykillers and several other films.

It's a shame that Cary wasn't more active in the film industry. He also wrote the scores for Losey's Time Without Pity and Hammer's Quatermass and the Pit. I particularly like his choice of writing a fugue (over a woodblock, of all things) for the robbery scene in Ladykillers -- very effective and whimsical, just like the rest of the film.

[Person]

The name "Tristram Cary" wasn't familiar to me before today. I agree that his scores are brilliant - Ladykillers strikes the perfect balance between suspense and whimsy, which is no mean feat. Always loved the Quatermass score.

I try and convince myself that death isn't a big deal, but when a great musician dies, my view is thrown into question. What would I give to have Beethoven or Mahler to live again and to compose again, I wonder?

[colinr0380]

Not film related by thought I'd add Humphrey Lytttleton. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Sorry_I_Haven't_A_Clue) really did become a national institution - it was interesting to listen to earlier episodes from the 70s where the audience were not sure how to react to some of the jokes to the later ones where the audiences are fully participating. I'll miss the lovely Samantha (who always conjured up in my imagination the disturbing image of Bella Emberg in a two piece bikini sacheting across the stage!) and sadly it looks like I spent all that time memorising the rules of Mornington Crescent in vain!

[Saturnome]

Albert Hofmann, inventor of LSD, not movie related but he somehow contributed to Preminger's Skidoo.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Norwegian actress Julie Ege has died at the age of 64.

[Antoine Doinel]

Bebe Barron, who scored Forbidden Planet, has died at the age of 82.