Passages

[tajmahal]

Dominick Dunne

Well, at least he lived long enough to see Phil Spector found guilty and jailed for his crime. Having watched the Australian-made doco on Dunne, I imagine he was happy to have seen justice done.

[Donald Brown]

Dunne wasn't interested in justice. I've never seen anyone with such a sickening disdain for due process, apart from Nancy Grace.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Shing Fui-On

[Lamourderer]

^ Somehow this struck me out of the blue. I basically took my first steps in cinematic playground watching 80s Hong Kong flicks and now one of the most memorable faces of them is gone.

[domino harvey]

DJ AM

[knives]

Didn't he just survive that...Whaaa?

[dad1153]

What the hell is it with Viacom cable networks and people in their reality shows dying? First that dude from two (TWO!!!) VH1 reality shows that killed his wife and then himself while on the lamb. Now DJ AM. Guess his new MTV show will be kaput now.

[Polybius]

Dunne wasn't interested in justice. I've never seen anyone with such a sickening disdain for due process, apart from Nancy Grace.

Too true.

Considering the long simmering, neurotic and obsessive hate he had for the Kennedys, I find it wonderfully ironic that Ted upstaged him.

[antnield]

Simon Dee

[tavernier]

Bea Arthur memorial

[fiddlesticks]

Korean actress Jang Jin-yeong (장진영), just 35 years old, of stomach cancer.

[fiddlesticks]

RIP Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc. Speechless.

Shot dead by burglars in their Quezon City home.
Link.

[Jean-Luc Garbo]

Richard Moore

[Kirkinson]

Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel, a major loss for me. He wasn't the greatest conductor in the world, but he was tireless and prolific, and one of only a handful of people performing film music in concert halls on a regular basis. My father had a bunch of Cincinnati Pops albums that I listened to all the time when I was smaller. They were basically my introduction both to classical music and to film music as its own genre, and it was actually my affinity for film music that got me seriously interested in film itself (as backwards as that sounds). So I count Kunzel as one of the major seeds of my passion for cinema. It will forever be a source of irritation that I never went to see him conduct anything when he came to Chicago (which he did frequently).

[antnield]

'La Vida Loca' documentary maker Christian Poveda - shot dead in El Salvador

[GringoTex]

'La Vida Loca' documentary maker Christian Poveda - shot dead in El Salvador

This is horrible. Poveda was one of the great voices for social justice in El Salvador. Hopefully, they'll catch these sonofabitches and let them rot in jail. Or better yet, the maras will take out their own garbage.

[HarryLong]

Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel, a major loss for me. He wasn't the greatest conductor in the world, but he was tireless and prolific, and one of only a handful of people performing film music in concert halls on a regular basis.

Maybe not the greatest conductor, but in terms of the movie music he conducted, he was one of the few to capture the feel of the themes he re-recorded. Possibly only John Mauceri is better at this.

[gubbelsj]

Cincinnati Pops conductor Erich Kunzel, a major loss for me.

I have fond memories of a cassette copy of a late-80s release by Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops called Chiller made up largely of music from films and TV programs of the macabre - Waxman's The Bride of Frankenstein, Hermann's "Sleigh Ride" from The Devil and Daniel Webster, plenty of Hermann, and even Mancini's "Super Sleuth" from Without a Clue.

[dad1153]

'La Vida Loca' documentary maker Christian Poveda - shot dead in El Salvador

That's my homeland! Sad to say it but I feel safer and more secure living in Harlem than I ever would where I grew up and lived until I was 16. R.I.P. Mr. Poveda!

This is horrible. Poveda was one of the great voices for social justice in El Salvador.

You mean besides Daniel Rucks and Willie Maldonado (or Funes' morning TV shows before he became President)?

[Matango]

Keith Waterhouse.

[fiddlesticks]

Army Archerd

[fdm]

Ray Barrett

[GaryC]

Ray Barrett

That's very sad. He had a long career in British TV before the Australian film industry revived. Only recently I've seen him turning up on DVD in Hartnell-era Dr Who (The Rescue) and Swinging London movies (Just Like a Woman, from 1967). And not forgetting his roles in the likes of Ghost Squad and The Troubleshooters on TV - and I suspect obituaries will make much of his voice work for Gerry Anderson in Stingray and Thunderbirds.

But then the Australian industry revived and Barrett become a leading character actor there. He won AFI Awards for The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Goodbye Paradise and Hotel Sorrento, but for me his greatest performance is as Mal in Don's Party. He gets some highly quotable dialogue to deliver and with his voice and body language he absolutely exudes his character's self-loathing.

[dad1153]

Larry Gelbart. One of the funniest writers in the biz.

[Tribe]

Jim Carroll has become one of those "people that died."