Passages

[Lemmy Caution]

Derrick Bell, a famous quitter.

[matrixschmatrix]

Charles Napier

A shame- he was one of the best parts of the Critic (and any number of movies.) I always enjoyed hearing him on the commentaries for those.

[Feego]

Charles Napier

Not too many people can claim to be both a Russ Meyer and Jonathan Demme regular, and for that, I love him.

[Duncan Hopper]

And who else can claim to have such a mouth so full of teeth?

[perkizitore]

David Bedford

[swo17]

Steve Jobs

MoC tribute

Never having used an Apple product (that I'm aware of), I feel sort of out of the loop on this one.

[colinr0380]

I would recommend the third episode of Triumph of the Nerds for more on Steve Jobs and the Mac era (this programme was from 1996, so of course doesn't get into the return to Apple). There is also a transcript of the episode available.

[hearthesilence]

Never having used an Apple product (that I'm aware of), I feel sort of out of the loop on this one.

You don't have to have an Apple product. The whole concept of Windows was based on the same point-and-click-with-a-mouse innovation Apple created, and most cell phones these days adapted many of the same innovations brought on by the iPhone, amazing considering how different it was and that it debuted only four years ago.

[willoneill]

The whole concept of Windows was based on the same point-and-click-with-a-mouse innovation Xeroxcreated ...

corrected

[hearthesilence]

The whole concept of Windows was based on the same point-and-click-with-a-mouse innovation Xerox created, ...

corrected

all right, "Apple pioneered." (And Gates was working with Apple when they were designing their first apps for the new graphical OS, was he not?)

From The Guardian:

The Mac was intended to be the first mass-market computer based on using a mouse and a graphical user interface. These ideas had been developed by Alan Kay and other scientists at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center). They had been tried in the high-priced Xerox Star workstation and, later, in Apple's Lisa ($9,995), without finding commercial success.

[Saturnome]

And there would be no Pixar without him, apparently. Pixar before Steve Jobs was "The Graphic Group", a George Lucas company or something similar with a hardware division, selling computers. And for a decade they weren't making money, they survived on Jobs' wallet and Scrubbing Bubbles/Listerine commercials.

[JAP]

And Criterion has "always been a Mac shop".

[Brian C]

Ha ha, the man's only been dead a day and already people are blaming Windows on him. Let the man rest in peace!

[Tom Hagen]

they survived on Jobs' wallet and Scrubbing Bubbles/Listerine commercials.

Ha! I always loved those Scrubbing Bubbles commercials when I was a kid. Now I know why!

[Feego]

Diane Cilento

[antnield]

George Baker.

[SpiderBaby]

Al Davis.

Sad day for a Raiders fan.

[antnield]

David Hess. (No obit as yet, but plenty of word on Twitter.)

[Napier]

Al Davis.

Sad day for a Raiders fan.

And the Raiders just turned the corner into becoming a good team again.

[colinr0380]

David Hess. (No obit as yet, but plenty of word on Twitter.)

That's a shame, especially as Shameless are just about to release a still edited (but a matter of seconds rather than over eleven minutes) edition of The House on the Edge of the Park in the UK.

Here's one report, which reminds me that apart from his Last House on the Left acting notoriety, that he was also a musician. Didn't he also provide a number of songs for Cabin Fever?

[Gaddis]

Didn't he also provide a number of songs for Cabin Fever?

Incredibly, he wrote "Speedy Gonzalez" for Pat Boone. I also think Elvis did one of his songs as well.

[Feego]

Wow, that was unexpected. I only just saw Last House on the Left for the first time a couple of years ago, and though I wasn't enamoured with it, Hess' performance certainly left an impression on me. I remember listening to his commentary and finding his, shall we say, "committed" acting during the rape scene a bit nauseating, but there can be no denying that he just about single-handedly made that film what it is, for better or for worse. I actually saw him in House on the Edge of the Park first, another very disturbing and off-putting film. While I can't claim to be the biggest fan of his movies, I can acknowledge that Hess rightly earned his reputation as a horror icon.

[colinr0380]

Incredibly, he wrote "Speedy Gonzalez" for Pat Boone. I also think Elvis did one of his songs as well.

That's amazing! A quick check of imdb shows that he wrote Come Along from Frankie & Johnny and Sand Castles for Paradise, Hawaiian Style.

[dad1153]

Jim Troesch.

[knives]

Wow, that was unexpected. I only just saw Last House on the Left for the first time a couple of years ago, and though I wasn't enamoured with it, Hess' performance certainly left an impression on me. I remember listening to his commentary and finding his, shall we say, "committed" acting during the rape scene a bit nauseating, but there can be no denying that he just about single-handedly made that film what it is, for better or for worse. I actually saw him in House on the Edge of the Park first, another very disturbing and off-putting film. While I can't claim to be the biggest fan of his movies, I can acknowledge that Hess rightly earned his reputation as a horror icon.

Yeah, he was the only good part of that movie and reminded me a lot of Joe Spinell in Maniac with his sleeze and violence during the peaceful scenes. Now if only the rest of the movie had been attuned to that.