Passages

[MichaelB]

Director Liviu Ciulei, a major presence in Romanian cinema and theatre, who won Best Director at Cannes in 1965 for The Forest of the Hanged.

[dad1153]

John McCarthy, computer scientist that coined the concept/phrase 'artificial intelligence' back in 1955. Where would movie/TV sci-fi writing have been without that storyteling shortcut for talking robots and human-looking cyborgs?

[j99]

Sir Jimmy Savile

[Feego]

Gilbert Cates

[Ovader]

Tim Lucas reports film producer Richard Gordon has passed away.

[colinr0380]

At least we can be grateful that he got the chance to record many of those excellent interviews and commentary tracks for his films (I wonder if they managed to record any comments from Gordon about Island of Terror and The Projected Man?)

[bamwc2]

Wyatt Knight of Porky's fame

[ccfixx]

GWAR's Cory Smoot, a.k.a. Flattus Maximus

[flyonthewall2983]

Andy Rooney.

[Perkins Cobb]

Cynthia Myers of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

[RodneyOz]

Sarah Watt, Australian director of Look Both Ways and My Year Without Sex

[knives]

Guess it was the right time to retire.

[mfunk9786]

I didn't realize that Sarah Watt was retired.

[knives]

It was in reference to this. Didn't notice the next page.

Andy Rooney.

[mfunk9786]

Ah, gotcha.

[GaryC]

Sarah Watt, Australian director of Look Both Ways and My Year Without Sex

Sad. She was not much known outside Australia as far as I can tell (Look Both Ways had a limited arthouse release in the UK while My Year Without Sex bypasses distribution altogether and turned up on BBC2 a few weeks ago) but I liked both of her features, and in particular her rather off-centre sense of humour. She only made the two features, plus quite a few shorts. There won't be more. Fifty-three is not old.

[Feego]

Cynthia Myers of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

As a Russ Meyer fan, it's sad to see three of his most memorable stars gone in one year. First Tura Satana, then Charles Napier, and now Cynthia. Let's hope the four of them are stirring up some naughty fun in the next life.

[Polybius]

She's also very popular among aficionados of vintage era Playboy.

[domino harvey]

Joe Frazier

[knives]

The boxer?

[domino harvey]

Yes

[Caligula]

Lisbeth Movin has died. She'll probably be particularly remembered around here for her portrayal of the pastor's wife, Anne, in Carl Th. Dreyer's Vredens Dag.

[colinr0380]

Hal Kanter, screenwriter on films such as the Crosby/Hope Road To Bali, the Presley films Blue Hawaii and Loving You (he also directed Loving You), a contributor of extra material to the Marilyn Monroe picture Let's Make Love and who worked on the adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Rose Tattoo which starred Burt Lancaster and Anna Magnani.

He was also one of the writers on Tashlin's Artists and Models and seems to have written the scripts for many of the Oscar shows through the 1990s.

[kinjitsu]

Actor Sid Melton

[bamwc2]

Rapper and sometimes actor Heavy D