Passages

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ricky Hui

[antnield]

Paul Dickson, director of the wonderful short film David which appeared on the BFI's Shadows of Progress set.

[flyonthewall2983]

Bil Keane

[Polybius]

Actor Sid Melton

He was the comic relief in dozens of films, including [...] “Lost Continent,” in which he played a nebbish eaten by a triceratops.

A meal narrated quite hilariously by Joel and the 'bots on MST3K.

[flyonthewall2983]

Doyle Bramhall, best known as lyricist and drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the father of Doyle Bramhall, Jr.

[tajmahal]

Doyle Bramhall, best known as lyricist and drummer for Stevie Ray Vaughan, and the father of Doyle Bramhall, Jr.

'Change it' is such a fine, fine song, and perhaps SRV's finest studio-recorded vocal. I didn't know he wrote Dirty Pool. I always thought it was an old blues song cover. I guess that's as fine a compliment as you can give a songwriter.

[colinr0380]

Karl Slover, a munchkin from The Wizard of Oz. He was also in Terror In Tiny Town and, according to imdb, in uncredited roles in The Lost Weekend, Bringing Up Baby and the Laurel and Hardy film Block-Heads.

[Perkins Cobb]

Heartbreak: John Neville.

[knives]

I am sure many people who grew up over the past thirty years will feel saddened immensely at this news. He seemed a lot like the Baron in that he was never ready to die even if you believed otherwise.

[antnield]

Shelagh Delaney

[MichaelB]

Shelagh Delaney

Ken Russell's 1961 film about her.

[colinr0380]

In addition to A Taste of Honey, Delany also wrote the Lindsay Anderson film The White Bus (based on an original story) and the screenplay for Dance With A Stranger.

[NABOB OF NOWHERE]

Don't forget Charlie Bubbles. Wonder if that's a possible Flipside/BFI release?

[antnield]

Don't forget Charlie Bubbles. Wonder if that's a possible Flipside/BFI release?

There's a UK disc currently available (link) so the rights will currently be with Fremantle. Plus the BFI have previously stated, with regards to the Flipside, as follows...

...a prerequisite is that the films we select haven’t already been published on any home video format. However, there have been some exceptions to this rule.

[MichaelB]

Yes, if it's been out on DVD already, especially a UK DVD, it's not exactly going to be top of the list for Flipside treatment - especially when set against such genuinely impossible-to-see titles as Voice Over and Nightbirds, each of which was sourced from what is believed to be the only surviving print.

[Perkins Cobb]

Supposedly, porn/disco star Andrea True, although so far an obit has appeared only in an obscure local paper.

[Feego]

As someone who did NOT grow up in the disco era, I've always liked her one major hit, "More, More, More." Considering how clearly the lyrics (not to mention her awkward dancing in this video) seem indebted to her porn career, it's rather funny that the song is currently being used in a Honey Bunches of Oats commercial.

[dadaistnun]

Paul Motian

[Gaddis]

Ömer Lütfi Akad

[GaryC]

SF/fantasy writer Anne McCaffrey.

[skuhn8]

Paul Motian

Dammmm! His work on Evans Trio albums is monumental, and his solo albums from the 80s onward are inspiring.

[Donald Brown]

Brutal news about Motian. What a sublime musician.

[LQ]

Patrice O'Neal

[matrixschmatrix]

Jesus, between him and Greg Giraldo, I think there's a curse on the Friar's Club Roasts.

[Matt]

Sad news. Some kind soul is putting full episodes of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn up on YouTube, one of O'Neal and Giraldo's finest showcases. I always thought each was much funnier on this show than in their standup.