Passages

[flyonthewall2983]

Jim Marshall

[colinr0380]

Claude Miller.

La petite voleuse or The Accompanist are perhaps his better known works, but I really love Class Trip (which I wrote about in the horror list project thread), and the Les enfants de Lumière documentary from 1995 which he was one of the co-directors on was a really wonderful love letter/tribute to a century of French cinema, and beautifully thematically edited together (even if many of the clips from the films montaged together were not identified until the end credit scroll!)

[Perkins Cobb]

Luke Askew. No links yet, but per Tim Lucas on Facebook. Brutal day.

[Polybius]

Luke Askew.

Damn. A guy who lent credibility to any and every role he ever played.

[Markson]

"Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade.

[Donald Brown]

Surely going someplace dark for his crimes against art.

[mfunk9786]

Oh please. Could you be anymore Donald Brown?

[colinr0380]

Notes by Tim Lucas on Natalie Perrey, a frequent actress in Jean Rollin's films.

[bamwc2]

"Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade.

Yes, his work was dreck, by all accounts he was a greedy and ill tempered man that wasn't above fleecing his own gallery owners, but I was tickled pink to find out today that he worked as an animator in Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice.

[bamwc2]

No official confirmation yet, but at least one site is reporting that Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes has died.

Edit: CBS is now reporting it.

[Feego]

Actress Martha Stewart, probably best remembered as the girl who's mysterious murder kickstarts Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place.

[MichaelB]

No official confirmation yet, but at least one site is reporting that Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes has died.

For the benefit of my fellow non-Americans, he was played by Christopher Plummer in Michael Mann's The Insider (though Wallace, by all accounts, didn't consider it a very flattering portrayal).

[Gregory]

My favorite Mike Wallace clip is the interview with Dalí from back in the '50s. It's included on the free Doorway to Dalí DVD, which I got about six years ago and I see it's still available. Its one of those glimpses into the early age of commercial television that's great not only for the interview but for the breaks when Wallace turns to the camera and starts smoking Philip Morris cigarettes and talking about how mild and enjoyable they are.

[flyonthewall2983]

No official confirmation yet, but at least one site is reporting that Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes has died.

For the benefit of my fellow non-Americans, he was played by Christopher Plummer in Michael Mann's The Insider (though Wallace, by all accounts, didn't consider it a very flattering portrayal).

I remember watching Mike on Larry King around the time the movie was released, he was asked about it and they showed a clip (the scene where Wallace gets irate at Tobolowsky and Gershon's characters for cutting his interview). I don't think it made the network look completely evil, but I'm sure CBS wasn't thrilled this story made it's way to the big screen in such short time.

[Lemmy Caution]

65 Mike Wallace interviews from the late '50's available here (legally), including the Dali.

Mike Wallace rose to prominence in 1956 with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat, which soon developed into the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Well prepared with extensive research, Wallace asked probing questions of guests framed in tight close-ups. The result was a series of compelling and revealing interviews with some of the most interesting and important people of the day.

The Mike Wallace Interview ran from 1957 to 1960, but the Ransom Center collection includes interviews from only 1957 and 1958. In the early 1960s, Mr. Wallace donated to the Ransom Center kinescopes of these programs and related materials, including his prepared questions, research material, and correspondence.

Copyright of all of the interviews is held by Mike Wallace, who generously agreed to allow the Ransom Center to present them here in their entirety. Any further use of this material requires the permission of both Mike Wallace and the Ransom Center.

There are 65 interviews in the Ransom Center's collection. Five are on audio tape, and the others are kinescopes, 16mm recordings of the television programs made by filming the picture from a video monitor.

[carax09]

Thanks Lemmy, that's a great resource. It's too bad that the Ayn Rand interview isn't included, but that one is generously excerpted in the Adam Curtis film, All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace.

[MichaelB]

Hal Chester, child actor turned producer (Night of the Demon, School for Scoundrels).

[j99]

The interview I remember by Mike Wallace was the one with Barbara Streisand. He quoted someone who called her an "ego maniac" or words to that effect, and she wasn't best pleased. A far cry from the sychophantic, celebrity fluff you get these days.

[flyonthewall2983]

One of the comments from the AV Club article on his death

Mike Wallace interviewed Frank Lloyd Wright back in 1957. It's a decent interview, but really, it just blows my mind that a person born in 1867 was interviewed by a person who would die in 2012. History is not that long ago.

[MichaelB]

William Finley.

[knives]

Oh, this is terrible. I was just thinking the other day I would be insanely happy to see him and De Palma team up again. It just feels like he was younger than he was since he never got the number of roles he deserved. He really deserved to be a major character actor, but at least a few of his roles are prominent enough that I doubt he'll ever be forgotten.

[tojoed]

William Finley.

Terrible news. I was just listening to him on the soundtrack of "Phantom of the Paradise".
A really great guy. I'll have to watch a double bill of "Phantom" and "The Fury" in memory.

[hearthesilence]

The interview I remember by Mike Wallace was the one with Barbara Streisand. He quoted someone who called her an "ego maniac" or words to that effect, and she wasn't best pleased. A far cry from the sychophantic, celebrity fluff you get these days.

When Criterion was putting together their Paths of Glory reissue, they found a fascinating interview between Wallace and Kirk Douglas that they were unable to license. Amazing what celebrity interviews used to be like before publicists and lawyers were added to the equation. (Also amusing to see the cigarette plug during the interview break.)

[mfunk9786]

The person who comes the closest to that sort of interview these days is Howard Stern. Every guest is given the "yes, I'm going to ask that question, and yes, I expect you to answer it" with a straight face. It's something that so few people are willing to risk anymore.

[flyonthewall2983]

Levon Helm in the final stages of his over-decade long bout with throat cancer.