Passages

[jindianajonz]

Unlike Jack Palance, Abe Vigoda is still alive.

[Polybius]

Uncharacteristic sloppiness from Michael Corleone's men there.

[bamwc2]

Scam artist extraordinaire and weekly guest on The Montel Williams Show Sylvia Browne

[MichaelB]

Bernard Parmegiani, French avant-garde composer noted both for his pioneering electronic works and for his regular collaborations with Walerian Borowczyk (Les Jeux des Anges, Docteur Jekyll et les femmes) and Jan Lenica (A, Labyrinth).

[jdcopp]

Officer Pat Rogers featured in TNT's reality series "Boston's Finest"

[MichaelB]

Georges Lautner.

[dadaistnun]

Chico Hamilton

[Feego]

Hamilton's score for Repulsion is a huge part of that film's disturbing impact, mirroring Catherine Deneuve's unpredictable behavior with its violent fits and starts. I wish this man had done more for the movies, but his small contribution is important nonetheless.

[Gregory]

I'm putting on some of his quintet recordings on Pacific Jazz. Very few of the greats still alive from that generation, now in their 90s: Clark Terry, Yusef Lateef, Von Freeman, Gerald Wilson, probably one or two more I'm forgetting.

[Feego]

Former In Living Color cast member Jay Leggett

[Ugarte]

Von Freeman passed away last year.

[skuhn8]

I'm putting on some of his quintet recordings on Pacific Jazz. Very few of the greats still alive from that generation, now in their 90s: Clark Terry, Yusef Lateef, Von Freeman, Gerald Wilson, probably one or two more I'm forgetting.

Add Lee Konitz. Just saw him and hung out with him post-gig last night here in Budapest. Still spry.

[Perkins Cobb]

Tony Musante.

[Gregory]

Lee's just a little younger, so I didn't mention him, but it's amazing that he's still around and still playing.
Thanks for the news about Von, Ugarte.

[MichaelB]

Lewis Collins, British hard-man actor who made it big (massive, in fact) on TV with The Professionals, and seemed set for an equivalent big-screen career that never really took off, despite high-profile individual films like Who Dares Wins. He was apparently considered as Roger Moore's replacement as James Bond, but Timothy Dalton got the part.

[Lazertron]

No, not Lewis Collins
Time that the Blu-ray box of the long awaited 'The Professionals' hits the market.

[colinr0380]

Tony Musante.

Interesting to see that later in his career Musante was in a couple of James Gray films, The Yards and We Own The Night.

And seeing that Musante was in a couple of his films alongside Florinda Bolkan, I'd love if after the Borowczyk set Arrow might perhaps look into Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's filmography. I've only seen that filmmaker's adaptation of 'Tis Pity She's A Whore with Charlotte Rampling and Oliver Tobias but it was excellent and I'd like to see the Musante and Bolkan team-ups along with the Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni and Terence Stamp starring The Divine Nymph. Or the amazing sounding cast of The Driver's Seat: Elizabeth Taylor, Ian Bannen, Mona Washbourne and Andy Warhol!

If Arrow needs any more horror connections La gabbia apparently features Cristina Marsillach, the star of Argento's Opera a couple of years later!

[mrmarbach]

Von Freeman passed away last year.

So another announcement which is not fresh as a daisy, but nevertheless, an anecdote:

While visiting Chicago to play with the Symphony, two jazz critic friends took me to hear Von Freeman, at that club on the street named after him. We were briefly introduced before hand. In the middle of his set, he announced my presence to the audience, indicating that I was "a Polish pianist" - I'm not, I'm British… - and inviting the audience to applaud me "because he doesn't get a lot of that". So I duly got a round of applause.

My friends explained that probably the only classical pianist he was aware of was Paderewski, who was of course Polish, so somehow I became Polish too. As for not getting applause, perhaps he was under the impression that classical music was basically dead (on which point some might agree with him).

It was a charming encounter.

[antnield]

Jean Kent.

[colinr0380]

Jean Kent.

For Criterion connectors Jean Kent appears in The Browning Version, two of the three Gainsborough Melodramas in the Eclipse set (The Wicked Lady and Madonna of the Seven Moons) and is in the Boris Karloff-starring The Haunted Strangler/Grip of the Strangler that is in the Monsters and Madmen set. She is also interviewed on the The Haunted Strangler disc.

[bamwc2]

Televangelist and Christian movie producer Paul Crouch

[The Narrator Returns]

Paul Walker?

[domino harvey]

And in the most ironic way possible unfortunately-- and on his way to a charity event as well, according to the article. This is like daring the internet to not make shitty jokes, isn't it? (Assuming it's true, of course)

[dx23]

It seems to be true as a lot of media sites are reporting it.

[Feego]

Wow, I'm just confused now. So there was a hoax earlier this week about his death? I'm really hoping this turns out to be part of that hoax, but it doesn't look like it. What a terrible turn of events, and at only 40.