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therewillbeblus
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#8901 Post by therewillbeblus » Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:31 pm

MichaelB wrote:
Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:18 pm
Actress turned director Gunnel Lindblom, best known for a decades-long association with Ingmar Bergman across multiple stage and film projects.
She was excellent in Mai Zetterling's The Girls and Loving Couples too, which are the films I remember her most from

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FrauBlucher
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#8902 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:34 pm

Ugh. I just watched The Virgin Spring last night and her interview this morning from the bluray. RIP

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#8903 Post by JSC » Sun Jan 24, 2021 7:01 pm

Very sad. Her role in Winter Light is to my mind a pivotal part of that film.

I know that she directed a film in the late 70s called Paradise Place which Ingmar Bergman
produced for his Cinematagraph company.

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Dylan
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#8904 Post by Dylan » Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:58 pm

Alberto Grimaldi, producer of Last Tango in Paris, 1900, Fellini Satyricon, Fellini's Casanova, Burn!, Salo, Gangs of New York, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and many more, at age 95, of natural causes.

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#8905 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:12 pm

Pavel wrote:
Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:02 pm
Screenwriter Walter Bernstein
Here's a Guardian piece on Bernstein, blacklisted in the 1950s during the HUAC situation and later was Oscar nominated for his screenplay about a blacklisted writer (played by Woody Allen) in The Front. And he also wrote The House on Carroll Street for Peter Yates which also has themes of blacklisting to it.

Beyond those he wrote a lot of adapted screenplays from novels: for Fail-Safe, the Sean Connery film The Molly Maguires, Paris Blues (also for The Front director Martin Ritt), Semi-Tough. Even the Dan Aykroyd comedy The Couch Trip

He directed only one film in 1980's Little Miss Marker starring Julie Andrews and Walter Matthau. And made an acting appearance in James Schamus's film (again about persecution) from 2016 Indignation.

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#8906 Post by Never Cursed » Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:11 pm


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FrauBlucher
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#8907 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:19 pm

oh that's sad. Didn't realize she was in her 90s

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#8908 Post by knives » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:14 pm

Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood that she helped me a lot to make the transition to adult fare like The Last Picture Show. Though she’ll always be Frau Blucher to me.

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#8909 Post by swo17 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:17 pm

knives wrote:
Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:14 pm
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood
Was it the My Little Pony movie for you too?

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#8910 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:18 pm

knives wrote:
Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:14 pm
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood that she helped me a lot to make the transition to adult fare like The Last Picture Show. Though she’ll always be Frau Blucher to me.
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#8911 Post by knives » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:19 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:17 pm
knives wrote:
Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:14 pm
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood
Was it the My Little Pony movie for you too?
I have never seen that and likely never will.

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#8912 Post by swo17 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:42 pm

Don't worry, I watched it enough to cover the whole forum

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#8913 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:45 pm

With what?!

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#8914 Post by bearcuborg » Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:48 pm

It seems like Cloris rarely played a part that was as beautiful as she actually was in real life. I remember being shocked watching her on Carson as a kid and being told she was in Young Frankenstein. She had a hilarious cameo in the Beavis and Butthead movie.

A few years ago she was featured on CBS Sunday Morning looking as fit as the best of us here...

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#8915 Post by swo17 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:05 pm

domino harvey wrote:
Wed Jan 27, 2021 7:45 pm
With what?!
SMOOOOZE!!!

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#8916 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:10 pm

I saw The Beverly Hillbillies with my whole family in it's theatrical release, where she played Granny (speaks to her vitality that she was of age for such a role, in something which came out 30 years ago). It's actually the last time I can remember the four of us watching a movie all together, in the theater at least.

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#8917 Post by Feego » Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:44 pm

Frau Blucher is probably the role I immediately associate with her now, but growing up on a steady diet of Nick at Nite, I first knew Leachman as Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She was so delightfully selfish, and it was fun watching her spar with Valerie Harper’s Rhoda. I think my favorite Phyllis moment is in the famous wedding episode of Rhoda, where she blithely strolls in late, not remembering that she was supposed to pick up the bride!

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#8918 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:11 am

She was HILARIOUS as the horrendously evil grandmother in Malcolm in the Middle.

That and her senile elderly woman on The Simpsons were my introductions to her work. Honestly, the woman should have gotten a Kennedy Center honor - how many can boast wonderful performances in films as diverse and acclaimed as Kiss Me Deadly, The Last PIcture Show and Young Frankenstein, and then point out that she's better known for one of the most acclaimed television shows of the 1970s?

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#8919 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:23 am

Actually, THIS moment was the best part from that Christmas episode. Leachman is just brilliant.

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#8920 Post by Mr. Deltoid » Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:38 am

hearthesilence wrote:
Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:11 am
She was HILARIOUS as the horrendously evil grandmother in Malcolm in the Middle.

That and her senile elderly woman on The Simpsons were my introductions to her work. Honestly, the woman should have gotten a Kennedy Center honor - how many can boast wonderful performances in films as diverse and acclaimed as Kiss Me Deadly, The Last PIcture Show and Young Frankenstein, and then point out that she's better known for one of the most acclaimed television shows of the 1970s?
Your right, she was superb in Malcolm and effortlessly stole every scene she was in. The episode where she loses a leg and has to be cared for by Francis is comedy-gold, especially her line delivery, "I wanna watch the whore that gives the weather!".

Rest in Peace Cloris.

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#8921 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:51 pm

Mr. Deltoid wrote:
Thu Jan 28, 2021 5:38 am
Your right, she was superb in Malcolm and effortlessly stole every scene she was in. The episode where she loses a leg and has to be cared for by Francis is comedy-gold, especially her line delivery, "I wanna watch the whore that gives the weather!".
LOL, I think that's the one where she sues her own family and refuses to drop the lawsuit until the lawyers bail when they find out the family isn't insured.

I just noticed Leachman is particularly effective in black & white. There are moments in The Last PIcture Show where she looks like she stepped out of Dorothea Lange's most famous photographs, and of course she looks fantastically creepy in Young Frankenstein. It brings to mind Orson Welles's joke that all the great performances were in black & white.

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#8922 Post by Aunt Peg » Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:58 pm

The great Cicely Tyson has passed away: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cicely ... 234895188/

Two legendary actresses in just two days.

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#8923 Post by ando » Fri Jan 29, 2021 11:14 am

Aunt Peg wrote:
Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:58 pm
The great Cicely Tyson has passed away: https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cicely ... 234895188/

Two legendary actresses in just two days.
Quite. Met Tyson and (short as she was) found her as formidable a presence as she was on screen. And while I admire many of her performances she’ll always be THE Harriet Tubman on film for me. (APrime has A Woman Called Moses currently streaming.) Tyson and Leachman were legendary talents before they passed on. R.I.P.

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#8924 Post by Lemmy Caution » Sat Jan 30, 2021 12:33 am

Harthorne Wingo, fan favorite on 1973 New York Knicks title team, dies at age 73

The quintessential end of the bench fan favorite. It helped that he was on the NY Knicks last title team in '73. Most people mistook his given name for Hawthorn, but it was the "Wing-o Wing-o" chants that are remembered.

Wingo was also one of the few who made the leap from Rucker Park to the pros.
Pete Vecsey tells a story about bringing skilled NBA bruiser Bob Love on to his Rucker team as a ringer -- lots of NBA players would show up there back in the day, including Dr. J -- and a not-yet NBA Wingo just killing Love on both ends.

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#8925 Post by hearthesilence » Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:39 am

Hilton Valentine, guitarist for the great British rock band, the Animals. Most will be familiar with his opening riff to their landmark cover of "House of the Rising Sun" - Scorsese placed it over Ginger's death scene in Casino.

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