Passages

[domino harvey]

One of the last remaining OG French stars of the most vibrant period of French film. Also a sad reminder that no one has yet put out English-friendly copies of any Astruc films, as her early pair for him is really where the star started to come into her own on-screen. And for that matter, how has no American boutique label released Aldrich's delirious Biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah, which benefits greatly from her wild, gender-switched lesbian perf?

[yoloswegmaster]

One of the last remaining OG French stars of the most vibrant period of French film. Also a sad reminder that no one has yet put out English-friendly copies of any Astruc films, as her early pair for him is really where the star started to come into her own on-screen. And for that matter, how has no American boutique label released Aldrich's delirious Biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah, which benefits greatly from her wild, gender-switched lesbian perf?

Probably because it's in the Fox/Disney vault

[Fred Holywell]

Anouk Aimée

She did a nice reflective interview with Charlie Rose back in October 2012, coinciding with the screening of three of her films at MOMA. You can watch it here: Anouk Aimée-Charlie Rose

[Gregory]

James Chance (aka James White), who was seen in Downtown 81, Other Music, and other Downtown NYC-related films and shows.

[jwd5275]

Willie Mays

[TechnicolorAcid]

Big day for dead people:
Nancy Mackenzie

[beamish14]

Anthea Sylbert, costume designer on Carnal Knowledge, Chinatown, and Rosemary’s Baby who transitioned into producing via a partnership with Goldie Hawn

[jegharfangetmigenmyg]

James Chance.

Had been suffering for quite a while, apparently. Such an important figure on the no wave scene. He was still touring until he couldn't anymore, and made a fine final album not too many years ago. Sad that I couldn't go see him when he played his last show with Contortions in my city some years ago, a few months before covid hit.

[hearthesilence]

Yoshiko Kuga

Starred in quite a few films including Kurosawa’s “Drunken Angel” and “The Idiot,” Naruse’s “Older Brother, Younger Sister,” Mizoguchi’s “The Woman in the Rumor” and “Shin Heike Monogatari,” Ozu’s “Equinox Flower” and “Good Morning,” and Ōshima‘s “Cruel Story of Youth.”

[Michael Kerpan]

Yoshiko Kuga never got the western attention of some of her peers -- but I always thought she was wonderful. She got her start with Toho (in a small part) -- and got the chance to take center stage for the first time very early on in his Haru no mezame /Spring Awakens (1947). She was also the star of Naruse's only lost post-war film (Bad Girl -- which apparently was one of his most popular early post-war films). She was also very impressive in early important roles in Imai's Till We Meet again and Mizoguchi's Portrait of Madam Yuki. Farewell to one of the last links to the golden age of Japanese cinema....

[colinr0380]

I was surprised at how many films I have seen that she is in. Along with appearing in Kurosawa's 1951 version of The Idiot, she plays the lead in Yoshitaru Nomura's Zero Focus.

Plus whilst I have not got to see these yet, it seems that in the 1990s she appeared in the first three films that Naoto Takenaka (better known as an actor, and he appears in these films too) directed: 1991's Nowhere Man; 1994's 119 (with Shinya Tsukamoto and Tadanobu Asano!) and 1997's Tokyo biyori (with Tomoroh Taguchi and just pre-Ring director Hideo Nakata!). I'd love to see Third Window get to these, especially since they released Takenaka''s more recent film Zokki a few years ago.

[Michael Kerpan]

I think I've seen Kuga in 17 or so films...

[domino harvey]

Donald Sutherland discussion split off here

[Buttery Jeb]

Shifty Shellshock

[MichaelB]

Journalist, playwright and screenwriter Andrzej Mularczyk, who's most famous locally for dozens of radio plays, TV episodes and big popular comedy hits like Our Folks (Sami swoi, 1967), but he also wrote Andrzej Wajda's Katyń and Afterimage.

[Lemmy Caution]

Willie Mays

Thanks. Good obit. Such an iconic sportsman.
So many legendary moments.
Mays won perhaps the greatest game ever pitched with a 16th inning home run.

Mays’ legendary home run off Warren Spahn on July 2, 1963
Spahn, then 42, and a 25-year-old Juan Marichal pitched scoreless ball into the 16th at Candlestick Park, a Hall of Fame duel for the ages, and Mays hit Spahn’s 201st pitch, a screwball, to end the game for a 1-0 win. Marichal’s pitch count: a whopping 227.

Amazing career. Hell, Mays even played in the Negro League in high school, in the same outfield with his dad ...
For a power hitter Willie Mays, 660 homers, was only 5'10" 170 pounds.

People often dump on athletes who play when they exhibit age-eroded skills, but I got to see Willie Mays live in 1973 at Shea Stadium. Rocketed a foul ball near us, a section over. Athletes only get one career and Willie had two years taken away by the Korean war.

For music fans, here's the Treniers song Say Hey, with a brief comic intro featuring Willie Mays himself.

[beamish14]

Shifty Shellshock

I remember how Crazy Town had a drummer who was obviously several decades older than the other band members, so he always appeared in public with a bucket hat and sunglasses

[hearthesilence]

Actor Bill Cobbs at the age of 90. (His family announced his passing on social media.) If you don't know the name, it's almost certain you'll recognize the face. A very prolific actor who appeared on television and motion pictures as recently as a couple of years ago.

[Swift]

Yep, he delivered a great line in Demolition Man which was oft quoted in our household - "Simon Phoenix is an old fashioned criminal. We're gonna need an old fashioned cop!"

[domino harvey]

I’ve obviously seen him in many films but Hudsucker Proxy was the one I kept trying to place

[flyonthewall2983]

Good part in The Color of Money, as the owner of the pool hall Eddie Felson returns to and gets his bearings before heading to Atlantic City.

[domino harvey]

Oh man, he’s the guy in New Jack City who

Spoiler

kills Nino Brown

too. Truly one of the great That Guys

[beamish14]

He co-starred in the absolutely incredible 1991-93 show I’ll Fly Away alongside Sam Waterston

Loved him in Demolition Man, too

[soundchaser]

Spencer Milligan, known for his role as (Rick) Marshall in the 1970s Land of the Lost

[colinr0380]

Actor Bill Cobbs at the age of 90. (His family announced his passing on social media.) If you don't know the name, it's almost certain you'll recognize the face. A very prolific actor who appeared on television and motion pictures as recently as a couple of years ago.

For me, he's the guy who delivers the exposition about the central couple at the beginning of Wes Craven's The People Under The Stairs.