Passages

[beamish14]

Kinky Friedman

[captveg]

I always liked Bill Cobbs as the older jazz musician in That Thing You Do!

[dwk]

Martin Mull

[domino harvey]

Martin Mull

So sad. Like Albert Brooks, he always seemed a thousand times funnier on his feet than in the projects he’d be out promoting. Fernwood 2Nite was way ahead of its time, I have no idea why Adult Swim hasn’t licensed it, it’s very of a piece (in a good way)

[beamish14]

Martin Mull

So sad. Like Albert Brooks, he always seemed a thousand times funnier on his feet than in the projects he’d be out promoting. Fernwood 2Nite was way ahead of its time, I have no idea why Adult Swim hasn’t licensed it, it’s very of a piece (in a good way)

Nick at Nite did re-air it. A wonderful series, and a real victim of music licensing

Like Phil Hartman, Mull was an incredible artist and had a very successful graphic design career before transitioning into comedy

[beamish14]

Editor Bud Smith, who is probably best known for his multiple collaborations with William Friedkin. Also created a trailer for The Exorcist that had no footage from the film but still made WB so uncomfortable that they refused to distribute it. He is interviewed extensively in Laurent Bouzereau’s Cutting Room Floor

[Mr Sausage]

lso created a trailer for The Exorcist that had no footage from the film but still made WB so uncomfortable that they refused to distribute it.

Does it still exist?

[beamish14]

lso created a trailer for The Exorcist that had no footage from the film but still made WB so uncomfortable that they refused to distribute it.

Does it still exist?

No idea. I doubt it, though

[Orlac]

I believe this might be it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyW5YXDcIGs

[beamish14]

I believe this might be it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyW5YXDcIGs

No. He described it as more abstract and playing with symbols to represent the film’s themes. It did not utilize any footage actually shown in the film

[hearthesilence]

Orlando Cepeda

[Lemmy Caution]

Cepeda's best year he led the NL with 46 homers and 142 RBI's batting .316
Finished 2nd in MVP voting to Frank Robinson. Teammates Cepeda & Willie Mays both pounded 40+ homers that year. That was 1961, overshadowed by the famous Maris/Mantle home run race. Something was up, as 8 players hit 40+ homers.

Cepeda later won an MVP with St Louis. Hit for both power (nearly 400 homers) and average (.300 or better his first 10 years)
Mays, McCovey, Cepeda was quite a potent 3-4-5 lineup.

Cepeda in that early wave of Hispanic ballplayers, along with Clemente, the Alou Brothers, his Giant teammate Juan Marichal, Tony Oliva, Luis Aparicio, Minnie Minoso, Zoilo Versailles who had an amazing name and tremendous initials, etc.
Cepeda played in the 1963 "Latin all-star game" a fundraiser for retired Latin players and the Latin HoF, the last game ever played at the Polo Grounds. Tito Puente played an opening set. By 1965, 10% of MLB was Latin; around 30% now.

[Michael Kerpan]

All these names from my childhood -- all slipping away....

[FrauBlucher]

Cepeda also played with Aaron on the 69 Braves who were heavily favorite to beat the Mets in the 69 NL playoff. The first year of divisional playoffs in baseball

[hearthesilence]

Music critic/journalist Michael Corcoran per his son on his Facebook page.

[hearthesilence]

June Leaf, "a painter and sculptor whose exploration of the female form, by turns whimsical, graceful and ominous, paved the way for later generations of feminist artists, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 94."

[Never Cursed]

Robert Towne

[beamish14]

Robert Towne

I’ve always wanted to read the drafts of Greystoke that he wrote during the 70’s. Hugh Hudson’s film apparently devastated him.

If you have the time, I highly recommend Elaine Lennon’s dissertation on him

Tequila Sunrise is absolutely masterful. Deeply thoughtful, beautifully shot, and no clearly delineated heroes or villains; just people trying to survive

[hearthesilence]

Laurie Lindeen, the singer and guitarist for the rock group Zuzu’s Petals.

[brundlefly]

My favorite Towne story came from Frances Doel in Roger Corman's How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime.

“I learned something about Roger on my first day in the office. As Roger was going out for some appointments around lunchtime, he pointed at a closed door. ‘Behind that door, Frances,’ he explained solemnly, ‘is a writer. His name is Robert Towne. He’s quite good but very slow. By twelve-thirty he should have pushed under the door six pages. It probably won’t be six. It’ll probably be five because, as I said, he is slow. But if he has done his pages, you may buzz him on the intercom, ask him what sandwich he wants for lunch, go get it, and bring it back to him. But do not, on any account, open the door.’

“So of course as soon as Roger left, Towne opened the door and looked around, asking if Roger had gone.

“Scriptwriting seemed then to be a big bone of contention between Bob and Roger. Roger seemed to think that in the first ten minutes you should have some big piece of riveting and explosive action. Towne maintained that was ridiculous. Once you got people to pay their money and enter the movie house you had ten or fifteen minutes to establish a character, imbue the story with atmosphere. This was a rather frequent conflict between Roger and any writer. The main thing that happened was Roger usually ripped up the first ten pages of someone’s script and said it was ‘just dialogue.’”

(Though I had remembered the door as locked; I thought of this again in Douglas Coupland's Microserfs, when coders raided mini-marts for individually wrapped slices of American cheese they could slide under doors.)

As far as Fincher's Chinatown prequel series for Netflix, Towne told Variety a month ago that "all the episodes have been written."

[beamish14]

Sam Wasson’s book The Big Goodbye is absolutely essential, and does an incredible job of deconstructing how Towne (and his friend, who should have gotten co-writing credit) wrote Chinatown

[Walter Kurtz]

He absolutely nailed Brando's death scene in The Godfather.

[hearthesilence]

Jon Landau (the movie producer, not the music producer/former rock critic)

[TechnicolorAcid]

Vikings’ Player Khyree Jackson, 24

[pistolwink]

Jon Landau (the movie producer, not the music producer/former rock critic)

Wow, I had somehow assumed all these years (against all evidence apparently) that this was the same person.