Passages

[Aunt Peg]

Actress Shannen Doherty, 53: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-14/ ... /103796370

[hearthesilence]

Actor James B. Sikking. Another familiar face from so many roles (like the hired gunman in John Boorman's Point Blank), but his two biggest roles were likely as cast members in two high-profile television shows produced by Steven Bochco: Lt. (later Sgt.) Howard Hunter in Hill Street Blues and the titular character’s father on Doogie Howser, M.D.

[flyonthewall2983]

He’s great in The Star Chamber

[colinr0380]

He has some great roles as sort of 'supporting baddies' just doing their job and delivering ominous warnings and smiling threats in films and whilst not the major antagonist perhaps worse in some ways as a representative of the malaise that is allowing the corruption to spread, especially the four he did for Peter Hyams: The Star Chamber as flyonthewall2983 has noted; in the control room in Capricorn One; the right hand man to the corrupt baddie in the sci-fi remake of High Noon, Outland; and particularly in the best scene of the remake of Narrow Margin.

[hearthesilence]

Manfred Kirchheimer

[hearthesilence]

Swiss jazz pianist Irène Schweizer

[hearthesilence]

Folksinger Happy Traum, per Rob Stoner on social media. Bob Dylan fans will know Traum - a friend and contemporary of Dylan's, he recorded a handful of songs with him, with the three newly recorded songs on Greatest Hits Vol. II being the most heard.

[MichaelB]

Yvonne Furneaux, who in her heyday alternated genre productions for studios like Hammer (The Mummy) with work for directors like Michelangelo Antonioni (Le amiche), Federico Fellini (La dolce vita and Roman Polanski (Repulsion).

[dx23]

Bob Newhart One of the all time greats. This year is sucking so bad

[domino harvey]

So funny. Love that one of his comedy records won the Grammy for Best Album — we’ll never see that again!

[hearthesilence]

Cheng Pei-pei, a pioneer of martial arts roles for female actors who also starred in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and King Hu’s Come Drink With Me

[hearthesilence]

Patty Waters, a jazz vocalist best known for her free jazz recordings in the 1960s, per social media

[Mr Sausage]

Cheng Pei-pei, a pioneer of martial arts roles for female actors who also starred in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and King Hu’s Come Drink With Me

Damn. She's great in Come Drink With Me and its sequel, Golden Swallow, not least for the fascinating gender bending where her character seems to prefer a male persona. Sad to hear her last years were spent dealing with a degenerative brain disorder.

[knives]

She’s also great in The Lady Hermit which is the only other film I’ve seen with her.

[hearthesilence]

Lou Dobbs.

I knew a journalism professor who used to be an executive at CNN, and back in the late '00s (when Dobbs was still at CNN), he told me and my classmates that Dobbs didn't believe the shit he spewed on television, that he did it because it got ratings and garnered him a devoted audience. Dobbs was pretty bad by that point, but he really went off the deep end after jumping to Fox, not unlike Maria Bartiromo years later.

[brundlefly]

Bob Newhart One of the all time greats. This year is sucking so bad

The “Take a Chance” tagline for The Grace L. Ferguson Airline (And Storm Door Co.) is one I think of too often.

[Lemmy Caution]

You do realize that every part of a plane was built by the low bidder ...

[Orlac]

Cheng Pei-pei, a pioneer of martial arts roles for female actors who also starred in Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and King Hu’s Come Drink With Me

Damn. She's great in Come Drink With Me and its sequel, Golden Swallow, not least for the fascinating gender bending where her character seems to prefer a male persona. Sad to hear her last years were spent dealing with a degenerative brain disorder.

She wasn't keen on Golden Swallow, as director Chang Cheh shoved her to the sidelines in favour of Jimmy Wang Yu.

[Mr Sausage]

It's one of the reasons I didn't like it as much, not just for that but how it shoves Golden Swallow into a more traditionally feminine role. But it's still a good wuxia. Stephen Teo for some inexplicable reason even prefers it to Come Drink With Me. But I think most people these days would take Cheng Pei-Pei over Wang Yu.

[beamish14]

Nguyen Phu Trong,leader of Vietnam’s Communist Party

[acroyear]

Fandango founder J. Michael Cline

[dadaistnun]

The great kora player Toumani Diabate.

[hearthesilence]

Jerry Miller of Moby Grape per the band’s social media groups.

He was the lead guitarist in the three-guitar band and he co-wrote with Don Stevenson some of Moby Grape's best known songs including “Hey Grandma" and "8.05.” Their debut may be their only great album but what an album - one of my absolute favorites from that era.

[Blutarsky]

Jerry Miller of Moby Grape per the band’s social media groups.

He was the lead guitarist in the three-guitar band and he co-wrote with Don Stevenson some of Moby Grape's best known songs including “Hey Grandma" and "8.05.” Their debut may be their only great album but what an album - one of my absolute favorites from that era.

Such a shame that up until recently, Matthew Katz had effectively made it impossible to listen to the Grape’s first four albums in full. I second that their debut is easily one of the best albums of that era, dare I say the best album to come out of the San Francisco scene. Miller/Stevenson’s “Hey Grandma” with Skip Spence’s “Omaha” are some of the finest psych/garage rock songs ever made.

[hearthesilence]

John Mayall, the British blues-rock bandleader who was instrumental in advancing the careers of Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor, all of whom recorded some of their greatest studio work with him. (The albums with Clapton and Green are especially recommended.) He was deservedly inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame though the ceremony had yet to happen before he died - a shame not to mention overdue, it would have been wonderful to see Clapton, Green and Taylor pay tribute to him but Green has already passed away and Clapton’s recent political activities for antivax causes would be an unfortunate distraction.