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Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 12:56 am
by hearthesilence
I will not stand by and let you people sully Joe Pesci's good name.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 3:16 am
by PfR73
Jaye P. Morgan
Who is credited in Home Alone 2; apparently she filmed a cameo as a judge in the "Celebrity Ding-Dang-Dong" game show Kevin is watching at the beginning, but ended up not being shown on screen.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 3:21 am
by Never Cursed
McNulty wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 11:35 pm
denti alligator wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 8:14 pm
I can think of another I wish would make four.
Lowry_Sam wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 8:02 pm
Tim Curry & Dolly Parton were not the 80-year old celebrity that I was looking forward to seeing in the obituaries this year.
Why is wishing death on someone allowed on here? Couldn’t you just post your tribute without all that maneuvering?
Even if you like this particular personage, can you really blame someone for very, very strongly disliking him?
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 3:27 am
by hearthesilence
Yayoi Kusama, the artist known for her polka-dot covered paintings and mirrored “Infinity Room” installations.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 4:50 am
by Matt
Re: The repeatedly mentioned, unnamed 80-year-old. Let's move on, please. This is not the place for that.
Completely unrelated, we have a politics subforum, to which established members may request access by messaging me.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 11:26 am
by FrauBlucher
PfR73 wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 3:16 am
Jaye P. Morgan
Who is credited in Home Alone 2; apparently she filmed a cameo as a judge in the "Celebrity Ding-Dang-Dong" game show Kevin is watching at the beginning, but ended up not being shown on screen.
Wow, haven’t heard this name in so long. As a teen in the 70s distinctly remember her from The Gong Show
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 2:48 pm
by ChunkyLover
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 5:23 pm
by hearthesilence
ChunkyLover wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 2:48 pm
Peter Cullen
I used to watch Winnie the Pooh all the time as a kid and he was great as Eeyore. RIP
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2026 7:59 pm
by Lowry_Sam
hearthesilence wrote: Thu Aug 27, 2026 3:27 am
Yayoi Kusama, the artist known for her polka-dot covered paintings and mirrored “Infinity Room” installations.
Her Cologne exhibition just closed 2 weeks ago and set a record for the highest number of tickets for any exhibit sold at the museum.
She also appeared in
Tokyo Decadence.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2026 12:15 am
by Captain Paranoia
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2026 1:15 am
by Captain Paranoia
Rene Malo. Quebecois producer of
The Decline of the American Empire as well as the founder of company Malofilm (which since then has been acquired then shut down by what was then Entertainment One, in turn since bought out by Lionsgate).
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2026 4:41 am
by Yakushima
Yuri Tsurilo, a star of Alexey German's films "Khrustalev, My Car!" and "Hard to Be a God",
died on August 26. He was 79.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 5:01 am
by dwk
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 1:38 pm
by colinr0380
Very sad news. His Seven Samurai and Throne of Blood commentaries are Criterion cornerstones, especially his opening each with an "ohayo gozaimasu minna-san" to the viewer.
His solo track on Seven Samurai is essential, but it is sobering to think that the later second commentary track featured Stephen Prince, Joan Mellen, Tony Rayns and Donald Richie in their rotating cast of commentators. Just David Desser remains from that roster.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 9:32 pm
by thirtyframesasecond
colinr0380 wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2026 9:28 pm
I know the Rocky Horror Picture Show was the big one, but I still most fondly remember as a kid first seeing Tim Curry as the Butler in
Clue. Plus his devil in the same year's Legend. And then a few years later as Pennywise in the mini-series version of Stephen King's IT (which is still the best adaptation of that material)
And whilst it is going relatively unmentioned, he really seemed to have a ball chewing the scenery and rolling his R's as a Russian general in the FMV cutscenes of the
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 video game from 2008! He was in quite a few video game roles, from voice work in Wing Commander III (not appearing in the FMV cutscenes there, which instead had Mark Hamill and Malcolm McDowell in them), and voicing the main character in the point-and-click
Gabriel Knight games (opposite Mark Hamill again in that "Sins of the Fathers" entry)
He also turns up in the
Duckman series as the villainous nemesis "King Chicken"!
Also remember him as the dad in Nickelodeon's The Wild Thorn berries.
Passages
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2026 10:12 pm
by Feego
While Tim Curry was a major part of my childhood from
Home Alone 2 and
Clue, my first exposure to him was in the cheese-tastic TV movie
The Worst Witch.
This musical number is greater than life itself.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 2:09 pm
by JSC
Noel Godin, a.k.a. Georges le Gloupier. A Belgian lawyer primarily famous for throwing pies in the
faces of many prominent people
https://www.brusselstimes.com/2285449/b ... es-aged-80
Including Godard at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf0Bn0Dcask
Bernard-Henri Levy was also a particular favorite (at least four separate times)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-bE6XBlW6g
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 4:10 pm
by Gregory
I've seen several posts elsewhere this morning about David Fair of Half Japanese having passed, but I can't find any obits or articles yet. One of the people who posted this news is Marc Masters, author of High Bias, who knew David and is a source I trust completely about something like this.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 5:25 pm
by denti alligator
Oh, man that would awful.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 10:41 pm
by hearthesilence
I'm afraid it's true. Producer and friend Don Fleming posted about it.
The post may not be visible to the public, but per Alex Green:
Don Fleming wrote:David Fair of 1/2 Japanese and Coo Coo Rockin’ Time died yesterday. His daughter Harper toasted him with a root beer float, and he passed soon after, peacefully. He had been getting treatments for cancer over the last couple of years. The sweetest guy, with a great sense of humor. He was a pure artist and musician, all from the heart. Goodbye David.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 12:15 am
by denti alligator
Damn. He and Jad are national treasures. David was really the main force in Half Japanese early on. Most of the songs are his. And what songs! The new 1/2 Japanese material was great, too. He just kept on giving. I will miss him.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 1:43 am
by beamish14
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. The Fair Bros.’ parents proudly saying that their home was the birth of punk is an all-timer.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 3:04 pm
by Gregory
beamish14 wrote: Mon Aug 31, 2026 1:43 am
Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. The Fair Bros.’ parents proudly saying that their home was the birth of punk is an all-timer.
Yes, I need to revisit it. It's been too long. Feuerzeig made the film with nearly $100K he didn't have, driven by appreciation and missionary zeal for Half Japanese, in particular the
Charmed Life album
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 4:07 pm
by denti alligator
With the exception of Byron Coley, who is hyperbolic to the point of parody, and the Matador guy (forget his name: the guy with sunglasses), who is just a dick, yes, it's a fine documentary.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2026 3:31 am
by dwk