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Carl Ballantine - AKA Lester Gruber on McHales Navy

Sad news. I always remember as a young kid being left with my next door neighbour overnight while my parents worked and staying up to watch The Equalizer with her! I've very glad that at least Woodward got to record his thoughts on the Wicker Man commentary and received a wonderful tribute with his role in Hot Fuzz.

He also did a commentary on the Hot Fuzz DVD with Timothy Dalton, and the other members of the N.W.A. in the film. He had one particularly amusing anecdote about how Arnold Schwarzenegger came up to him and told him how big a fan of The Equalizer he was, going so far as to say how he holds a gun in movies was influenced by watching the show.

Edgar Wright has posted a nice tribute on his blog.

Probably not in the best taste, considering the thread, but I'm reminded of Noel Coward's comment that his name sounded "like a fart in the bath."

Ken Ober

domino harvey wrote:Ken Ober

I know he would probably hate to be remembered mainly for "Remote Control," but I was recently thinking about that show and how good and fun MTV used to be in the late '80s with that show, "Yo! MTV Raps" (I was just doing the Ed Lover dance the other day), "120 Minutes," and, er, "Club MTV."

colinr0380 wrote:Edgar Wright has posted a nice tribute on his blog.

That made me cry.

mfunk9786 wrote:

colinr0380 wrote:Edgar Wright has posted a nice tribute on his blog.

That made me cry.

It's very lovely. I got goosebumps.

Takiko Mizunoe, actress, producer of Crazed Fruit and co-producer of Branded to Kill, dead at 94.

Teddy Darvas, film editor, obit by Kevin Brownlow.

Quebecois film director Gilles Carle

Edit: Woh. Nothing less than state funerals for the filmmaker!

Not film or TV related (though he wrote novelisations in his time, e.g. of The Emerald Forest), but as we cover non-cinema arts in this forum, the distinguished fantasy novelist Robert Holdstock died yesterday : here.

A handful of distinguished Polish film names died in 2009 - the best known is the actor Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, star of many films by Krzysztof Zanussi and one of Wajda's higher-profile 1970s films, Rough Treatment - but those who've been following PWA's marvellous series of Polish documentary compilations will be saddened to hear of the passing of directors Krystyna Gryczełowska (who got her own disc) and Władysław Ślesicki (Kazimierz Karabasz' regular 'black series' collaborator in the 1950s).

Coronation Street actress Maggie Jones

Thanks for that, David - made me want to seek out his music. (To make the link work, though, you need to separate off 'Richard Meale' at the end.)

I will use the term 'noisespace' often.

Thanks, David - sample indeed tantalising...

I got Very High Kings on iTunes for £2.50, and have listened to it a couple of times now. I don't really have the vocabulary to say anything very meaningful, but it's one of the most physically overwhelming pieces I've ever heard - must be especially so in live performance. Here, also, is a YuckTub video of some up-and-coming young pianist performing 'Coruscations'.

Quite a find - thanks again David!