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charal wrote:Stanley Owsley

RIP Kid Charlemagne

charal wrote:Stanley Owsley

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It's Owsley Stanley (Augustus Owsley Stanley III, to be precise). Met him at the Wast Palm Beach Pop Festival over Thanksgiving weekend in '69. He was kind enough, along with the assistance of the Jefferson Airplane, to bring a little Orange Sunshine into my life.

antnield wrote:Nikos Papatakis

I thought I recognised the name. Apart from the Genet connection, he gave Nico (of Velvet Underground and...) her name.

Reggae artist Smiley Culture, who appeared in Absolute Beginners.

Rapper Nate Dogg.

Michael Gough.

While most will remember him for the Burton Batman movies, I'll always think of him as Arthur from Dracula (aka the Horror of Dracula).

Don't forget his excellent support in The Small Back Room. It's a terrible loss, but at least he managed to make a movie a year for the past sixty or so.

Looking back through his credits it was quite an eclectic career. I guess it is important to note that he was in a number of late Derek Jarman films - Caravaggio, The Garden and Wittgenstein.

Though I know I should celebrate him through one of the TV series he appeared in or his Alfred in the Batman films, I keep getting inexorably drawn back to his wonderful deadpan mad doctor role in the infamously goofy King Kong rip-off, Konga!

MichaelB wrote:Michael Gough.

I just finished watching Reach for the Sky last night, he played the flight instructor.

colinr0380 wrote:Though I know I should celebrate him through one of the TV series he appeared in or his Alfred in the Batman films, I keep getting inexorably drawn back to his wonderful deadpan mad doctor role in the infamously goofy King Kong rip-off, Konga!

I had a 8mm print of KONGA excerpts (about 9 minutes long) that I constantly subjected my friends to back in the early-to-mid 70s. It was irresistibly corny. When I read of Mr. Gough's passing, KONGA was the film that popped into my head!

MichaelB wrote:Michael Gough.

Wish I could find a link for it, but I can't: his collaboration with Simon Fisher Turner, 'how close are you to here now', from the Garden soundtrack, is the perfect melancholy accompaniment to this sad news.

zedz wrote:

MichaelB wrote:Michael Gough.

Wish I could find a link for it, but I can't: his collaboration with Simon Fisher Turner, 'how close are you to here now', from the Garden soundtrack, is the perfect melancholy accompaniment to this sad news.

Play back to back with his reading of Hogarth's' Analysis of Beauty' on Ashley Hutching's 'The Compleat Dancing Master' (You also get that other great voice ,Michel Hordern, in his cautionary rant on the perils of the demon dance)

I thought he died way before.

Gone on the Wings Of A Dove
Ferlin Husky

ambrose wrote:Peter Lennon

That obit refers to Lennon's "relationship with" the Guardian three times. Yeesh.

Perkins Cobb wrote:

ambrose wrote:Peter Lennon

That obit refers to Lennon's "relationship with" the Guardian three times. Yeesh.

An interview with verity magazine that is not as myopically focused on Peter Lennon's"relationship with" The Guardian.

Perkins Cobb wrote:

ambrose wrote:Peter Lennon

That obit refers to Lennon's "relationship with" the Guardian three times. Yeesh.

What a bizarre comment. Lennon was a full-time employee of the Guardian for over a decade and remained a prolific freelance contributor until 2009 - so why wouldn't an obituary in that paper mention it?

He certainly spent far more of his professional career writing for the Guardian than he ever did making films, though Rocky Road to Dublin nonetheless gets over 500 words to itself.

ambrose wrote: An interview with verity magazine that is not as myopically focused on Peter Lennon's"relationship with" The Guardian.

That's because it's almost exclusively about 1968. It's certainly an interesting read, but using it as a club to beat an obituary that ranges over his entire career is... well, a little myopic.

Mind you, Lennon's last answer is wonderfully prescient.

Anyway, Peter Bradshaw has written his own eulogy, which is far more focused on Rocky Road to Dublin.

It really is very difficult conveying ones tone on the Net. I believed my response to Perkins Cobb's objections to be at least semi-sarcastic!

Speaking of 68.

MichaelB wrote:What a bizarre comment. Lennon was a full-time employee of the Guardian for over a decade and remained a prolific freelance contributor until 2009 - so why wouldn't an obituary in that paper mention it?

My point was that using that phrase three times in the same piece constitutes atrocious writing.

Perkins Cobb wrote:

MichaelB wrote:What a bizarre comment. Lennon was a full-time employee of the Guardian for over a decade and remained a prolific freelance contributor until 2009 - so why wouldn't an obituary in that paper mention it?

My point was that using that phrase three times in the same piece constitutes atrocious writing.

If he'd used it three times in the same paragraph, I'd agree with you, but it's hardly a hanging offence to use it three times across a nearly 2,000-word piece.

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