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Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 10:05 pm
by antnield
Sol Saks, creator of
Bewitched.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:25 pm
by domino harvey
Gerard Smith from TV on the Radio dead at 34
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:48 am
by Perkins Cobb
Screenwriter
Kevin Jarre.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:39 am
by MyNameCriterionForum
Perkins Cobb wrote:That is horrible. And I've met one of the other photographers who was injured a few times, so the incident hit home for me as well.
(And I haven't seen Restrepo ... do I need to? I'm so anti-war that a doc focusing on the soldiers triggered some visceral resistance.)
I thought it was mediocre in every way, especially compared to something like Sokurov's
Spiritual Voices and
Confession.
I wonder how
Armadillo compares to it?
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:44 am
by MichaelB
You can rent Restrepo from iTunes, which seems to be one of the cheapest methods of getting to see it that doesn't involve piracy.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 8:42 am
by Polybius
colinr0380 wrote:That's a shame - he was excellent in They Shoot Horses, Don't They and I recently caught a screening of
The Gumball Rally (which seems to have been an uncredited inspiration for Cannonball Run) in which he was obviously set up as the lead character, although he was slightly lost amongst the rest of the more colourful ensemble cast. (Nerdy point: I also find that film to be valuable for having a scene filmed in the same San Francisco location that the car chase in THX-1138 had been shot in, something which can be briefly seen in the attached trailer!)
I saw
The Gumball Rally at a drive-in in '77 or '78, which seems quite appropriate now that I think of it. I also made that connection a few years later but (and we've all been here) nobody cared or wanted to hear about it.
If I recall correctly, this sort of thing (underground cross country races) was really something of a fad in the '70's.
I also always liked Michael's work as the youngest brother in
Sometimes a Great Notion and as the deserter who apprenticed with George C. Scott's con man character in
The Flim Flam Man.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2011 6:54 pm
by colinr0380
Angela Scoular - married to Leslie Phillips she was in a small role in Chaplin's A Countess In Hong Kong; was both an official (On Her Majesty's Secret Service) and unofficial (the 60s Casino Royale) Bond girl; and appeared in a couple of British sex comedies (two of the Adventures of... films along with Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, which was recently released in the BFI Flipside collection).
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:28 pm
by antnield
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:09 pm
by dad1153
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:04 am
by Tom Peeping
Marie-France Pisier at 66.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 2:41 pm
by tavernier
Tom Peeping wrote:Marie-France Pisier at 66.
Goddammit!
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:17 pm
by Oedipax
That's terrible.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:30 am
by GaryC
Danish-born Australian director and actor
Esben Storm.
Possibly the most neglected director of the Australian Film Revival, as not one of his six features has ever been released on DVD, as far as I can tell. His first feature,
27A, was an AFI Award-winner (Best Film; Best Actor - the late Robert McDarra). Much of his career was spent in television. I saw
Deadly twenty years ago at the London Film Festival. I have an ex-rental VHS copy of
In Search of Anna sitting in the pile - time to watch it now.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:20 am
by Polybius
tavernier wrote:Tom Peeping wrote:Marie-France Pisier at 66.
Goddammit!
I am
really sorry to read this.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2011 8:45 am
by Perkins Cobb
Tom Peeping wrote:Marie-France Pisier at 66.
Drowned in her swimming pool. What a waste. Such a beauty.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:41 am
by antnield
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:18 pm
by manicsounds
Yoshiko Tanaka, aged 55
In Japan the most famous for being in the 3 girl group, Candies, but to the west in her performance in Shohei Imamura's "Black Rain"
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 2:51 pm
by fdm
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:23 pm
by dad1153
Hubert J. 'Hub' Schlafly Jr., inventor of the teleprompter.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 2:31 pm
by ellipsis7
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:15 pm
by Kirkinson
For anyone who has lived in or around Chicago at some point in the last 35 years:
Lynn Hauldren, the Empire Carpet Guy.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:17 pm
by Professor Wagstaff
Kirkinson wrote:For anyone who has lived in or around Chicago at some point in the last 35 years:
Lynn Hauldren, the Empire Carpet Guy.
Bummer. I'm not from the Chicago area, but we still have Empire Carpet commercials here in New Jersey (same tune plus the animated Hauldren). I was thinking how much I've always loved that infectious jingle just last night when it played during the news.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:28 am
by The Elegant Dandy Fop
He's been a Los Angeles daytime television staple for as long as I can remember too. Hopefully they'll keep airing the commercials that feature the little CGI version of him until eternity!
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 12:32 am
by dad1153
Just this morning I saw his CGI avatar a couple of times during back-to-back "Maury" shows on PIX-11. R.I.P., "588-2300... Empiiire!" for life.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:44 am
by zedz
Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard, but I think:
Very sad news. One of the greats of her age and, I'd argue, hugely influential on a lot of women that came afterwards. Plus, X-Ray Spex's very compact body of work (one great album, one great single and some stray b-sides - everything else is basically an inferior variation on those songs) still sounds as fresh and vital today as it did then, a claim many of her contemporaries cannot make.