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Obit for Chad Everett. I have to say I'm not very familiar with his early career on TV, but his scene with Naomi Watts in Mulholland Drive is DYNAMITE!

Damn, people are just dropping like flies.

When Fred Shuttlesworth died last year, I was shocked at how few people even knew who he was. Thelma Glass is another important figure in the civil rights movement who's been largely forgotten, though one can make a strong case that the movement wouldn't have been possible without her leadership.

Feego wrote:Damn, people are just dropping like flies.

It's the heat.

Susanne Lothar.

Oh no Without her cause of death specified, it makes me fear that it may have been self-inflicted. She is a phenomenal actress, and this is heartbreaking news on the heels of the death of her husband a few years ago.

Very sad, she did a great haunted look put to good use by Haneke in the original Funny Games and as the mother of the pupil that Huppert's character destroys in The Piano Teacher. And The White Ribbon of course.

One of my favourite non-Haneke roles she was in was another film that threw her into a harrowing situation, the short To Have and To Hold.

Mary Tamm, at one point tipped for major stardom due to her role in The Odessa File but probably best remembered in a long career as a one-season Doctor Who companion.

How very sad - I liked her a lot as Romana. It's awful that all these Who alums are dying off. I hope it's not some conspiracy.

GaryC wrote:Mary Tamm, at one point tipped for major stardom due to her role in The Odessa File but probably best remembered in a long career as a one-season Doctor Who companion.

That is truly strange for me because I just watched Odessa for the first time a few days ago and was struck by her and the fact that I hadn't seen her before.

mfunk9786 wrote:Oh no Without her cause of death specified, it makes me fear that it may have been self-inflicted.

I was thinking this myself. The cause of death has been withheld for "understandable reasons".

It'll be hard to stomach some of her more emotionally taxing roles anymore. It'll give *that scene* in The White Ribbon a lot more impact, that's for sure.

Frequent maid Lupe Ontiveros

His roles in Peckinpah movies will never be forgotten,RIP.

And now Tony Martin. Too soon, too soon! (Yes, I stole that line from Tom Weaver.)

Also Norm Alden.

bamwc2 wrote:Chris Marker

See this dedicated thread for more obits and tributes.

Matt wrote:

bamwc2 wrote:Chris Marker

See this dedicated thread for more obits and tributes.

Thanks, Matt. Internet was down all day yesterday, so I missed the news until posting. Scanning over the last two days, I couldn't believe that no one else posted it yet. My apologies.

Damnit. Does that leave us with any good thinkers? I'd hate to live in a world where Bill Maher is even in the top ten.

The only Top Ten list Bill Maher will ever make is that of pompous, self-important assholes.

triodelover wrote:The only Top Ten list Bill Maher will ever make is that of pompous, self-important assholes.

So you would also hate to live in a world where Bill Maher is in the top ten, I take it.

This will give Podhoretz his second quasi-erection in a week. I'm tired of that worm outliving his superiors and getting to gloat over their graves.

Gore Vidal, as famous and accomplished as he was, is still underrated as a novelist and a writer in general, even among people who should know these things.

Vidal was full of glorious rage, and he expressed it so sharply, so entertainingly. It must've felt good to be hated by all the right people.

He has no literary successor. No one has his combination of bite, style, and wit married to an unimpeachable moral anchor.

Do yourselves a favor and read him. His essays are among the best by anyone over the last century. His novels are wry fun.

Vidal's diagnosis of the downhill trend of America was/is spot on. And he delivered it without righteousness, but with true vitriol and sadness. He will be missed.