Passages

[Drucker]

No doubt the crux of her humor and her disdain to let anything be off limits was enjoyable. But the actual delivery of her jokes I just found so repetitive.

For example: F amous person? Scoff and or roll eyes. Famous person hasn't had that activity happen to them since insert lewd act with other famous person.

To be clear, that's the only thing I am being critical of. Unfortunately it was my initial exposure to her.

[Roger Ryan]

Rivers' appearance on a Season 3 episode of LOUIE was quite good; funny but more multifaceted than her usual talk show persona. I also appreciate how forthright she was during her lengthy bonus feature interview on THE SWIMMER Blu-ray where she related how uncomfortable Lancaster made her feel and how director Frank Perry was undermined.

[flyonthewall2983]

It was nice of Jimmy Fallon to lift the ban I didn't realize Leno kept in place until now. If you watch the Carson PBS doc, she still seemed quite broken-hearted about it.

[lubitsch]

Marina von Ditmar [in German] died two months before her 100th birthday, one of the last Ufa actresses, probably best known for her role in the Agfacolor spectacle Münchhausen. I even had spoken with her on the phone once and wanted to visit her this year ...

Edit: And an article I've totally missed when I was on holiday reported very belatedly that Hansi Knoteck , Sirk's Mädchen vom Moorhof and probably the last Ufa star except for Anneliese Uhlig passed away in February.

[Numero Trois]

But the actual delivery of her jokes I just found so repetitive.

Sad to say, that was probably one of the reasons why her late 80s late nite talk show didn't last. At that point she was still doing her "can we talk / gag me with a spoon" shtick extensively. It was fine as being Johnny Carson's top backup but as a lead it got old quick. Thankfully that was just a footnote to a truly impressive career. RIP

[Ovader]

Just found out on Facebook via 24 fois la vérité par seconde that editor Nicole Lubtchansky passed away. No links yet.

[CSM126]

WCW/WWE Pro wrestler and MMA fighter Sean O'Haire commits suicide. I won't be surprised if this is another case of depression linked to repeated head trauma, just like Mike Awesome, Chris Benoit, etc., etc.

[bamwc2]

Richard Kiel

["membrillo"]

WCW/WWE Pro wrestler and MMA fighter Sean O'Haire commits suicide. I won't be surprised if this is another case of depression linked to repeated head trauma, just like Mike Awesome, Chris Benoit, etc., etc.

Come on, dude. Seriously with that BS??? I was boxing since I was 9. I know lots of kids I used to work with in gyms and kids from the am's, that are fine to this day.

If someone has problems, they have problems. Don't blame a sport.

[knives]

Except when there has been multiple studies that prove a connection.

["membrillo"]

Except when there has been multiple studies that prove a connection.

Whatever.

[GaryC]

UK novelist Graham Joyce, of cancer, aged 59.

He wrote mostly in the fantasy and horror genres, and has an IMDB entry for a short film from 2012, Black Dust.

[Caligula]

Richard Kiel

I still remember being taken by my parents to see The Spy Who Loved Me as a very impressionable 7 year old, and being scared out of my wits by his performance. Goodness, I had nightmares about the guy.

[Drucker]

Richard Kiel

Let us never forget his fantastic turn as the title-character of the 1962 Sci-Fi Rocksploitation Masterpiece, Eegah, (the name written in blood!)

[colinr0380]

I've only read The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce, which seemed to be the novel that got the widest mainstream attention. It at least made it into my local library! It was a interesting piece melding fantasy and horror together in a Clive Barker-esque way, though with the balance tipped more towards a 'social realist' bias rather than the creatures.

On Richard Kiel and Eegah!, isn't that the film that climaxes with the neanderthal main character played by Kiel crashing a pool party? Time to play Valerie in tribute!

[Drucker]

Yes! The director's son is the star, and dear god he can't act his way out of a paper bag. It's really, more than anything, a cheesy, early-60s "rock and roll for kids" type movie, with out of nowhere music breaks.

The day my best friend got his driver's license, we drove to Best Buy, and we were determined to find something worth watching in the 4.99 section. When he saw the DVD for Eegah with the sub-title "The Name Written In Blood," we knew we had a winner.

[colinr0380]

I agree that Arch Hall Jr is a 'unique' actor, but I couldn't imagine anyone else in Eegah!, The Sadist and in my particular favourite, the music business drama Wild Guitar! Which got a great lambasting in the old Exploitica series!

[CSM126]

One can only hope that Kiel remembers to watch out for snakes as he travels the afterlife.

[Perkins Cobb]

Joachim Fuchsberger, Antoine Duhamel, and (according to various social media reports that I can't source yet) Nicole Lubtchansky.

[colinr0380]

Antoine Duhamel.

An amazing composer, just for his work on Godard's Pierrot le Fou and icily cold compositions for Week-End.

Though amongst many others he also worked on François Truffaut's Stolen Kisses, Bed and Boad and Mississippi Mermaid; Bertand Tavernier's Edinburgh set sci-fi film starring Harvey Keitel, Romy Schneider and Harry Dean Stanton, Death Watch, the Dirk Bogarde and Jane Birkin drama Daddy Nostalgie and WWII set Laissez-passer; Tony Richardson's Mademoiselle; Patrice Leconte's historical drama Ridicule; and a number of Spanish director Fernando Trueba's films: The Mad Monkey, Belle Epoque (one of Penélope Cruz's earliest film roles), The Girl of Your Dreams (another film starring Cruz) and The Shanghai Spell.

[knives]

I agree that Arch Hall Jr is a 'unique' actor, but I couldn't imagine anyone else in Eegah!, The Sadist and in my particular favourite, the music business drama Wild Guitar! Which got a great lambasting in the old Exploitica series!

He also has a pretty fun role in an early episode of Star Trek.

[Jonathan S]

Sir Donald Sinden

[Feego]

He also has a pretty fun role in an early episode of Star Trek.

I think you're confusing him with Oscar-nominee Michael J. Pollard, who sort of resembles Arch Hall Jr. but is an infinitely better actor. Although Hall's performance in The Sadist is fascinating.

To bring this back to people who actually passed away, Richard Kiel also appeared to memorable effect as the Kanamits in the famous Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man."

[dadaistnun]

Antoine Duhamel

[Feego]

Shirley Yamaguchi