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Kim Fowley.

I was just watching After Dark, My Sweet, looked up George Dickerson, and saw that he passed away last week. He gives one of my favorite line readings in Blue Velvet, and can also be seen in the underrated Psycho II.

swo17 wrote:George Dickerson...He gives one of my favorite line readings in Blue Velvet...

"That's a human ear alright".

That's the one!

Fitness instructor and model Greg Plitt, fatally struck by a train at age 37. I was not familiar with him, but good gracious how tragic. He had a reality show on Bravo and played minor roles in The Good Shepherd, Terminator Salvation, and Grudge Match.

Anne Kirkbride, died age 60, exclusively known for playing Deirdre Barlow since age 18 (!) on Coronation Street. In the 90s, her character was wrongly jailed, a storyline that caused so much dismay around Britain that then PM Tony Blair was moved to ask in the House of Commons for her release.

Frank Mazzola, actor-turned editor whose greatest achievement went uncredited on Performance, the film that he not only saved from attempted studio interference but turned it into a far more radical and adventurous film than had originally been screened to horrified Warner Bros executives.

Fascinating, had no idea! Found this, an interview with Mazzola about editing Performance

He also turned producer on the two posthumous Donald Cammell projects: the short The Argument (which is on Arrow's White of the Eye disc) and to create the 'director's cut' of Cammell's final film Wild Side.

I also had not realised that Mazzola was also the editor on the first film that Peter Fonda directed: The Hired Hand.

Edgar Froese of Tangerine Dream.

Baseball great Ernie Banks.

Ernie Banks hit over 40 Home runs 5 out of 6 seasons following his rookie year, including two MVP seasons. 40+ Homers was relatively unheard of from a shortstop in the 50's.
His 512 career Homers are more than Lou Gehrig or Stan Musial and almost as much as Ted Williams. Even in the steroid era, not many players have crossed the 500 HR plateau. Too bad the Cubbies were such perennial sad sacks.

I didn't realize he went to the University of Chicago.
At least according to BaseballReference.com. I couldn't find out anything about his college days from some quick searching.

Demis Roussos, probably best known here for his work as a featured vocalist on the Blade Runner score (composed by former bandmate Vangelis).

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Demis Roussos, probably best known here for his work as a featured vocalist on the Blade Runner score (composed by former bandmate Vangelis).

I guess it must be the big headline news from Greece today!... Talk about scene stealing...

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Demis Roussos, probably best known here for his work as a featured vocalist on the Blade Runner score (composed by former bandmate Vangelis).

Oh dear. Surely this should be his real claim to cinematic immortality!

zedz wrote:

flyonthewall2983 wrote:Demis Roussos, probably best known here for his work as a featured vocalist on the Blade Runner score (composed by former bandmate Vangelis).

Oh dear. Surely this should be his real claim to cinematic immortality!

Not forgetting Abigail's Party, on the small screen.

GaryC wrote:

zedz wrote:Oh dear. Surely this should be his real claim to cinematic immortality!

Not forgetting Abigail's Party, on the small screen.

You didn't click on the link, did you?

Yes, it's hard to disentangle Demis Roussos from the mention of him in Mike Leigh's classic TV film Abigail's Party, in which Alison Steadman playing the title character seemingly on a determined quest to create the ultimate 1970s evening party in spite of her guests regularly uses "Do you like Demis Roussos?" as her opening conversational gambit!

The Roussos ballad A Flower Is All You Need also turned up as the slightly incongruous title song to Aldo Lado’s Last House On The Left inspired horror film, Night Train Murders!

Australian author Colleen McCullough, writer of 'The Thornbirds' & 'Tim'

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/bo ... 7201240132" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Frazier died years ago - but I hear this story is going viral for some odd reason.