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Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 10:15 pm
by colinr0380
There might not be anything that can top his exit from the remake of The Thing but we was also great as the President's doctor tending to Chancey Gardener in Being There.
He was also in one of the early cycle of Michael Critchton adaptations (lesser known compared to The Andromeda Strain and Westworld),
The Terminal Man. Interestingly both Dysart and Donald Moffat starred together in both The Terminal Man and The Thing!
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:40 am
by Perkins Cobb
Judith Malina and
Vivian Nathan, both major NYC theater figures who had a few significant film roles.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 12:58 am
by FrauBlucher
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 9:59 am
by colinr0380
Judith Malina was also in Jack Smith's cult classic film
Flaming Creatures (NSFW).
A director of tons of those great short Warner Brothers "So You Want To..." films with the character Joe McDoakes.
So You Want To Give Up Smoking was the first in 1942 and according to imdb the series continued until 1956.
He's also the director of the gimmicky sounding "Duo-vision" film
Wicked, Wicked.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:18 pm
by Perkins Cobb
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:26 pm
by domino harvey
Almond's Isabel with his ex Genevieve Bujold is an absolute masterpiece and an overlooked classic of psychosexual horror. I heard Olive had the rights but I don't know why nothing ever materialized. It's up on Amazon Prime right now though
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2015 6:41 pm
by Perkins Cobb
Act of the Heart is good, too. Almond would probably have a bigger rep if those were easier to see. Plus he was involved with some important Canadian TV shows (
Wojeck) and
his early connection to the Up series has been largely forgotten.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:22 am
by MichaelB
Sam Rohdie.
No formal confirmation yet, but Facebook posts from people who knew him all say the same thing. (It was on April 3rd.) The link is to an extensive 2010 interview with him.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 9:30 am
by rohmerin
Günter Grass.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 10:35 am
by Mr Sausage
rohmerin wrote:Günter Grass.
Link
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:06 pm
by ellipsis7
MichaelB wrote:Sam Rohdie.
No formal confirmation yet, but Facebook posts from people who knew him all say the same thing. (It was on April 3rd.) The link is to an extensive 2010 interview with him.
This may be the confirmation - matches the date... Rohdie was latterly on the staff of the University of Central Florida... No actual obits yet, which is strange...
SAMUEL F. ROHDIE, 75, Orlando, died Friday. Orlando Direct Cremation Service.
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:18 pm
by fdm
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:16 pm
by Grand Wazoo
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2015 7:52 pm
by Roger Ryan
I was curious why the Times claimed he was 69 when he was born in 1942...then realized he passed away three years ago!
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 8:20 am
by Lemmy Caution
Percy Sledge was a pretty terrific singer, with a nice combination of restraint and passion.
Besides the classic When A Man Loves a Woman (featured in numerous films), I'd rec that folks check out the my favorite PS song, It Tears Me Up, plus Sudden Stop, and his cover version of Behind Closed Doors.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 9:52 am
by JamesF
Roger Ryan wrote:
I was curious why the Times claimed he was 69 when he was born in 1942...then realized he passed away three years ago!
Indeed, Fanaka's death is old news - though thanks for the reminder to buy a ticket for the 35mm screening of
Welcome Home, Brother Charles at the Tate Modern on Saturday!
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:48 pm
by Grand Wazoo
JamesF wrote:Roger Ryan wrote:
I was curious why the Times claimed he was 69 when he was born in 1942...then realized he passed away three years ago!
Indeed, Fanaka's death is old news - though thanks for the reminder to buy a ticket for the 35mm screening of
Welcome Home, Brother Charles at the Tate Modern on Saturday!
Ahhhh saw this being passed around on twitter but didn't even notice the date.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 5:49 pm
by ellipsis7
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:02 pm
by bamwc2
Paul Almond--the genius behind the Up series.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2015 7:28 pm
by swo17
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:35 pm
by jbeall
Levi Watkins, pioneering heart surgeon and civil rights activist. Such was his reputation in Baltimore that the schoolkids in season 4 of
The Wire knew who he was.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 11:57 pm
by lacritfan
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:03 pm
by Mr Sausage
One of the luminaries of modern literary criticism,
M. H. Abrams, writer of
The Mirror and the Lamp,
Natural Supernaturalism, and founder of the
Norton Anthology of English Literature. As distinguished as they come, and lived to 92!
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 6:52 pm
by Roger Ryan
Mr Sausage wrote:One of the luminaries of modern literary criticism,
M. H. Abrams, writer of
The Mirror and the Lamp,
Natural Supernaturalism, and founder of the
Norton Anthology of English Literature. As distinguished as they come, and lived to 92!
It looks like he lived a decade beyond that - the article notes he was
102.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:43 pm
by Mr Sausage
Roger Ryan wrote:Mr Sausage wrote:One of the luminaries of modern literary criticism,
M. H. Abrams, writer of
The Mirror and the Lamp,
Natural Supernaturalism, and founder of the
Norton Anthology of English Literature. As distinguished as they come, and lived to 92!
It looks like he lived a decade beyond that - the article notes he was
102.
Yeah, that was just some weird lapse on my part. Went to write 102, wrote a totally different number instead. *shrugs*