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British critic Michael O'Pray, a leading expert on experimental film.

Barry Hanson.

Bobby Hutcherson.

Apart from some great solo records, his work on Out To Lunch is obviously critical on that masterpiece.

flyonthewall2983 wrote:TV host John McLaughlin

He inspired so many funny Saturday Night Live sketches

Arthur Hiller, he was 92.

FrauBlucher wrote:Arthur Hiller, he was 92.

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His wife of 68 years, Gwen, died on June 24. They were born 10 days apart in Edmonton, and he first proposed to her when she was 8.

Elechi Amadi, Nigerian author - I'm going to read The Concubine now. Big fan of Chinua Achebe's work so if it's similar...

Running on Empty is one of my favorite Sidney Lumet films and in large part that's because of Steven Hill's performance. He had one scene as Christine Lahti's estranged father who she goes to in hopes he'll take in their son while the family is on the lamb. They talk about the irony of having to give up their children in very difficult ways. It's a sobering scene because Lahti's husband Judd Hirsch has painted Hill out to be a monster and we see that he's at his core a man who loves his daughter deeply and wishes he could protect and care for her as any decent father would. Hill reminds me of another one scene wonder from a Lumet movie, Beatrice Straight in Network.

Sonia Rykiel, fashion designer


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Jazz record producer Rudy Van Gelder (no obit available yet, but confirmed by sources close to him).

Donald Brown wrote:Jazz record producer Rudy Van Gelder (no obit available yet, but confirmed by sources close to him).

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Actor, Marvin Kaplan, is also in the Criterion Collection.

Loved him on Alice, definitely one of the great "those guys"

He's great on Lynch's very short-lived "On the Air" - stressed out on the premiere night of "The Lester Guy Show", a cup of coffee in each hand: "My nerves! My nerves!"

FrauBlucher wrote:Actor, Marvin Kaplan, is also in the Criterion Collection.

In the best scene of It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World even! Marvin Kaplan is playing Irwin here while his gas station partner in crime Ray is played by Arnold Stang (the voice of Top Cat), so this is kind of a live action teaming of the two actors from Top Cat (Kaplan did the voice of Choo Choo) just a year after the animation finished!

Mr. Fuji was terrible at every aspect of pro wrestling, but I'll be darned if he wasn't still somehow entertaining. Him and Lou Albano: prime examples of charisma patching over lottts of deficiencies. I grew up watching Fuji manage Yokozuna and Owen Hart and I remember him fondly. Him and his horrible, terrible bumps and fake Japanese accent.

I wouldn't endorse watching older shows where he wrestled. Even as a young man he moved like he was hip deep in mud. He was better in small bursts.

Fuji Vice and Fuji Bandito - those were fun.

Also a terrible human being if some of his pranks (or "ribs" as known in wrestling) are true.