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hearthesilence wrote:Renowned conservation investigator Esmond Bradley Martin killed at home in Kenya

That article is pretty grim but it highlights a serious problem in that part of the world. Being a conservationist is an incredibly dangerous job if the animal you're trying to protect is worth anything. Heartbreaking.

Mickey Jones (Dylan's drummer on his legendary 1966 tour, later a well-known TV character actor)

John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, political activist and internet pioneer.

Big Ben wrote:

hearthesilence wrote:Renowned conservation investigator Esmond Bradley Martin killed at home in Kenya

That article is pretty grim but it highlights a serious problem in that part of the world. Being a conservationist is an incredibly dangerous job if the animal you're trying to protect is worth anything. Heartbreaking.

That’s horrifying. It’s a huge loss for our planet...

I always think of Mickey Jones from his appearances on Home Improvement, and of course liked him as Hot Rod on Justified

Big Ben wrote:

hearthesilence wrote:Renowned conservation investigator Esmond Bradley Martin killed at home in Kenya

That article is pretty grim but it highlights a serious problem in that part of the world. Being a conservationist is an incredibly dangerous job if the animal you're trying to protect is worth anything. Heartbreaking.

The article I read a couple days ago said that it looked like a botched robbery in the case of Martin, who was stabbed in his home. But who knows, perhaps that was staged? And maybe new info has come out. He was a pretty wild/sharp dresser.

At one time, must be over 15 years ago now, Kenya had just 2 white rhinos left. So they were guarded and put in a shed at night to protect them. [white rhinos are actually grey just like black rhinos, but are very docile and can be touched by people without incident]. Poachers came, shot the armed guards dead and then snuffed out the last white rhinos in East Africa. That was pretty shocking.

Edit: Seems Kenya once again has the last 3 white rhinos under 24 hour guard. These came from a zoo in Czech Repub, but the male is old for a rhino at 44. In early 2017 a rhino was killed for its horn inside a zoo in France!

Production designer and art director Terence Marsh (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, Oliver!).

Later credits included such staples of my youth as Clear And Present Danger and The Shawshank Redemption

Gavin was in Sirk's remake of Imitation of Life of course but I always preferred A Time To Love and A Time To Die.

Jóhann Jóhannsson.

Terrible news. It’s always sad when any person of talent dies, but when they die at the height of their creative powers, it’s especially heartbreaking.

Wow, this week has been brutal

antnield wrote:Jóhann Jóhannsson.

That's really awful. I was a fan of his music before he got known for scoring films and then I met him while working on a short film he scored. He was not only hugely talented but also a really lovely man.

His score for Sicario was so haunting, bleak and beautiful, that of among all the other impressive elements of that film, it has stayed with me the most.

An autopsy is currently scheduled because they're not sure what happened. I'd venture to say a heart issue but it does make me feel any less devastated about this.

Still hope and fully expect his score for BR2049 to leak at some point. Maybe now sooner rather than later. Having it replaced by Zimmer's fine but generic and intentionally derivative one must have been devastating (same more or less for his experience on mother!).

John Gavin

Not a major talent by any means, but yet still, Psycho, Spartacus, and two wonderful Douglas Sirk films. Not bad.

Peter Hutchings, critic and historian who made a major contribution towards serious studies of English Gothic cinema in general and Hammer films and Terence Fisher in particular.

(Not to be confused with the film director Peter Hutchings, who as far as I'm aware is still very much alive.)

MichaelB wrote:Peter Hutchings, critic and historian who made a major contribution towards serious studies of English Gothic cinema in general and Hammer films and Terence Fisher in particular.

(Not to be confused with the film director Peter Hutchings, who as far as I'm aware is still very much alive.)

His books were a major part of my life when I was completing my Doctorate on Amicus. His book, the frankly misnamed Hammer and Beyond (it doesn't really go much beyond Hammer) is clearly a response to Pirie's A Heritage of Horrror by moving beyond the more purely auteurist approach of the earlier work. I often disagreed with it, but it's certainly provocative. I found the narrower his topic, the more valuable the result - his book on Terence Fisher is superior to Dixon's, and his book on Fisher's Dracula is as good as pretty much anything in the BFI Classics.

And then, one of the "minor changes" I was asked to make after my Viva was to reconsider my chapter on Freddie Francis in light of his chapter on Roy Ward Baker in British Cinema Past and Present. Actually, looking back on it, I can't remember why he wasn't asked to be my external examiner - he would have been an obvious choice.