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Exactly the same link that I posted, and it still doesn't work in Europe.

But I was able to glean all I needed elsewhere.

It's the link you meant to post, but you actually posted a direct link to the GDPR page, which confused me at first as I didn't know why the site would think I'm located in Europe.

Edit: Perhaps the archived version of the page can be viewed in Europe? http://web.archive.org/web/202006210156 ... story.html

MichaelB wrote:David E. Gluck, the previously anonymous performer of a, erm... somewhat unorthodox musical number in John Waters' Pink Flamingos (and if you've seen the film - and possibly even if you haven't - you'll know exactly what I'm talking about).

I certainly knew exactly what you were talking about, but I’m rather surprised the Baltimore Sun featured Waters’ graphic description of it!

Joel Schumacher discussion moved here

domino harvey wrote: Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:21 am Steve Bing, multimillionaire producer and writer of Kangaroo Jack, of suicide

That sentence took me on a real journey.

Another big Epstein pal. I'm sure there was no foul play and we can just close the books!

Stuart Cornfeld

Charles Webb, author of 'The Graduate,' clerk at a Kmart, itinerant farmworker, house cleaner, caretaker at a nudist colony

Carl Reiner

He and Mel Brooks were the 2000 year old men. He gave it a go.

This will probably need it’s own thread.

He was great for many reasons, but as someone who grew up watching The Jerk countless times as a child, that's an impassible mark

FrauBlucher wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:15 pm https://variety.com/2020/biz/news/carl- ... 234694208/

Oh my god. Just one of the sharpest minds in the business. Like John Cleese, his unbelievable skill as a writer and formidable
intellect was constantly on display when using social media (which I believe he said helped keep him alive longer).

I saw him at a double bill of the ridiculously unavailable Enter Laughing and The Comic at the American Cinematheque
several years ago. He loved pissing off any potential Republicans in the audience

If you haven't seen them, please seek out those two aforementioned films. Enter Laughing started out as his novel, and was
subsequently adapted into a play, then a film, a musical, and a DIFFERENT musical! Elaine May's performance in it is one for the ages.

Composer Johnny Mandel at 94. His credits include M*A*S*H, The Sandpiper, I Want to Live!, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Point Blank, The Americanization of Emily, Agatha, The Verdict, Pretty Poison, That Cold Day in the Park, and many, many more.

Louis Mahoney, actor (with a long list of tv and film credits including Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers) and activist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53233171

therewillbeblus wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:26 pmHe was great for many reasons, but as someone who grew up watching The Jerk countless times as a child, that's an impassible mark

He really felt responsible for just how idiosyncratic so many of those Steve Martin starring 'early, funny' comedy films were. I'm slightly more partial to The Man With Two Brains (but that is also because Kathleen Turner is deliciously evil!), but what other partnership could have produced Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid or the accidental possession comedy All of Me!

colinr0380 wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2020 5:21 am ...or the accidental possession comedy All of Me!

All of Me is one of those films that should not work--indeed, it should have been a horrible misfire--yet it does. Gotta give Reiner a lot of credit for that, not least for successfully meshing two very different comic personae.

That one played so many times on television as a kid I have some sequences, especially the fateful possession stuck in my head although I'd be surprised if I've seen it in twenty years!

Earl Cameron, at the tragically young age of 102.