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Jean-Pierre Bacri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Bacri

I know he's better known for all his Jaoui colabs, but I'll always remember him for the weird friendship he forms with Michel Serrault in On ne meurt que deux fois even after Serrault spits spent pistachio shells at him!

John Richardson, of COVID-19

Nathalie Delon, of cancer

Another baseball Hall of Famer, pitcher Don Sutton.

Legendary stuntman Rémy Julienne who, amongst many other credits, did the stunt driving in The Italian Job and was Roger Moore's stunt double on multiple Bond films.

FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:06 pm Hank Aaron... the bad news just keeps coming for baseball royalty...RIP

Man, tell me about it... I can’t imagine any true baseball fan doesn’t consider him the true home run king.

MichaelB wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 12:02 pm Legendary stuntman Rémy Julienne who, amongst many other credits, did the stunt driving in The Italian Job and was Roger Moore's stunt double on multiple Bond films.

I cannot remember the title now but I still recall a stunt driving programme on ITV that used to play all the time on weekend afternoons and was full of Rémy Julienne's stunts, even namechecking him and following the behind the scenes shooting of the car crash scenes. I think he was probably the first stuntperson that I ever heard of by name. This sequence from Target might be representative of his style (driving cars up and down flights of stairs seemed to be one of his key stunts). I also see that he was the Stunt Co-ordinator on Jackie Chan's Operation Condor: Armour of God II, which I guess means that he was involved with this scene!.

And in recent years he worked on everything from Taxi 2 to The Da Vinci Code!

Ah, I should have just searched his name! Here's a video of his stunts (which with all of the bumping and grinding going on would probably work as the ultimate fetish video for the characters in Crash!) as well as an Italian advert for a Fiat car that seems to be about the most fraught school run ever!

bearcuborg wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:13 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:06 pm Hank Aaron... the bad news just keeps coming for baseball royalty...RIP

Man, tell me about it... I can’t imagine any true baseball fan doesn’t consider him the true home run king.

I remember every detail of 715; I don't remember anything at all about 756, or even if Bonds is still atop the list.

fiddlesticks wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:25 pm I remember every detail of 715; I don't remember anything at all about 756, or even if Bonds is still atop the list.

Yep. R.I.P.

Prob the biggest non-politician Covid death yet, right?

I guess it’s telling how treatable the virus is with good health care if he is the biggest celeb to die from Covid.

I’ve heard Larry’s radio show was much better than his syndicated show on CNN. Some years ago I heard some great snippets of Larry interviewing Stan Freberg, here’s hoping his estate will do a podcast with this old interviews...

Part of the fun of seeing the Dodgers in the last few NLCS WS baseball games was watching Larry King.

He seemed the go-to person for cameoing in faux news reports in films at a certain point in the mid-90s (usually underlining the message being put forward a bit too much) which is really where I'm most familiar with him. Films such as Contact, Costa-Gavras' Mad City, Enemy of the State, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and inevitably a lot of the political films of the Clinton period: Dave, Primary Colors, Bulworth, The Contender.

He has a cameo in Ghostbusters, from his radio show, smoking his brains out.

That last one (along with the recently circulating meme of him interviewing Danny Pudi) were the immediate things I thought of when I heard his passing

colinr0380 wrote: Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:35 pm He seemed the go-to person for cameoing in faux news reports in films at a certain point in the mid-90s (usually underlining the message being put forward a bit too much) which is really where I'm most familiar with him. Films such as Contact, Costa-Gavras' Mad City, Enemy of the State, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and inevitably a lot of the political films of the Clinton period: Dave, Primary Colors, Bulworth, The Contender.

He wasn't a hard interviewer, he was basically every publicist's dream and he clearly loved the access and fame it got him. But that's not really a criticism of him - that's just the reality of celebrity interviews, has been for a long time, and while he wasn't going to challenge anyone, he usually made the most of the circumstances. He got a long and cordial TV interview with Brando when Brando wasn't interested in doing that anymore.

Sumiko Sakamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumiko_Sakamoto

Perhaps best known for her performance in Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama (1983) which I just happen to watch again a few nights ago for the umpteenth time.

fiddlesticks wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:25 pm

bearcuborg wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 6:13 pm

FrauBlucher wrote: Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:06 pm Hank Aaron... the bad news just keeps coming for baseball royalty...RIP

Man, tell me about it... I can’t imagine any true baseball fan doesn’t consider him the true home run king.

I remember every detail of 715; I don't remember anything at all about 756, or even if Bonds is still atop the list.

715 (particularly the moment he rounds third with two euphoric Caucasian fans running with him and patting him on the back) is burned into my memory because at least one baseball program used to re-run it every week when I was a kid. It's by far the one moment in baseball that I know best from TV broadcasts, even more than Carlton Fisk's famous World Series home run.

I stopped following baseball awhile ago for a lot of reasons and reading the press on Aaron reminded me of some of those reasons. But it also provided the context for why Aaron was more inspirational than I would have remembered. I only knew him in general, abstract terms, but it's infuriating reading all the details of what he and his family went through day-to-day, minute-to-minute, and how demeaning it was in the context of his whole career - starting out in the Negro Leagues and now 20 years later witnessing the same racist shit repeat itself in his home field despite the reputation and the place in history he had already earned. As Dale Murphy puts it, to deliver under those circumstances deserves nothing but respect. Aaron was apparently bitter that following his retirement, he never truly received the respect he believed he had earned (the HOF induction being the one exception - at the time, only Ty Cobb had received a greater share of votes for his induction), and going by my childhood memories, I would not disagree. Even with his name in the record books, he never seemed to be celebrated or idolized the way, say, the Yankees' most famous players were. Even when he was praised, it was very one-dimensional - the guy wasn't just a great slugger, he was a great all-around player, but everything I recall reading was about the home runs. (Hopefully that's no longer the case - the remembrances have testimonials about his defense, base-running and enormous achievements as a pure hitter - only Ty Cobb and Pete Rose have more hits, that alone would have landed him in the HOF on the first ballot even if none of those left the park. If anything, his record for total bases and RBI's are even more impressive and certainly more important to his teams' success.)

Ten Hall of Famers (monumental Hall of Famers too, like Seaver and Gibson) gone since April, but Aaron is the biggest loss. Right before he passed away, only Koufax and Mays would have rivaled him as the greatest living players.

Aunt Peg wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:57 am Sumiko Sakamoto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumiko_Sakamoto

Perhaps best known for her performance in Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama (1983) which I just happen to watch again a few nights ago for the umpteenth time.

And she has the most amazing role in Imamura's The Pornographers as the wife who believes that her first husband has been reincarnated as a carp that she keeps in a fish tank in her hair salon, and eventually after getting jealous of her son/lover's new squeeze gets locked away in an asylum and ends up providing the best image of mental torment ever, wrestling with a single barred gate on an empty road in the middle of nowhere. That's a film I would love to see Criterion upgrade to Blu-ray soon.

hearthesilence wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 12:26 amHe wasn't a hard interviewer, he was basically every publicist's dream and he clearly loved the access and fame it got him. But that's not really a criticism of him - that's just the reality of celebrity interviews, has been for a long time, and while he wasn't going to challenge anyone, he usually made the most of the circumstances. He got a long and cordial TV interview with Brando when Brando wasn't interested in doing that anymore.

Reviled as he is now, I thought much the same of Charlie Rose, but also thought he got better interviews because of the more open-ended format he had, unencumbered by commercials and callers.

King wasn't above having some fun with his format sometimes. I remember he took a week off and Kermit the Frog took his place.

Actress turned director Gunnel Lindblom, best known for a decades-long association with Ingmar Bergman across multiple stage and film projects.

MichaelB wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:18 pm Actress turned director Gunnel Lindblom, best known for a decades-long association with Ingmar Bergman across multiple stage and film projects.

A wonderful actress, but I wasn't aware that she had also directed films and television. Has anybody here seen any of her directorial work?