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Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:31 pm
by therewillbeblus
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.
She was excellent in Mai Zetterling's
The Girls and
Loving Couples too, which are the films I remember her most from
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 9:34 pm
by FrauBlucher
Ugh. I just watched The Virgin Spring last night and her interview this morning from the bluray. RIP
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:01 pm
by JSC
Very sad. Her role in Winter Light is to my mind a pivotal part of that film.
I know that she directed a film in the late 70s called Paradise Place which Ingmar Bergman
produced for his Cinematagraph company.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:58 am
by Dylan
Alberto Grimaldi, producer of
Last Tango in Paris,
1900,
Fellini Satyricon,
Fellini's Casanova,
Burn!,
Salo,
Gangs of New York,
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and many more, at age 95, of natural causes.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:12 pm
by colinr0380
Here's a
Guardian piece on Bernstein, blacklisted in the 1950s during the HUAC situation and later was Oscar nominated for his screenplay about a blacklisted writer (played by Woody Allen) in
The Front. And he also wrote
The House on Carroll Street for Peter Yates which also has themes of blacklisting to it.
Beyond those he wrote a lot of adapted screenplays from novels: for Fail-Safe, the Sean Connery film The Molly Maguires, Paris Blues (also for The Front director Martin Ritt), Semi-Tough. Even the Dan Aykroyd comedy The Couch Trip
He directed only one film in 1980's
Little Miss Marker starring Julie Andrews and Walter Matthau. And made an acting appearance in James Schamus's film (again about persecution) from 2016
Indignation.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:11 pm
by Never Cursed
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 10:19 pm
by FrauBlucher
oh that's sad. Didn't realize she was in her 90s
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:14 pm
by knives
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood that she helped me a lot to make the transition to adult fare like The Last Picture Show. Though she’ll always be Frau Blucher to me.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:17 pm
by swo17
knives wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:14 pm
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood
Was it the
My Little Pony movie for you too?
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:18 pm
by FrauBlucher
knives wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:14 pm
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood that she helped me a lot to make the transition to adult fare like The Last Picture Show. Though she’ll always be Frau Blucher to me.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:19 pm
by knives
swo17 wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:17 pm
knives wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:14 pm
Oh dear. She was one of those ubiquitous figures from my childhood
Was it the
My Little Pony movie for you too?
I have never seen that and likely never will.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:42 pm
by swo17
Don't worry, I watched it enough to cover the whole forum
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:45 pm
by domino harvey
With what?!
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 11:48 pm
by bearcuborg
It seems like Cloris rarely played a part that was as beautiful as she actually was in real life. I remember being shocked watching her on Carson as a kid and being told she was in Young Frankenstein. She had a hilarious cameo in the Beavis and Butthead movie.
A few years ago she was featured on CBS Sunday Morning looking as fit as the best of us here...
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 12:05 am
by swo17
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:10 am
by flyonthewall2983
I saw The Beverly Hillbillies with my whole family in it's theatrical release, where she played Granny (speaks to her vitality that she was of age for such a role, in something which came out 30 years ago). It's actually the last time I can remember the four of us watching a movie all together, in the theater at least.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 2:44 am
by Feego
Frau Blucher is probably the role I immediately associate with her now, but growing up on a steady diet of Nick at Nite, I first knew Leachman as Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She was so delightfully selfish, and it was fun watching her spar with Valerie Harper’s Rhoda. I think my favorite Phyllis moment is in the famous wedding episode of Rhoda, where she blithely strolls in late, not remembering that she was supposed to pick up the bride!
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:11 am
by hearthesilence
She was HILARIOUS as the horrendously evil grandmother in
Malcolm in the Middle.
That and her senile elderly woman on
The Simpsons were my introductions to her work. Honestly, the woman should have gotten a Kennedy Center honor - how many can boast wonderful performances in films as diverse and acclaimed as
Kiss Me Deadly,
The Last PIcture Show and
Young Frankenstein, and then point out that she's better known for one of the most acclaimed television shows of the 1970s?
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:23 am
by hearthesilence
Actually,
THIS moment was the best part from that Christmas episode. Leachman is just brilliant.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 9:38 am
by Mr. Deltoid
hearthesilence wrote: Thu Jan 28, 2021 8:11 am
She was HILARIOUS as the horrendously evil grandmother in
Malcolm in the Middle.
That and her senile elderly woman on
The Simpsons were my introductions to her work. Honestly, the woman should have gotten a Kennedy Center honor - how many can boast wonderful performances in films as diverse and acclaimed as
Kiss Me Deadly,
The Last PIcture Show and
Young Frankenstein, and then point out that she's better known for one of the most acclaimed television shows of the 1970s?
Your right, she was superb in
Malcolm and effortlessly stole every scene she was in. The episode where she loses a leg and has to be cared for by Francis is comedy-gold, especially her line delivery, "I wanna watch the whore that gives the weather!".
Rest in Peace Cloris.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2021 7:51 pm
by hearthesilence
Mr. Deltoid wrote: Thu Jan 28, 2021 9:38 am
Your right, she was superb in
Malcolm and effortlessly stole every scene she was in. The episode where she loses a leg and has to be cared for by Francis is comedy-gold, especially her line delivery, "I wanna watch the whore that gives the weather!".
LOL, I think that's the one where she sues her own family and refuses to drop the lawsuit until the lawyers bail when they find out the family isn't insured.
I just noticed Leachman is particularly effective in black & white. There are moments in
The Last PIcture Show where she looks like she stepped out of Dorothea Lange's most famous photographs, and of course she looks fantastically creepy in
Young Frankenstein. It brings to mind Orson Welles's joke that all the great performances were in black & white.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 12:58 am
by Aunt Peg
The great Cicely Tyson has passed away:
https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/cicely ... 234895188/
Two legendary actresses in just two days.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:14 pm
by ando
Quite. Met Tyson and (short as she was) found her as formidable a presence as she was on screen. And while I admire many of her performances she’ll always be THE Harriet Tubman on film for me. (APrime has
A Woman Called Moses currently streaming.) Tyson and Leachman were legendary talents before they passed on. R.I.P.
A dignified hero
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 4:33 am
by Lemmy Caution
Harthorne Wingo, fan favorite on 1973 New York Knicks title team, dies at age 73
The quintessential end of the bench fan favorite. It helped that he was on the NY Knicks last title team in '73. Most people mistook his given name for Hawthorn, but it was the "Wing-o Wing-o" chants that are remembered.
Wingo was also one of the few who made the leap from Rucker Park to the pros.
Pete Vecsey tells a story about bringing skilled NBA bruiser Bob Love on to his Rucker team as a ringer -- lots of NBA players would show up there back in the day,
including Dr. J -- and a not-yet NBA Wingo just killing Love on both ends.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:39 am
by hearthesilence
Hilton Valentine, guitarist for the great British rock band, the Animals. Most will be familiar with his opening riff to their landmark cover of "House of the Rising Sun" - Scorsese placed it over Ginger's death scene in
Casino.