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domino harvey wrote: Sun Aug 08, 2021 3:37 am Trevor Moore of the Whitest Kids U Know at 41, from an unspecified accident

Justin Sevakis has put up the first series of ten episodes of Uncle Morty's Dub Shack on his YouTube channel, which was produced by Trevor Moore just before he moved on to Whitest Kids U Know.

Its a bit of a silly show but amusing and feels like one of those series merging the MST3K formula with that trend of doing wacky dubs of foreign films in the vein of What's Up Tiger Lily or Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid that were getting a brief resurgence at the time with films like Hercules Returns and Kung Pow! Enter The Fist

Never Cursed wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:41 pm Jane Powell

Probably the last of the old MGM stars living till now (other than a few child stars still with us). Nice to see she had a long, active, seemingly fulfilling life.

Australian documentarian Ian Dunlop.

ETA: Born in 1927, so 93 or 94.

Fred Holywell wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 4:41 am

Never Cursed wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 9:41 pm Jane Powell

Probably the last of the old MGM stars living till now (other than a few child stars still with us). Nice to see she had a long, active, seemingly fulfilling life.

Marsha Hunt, who was in contract to MGM in the 1940s, is still with us at 103.

Caren Marsh (age 102) was also an MGM contract player, though she was never a “star” (I don’t believe she was even credited for most of her roles) and soon transitioned away from acting to dance instruction.

Leslie Caron is another MGM star still with us and still acting.

... also apparently still working is Angela Lansbury, who debuted in the 1944 GASLIGHT and had other key supporting roles at MGM.

Also Margaret O'Brien, Carleton Carpenter and Ann Blyth.

Forgot about Marsha Hunt, who's right up there. And Leslie Caron, who's 90 (hard to believe), was certainly a big star at MGM.

There’s a small handful still with us but the golden age of Hollywood gets further and further away in our rear view mirror

John Challis best known for playing Boycie in BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses and its spin-off.

That pretty much overshadows the rest of his work that is mostly in television, although he had a few eclectic roles in film with his debut starring with Warren Mitchell as a quartet of ne'er do wells in 1964's Where Has Poor Mickey Gone?, and an appearance in Burning An Illusion in 1981. He also appears in the first theatrical short film by Rupert Wyatt (who went on to direct Rise of the Planet of the Apes) in 2001's Subterrain.

Although for me he will always be most memorable for being punked in a segment of Brasseye asking for his reaction to an incident in which TV host Noel Edmonds has gone beserk during a dinner party!

Yes, Clive Anderson always had an edge to him!

Challis was recently in a documentary about how popular Only Fools and Horses was in Serbia, of all places. Wasn't Norman Wisdom big in Albania? What other British comedy was well received in the Balkans? Did the Slovenes admire the satire of the pretentious and upwardly mobile in Keeping Up Appearances? Or maybe the Montenegrans saw something in the pomposity of the Brittas Empire?

Richard H. Kirk of Industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire

Peter Palmer, star of Li'l Abner on Broadway and in the film.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie ... 235018391/

acroyear wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 1:53 am Richard H. Kirk of Industrial music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire

An absolute legend in post-punk and electronic music. CV was probably too abrasive for most, but he also filled dance floors and helped launch Warp Records' peerless reputation as Sweet Exorcist and did the same for the industrial dance sound of Wax Trax in collaborating with Ministry as Acid Horse with "No Name, No Slogan." And Wicky Wacky and Sandoz too!

Along with Cabaret Voltaire being early adopters of making music videos. The “Doublevision” dvd Mute Records put out is great if you’re a Cabs fan.

The Red Mecca album was one of my most sought after records for a large part of my teenage years (90’s, in the U.S.). Ultimately found it and well worth the hunt!

RIP Richard H Kirk

This is at least like the third death I can think of off the top of my head where a legendary director's death came near a critical reappraisal of their work or a major restoration. If memory serves, Rivette passed away near the release of the Out1 box, and I believe Romero died around the time the NOTLD blu-ray (or was it around the time of the Arrow box?)

Strange coincidence is all. I feel like there are a couple of other recent examples I can't think of off the top of my head.

Even more fortuitous in this case, as it's a career retrospective and is literally the next Criterion release that comes out (next week!)

Varda most recently

Romero was just before the Arrow box.

Seijun Suzuki died shortly before one of the Arrow boxes.

Luis Buñuel died just before an impressively extensive retrospective on BBC2 in the UK, which had already been booked and scheduled but it looked like an admirably prompt reaction to his death.

(That season was one of my formative cultural experiences, coming shortly after I discovered uncut Nicolas Roeg films on the same channel.)