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#6479 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Apr 23, 2017 6:18 am

mfunk9786 wrote:Erin Moran
Of course Happy Days is the most famous role, but she did also turn up in notorious and weird Roger Corman-produced Galaxy of Terror (NSFW) in the early 1980s too (part of that run of films reusing the Battle Beyond The Stars stock footage, thereby melding Star Wars and Alien influences together!) as a member of the crew plagued by hallucinations of their deepest fears and then as one of the returned zombies throwing the last survivor around at the climax!

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#6480 Post by jbeall » Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:00 pm

Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

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#6481 Post by Fred Holywell » Tue Apr 25, 2017 7:43 am

Enrico Medioli, Italian screenwriter of "The Leopard," "The Damned," and "Once Upon a Time in America," among others.

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#6482 Post by Perkins Cobb » Tue Apr 25, 2017 2:03 pm

jbeall wrote:Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
And William Hjortsberg, another major counterculture writer of the '70s, announced on the same day.

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#6483 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Apr 26, 2017 12:49 pm

Jonathan Demme discussion moved here

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#6484 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Apr 27, 2017 1:54 pm

Prolific Bollywood actor Vinod Khanna

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#6488 Post by Numero Trois » Thu May 04, 2017 2:19 pm

Daliah Lavi

Like the press has noted, she's probably best known for being in Casino Royale and The Silencers. But I think her part in Bava's The Whip and the Body is her most noteworthy.

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#6490 Post by hearthesilence » Fri May 05, 2017 2:30 pm

Jesus, he must've been barely 40. I know it happens - Martin Sheen had a heart attack even before then - but still you don't expect a stroke that young from someone who doesn't look like he's in bad shape.

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#6491 Post by Forrest Taft » Fri May 05, 2017 3:50 pm

Was looking forward to seeing them live at Primavera Sound four weeks from now. Will be an unusual gig, if they don't cancel it.

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#6492 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri May 05, 2017 11:28 pm

hearthesilence wrote:Jesus, he must've been barely 40. I know it happens - Martin Sheen had a heart attack even before then - but still you don't expect a stroke that young from someone who doesn't look like he's in bad shape.
Rick Wakeman had 3 heart attacks in his 20's.

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#6494 Post by Polybius » Sun May 07, 2017 7:08 am

Someone I am always happy to see pop up on screen.

His Columbo outing is a little atypical. Instead of his usual tough guy, he's kind of a good natured dope who is used as a patsy by the Dick Van Dyke character (easily the most despicable role I can remember DVV playing. He's obviously having a ball.)

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#6495 Post by calculus entrophy » Sun May 07, 2017 8:54 am

I totally agree with you on that role in Columbo! It was great to see him so against his usual type and he does a very convincing job.

****One other amazing Columbo cameo against type is George C Scott playing a mild mannered, spectacled tv broadcast engineer showing him how the various controls work in an episode that starred GCS's wife. I had to actually re-wind and watch it a couple of times to believe it was him.

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#6496 Post by fdm » Tue May 09, 2017 3:34 pm

Mary Tsoni

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#6497 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue May 09, 2017 4:30 pm

fdm wrote:Mary Tsoni
Variety obit - this is just awful. Dogtooth is one of the best films of the last 10 years largely due to the convincing and empathic lead performances of Tsoni and Angeliki Papoulia.

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#6498 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed May 10, 2017 11:18 am


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#6499 Post by swo17 » Wed May 10, 2017 11:34 am

Didn't realize this until now, but he played the same character in a number of Tarantino/Rodriguez films
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despite being killed the first time out!

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#6500 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed May 10, 2017 11:45 am

Also, two characters in Kill Bill itself! Despite Smith's seemingly very sincere love of Parks (and Tarantino's love of Red State), it's a shame he couldn't find a more talented director to write films for him to lead in these latter years than Smith.

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