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rohmerin
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#6576 Post by rohmerin » Sat Jul 08, 2017 1:11 pm

Paolo Villaggio died July the 5th. National icon in Italy.

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#6579 Post by Fred Holywell » Sun Jul 09, 2017 12:22 pm

Feego wrote:Elsa Martinelli
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#6582 Post by ccfixx » Fri Jul 14, 2017 7:44 am

mfunk9786 wrote:Fresh Kid Ice
As a 12-year old in 1989, my friends and I did what we could to obtain a cassette copy of As Nasty As They Wanna Be. Luckily, the sellers at flea markets didn't really care if you were a minor or not and one of us was able to snag a copy and make copies for the rest. Good times.

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#6583 Post by swo17 » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:04 pm

George Romero discussion here

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#6584 Post by ando » Sun Jul 16, 2017 7:08 pm

Bob Wolff, longtime running broadcaster in television and radio, passed Saturday.

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#6585 Post by Ribs » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:23 pm


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#6586 Post by Luke M » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:31 pm

Wow. Two greats in a single day.

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#6587 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Jul 16, 2017 8:32 pm

What a shitty day.

I worked with Bob Woolf back in the early 90s. What a gentleman he was. Great career in sports.

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#6588 Post by bearcuborg » Sun Jul 16, 2017 9:23 pm

Nice memory you got there Frau Blucher...

Martin Landau never took a day off. He reminded me of Jack Lemon in that sense. Just like Jack, I loved his idiosyncratic mannerisms.

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#6589 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Jul 17, 2017 6:07 am

Came across this this morning... The Babe and a young Bob Woolf.
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#6590 Post by MichaelB » Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:17 pm

British arthouse distribution legend Pam Engel, Artificial Eye co-founder and more recently a major part of New Wave Films.

"The end of an era" is an appalling cliché, but I'm really struggling to think of anyone else who's been in the business for as long as she was. Everyone else that I dealt with 25-30 years ago is either dead, retired or packed it in for something saner, and she was a veteran even then.

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#6591 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jul 17, 2017 1:29 pm

That's very sad news for anyone who relies on such figures to actually get the films onto screens and eventually on a disc. I've no way of knowing but it perhaps seems telling that the shift from Artificial Eye to New Wave led to Artificial Eye becoming less interesting and risk taking with their acquisitions (and more into US films with bankable casts), whilst New Wave helped to continue a commitment to existing artists as well as pioneer another whole swathe of arthouse cinema. Hopefully they'll be able to keep on in that tradition.

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#6592 Post by GaryC » Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:43 pm

Sad news. I met her a few times in the days when I went to press showings.

Trevor Baxter, British actor whose best-known role was as Professor Litefoot in the Doctor Who serial The Talons of Weng-Chiang, and reprised the character in spin-off audiobooks. He had an acting career on both TV and in the cinema of over fifty years.

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#6593 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:16 pm

Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park

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#6594 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:48 pm

That's terrible news. Don't really know too much about him but I hate hearing these guys committing suicide knowing that they have so many people around them. I know that sounds simplified but it's frustrating nonetheless.

Btw... Next week Linken Park was to play with Blink 182 here at CitiField billed as "Blinkin Park"
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#6595 Post by dx23 » Thu Jul 20, 2017 2:54 pm

And it happens on his close friend, Chris Cornell's, birthday.

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#6596 Post by oh yeah » Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:37 am

Can't say I've been a fan (not since maybe the debut album when I was 11, or whatever) - but this is very, very sad. I feel immensely for him just reading his biography and what he went through growing up, and this was just awful news to wake up to.

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#6597 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Jul 21, 2017 1:06 pm

That is sad to hear. I'm not musically savvy but one of the best aspects of the first Transformers film was its great soundtrack album that included Linkin Park's What I've Done used over its final scene. Though of course the lyrics to that particular song now are rather uncomfortable.

EDIT: And this is an interesting video about the influence of Linkin Park on many fan anime music videos.

SECOND EDIT: I just realised that Chester Bennington appears as one of the victims in one of the best(? certainly the most spectacular) traps in the Saw franchise, as he plays the Neo-Nazi superglued to the seat of a jacked up car in Saw: The Final Chapter.
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#6598 Post by GaryC » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:49 pm

Deborah Watling, aged 69, best known for her role as Doctor Who companion Victoria Waterfield in 1967 and 1968.

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#6599 Post by GaryC » Fri Jul 21, 2017 3:51 pm

Pudsey the Dog, Britain's Got Talent winner in 2012 and star of his own film in 2014.

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#6600 Post by rohmerin » Fri Jul 21, 2017 5:45 pm

Pasolini's killer has died without speaking the truth.

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