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#7526 Post by colinr0380 » Thu Dec 13, 2018 7:51 pm

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Sondra Locke
Whilst her relationship with Clint Eastwood is getting focused on, I want to put in a work for Locke's work as a director. I have not had the chance to see her debut directorial feature Ratboy which she also starred in and worryingly looks like it could be the most tone deaf in sensitivity response to the Peter Bodganovich film Mask that had come out a year prior. But I really like undercover vice cop thriller Impulse which is one of Theresa Russell's best non-Nicolas Roeg roles (Russell's other role being the next year's strangely thematically similar Whore, for Ken Russell) and also features George Dzundza in a slimy cop role a couple of years before he was in Basic Instinct as Michael Douglas's partner!

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Sweet Nancy Wilson

#7528 Post by Lemmy Caution » Fri Dec 14, 2018 4:32 am

Nancy Wilson had a pretty amazing career.
Singing, touring, acting, civil rights movement, NPR hosting.
She had a dedicated work ethic. And always classy.
It wasn't easy to have develop a successful jazz singing career in the 60's and beyond. I think Nancy Wilson and Abbey Lincoln managed it impressively and on their own terms.

For anyone unfamiliar with her, I'd rec listening to Save Your Love For Me recorded with Cannonball Adderley's group. Adderley largely discovered her and got her career started. After that, the next song to load is a live in studio version of the same song with the same group, different vocals and backing. Worth comparing.

Here's Nancy Wilson's 1962 TV appearance on Jazz Scene USA hosted by Oscar Brown Jr.

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#7529 Post by Kauno » Fri Dec 14, 2018 7:10 am

Matti Kassila 1924–2018

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#7530 Post by GaryC » Sat Dec 15, 2018 2:08 am

A late entry, but missed here, Donald Gordon Payne, who wrote as James Vance Marshall, Donald Gordon and Ian Cameron, died 22 August this year at the age of 94. His 1959 novel Walkabout (originally published as The Children, under the Marshall name) formed the basis of the 1971 Nicolas Roeg film. His novel under the Cameron name The Lost Ones was filmed by Disney in 1974 as The Island at the Top of the World.

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#7531 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:31 pm

They really do this the best....TCM Remembers

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#7532 Post by Feego » Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:21 pm

According to his Wikipedia and IMDb pages, frequent Howard Hawks actor Dewey Martin died on April 9. The only things I could find on Google were some blog posts, but Wikipedia provides this SAG-AFTRA memoriam as a source.

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#7533 Post by MichaelB » Tue Dec 18, 2018 3:32 pm

Kazimierz Kutz, one of the last survivors of the generation that produced Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej Munk, etc - he made his debut in 1958 with Cross of Valour but is best known for his so-called Silesian Trilogy: Salt of the Black Earth (1969), Pearl in the Crown (1970) and The Beads of One Rosary (1979).

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#7535 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 19, 2018 12:25 pm

Penny Marshall discussion moved here

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#7538 Post by HinkyDinkyTruesmith » Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:12 am

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Donald Moffat
I studied James Joyce under his daughter, who is a professor of literature. A little uncanny to see it on here. (She looks remarkably similar, especially when they're yelling.) The quote "I'd rather not spend the rest of the winter tied to this fucking couch," was oft used by me and some film interested friends.

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#7539 Post by Polybius » Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:45 am

I love that line, so much.

I also love his short but wonderful turn as Lyndon Johnson in The Right Stuff and the (similar, now that I think of it) portrayal of the hilariously domineering stepfather of Robin Williams/coach of the other team in The Best of Times.

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#7540 Post by colinr0380 » Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:19 am

He also appears in a couple of other Philip Kaufman films - in The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid and a couple of scenes of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Moffat also worked a lot with Robert Altman too, from Health all the way up to Cookie's Fortune, and also appeared in Costa-Gavras' Music Box, as well as another scientist/doctor role in Michael Critchton adaptation The Terminal Man. But that line and performance of it from The Thing is one of those scenes that feel perfect in giving both a climax to a scene but also an actor a extremely memorable moment to play that concisely gets to the core of their character!

Perhaps it was his look and bearing but it is interesting that he played many authority roles, often doctors, but often flawed or compromised ones who under the surface of being calm and collected seem desperately trying to cope in the face of radical change. It was sort of inevitable that when he was in a disaster movie, Earthquake, he played another doctor!

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#7541 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Fri Dec 21, 2018 3:26 am

He was great in Clear And Present Danger, as someone who's playing Reagan (but not Reagan).

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#7542 Post by bearcuborg » Fri Dec 21, 2018 1:18 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Fri Dec 21, 2018 2:19 am
Moffat also worked a lot with Robert Altman too, from Health all the way up to Cookie's Fortune
Loved him in that wonderful movie.

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#7543 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Dec 26, 2018 2:54 pm

The UK's most famous nun, Sister Wendy Beckett who over a number of series made Sunday evenings sexy by exploring the erotic power of artistic masterpieces (probably the most nudity the BBC has ever shown at primetime in one go!)

I'm joking but only a little, although every week it was a little nervewracking to wonder if Sister Wendy would suffer from Stendhal syndrome in front of the camera! She did do a lot for the appreciation of art on television though, infusing static works with the breathlessly told stories behind them. I found her quite an inspiring figure.
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#7544 Post by Dr Amicus » Wed Dec 26, 2018 4:13 pm

I'd agree, she was a great TV presenter. One of those eccentric knowledgeable amateurs that the BBC seem to be able to uncover, or at least used to before using random celebrity hosts for factual programs.

But Sister Wendy's various series were appointment viewing for my family, serious about the subject whilst being both accessible and yet not talking down to the viewer. When discussing sex and anatomy, interviewers would often ask how she could know about such matters being a nun. Her common sense reply being she was still a woman!

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#7545 Post by Dylan » Thu Dec 27, 2018 1:00 am

Lyricist Norman Gimbel at 91. He's probably best known for such songs as "Killing Me Softly With His Song" and "The Girl from Ipanema" but he worked extensively writing lyrics to various movie themes (The Fox, Killer's Kiss, Other Side of the Mountain, Foul Play, Norma Rae, Meatballs, The Stunt Man, Used Cars, English language versions of songs from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and many more) and television themes (Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Wonder Woman, etc.).

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#7546 Post by GaryC » Fri Dec 28, 2018 3:01 am

Penny Cook, aged sixty-one, best known for television roles such as in A Country Practice, but with occasional cinema work.

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#7547 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Dec 29, 2018 6:15 am

Israeli author Amos Oz, whose autobiographical novel A Tale of Love and Darkness was adapted into a film by Natalie Portman, who also directed and starred in it.

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#7548 Post by dwk » Sat Dec 29, 2018 10:26 am


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#7549 Post by colinr0380 » Sat Dec 29, 2018 12:16 pm

I will always be grateful to Jorge Grau for putting a part of the world that I live close to (Winnat's Pass) on film in The Living Dead At The Manchester Morgue, even though there is no church on top of the hill as in the film! It is a really strange eerie and mournful film as well, using its rural setting for a kind of ecological take on zombies.

Robert Kerman is an interesting figure. He's in three of the most notorious of the Italian cannibal films with Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust, where he takes a trip to the jungle and back with the footage of the lost expedition and has the rather amusing musing on "who are the real cannibals, anyway?" scene at the end (inviting the response "Um, the cannibals are?"). Then he is in Umberto Lenzi's films Eaten Alive! (with Me Me Lai, who a couple of years later would appear in a very different role in Lars von Trier's The Element of Crime) and then in the most cartoony-reprehensible of all the cannibal films, Cannibal Ferox, though in that one he is mostly in the New York framing scenes. He turns up in a video commentary on the Grindhouse edition of Cannibal Holocaust with Deodato and I seem to remember (though I'm not in a hurry to rewatch and check!) that while he chats away happily during the rest of the track, during the animal violence sections (especially the muskrat stabbing) he just sits in silence looking at the director disapprovingly as Deodato tries to justify it!

Cannibal Holocaust is not Kerman's only claim to fame though, as during this period (before and after) he was in many hardcore films such as the adult version of Jaws (Gums) and Death Wish (the extremely notorious Sex Wish) along with Odyssey The Ultimate Trip and perhaps most famously in Debbie Does Dallas as well as its sequel. Presumably stripping off to frolic in an Amazon river with native women in Cannibal Holocaust was rather tame compared to that!

(Plus, according to imbd at least, he also turns up in small roles in that Kevin Costner thriller No Way Out and in Sam Raimi's first Spider-Man film!)
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