Passages

[acroyear]

Grizzly 399

“At 28 years old, she was the oldest known reproducing female grizzly bear in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem”

[therewillbeblus]

Phil Lesh

This one hurts

[Michael Kerpan]

>> This one hurts

Indeed.

[beamish14]

DJ Clark Kent, who produced very notable songs for Jay-Z and Mariah Carey, among others

[thirtyframesasecond]

Dick Pope had an amazing career but this is the one film on his CV I really need to watch.

[captveg]

Writer/Producer Jeri Taylor, best known for co-creating Star Trek: Voyager. She wrote one of my favorite TNG episodes, The Drumhead.

[TechnicolorAcid]

Paul Morrissey, Director of Beethoven’s Nephew

[pistolwink]

The obit misdescribes Andy Warhol's filmmaking in familiar ways, but it's accurate that Morrissey had a style very distinct from that of his patron. Morrisey was also fascinating as a guy who pretty much always claimed to be a cultural conservative working in an explicitly permissive, bohemian milieu, which lends some interpretive shadings to his portraits of vice and dissolution.

Nick Pinkerton has a good piece on Morrissey and his film Spike of Bensonhurst.

[colinr0380]

That seeming contradiction (or rather the suggestion that prudery and explicitness may simply be two flipsides of the same coin) gets addressed a couple of times during his Flesh For Frankenstein commentary on the Criterion disc, where he talks about making both the sex and violence so explicit and (literally) 'in your face' in order to emphasise the comic absudity of all the fixation that people have about body parts. The 3D process only adding to that philosophy!

[brundlefly]

Teri Garr.

[colinr0380]

Teri Garr.

It has been decades since I last saw it, but I would really like to revisit that comedy-adventure film she starred in with Tom Conti, Miracles, at some point.

[flyonthewall2983]

The one actress I most identified with looking like my mother, on my birthday.

[Beloved Aunt]

She really was a first-rate and perhaps under-appreciated talent. Rather than an Academy Award nomination for fu*king Tootsie, how about a career-recognition nomination for this wonderful lady for her wonderful turn in Scorsese's After Hours, universe? I think the movie sucks but she really nails the somewhat psychotic cheerfulness of her character, she's really the only aspect I have a clear memory of from that film.

[Roscoe]

I'll add a word for Ms. Garr's single scene in THE CONVERSATION, she's funny and charming and heartbreaking.

[reaky]

The eponymous heart of Coppola’s One from the Heart.

[Blutarsky]

I’ll probably best remember her as Inga from Young Frankenstein. The chemistry she, Gene, and Marty had in their scenes together was incredible and, in my opinion, a key element to that film’s success.

If you also have time today, and haven’t seen it, check out her time on the very early episodes Late Night with David Letterman which are still very funny and showed how truly incredible she was.

[tolbs1010]

I liked her in everything I saw her in. Such a bright, endearing presence on screen. For some reason Firstborn is the movie I thought of when I heard she had died. Underrated film. Her vulnerability makes it believable and even elicits sympathy despite her character making one stupid decision after another.

[Aunt Peg]

I liked her in everything I saw her in. Such a bright, endearing presence on screen. For some reason Firstborn is the movie I thought of when I heard she had died. Underrated film. Her vulnerability makes it believable and even elicits sympathy despite her character making one stupid decision after another.

That is my favourite Teri Garr performance. Such a shame it remains largely under seen.

[Feego]

Like Shelley Duvall, Teri Garr seems to have been a constant presence in the entertainment I consumed as a child, including appearances in at least two shows produced by Duvall. She was always a welcome performer, giving life even to parts that were otherwise thankless. Case in point, I really love her as Richard Dreyfuss’ frustrated wife in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s not a complex role on paper, but she suggests years of disappointment, anger, perhaps even neglect in her few scenes. Her delivery of the line “What? You said what?” when Dreyfuss calls her crazy for leaving him after he has destroyed a neighbor’s and their own property is one of my favorite little moments in the film.

[pistolwink]

You can spot a very young Teri Garr as one of the go-go dancers in The TAMI Show. She's in the striped shirt here, at one point dancing in front of an oblivious Chuck Berry.

[MichaelB]

The invaluable Film Polski website has published its annual exhaustive list of every Polish person professionally involved with the film or television industries who's died over the last twelve months.

Although, glancing down it, I think we covered the bigger names in this thread already - Maria Chwalibóg, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Janusz Majewski, Andrzej Mularczyk and above all Jerzy Stuhr.

[domino harvey]

Alan Rachins of LA Law and Dharma and Greg

[GaryC]

Jehane Markham, aged 75, playwright for radio, TV and stage. Her 1978 Play for Today, Nina, was directed by Alan Clarke and can be found in the BFI's Dissent and Disruption box set. The obituary I've linked to is by her sister, the actress Petra Markham.

[Aunt Peg]

Quincy Jones, 91, has passed away.

[flyonthewall2983]

It was a weird experience hearing the Austin Powers theme in The Pawnbroker