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domino harvey wrote:Horton Foote

As someone pointed out elsewhere, page one of the New York Times' Arts section contains a review of Watchmen and an obit for Horton Foote. Reasonably or not I take that as meaningful.

Whatever the case, the essence of Foote's art, the depths of compassion that nourish his Tender Mercies and Trip to Bountiful, have never seemed less immediately relevant; more remote now than ever before, virtually incomprehensible.

Tullio Pinelli, award-winning Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I vitelloni, La strada, La dolce vita and 8½ dies 100 years old.

sir karl wrote:Tullio Pinelli, award-winning Italian screenwriter best known for his work on the Federico Fellini classics I vitelloni, La strada, La dolce vita and 8½ dies 100 years old.

And Variety Lights (he'd previously worked on writing Lattuada's The Bandit and Without Pity), The White Sheik, Il Bidone, Nights of Cabiria, Fellini's segment of Boccaccio '70, Juliet of the Spirits, Ginger & Fred, Voice of the Moon.

...Liliana Cavani's Galileo and Francis of Assisi films (the 1960s politically tinged Francis with Lou Castel and Marco Bellocchio as actors, rather than Cavani's more straightforward 1980s version with Mickey Rourke and Helena Bonham Carter); Vittorio de Sica's Garden of the Finzi-Continis; Pietro Germi's Alfredo, Alfredo; two segments of I Tre volti (including one directed by Antonioni); Adua and Her Friends, etc. Quite the career.

That is quite a career for Pinelli. It's too bad when old codgers like him pass on. I could only imagine what his memoirs would have been like to read.

I had no idea he was even sick, wow

I am just sad that Ron didn't live to see justice vindicated for Scooter Libby.

Seriously, WTF happened to that guy after 9/11?

Outward manifestation of his unrequited crush on James Woods

Wow, I just watched Two Halftimes in Hell this morning.

Now I feel bad for not getting A Tanu; subtitled special features or no

Betsy Blair.

Regarding Ron Silver, he looked terrible during some public appearances around the time of last year's election, but never acknowledged that he was ill.

Natasha Richardson.

pianocrash wrote:Natasha Richardson.

This is really sad and tragic. A stupid ski accident has taken her life like that. I feel really sad for Neeson and his family.

What's particularly bone-chilling was her hourlong journey down the mountain and to the hospital, from "oh, I'm fine" to a splitting headache to not being able to say goodbye, let alone to move a muscle - I wouldn't wish that hour on my worst enemy. May she rest in peace.

Damn.

That is a truly horrible way to go. Wouldn't wish it on my most hated person. Feel really sorry for Neeson though. The pain he must have gone/ is going through must be unbearable.

A sad state of affairs. Embarrassing to admit but I have not yet seen either of the films she made for Paul Schrader, The Comfort of Strangers or Patty Hearst. However I particularly liked her performance in The Handmaid's Tale (the film itself inspired me to search out Margaret Atwood's novel). I think a double bill of Gothic and Asylum might be in order this weekend as a small tribute.

Devasated. She was amazing in the Broadway revival of Cabaret, all through today her stirring life is a cabaret, old chum has been playing in my mind. She should have had a long, long career ahead of her.

dx23 wrote:

pianocrash wrote:Natasha Richardson.

This is really sad and tragic. A stupid ski accident has taken her life like that. I feel really sad for Neeson and his family.

I want to know in all seriousness what kind of accident was this? I know she was without a helmet, but she was learning to ski, so she couldn't have been going that fast. When I was little I fell of a bike and woke up some time later under my mom's care in our house. I also had a rock thrown at me that fell square on my head. I read the news of this and can't imagine how it could have happened, and how those events didn't take my life... I wonder if Liam will now commit himself to helmet safety awareness. RIP.

According to the news, she had a drastic brain impact. The cause of her death was epidural hemotoma - bleeding between the skull and the brain's covering.

Frances Milstead, mother of the one and only Divine