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Damn, one of my favorite actors. He even managed to make two Nico Mastorakis films worth watching. Aside from the previous endorsements in the thread which I wholeheartedly agree with, it's worth checking out the recently restored The Carpenter from Vinegar Syndrome as well as his few bizarre straight to video movies which he directed, where he always gives himself an ostentatious role and a sex scene. Skins aka Gang Boys aka The Skin Gang is my favorite of the four. I'm obsessed enough where I have his pre-acting solo album on vinyl, when he went by Wings Livinryte, playing as we speak. RIP to the legend.

therewillbeblus wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 5:42 pm Wings Hauser

Time to throw on Tough Guys Don't Dance

For me his face brings to mind grade school lunchtime viewings of The Young and the Restless with my step-mom. R.I.P.

Former boxing world champion, profiled in one of the best documentary ever, When We Were Kings, and spokesperson to one of my favorite cooking tools, George Foreman has passed away.

Larry Tamblyn, co-founder and organist of the Standells, garage rock band most famous for the great rock n' roll single "Dirty Water." He's also the younger brother of actor Russ Tamblyn, whom he got to visit on the set of West Side Story.

Here's a good interview with Tamblyn where he details the Standells formation, development, rise to fame, touring with the Stones, groupies galore, right wing censorship, stalling out, etc. Quite a good read. You get a good sense of his character and voice. Tamblyn willing to share credit and explain who brought what and how that all meshed.

Anyone impatient for music info, skip down to the 3rd section I'm Gonna Tell Ya a Story About My Town for the main discussion of the band (after the rat digression and Munsters appearance).

As for Dirty Water,

"Tamblyn was asked whose idea it was for Dick Dodd to sing “Dirty Water” with “an attitude in his voice… like a punk, a wise guy. “That was his charm,” said Tamblyn. “That’s what sold him was his voice, ‘Boston you’re my home!’ He had that direct contact with the punk in all of us. Of course punk rock didn’t exist back then or garage rock. I attribute that to [our producer] Ed Cobb more than anything. He really brought that out in Dick.”

There's also an element of that early Mick Jagger sneer in Dodd's singing. When they kick off the second chorus "frustrated women have to be in by 12 o'clock" it always reminds me of the early Stones hinting at sex and depravity. Great guitar riff reminiscent of early Kinks classics of the era.

The July 1966 Top 10 songs has similarly edgy proto-punk Hanky Panky atop, Troggs Wild Thing in 4th, but also fluffy pop (Red Rubber Ball #2) and Frank crooning Strangers in the Night at 7. The 1967 hippie and rock explosion were just around the bend...

Martin Loeb, perhaps best remembered as Daniel in Jean Eustache’s Mes Petites Amoureuses.

I've not seen any online obituaries yet, but Australian film/TV director Donald Crombie died on 25 March, aged 82. He made several notable films during the 1970s/80s industry revival, including Caddie (1976), The Irishman (1978), Cathy's Child (1979) and The Killing of Angel Street (1981).

EDIT: Wikipedia has now been updated, citing Graham Shirley's post in the Australian Media Oral History Group on Facebook, which is where I heard the news from.

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:37 pm Masahiro Shinoda

One of the last of the old masters yes? A terrific filmmaker on all accounts.

Terry Manning, great Memphis-based engineer who worked at Stax during its golden years, then Ardent where he helped engineer Big Star's classic records. He also had a close friendship with Jimmy Page that led to his involvement on Led Zeppelin's third album and also recorded quite a bit with ZZ Top during their most enduring run.

Big Ben wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 5:33 pm

TechnicolorAcid wrote: Thu Mar 27, 2025 4:37 pm Masahiro Shinoda

One of the last of the old masters yes? A terrific filmmaker on all accounts.

The only Japanese New Wave director I can think of that has survived him is Susumu Hani - assuming Hani is still alive, as he's been inactive for more that four decades.

EDIT: Stop the press! It looks like Masao Adachi is not only still alive, but released a new film this year.

GaryC wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:14 am I've not seen any online obituaries yet, but Australian film/TV director Donald Crombie died on 25 March, aged 82. He made several notable films during the 1970s/80s industry revival, including Caddie (1976), The Irishman (1978), Cathy's Child (1979) and The Killing of Angel Street (1981).

EDIT: Wikipedia has now been updated, citing Graham Shirley's post in the Australian Media Oral History Group on Facebook, which is where I heard the news from.

Still nothing reported in the Australian media. To be honest nothing surprising given the state of news media in Australia, but rather sad given Caddie (1976) was an enormous hit in its day.

Tony Brown, 75, bassist for Deliverance, The Harbor Band, The Montgomeries, Eric Andersen and Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks (the New York sessions).

zedz wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 3:53 am EDIT: Stop the press! It looks like Masao Adachi is not only still alive, but released a new film this year.

Amusingly the new film (The Escape) has the exact same premise as Takahashi Banmei's latest I Am Kirishima, which premiered barely a week later. Takahashi isn't considered part of the New Wave, but he entered the industry at its tail end and (like Adachi) worked as a screenwriter and infrequent director at Wakamatsu Productions.

Aunt Peg wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:07 am

GaryC wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:14 am I've not seen any online obituaries yet, but Australian film/TV director Donald Crombie died on 25 March, aged 82. He made several notable films during the 1970s/80s industry revival, including Caddie (1976), The Irishman (1978), Cathy's Child (1979) and The Killing of Angel Street (1981).

EDIT: Wikipedia has now been updated, citing Graham Shirley's post in the Australian Media Oral History Group on Facebook, which is where I heard the news from.

Still nothing reported in the Australian media. To be honest nothing surprising given the state of news media in Australia, but rather sad given Caddie (1976) was an enormous hit in its day.

This bears out what we were saying in another thread. If an older film can't be passed off as Ozploitation it's subject to neglect, other than a few standard classics like Picnic at Hanging Rock. This and other major films of the 1970s and 1980s are cases in point, sadly.

Richard Chamberlain. I remember him best as the monstrous husband in Petulia, and I didn't even realize he was in Twin Peaks: The Return for just a moment.

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Bruce Glover. Most famous for Mr Wint in Diamonds Are Forever and Duffy in Chinatown.

Never Cursed wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:56 pm Richard Chamberlain. I remember him best as the monstrous husband in Petulia, and I didn't even realize he was in Twin Peaks: The Return for just a moment.

Oh no. One of my favorite actors. I’ve long admired his film work but also his work in the theater, the early stuff, especially. R.I.P.

I also love to shoutout Chamberlain’s performance as the tortured Tchaikovsky in Ken Russell’s The Music Lovers, pure magic.

ando wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 5:24 pm

Never Cursed wrote: Sun Mar 30, 2025 3:56 pm Richard Chamberlain. I remember him best as the monstrous husband in Petulia, and I didn't even realize he was in Twin Peaks: The Return for just a moment.

Oh no. One of my favorite actors. I’ve long admired his film work but also his work in the theater, the early stuff, especially. R.I.P.

Plus the original 1980 Shogun series (playing opposite Toshiro Mifune!) too. A shame this has happened just before Criterion brings out The Three Musketeers and The Four Musketeers.

I have been getting back into the Irwin Allen disaster movie cycle recently by picking up a lot of the films on disc that I had only ever seen in pan-and-scanned television versions as a kid, and Chamberlain turns up in a couple of them, notably as the main bad guy who causes the crisis (through cheaping out on faulty wiring and safety measures) and then has the most spectacular comeuppance death scene in The Towering Inferno! I would guess that would have made him a natural choice for Peter Weir's apocalyptic disaster film The Last Wave! Following that Chamberlain was part of the huge ensemble cast (which means even the biggest star is not safe from being casually offed!) in the film that rather brought the disaster movie cycle to a ludicrous end, with Irwin Allen's killer bee film The Swarm.

He's also the lead in the shocking horror-thriller Murder By Phone, from Michael Anderson, the director of The Dam Busters, Around The World In 80 Days and Logan's Run!

As we are not leaving out the clunkers, he also starred in a truly misguided remake of The Night of the Hunter. It was set in the (then) present of the early 90s and only adapted the first half of the novel to turn it into the most generic of made-for-TV thrillers.

GaryC wrote: Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:09 am

Aunt Peg wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:07 am

GaryC wrote: Wed Mar 26, 2025 11:14 am I've not seen any online obituaries yet, but Australian film/TV director Donald Crombie died on 25 March, aged 82. He made several notable films during the 1970s/80s industry revival, including Caddie (1976), The Irishman (1978), Cathy's Child (1979) and The Killing of Angel Street (1981).

EDIT: Wikipedia has now been updated, citing Graham Shirley's post in the Australian Media Oral History Group on Facebook, which is where I heard the news from.

Still nothing reported in the Australian media. To be honest nothing surprising given the state of news media in Australia, but rather sad given Caddie (1976) was an enormous hit in its day.

This bears out what we were saying in another thread. If an older film can't be passed off as Ozploitation it's subject to neglect, other than a few standard classics like Picnic at Hanging Rock. This and other major films of the 1970s and 1980s are cases in point, sadly.

Some positive news:

The Paul Cox restoration project:
https://artists.australianculturalfund. ... on-project

What I Have Written (John Hughes, 1996) restored:
https://cinemareborn.com.au/What-I-Have-Written

Haven't come across an official obit yet, but seeing on BlueSky that Michael Hurley passed away on April 1. He was still out there playing, performing at Big Ears Fest in Knoxville just this past week.

My favorite: "I Paint a Design"

One of my favorite songs from one of my favorite albums ever: "Driving Wheel" from Have Moicy!

RIP