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Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:06 am
by hearthesilence
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 05, 2025 7:03 pm
by Gregory
Four weeks ago but Robert McGinnis, whose illustrations graced the posters for Barbarella, The Pink Panther, The Odd Couple, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and many James Bond films
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:51 pm
by hearthesilence
One of my favorite bassists from one of my very favorite bands.
Gang of Four wrote:It is with broken yet full hearts that we share the news that Dave Allen, our old music partner, friend, and brilliant musician, died on Saturday morning. He was at home with his family. Dave had endured the early-onset of mixed dementia for some years which has been a heartbreaking time for his wife Paddy, his children, and close friends. Our love and thoughts are with them. Jon and I [Hugo] went to see him and spent a lovely afternoon with him and the family. We talked and laughed for hours, sharing rich and vivid memories of good times together. Adventures, careers in music, raising families, our interwoven lives spanning half a century. We’ve been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives.
We know that Dave would have wanted nothing more than to step onstage with us again in Portland on our farewell US tour. But it’s now a bridge too far.
Goodbye, Old Friend.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2025 5:48 pm
by beamish14
hearthesilence wrote: Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:51 pm
One of my favorite bassists from one of my very favorite bands.
Gang of Four wrote:It is with broken yet full hearts that we share the news that Dave Allen, our old music partner, friend, and brilliant musician, died on Saturday morning. He was at home with his family. Dave had endured the early-onset of mixed dementia for some years which has been a heartbreaking time for his wife Paddy, his children, and close friends. Our love and thoughts are with them. Jon and I [Hugo] went to see him and spent a lovely afternoon with him and the family. We talked and laughed for hours, sharing rich and vivid memories of good times together. Adventures, careers in music, raising families, our interwoven lives spanning half a century. We’ve been so very lucky to have had the Ace of Bass in our lives.
We know that Dave would have wanted nothing more than to step onstage with us again in Portland on our farewell US tour. But it’s now a bridge too far.
Goodbye, Old Friend.
Playing some
Shriekback to remember him
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:04 am
by GaryC
Kerry Greenwood, aged 70. Her Phryne Fisher novels became the TV series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, its spin-off Ms Fisher's Modern Murder Mysteries and, for the cinema, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020).
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:38 am
by Feego
Jay North, TV’s original Dennis the Menace
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:18 pm
by dadaistnun
Blondie drummer
Clem Burke
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 3:45 pm
by Roger Ryan
A fantastic drummer in the Keith Moon tradition (although more disciplined than Moon). I only saw him live once: not with Blondie but with the great Dramarama in a bar small enough that Burke's kit was only about seven feet away from me. He was amazing. RIP.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2025 6:30 pm
by hearthesilence
This fucking year man....
I didn't see Blondie until the 2010s, at which point I was very familiar with their television appearances from the 1970s and early 1980s, and Clem was still every bit as amazing to see. I thought MLB should've given him an honorary gold glove - across many tosses and twirls, I never saw him drop a stick or miss a beat once, it was a perfect 1.000. But beyond that he could play anything - he was a powerhouse and he moved everyone to dance. 70 is far too young for him to leave us. I never met him, but just about everyone has said he was a true gentleman and more than a few said he was the greatest drummer of his generation.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2025 9:04 pm
by Never Cursed
Shaw Brothers lifer Ku Feng, who appeared in some 300 films between 1959 and 2013, died March 27. If you've dug into that studio's output at all, you've doubtlessly seen a film where he appears somewhere, even as a henchman.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 6:17 pm
by hearthesilence
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 6:45 pm
by Never Cursed
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 7:26 pm
by beamish14
Him firing off a blank in a full classroom during the pilot episode of
Boston Public is peak David E. Kelley idiocy. I loved that garbage show
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 8:31 pm
by The Narrator Returns
A great presence almost anywhere (even shouting tone-deaf "comic relief" through the biggest Dark Knight setpiece) but above all for me a Soderbergh legend. I've already seen him aimlessly riffing on movie-set passersby in The Limey shared multiple times, and his showcase part in Full Frontal is by far the funniest take on the low-hanging fruit of "method acting".
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 8:44 pm
by domino harvey
Katt's line delivery of "What do you mean 'lose arm', my arm?" has lived rent free in my head ever since I first saw Planet Terror and it still makes me laugh every time I rewatch it
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 9:20 pm
by John Cope
Incredibly powerfully understated in SubUrbia,
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 10:26 pm
by colinr0380
And he also has a good supporting role in Christopher McQuarrie's
The Way of the Gun.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2025 10:38 pm
by domino harvey
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:00 pm
by GaryC
Jean Marsh, aged 90. She had a long career, beginning in 1947 at age thirteen. On TV she had three roles in Doctor Who, including companion-more-or-less Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan. She co-created Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-5) and played the leading role of the maid Rose and was the only member of the original cast to return for the revival of the show in 2010-12.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:48 pm
by colinr0380
GaryC wrote: Sun Apr 13, 2025 7:00 pm
Jean Marsh, aged 90. She had a long career, beginning in 1947 at age thirteen. On TV she had three roles in Doctor Who, including companion-more-or-less Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan. She co-created Upstairs, Downstairs (1971-5) and played the leading role of the maid Rose and was the only member of the original cast to return for the revival of the show in 2010-12.
She also briefly appears in Hitchcock's Frenzy
as one of the staff in the escort agency, giving a thorough description of our wrong man to the cops!
And she is also just as briefly, though importantly, in
the opening sequence of The Changeling as George C. Scott's wife.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:02 pm
by willoneill
I'm going to shout out Marsh's dual role in the 1980's-child-scaring Return to Oz.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:39 pm
by JSC
Speaking of Doctor Who, she was also married to Jon Pertwee at one point. I also remember her from a
Twilight Zone episode The Lonely which I liked a lot.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2025 8:45 pm
by Feego
willoneill wrote:I'm going to shout out Marsh's dual role in the 1980's-child-scaring Return to Oz.
Between that film and Willow, Jean Marsh was one of the great wicked witches of 1980s cinema.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2025 4:07 am
by hearthesilence
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2025 9:24 am
by Feego