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Conway Savage, member of The Bad Seeds.

Forrest Taft wrote:Conway Savage, member of The Bad Seeds.

So sad. His vocals on When I First Came to Town (on Henry’s Dream) are beautiful.

Jacqueline Pearce, who did a lot of British television but is perhaps best known for appearing in a pair of Hammer films, The Reptile and The Plague of the Zombies.

Dylan wrote: Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:35 pm Jacqueline Pearce, who did a lot of British television but is perhaps best known for appearing in a pair of Hammer films, The Reptile and The Plague of the Zombies.

I suspect on her side of the Atlantic she's more famous for Blake's 7 than anything else.

Wonderfully this episode of the Jonathan Ross presented Mondo Rosso series from 1995 has recently appeared on YouTube, which features a very brief (and NSFW!) segment on Jacqueline Pearce and her role in The Reptile! (Stick around for the interview with Ken Russell!)

As that clip (a bit crudely) suggests, she is in two great Hammer films, the main role of The Reptile and arguably the best sequence of any Hammer film, the resurrection into nightmare scene of The Plague of the Zombies. She is also a great villainous teacher in the early 90s BBC children's series Dark Season, which is a fun, light but memorably horrific series in itself but also has the distinction of featuring one of Kate Winslet's earliest roles!

reaky wrote: Mon Sep 03, 2018 4:56 pm

Forrest Taft wrote:Conway Savage, member of The Bad Seeds.

So sad. His vocals on When I First Came to Town (on Henry’s Dream) are beautiful.

As are his vocals on "The Willow Garden", a great Nick Cave B-side. His album Nothing Broken is worth checking out, too.

MichaelB wrote: Mon Sep 03, 2018 6:21 pm

Dylan wrote: Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:35 pm Jacqueline Pearce, who did a lot of British television but is perhaps best known for appearing in a pair of Hammer films, The Reptile and The Plague of the Zombies.

I suspect on her side of the Atlantic she's more famous for Blake's 7 than anything else.

Also among SF fans, even beyond the UK. The four season boxes of Blake's 7 were among the first things that I imported after I got my first multi-region DVD player. In fact, the fact that Blake's 7 was (and is) in an intractable rights conflict hell in the US was one (among a good number) of the reasons why I took the leap.

I was saw Randy Weston perform at the St. Michael's the Jazz Church in NYC (under the Citicorp Bldg) at a memorial service for Sun Ra.
When I went to Morocco about 5 years back, I looked to see if Weston, a long-time Moroccan resident, might be performing, but it turned out he was in NYC that week playing.
Woody Allen was a fan, and a couple times slipped some Weston records in the background in his films.

For anyone interested, I'd rec:
Niger Mambo -- a great bouyant, joyous tune
Zulu -- Not far off from a Sun Ra exploration.
Off the same Africa Highlife album as Niger Mambo.
Tanjah -- a lot of Morocco in there.
Little Niles -- probably Weston's best known composition. Has a rather Monkish feel to it.
Congolese Children -- short and with vocals. Sweet.
African Cookbook -- long and atmospheric.
Actually a lot of Weston's music is low-key and introspective, though I'm more drawn to his upbeat forays.

Liz Fraser, veteran of British cinema, at the age of 88

Lydia Clarke Heston, wife of Charlton Heston.

Christopher Lawford, son of Peter Lawford.

Craig Wallace wrote: Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:20 pmLiz Fraser, veteran of British cinema, at the age of 88

She turns up in a lot of Peter Sellers films early on: Two-Way Stretch, I'm All Right Jack and The Smallest Show On Earth but I guess she is most famous for being a part of the large ensemble casts of the Carry On... films, usually brought in to play the attractive blonde. She is there for a few of the best films around the mid-point of the series with Carry On Regardless, Cruising, and Cabby and then appears again in the penultimate film, 1975's Carry On Behind. It seems that she avoided the nadir of the series, 1978's Carry on Emmanuelle, but only because she seemed busy with the other 1970s sex comedy series, the Adventures of... and Confessions of... films. Not to mention Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse!

She also appears in much the same function around the same time of the early 1960s in a few of the films that felt influenced by or offshoots of the Carry On series - Raising The Wind (directed by Gerald Thomas, who did all of the Carry Ons), A Pair of Briefs (directed by Ralph Thomas, Gerald's brother and co-director of Carry on Regardless and Cruising, as well as director of the Dirk Bogarde Doctor... series of films) and Double Bunk, with Sid James.

The wonderful Bill Daily

Bob Newhart reruns airs on Sundance Channel, and is still hilarious.

And another Carry On actress, Fenella Fielding, who only starred in a major role in one of the films but made quite the impact as the goth femme fatale in Carry On Screaming!

colinr0380 wrote: Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:51 am And another Carry On actress, Fenella Fielding, who only starred in a major role in one of the films but made quite the impact as the goth femme fatale in Carry On Screaming!

Indeed. She was a crazy old dear; dressed in that elaborate get-up even in her eighties. One of a kind. In COS, I like how she purrs "I should be ever so grateful" when Harry H Corbett refuses to save Kenneth Williams from Rubbatiti.

It's a bit strange to remember Fenella Fielding for a bit in a "Carry On" film, when she was one of our finest actresses in Ibsen and Wilde.

Which have more people seen though. I doubt Ibsen.

True, but by the same token, more people have seen Orson Welles in sherry commercials, but that's not what we remember him for.

The last part of that sentence is key. We remember him for his movies because that is what available most widely now. Likewise Carry On is pretty widely available.

Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian recounts in his appreciation of Fenella Fielding....

Some time in the late 1960s, Federico Fellini is said to have taken the beautiful young Fenella Fielding out to dinner at Claridge’s in London and offered her a movie that he would direct, featuring her in half a dozen roles: a sensational showcase. But Fielding turned him down, on the grounds that she was booked for a theatrical season at Chichester. It may not have happened quite that way – Fielding had a mischievous way of exaggerating anecdotes for the benefit of saucer-eyed interviewers. But however serious or merely seductive Fellini’s movie idea (did he expansively improvise it over brandies?), the great director was undoubtedly impressed with Fielding’s acting talent. She was a brilliant interpreter of Wilde and Ibsen on stage and had written and performed one-woman revue shows at the time of the Peter Cook satire boom. Perhaps Fellini was also a little in love with her.

Conjuring up the delightful tagline - " F F in a film by F F " ...

ellipsis7 wrote: Fri Sep 14, 2018 11:16 amIt may not have happened quite that way – Fielding had a mischievous way of exaggerating anecdotes for the benefit of saucer-eyed interviewers.

That sentence works just as well if you replace "Fielding" with "Fellini"...

Kirin Kiki just passed away.

EDIT: In the west, she is probably most famous for playing many mother/grandmother roles in Hirokazu Kore-eda's films.