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Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:17 pm
by lacritfan
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:42 pm
by swo17
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 2:57 pm
by hearthesilence
Absolutely memorable in
Thieves' Highway. Surprised it's not streaming on Criterion's service even though it's still in their DVD collection.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 3:53 pm
by hearthesilence
EDIT: Never mind
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:06 pm
by domino harvey
Everyone, please consider reading this thread and the subforum it appears in before posting announcements
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:11 pm
by mfunk9786
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:51 pm
by colinr0380
JSC wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2019 12:54 pmMichaelB wrote:Freddie Jones.
A great character actor. He was excellent as Sweeney Todd in the series
Mystery and Imagination, as well as his roles in
The Man who Haunted Himself,
Juggernaut, and
The Elephant Man.
Freddie Jones had a couple of great Hammer roles late in the cycle of both the Frankenstein and Dracula series, with the Professorial brain donor in
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and another Professor in
The Satanic Rites of Dracula.
He has an amazing run in the early 1980s with not just The Elephant Man but the performance I'll always remember him for as Thufir Hawat, with the amazing eyebrows and getting
forcefully heart-plugged in Dune. He has a number of
deleted scenes from the theatrical version. (He's also briefly in Wild At Heart)
In non-Lynch roles of that time he is a voice in the darkest Disney animation,
The Black Cauldron. And he turns up as the narrator having a touchingly tenative romance in Federico Fellini's stage-bound cruise trip
And The Ship Sails On.
Apparently a couple of years ago he did a voice for the English langauage version of
Dragon Quest XI!
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:14 am
by mfunk9786
Denise Nickerson, aka Violet in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:52 am
by flyonthewall2983
Blutarsky wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 5:07 pm
Feego wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 3:44 pm
As a kid in the 90s, I was more familiar with Perot as a subject of sketch-comedy ridicule than as a political candidate.
The impersonation on Nickelodeon's All That is particularly bizarre and memorable.
Most of those
All That sketches teeter on surrealism at a point. For me though, I was born in the heat of SNL election coverage. Having Carvey playing Perot and the late great Phil Hartman as James Stockdale will forever be ingrained in my memory.
Cheri Oteri did an okay version herself later on.
I was of age to be watching
All That, but back then I even knew a lot of their skits were SNL material remade for the Nickelodeon audience. Some of it was pretty obvious, Lorne either gave them their blessing or just didn't care if it was ever brought up.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 2:58 am
by hearthesilence
Yankee pitcher
Jim Bouton, best known for his book
Ball Four and who also had a prominent role in Robert Altman's
The Long Goodbye
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2019 5:36 pm
by Swift
colinr0380 wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2019 7:51 pm
JSC wrote: Wed Jul 10, 2019 12:54 pmMichaelB wrote:Freddie Jones.
A great character actor. He was excellent as Sweeney Todd in the series
Mystery and Imagination, as well as his roles in
The Man who Haunted Himself,
Juggernaut, and
The Elephant Man.
Freddie Jones had a couple of great Hammer roles late in the cycle of both the Frankenstein and Dracula series, with the Professorial brain donor in
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and another Professor in
The Satanic Rites of Dracula.
He has an amazing run in the early 1980s with not just The Elephant Man but the performance I'll always remember him for as Thufir Hawat, with the amazing eyebrows and getting
forcefully heart-plugged in Dune. He has a number of
deleted scenes from the theatrical version. (He's also briefly in Wild At Heart)
In non-Lynch roles of that time he is a voice in the darkest Disney animation,
The Black Cauldron. And he turns up as the narrator having a touchingly tenative romance in Federico Fellini's stage-bound cruise trip
And The Ship Sails On.
Apparently a couple of years ago he did a voice for the English langauage version of
Dragon Quest XI!
He also played a Fagin-like character to a bunch of street urchins in the Emmanuel Lewis vehicle (!)
Lost in London. It's not by any stretch a good film, but it was a childhood favourite of mine and we rewatched the VHS many times. I watched it again recently for the first time in 25 years and as with many childhood experiences it didn't hold up.
I had no idea he was the father of Toby Jones!
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2019 6:16 pm
by Caligula
Local news sites are reporting that Johnny Clegg has just died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer
Edit: here's a link:
https://ewn.co.za/2019/07/16/sa-music-l ... clegg-dies
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 10:12 pm
by Oedipax
A belated mention:
Yannick Bellon, who passed away in June.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 3:30 am
by Buttery Jeb
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 8:39 pm
by Feego
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:39 am
by Aunt Peg
Writer/director best known for The Lords of Flatbush,
Stephen Verona
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:15 pm
by mfunk9786
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 8:54 pm
by Reverend Drewcifer
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 11:33 pm
by doh286
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jul 28, 2019 12:13 am
by What A Disgrace
Looking over Russi Taylor's long and varied career, now that I know of her passing and have, thus, looked over the roles she has done, is real eye opening. I was a child of the 80s and early 90s, so losing the Huey, Dewey and Louie of DuckTales is sad enough, but that's just the barest tip of the iceberg of her input in the past 40 years of animation, and almost certainly not the roles most people remember her for.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:01 pm
by flyonthewall2983
Nick Buoniconti. HBO Sports put out a documentary on him last year that was quite fascinating and very sad, as it concerned his son who was paralyzed playing football and his own deteriorating condition.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 5:26 pm
by Fiery Angel
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2019 7:05 pm
by Timec
As a lover of musical theater, his list of producer and director credits is pretty incredible. From
The Pajama Game and
West Side Story to
Cabaret,
Sweeney Todd, and
Evita, he had a hand in an astonishing number of legendary productions.
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:22 am
by flyonthewall2983
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2019 3:18 pm
by Zinoviev