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FrauBlucher wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:31 am Anthony James...Unforgiven and In the Heat of the Night

Lots of bad guy roles in there! He is also in the astonishing In The Heat of the Night-esque racial tensions drama ...tick ...tick... tick.... Although I have to admit that I really know him the best for his musically-inclined assassin in The Naked Gun 2 1/2!

I read from a FB post by Howard S. Berger that character actor Dan van Husen passed away. I could not find any articles of his passing as of yet.

Elsa Dorfman, portrait photographer, subject of Errol Morris's The B-Side

environmental artist Christo, dead at 84

If memory serves he did New York about 15 years ago. I was really fortunate to see it in person. The pictures never did the draping work justice.

It’s as good a time as any to recommend Five Films About Christo and Jeanne-Claude by the Maysles brothers.

Wow this is tragic, really one of the finest, most exciting artists of his generation.

No online obituaries yet that I can find, but John B. Murray (director of The Naked Bunyip and one segment of Libido, producer of Lonely Hearts and We of the Never Never) has passed away. A pioneer in the 1970s revival of Australian cinema. Born in 1931 so he was 88 or 89.

I had a brief pleasant email correspondence with him, shortly after I'd reviewed the DVD of Libido.

ETA: An obituary here, and he was 88.

diamonds wrote: Thu May 28, 2020 1:26 pmIrm Hermann

She stole many a Fassbinder film, scowling from the wings. R.I.P.

okcmaxk wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 2:06 am Bruce Jay Friedman

What an incredible talent. Scuba Duba and Steambath are two of the finest, funniest American plays of the last 50 years.
I implore you to watch the PBS shot-on-video production of Steambath.

Slovak cinematographer Igor Luther (The Tin Drum).

flyonthewall2983 wrote: Tue Jun 09, 2020 2:40 pm Rupert Hine

Versatile music producer, from the Fixx and Tina Turner to Rush rapping!

Denise Cronenberg, sister of and regular costume designer for her more famous brother David.

Singing legend Vera Lynn aged 103: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/ ... s-aged-103

Luther Price, "whose intense, haunted assemblages of found footage made him a key figure in the experimental film scene."

David E. Gluck, the previously anonymous performer of a, erm... somewhat unorthodox musical number in John Waters' Pink Flamingos (and if you've seen the film - and possibly even if you haven't - you'll know exactly what I'm talking about).

Waters kept Gluck's identity secret for 48 years - presumably not hard to do since it wasn't his face you were looking at - but since his passing his widow has granted permission for his indelible contribution to film culture to be revealed.

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