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Feego wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 2:20 pm Sonia Darrin, memorable (and uncredited) as the rude bookstore clerk who spars with Bogart in The Big Sleep before he goes across the street to Dorothy Malone's more accommodating bookstore.

Good descrip -- I can picture that scene, and her, perfectly. I like how Bogie nerds up.

Sonia Darrin's son was Mason Reese, that oompah-loompah-looking kid who made tons of commercials in the 70's.

I remember Reni Santoni from Bad Boys (1983) and Cobra (1986). Don’t remember what was his role in the former though, in the latter he was the foulmouthed partner for Cobretti.

hearthesilence wrote: Sun Aug 02, 2020 8:33 amWhen I was a child, I remember him primarily from Quaker oatmeal and diabetes commercials.

Bizarrely, the very first nightmare I ever remember having in my life, when I was a child in the 1980s, was about Wilford Brimley trying to kill me, stalking my family through Fredericksburg, Texas. All I would have known him from at that point was the Quaker Oats commercials; and for some reason my subconscious decided to conjure him up and give me my first nightmare.

Composer Billy Goldenberg, who scored such feature films as The Last of Sheila, Up the Sandbox, Busting, The Grasshopper, and Red Sky at Morning, but is probably best known for his television work, which includes Night Gallery, Kojak, Columbo, Rhoda, and Spielberg's Duel.

Pete Hamill

Critic, playwright and translator Eric Bentley, a few weeks short of his 104th birthday.

Unwound bassist Vern Rumsey.

Dutch documentary-maker Hans Scheepmaker, in truly hideous circumstances.

MichaelB wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:13 pm Dutch documentary-maker Hans Scheepmaker, in truly hideous circumstances.

Care to elaborate Michael? I've Googled this, but everyrhing's coming up in Dutch.

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:38 pm

MichaelB wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:13 pm Dutch documentary-maker Hans Scheepmaker, in truly hideous circumstances.

Care to elaborate Michael? I've Googled this, but everyrhing's coming up in Dutch.

He was stung to death by wasps

A large swarm of them

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:41 pm

Mr. Deltoid wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:38 pm

MichaelB wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 6:13 pm Dutch documentary-maker Hans Scheepmaker, in truly hideous circumstances.

Care to elaborate Michael? I've Googled this, but everyrhing's coming up in Dutch.

He was stung to death by wasps

Jesus!!

swo17 wrote: Sat Aug 08, 2020 7:55 pm A large swarm of them

What a horrendous way to die

From a few months back but Paul Vasquez, better known as the Double Rainbow Guy

Singer and guitarist Trini Lopez (who also appeared in The Dirty Dozen) died today from COVID-19.

Back in February, Paula Kelly passed away. She appeared in Sweet Charity and Soylent Green.

Former Universal Studios chairman Tom Pollock. A lawyer by trade who helped George Lucas' spectacularly beneficial deal on Star Wars ancillary rights, he also greenlit The Last Temptation of Christ (which netted him many death threats) and Do the Right Thing.

Media Mogul Sumner Redstone.

Feego wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 3:46 pm Back in February, Paula Kelly passed away. She appeared in Sweet Charity and Soylent Green.

Another RIP for the extended Night Court family.

According to Vinegar Syndrome on Twitter, Wings Hauser has passed away. If you haven't seen Vice Squad, I highly recommend it. Shot by John Alcott, it's a perfect slice of Los Angeles sleaze with Wings Hauser amped up to the max as the violent, western-clothed pimp, Ramrod.

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:47 pm According to Vinegar Syndrome on Twitter, Wings Hauser has passed away. If you haven't seen Vice Squad, I highly recommend it. Shot by John Alcott, it's a perfect slice of Los Angeles sleaze with Wings Hauser amped up to the max as the violent, western-clothed pimp, Ramrod.

Yes, his performance in Vice Squad is ace. Here's my write-up from the 80s list. Rest in peace to this colorful actor.

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Wed Aug 12, 2020 8:47 pm According to Vinegar Syndrome on Twitter, Wings Hauser has passed away

Actually, maybe not