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ellipsis7 wrote: Mon Apr 18, 2022 10:31 am Catherine Spaak

hearthesilence wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 7:08 pm DJ Kay Slay, after a four-month struggle with COVID. (He declined to get vaccinated). The popular radio personality on New York's Hot 97 was known for his pugnacious mixtapes which stoked rap beefs, broke artists and helped change the music business.

Roger Ryan wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:19 pm Robert Morse, at age 90, whose early success came with his Tony-award winning Broadway performance in How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (he starred in the film version as well). Cast in the lead as a British poet in Tony Richardson's 1965 satire The Loved One, the American Morse's accent was so atrocious that he was required to post-sync all of his dialogue after working with a trainer (with still less-than-great results). Morse had great success later in life with his Emmy-nominated role on Mad Men as the grand old man of the advertising agency.

MichaelB wrote: Wed Apr 20, 2022 9:03 pm Polish composer and electronic music specialist Andrzej Korzyński, whose film-score filmography spans 1967-2018 and a huge number of titles, but he'll probably be best remembered for his collaborations with fellow Andrzejs Wajda (Everything For Sale, Hunting Flies, The Birch Wood, Man of Marble, Man of Iron) and Żuławski (The Third Part of the Night, The Devil, On The Silver Globe, Possession, Szamanka, La Fidelité, Cosmos).

MichaelB wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:05 pm Critic turned TV presenter turned prolific TV director turned occasional film director (Dreamchild, Danny the Champion of the World, Complicity) Gavin Millar.

MichaelB wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 4:05 pm Critic turned TV presenter turned prolific TV director turned occasional film director (Dreamchild, Danny the Champion of the World, Complicity) Gavin Millar.

beamish14 wrote:The Iain Banks adaptations are excellent as well, and I’m curious about the well-regarded Pat and Margaret with Victoria Wood

27 April [1982]. Gavin Millar rehearses Julie Walters and me in our two main scenes from my television film Intensive Care. I play a shy schoolteacher, she a night nurse in the intensive-care unit where my father hovers between life and death. In the first scene, after a bit of palaver, I ask her to go to bed; in the second scene we do so, and in this brief absence from duty and the paternal bedside my father, of course, dies. The scene was suggested by an incident in the life of Gandhi, whose father died while he was actually screwing. I had had some thoughts while writing the play that I might act the schoolmaster, but coming to the bedroom scene I sighed with relief, knowing this was something I wouldn’t be prepared to tackle – an experience that occurs too frequently when I am writing for it to be just accidental; i.e. I deliberately write myself out of my own work. In this case, though, Gavin hasn’t been able to find anyone else to play the part, so here I am. It is a hard job because I have written myself very few lines, something I regularly do with the central character. Supporting parts I don’t find difficult, either to invent or to supply with dialogue; the central character is a blank, a puzzle, and one which I hope the actor will solve for me. But now the actor is me and I don’t know what to do.

Never Cursed wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:09 pm Jacques Perrin

Amazingly, we still have three of the Rochefort leads, but this still stinks...

L.A. wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 2:20 pm Re Styles of The Tubes at 72.

domino harvey wrote: Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:03 pm

Never Cursed wrote: Thu Apr 21, 2022 6:09 pm Jacques Perrin

Amazingly, we still have three of the Rochefort leads, but this still stinks...

Completely missed this. RIP. Fun fact I didn’t know until recently: in addition to starring, he fully funded Z upfront when he couldn’t get any studio to do it

knives wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:09 am Orrin Hatch

swo17 wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:16 am

knives wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 1:09 am Orrin Hatch

That actor from Traffic?