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GaryC
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#7401 Post by GaryC » Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:48 am


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#7402 Post by artfilmfan » Sun Sep 16, 2018 9:25 am

andyli wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:35 am
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.
I like her performance (and everyone else's of course) in Still Walking (which I've watched frequently). It's sad to know that we will not be seeing her in any more film.

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Aunt Peg
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#7403 Post by Aunt Peg » Sun Sep 16, 2018 12:13 pm

andyli wrote:
Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:35 am
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.
And a lead role in Naomi Kawase's Sweet Bean.

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#7404 Post by dwk » Mon Sep 17, 2018 10:06 pm


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DarkImbecile
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#7407 Post by colinr0380 » Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:36 pm

Stephen Jeffreys, a playwright probably best known for adapting his play into The Libertine, and perhaps less celebrated for the 2013 adapted screenplay for the Princess Di story, Diana.

He also worked the other way, by teaming up with Iain Softley to turn his previously filmed story about the "fifth Beatle", Backbeat, into a theatrical play in 2010.

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George Kaplan
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#7409 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:09 am

Denis Norden. Had a long comedy career in the UK, although best known to more modern audiences for It'll Be Alright on the Night, a show about unfortunate events, usually happening to TV presenters and the like, broken up by Denis's witty one-liners.

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Mr Sausage
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#7410 Post by Mr Sausage » Thu Sep 20, 2018 6:43 am

I'd no idea, but it seems the great and underread Russian novelist Vladimir Sharov died. Here is a superb obit from his translator, Oliver Ready.

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#7411 Post by Lemmy Caution » Sun Sep 23, 2018 1:50 pm

Lazy Lester, a Louisiana-born singer and harmonica player whose rough and rollicking style of swamp blues influenced musicians on both sides of the Atlantic, died Aug. 22 at his home in Paradise, California. He was 85.
Played on lots of Excello blues recordings, backing Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, etc.
Mostly on harmonica, but he also played guitar and piano.

One story is that he was sitting next to Lightning Slim on a bus, who was on his way to a recording session. Lester tagged along to see the process. The harmonica player failed to show, so Lester auditioned, was hired on the spot and cut the records.

Also, seems he was in a recent Geico commercial.

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GaryC
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#7412 Post by GaryC » Sun Sep 23, 2018 5:45 pm

Australian actor/writer Damian Hill, aged forty-two, cause of death not yet reported.

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#7414 Post by FigrinDan » Mon Sep 24, 2018 11:04 pm

I hold Gary Kurtz in high regards. I believe he was more responsible for the success of Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back as the Producer than George Lucas was as Director. George may have been the idea guy, but without someone willing to tell him "no" we get things like the Prequels.

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#7415 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Sep 25, 2018 11:28 am

He also got his start with Monte Hellman, as an AD and/or producer on films like The Shooting, Ride in the Whirlwind, and Two-Lane Blacktop. Quite a career.

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#7416 Post by MichaelB » Thu Sep 27, 2018 2:46 pm

Isabel Quigly, primarily a distinguished translator, but she was also the Spectator’s film critic from 1956-66 (a position previously held by Graham Greene).

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#7417 Post by Donald Brown » Fri Sep 28, 2018 8:36 pm

Singer Marty Balin.

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Buttery Jeb
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Dr Amicus
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#7423 Post by Dr Amicus » Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:39 am

I'd missed that - but it's a big loss. He was always one of my favourite artists on the series (and, IMO, the definitive Strontium Dog artist as well).

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#7424 Post by paulm » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:34 pm

Clay animator Will Vinton

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Never Cursed
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#7425 Post by Never Cursed » Thu Oct 04, 2018 8:39 pm

C. J. Fuller, former Clemson running back, at 22

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