Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 This guy's bonkos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted July 26, 2020 Share Posted July 26, 2020 RIP, John Saxon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,055 Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 RIP Danish composer Bent Fabricius-Bjerre, at 95 years of age. Among his vast output, he scored the most-seen film in Norwegian cinemas, the stop-motion film Flåklypa grand prix (The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix). From this score, there's the evergreen Norwegian Sunset (Reodors Balldade), which seems fitting to play on this day. Here's the whole album: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 R.I.P. Alan Parker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 I admit I wasn't very aware of Alan Parker, but I've seen a couple of his films over the years and as far as I remember always liked them (when can we finally have a Blu release of The Wall?) David Arnold posted a few anecdotes about him on Twitter: Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 My first cousin ( once removed). Not a nice guy. Reminds me of Trumpf. R.i.p Sumner Rohtstein https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/business/media/sumner-redstone-legacy.amp.html?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15972855164272&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From %1%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2020%2F08%2F12%2Fbusiness%2Fmedia%2Fsumner-redstone-legacy.html Fun fact: Composer Jeff Russo is part of the same family tree- Rohtstein' just like Sumner. we are second cousins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 Dang Bruce - think you made the will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted August 13, 2020 Share Posted August 13, 2020 5 hours ago, mstrox said: Dang Bruce - think you made the will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 One of the obits I read claimed the studio mogul played by Tom Cruise in TROPIC THUNDER. was based on him. Ouch# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Ben Cross (72) Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 Richard and I remember Ben Cross for Chariots Of Fire but the rest of JWFan might be more familiar with him for his part in the Star Trek reboot: Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I liked him, as Sarek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mstrox 6,651 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 He had one of the best moments in that Star Trek reboot - where he reveals to Spock he married his mother because of love, not logic. I'm not sure if it's true to Trek at all, since the only Trek I've seen are the two Abrams movies, but it was nice. Not sure I know him from anything else, tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 19, 2020 Share Posted August 19, 2020 I liked him in Species 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Sei Ashina (36) from Silk (20008) fame. It's the only scene of the movie that I remember (mostly due to the music of Sakamoto) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died, a political figure of whom I will not elaborate on as per the forum rules. All across social media I've seen 'RIP RGB' like she was a cartridge of printer ink. How about paying respect to the dead by paying respect to proof-reading what your respects say? On that topic, typing the words 'RIP so and so' seems to have so little meaning these days, a part of an expediency of modern communication that somehow says less than the acronym implies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 They are paying " respect". In their own way. Would you rather her passing go unnoticed? Peace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Rip rgb bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 1 hour ago, bruce marshall said: They are paying " respect". In their own way. Would you rather her passing go unnoticed? Peace Rip Muce Barshall. See - not much respect when I get your name wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Id..id..idi.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpy 4,145 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 RIP CMYK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 38 minutes ago, who cares said: Rip rgb Nice to know I'm not the only one who can't type!😜 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 I'm afraid that I do not know who this person is, but I will investigate. Thanks for the heads-up, @Arpy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 She was an old Justice in the highest court in the US. Now with 45 days before he is reelected, there is a high likelihood that president 45 will rush to nominate another conservative judge in order to overturn Roe V Wade. The conservatives care more about the unborn aborted people than any of the living. Especially the alphabet people LGBTQIA, POC, and the immigrants. With the death of Ginsburg, only white men will enjoy legal protection again. Everyone else, it's been fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 I know someone who will be dancing in the streets upon hearing this news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 Summer's gone. The time is wrong for dancing in the streets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,055 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 1 hour ago, AC1 said: I know someone who will be dancing in the streets upon hearing this news. You can't really know @PuhgreÞiviÞm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 34 minutes ago, who cares said: Summer's gone. The time is wrong for dancing in the streets. Run down the streets, where the glass shows that Summer has gone. Age in the doorway, resenting the pace of the dawn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 21 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said: You can't really know @PuhgreÞiviÞm. You know I have a shit knee and can't dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,055 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 I only remember the impotence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 The impotence and the tinnitus. He's a broken man. bruce marshall 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Ron Cobb died at 83. Cobb worked in production design, including for Star Wars, Alien (for which he designed the ship), Conan the Barbarian and Back to the Future. He was even involved in creating concept art for an amateurish Lord of the Rings project in 1957, which the otherwise-picky author deemed "really astonishingly good." Holko and bruce marshall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 23 minutes ago, Chen G. said: Cobb worked in production design, including for Star Wars, Alien (for which he designed the ship), Conan the Barbarian and Back to the Future. He was even involved in creating concept art for an amateurish Lord of the Rings project in 1957, which the otherwise-picky author deemed "really astonishingly good." I didn't know about that link between Alien and Tolkien. Which again reminds me that I never found out anything about the background of "Brandywine Productions", or how they came by that name? A couple of Tolkien's comments about the unproduced Ackerman project do seem somewhat picky (and a few show that, unless he changed his views, he wouldn't have been happy with some aspects of the PJ version - and I'm not talking about those parts that he would most definitely, and rightfully, have objected to). But most of the comments show that the proposed script (which I haven't read) must really have been quite horrible and absurd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 It wasn't a script: it was a 55-page treatment. It was an amateurish production that never really had any real chance. Ackerman, an agent, was simply trying his hand at movie producing, and the writer, Morton Zimmerman, had no experience in screenwriting nor worked in entertainment ever since. But Cobb's work on concept art and photography from the California location scout was the only real selling point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 14 minutes ago, Chen G. said: and the writer, Morton Zimmerman, had no experience in screenwriting nor worked in entertainment ever since. Nor did he "read books", as per Tolkien's letters: "He is hasty, insensitive, and impertinent. […] It seems to me evident that he has skimmed through the L.R. at a great pace, and then constructed his s.l. from partly confused memories, and with the minimum of references back to the original." Quote But Cobb's work on concept art and photography from the California location scout was the only real selling point. Is any of that available anywhere? Tolkien's all too brief comments on them make me interested in what they looked like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Not online, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 24 minutes ago, Chen G. said: Not online, no. In a book then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Nope. The treatment is kept in the Tolkien exhibition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Ron Cobb also designed for Firefly. And Carpenter's Dark Star: http://www.geocities.ws/fixer1977/cobb3a.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce marshall 1,315 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 RC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,191 Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 2 hours ago, AC1 said: Ron Cobb also designed for Firefly. And Carpenter's Dark Star: And several Spielbergs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 R.I.P Michael Lonsdale Michael Chapman, ‘Taxi Driver’ and ‘Raging Bull’ cinematographer, dies at 84 Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,055 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Ah, the autumn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,354 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Lonsdale was given some fantastically dry lines as Drax, which he delivered brilliantly. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Aw, man! I've liked Michel Lonsdale, for the longest time. He was a quiet, but important, presence, in so many films- RONIN; MUNICH; THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. Michael Chapman's work speaks for itself. 35 minutes ago, Sweeping Strings said: Lonsdale was given some fantastically dry lines as Drax, which he delivered brilliantly. R.I.P. Take care of Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Lonsdale was in The Remains Of The Day? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,515 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Yes, he was. He was the French ambassador (or something), and he had a nice scene, with Chris Reeve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,354 Posted September 23, 2020 Share Posted September 23, 2020 22 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Aw, man! I've liked Michel Lonsdale, for the longest time. He was a quiet, but important, presence, in so many films- RONIN; MUNICH; THE REMAINS OF THE DAY. Michael Chapman's work speaks for itself. Take care of Mr. Bond. See that some harm comes to him 'You appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season'. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Rick 1,155 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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