Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 The charlatan astrologer Mystic Meg has died. Bet she didn't see that coming. Giftheck and LSH 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,386 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 R.I.P. Topol ... I must admit I've never seen Fiddler On The Roof (not really a big musicals fan), but he's a part of what made Flash Gordon such fun and Columbo in FYEO was one of the great Bond allies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: I must admit I've never seen Fiddler On The Roof Me neither but the song kinda famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,386 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 Oh, very much so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted March 9, 2023 Share Posted March 9, 2023 FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a film that I admire and appreciate, but do not like. Topol's performance as Tevye is his defining role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 R.I.P. Robert Blake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,575 Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 I really only know him from his brilliant, chilly performance in LOST HIGHWAY. But I have to admit -- I thought he had passed years ago, and I even seem to remember reading an obit from way back when. Must have confused it with something else, perhaps the whole murder case thing. A shame, though, he was so good in LOST HIGHWAY, I would have loved to see him in more movies subsequently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 In Cold Blood (1967) should be on your list. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 Agreed. CAPOTE is a good companion piece. I've not seen INFAMOUS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,575 Posted March 10, 2023 Share Posted March 10, 2023 1 hour ago, AC1 said: In Cold Blood (1967) should be on your list. Saw the film years and years ago, but remember little. I occasionally spin the excellent Q score, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted March 11, 2023 Share Posted March 11, 2023 23 hours ago, Thor said: I occasionally spin the excellent Q score, though. When it comes to Robert Blake, I'm only familiar with this: And it's brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,447 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Holy cow Lance Reddick died https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/lance-reddick-dead-the-wire-john-wick-1235557886/ Raiders of the SoundtrArk and bruce marshall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,975 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Incredibly sad. What a shock!! I'm a big fan of his and watching John Wick 4 in a week will be weird now I think. What an incredible actor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,238 Posted March 17, 2023 Share Posted March 17, 2023 Oh wow. Dying from natural causes at 60. (Although other sources say "no cause of death was given"). I mostly knew Reddick from Fringe, where he always had a strong, distinct presence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Sam Neill has revealed that he has cancer Raiders of the SoundtrArk and Brando 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,975 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 Always sad to hear when someone is diagnosed. My dad has cancer and we lost my aunt last year to it. Just awful Brando, Naïve Old Fart and Raiders of the SoundtrArk 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 921 Posted March 18, 2023 Share Posted March 18, 2023 He has a rare type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma but thankfully is in remission. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,575 Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 Sadly, Christopher Gunning passed away yesterday, as reported by his daughter Olivia on Facebook. Gunning has always been a fav of mine. FIRELIGHT, POLLYANNA, WILD AFRICA, POIROT....all great, but especially the masterpiece that is COLD LAZARUS. Omen II, Jurassic Shark, GerateWohl and 4 others 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSH 969 Posted March 25, 2023 Share Posted March 25, 2023 4 hours ago, Thor said: Sadly, Christopher Gunning passed away yesterday, as reported by his daughter Olivia on Facebook. Gunning has always been a fav of mine. FIRELIGHT, POLLYANNA, WILD AFRICA, POIROT....all great, but especially the masterpiece that is COLD LAZARUS. Oh that's sad. I like all of the scores you mention. I also remember liking his interpolation of Scarborough Fair for his theme to ITV's Rosemary & Thyme whenever my grandmother watched it on TV. RIP Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,033 Posted March 27, 2023 Share Posted March 27, 2023 On 17/03/2023 at 7:48 PM, Jay said: Holy cow Lance Reddick died https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/lance-reddick-dead-the-wire-john-wick-1235557886/ I just read about this. So sad, loved him in The Wire. and just saw him in John Wick 4. He was a fascinating presence on screen. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Ware 526 Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 On 25/03/2023 at 11:48 AM, Thor said: Sadly, Christopher Gunning passed away yesterday, as reported by his daughter Olivia on Facebook. Gunning has always been a fav of mine. FIRELIGHT, POLLYANNA, WILD AFRICA, POIROT....all great, but especially the masterpiece that is COLD LAZARUS. I highly recommend Gunning's concert works too. He wrote twelve symphonies, several concerti and various other pieces. And just to annoy Thor, I'll add that Cold Lazarus *really* needs an expanded release. Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,301 Posted March 28, 2023 Share Posted March 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, Jim Ware said: I highly recommend Gunning's concert works too. He wrote twelve symphonies, several concerti and various other pieces. And just to annoy Thor, I'll add that Cold Lazarus *really* needs an expanded release. Agreed on all points. I'll have to give his work some further listens. I remember Cold Lazarus having some excellent Jerry-esque action music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 921 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Popular UK TV personality Paul O'Grady 'dies unexpectedly' at 67. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brando 1,872 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Angie Mayhew, wife of Peter Mayhew, has passed away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steffromuk 402 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 We were all waiting for that day... R.I.P. Ryuichi Sakamoto https://www.npr.org/2023/04/02/959184720/ryuichi-sakamoto-a-godfather-of-electronic-pop-has-died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,238 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 Klaus Teuber has died. His 1995 classic Die Siedler von Catan is one of the most successful and influential games in the history of modern tabletop games. It's been 10 years or more since I last played it, but back around 2000 it was the first game that turned me into a regular board gamer as an adult when I spent many long nights playing it with friends. Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,447 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 It's a fun one Used to be called Settlers of Catan around here. I never liked that they changed it to just Catan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,238 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 3 minutes ago, Jay said: Used to be called Settlers of Catan around here. I never liked that they changed it to just Catan I didn't even know they'd changed the name until today. Apparently, the original was only called "…von Catan" because Die Siedler (The Settlers) was already claimed by the video game (another classic). But Teuber's own game was already in development when it came out, so apparently neither was influenced by the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,447 Posted April 4, 2023 Share Posted April 4, 2023 They renamed it in 2015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted April 6, 2023 Share Posted April 6, 2023 R.I.P., Norman Reynolds Steffromuk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 R.I.P., Bill Butler, ASC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 7 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: R.I.P., Bill Butler, ASC The Conversation, Jaws, ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 ...Can't Stop The Music , but we'll forgive him that one, because of his sterling work on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Capricorn One, and Rocky IV. Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,420 Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 101! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giftheck 921 Posted April 7, 2023 Share Posted April 7, 2023 Paul Cattermole, from S Club 7, has died unexpectedly at 46 https://news.sky.com/story/s-club-7s-paul-cattermole-dies-aged-46-12851988 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 17 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: ...Can't Stop The Music , but we'll forgive him that one, because of his sterling work on One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Capricorn One, and Rocky IV. Capricorn One felt a bit like a TV movie of that time to me. Flew is good, of course. Don't remember much imagery of Rocky IV. You were that impressed, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted April 8, 2023 Share Posted April 8, 2023 The scenes Inside the hanger, where the lunar module is, are very nicely lit. To be fair, Haskell Wexler shot most of ONE FLEW...but Butler got a co-credit. IV is typical mid-80s power lighting, but it serves the film, well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Oh no! Thor and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 So Ian only played the acoustic guitar on two tracks of Edgar Allan Poe and then he became the main (and only) guitarist of the Alan Parsons Project? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,575 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 Damn. One of the few regulars in my second favourite band of all time, who also continued with AP after Woolfson left and the "Project" moniker was gone. 69 is way too young to go, and I had no idea he had been suffering from dementia. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 @Thor, what you say is his best work, for APP? I think that, as an album, EYE IN THE SKY is hard to beat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,575 Posted April 9, 2023 Share Posted April 9, 2023 3 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: @Thor, what you say is his best work, for APP? I think that, as an album, EYE IN THE SKY is hard to beat. Oooh, good question. I actually think it would be the title track from FREUDIANA (which is an APP album in anything but name). When it blows up big with those Gilmour-ian chords at the end there, I'm floored every time. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,359 Posted April 10, 2023 Share Posted April 10, 2023 RIP Michael Lerner (81) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 On 09/04/2023 at 12:45 PM, Naïve Old Fart said: @Thor, what you say is his best work, for APP? I think that, as an album, EYE IN THE SKY is hard to beat. The first two albums are still my favorites. It's my wife's favorite band Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,634 Posted April 11, 2023 Share Posted April 11, 2023 I had totally forgotten that Bairnson performed the guitar solo that closes "Wuthering Heights". His solo on "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You", is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,988 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 RIP Barry Humphries: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/apr/22/barry-humphries-dies-australian-comedian-death-dead-dame-edna-everage-sir-les-patterson Smaug The Iron, Bespin and LSH 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,420 Posted April 22, 2023 Share Posted April 22, 2023 Fish are friends, not food! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,386 Posted April 23, 2023 Share Posted April 23, 2023 19 hours ago, Chen G. said: RIP Barry Humphries: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/apr/22/barry-humphries-dies-australian-comedian-death-dead-dame-edna-everage-sir-les-patterson R.I.P. indeed. Tremendously funny performer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,975 Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Harry Belafonte has passed away. Very sad to hear. I know he is an important figure for many people in the Black community GerateWohl and Bespin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,492 Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 I loved the voice, the humour, the pestance of that man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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