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Post by kerouac2 on May 18, 2023 18:07:10 GMT
Austrian actor Helmut Berger, who obsessed Italian director Luchino Visconti, has died at age 78.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 18, 2023 18:21:31 GMT
He always looked like Kurt Russell's prettier older brother.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 13, 2023 4:46:06 GMT
Treat Williams, star of HAIR, dead at 71. Motorcycle crash in Vermont.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 13, 2023 6:50:41 GMT
Ouch.
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Post by whatagain on Jun 14, 2023 11:31:39 GMT
Would not happen to me. My wife had special conditions prior to marrying. No motorbike no alpines no speleology. She later added no flying after a good friend of ours crashed in a ulnar. Ultra light motorised.
I must confess I drive a motorbike even worse than I type.
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Post by patricklondon on Jun 15, 2023 12:06:50 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 15, 2023 14:28:26 GMT
Just saw that news in my seven-hours-behind-London home. She was a great woman.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jun 15, 2023 20:56:14 GMT
I admired Glenda Jackson tremendously, she was a great actress.
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Post by lugg on Jun 15, 2023 21:02:03 GMT
Sad to read of this ...she was a great woman indeed
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2023 13:58:47 GMT
Glenda Jackson was my favourite actress in the 1970s.
Meanwhile, I was surprised that Frederic Forrest was 86 years old. I remember him from Apocalypse Now and The Rose.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 30, 2023 23:59:01 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 1, 2023 1:53:13 GMT
Aw. I always liked him. Another good actor, Frederick Forrest, also died. I was surprised at his age because I first remember him in Apocalypse Now. I was 30 or 31 when the movie came out, but Forrest in his role as Chef looked no more than 20 & continued looking young in many appearances thereafter.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 22, 2023 19:49:37 GMT
Actress Josephine Chaplin died on 13 July, but her death has only just been announced. She was not as well known as her sister Geraldine.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 31, 2023 17:28:19 GMT
I see that Paul Reubens (Pee Wee Herman) has died of cancer at age 70.
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Post by Kimby on Jul 31, 2023 23:19:28 GMT
I remember when 70 was old…
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 31, 2023 23:31:10 GMT
Ain't that the truth!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 7, 2023 19:40:38 GMT
William Friedkin can no longer be exorcised.
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Post by lugg on Sept 15, 2023 20:56:53 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 26, 2023 5:20:02 GMT
Scottish actor David McCallum has died at age 90. Even though I watched him on NCIS, my mental image of him will always be from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
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Post by onlyMark on Sept 26, 2023 9:22:07 GMT
At one point, may years ago in NCIS, Jethro was asked what Ducky looked like when he was younger. "Illya Kuryakin" was the reply.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 28, 2023 14:15:54 GMT
Michael Gambon has died. That's already the second Dumbledore, but he also played Maigret.
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Post by whatagain on Sept 29, 2023 12:57:31 GMT
The best Maigret is Jean Gabin. Then Bruno Crémer. The worst is Jean Richard.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 29, 2023 13:42:53 GMT
There have been adaptations of Maigret all around the world, including Japan and Russia.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 15, 2023 2:50:17 GMT
Character actress Piper Laurie has died at age 91. Who is going to take over her creepy roles?
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Post by Kimby on Oct 15, 2023 20:15:01 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Oct 16, 2023 14:18:50 GMT
Character actress Piper Laurie has died at age 91. Who is going to take over her creepy roles? I guess I saw her many times without knowing who she was. DEATH KNELL - long detailed article. DEATH KNELL: Piper Laurie, the actress who blossomed only after extricating herself from the studio system and went on to rack up three Oscar nominations, passed away on Saturday, October 14, 2023.
Laurie’s manager Marion Rosenberg confirmed the news, writing, “A beautiful human being and one of the great talents of our time.”
Laurie scored her first Oscar nomination for her work opposite Paul Newman in 1961’s classic poolhall drama “The Hustler,” in which she played an alcoholic who memorably tells Newman’s character, “Look, I’ve got troubles and I think maybe you’ve got troubles. Maybe it’d be better if we just leave each other alone.”
Though she informally retired to raise a family for more than a decade, she returned to film and television in the mid-’70s and racked up an impressive roster of characterizations, including Oscar-nominated turns in “Carrie” and in “Children of a Lesser God,” in which she played Marlee Matlin’s icy mother. Laurie was truly chilling in “Carrie,” as the mother of the shy telekinetic girl of the title who has, in the words of Roger Ebert, “translated her own psychotic fear of sexuality into a twisted personal religion.”
Her performance as the plotting, power-hungry Catherine Martell in David Lynch’s landmark TV series “Twin Peaks” brought her two of her nine Emmy nominations. The actress won her only Emmy for her role in the powerful 1986 “Hallmark Hall of Fame” entry “Promises,” in which James Wood starred as a schizophrenic and James Garner as his brother, with Laurie’s character offering help to the pair.
She scored her last Emmy nomination in 1999 for a guest role on sitcom “Frasier” in which she played the mother of a radio psychologist played by Christine Baranski and clearly modeled after Dr. Laura Schlessinger.
The actress negotiated herself out of her contract with Universal in the mid-’50s after a series of ingenue roles in mediocre films and turned in an impressive supporting performance in Robert Wise’s “Until They Sail” (1957), with Jean Simmons, Paul Newman and Joan Fontaine.
She then headed east; in New York she appeared in television productions of “Twelfth Night” and “Caesar and Cleopatra.” She picked up Emmy nominations for original drama “The Deaf Heart” on “Studio One in Hollywood” and “Days of Wine and Roses” with Cliff Robertson on “Playhouse 90.” Director Robert Rossen spotted her working at the Actors Studio and offered her the role of the crippled alcoholic Sarah Packard in the drama “The Hustler,” which brought her an Oscar nomination as best actress in 1961.
Soon thereafter she married writer Joseph Morgenstern, later a film critic, and left show business to start a family, living in Woodstock, N.Y.
By the mid-’70s she was ready to work again and appeared in a Broadway revival of “The Glass Menagerie” and in an episode of PBS’ “Nova” science series as pioneer family planning champion Margaret Sanger.
Laurie took Brian De Palma’s “Carrie” almost as a lark. But her tongue-in-cheek but terrifying performance in the horror film brought her a second Oscar nomination in the supporting category. She followed that up with an Australian drama “Tim,” starring a young Mel Gibson, as well as films including “Ruby,” “The Boss’s Son” and “Return to Oz.”
She also began regular work on television in such TV movies as “In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan”; the Judy Garland biography “Rainbow”; 1981’s “The Bunker,” in which she played Magda Goebbels to Anthony Hopkins’ Hitler, drawing an Emmy nomination; “The Thorn Birds,” which brought her another Emmy nom; and 1986’s “Promise,” for which she won an Emmy for supporting actress. She was also guesting on TV series, picking an Emmy nom in 1984 for her work on “St. Elsewhere.”
Bigscreen work during the late ’80s and ’90s included “Appointment With Death,” “Other People’s Money,” “Wrestling Ernest Hemingway,” “Storyville,” “Rich in Love,” and “The Crossing Guard.” In the well-regarded period dramedy “The Grass Harp,” she reunited with her “Carrie” co-star Sissy Spacek but this time played her sister (they also both appeared in the 2001 telepic “Midwives”).
In the 1990s and 2000s she guested on the likes of “ER,” “Diagnosis Murder,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Will and Grace” and “Law and Order: SVU.” She appeared steadily in a series of telepics.
Her last film appearances included “Eulogy” (2004), in which she stood out as the matriarch of a dysfunctional family; “The Dead Girl,” in which she played another cruel mother, this one bed-ridden; “Hounddog,” as the stern grandmother of rape victim Dakota Fanning; and “Hesher,” in which she memorably shared a bong with the stranger, played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who insinuates himself into her household.
Born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, she was plucked out of Los Angeles High School at age 17 and signed to a Universal contract for $250 a week, which would run up to $1,750 a week after seven years.
She made her debut as Ronald Reagan’s daughter in the 1950 film “Louisa” and then went on to star in a series of undistinguished comedies and musicals, including a foray into the Francis the talking mule series called “Francis Goes to the Races.” As an ingenue she was the love interest of such up-and-comers as Tony Curtis and Rock Hudson and established stars including Tyrone Power and Victor Mature.
Among the early forgettable films were “Johnny Dark,” “Dangerous Mission,” “Ain’t Misbehavin’” and “No Room for the Groom.”
“I hated what I was doing,” she later told a journalist. But she also admitted that the regular work helped her develop and move on to more gratifying projects.
Laurie and Morgenstern divorced in 1981. She is survived by a daughter, Anne Grace.
Laurie was 91 years of age.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 16, 2023 15:38:44 GMT
I had forgotten that Piper Laurie was in Tim. That was a pretty good movie even though the novel was better.
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Post by Kimby on Oct 25, 2023 23:59:40 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 26, 2023 1:06:39 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Oct 29, 2023 1:01:56 GMT
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