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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 12:10:18 GMT
Goodbye, Christopher Lee. A lot of us thought you had to be a vampire anyway because you've been around our entire lives, usually in ageless form.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 17:35:28 GMT
I have fond memories as an adolescent of being curled up on the couch late on a Friday night, watching Hammer horror movies.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 17:40:08 GMT
He looked old when we were children and he still looked old for some reason at our current age.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 17:41:41 GMT
RIP Ron Moody, best known as Fagin in the film Oliver.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2015 17:53:55 GMT
He was so "best known" for that role that I had not the slightest idea what he really looked like and had to look it up on Google.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 16:26:28 GMT
Goodbye, Omar Sharif.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 16:49:51 GMT
I know! I loved him so much. Class act.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 17:06:38 GMT
Yes, it is one of the deaths that saddens me the most. I remember his supporting role in Lawrence of Arabia and also his major role in Doctor Jivago or Funny Girl but in his French career in later years, he had quite a few excellent and moving roles, too.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jul 10, 2015 19:58:11 GMT
Sad...he was a beautiful man and a fine actor.
I had a terrible crush on him after I saw him in Lawrence of Arabia.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2015 14:16:25 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2015 5:17:36 GMT
Goodbye Wes Craven, even if some people will sleep better without you.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 31, 2015 22:36:03 GMT
Wonder what he saw instead of the white light.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 5:16:22 GMT
He was probably sucked straight down to hell by clawed fingers, preferably through the mattress of his bed, which is one of the scenes that upset me the most in the Elm Street movies.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2015 5:38:08 GMT
Oh thanks. I do not watch horror movies, but due to your zeal for sharing I'll be taking that image up with me to bed in a few minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2015 5:44:02 GMT
This should help.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2015 6:00:04 GMT
As if I would watch that -- not on your life!!!
pee ess ~ just as I opened this thread, the light over my laptop went out, plunging the room into darkness. Ninny Bixa is having a hard time of it!
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Post by bjd on Sept 1, 2015 6:07:33 GMT
I'm surprised that Wes Craven's death is getting so much attention on the news. It never crossed my mind to see any of his movies.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 12:20:51 GMT
I am very sorry that Belgian director Chantal Akerman has left us. She was one of the tough directors who really taught me to pay attention to movies as something far more than entertainment. She was very famous for never moving her camera and forcing you to watch people like Delphine Seyrig peeling potatoes nonstop until you are simultaneously hypnotised and fascinated. One of her greatest fims was Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles which lasts 3h20. I think I saw it three times.
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Post by bjd on Oct 6, 2015 13:24:15 GMT
Really? I remember going home and reading a review of the movie in Telerama, trying to figure out what it was about.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2015 13:39:25 GMT
Wow, Libération devoted its entire front page and the following four inside pages to Chantal Akerman. The article says:
Elle avait 25 ans à peine quand elle signa, avec Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), son chef-d’œuvre, l’une des pièces les plus influentes de la modernité cinématographique, d’une virtuosité insensée au regard de la verdeur de son parcours, dont l’empreinte paraît toujours sensible dans les travaux de cinéastes du monde entier qui la citent en idole, tels Michael Haneke (le Septième Continent), Gus Van Sant (Elephant) ou Todd Haynes (Safe).
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 24, 2015 20:41:40 GMT
Maureen O'Hara died in her sleep today at the age of 95.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2015 5:33:27 GMT
I read that Kirk Douglas (age 98) and Olivia De Havilland (age 99) are the oldest living American movie stars.
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Post by htmb on Jan 14, 2016 13:20:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 13:27:59 GMT
"Short battle with cancer" -- this seems to be more and more common. Has cancer become more aggressive?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2016 14:30:54 GMT
Could mean "short time that the person who valued his/her privacy allowed the media to know about it".
Does the media ever NOT say "battle with cancer"? *teeth on edge*
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 14:59:30 GMT
Yes, it would make it sound better if they wrote "after briefly embracing cancer."
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2016 15:08:51 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2016 17:10:47 GMT
Alan Rickman. My favourite memory of Allan Rickman was seeing him walking down the street in Stratford. I'd watched him, the night before, play the world's sexiest Achilles in Troilus and Cressida. And as he walked past me (I swear in slow motion), his long hair flowing and his greatcoat flapping behind him, I fell in love. And Les Liaisons Dangereuses in the West End. An unforgettable presence.
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Post by htmb on Jan 14, 2016 17:16:07 GMT
What great memories, Lizzy!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 14, 2016 18:12:41 GMT
Thanks for that, Lizzy -- a properly dramatic and stately way to remember him.
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