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Post by Kimby on Mar 28, 2021 13:03:07 GMT
From the article: Roger Ebert wrote in his review, "She is something like flypaper; the more you struggle against her personality, the more tightly you're held." She also escaped my notice over her long career. Probably because she was an ACTRESS, not a celeb. But I’m adding Play Misty For Me to my list of Kanopy films.
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Post by casimira on Mar 28, 2021 13:09:55 GMT
I agree Huckle. Talk about CREEPY!
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Post by lugg on Apr 16, 2021 20:35:54 GMT
So saddened to read about Helen McCrory's death. She generally had me on tenterhooks in her Peaky Blinders role as the matriarch of the Shelby family . But as ever, she should be remembered for much more her other roles and some of the fund raising she did during Covid. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56770593
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Post by casimira on Apr 18, 2021 19:54:32 GMT
I only just learned of Ms. McCrory's untimely death. I should have known that you Lugg would be the one who posted the sad news. Her role as Polly, the matriarch of the Shelby family in Peaky Blinders was beyond brilliant. Thanks for posting this Lugg.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 19, 2021 20:07:36 GMT
She certainly deserves an award (to be delivered to her near and dear) for her roles on screen and in real life.
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Post by whatagain on Apr 24, 2021 18:57:29 GMT
Yves Renier, french actor best known for impersonating commissaire Jean Moulin during 30 years (!), passed away at 78. Younger than my Papa...
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Post by kerouac2 on Apr 24, 2021 19:20:26 GMT
Actually Jean-Paul Moulin, although his first name was rarely mentioned. Jean Moulin was a resistance hero.
Actually my fondest memories of him were in the series Les Globe-Trotters from the early 1960s in which he co-starred with Edward Meeks (American actor). They played journalists working their way around the world (cargo ships,etc.). I didn't see it until reruns in the 1990s but it was charming, like Route 66.
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Post by Kimby on May 1, 2021 19:51:43 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on May 1, 2021 20:19:58 GMT
I had also seen that Kirk Douglas's wife died on April 29 at age 102. Kirk was sturdier since he lasted until age 103.
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Post by Kimby on May 18, 2021 21:27:57 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 14, 2021 14:40:53 GMT
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Post by casimira on Jun 14, 2021 16:25:53 GMT
A fine actor. Versatile and great range of characters portrayed. His role in the movie Network is one of my husband's favorites
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 14, 2021 17:20:33 GMT
Frankly, I never forgot Ned Beatty for his first role and never really noticed him for all the rest of his career.
In 1972, I was taking some film classes and we were invited to Warner Studios for a rough cut of Deliverance. Everybody was in a state of shock, because that first cut was even more graphic than the final version of the movie when it was released. "Squeal like a pig!"
Ned Beatty has to be commended for accepting such a role, because this was a time when just about every actor turned down any sort of demeaning or ambiguous role. Then again, it was his very first role and he probably would hae done anything to get into the movies.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jul 6, 2021 4:18:26 GMT
American director Richard Donner has died. The Omen, Goonies, Lethal Weapon, Superman....
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Post by lagatta on Jul 15, 2021 13:55:35 GMT
Actress Renée_Simonot, mother of Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac (who tragically died young in a car accident) has died, at the astonishing age of 109!
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Post by kerouac2 on Aug 9, 2021 4:53:20 GMT
Actress Jane Withers has died at age 95. Most of us remember her only as Josephine the plumber on Comet cleanser commercials, which is normal since she had mostly retired from acting at age 21, which was a long long tima ago.
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Post by Kimby on Aug 29, 2021 20:10:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 30, 2021 0:15:16 GMT
He was always great as Lou Grant. My favorite line of his I am positive was an ad lib ~
Mary doesn't show up for work and everyone is asking about her and trying to reach her. Lou walks back to his office muttering, "Funny -- they must be rounding up WASPs."
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Post by bjd on Sept 6, 2021 15:43:05 GMT
Jean-Claude Belmondo died aged 88 today.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 6, 2021 15:48:02 GMT
That is a relief since he was so diminished in recent years.
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 24, 2021 8:08:27 GMT
Melvin Van Peebles, the father of blaxsploitation movies, has died.
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Post by questa on Sept 24, 2021 22:32:44 GMT
Has anyone else noticed what surprisingly long lives these people have had? Considering they lived through the drug and wild living 1960's and the era of HIV, they must have been extra careful or all those public health warnings were over-exaggerated.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2021 16:52:34 GMT
Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée died abruptly. Even though most of the world knows him as the director of Dallas Buyers Club and the series Big Little Lies, for me he will always be the director of C.R.A.Z.Y.
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Post by casimira on Dec 27, 2021 17:46:39 GMT
I was about to post about Mr. Vallee's death and now reading your post Kerouac, I can tell you that it read almost word to word of what I was going say.
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 27, 2021 18:07:51 GMT
It is interesting to note that the very first line spoken in C.R.A.Z.Y. is "For as long as I can remember, I have always hated Christmas." Impossible to be more ironic for someone who died on Christmas day.
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Post by casimira on Dec 27, 2021 18:14:57 GMT
Thanks for that Kerouac. Leave it to you to lend that bit of trivia. Ironic indeed.
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Post by lagatta on Dec 27, 2021 22:54:10 GMT
C.R.A.Z.Y. was important to me as I saw it with a gay friend who grew up in a village in rural Québec. His dad threw him out the door (and beat him up) when he suspected that G. wasn't a "normal boy". The music was good too. I was never interested in his later Hollywood films, but then I'm not anywhere as much a cinéphile as K2...
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Post by Kimby on Dec 31, 2021 20:40:25 GMT
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Post by kerouac2 on Dec 31, 2021 20:53:05 GMT
We are outliving so many people, which is normal but still a shock quite often.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jan 6, 2022 20:21:37 GMT
Movie director Peter Bogdonovich (The Last Picture Show) has died.
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