rainmakerrtv Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Hey, that had one of my all-time crushes Melinda Dillon in it. Melinda Dillon: For when you need hotter than Dianne Wiest but you can't afford Teri Garr. MELINDA DILLON!!! And she used to be married to Richard Libertini. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffman Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 Brian Bedford, the Shakespearean actor probably best known as the voice of Robin Hood in the 1973 Disney movie, died of cancer Wednesday at age 80. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainmakerrtv Posted January 15, 2016 Share Posted January 15, 2016 Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) has passed at the age of 74 from, you guessed it, cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted January 16, 2016 Share Posted January 16, 2016 Cancer is recently turning into that celebrity-targeting serial killer that Randy Quaid was all paranoid about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 RIP jacques rivette, french new wave director and writer/editor of Cahiers du cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I remember reading how influential Cahiers du cinema was back in uni. Its members helped shape cinema criticism and theory and more or less paved the way for French new wave, which in turn influenced directors like Spielberg enormously not to mention produced some of the best stuff I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 29, 2016 Share Posted January 29, 2016 I dont know if they are still in print, but there used to be "best of" cahiers du cinema books, for 50s 60s and 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 RIP Bob Elliott, of Bob and Ray fame, father of Chris Elliott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 Bob and Ray doing the "Slow Talkers of America" sketch. Fantastic stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffman Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 Prolific voice actor Joe Alaskey died today at 63. He voiced most of the Warner Bros. characters in various projects post-Mel Blanc, and he voiced Grandpa Pickles on Rugrats after David Doyle died in 1997. He also appeared in the 1980s syndicated sitcom Out of This World and the game show Couch Potatoes. Also, English actor Frank Finlay died last weekend at 89. He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Iago in 1965's Othello. In the '80s he played Jacob Marley in the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, as well as The Witchsmeller Pursuivant in an episode of The Black Adder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Prolific voice actor Joe Alaskey died today at 63. He voiced most of the Warner Bros. characters in various projects post-Mel Blanc, and he voiced Grandpa Pickles on Rugrats after David Doyle died in 1997. He also appeared in the 1980s syndicated sitcom Out of This World and the game show Couch Potatoes. Also, English actor Frank Finlay died last weekend at 89. He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Iago in 1965's Othello. In the '80s he played Jacob Marley in the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, as well as The Witchsmeller Pursuivant in an episode of The Black Adder. Frank Finlay also portrayed Van Helsing in the Louis Jordan Dracula circa late 70s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Prolific voice actor Joe Alaskey died today at 63. He voiced most of the Warner Bros. characters in various projects post-Mel Blanc, and he voiced Grandpa Pickles on Rugrats after David Doyle died in 1997. He also appeared in the 1980s syndicated sitcom Out of This World and the game show Couch Potatoes. Also, English actor Frank Finlay died last weekend at 89. He was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Iago in 1965's Othello. In the '80s he played Jacob Marley in the George C. Scott version of A Christmas Carol, as well as The Witchsmeller Pursuivant in an episode of The Black Adder. Frank Finlay also portrayed Van Helsing in the Louis Jordan Dracula circa late 70s. I'm just now watching Finlay in PRIME SUSPECT: THE FINAL ACT. So good. My wife has forced me to watch just about every BBC crime drama made in the last 15 years lately but going through Prime Suspect again is crushing. It's just so much better than any of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Joe Alaskey is THE modern Daffy. It's true that he's played Bugs and others after Blanc died, but Daffy is the character he played most consistently and the one he did the best at stepping into Blanc's shoes. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Also Plucky Duck on Tiny Toons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted February 5, 2016 Share Posted February 5, 2016 Also Plucky Duck on Tiny ToonsOkay, NOW it really hurts. Daffy's had at least half-a-dozen different voice actors, but Plucky was entirely Alaskey's creation. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Alaskey was an amazing celebrity impressionist, and some of his impressions were deadly accurate. IIRC, Jackie Gleason thought so highly of Alaskey's impression of him that "The Great One" hired Alaskey to do his voice to replace damaged audio for the "lost" episodes of "The Honeymooners". He was also tapped to impersonate Jack Lemmon for the "clean" version of "Glengarry Glen Ross". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Daniel Gerson - co-screenwriter of Big Hero 6 - along with several Pixar movies passed away at the age of 49 Brain cancer was the cause Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 He also co-wrote Monsters, Inc., Chicken Little, and also wrote an episode of Duckman. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Dont let me be the one who tells JT the news about Vanity. (Age 57) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Man, I'm gonna watch that this weekend now. I really feel like from this year on or so my life is just the same as a caretaker of beautiful ghosts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 The flags fly at half-staff for Commandant Lassard. George Gaynes has died at age 98. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/arts/television/george-gaynes-a-versatile-character-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=0 I'm sure we all have many, many memories of his work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Lord Posted February 17, 2016 Share Posted February 17, 2016 The flags fly at half-staff for Commandant Lassard. George Gaynes has died at age 98. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/arts/television/george-gaynes-a-versatile-character-actor-dies-at-98.html?_r=0 I'm sure we all have many, many memories of his work. I was just thinking about him because I had watched Police Academy 6 last week. According to wikipedia and such he was in a home for a few years with dementia. I grew up with the movies so I'll remember him fondly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Director Andrzej Zulawski passed away today. Unfortunately the only film of his I've seen is Possession, with Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani, but it remains imprinted in my brain, one of those films you just cannot wash away. I advise any fan of horror or just plain amazing films watch it, but it be forewarned. The scene in the restaurant alone BEFORE any of the other foot (feet? tentacles?) drops is one of the most disturbing "fly on the wall" bits in any film. If the other stuff he's done compares -- and I've heard it does -- then we lost another of the greats today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I just heard about this via my BloodyDisgusting feed. Sad. Czamanka (1996) is also a good film to watch from his catalogue that will also really mess with your head. RIP Mr. Zulawski. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoffman Posted February 26, 2016 Share Posted February 26, 2016 Tony Burton from the Rocky movies died today at age 78. http://www.mlive.com/sports/flint/index.ssf/2016/02/rocky_films_star_flint_native.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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