odessasteps Posted April 4 Share Posted April 4 Ron Wright? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister TV Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 O.J. Simpson is dead. https://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-former-football-star-acquitted-murder-dies/story?id=16354000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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odessasteps Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 RIP Terry Carter,age 95. Prob best known for being in McCloud and the original BSG. Also in Benji. heres all 3 versions of the McCloud theme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 4 hours ago, odessasteps said: RIP Terry Carter,age 95. Prob best known for being in McCloud and the original BSG. Also in Benji. heres all 3 versions of the McCloud theme. R.I.P. Colonel Tigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driver Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 Growing up Benji seemed to be the one franchise(besides Star Wars and Oh God) that had legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contentious C Posted April 27 Share Posted April 27 On 4/26/2024 at 5:11 PM, driver said: Growing up Benji seemed to be the one franchise(besides Star Wars and Oh God) that had legs. What you did there, I see it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 Rest in Peace Bernard Hill. Best known in the UK for playing Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff, which chronicled the urban deprivation of Thatcher's Britain. Best known internationally for playing either the Captain in Titanic, or King Theoden in Lord of the Rings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 The way Ian McKellan puts so much english when saying "Theoden King" Bernard Hill was practically a cueball James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 Roger Corman has died at 98. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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odessasteps Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 Tempted to do a double feature today of Dementia 13 and Eat My Dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 This feels like the official end of what is probably my favorite cultural era of any kind in any art: the drvie-in/B-movie era of American cinema from around 1950 to, well I guess, to yesterday. I mean there are still cheap direct to tubi movies today I guess. But I don't think they are an extension of what he represented. With Roger's death, I think it's now a "historic genre." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 As long as we still have Joe Bob …. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Curt McGirt Posted May 13 Share Posted May 13 7 hours ago, piranesi said: This feels like the official end of what is probably my favorite cultural era of any kind in any art: the drvie-in/B-movie era of American cinema from around 1950 to, well I guess, to yesterday. I mean there are still cheap direct to tubi movies today I guess. But I don't think they are an extension of what he represented. With Roger's death, I think it's now a "historic genre." I'm not quite so sure. He managed to move into digital realms with all the CGI monster movies and stay just as cheap, sleazy, and lowest-common-denominator. If it had his name, it was an extension, and if someone is putting out 1000 Gigantic Killer Spidersharks or whatever then there is still a derivative of Roger Corman floating around out there. Hell, if there is EXPLOITATION as CINEMA there will always be Roger Corman. He is the Big Bang for all of it, alongside William Castle, and probably going back a little further the Poverty Row films. You can't bury his influence. I love Roger, so much. Not just the directorial successes, whether I've seen them or not, like The Intruders or The Trip which I've still never watched. All the Poe films, especially The Masque of the Red Death (Fall and Pit were two of the first VHS tapes I ever owned). The Wild Angels, which I own the vinyl of the soundtrack to. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. And his productions? Death Race 2000. Humanoids from the Deep, which my parents took off my Xmas list and bought for me at the age of ten! Carnosaur, which I used my VHS copy of to allow a sampling of for a band's record one time. It's endless. He was the master. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 14 Share Posted May 14 (edited) https://youtu.be/dI6ZAkvKZE4?si=4kshZ-hlwv8ROgbG Edited May 14 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted Thursday at 09:48 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:48 PM I forgot how great The Raven is. The interactions between Price, Karloff and especially Lorre are so good. Apparently he was half in the bag just riffing the whole time and everyone else had to try and keep up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted Thursday at 10:39 PM Share Posted Thursday at 10:39 PM I'll be curious to see what TCM picks to show whenever they do a night remembering him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted Friday at 09:29 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:29 PM Aww, hell, Dabney Coleman dead at age 92. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted Friday at 09:47 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:47 PM No one played a sexist, angry a-hole on TV and film than Dabney Coleman ... What’s Great About Buffalo, New York - Dabney Coleman, 1983 “Buffalo Bill” (youtube.com) Need to re-watch "Buffalo Bill" again ... one of the most underrated TV shows of the 80s. The Slap Maxwell Story (ABC, 1987-88) Scene from the Pilot Episode (youtube.com) A show I need to watch. ... heard nothing but good things about it. Recess School's Out A Little Secret (youtube.com) Also forgot (until just now) that he voiced Principal Prickly on Disney's "Recess." He was great in that role. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted Friday at 09:51 PM Share Posted Friday at 09:51 PM https://youtu.be/lxX5d_6LvIs?si=BWOoxAJbfl9iOjoM The Buffalo Bill pilot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted Friday at 10:15 PM Share Posted Friday at 10:15 PM Buffalo Bill had a great cast - Max Wright, Joanna Cassidy, John Fielder, young Geena Davis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
driver Posted Saturday at 11:57 PM Share Posted Saturday at 11:57 PM I vaguely remember Buffalo Bill on a Thursday night around the same time as a 9 To 5 sitcom. Using a bootleg early 80s cable box I got to see "9 To 5(the movie)" and that ties all of this together(in my mind anyway). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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