Mister TV Posted April 11, 2024 Posted April 11, 2024 O.J. Simpson is dead. https://abcnews.go.com/US/oj-simpson-former-football-star-acquitted-murder-dies/story?id=16354000
odessasteps Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 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.
Travis Sheldon Posted April 25, 2024 Posted April 25, 2024 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
driver Posted April 26, 2024 Posted April 26, 2024 Growing up Benji seemed to be the one franchise(besides Star Wars and Oh God) that had legs.
Contentious C Posted April 27, 2024 Posted April 27, 2024 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
AxB Posted May 5, 2024 Posted May 5, 2024 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
J.H. Posted May 5, 2024 Posted May 5, 2024 The way Ian McKellan puts so much english when saying "Theoden King" Bernard Hill was practically a cueball James
odessasteps Posted May 12, 2024 Posted May 12, 2024 Tempted to do a double feature today of Dementia 13 and Eat My Dust.
piranesi Posted May 12, 2024 Posted May 12, 2024 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
Curt McGirt Posted May 13, 2024 Posted May 13, 2024 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
odessasteps Posted May 14, 2024 Posted May 14, 2024 (edited) https://youtu.be/dI6ZAkvKZE4?si=4kshZ-hlwv8ROgbG Edited May 14, 2024 by odessasteps
Curt McGirt Posted May 16, 2024 Posted May 16, 2024 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
odessasteps Posted May 16, 2024 Posted May 16, 2024 I'll be curious to see what TCM picks to show whenever they do a night remembering him.
colonial Posted May 17, 2024 Posted May 17, 2024 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
odessasteps Posted May 17, 2024 Posted May 17, 2024 https://youtu.be/lxX5d_6LvIs?si=BWOoxAJbfl9iOjoM The Buffalo Bill pilot
odessasteps Posted May 17, 2024 Posted May 17, 2024 Buffalo Bill had a great cast - Max Wright, Joanna Cassidy, John Fielder, young Geena Davis
driver Posted May 18, 2024 Posted May 18, 2024 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
colonial Posted May 24, 2024 Posted May 24, 2024 Deadline is reporting that documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died at 53. Pretty much vanished several years ago after admitting to sexual misconduct but, at one point, if you asked the average Joe to name someone who directs documentaries, it would have been Morgan or Michael Moore.
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