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#7951 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Oct 16, 2019 6:04 pm

27-year-old boxer Patrick Day, four days after sustaining head injuries in the ring that led to a coma

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#7952 Post by ando » Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:06 am

Fiery Angel wrote:
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Harold Bloom
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#7955 Post by Feego » Fri Oct 18, 2019 7:59 pm

Julie Gibson, actress in Three Stooges shorts and probably best known by forum members as the woman who sings "Home to the Arms of Mother" in Hail the Conquering Hero. She was 106.

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#7957 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:22 pm

89, wow. I'd bet people started death pools on him when he was still in his 30's.

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#7958 Post by Black Hat » Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:26 pm

This guy lived an absolutely incredible life and had a style all his own, the consummate "people are a lotta things" guy. The audiobook version of him reading The Kid Stays in the Picture is a must listen.

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#7959 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Oct 28, 2019 3:21 pm

I guess Coppola knew he was ill. When he screened the new restoration of The Cotton Club at the NYFF some weeks back, he singled out Evans (who wasn't there) and said he wanted to express his gratitude because he knew his kind words would make it back to Evans.

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#7960 Post by Never Cursed » Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:09 am

Social media is saying John Witherspoon of the Friday films

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#7961 Post by domino harvey » Wed Oct 30, 2019 1:23 am

I remember him from the Wayans Brothers sitcom, he was a reliable crank

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#7962 Post by bearcuborg » Wed Oct 30, 2019 7:44 am

Everything about Friday is special, but John’s performance in particular seems to a favorite among most fans, for good reason. He also has a hilarious cameo in Boomerang.

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#7963 Post by knives » Wed Oct 30, 2019 9:15 am

Not to forget a great late role as Grandpa in The Boondocks.

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#7964 Post by MichaelB » Mon Nov 04, 2019 11:25 am

I think we've already highlighted the internationally famous names (directors Ryszard Bugajski, Janusz Kondratiuk and Kazimierz Kutz, cinematographers Witold Sobociński and Jerzy Wójcik), but here's a list of everyone in the Polish film and TV industries who passed away between 1 November 2018 and 31 October 2019.

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#7965 Post by Swift » Mon Nov 04, 2019 3:57 pm

Gay Byrne, a genuinely beloved TV and radio presenter in Ireland. He was host of the national broadcaster's flagship talk show for almost 40 years and did a great deal in modernising the country by bringing many previously taboo subjects to the fore.

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#7966 Post by Aunt Peg » Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:13 am

Omero Antonutti, best known as the stern father from Padre Padrone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omero_Antonutti

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#7967 Post by MichaelB » Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:23 pm

Nik Powell, one of the major figures in independent British production over the last 40 years (he's best known for his partnership with Stephen Woolley at Palace in the 1980s) and more recently he was the head of Britain's National Film and Television School. It's not the slightest exaggeration to say that post-1980 British cinema would have looked very different without his input - he was one of the great behind-the-scenes string-pullers.

(An immediate example springs to mind: not merely making a film as ambitious as The Company of Wolves in the first place, since Palace had barely produced anything by then, but getting its premiere run at the flagship Odeon Leicester Square, almost unheard of for an independent film. Although of course hubris met nemesis shortly afterwards in the form of Absolute Beginners - but for all that film's many faults, you can't accuse it of lacking creative ambition.)

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#7968 Post by mfunk9786 » Thu Nov 07, 2019 9:03 pm

Actor Charles Levin, found naked and partially eaten by vultures, with "no signs of external genitalia present."

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#7969 Post by Mr Sausage » Fri Nov 08, 2019 11:32 am

The perpetually underrated Stephen Dixon.

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#7971 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Nov 11, 2019 12:42 pm

James Le Mesurier, whose NGO helped train the Syrian based White Helmets organisation has been found dead in mysterious circumstances in Istanbul only a week after being criticised by name by the Russian government.

The work of the White Helmets has been the subject of a couple of critically acclaimed films - Last Men In Aleppo and winner of 2017's Best Documentary Short Oscar The White Helmets

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#7972 Post by Swift » Wed Nov 13, 2019 12:56 pm


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#7973 Post by yoshimori » Wed Nov 13, 2019 3:41 pm

Nothing I can find in English yet, but ...

Vlada Petric

Unparalleled observer/thinker who, like a lot of old-school scholars, rarely wrote.

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#7974 Post by Feego » Wed Nov 13, 2019 6:30 pm

Virginia Leith, best known for starring in The Brain That Wouldn't Die. She also starred in A Kiss Before Dying and Kubrick's Fear and Desire.

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#7975 Post by MichaelB » Fri Nov 15, 2019 7:30 am

Croatian producer Branko Lustig, whose forays into the murky waters of international co-production included the not entirely unsuccessful Schindler's List and Gladiator.

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