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#7301 Post by dwk » Fri Jul 06, 2018 8:24 pm


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#7303 Post by GaryC » Mon Jul 09, 2018 1:50 am

Australian cinematographer/director Michael Edols.

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#7304 Post by Donald Brown » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:07 am

A good breakdown of the neo-McCarthyite smearing of Ed Schultz. And another one.

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#7305 Post by Aunt Peg » Mon Jul 09, 2018 6:10 am

Reports are starting to emerge on-line that Tab Hunter has passed away.

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#7306 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:36 am

A good time to recommend the underrated Gunman's Walk, one of the last great psychological westerns from the studio era. There's a German Blu-ray out for cheap. Hunter also, of course, sang the best song in Grease 2

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#7307 Post by Werewolf by Night » Mon Jul 09, 2018 2:51 pm

Also a good time to recommend William Wellman's left-field Track of the Cat with Hunter, Robert Mitchum, and Teresa Wright.

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#7308 Post by knives » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:01 pm

Not to mention Wellman's last film, Lafayette Escadrille, which is surprisingly good doing significantly better at the The Wings of Eagles sideways autobiopic thing.

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#7309 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Jul 14, 2018 8:52 am

Nancy Sinatra tweeted that her mother, Nancy Barbato Sinatra passed away. She was 101.
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#7311 Post by GaryC » Thu Jul 19, 2018 3:11 am

Australian writer/director David Stevens, Oscar-nominated for the screenplay of Breaker Morant, which he cowrote, and also scriptwriter of The Sum of Us, based on his stage play. Directing credits include The Clinic and much television work in both capacities.

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#7317 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Jul 22, 2018 6:08 am

okcmaxk wrote:
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Jon Schnepp
One thing that he directed was the bizarre segment of The ABCS of Death about filmmakers not knowing what to do for their entry, W is for WTF! (very NSFW!)

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#7318 Post by lacritfan » Sun Jul 22, 2018 8:56 pm

bearcuborg wrote:
Sat Jul 21, 2018 10:54 pm
The great Jonathan Gold...
Damn, this one is tough. Been reading him since he was with the LA Weekly, a freebie rag mostly known for the pages of sex ads in the back but also the no nonsense reporting and music and film reviews. The fact that he was their first Pulitzer Prize was always so awesome to me, in a way it's like Kendrick Lamar (another L.A. native) winning for music this year.
He was a weekly guest on local NPR station KCRW's Good Food so for the last two+ decades of my life I've heard him almost every weekend.
Was lucky enough to spot him at a hole in the wall chili place in Burbank a few years ago, was too nervous to go up and thank him.

L.A. Times lifting its paywall on Jonathan Gold coverage
KCRW segments
LA Weekly reviews

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#7319 Post by Dylan » Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:39 pm

Composer Patrick Williams, whose many feature film scores include Used Cars and Cry-Baby, and he also did a ton of television including The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

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#7320 Post by MichaelB » Sun Jul 29, 2018 10:37 am

Tomasz Stańko, the trumpeter and composer who was arguably the most important figure in Polish jazz after the great Krzysztof Komeda. Like Komeda, he also contributed to films, with over a dozen original scores, and as a performer he can be heard on many more - and not just in Poland: he's the trumpeter on the soundtrack of Homeland.

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#7321 Post by FrauBlucher » Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:09 pm


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#7322 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:55 am

FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:09 pm
Pro Wrestler Nikolai Volkoff... 70.
Wow, that's probably old by wrestling standards. Didn't Grandmaster Sexay die in the last few days as well? Ah, the good old days when international politics played out in the WWE....I preferred the Sgt Slaughter turned by General Adnan/Colonel Mustafa story during the first Iraq War best.

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#7323 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Jul 30, 2018 9:06 am

thirtyframesasecond wrote:
FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:09 pm
Pro Wrestler Nikolai Volkoff... 70.
Wow, that's probably old by wrestling standards. Didn't Grandmaster Sexay die in the last few days as well? Ah, the good old days when international politics played out in the WWE....I preferred the Sgt Slaughter turned by General Adnan/Colonel Mustafa story during the first Iraq War best.
Kolloff and Volkoff... played the Russian bad guys.
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#7324 Post by Craig Wallace » Mon Jul 30, 2018 1:55 pm


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#7325 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Tue Jul 31, 2018 5:40 am

thirtyframesasecond wrote:
Mon Jul 30, 2018 8:55 am
FrauBlucher wrote:
Sun Jul 29, 2018 11:09 pm
Pro Wrestler Nikolai Volkoff... 70.
Wow, that's probably old by wrestling standards. Didn't Grandmaster Sexay die in the last few days as well? Ah, the good old days when international politics played out in the WWE....I preferred the Sgt Slaughter turned by General Adnan/Colonel Mustafa story during the first Iraq War best.
Grandmaster Sexay (because it has to be said on this site at least once) was Jerry Lawler's son, Brian. I really remember him more for reading about his exploits in Lawler's Memphis territory in the Apter mags, than his WWF stint. Brickhouse Brown, who similarly worked in that 90's independent scene died as well.

I don't want to say Volkoff was pre-steroids but you can tell a lot of his strength was pretty natural. Big and bulky, but he could occasionally throw a dropkick or leap into the ring over the top rope with a lot of ease. Anyway, this picture and story from WWE talent Natalya (Canadian, not Russian) about him was pretty cute.

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