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#7026 Post by domino harvey » Mon Feb 05, 2018 8:13 pm

John Mahoney discussion moved here


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#7028 Post by Big Ben » Tue Feb 06, 2018 2:11 pm

That article is pretty grim but it highlights a serious problem in that part of the world. Being a conservationist is an incredibly dangerous job if the animal you're trying to protect is worth anything. Heartbreaking.

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#7029 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:18 pm

Mickey Jones (Dylan's drummer on his legendary 1966 tour, later a well-known TV character actor)

John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist, political activist and internet pioneer.

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#7030 Post by bearcuborg » Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:47 pm

Big Ben wrote:
That article is pretty grim but it highlights a serious problem in that part of the world. Being a conservationist is an incredibly dangerous job if the animal you're trying to protect is worth anything. Heartbreaking.
That’s horrifying. It’s a huge loss for our planet...

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#7031 Post by domino harvey » Wed Feb 07, 2018 10:04 pm

I always think of Mickey Jones from his appearances on Home Improvement, and of course liked him as Hot Rod on Justified

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#7032 Post by Lemmy Caution » Thu Feb 08, 2018 12:44 am

Big Ben wrote:
That article is pretty grim but it highlights a serious problem in that part of the world. Being a conservationist is an incredibly dangerous job if the animal you're trying to protect is worth anything. Heartbreaking.
The article I read a couple days ago said that it looked like a botched robbery in the case of Martin, who was stabbed in his home. But who knows, perhaps that was staged? And maybe new info has come out. He was a pretty wild/sharp dresser.

At one time, must be over 15 years ago now, Kenya had just 2 white rhinos left. So they were guarded and put in a shed at night to protect them. [white rhinos are actually grey just like black rhinos, but are very docile and can be touched by people without incident]. Poachers came, shot the armed guards dead and then snuffed out the last white rhinos in East Africa. That was pretty shocking.

Edit: Seems Kenya once again has the last 3 white rhinos under 24 hour guard. These came from a zoo in Czech Repub, but the male is old for a rhino at 44. In early 2017 a rhino was killed for its horn inside a zoo in France!
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#7033 Post by MichaelB » Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:34 am

Production designer and art director Terence Marsh (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, Oliver!).

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#7034 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:18 am

Later credits included such staples of my youth as Clear And Present Danger and The Shawshank Redemption

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#7037 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:28 pm

Gavin was in Sirk's remake of Imitation of Life of course but I always preferred A Time To Love and A Time To Die.

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#7038 Post by antnield » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:29 pm


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#7039 Post by Werewolf by Night » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:40 pm

Terrible news. It’s always sad when any person of talent dies, but when they die at the height of their creative powers, it’s especially heartbreaking.

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#7040 Post by domino harvey » Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:00 pm

Wow, this week has been brutal

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#7041 Post by Lost Highway » Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:01 pm

antnield wrote:Jóhann Jóhannsson.
That's really awful. I was a fan of his music before he got known for scoring films and then I met him while working on a short film he scored. He was not only hugely talented but also a really lovely man.

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#7042 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:51 pm

His score for Sicario was so haunting, bleak and beautiful, that of among all the other impressive elements of that film, it has stayed with me the most.

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#7043 Post by Big Ben » Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:42 pm

An autopsy is currently scheduled because they're not sure what happened. I'd venture to say a heart issue but it does make me feel any less devastated about this.

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#7044 Post by John Cope » Sat Feb 10, 2018 8:05 pm

Still hope and fully expect his score for BR2049 to leak at some point. Maybe now sooner rather than later. Having it replaced by Zimmer's fine but generic and intentionally derivative one must have been devastating (same more or less for his experience on mother!).

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#7045 Post by Gaddis » Sun Feb 11, 2018 9:05 pm

John Gavin

Not a major talent by any means, but yet still, Psycho, Spartacus, and two wonderful Douglas Sirk films. Not bad.

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#7048 Post by MichaelB » Tue Feb 13, 2018 5:23 pm

Peter Hutchings, critic and historian who made a major contribution towards serious studies of English Gothic cinema in general and Hammer films and Terence Fisher in particular.

(Not to be confused with the film director Peter Hutchings, who as far as I'm aware is still very much alive.)

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#7049 Post by Dr Amicus » Wed Feb 14, 2018 6:00 am

MichaelB wrote:Peter Hutchings, critic and historian who made a major contribution towards serious studies of English Gothic cinema in general and Hammer films and Terence Fisher in particular.

(Not to be confused with the film director Peter Hutchings, who as far as I'm aware is still very much alive.)
His books were a major part of my life when I was completing my Doctorate on Amicus. His book, the frankly misnamed Hammer and Beyond (it doesn't really go much beyond Hammer) is clearly a response to Pirie's A Heritage of Horrror by moving beyond the more purely auteurist approach of the earlier work. I often disagreed with it, but it's certainly provocative. I found the narrower his topic, the more valuable the result - his book on Terence Fisher is superior to Dixon's, and his book on Fisher's Dracula is as good as pretty much anything in the BFI Classics.

And then, one of the "minor changes" I was asked to make after my Viva was to reconsider my chapter on Freddie Francis in light of his chapter on Roy Ward Baker in British Cinema Past and Present. Actually, looking back on it, I can't remember why he wasn't asked to be my external examiner - he would have been an obvious choice.

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