Passages

[domino harvey]

John Hillerman. RIP Rodney

[bearcuborg]

Love his roles in Paper Moon...

[Polybius]

And the laurel and hearty handshake from Blazing Saddles.

[Caligula]

John Hillerman. RIP Rodney

He was just great as Higgins in Magnum PI

[Professor Wagstaff]

Screenwriter Robert Getchell, back in October

[Michael Kerpan]

David Pendleton, the tremendous programmer for the Harvard Film Archive (and a very nice person): https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/movies ... story.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Way too young, a mere youth compared to me).

[Randall Maysin]

Screenwriter Robert Getchell, back in October

Rest in peace. It's amazing how the most talented people in Hollywood--(not to mention the ones who have the most artistic integrity!!!), the screenwriters, can often go their whole lives writing brilliant things, and die totally unknown to the general public and never having, or almost never having, their visions brought faithfully or unadulteratedly to the screen. And they're top industry insiders and often very rich.

A perhaps tasteless question for the forum: I've always wondered if it would be possible for an unconnected layperson like me to access some of the original screenplays I've heard about over the years being so much better than the film that ultimately gets made. Especially Earl Mac Rauch's for Scorsese's awful New York, New York, or Carole Eastman's for The Fortune, or even some of the ones that Altman allegedly ruined, especially for The Company and Popeye. Any info would be really appreciated, thanks!

[domino harvey]

Liz Smith

[MichaelB]

Is this a different Liz Smith from the actress? Because that one died last year.

[Kauno]

Is this a different Liz Smith from the actress? Because that one died last year.

Yep, there were two of them:
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[bearcuborg]

He clearly meant the gossip columnist.

I don’t think Liz was ever on Howard Stern-but she always provided good material for the show.

[ccfixx]

From last Friday... Former Faith No More Singer Chuck Mosley Dead At 57.

[domino harvey]

Yes, the gossip columnist-- in the halcyon days before the Internet, I grew up with her telling me all about various celebs' embarrassments and wrongdoings on E!'s the Gossip Show

[Black Hat]

She was also a regular on the classic, somehow hosted by AJ Benza and a fog of smoke, Hollywood Mysteries and Scandals.

[Professor Wagstaff]

Screenwriter Robert Getchell, back in October

Rest in peace. It's amazing how the most talented people in Hollywood, the screenwriters, can often go their whole lives writing brilliant things, and die totally unknown to the general public and never having, or almost never having, their visions brought faithfully or unadulteratedly to the screen. And they're top industry insiders and often very rich.

A perhaps tasteless question for the forum: I've always wondered if it would be possible for an unconnected layperson like me to access some of the original screenplays I've heard about over the years being so much better than the film that ultimately gets made. Especially Earl Mac Rauch's for Scorsese's awful New York, New York, or Carole Eastman's for The Fortune, or even some of the ones that Altman allegedly ruined, especially for The Company and Popeye. Any info would be really appreciated, thanks!

I've always wondered this as well. Along with early drafts, there are many unproduced scripts I'd love to read. Paddy Chayefsky's The Habakkuk Conspiracy is my holy grail in this regard. Perhaps it is archived in his collection at The New York Public Library.

[Randall Maysin]

I've wondered about archives in general. What do you have to do to get inside them? If I can't access them, why the hell not? And why is the material only available in archives. You'd think, particularly for most screenwriters, that it would be better for their legacy to have the material easily available in some form, whether free or not I don't care, as long as the cost isn't prohibitive which it probably would be though. Do archivists just figure that hardly anybody is interested?

[MichaelB]

Archivists' priority is preservation, not access. And there are significant copyright hurdles regarding duplication and circulation - for starters, unless the screenwriter completely failed to sell the script to anyone, they're unlikely to have any personal say in what happens to it.

Which is why archives generally prefer people to have appropriate research credentials.

[Colpeper]

Keith Barron
Spot on tribute there by Matthew Sweet.

[rohmerin]

Luis Bacalov, Oscar winner composer.

[Big Ben]

Luis Bacalov, Oscar winner composer.

Oh that's a shame. His work on the original Django is great.

[rohmerin]

Bacalov was 84. Men live less than women.
I didn't know he was Italian by option. (Still Argentinian too? Probably)

[Swift]

Karin Dor

[Aunt Peg]

The great Ann Wedgeworth has passed away:

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[bearcuborg]

Malcom Young.

[mfunk9786]

Folk singer and bon vivant Charles Manson