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#9276 Post by swo17 » Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:04 pm

Aw man, he squeezed out some great solo albums near the end there

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#9277 Post by L.A. » Sun Jun 27, 2021 6:29 pm


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#9278 Post by dadaistnun » Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:32 am

Peter Zinovieff, founder of EMS (that's the VCS3 he developed Eno is playing on much of Taking Tiger Mountain and on Nico's The End).

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#9279 Post by Blutarsky » Mon Jun 28, 2021 10:48 am

dadaistnun wrote:
Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:32 am
Peter Zinovieff, founder of EMS (that's the VCS3 he developed Eno is playing on much of Taking Tiger Mountain and on Nico's The End).
My dad would talk about his teenage years and how he watched Top of the Pops religiously. He always fixated on Eno’s use of gloves when playing the VCS3 during Roxy Music’s performance of “Virginia Plain”. Eno made the VCS3 look so freaking cool.


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#9281 Post by MichaelB » Tue Jun 29, 2021 3:01 pm

Menelik Shabazz, whose Burning an Illusion (1981) was only the second feature film to be made by a black man in Britain (after Horace Ové’s Pressure, several years earlier).

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#9282 Post by Feego » Wed Jun 30, 2021 12:14 pm

Stuart Damon, best known for the American soap opera General Hospital and as the prince in the 1965 TV production of Rodgers & Hammesterin's Cinderella. He also had a role in Star 80.

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#9283 Post by swo17 » Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:37 pm


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#9284 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:49 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:37 pm
The star of some Errol Morris movie
LOL, I was going to post a reference to that as well.

Pretty good bet he'll get the same treatment from the Onion as several others before him.

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#9285 Post by knives » Wed Jun 30, 2021 4:10 pm

swo17 wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:37 pm
The star of some Errol Morris movie
One of Morris’ best movies.

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#9286 Post by Fiery Angel » Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:51 am

hearthesilence wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:49 pm
swo17 wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:37 pm
The star of some Errol Morris movie
LOL, I was going to post a reference to that as well.

Pretty good bet he'll get the same treatment from the Onion as several others before him.
asked and answered

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#9287 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Jul 01, 2021 10:57 am

Fiery Angel wrote:
Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:51 am
hearthesilence wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:49 pm
swo17 wrote:
Wed Jun 30, 2021 3:37 pm
The star of some Errol Morris movie
LOL, I was going to post a reference to that as well.

Pretty good bet he'll get the same treatment from the Onion as several others before him.
asked and answered
Aw, they did more than one!

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#9288 Post by GaryC » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:41 am

Australian actor Graham Rouse, aged 87.

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#9289 Post by GaryC » Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:43 am

Australian actress Kate Ferguson, from cancer at age 66.

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#9290 Post by colinr0380 » Sun Jul 04, 2021 6:16 pm

GaryC wrote:
Sun Jul 04, 2021 2:43 am
Australian actress Kate Ferguson, from cancer at age 66.
She was in the one Norman J. Warren film left out of that recent Indicator "Bloody Terror" box set, 1979's sci-fi sex comedy Spaced Out (very NSFW!).

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#9291 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:26 pm

Reading some things on Facebook that original Mahavishnu Orchestra bassist Rick Laird passed away.
dadaistnun wrote:
Mon Jun 28, 2021 9:32 am
Peter Zinovieff, founder of EMS (that's the VCS3 he developed Eno is playing on much of Taking Tiger Mountain and on Nico's The End).
Pink Floyd (you can see Roger Waters fiddle with one in Live At Pompeii) and The Who used them as well on some significant records that introduced electronics to rock music right around the time Eno did in Roxy Music.

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#9292 Post by Pavel » Mon Jul 05, 2021 6:49 am


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#9294 Post by Pavel » Mon Jul 05, 2021 3:54 pm

Jack Kubrick wrote:
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Richard Donner
Damn, I love the Lethal Weapon franchise (especially the first film), one of the finest examples of an 80s action-comedy. Wasn't he supposed to direct a fifth one? I imagine work hadn't begun on it yet

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#9295 Post by colinr0380 » Mon Jul 05, 2021 4:18 pm

They got less 'real' and more like cozily comfortable extended family gatherings as they went on but at least the first two Lethal Weapon films were great entries into the mismatched buddy-cop genre. Amusingly, Hideo Kojima basically ripped off the Riggs and Murtagh characters to act as the main characters in his Policenauts game!

I think I would have to highlight both 1985's Ladyhawke which is my favourite of the early 80s fantasy film cycle (with a great theme tune!), and I fondly remember being traumatised by being taken to the cinema to see Scrooged at too young an age to not be affected by the skeletally decomposing, mouse harbouring, arm snapping version of Jacob Marley (along with the much more scarring image of being cremated alive inside your own coffin!). Plus of course the delightfully slapstick violence (but with an edge of real anger) pummellings delivered by the fairy Ghost of Christmas Present. That was my mother's favourite thing in film, alongside the goofily crazy gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch! I particularly love the Lee Majors-starring ultraviolent action film take on the Santa Claus movie!

And the original version of The Omen had just the right balance of horrific without being too goofy (spoiler) death scenes!

EDIT: Actually come to think of it he did a lot of films that delightfully traumatised me with skeletons and death traps, peril and danger as a kid, as I just remembered he directed The Goonies as well!
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#9296 Post by knives » Mon Jul 05, 2021 8:07 pm

And of course Superman needs no other words.


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#9298 Post by swo17 » Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:29 pm

That's terribly tragic, though I don't know that there's such a thing as a "freak fireworks accident." I've had several incidents of these things going off wrong, starting lawn fires, and even hitting family members (though thankfully not causing any serious injuries)

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#9299 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Jul 05, 2021 11:03 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Mon Jul 05, 2021 4:18 pm
Actually come to think of it he did a lot of films that delightfully traumatised me with skeletons and death traps, peril and danger as a kid, as I just remembered he directed The Goonies as well!
The Goonies is a masterpiece that only gets better with age. I've revisited it several times in the last year, including last week, and might have to throw it on again tonight. It's certainly Spielbergian at heart, but coated in a hostility with raw stakes sans the cushion Spielberg usually provides, making it creatively exhilarating and jarringly haunting at once- imbuing a warmth that cannot be tonally sustained because that's not how a developing sentient emotional being functions. It's still the best depiction of a child's fantasy to will themselves through adventure ever made.

The Twilight Zone ep Nightmare at 20,000 Feet is one of the best samples of horror ever, I just wish I placed it on my Horror List ballot!

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