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#8801 Post by MichaelB » Wed Dec 23, 2020 8:17 am

Unclassifiably original Czech film-essayist Karel Vachek, one of the most enthralling (and bracingly cynical) chroniclers of the vagaries of his native country's post-Communist era.

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#8802 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:11 pm

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Claude Brasseur
Interesting to note from imdb that he plays a Police Inspector in Eyes Without A Face, in which his father Pierre Brasseur plays the mad doctor!

I'm otherwise unfortunately not too familiar with Claude Brasseur's work outside of Band of Outsiders other than his roles in the late 1980s to early 90s in Godard's Détective, Dirty Like An Angel by Catherine Breillat, and the title role in Dandin based on the Molière play.
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#8803 Post by Yakushima » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:06 pm

A Russian actor Boris Plotnikov who starred in Larisa Shepitko’s "Ascent" died from covid19.

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#8804 Post by mfunk9786 » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:31 pm

Heartbreaking year for losing rock & roll legends: Leslie West, of COVID-19

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#8805 Post by hearthesilence » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:31 pm


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#8806 Post by GaryC » Thu Dec 24, 2020 7:06 am

James (E.) Gunn, SF writer, editor, critic and scholar, at the age of 97. The 1969 TV movie and 1970/1 TV series The Immortal was based on his novel. Not to be mistaken for other James Gunns.

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#8807 Post by Aunt Peg » Sat Dec 26, 2020 9:32 am

Marcus D'Amico who played Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver in the first series of the show Tales of the City (1993) has passed away. Nothing has yet to be reported by the media but there have been facebook and twitter postings by friends and his sister.He was 55.

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#8808 Post by CSM126 » Sat Dec 26, 2020 12:36 pm

Boxer, Olympic medalist amateur wrestler and legendary professional wrestler Danny Hodge. No official reporting, but the wrestling community is writing it up on social media.

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#8809 Post by Orlac » Sat Dec 26, 2020 1:54 pm

British pulp horror novelist (and Disney noveliser) Guy N Smith - https://downthetubes.net/?p=123907

Smith's Alligators (a book in which the most grusome death is caused by slugs!) was probably the first "modern" horror novel I ever read, when I was 12, and it really freaked me out!

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#8810 Post by CSM126 » Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:04 pm

Jesus, a terrible day in wrestling:

Jon Huber, aka Mr. Brodie Lee. He’s been a huge star in upstart All Elite Wrestling and was performing up to just a couple months ago. Apparently he fell ill with a respiratory issue (non-COVID) and declined rapidly.

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#8811 Post by Gregor Samsa » Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:44 pm

CSM126 wrote:
Sat Dec 26, 2020 10:04 pm
Jesus, a terrible day in wrestling:

Jon Huber, aka Mr. Brodie Lee. He’s been a huge star in upstart All Elite Wrestling and was performing up to just a couple months ago. Apparently he fell ill with a respiratory issue (non-COVID) and declined rapidly.
Deeply sad. So young and he was beloved across the industry.

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#8812 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:52 pm

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David Giler
I liked his contributions to the docs Fox created for the Alien boxsets, mostly because of his glib bitchiness towards the business side and respect for the creative side. And his voice reminded me of the guy who did drag races on ESPN in the 90's for some reason.

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Big Ben
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#8813 Post by Big Ben » Mon Dec 28, 2020 12:00 am

flyonthewall2983 wrote:
Sun Dec 27, 2020 11:52 pm
Big Ben wrote:
Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:53 pm
David Giler
I liked his contributions to the docs Fox created for the Alien boxsets, mostly because of his glib bitchiness towards the business side and respect for the creative side. And his voice reminded me of the guy who did drag races on ESPN in the 90's for some reason.
This is where I'm most familiar with him as well. He was always pretty open about things, which was readily appreciated.

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#8814 Post by flyonthewall2983 » Mon Dec 28, 2020 5:54 am

Got to admit I see Thailand as his residence and it raised some red flags, but it appears he was pretty serious about being a Buddhist, so good on him for that.

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#8815 Post by MichaelB » Mon Dec 28, 2020 3:53 pm

Designer Martin Lambie-Nairn, the Saul Bass of British (and quite a few international) television idents, and much else besides.

If he was never a household name (probably his most memorable onscreen credit was "Based on an original lunch with Martin Lambie-Nairn" at the end of every episode of Spitting Image, as the concept was his), it's hard to last more than five minutes in the UK over the last four decades without encountering his work at some point - indeed, you're quite likely to spot, say, O2 and HSBC ads (all sporting Lambie-Nairn logo designs) before you've even left the airport. The link is to his 1996 showreel, which alone should offer quite a few points of instant recognition, although I particularly enjoyed the bits that weren't familiar to me, such as his rebranding of New Zealand's Orange TV channel.

And he achieved instant immortality for the original Channel 4 ident back in 1982, with its 3-D rotating coloured blocks, although he pointed out that people who oohed and aahed over the animation (before copying it for their own TV channels) were missing the point: it worked so well (indeed, the basic 4 logo remains the same to this day, despite numerous tweaks to the animated version) was that it was based on such a strong concept - of "building blocks" of multiple companies coming together to create what was then a unique experiment in British television. For him, the visuals - spectacular though they often were - were much less important than the overarching conceptual vision, and it's the latter that makes his work so instantly memorable.

(On a personal note, he was just about the nicest and most disarmingly modest interviewee I've ever had the genuine pleasure of sitting down with, a decade or so ago - but sometimes one's achievements are so self-evident that they don't need to be trumpeted any more.)

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#8818 Post by Dylan » Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:00 pm

Dawn Wells, from complications due to covid-19.

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#8819 Post by Dylan » Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:12 pm

Composer Claude Bolling (no English obituary yet), who is probably best known for having scored many French crime films (including Borsalino and Flic Story).

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#8820 Post by CSM126 » Wed Dec 30, 2020 5:29 pm


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#8821 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Dec 31, 2020 5:57 pm

MF Doom, apparently on Oct. 31. He was only 49.

Stunned. Madvillainy will always be a favorite.

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#8822 Post by swo17 » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:08 pm

Woah. His Viktor Vaughn album is unjustly slept on

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#8823 Post by LQ » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:15 pm

That awful news also brought me to a screeching halt just now. MF Doom and his various aliases essentially scored my late teens, early 20s life soundtrack. One final parting shot from 2020.

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#8824 Post by Big Ben » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:51 pm

It also says he passed away on the 31st of October. Unsure what to make of that missing two months. Not that Doom was exactly public about everything. Terrible loss.

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#8825 Post by bearcuborg » Thu Dec 31, 2020 7:47 pm

Vaudeville Villain is my favorite. Metal Face was insanely prolific in the early 2000’s, which is the last time I kept up with new hip hop. His early albums are a go to for long drives, house cleaning. I must have seen him live 3-4 times. He always had that cool description of being your favorite rappers rapper.

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