Passages

[jdcopp]

Rev. Robert Palladino, Scribe Who Shaped Apple’s Fonts, Dies at 83

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/06/arts/ ... share&_r=0

[flyonthewall2983]

George Martin

[movielocke]

That just gave me the worst game of thrones scare.

[MichaelB]

Producer Michael White, whose credits included Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Jerzy Skolimowski's Moonlighting, for which he managed to raise funds in record time (the film was scripted in January 1982 and premiered in Cannes four months later).

[hearthesilence]

George Martin

What a long and incredible life. Impossible to think of the Beatles' records without him, which is saying a lot - arguably the most influential recorded legacy of 20th century popular music.

[flyonthewall2983]

He produced the Mahavishnu Orchestra album Apocalypse, a truly epic jazz/rock/classical endeavor. It was not well-received at the time but it really stands out now as a great record. Also worked with Jeff Beck on Blow by Blow, another peak of the jazz-rock halcyon days of the 70's.

[antnield]

Richard Davalos.

[Ribs]

Ken Adam

[pzadvance]

Kathryn Reed Altman, Robert's widow

[colinr0380]

Ken Adam

In addition to the production design for the early Bond films and Kubrick's Dr Strangelove and Barry Lyndon he also worked on the large scale sets of Tinto Brass's notorious Salon Kitty. He is interviewed in a feature on the Blue Underground disc of the film and has a very amusing anecdote about watching that film with some relatives who were not too shocked and appalled by the film but instead apparently enjoyed it!

In some ways there could be a certain monolithic, inhuman, eavesdopping connection between the open plan Bond villain lair of something like the volcano lair of You Only Live Twice, the cavernous War Room in Dr Strangelove and the brothel in Salon Kitty!

[calculus entrophy]

Showing my naïveté' here, but when I learned so much about Bond "look" came from Ken Adam, I feel like he was truly what made Bond franchise so sophisticated and iconic. I had not realized there was a single vision behind all that.

"It is said that when Ronald Reagan first became president, he visited Washington and asked one of his aides to see the War Room under the Pentagon, and the aide said: 'Mr President, there isn't one.'"

[beamish13]

Kathryn Reed Altman, Robert's widow

Damn. She was a very sweet woman who really championed the preservation of her husband's legacy.

[beamish13]

Showing my naïveté' here, but when I learned so much about Bond "look" came from Ken Adam, I feel like he was truly what made Bond franchise so sophisticated and iconic. I had not realized there was a single vision behind all that.

"It is said that when Ronald Reagan first became president, he visited Washington and asked one of his aides to see the War Room under the Pentagon, and the aide said: 'Mr President, there isn't one.'"

Classic Reagan.

I loved Adams' work on Addams Family Values, which was more successful than its predecessor in transposing Charles Addams' visuals to live action.

[flyonthewall2983]

Keith Emerson

[flyonthewall2983]

It appears to have been a suicide

On a lighter note, here's a clip Keith and Clint Eastwood briefly discussing Dave Brubeck.

[Polybius]

That one really stings.

[flyonthewall2983]

I can't imagine what it would be like to lose the ability to do the thing that connected you with so many people around the world. Emerson, Lake and Palmer were not everyone's cup of tea, even among some progressive rock fans they were a bit too much. Even for me they were sometimes, but I couldn't help but admire the ingenuity and bravado behind what they were doing.

[GaryC]

Louise Rennison, novelist, two of whose novels were filmed in 2008 as Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging.

[antnield]

British composer Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, whose film work included Ken Russell's The Devils.

[GaryC]

Novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, whose Booker-winning Hotel du Lac became a BBC TV movie in 1986.

[doh286]

Frank Sinatra Jr.

[doh286]

Larry Drake

[Robin Davies]

Sylvia Anderson

[doh286]

Jan Němec

[pet42]

Joe Santos