Passages

[Morbii]

No!!!

She was always my favorite of the Yé-yé girls.

[flyonthewall2983]

Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues

[Roger Ryan]

Ray Thomas of The Moody Blues

Was kind of hoping he'd be able to intend the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony this year.

[fiddlesticks]

Jesse Crumb, underground comic artist and son of Robert Crumb, killed in a traffic accident on New Year's Eve. Jesse appeared in Terry Zwigoff's Crumb (1995) and contributed artwork to the booklet in the Criterion release.

[mfunk9786]

Adult film star Olivia Nova, another apparent suicide

[flyonthewall2983]

Dave Toschi

[hearthesilence]

Denise LaSalle

[lacritfan]

Keith Jackson

[FrauBlucher]

A tough 3 week stretch for sports broadcasting. First Enberg and now Jackson.

[djproject]

Edgar Ray Killen, involved in the 1964 Freedom Summer Murders as a Klansman and would inspire the 1988 film Mississippi Burning (the reason I wanted to note that passage here).

[hearthesilence]

Former U.S. Senator John Tunney, the inspiration for Robert Redford's character in The Candidate

Brendan Byrne, known as being "too ethical for mobsters" regarding his ethical code to deny bribes from mobsters in New Jersey during his tenure as Governor.

[Feego]

Jean Porter

[Calvin]

Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries at the tragically young age of 46.

[hearthesilence]

Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of The Cranberries at the tragically young age of 46.

Memorably heard in Chungking Express.

[bearcuborg]

I’ve been on a 90’s era Irish rock kick lately-Ash, Cranberries and Hothouse Flowers have been on constant play...what a loss.

[colinr0380]

While the Cantonese version of the track over the end credits of Chungking Express is the iconic use of the song in cinema, it did also turn up a couple of years after that over the opening scenes of the Nora Ephron film re-teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, You've Got Mail (in its English language version naturally!)

[hearthesilence]

While the Cantonese version of the track over the end credits of Chungking Express is the iconic use of the song in cinema, it did also turn up a couple of years after that over the opening scenes of the Nora Ephron film re-teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, You've Got Mail (in its English language version naturally!)

Ah, of course! It's been ages since I've seen the film, I forgot the recording used was actually sung by Wong in Cantonese.

[PfR73]

"Zombie" (my personal-favorite Cranberries song) was performed by Ruby Rose's character's band in the recently-released Pitch Perfect 3. I really liked Dolores O'Riordan's voice, it's a shocking loss.

EDIT: And I just remembered that "Dreams" is actually used as a plot-point in Sound Of My Voice, and that "Linger" is a plot-point in Click.

[Feego]

Hers was truly one of the defining musical voices of the 90s. I am shocked and very saddened by this news.

[thirtyframesasecond]

While the Cantonese version of the track over the end credits of Chungking Express is the iconic use of the song in cinema, it did also turn up a couple of years after that over the opening scenes of the Nora Ephron film re-teaming Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, You've Got Mail (in its English language version naturally!)

Dreams also plays over the second to last scene of Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise unconvincingly has a post-Channel Tunnel pint with Ving Rhames (same London pub as used in Get Him To The Greek btw!)

Linger also had an Alphaville-riffing video.

[colinr0380]

Linger also had an Alphaville-riffing video.

I had never seen that before!

[Buttery Jeb]

Hugh Wilson

[lacritfan]

Joe Frank

[thirtyframesasecond]

Hugh Wilson

I reckon the first Police Academy movie would still raise a giggle. Maybe. I remember seeing it when I was very young and I just remember the one bit where some statuesque blonde cop seduces another guy in the academy. It was one of the first times I remember seeing anything sexual when watching a film

[colinr0380]

I kind of liked Guarding Tess too, which struck me as an amusing combination of The Bodyguard and Driving Miss Daisy! On the other hand The First Wives Club has just blurred in my mind into a contextless montage of the least interesting representations of 'empowerment' - women dancing in joy and high fiving each other in fashion departments to celebrate having gotten rid of the man in their lives (but not their money) set to the overly literal soundtrack of Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves/You Don't Own Me/etc! I seem to remember there being a heck of a lot of squealing and screaming going on! (But that did seem to set the template for a certain kind of film for a while afterwards: The Banger Sisters, The Women and so on. As well as pre-dating Sex and the City by a few years)