Passages

[Dr Amicus]

A key figure in post war British cinema and TV. Just two examples, Pool of London is a great film and one of the first interracial romances in British cinema. Then his 1969 appearance in Doctor Who is apparently the first onscreen Black astronaut anywhere.

[Lemmy Caution]

Nick Cordero, 41, didn't make it.
Broadway veteran dies from virus complications. Was in the hospital 90 days with a whole cascade of complications. I saw an interview with his wife the other day where she said that he likely needs a double lung transplant. Which sounded really bad.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Country music single Charlie Daniels. I'll always remember him as the man who posted "Benghazi ain't going away" every day on Twitter. Last year on a week vacation in New England, I heard a motorcycle blasting his song "Simple Man", which might be the most fascist song I've ever heard.

[Cash Flagg]

Country music single Charlie Daniels. I'll always remember him as the man who posted "Benghazi ain't going away" every day on Twitter. Last year on a week vacation in New England, I heard a motorcycle blasting his song "Simple Man", which might be the most fascist song I've ever heard.

On the more positive side of his legacy, he contributed nice session work (both bass and guitar) on Dylan's Nashville Skyline, New Morning and Self Portrait.

[hearthesilence]

On the more positive side of his legacy, he contributed nice session work (both bass and guitar) on Dylan's Nashville Skyline, New Morning and Self Portrait.

Well, maybe not Self Portrait - he's MIA on the only tracks worth hearing.

[domino harvey]

Morricone discussion moved here

[MichaelB]

Barbara Pec-Ślesicka - about as far from a household name as you can get, but as the production head of Poland's X Film Unit from its founding in 1972 to its enforced dissolution a decade later she acted as midwife to some of the most extraordinary (and bravest) films ever to come out of Poland: Andrzej Wajda's The Wedding, The Promised Land, Man of Marble, Rough Treatment and Man of Iron, Agnieszka Holland's Provincial Actors, Fever and A Woman Alone, Andrzej Żuławski's The Devil, Marcel Łoziński's How to Live, Janusz Zaorski's Mother of Kings and Ryszard Bugajski's Interrogation, the film that ultimately cost her her job when the X Film Unit was shut down.

She had a particularly close professional relationship with Wajda, working directly as production manager on the majority of his output from his episode of the 1962 anthology Love at 20 to 1996's Miss Nobody, with major works such as Everything For Sale, Danton, Korczak and the aforementioned 1970s films along the way.

[mfunk9786]

Mary Kay Letourneau

[dwk]

Ted Newsom

[GaryC]

Ken Shadie, Australian screenwriter, mostly for TV but Oscar-nominated for his one big-screen credit as co-writer of Crocodile Dundee, died on 29 June aged 84.

I can't yet see an obituary online that isn't paywalled, but if I find one, I'll link to it here.

[Fred Holywell]

Elvis Presley's grandson, Benjamin Keough.

[FrauBlucher]

Holy smokes he's Elvis' double

[okcmaxk]

Kelly Preston

[flyonthewall2983]

Judy Dyble

[bearcuborg]

Kelly Preston

Fucking cancer...goddamn. She was beautiful and a really gifted comedic actress. I suppose it helps to have been a kid in the 80’s but I think Secret Admirer is a lot of fun. However if memory serves, Mischief from 1986? should hold up regardless of age.

[domino harvey]

She is the “wrong” girl in Secret Admirer because on the big date she only wants to talk about the fashion choices in Doctor Zhivago, which is the biggest miscalculation in rom com history because Kelly Preston circa-mid 80s talking about movie fashion is the perfect date

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Judy Dyble

For how much King Crimson I've listened to in my life, I had no clue she was in a late iteration of Giles, Giles and Fripp and sang a version of "I Talk With the Wind". The Sandy Denny iteration of Fairport Convention is the most famous one, but I love the lowkey nature of Judy Dyble's vocals on their first album.

[colinr0380]

Kelly Preston

Fucking cancer...goddamn. She was beautiful and a really gifted comedic actress. I suppose it helps to have been a kid in the 80’s but I think Secret Admirer is a lot of fun. However if memory serves, Mischief from 1986? should hold up regardless of age.

And I absolutely loved the fun wish fulfillment fantasy of SpaceCamp as a kid, though I have been nervous to return to it as an adult and have my youthful memories overwritten with my adult cynicism! I guess its fun-scary approach to a space shuttle accident might have ended up a bit awkward in light of the Challenger disaster, but I don't remember that being seen as a particularly big deal back in the day and it used to get shown on television all the time. Its one of that group of films that felt like it defined the 80s in youthful family friendly sci-fi along with Flight of the Navigator, Explorers, *Batteries Not Included, DARYL, Short Circuit, WarGames, etc.

I see that she is in Alexander Payne's film Citizen Ruth. And I had not realised until now that she played the girlfriend in the segment of Amazon Women on the Moon about the guy who goes through an escalating series of embarrassments on his date!

[domino harvey]

I see that she is in Alexander Payne's film Citizen Ruth.

She’s Swoosie Kurtz’s girlfriend in the part of the film that’s supposed to be digging on liberals even though the film really has no “both sides” bonafides

[Monterey Jack]

Damn shame about Preston, a beautiful woman with real acting chops beneath the surface. Watched Cristine today for her brief scene flirting with John Stockwell ("Well, TTFN...!") and will probably watch Spaceamp tomorrow for her at maximum 80's frizz.

[manicsounds]

Samuel Scott, owner of DVDCompare, 36.

[Never Cursed]

Naya Rivera of Glee fame. She had been missing in the vicinity of a lake for a few days, but her body has now been recovered.

[swo17]

Samuel Scott, owner of DVDCompare, 36.

This was also the guy that agreed to take over filmaf.com. This is pure speculation but I wouldn't be surprised if he had health issues that were preventing some of that site's bugs from getting fixed for so long. I've also heard rumblings that his death puts the future of filmaf.com up in the air again

[manicsounds]

Samuel Scott, owner of DVDCompare, 36.

This was also the guy that agreed to take over filmaf.com. This is pure speculation but I wouldn't be surprised if he had health issues that were preventing some of that site's bugs from getting fixed for so long. I've also heard rumblings that his death puts the future of filmaf.com up in the air again

Sam gave FilmAF an extension but FilmAF was completely run on their own with a different staff. They might not survive much longer unfortunately, unless they can find some revenue or a buyer. DVDCompare on the other hand will continue with the current staff.

[mfunk9786]

Grant Imahara, part of the B-team on Mythbusters for years, at 49 from a sudden brain aneurysm