Passages

[knives]

This is probably the only time ever I'll ever consider watching Bogdanovich's To Sir, with Love II

Surprisingly better than you’d expect but still closer to the bottom of both men’s work.

[Fred Holywell]

Speaking of which, has anyone written about the relationship between Poitier and Richard Widmark at all?

Don't know of anything written about their relationship, but Widmark briefly spoke about it at the AFI tribute to Poitier back in 1992. You can find some other clips from that show on the AFI's YouTube channel.

[fdm]

Michael Lang

[flyonthewall2983]

Sinead O’Connor’s son Shane, just 17 years old

[Pavel]

Bob Saget

[mfunk9786]

Shocker. He was just on Artie Lange's podcast a couple weeks ago.

[therewillbeblus]

Bob Saget

Wow, so tragic. I wonder what happened. His guest appearances were often the best parts of otherwise terrible shows or movies (i.e. Entourage; Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd), and of course he directed the underappreciated Dirty Work

[fiddlesticks]

Dwayne Hickman

[knives]

Bob Saget

Wow, so tragic. I wonder what happened. His guest appearances were often the best parts of otherwise terrible shows or movies (i.e. Entourage; Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd), and of course he directed the underappreciated Dirty Work

Not to mention his rapport with Norm McDonald which was always hilarious. Those two in a room together was always great even delivering arguably McDonald’s funniest moment.

[domino harvey]

Dwayne Hickman

He’s such a good lynchpin for the zaniness of Dobie Gillis, so much so that unlike Bob Denver or Tuesday Weld, he was never able to do much of anything else in the public eye apart from being that character

[flyonthewall2983]

Bob Saget

He seemed so incredibly sad in the Garry Shandling doc, on account of the split between him and his manager that made me realize just how sensitive people in Hollywood could be, in not so unjustified a way really.

[hearthesilence]

Someone directed me towards his scene in the The Aristocrats documentary and holy hell does he tell the dirtiest version of that joke...

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Bob Saget

I’ll never forget the shock of ten year-old me seeing Dirty Work and discovering it was directed by the host of American’s Funniest Home Videos. I was convinced it had to be another Bob Saget. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but as I got older, I began to discover what a sort of guy Saget was. I’m glad his scene in The Aristocrats was brought up. It’s a movie of spotty quality, but him and Gilbert Gottfried are the best parts. 2022 starting out rough with the deaths.

[beamish14]

Bob Saget

I’ll never forget the shock of ten year-old me seeing Dirty Work and discovering it was directed by the host of American’s Funniest Home Videos. I was convinced it had to be another Bob Saget. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but as I got older, I began to discover what a sort of guy Saget was. I’m glad his scene in The Aristocrats was brought up. It’s a movie of spotty quality, but him and Gilbert Gottfried are the best parts. 2022 starting out rough with the deaths.

Saget was probably the last person to have two shows that were simultaneously in the Nielsen top 10. Amazing to think that over 20 million viewers a week were tuning in to those programs during 1991-93.

[hearthesilence]

Saget was probably the last person to have two shows that were simultaneously in the Nielsen top 10. Amazing to think that over 20 million viewers a week were tuning in to those programs during 1991-93.

...but kind of demoralizing considering how terrible those shows were...

[flyonthewall2983]

Burke Shelley, bassist/vocalist for 70’s Welsh hard rock band Budgie

[therewillbeblus]

Robert Durst

[hearthesilence]

Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, lead singer on some of the greatest records ever made including Brian Wilson's favorite, immortalized here.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

There can easily be an argument made on how “Be My Baby” is the most perfect pop song ever made. Speaking of Brian Wilson, there’s a story in one of his biographies (Maybe Catch a Wave) from his daughter that he would buy stacks of this song on 45 singles. She’d leave in the morning to go to school while he would eat an entire loaf of bread and smoking cigarettes in a chair listening to the song on loop, then would return home to find Wilson still eating bread with a pile of smoked cigarettes next to him while he was still playing the song.

[hearthesilence]

Rosa Hawkins, one of the original member of the Dixie Cups. (The others were her sister Barbara Ann and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson.) Best-known for "Chapel of Love," "People Say" and "Iko Iko."

[Jack Kubrick]

Terry Teachout

[Pavel]

Jean-Jacques Beineix

[colinr0380]

Jean-Jacques Beineix

I'm very sad to hear that. The first of the big Cinéma du look directors to pass on. His main trilogy of Diva, The Moon In The Gutter and Betty Blue will tower over everything else (here's Antoine de Caunes introducing Betty Blue for a Channel 4 French film season back during the Summer of 1998 (very NSFW), and it is a very height of Summer-appropriate film), but I also really like Roselyne and the Lions, which seems to be the point at which critical consensus turned mostly negative (though now I think it is really interesting to compare and contrast it with Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone). I would really like to see the film reuniting him with Jean-Hughes Anglade Mortal Transfer (NSFW) some time, which appears to be a Hitchcockian thriller by way of Weekend at Bernies(?) and seems to show that even when dead it is still hard work dealing with a Betty Blue-type of lady!

For a director hyper focused on surface imagery as the most direct expression of mental state it is especially interesting to see he co-directed a 1994 documentary on Otaku culture! (Luckily they just happened to find an interview subject who compares himself to the main character from Diva! And get an early interview with Sion Sono!)

[beamish14]

Jean-Jacques Beineix

I'm very sad to hear that. The first of the big Cinéma du look directors to pass on. His main trilogy of Diva, The Moon In The Gutter and Betty Blue will tower over everything else (here's Antoine de Caunes introducing Betty Blue for a Channel 4 French film season back during the Summer of 1998 (very NSFW), and it is a very height of Summer-appropriate film), but I also really like Roselyne and the Lions, which seems to be the point at which critical consensus turned mostly negative (though now I think it is really interesting to compare and contrast it with Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone). I would really like to see the film reuniting him with Jean-Hughes Anglade Mortal Transfer (NSFW) some time, which appears to be a Hitchcockian thriller by way of Weekend at Bernies(?) and seems to show that even when dead it is still hard work dealing with a Betty Blue-type of lady!

For a director hyper focused on surface imagery as the most direct expression of mental state it is especially interesting to see he co-directed a 1994 documentary on Otaku culture! (Luckily they just happened to find an interview subject who compares himself to the main character from Diva! And get an early interview with Sion Sono!)

Oh my god. That is terrible news. I had the good fortune of meeting him at the American Cinematheque. He gamely signed my copy of Art by Film Directors, which has a chapter on his very large and beautifully expressive paintings in both his "normal" signature and the one that he reserves for his paintings. Roselynne is one of the most visually audacious films I've ever encountered. There is a scene where the camera seems to fly from one end of a circus tent to the other that is easily among the best shots I've ever encountered.

So perennially underrated and mistreated by the film industry. He spent years devloping an Amelia Earhart project in Hollywood that he was dumped from and Mira Nair subsequently took over (which then tanked big time). Beineix had the chance to direct The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but he felt that his wonderful documentary on Jean-Dominique Bauby told the story as well as he could.

He published a HUGE autobiography a few years ago in France-and it was only volume 1!

[hearthesilence]

Fred Parris of the Five Satins, most famously known for singing the lead vocal in the doo wop classic "In the Still of the Night." Next time I'm in New Haven, I'll have to look for that plaque.