Passages

[The Curious Sofa]

Kavinsky

Known for the song "Nightcall" used in the opening credits of Drive.

What a shame, I was a fan. All of his music sounds like it came from an synth-pop soundtrack to a really great 80s B-movie. His best track may have been Odd Look with The Weeknd and apparently they were working on another collaboration.

[Gregory]

Iga Cembrzyńska, Polish actor (The Saragossa Manuscript), singer, composer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. She ran her own film company, Iga Film.

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Simone Forti

Saw her dance no fewer than four times. Even when the Parkinson’s was setting in, it was incredible

[MichaelB]

Iga Cembrzyńska, Polish actor (The Saragossa Manuscript), singer, composer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. She ran her own film company, Iga Film.

Well, that's annoying. Mostly for the death, of course, but also because I suspect it's just too late to change a caption in my upcoming Saragossa Manuscript featurette, which I think has already gone through the disc authoring stage.

UPDATE: I checked with Radiance anyway, and the disc has indeed gone to replication. So apologies in advance for the caption saying "1939-", but them's the breaks.

[Lemmy Caution]

John Ali, 98. Once the #2 man in the Nation of Islam.
Had been very close to Malcolm X, who introduced him to the organization. They came to be bitter enemies, and Ali probably ordered the Malcolm X assassination. While Ali exited NoI in 1970 and lived another 55 years. Reportedly got wealthy from involvement with Muhammad Ali’s career.

[FrauBlucher]

Vincent Pastore

[domino harvey]

All those credits and no mention of Oy Vey! My Son is Gay!!

[Aunt Peg]

Justin Hardy, 61, film director and son of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwj0wnyydo

[colinr0380]

Justin Hardy, 61, film director and son of Robin Hardy (The Wicker Man): https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgwj0wnyydo

Just after the release of his latest film, the documentary Children of the Wicker Man, by Severin in the US too.

Justin Hardy's most notable film is probably his 1994 boarding school set one, A Feast At Midnight, with Robin Hardy playing the Headmaster and which amusingly got Christopher Lee (as "Raptor") to recreate the 'raptor coming into the kitchen' moment of the recently released at the time Jurassic Park, which was quite a fast response to the impact that the Spielberg film had on the cinematic landscape!

[CSM126]

Dory Funk, Jr.

[Lowry_Sam]

William Orbit, electonic music producer and artist who won Grammy for producing Madonna's Ray Of Light album.

[colinr0380]

William Orbit, electonic music producer and artist who won Grammy for producing Madonna's Ray Of Light album.

Also the electronic update of Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings, with its Ferry Corsten remix.

[hearthesilence]

Among his (sort of) cinematic contributions:

He remixed two of Prince's singles for the Batman soundtrack, "The Future" and "Electric Chair," though his mixes are still out-of-print and not streaming. The songs themselves kind of show up in the movie, but they're buried in the background. (It was easier to hear them when I caught a 70mm screening at Lincoln Center - the theater really cranked up the sound.)

He also mixed and played keyboards on "The Hands That Built America," U2's mediocre contribution to Gangs of New York, which doesn't show up until the end credits.

He also produced and co-wrote Madonna's great single, "Beautiful Stranger," which barely appears in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.

[flyonthewall2983]

A couple of tracks from his 80’s albums show up in Michael Mann’s Heat to stunning effect