Passages

[tolbs1010]

John Irvin, director of the Alec Guinness-starring Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,Turtle Diary and Ghost Story (1981)

The Dogs Of War holds up well. Saw it again recently. Underrated.

[dadaistnun]

Keiko Kishi -- she was in The Makioka Sisters, Early Spring, and Kobayashi's The Inheritance but is maybe best known as the snow maiden in Kwaidan. (And I just learned from BlueSky she was the mother-in-law of the Dirty Three's Warren Ellis.)

[colinr0380]

Keiko Kishi -- she was in The Makioka Sisters, Early Spring, and Kobayashi's The Inheritance but is maybe best known as the snow maiden in Kwaidan. (And I just learned from BlueSky she was the mother-in-law of the Dirty Three's Warren Ellis.)

And in another Kon Ichikawa film, the recently released by Radiance, Ten Dark Women/Ten Women In Black. It would be interesting to see some of those later Ichikawa films that she appeared in, 1991's Noh Mask Murders and 2001's Kah-chan some time as well.

And she also appears in that Sydney Pollack directed, Paul Schrader written, Robert Mitchum starring film The Yakuza.

[hearthesilence]

Keith Caesar a.k.a. Keith Keith of Funky 4 + 1.

"That’s The Joint" is one of THE great singles of early hip-hop, but it also has the special distinction of being the very first hip-hop number ever performed on national television when Debbie Harry brought Funky 4 + 1 on to Saturday Night Live on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1981.

[FrauBlucher]

Their videos are fun to watch. I even enjoyed the sloppy one they did for Back to the Future Part III more than the movie itself.

The Johnny Carson Show a little gimmicky but it's fun

[James Stock]

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Dolly Parton

[The Curious Sofa]

Well, that ruined my day.

[Feego]

Shelley Fabares

[hearthesilence]

Love Dolly Parton. This day fucking sucks.

[zedz]

One of the greatest singer / songwriters from the singer / songwriter era, though she's rarely lumped in with that lot.

The Bridge

[colinr0380]

Steel Magnolias would certainly be a Criterion-worthy release of all the films she appeared in. I also remember the amusing way that her follow up film to Nine To Five with director Colin Higgins, the Burt Reynolds film The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas (probably best known now for inspiring the Simpsons brothel episode) got briefly caught up in the UK's video nasties furore because (along with Sam Fuller's The Big Red One) the title made it seem like an explicit adult film!

[hearthesilence]

IMHO the peak years of her music span from 1967 to 1975, and those were also her most prolific years as a songwriter, but much of her image in pop culture came together in the years that followed. (Much of it built on what she had accomplished before then, but I think most people who don't even listen to her music know her for the image she developed in those years when she became a pop icon.)

[The Curious Sofa]

She also released some fantastic albums later in her career, I love The Grass Is Blue and Little Sparrow. She wasn't just a great singer-songwriter and a very likeable screen presence, she also appeared to be one of the few major celebrities about whom no one had a bad word to say.

[hearthesilence]

From Roger Ebert's memoir:

In Dallas for the premier of 9 to 5, I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened, and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.

It's also ridiculous how much she gave and how she never talked about it unless she had to. Look at the Moderna vaccine - nobody knew until someone noticed the literature had a thank you to her foundation. I'm sure there's a whole lot more that's still unknown.

Probably countless stories like this one:

Years ago I was sitting in a bar and this dude sat down and talked about working for Dolly. Apparently she was really big on drug testing so she fired him. I asked him if he was mad at her for firing him.

He was like, "No man, she put me through rehab, I'm just a fuck up. She's still putting my kids though school and keeping a roof over their heads. She never had kids and she's still a better parent than me. That woman is a saint."