Passages

[FrauBlucher]

Yeah agree about Van Lear Rose

[hearthesilence]

I've actually never seen Coal Miner's Daughter in its entirety. Completely forgot she had an Oscar-winning movie made about her!

[domino harvey]

Spacek is excellent in the film

[What A Disgrace]

My parents used to listen to Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty when we were on car trips, during the summer of 1995 (we went on no less than two long vacations that year). At the time, I was an impressionable youngster who was obsessed with Final Fantasy VI, which I had discovered earlier in the year and had my blon suitably blown by my first Japanese role playing game. To this day I can't think of any of their duets without thinking of Final Fantasy VI.

[Maltic]

It's really shitty how she was treated, but one of the bizarre myths that has come out of this story is that John Wayne tried to go after her. Farran Smith Nehme actually looked into it and the short version is that it didn't happen. Wayne was upset with the speech and he certainly didn't have an enlightened view of Native Americans, but he didn't try to assault her and there definitely wasn't any security holding him back for any reason (because there was no reason to do so). One of the producers of the telecast who wasn't standing anywhere near Wayne started the rumor years later, mostly after Wayne died (i.e. couldn't respond to it) by exaggerating the claim more and more every time someone like the L.A. Times interviewed him on what happened with Brando's protest, and it was never challenged or fact-checked. Littlefeather didn't make the same claim until decades later, possibly because it got back to her many times over and she had no reason to doubt the story since no one else did. Given how the same thing is being repeated again and again, I guess the legend has become fact.

Wayne when a reporter asked for comment [not on the supposed assault, of course]: "Go get Brando..."

[Maltic]

Spacek is excellent in the film

And Levon Helm as the father, oh man.

Tommy Lee Jones doing Tommy Lee Jones. Beverly D'Angelo as Patsy Cline.

I suppose they're doing prestige film klichés or stereotypes, to varying degrees, but in a good way.

[Pavel]

South Korean artist Kim Jung Gi, per his Facebook page. My father introduced me to him and his unique way of drawing some years back and I really enjoyed it. RIP

[The Fanciful Norwegian]

Judy Tenuta

[domino harvey]

Judy Tenuta

For those who haven’t had the pleasure

[swo17]

Huh. I'd never placed her before but I see she was once married to Emo Philips and collaborated a lot with Weird Al

[pianocrash]

Judy Tenuta

For those who haven’t had the pleasure

Seriously one of the best, I'm weeping along w/ Joan

Huh. I'd never placed her before but I see she was once married to Emo Philips and collaborated a lot with Weird Al

It could happen!

[swo17]

Please do post more videos, people!

[domino harvey]

Here she is egging on Rick Dees, who is clearly into it

[MichaelB]

Lenny Lipton, lyricist of Puff, The Magic Dragon, whose substantial royalties helped underwrite his filmmaking activities, which included writing several seminal textbooks on independent filmmaking and being heavily involved in the development of digital 3-D projection technology.

[swo17]

Here she is egging on Rick Dees, who is clearly into it

This one's good too

[pet42]

Günter Lamprecht

[beamish14]

Charles Fuller, playwright of A Soldier’s Play, which Norman Jewison filmed as A Soldier’s Story

[brundlefly]

Judy Tenuta

"Here was this gorgeous little soft tyrant onstage going in a hundred directions, and all you could do was surrender."

Elayne Boosler's appreciation.

[Calvin]

Wolfgang Kohlhaase, screenwriter who was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear in 2010. His best known work was probably his collaborations with Konrad Wolf: I Was Nineteen, Mama I'm Alive, and Solo Sunny - on the latter, Kohlhaase has a co-director credit. He continued to work after reunification, notably with Volker Schlöndorff on The Legend of Rita and three films with Andreas Dresen - Summer in Berlin, Whiskey with Vodka, and As We Were Dreaming.

[Feego]

Back in January, Leonid Kuravlyov, star of Viy.

[beamish14]

Nikki Finke, founder of entertainment news site Deadline

[Telstar]

Donna Lucas
https://www.facebook.com/tim.lucas.374

[JPJ]

Donna Lucas
https://www.facebook.com/tim.lucas.374

That's terrible news. I'm not on Facebook so I don't see his post but Tim must be devastated. I think Tim and Donna met when they were 17/18 years old and stayed together ever since.

[dwk]

Austin Stoker

[Pavel]

Angela Lansbury