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clownmeat wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2026 2:59 pm Brian Johnson

Not the AC/DC singer.

Feego wrote: Fri Jun 26, 2026 9:39 am Ann Blyth

RIP, best worst daughter.

She held on a long time. One of the OG Hollywood Catholics and yes, she gave the single best bratty daughter perf in film history in Mildred Pierce

It’s interesting that in the novel Mildred Pierce, her character has ambitions of being an opera singer. Had they kept that in the film, Blyth still would have been ideal casting because she actually was a trained opera singer, showing off her chops in several musicals later.

Some of Blyth's line deliveries ring in my head like they're on Memorex tape.

"My mother... a waitress," like she's spitting the last word out.

"With this money I can get away from you. From you and your chickens and your pies and your kitchens and everything that smells of grease. I can get away from this shack with its cheap furniture. And this town and its dollar days, and its women that wear uniforms and its men that wear overalls."

"You think just because you made a little money you can get a new hairdo and some expensive clothes and turn yourself into a lady. But you can't, because you'll never be anything but a common frump whose father lived over a grocery store and whose mother took in washing."


And, of course, the slap heard round the world.

I really like her in Our Very Own, which is a very strange movie that veers from almost sitcom-like comedy with a young Natalie Wood annoying the hell out of TV delivery man Farley Granger, to the high camp drama of Ann Dvorak chewing the scenery as the mother who gave Blyth up for adoption.

Pains me to say this, but if you adjust the dialogue so that the mother and daughter are switched around, that would actually sound like something a poisonous relative of mine was prone to say.

Penelope Keith, best known for the television series The Good Life and To the Manor Born.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ey1pjx0z9o

cdnchris wrote: Wed Jun 17, 2026 5:39 pm Daveigh Chase (voice of Lilo, Samera from The Ring remake, and Donnie Darko's sister among a number of other things from that period), possibly from meningitis and a blood infection.

AIDS

JSC wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2026 10:56 am Penelope Keith, best known for the television series The Good Life and To the Manor Born.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2ey1pjx0z9o

I always like the comment I read once that one of the most successful aspects of The Good Life is how it appeals to many different viewer bases, where a younger viewer watching the show would sympathise most with Tom and Barbara as the rebels against the system, deciding to appall their snobby neighbours by setting up a self-sufficient farm in their back garden; whilst older viewers might instead end up sympathising more with Jerry and particularly Margot as the long-suffering neighbours having to put up with the hare-brained schemes of the people next door!

Plus there is that classic Christmas episode where under the influence Margot gets to let her hair down and inhibitions to the wind and shows that she may have a Lady Chatterley's Lover or Wuthering Heights interest in Tom's swarthy, earthy prole!

Victor Willis, of the Village People.

Kjell Nilsson, bodybuilder who played The Humungus in Mad Max 2.

dadaistnun wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2026 3:46 pm Louise Lasser

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman/Fernwood 2Nite are probably the single best American television shows of the 70’s, and her performance in the former is just perfection

Tony Rayns discussion here

CSM126 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:47 am Bonnie Tyler

One filmic legacy she leaves is that her song Here She Comes is part of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis.

Surprised this wasn't posted yet, but we lost Yervant Gianikian - a renowned Italian experimental filmmaker who usually collaborated alongside partner Angela Ricci Lucchi (who passed away in 2018).

colinr0380 wrote:

CSM126 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:47 am Bonnie Tyler

One filmic legacy she leaves is that her song Here She Comes is part of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis.

Also, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was originally composed for a musical adaptation of Nosferatu.

colinr0380 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 11:31 am

CSM126 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:47 am Bonnie Tyler

One filmic legacy she leaves is that her song Here She Comes is part of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis.

Another MUCH more minor filmic legacy is that for the longest time I had seen Future World, the sequel to West World, but not West World, motivated by a seemingly reliable assertion I'd read (which I can no longer even find!) that the Russell Mulcahy video for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was directly inspired by that film. The connection, if real, was not obvious upon watching the film.

Anyway, that video has long been my favorite music video. It feels like the apotheosis of 80s excess of imagery, in service of an inscrutable center, effectively meaningless but evocative and with enough odd specificity to feel like a deeply personal dream to someone. Thoroughly silly AND low-key actually haunting (there is this one shot/reverse shot where Tyler and a boy make eye contact and then the boy flies which is somehow as effective a horror image for me as anything in a Kiyoshi Kurosawa film lol).. perfect recipe for the kind of ephemera I cherish.

RIP

colinr0380 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 11:31 am

CSM126 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 10:47 am Bonnie Tyler

One filmic legacy she leaves is that her song Here She Comes is part of the Giorgio Moroder version of Metropolis.

She is my favourite singer, and that is how I discovered her, when I was just 10 years old!

bad future wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2026 3:51 pm Anyway, that video has long been my favorite music video. It feels like the apotheosis of 80s excess of imagery, in service of an inscrutable center, effectively meaningless but evocative and with enough odd specificity to feel like a deeply personal dream to someone. Thoroughly silly AND low-key actually haunting (there is this one shot/reverse shot where Tyler and a boy make eye contact and then the boy flies which is somehow as effective a horror image for me as anything in a Kiyoshi Kurosawa film lol).. perfect recipe for the kind of ephemera I cherish.

So you might enjoy this parody version using the actual music video but with new mocking lyrics. Or you might hate it. I thought it was pretty funny. Much better than expected. Somehow, I even liked the use of modern references and phraseology.

Barbara Ling, production designer whose credits included The Pee-Wee Herman Show and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. (Also Batman Forever and Batman and Robin—movies I never saw but know by reputation.) I read that she was a great interview subject who had a lot of memorable stories. This is Ling talking about OUATIH.

Don Iwerks, 96. I was more familiar with his father, Ub, but it was interesting to learn of Don's technological innovations

Peter Van Norden, famous for his roles in Naked Gun and Police Academy sequels, he also had a substantial stage career