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rohmerin wrote:Pasolini's killer has died without speaking the truth.

If Pudsey the dog really did kill Pasolini, we wouldn't have got much out of him even when he was alive.

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The very known French actor Claude Rich 88 years . I saw him in Je t'aime Je t'aime last month.

rohmerin wrote:The very known French actor Claude Rich 88 years . I saw him in Je t'aime Je t'aime last month.

I'm seeing that film this evening, it's playing as part of MoMA's current science fiction film exhibition.

‘Fabulous’ Flo Steinberg, Stan Lee's right hand at Marvel during their Silver Age and the only full time employee the company had during that era besides Stan. She was probably the most integral part of that company during that era behind the scenes.

Arthur House wrote:Patti Deutsch

The only time I would watch Match Game was when she was on. She had terrific wit. But I have to say I don't remember her from Laugh In. RIP.

Oedipax wrote:Jeanne Moreau

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Jesus María y José. Jeanne Moreau will be eternallly walking. Nobody has walked a city (Paris or Milan) like her.

mfunk9786 wrote:Sam Shepard

His film career alone would be worth substantial recognition, and the fact that his cinematic work is diminutive compared to his stage contributions is stunning.

Jesus. Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard on the same day. Shamefully I’ve only seen a handful of Moreau’s performances but her role in La Notte is the one that stands out for me. Sam Shepard, just a super talented guy, his part in Days Of Heaven is what comes to mind first. Excellent performance. Miss these two heavyweights.

R.I.P. Ms. Moreau

Luke M wrote:Jesus. Jeanne Moreau and Sam Shepard on the same day. Shamefully I’ve only seen a handful of Moreau’s performances but her role in La Notte is the one that stands out for me. Sam Shepard, just a super talented guy, his part in Days Of Heaven is what comes to mind first. Excellent performance. Miss these two heavyweights.

Well said. Two titans lost. I've had a difficult relationship with Jules and Jim (I just really find it kind of repugnant), but Moreau's performance is by far the standout aspect of it. And Paris, Texas is one of the most beautiful films ever written.

His Altman collaboration, Fool for Love, is phenomenal too. For me, it's the pinnacle of Altman's theater adaptations, a perfect marriage of film and theater.

I always felt like a young Sam Sheppard as Howard Hughes would have been a perfect role.

Anyone who loves theatre should have a copy of Shepard's collected plays. And Moreau was of course a legend of French post-War Cinema. Two greats gone, RIP indeed

Outside of her New Wave stardom, I've always enjoyed Moreau's performance as the tough stylist/etiquette teacher/brothel madam to Anne Parillaud's La femme Nikita.

There's also that touching scene with Jeanne Moreau as the blind mother waiting for (and having motivated) William Hurt's character when the journey comes to its final destination in Wim Wenders' Until The End Of The World

Moreau supporting role in Les valseuses (Going Places) is unforgettable.

Sam Sephard was divorced from Jessica Lange?

I'd definitely second her character's section of Les valseuses as being very moving. An older woman's chance to experience all kinds of physical pleasures, and to be wanted, for a final time.

On Sam Shepard, I'm impressed at the range of his work: writing (I also didn't realise that he'd had input into the screenplay of Zabriske Point!), acting (notably as Chuck Yeager in The Right Stuff), and directing. As rohmerin suggests, he worked lot with Jessica Lange (acting together in Frances, Country, Crimes of the Heart and Shepard directing Lange in Far North) and they were in a long relationship though I don't think they ever married. All through the 80s Shepard had a long run of supporting role to headlining female characters played by Diane Keaton, Barbara Hershey, Lili Taylor, Sissy Spacek, Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts and so on. Though the prime example of that was his role in the ultimate 80s 'ensemble Southen Belle women's picture', Steel Magnolias as Dolly Parton's husband!

This reminds me that the film Shepard starred in which I'd really like to see get some sort of attention at some point would be 1991's Voyager, a tale of Jungian coincidences directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

I read at Le Figaro that she lived in the super posh and exclusive Rue Saint Honore, pas mal, pas mal, and she died alone, discovered by the cleaning lady at 7.30. How sad.

Sam Shephard, a legend with a hand in the writing of two of the quintessential American "road" movies: Paris, Texas and Zabriskie Point. Obviously the former bore his authorship much more fully than the latter, and unlike Zabriskie, PT has a fully coherent script that can actually stand alongside its majestic visual poetry; but both remain remarkable films in their own ways.

But his haunted, nameless farmer in Days of Heaven will always stay with me. I can barely remember his words but the images speak so much more, as does the narration that attempts to get a hold on his character.

Linda: This farmer, he had a big spread... and a lot of money. Whoever was sittin' in the chair when he'd come around... why, they'd stand up and give it to him. Wasn't no harm in him. You'd give him a flower, he'd keep it forever. He was headed for the boneyard any minute... but he wasn't really goin' around squawkin' about it... like some people. In one way, I felt sorry for him... 'cause he had nobody to stand out for him... be by his side... hold his hand when he needs attention or somethin'. That's touchin'.

British acting stalwarts Hywel Bennett and Robert Hardy.

Regarding Jeanne Moreau, how could I have forgotten her fantastic performance in Luis Bunuel's 1964 version of Diary of a Chambermaid! She's the central fulcrum figure around whom all the wilder characters revolve. And then there's that stunning final scene that kind of damns the 'aspirational middle classes' even more than the decadent bourgeoisie! (or suggests that they're the new form of jaded aristos influencing right wing politics. Just with an added chip on their shoulder).

It's also got a fantastic trailer, done in the form of an interview with Moreau about the film!