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John Karlen, best known for Dark Shadows, Cagney & Lacey, and the film Daughters of Darkness.

Buttery Jeb wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:55 pm Jim Lehrer

Watched his PBS Newshour show for years. R.I.P.

ando wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:54 am

Buttery Jeb wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:55 pm Jim Lehrer

Watched his PBS Newshour show for years. R.I.P.

Same here. Shame what's become of broadcast journalism outside of the NewsHour, I wish he could have passed witnessing a much better and promising landscape than the dumpster fire we've got going on now.

hearthesilence wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 5:11 am

ando wrote: Fri Jan 24, 2020 4:54 am

Buttery Jeb wrote: Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:55 pm Jim Lehrer

Watched his PBS Newshour show for years. R.I.P.

Same here. Shame what's become of broadcast journalism outside of the NewsHour, I wish he could have passed witnessing a much better and promising landscape than the dumpster fire we've got going on now.

Interesting Tribute to Lehrer tonight.

Kobe Bryant discussion moved here

I am seeing reports all over social media, including on his own Facebook, that Bob Shane, last surviving founding member of the folk group The Kingston Trio has died at 85, but I cannot find any official confirming source.

Stephen Joyce
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/ ... es-aged-87

Nicholas Parsons. Best known for hosting the radio show Just A Minute since time immemorial, but I remember fondly the (almost certainly terrible) 70s TV quiz show Sale Of The Century. He was also an actor - many supporting roles in British comedies in the 50s and 60s, a regular with Benny Hill, and a later (straight) role as a vicar losing his faith in the middle of pretty scary events in a 1989 Doctor Who.

And also played himself as the celebrity kidnap victim in the Comic Strip's Mr Jolly Lives Next Door opposite Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson and Peter Cook.

Just one of them left now.

That sounds worryingly as if we all have to go out and start hunting down Adrian Edmondson now!

Nicholas Parsons was also the only one of the celebrity interviewees (albeit cut up after the fact in the editing suite (NSFW) to make him that way) to be given the honour of conveying a message from Desmond Morris on the absurdity of the manufactured awareness raising campaign of the elephant with its head stuck up its own backside in the Brasseye episode devoted to animals! Neither Britt Ekland nor that lady from Baywatch were afforded the same courtesy! In fact, I think he may have been the only celebrity in the entire series to have gotten away from the show with his reputation intact!

He's also in one of the series of films that starred Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple, 1964's Murder Ahoy (good practice for his role as Reverend Green in the Cluedo TV series in the early 90s, I assume!) and one of the Boulting Brothers comedies set in a law firm, 1957's Brothers In Law.

Screenwriter Harriet Frank Jr. who co-adapted Hud & Norma Rae.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Frank_Jr.

Jörn Donner.

Andy Gill of Gang of Four

Tributes via BrooklynVegan

2020 is looking a lot like 2016.

Ivan Kral, bassist for the Patti Smith Group.

hearthesilence wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2020 12:22 am 2020 is looking a lot like 2016.

Ivan Kral, bassist for the Patti Smith Group.

I enjoyed a one-of-a-kind experience close to ten years ago when Kral presented The Blank Generation (a film compiling footage Kral and Amos Poe had shot during New York's punk heyday of the mid-to-late 70s) in Ann Arbor, MI. Since the footage was silent, Kral provided commentary throughout, telling personal anecdotes of his encounters with many of the denizens of CBGBs. I have a vivid memory of him, still looking boyish, perching himself near the front of the stage in a very "rock-and-roll photo shoot" squat. He was someone who was in the right place at the right time, but was also quite talented, co-writing some really great songs.

Catherine Burns (Last Summer). Actually this piece from The Hollywood Reporter has lots of information on Catherine Burns:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/featu ... ee-1275646 (same piece already linked to Frank Perry thread).

Aunt Peg wrote: Mon Feb 03, 2020 10:34 pm Catherine Burns (Last Summer). Actually this piece from The Hollywood Reporter has lots of information on Catherine Burns:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/featu ... ee-1275646 (same piece already linked to Frank Perry thread).

Important to note that Catherine Burns actually passed away on February 2nd, 2019 (the revelation of which was the heartbreaking ending of that great article) but yes, it is only being reported now.

According to imdb, Feeney had a number of documentaries in the pipeline, either as a director or participant:

• A World War II Fairytale: The Making of Michael Mann's 'The Keep'

• Dad Strangelove, about Terry Southern

• Harris Kubrick, about James B. Harris

dwk wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:47 amDyanne Thorne

The star of the Ilsa films, the first of which Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS is probably the more 'respectable' (although these things are relative) Canadian-made (on the sets of Hogan's Heroes!) answer to the Italian Nazisploitation films of the mid 70s. That's the one where Ilsa is alternating between looking on with pleasure as her minions torture female inmates whilst bedding the male inmates and when finding them lacking in being able to satisfy her for the length of time that she deems necessary, makes them lack in the genitalia department as punishment! And then unfortunately gets bested by one vigorous stud and gets killed in her bedchamber at the end.

This basically set the template for the rest of the series: Ilsa pops up in a different part of the world to suggest that rumours of her death have been premature and unfounded (despite dying very graphically in a definitive full stop manner at the end of every single entry!), we get torture scene, a scene with Dyanne Thorne in the bath or shower showing off her soapy considerable assets, and a few softcore sex scenes before the prisoners rise up and raze the prison camp to the ground and kill their oppressors, usually finding Ilsa in flagrante delicto before killing her. Its all very tongue in cheek and obviously not meant to be a serious comment on any of the environments that it is set in, just a way of being able to show some sex and violence in close proximity to each other. In a way Ilsa is kind of the kinky exploitation version of a well endowed villainous Barbie doll in that with each entry in the series she gets a new playset and fetish dominatrix wardrobe to do the familiar old routine in, from SS uniform in the first, to desert gear and whip combo in Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, to thick voluptuous furs in Ilsa: The Tigress of Siberia!

And then there is the South American set Ilsa: The Wicked Warden (the jungle outfit one!), directed by Jess Franco, which stars Thorne but apparently was not meant to particularly be an official entry in the Ilsa series, with the character being called "Greta" instead. But it follows pretty much exactly the same template (though it is very much like the other Jess Franco women in prison films too with most of his stable of actors involved, including Lina Romay) that it was easy enough to just dub in the name Ilsa and have it act as the final entry. And even though she bounced back in all the other films, you could not get much more of a final fate for Ilsa than getting cannibalised by the inmates that she had been torturing with sounds of lions and tigers roaring overdubbed on the soundtrack!

On F.X. Feeney, I would highly recommend that Z Channel: A Magnificent Obession documentary, as he talks a lot about his time working there with Jerry Harvey.