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Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:52 pm
by knives
Saturnome wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 9:42 pm
This is probably the only time ever I'll ever consider watching Bogdanovich's
To Sir, with Love II
Surprisingly better than you’d expect but still closer to the bottom of both men’s work.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 7:58 pm
by Fred Holywell
colinr0380 wrote: Sat Jan 08, 2022 11:28 am
Speaking of which, has anyone written about the relationship between Poitier and Richard Widmark at all?
Don't know of anything written about their relationship, but Widmark briefly spoke about it at the
AFI tribute to Poitier back in 1992. You can find some other clips from that show on the AFI's YouTube channel.
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 8:58 pm
by fdm
Re: Passages
Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2022 9:00 pm
by flyonthewall2983
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:45 am
by Pavel
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:46 am
by mfunk9786
Shocker. He was just on Artie Lange's podcast a couple weeks ago.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:51 am
by therewillbeblus
Wow, so tragic. I wonder what happened. His guest appearances were often the best parts of otherwise terrible shows or movies (i.e.
Entourage;
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd), and of course he directed the underappreciated
Dirty Work
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:53 am
by fiddlesticks
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:08 am
by knives
therewillbeblus wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 12:51 am
Wow, so tragic. I wonder what happened. His guest appearances were often the best parts of otherwise terrible shows or movies (i.e.
Entourage;
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd), and of course he directed the underappreciated
Dirty Work
Not to mention his rapport with Norm McDonald which was always hilarious. Those two in a room together was always great even delivering arguably McDonald’s funniest moment.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 1:09 am
by domino harvey
He’s such a good lynchpin for the zaniness of
Dobie Gillis, so much so that unlike Bob Denver or Tuesday Weld, he was never able to do much of anything else in the public eye apart from being that character
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 2:30 am
by flyonthewall2983
He seemed so incredibly sad in the Garry Shandling doc, on account of the split between him and his manager that made me realize just how sensitive people in Hollywood could be, in not so unjustified a way really.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:35 am
by hearthesilence
Someone directed me towards his scene in the The Aristocrats documentary and holy hell does he tell the dirtiest version of that joke...
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:48 am
by The Elegant Dandy Fop
I’ll never forget the shock of ten year-old me seeing
Dirty Work and discovering it was directed by the host of American’s Funniest Home Videos. I was convinced it had to be
another Bob Saget. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but as I got older, I began to discover what a sort of guy Saget was. I’m glad his scene in
The Aristocrats was brought up. It’s a movie of spotty quality, but him and Gilbert Gottfried are the best parts. 2022 starting out rough with the deaths.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:32 pm
by beamish14
The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 5:48 am
I’ll never forget the shock of ten year-old me seeing
Dirty Work and discovering it was directed by the host of American’s Funniest Home Videos. I was convinced it had to be
another Bob Saget. It didn’t make sense to me at the time, but as I got older, I began to discover what a sort of guy Saget was. I’m glad his scene in
The Aristocrats was brought up. It’s a movie of spotty quality, but him and Gilbert Gottfried are the best parts. 2022 starting out rough with the deaths.
Saget was probably the last person to have two shows that were simultaneously in the Nielsen top 10. Amazing to think that over 20 million viewers a week were tuning in to those programs during 1991-93.
Re: Passages
Posted: Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:56 pm
by hearthesilence
beamish14 wrote: Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:32 pm
Saget was probably the last person to have two shows that were simultaneously in the Nielsen top 10. Amazing to think that over 20 million viewers a week were tuning in to those programs during 1991-93.
...but kind of demoralizing considering how terrible those shows were...
Re: Passages
Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 3:47 am
by flyonthewall2983
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:00 am
by therewillbeblus
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:37 pm
by hearthesilence
Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes, lead singer on some of the greatest records ever made including Brian Wilson's favorite,
immortalized here.
Re: Passages
Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2022 11:30 pm
by The Elegant Dandy Fop
There can easily be an argument made on how “Be My Baby” is the most perfect pop song ever made. Speaking of Brian Wilson, there’s a story in one of his biographies (Maybe Catch a Wave) from his daughter that he would buy stacks of this song on 45 singles. She’d leave in the morning to go to school while he would eat an entire loaf of bread and smoking cigarettes in a chair listening to the song on loop, then would return home to find Wilson still eating bread with a pile of smoked cigarettes next to him while he was still playing the song.
Re: Passages
Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2022 7:41 pm
by hearthesilence
Rosa Hawkins, one of the original member of the Dixie Cups. (The others were her sister Barbara Ann and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson.) Best-known for "Chapel of Love," "People Say" and "Iko Iko."
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 1:16 am
by Jack Kubrick
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 5:47 pm
by Pavel
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:31 pm
by colinr0380
I'm very sad to hear that. The first of the big Cinéma du look directors to pass on. His main trilogy of Diva, The Moon In The Gutter and Betty Blue will tower over everything else (here's
Antoine de Caunes introducing Betty Blue for a Channel 4 French film season back during the Summer of 1998 (very NSFW), and it is a very height of Summer-appropriate film), but I also really like
Roselyne and the Lions, which seems to be the point at which critical consensus turned mostly negative (though now I think it is really interesting to compare and contrast it with Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone). I would really like to see the film reuniting him with Jean-Hughes Anglade
Mortal Transfer (NSFW) some time, which appears to be a Hitchcockian thriller by way of Weekend at Bernies(?) and seems to show that even when dead it is still hard work dealing with a Betty Blue-type of lady!
For a director hyper focused on surface imagery as the most direct expression of mental state it is especially interesting to see he co-directed a 1994 documentary on
Otaku culture! (Luckily they just happened to find an interview subject who compares himself to the main character from Diva! And get an early interview with Sion Sono!)
Re: Passages
Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2022 8:18 pm
by beamish14
colinr0380 wrote: Fri Jan 14, 2022 7:31 pm
I'm very sad to hear that. The first of the big Cinéma du look directors to pass on. His main trilogy of Diva, The Moon In The Gutter and Betty Blue will tower over everything else (here's
Antoine de Caunes introducing Betty Blue for a Channel 4 French film season back during the Summer of 1998 (very NSFW), and it is a very height of Summer-appropriate film), but I also really like
Roselyne and the Lions, which seems to be the point at which critical consensus turned mostly negative (though now I think it is really interesting to compare and contrast it with Jacques Audiard's Rust and Bone). I would really like to see the film reuniting him with Jean-Hughes Anglade
Mortal Transfer (NSFW) some time, which appears to be a Hitchcockian thriller by way of Weekend at Bernies(?) and seems to show that even when dead it is still hard work dealing with a Betty Blue-type of lady!
For a director hyper focused on surface imagery as the most direct expression of mental state it is especially interesting to see he co-directed a 1994 documentary on
Otaku culture! (Luckily they just happened to find an interview subject who compares himself to the main character from Diva! And get an early interview with Sion Sono!)
Oh my god. That is terrible news. I had the good fortune of meeting him at the American Cinematheque. He gamely signed my copy of
Art by Film Directors, which has a chapter on his very large and beautifully expressive paintings in both his "normal" signature and the one that he reserves for his paintings.
Roselynne is one of the most visually audacious films I've ever encountered. There is a scene where the camera seems to fly from one end of a circus tent to the other that is easily among the best shots I've ever encountered.
So perennially underrated and mistreated by the film industry. He spent years devloping an Amelia Earhart project in Hollywood that he was dumped from and Mira Nair subsequently took over (which then tanked big time). Beineix had the chance to direct
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, but he felt that his wonderful documentary on Jean-Dominique Bauby told the story as well as he could.
He published a HUGE autobiography a few years ago in France-and it was only volume 1!
Re: Passages
Posted: Sat Jan 15, 2022 9:44 pm
by hearthesilence
Fred Parris of the Five Satins, most famously known for singing the lead vocal in the doo wop classic
"In the Still of the Night." Next time I'm in New Haven, I'll have to look for that plaque.