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Topic by: dwhudson
Posted: October 26, 2002 - 12:00 PM PDT
Last Reply: August 20, 2004 - 10:33 PM PDT
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Eoliano
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post #61
on December 28, 2003 - 1:23 PM PST
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I think the first time I saw Alan Bates (so very many years ago) was in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, now only a faint memory. However, I'll always fondly remember him as Basil in Zorba the Greek, as well as in Butley, Georgy Girl and The Go-between. He certainly gave the finest performance in An Unmarried Woman. And more recently as King Claudius in Hamlet, and unforgettably, with not nearly enough screen time, as Mr. Jennings in Gosford Park.
Zorba: Why do the young die? Why does anybody die?
Basil: I don't know.
Zorba: What's the use of all your damn books if they can't answer that?
Basil: They tell me about the agony of men who can't answer questions like yours.
Zorba: I spit on this agony! |
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JBellows
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post #62
on December 30, 2003 - 9:35 AM PST
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Anita Mui.
She always struck me as particularly daring as a singer and an actress because she wouldn't play the cute teeny bopper roles.
She will be missed. |
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IWhitney
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post #63
on December 30, 2003 - 12:52 PM PST
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> On December 30, 2003 - 9:35 AM PST JBellows wrote:
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> Anita Mui.
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> She always struck me as particularly daring as a singer and an actress because she wouldn't play the cute teeny bopper roles.
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> She will be missed.
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Anita Mui's obituary
While Anita Mui never achieved the stardom in the US that she did in Hong Kong and China, fans of Hong Kong film who got to know her through her roles in Drunken Master 2, Heroic Trio and My Father Is A Hero knew she was an attractive pop-star actress who emitted more personality, intelligence and fun than any of HK's endless legions of attractive pop-star actresses.
When I read her obituary, I was stunned to see that she was only 40. At the age of 30 she played Jackie Chan's, then aged 40, mother. While it was obviously unrealistic, her acting glossed over the implausibility.
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IWhitney
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post #64
on December 30, 2003 - 12:53 PM PST
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There was supposed to be link in there, sorry.
Anita Mui's obituary |
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IronS
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post #65
on December 30, 2003 - 1:46 PM PST
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| Hope Lange |
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dwhudson
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post #66
on January 1, 2004 - 5:55 AM PST
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From the New York Times:
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John Gregory Dunne, the brashly insightful novelist, journalist, and screenwriter who wrote novels and successful works of nonfiction crammed with pungent dialogue, lavish brutality and vivid glimpses of the Hollywood demimonde, died on Tuesday evening in his Manhattan apartment. He was 71.
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Mr. Dunne and [Joan] Didion were probably America's best known writing couple, and were anointed as the First Family of Angst by The Saturday Review in 1982 for their unflinching explorations of the national soul, or often, the glaring lack of one. Though they wrote their books separately, they teamed up to write screenplays that more than paid the way for their highly personalized literary forays.
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dwhudson
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post #67
on January 1, 2004 - 5:56 AM PST
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| Whoops, I, too, forgot to link. |
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JBellows
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post #68
on January 2, 2004 - 9:15 PM PST
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> On January 1, 2004 - 5:56 AM PST dwhudson wrote:
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> Whoops, I, too, forgot to link.
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That's okay. I never link. I don't know how to use computers. But I teach interface. Paid well for it, actually. Don't know it, tell my students I don't know it, tell my bosses I don't know it, but they still pay me. Go figure.
Hey, what's a cursor? |
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Eoliano
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post #69
on January 15, 2004 - 4:48 PM PST
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Uta Hagen, Tony-Winning Broadway Star and Teacher of Actors, Dies at 84
I studied theater at HB Studios in New York way back when, and Uta Hagen and her husband Herbert Berghof, along with Aron Frankel, Bill Hickey and Charles Nelson Reilly, among others, were always an inspiration to the hoards of young aspiring actors who passed through the HB portal on Bank Street. Uta was the driving force at HB and taught some very fine actors. Her performance as Martha in Edward Albee's Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf is permanently etched in my memory. She will certainly be missed. |
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Eoliano
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dwhudson
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post #71
on January 16, 2004 - 5:45 AM PST
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| My first two years at university, I was a theater major. (Later, I switched majors and universities - to Radio-TV-Film at U of Texas in Austin.) But the theater years were great fun, and of course, everyone read their Uta Hagen. |
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Eoliano
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post #72
on January 16, 2004 - 9:08 AM PST
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> But the theater years were great fun, and of course, everyone read their Uta Hagen.
Those theater years were wonderful times, full of memorable experiences and encounters. Uta's book, Respect for Acting is still in print and remains one of the most popular and sensible introductory books on acting.
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kamapuaa
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post #73
on January 17, 2004 - 2:08 PM PST
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I've read that Ron O'Neal, star of the recently released-on-DVD Superfly, died at 66. His role in that movie ranks as one of the coolest & most charismatic performances ever to grace an action movie - along with Clint Eastwood as a cowboy, and Chow Yun-Fat as a gangster.
Unfortunately blaxploitation didn't last long as an interesting genre, and he didn't have any more major roles - even "Superfly" would have fallen apart without his acting, and Curtis Mayfield's soundtrack. |
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dh22
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post #74
on January 23, 2004 - 2:07 PM PST
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| Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan) dead at 76. His show ran for more than 30 years. :-( |
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hamano
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post #75
on January 23, 2004 - 3:06 PM PST
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| R. I. P. hoofer Ann Miller... she was in Mulholland Drive???? |
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dwhudson
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post #76
on January 24, 2004 - 3:59 PM PST
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Only tangentially related to film, though he did have an influential aesthetic, Helmut Newton. |
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Eoliano
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post #77
on January 26, 2004 - 5:50 PM PST
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| Helmut Newton's death is all the more tragic since he didn't die of natural causes or any ailment, but died in a car crash. His photos of Charlotte Rampling haunt me still. |
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Eoliano
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post #78
on January 26, 2004 - 6:06 PM PST
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Helmut Newton - Frames From the Edge
Btw, those weren't exactly fashion shoots with Charlotte Rampling since all she's wearing is a champagne glass!
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underdog
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post #79
on January 26, 2004 - 6:08 PM PST
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> On January 23, 2004 - 3:06 PM PST hamano wrote:
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> R. I. P. hoofer Ann Miller... she was in Mulholland Drive????
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Yep, she was Coco, the aging starlet-turned-kooky landlady at the apartment complex. "Wilkins! If that damn dog craps in the courtyard one more time, I'm just gonna bake his little butt for breakfast!" |
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IronS
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post #80
on January 27, 2004 - 6:51 PM PST
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Jack Paar
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