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post #4301 of 5904
9/28/10 at 2:47pm
Really terrible news. She was a fantastic editor and the one constant collaborator with Tarantino. They seemed to have an excellent relationship and did well by each other. So young, too. Such a shame...she will be missed and I wouldn't be surprised if it effects his films henceforth.

Renn: Really great send-off. Nicely done.
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post #4302 of 5904
9/29/10 at 12:36pm
Arthur Penn is gone
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post #4303 of 5904
9/29/10 at 12:57pm
Oh damn. Peckinpah got all the credit, but slo-mo gunfights started with Penn.
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post #4304 of 5904
9/29/10 at 1:17pm
That sucks. "Bonnie and Clyde" is one of my favorite films ever.

In regards to what Hammerhead said, Penn never got his due.
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post #4305 of 5904
9/29/10 at 3:02pm
Ah, shit. I'm watching Missouri Breaks tonight. Maybe Night Moves too. That really sucks (the news not the movies)
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post #4306 of 5904
9/29/10 at 3:16pm
I vividly remember being too young to be allowed to see Bonnie & Clyde, so I read about it voraciously, and that reading was probably my first awareness of the importance of a director. Later, one of the first "adult" novels I truly fell in love with was Little Big Man, and while the film isn't Penn's best, it was my first experience with watching a book that I knew and loved adapted to the big screen. Night Moves is seriously underrated, and I thought that Target was way better than it had any right to be, thanks to Penn.
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post #4307 of 5904
9/29/10 at 3:26pm
I have to admit I thought he was dead already. Still sucks.
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post #4308 of 5904
9/29/10 at 6:32pm

Greg Giraldo R.I.P. ?

Never heard of this guy before his hospitilization but if this is true, my heart goes out to his wife and four kids:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/devel...ed-dead,45777/

Comedian Greg Giraldo has died, according to friend Jim Norton, who posted the notice on his Twitter account moments ago. As we reported on Monday, Giraldo had been hospitalized in critical condition following a prescription drug overdose. We’re still waiting for official confirmation, so consider this developing….
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post #4309 of 5904
9/29/10 at 6:44pm
Schimmel was awful enough. This sucks.
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post #4310 of 5904
9/29/10 at 11:11pm
that fuckin' blows. He, Ross and Lampinelli were usually the only ones worth a damn on the CC Roasts.

And Harvard educated...damn.
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post #4311 of 5904
9/30/10 at 2:38am
Greg Giraldo, possibly my favorite stand-up comedian, dead at 44 of apparent drug overdose. This is really fucked. I'm actually really, really bummed out by this.
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post #4312 of 5904
9/30/10 at 6:30am
Tony Curtis dead at 85. Looks like I'll be watching The Defiant Ones and The Manitou tonight.
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post #4313 of 5904
9/30/10 at 6:31am
The great Tony Curtis has passed away.

What a week! Sally Menke, Arthur Penn, Greg Giraldo and now this???

http://www.etonline.com/news/101349_...s_Passed_Away/
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post #4314 of 5904
9/30/10 at 7:51am
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Originally Posted by doubledown1138 View Post
What a week! Sally Menke, Arthur Penn, Greg Giraldo and now this???
Well...nobody's perfect.

85s not a bad run. That guy was pretty damned awesome.
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post #4315 of 5904
9/30/10 at 8:35am
Yep, here's the NY Times obit:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/movies/01curtis.html
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post #4316 of 5904
9/30/10 at 10:25am
I'll be watching The Manitou, and this weekend I think I'll be picking up the Spartacus Blu-ray finally. Haven't seen the movie in quite some time.
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post #4317 of 5904
9/30/10 at 10:27am
Tony Curtis dead at 85. He is survived by his daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, and his toupée, Vinny.
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post #4318 of 5904
9/30/10 at 11:11am
Damn, Grim Reaper's on another bender.
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post #4319 of 5904
9/30/10 at 11:16am
I love how everyone's immediately thinking of 'the Manitou'. Tony would have liked that, I'm sure.
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post #4320 of 5904
9/30/10 at 11:17am
Night Moves is one of the most underrated films of the 70s, and a personal favorite.
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post #4321 of 5904
9/30/10 at 11:46am
He's just a cookie full of arsenic . . .

He was a great actor, a powerful presence.
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post #4322 of 5904
9/30/10 at 12:01pm
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post #4323 of 5904
9/30/10 at 12:09pm
Much as I love some of Curtis' films, I saw him in the musical of Some Like It Hot (aka Sugar) about 3-4 years ago, and while I admired the hell out of him for making the effort, his octagenarian attempts at hoofing and crooning were positively cringe-inducing, and I just can't get that out of my mind.

Anyway, no one's tossed in a "Now he goes 'Yonder to da castle of his fodder' for good" joke yet, so I might as well.
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post #4324 of 5904
9/30/10 at 12:14pm
Snails or Oysters, people.
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post #4325 of 5904
9/30/10 at 12:54pm
His cameo in Jackie Brown was always a personal favorite moment in the film.

Tony had a long good life, but Christ, what an awful week for prematurely dead talent.
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post #4326 of 5904
9/30/10 at 1:35pm
For my obscure Curtis tribute, I think I'm gonna go with Operation Petticoat. Mainly because the only video store in Austin with The Manitou is one where I owe huge amounts of late fees.
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post #4327 of 5904
9/30/10 at 3:02pm
If all you know of Curtis is the Flintstones and "Yonduh lies dah castle of my fadduh," you've got to watch Some Like It Hot and The Great Race. The guy was just a charisma machine back in the day.
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post #4328 of 5904
9/30/10 at 3:08pm
He also spoofed himself wonderfully in Paris When It Sizzles.
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post #4329 of 5904
9/30/10 at 3:11pm
And was super gay in Sex and the Single Girl. But was supposed to be straight. It think.
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post #4330 of 5904
9/30/10 at 3:20pm
No one, regardless of orientation, can deny that he was a very pretty man.
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post #4331 of 5904
9/30/10 at 4:43pm
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Originally Posted by Richard Dickson View Post
If all you know of Curtis is the Flintstones and "Yonduh lies dah castle of my fadduh," you've got to watch Some Like It Hot and The Great Race. The guy was just a charisma machine back in the day.
And don't forget that in "The Defiant Ones" "Sweet Smell Of Sucess" and "The Boston Strangler" Curtis proved he had serious actors chops as well.

I always like him co starring with Kirk Douglas in the Norse Opera 'The VIkings".
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post #4332 of 5904
9/30/10 at 4:53pm
TCM's doing a Tony Curtis marathon Oct 10th (all times Central):

5 a.m. Beachhead (1954) - with Frank Lovejoy and Mary Murphy
6:45 a.m. Kings Go Forth (1958) - with Frank Sinatra and Natalie Wood
8:45 a.m. The Vikings (1958) - with Kirk Douglas, Ernest Borgnine and Janet Leigh
10:45 a.m. Operation Petticoat (1959) - with Cary Grant and Dina Merrill
1 p.m. Who Was That Lady? (1960) - with Janet Leigh and Dean Martin
3:15 p.m. Sex and the Single Girl (1964) - with Natalie Wood, Lauren Bacall and Henry Fonda
5:15 p.m. You Can't Win 'Em All (1970) - with Charles Bronson and Michèle Mercier
7 p.m. Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - with Burt Lancaster and Martin Milner
8:45 p.m. The Defiant Ones (1958) - with Sidney Poitier and Theodore Bikel
10:30 p.m. Trapeze (1956) - with Burt Lancaster and Gina Lollobrigida
12:30 a.m. The Great Race (1965) - with Jack Lemmon and Natalie Wood
3:15 a.m. Don't Make Waves (1967) -with Claudia Cardinale and Sharon Tate
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post #4333 of 5904
9/30/10 at 5:03pm
I remember really digging his Houdini movie when I was a kid.
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post #4334 of 5904
9/30/10 at 6:10pm
I liked houdini too. We are getting closer and closer to a generation of actors being completely gone. Is it strange I'm a huge sucker for Operation Petticoat?
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post #4335 of 5904
9/30/10 at 6:12pm
Tony made a round on the daytime talk shows earlier in the year. He talked of his regrets, and how he's still looking for love. He was pretty chipper, but I think he knew his days were numbered.
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post #4336 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:29pm
Reaper must be working overtime this week: Stephen J. Cannell just died at 69.
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post #4337 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:30pm
EDIT: HT's got it.
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post #4338 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:30pm
Damn. He was television.
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post #4339 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:35pm
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Originally Posted by Jason Yavor View Post
I liked houdini too. We are getting closer and closer to a generation of actors being completely gone. Is it strange I'm a huge sucker for Operation Petticoat?
Not at all. The movie's pretty hysterical, and I kind of miss the days when World War II could be a genre just like a Western, with any number of tones.
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post #4340 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:36pm
The speed by which some of you come in here to do a FIRST! on someone's death is pretty astonishing.
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post #4341 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:46pm
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti View Post
Damn. He was television.
And a solid crime writer as well. Sorry to hear it.
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post #4342 of 5904
10/1/10 at 3:48pm
Not to dishonor the man's memory, but when the name Stephen J. Cannell comes up, I don't think A-Team, Hunter, 21 Jump Street, Magnum P. I., or any of that, I think popped collar. That mid-80's variation of his famous closing logo was probably the first time I noticed that especially unfortunate fashion trend, something I'll always associate with him.
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post #4343 of 5904
10/1/10 at 4:06pm
I was just talking about Hunter and 21 Jump Street the other day with my friend too. Dammit.

Is this some kind of celebrity death record? Just about every day this week somebody's died.
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post #4344 of 5904
10/1/10 at 5:06pm
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Originally Posted by Rene (Mr.Eko) View Post
I was just talking about Hunter and 21 Jump Street the other day with my friend too. Dammit.

Is this some kind of celebrity death record? Just about every day this week somebody's died.
Seems like there's a week like this every year now. Does Death have to make a quota or something?
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post #4345 of 5904
10/1/10 at 5:07pm
Grim Reaper, Grim Ross.
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post #4346 of 5904
10/1/10 at 5:10pm
Death wants those steak knives.
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post #4347 of 5904
10/1/10 at 5:12pm
Maybe Death is creating a new TV season on the other side..has anyone heard from Mike post recently?

Cannell was a staple of 80's action shows.
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post #4348 of 5904
10/1/10 at 5:51pm
Not to mention The Rockford Files, one of the great shows.
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post #4349 of 5904
10/1/10 at 6:07pm
Damn, Death's going through celebrities like crap through a goose this week!
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post #4350 of 5904
10/1/10 at 7:51pm
Someone better keep an eye on Donald P. Bellisario and Steven Bochco. Those guys are the only ones left who had that kind of tv caliber.
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