Passages

[tolbs1010]

Acuña Jr. is quickly turning into a Bill Walton-type career in MLB. A dominant season or two but cannot stay on the field.

Bill Walton's hyperbolic commentary as an analyst will be missed.

[Lemmy Caution]

Bill Walton called a baseball game or two. Said it was a strange sport as the defense starts the action, the offense can't touch the ball, and there's no time limit.
Said he wouldn't make a good catcher because he was better at getting high than low ...

[Cipater]

Thomas Heise, whose Heimat ist ein Raum aus Zeit was one of the past decade's best documentaries.

[dwk]

Scott Wampler

[diamonds]

Edgardo Cozarinsky

[captveg]

Larry Allen, NFL Hall of Famer

[GaryC]

William Russell, aged 99. He was one of the original Doctor Who companions, playing Ian Chesterton from 1963 to 1965, returning in 2022 to play the same role in a cameo. He had previously played the lead in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot in 1956-57, the later episodes of which were made in colour for the American market. In the cinema, he was in The Great Escape, the Bertrand Tavernier-directed Death Watch, Superman and quite a few others.

[otis]

Janis Paige

[otis]

Philippe Leroy

[colinr0380]

Philippe Leroy

Excellent in his first role as Manu in Jacques Becker's prison drama Le trou. I'd not realised before now that he also plays the monocled ex-Nazi interrogator Klaus in The Night Porter too! And briefly turns up playing the shady head of the organisation that is recruiting criminals to act as hitmen in Luc Besson's La femme Nikita.

(And the husband in Godard's Une femme mariée! And *cough* Dario Argento's Mother of Tears )

[Fred Holywell]

Janis Paige

Janis Paige 1922 - 2024 | TCM Remembers

[Aunt Peg]

Jeanette Charles, 96, probably best known for playing QE2 in The Naked Gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Charles

[GaryC]

Jeanette Charles, 96, probably best known for playing QE2 in The Naked Gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Charles

She was a regular Queen lookalike, so it's appropriate that she lived to the same age.

[fiendishthingy]

Hana Brejchová, star of Loves of a Blonde, back in April. (The linked obituary is in Czech — I couldn’t find one in English.)

[hearthesilence]

We are devastated to confirm that Selecter frontman Arthur ‘Gaps’ Hendrickson has died after a short illness. The world has lost a 2-Tone original, a talented musician and an absolute gentlemen. We have lost our beloved friend and bandmate. RIP Gaps

[Aunt Peg]

Françoise Hardy, 80: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Hardy

[dwk]

The great Jerry West

[MichaelB]

Tony Lo Bianco.

[colinr0380]

Tony Lo Bianco.

It is a shame that they do not note his role in The Honeymoon Killers, but just as good is his astonishingly committed straight man lead performance in the face of the escalating cavalcade of absurdities in Larry Cohen's 1977 film God Told Me To.

[swo17]

His film career took off after he starred in cult classic The Honeymoon Killers, and big screen work followed.

[colinr0380]

Oops, I overlooked that sentence!

[Fred Holywell]

Françoise Hardy, 80: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Hardy

Preferring music to movies, Françoise Hardy's film career was something of a blip on the cultural landscape. But she certainly was a beautiful presence in one of my favorite guilty pleasures, Une balle au cœur (1966).

[MichaelB]

I'm not surprised this wasn't widely reported (although Screen Daily noted it at the time), but veteran Warner Bros executive Julian Senior died in January.

If the name rings a very faint bell, it's because he's quite often quoted in articles about Stanley Kubrick's relationship with Warner Bros - Senior was basically the studio point-man for Kubrick, and oversaw the marketing campaigns for his films from A Clockwork Orange onwards. He was also notable for his sensitive handling of Michael Collins, which was very much a political hot potato in the UK and scarcely controversy-free in Ireland (albeit for different reasons).

[ellipsis7]

Anouk Aimée

[hearthesilence]

Anouk Aimée

She actually presented several of her films at MoMA in 2012 for the annual To Save and Project restoration festival. One of the most memorable screenings I've had in NYC was when she presented Lola which I hadn't seen before. The original negative had been destroyed in a fire, but this new restoration, overseen by Agnès Varda and Raoul Coutard, look amazing, moreso since they were presenting it in a 35mm print. Honestly, I would never have guessed Aimée had just entered her 80s - she looked so radiant and healthy, I would've guessed 60. The film became one of my favorites, and it pains me that I've never had a chance to see that print again because as many of you know, when the HD master was created for Blu-ray release, it was degrained into a grotesque, waxy mess. (IIRC the DCP that circulates reportedly looks the same way.) Hopefully that 35mm print is still in good shape and someone will play it in tribute.