Ron Hutchinson of the Vitaphone Project and other work in film preservation.
https://www.facebook.com/ron.hutchinson.908
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Sunday, 3 February 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
... was married to Margaret Drabble, wtf!
Their son presents Gardeners' World (?? Gardening Today?? Garden Time, whatever) and looks exactly like his dad.
― fetter, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
Oh my goodness, he does, doesn't he? I never realised he was their son but I know *exactly* who you are talking about. He's one of the ones who presents some of the packages and also does a lot of broadcasting from Chelsea each year.
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:36 (five years ago) link
Wow, the Swift/Drabble clan get around as much as the Corens and the Freuds, don't they?
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 09:39 (five years ago) link
'Creature From the Black Lagoon' Star Julie Adams Dies at 92
https://comicbook.com/horror/2019/02/04/julie-adams-dies-creature-from-the-black-lagoon-star/?fbclid=IwAR0ec62ZkwkBDGma3IrD0RBWs0VDVvl9e7H6HiGWplY6hjNKnjJj8WiwqaA
― nickn, Monday, 4 February 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
https://metro-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/metro.co.uk/2019/02/04/young-restless-star-kristoff-st-john-dies-aged-52-8440198/
Kristoff St John, 52
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 4 February 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
Finnish ski jumper (and so much more) Matti Nykänen at 55.https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/troubled_finnish_ski_jumping_legend_matti_nykanen_dead_at_55/10629072A biopic seems inevitable.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
sounds like a finnish gazza, albeit a gazza that actually won a shitload of stuff
― my name is leee john, for we are many (NickB), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
RIP big man. One of my first sports heroes iirc.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
Gazza comparison seems apt.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
Was there ever a Finnish Moaty though?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
if only ilx had a resident finn who could weigh in
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
"What are skis?"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
lol
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
There was already a biopic about him a few years ago. Dude was also a wifebeater and a violent drunk who went to jail for stabbing a friend of his (he survived), so the glorification he's receiving right now makes me feel kinda uncomfortable.
― Tuomas, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
thx for weighing in, resident finn
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 4 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
how does he measure up against Walter Steiner
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
How many ski jumping biopics do we actually need?https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JpIbVyQbUuw/WQR4wi9Qe5I/AAAAAAAAMl0/hbIGrWebi_4_bu4eB8SWHwQCgTmPmeccgCEw/s1600/image0008.jpg
― Madchen, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
Didn’t mean to glorify him (don’t think people here are glorifying Gazza either tbh). I read that stuff in the article too - thought the “troubled” in the url would be enough of a warning. Still, so much talent and fame gone wrong, it’s the stuff biopics are made of/for.
― breastcrawl, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
ban biopics tbh
― Οὖτις, Monday, 4 February 2019 23:14 (five years ago) link
Ban biopics of winter sports stars for sure.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
Ban all biopics apart from ones about Nazis imo.
― calzino, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 00:36 (five years ago) link
Ban everybody but Julian Schnabel, he did this right two or three times
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 01:54 (five years ago) link
C Y Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, at 102.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/cy-lee-author-of-the-best-selling-novel-the-flower-drum-song-dies-at-102/2019/02/03/29c2d7e4-2803-11e9-984d-9b8fba003e81_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2Xui1Qw8FWfPYtKroRMvgl2kJk_V61sAyRJdYh2somOpJqGog52lP-khI&utm_term=.5d7aca791dc0
― nickn, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:24 (five years ago) link
Too bad he wasted all those years painting before figuring out what he was good at.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
Science Fiction writer Carol Emshwiller:
https://locusmag.com/2019/02/carol-emshwiller-1921-2019/
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:11 (five years ago) link
oh no! RIP
― legislative fanboy halfwit (Οὖτις), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
Albert Finney
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/feb/08/albert-finney-dies-film-tom-jones-orient-express-millers-crossing
― Alba, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:05 (five years ago) link
Aw shit, I loved him.
― suzy, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:06 (five years ago) link
one of the greats for sure, rip big man
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
He did so much great stuff, from Annie to Wolfen.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:09 (five years ago) link
Aww man. He was fantastic as Churchill in 'The Gathering Storm'. RIP
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:11 (five years ago) link
aye, he was a fine fine actor, and in a lot of class movies. RIP.
― calzino, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:12 (five years ago) link
Jim Dunlop, of guitar picks and pedals
https://www.jimdunlop.com/category/remembering-jim.do
― peace, man, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
If you've never seen Finney opposite Diane Keaton in Shoot the Moon, you're missing one of the great portrayals of male white privilege.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
I've probably only seen five or six Albert Finney films...He's fantastic in <i>Miller's Crossing</i>.
― clemenza, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:15 (five years ago) link
I know it's a divisive film, but Big Fish and his performance in it really moved me, and opened up space for a little bonding moment for me and my dad. RIP.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:26 (five years ago) link
It's okay to admit it: he was awesome in Erin Brockovich.
I will be re-watching Miller's Crossing tonight.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I’m out for a good time. All the rest is propaganda.
― Only a Factory URL (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:40 (five years ago) link
he really was
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 8 February 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
Great clip from a 1960 interview...https://youtu.be/NRMCTgJnmTo
― Michael Jones, Friday, 8 February 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
Oh fuck, that's why his thread was revived, awesome actor RIP Albert ;_;
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
xp yeah, Albert Finney in Erin Brockovich >>>>> Benicio Del Toro in Traffic
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 8 February 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
They’re both the best things about so-so movies, I’d argue.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 February 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link
In all your memorials, please remember #AlbertFinney loved making #MillersCrossing so much he stayed after wrap to be a female maid extra. pic.twitter.com/TCwzqxX0BO— Greg MacLennan (@themaclennan) February 8, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
my daughter's obsessed with his version of Annie at the moment and plays the soundtrack several times every day. his version of Maybe is a right heartbreaker.
― whoa is me (stevie), Friday, 8 February 2019 17:32 (five years ago) link
Finney turned down the offer of a CBE in 1980, and a knighthood in 2000. He criticised the honours system for "perpetuating snobbery".
Good man.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 8 February 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
yes.
― calzino, Friday, 8 February 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
my daughter's obsessed with his version of Annie at the moment and plays the soundtrack several times every day. his version of Maybe is a right heartbreaker. I haven't seen it since I was about eight, but it was a huge movie in our house for a while. I didn't even know, until many years later, that its reputation is as kind of a high profile disaster--it made a good-in-1982-dollars $57, but cost $50. I'd always assumed that because so many kids my age loved it (my sister had the doll, and the soundtrack) that it was a huge sensation.
Sheila Heti has a fantastic piece on her Annie fandom: https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/what-annie-knew/
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 February 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
Ooh, I shall read that.
She's literally just fired the CD up again...
― whoa is me (stevie), Friday, 8 February 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link