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
There was a period of nearly a year where sister used to blare "Tomorrow" while getting ready for school every morning.
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Friday, 8 February 2019 18:11 (five years ago) link
something wrong with my brain when that makes me think silverchair
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 8 February 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link
My FB news feed is mostly about Annie today, which ... well, my FB feed is not a control group, it's safe to say.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Friday, 8 February 2019 18:21 (five years ago) link
Annie played on cable for much of the early and mid '80s, no? It was a big deal around my house because my sis taped it during its network premiere. Leave it to Twitter to make Daddy Warbucks his most indelible performance, I guess.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
kill the young
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:47 (five years ago) link
It's okay to admit it: he was awesome Lou Grant in Erin Brockovich.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:49 (five years ago) link
(srsly, he was fine in EB; I'll take Sat Night & Sun Morning, Under the Volcano, Karaoke)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
There's a moment in Shoot the Moon where his beloved oldest daughter won't accept his birthday present and, pissed off and frustrated, he breaks into her room and beats her with a wire hanger. After Diane Keaton separates them, he has this horrorstruck expression and he runs into the night. It's an extraordinary sequence. That's Method acting.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:50 (five years ago) link
I grew up on mid-80s late-night cable so Finney was always a grouchy NYPD detective investigating werewolf murders during the Burning of the Bronx. RIP
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 9 February 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
Phil Western, 47
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156843783995851&set=a.75842315850&type=3&theater
https://exclaim.ca/music/article/r_i_p_vancouver_electronic_artist_phil_western
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 11 February 2019 00:11 (five years ago) link
Architecture writer Robert Winter, at 94. He co-wrote the guide to Southern California Architecture (also the Nor Cal one).
https://la.curbed.com/2019/2/11/18220486/robert-winter-dead-architectural-guidebook-los-angeles?fbclid=IwAR3Mbd-crySktcMH1cc52NN7aZNNRQkmBX7BjmVgyS0UzMXqWi0q1vAbt3o
― nickn, Monday, 11 February 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
Goalie Gordon Banks
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 10:11 (five years ago) link
the day Banksy died.
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:01 (five years ago) link
:D
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:06 (five years ago) link
He saw one world war..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:11 (five years ago) link
Disablist joke imo
― Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:13 (five years ago) link
No, he
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:16 (five years ago) link
;-)
― Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:45 (five years ago) link
ah '66 - that year the Spontaneous Music Ensemble's debut album came out.
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 12:00 (five years ago) link
Lyndon LaRouche, cult leader and other things.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:27 (five years ago) link
With infinite sadness I report to you that Lyn passed away this morning. There are no words to describe the loss to humanity. He left us, but he lives in the simultaneity of eternity. It is now up to us to realize his life‘s work. Helga Zepp-LaRouche https://t.co/9deOLnWf81— Mike Billington (@mobeir2) February 12, 2019
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
god that's sad news: there are more larouches?
― omar little, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:30 (five years ago) link
another victim of the deep state
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:31 (five years ago) link
helga zepp-larouche is his widow
there's also a son, daniel, by his first marriage
― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:33 (five years ago) link
John Harold Haynes - creator of the Haynes auto repair manuals.https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2019/02/haynes-manual-founder-dies-aged-80/
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:36 (five years ago) link
LaRouche prevented from joining the 120 prez candidates
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:37 (five years ago) link
oppy the mars rover
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/02/13/opportunity-nasas-record-setting-mars-rover-is-declared-dead-after-years/
― Norm’s Superego (silby), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
Andrea Levy, author of Notes on a Small Island, 62.
― suzy, Friday, 15 February 2019 09:27 (five years ago) link
John Stalker
former deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester police who was famously removed from heading an inquiry into the shooting of suspected members of the Provisional IRA in the early 1980s (because he was finding things the establishment didn't like regarding the RUC).
he could also sell an awning like nobody's business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5v5e3ajkN4
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 15 February 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
I believe his death will be a major contribution to road safety
― CDU next Tuesday (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 February 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
Tarkovsky's biopic of him was something else, I think he captured Manchester very well. Or was it Stockport?
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Friday, 15 February 2019 18:02 (five years ago) link
Lest we forget "John Stalker" and his contribution to the world of sun awning marketing. Retract In Peace. #RIP pic.twitter.com/92BNi3URQk— Lane/Hewy of The Spheres/Chleo/CorbynDog (@LaneThomaHewitt) February 15, 2019
― calzino, Friday, 15 February 2019 18:40 (five years ago) link
Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who starred in 'Der Himmel über Berlin' and 'Der Untergang', has died at the age of 77
https://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2019-02/schauspieler-bruno-ganz-ist-tot
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 16 February 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
I wonder how this occasion will be immortalised
― imago, Saturday, 16 February 2019 10:52 (five years ago) link
Surely not with an Untergang meme.
RIP
― pomenitul, Saturday, 16 February 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
I'm one of the humourless fuckers that thinks those memes are bad and massively unfunny.
― calzino, Saturday, 16 February 2019 10:59 (five years ago) link
Ich disagree
― CDU next Tuesday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 February 2019 11:07 (five years ago) link
I think they're mostly bad these days (IE probably about 24 hours after the first one) but any good that's in them in largely due to Bruno Ganz.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 16 February 2019 11:08 (five years ago) link
lady falkender aka marcia williams, harold wilson's enforcer
https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/wm-preview-1500/1934035a/40e68f29/mike-yarwood-impressionist-lady-falkender-formerly-marcia-williams-eric-morecambe-comedian-shutterstock-editorial-1934035a.jpg
(she's the one in the middle)
― mark s, Saturday, 16 February 2019 11:09 (five years ago) link