Who's Next To Croak?

[Pubrick]

Are you crazy?

I obviously wasn't saying that pozer's usage of the word "wut" was the reference, that is obviously a small reference to your comment on the previous page which i have no problem with.

The aspect of pozer's comment to which I was relying was the idea that he was jokingly not clicking the link because he was SCARED of what might be on the other side. As I've been making waves about unlabeled links I assumed this reference was to me. And i am not turning on my pals nor do I didn't think pozer was attacking me, just that it seemed he misunderstood my point. I was only clearing up that if that was what people have been taking away from my complaints (that i am scared to click links that are unlabeled) then I haven't been understood at all. It's about common courtesy, when a little bit of extra effort by one person saves some time and effort for a lot of people.

I also explained that I am giving up on my useless plight and I would like to reiterate that, as it becomes clear that not only my basic point but even my statements of concession are falling on deaf ears. So I hope you've now read this and understood it, though if this whole debacle has taught me anything it's that I've been talking to myself this whole time.

[Derek]

Glenn Shadix, Best Known As Otho From Beetlejuice, Dies After Falling From His Wheelchair

Shadix sadly passed away on Tuesday morning after falling from his wheelchair and hitting his head in the kitchen.


Aside from his role as the interior decorator in Beetlejuice, Shadix appeared in over 70 projects, including ER and Planet of the Apes.


"He was having mobility problems, and he was in a wheelchair," Susan Gagne, Shadix's sister, said. "It looks like he fell and hit his head in the kitchen, and that's the cause of death."
Source: blog.al.com


He had retired from Hollywood and was living in Birmingham to be closer to his family.


No funeral arrangements have been announced reports al.com.

[Pozer]

my lil joke was intended to be pro-labeling links and the skerrd thing was in ref to your lesson taught with river puppies. i understand & respect a lil info blurb pre-link. 

i had no clue what Glenn Shadix meant. for all i knew that name belonged to this dude:



and the link led to a clip of him falling from his wheelchair to his demise. 

[Fernando]

^^ 

So I hope you've now read this and understood it, though if this whole debacle has taught me anything it's that I've been talking to myself this whole time.

I can assure you you're not talking to yourself, I took pozer's comment as a lil joke like he just said.

so you're not alone buddy, you'll never walk* post alone.

* Liverpool FC's anthem on youtube.

[children with angels]

French film-maker Claude Chabrol dies

Source: Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/sep/12/claude-chabrol-dies)

The world of French cinema is in mourning for one of its greatest and most prolific directors, Claude Chabrol, who died today aged 80.

One of the founding fathers of the New Wave of French film, Chabrol was best known for his masterful suspense thrillers, subversive female roles and stinging critiques of the bourgeoisie. His first work, Le Beau Serge, was released in 1958 and he made more than 80 films, his last – a murder mystery starring Gérard Depardieu – released last year.

In the wake of his death, announced with no further details by a cultural official at Paris city hall, tributes poured in, both professional and personal. Speaking on French radio, Depardieu said: "Claude was joie de vivre itself. I cannot bring myself to believe he has gone. At no moment did he speak of death."

Chabrol, whose career began amid the creative boom that was French cinema in the late 50s and 60s, continued to make films long after the initial excitement of the Nouvelle Vague, adapting his style and themes according to the changing times. He remained fascinated with psychological tensions and inspired by class restlessness, often making unsettlingly dark films that contrasted with his real-life public image as a genial bon vivant.

"He was an absolutely delicious man: mischievous, with an incredible intelligence of which he only let certain sides come through," said Serge Toubiana, director of the French Cinémathèque in Paris, who drew particular attention to the years in which Chabrol released The Butcher, a thriller that Alfred Hitchcock said he wished he had made, and 1969's The Unfaithful Wife.

"I would dare say that there was a period in French cinema, I'm thinking about the late 60s ... when he was, in my opinion, the best French film-maker," said Toubiana.

Some of Chabrol's most respected later films - including Story of Women, his haunting 1988 tale of a Vichy-era abortionist, and La Cérémonie, released in 1995 – featured Isabelle Huppert, the award-winning actor whose disturbing portrayals of women on the brink of madness often have fitted well with Chabrol's vision.

It was for her role as a young murderess in Violette Nozière that she won the best actress award at Cannes in 1978, and as a bitter postal office worker in La Cérémonie that she garnered her only Cesar.

Thierry Frémaux, chairman of the Cannes film festival, said Chabrol would above all be remembered for his love of those he cast in his films. "He was someone who tapped into many generations of actors," Fremaux said on French radio, describing the director's death as "a thunderbolt". "[He] was 80 years old but he was still working, and his energy, joie de vivre ... gave the feeling that he was here for good."

It was not only Chabrol's fellow artists who paid him tribute but also France's political leaders. The former culture minister Jack Lang saluted his "vital energy"; the Socialist leader, Martine Aubry, hailed his "great finesse".

In a statement, Nicolas Sarkozy said: "He took after Balzac in the skill of his social depiction. He took after Rabelais in his humour and certainly also in his truculence, but he was above all himself in his films as in life."

Chabrol is survived by a rapidly diminishing cohort of Nouvelle Vague greats, foremost among them Jean-Luc Godard, the 79-year-old Breathless director currently keeping Hollywood on tenterhooks as to whether or not he will show up to collect an honorary Oscar this year. Most of the other major names of the period, including Francois Truffaut, have long gone; Eric Rohmer died in January.

"Every time a film-maker dies, a singular view of the world and a particular expression of our humanity is irreparably lost to us," said the French film directors' association.

[Tryskadekafobia]

Kevin McCarthy, Star of `Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' Is Dead at 96

Source: Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-13/kevin-mccarthy-star-of-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-is-dead-at-96.html

Kevin McCarthy, the actor best known as the star of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," the classic 1956 science-fiction film about humans taken over by giant seed pods from outer space, has died. He was 96.

He died Sept. 11 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A versatile character actor with the chiseled jaw and blue eyes of a leading man, McCarthy was adept on stage, in movies or on television shows. He acted in almost 100 films over seven decades and was a familiar presence on prime-time TV from the 1950s through the 1990s.

He was trained as a stage actor and made his Broadway debut in "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" in 1938. He later appeared in "Two for the Seesaw" (1959) and "Advise and Consent" (1960). He also toured the country for more than two decades in the one- man show about President Harry S. Truman, "Give 'Em Hell Harry."

"Kevin McCarthy is superb as my father," Margaret Truman once said.

McCarthy was nominated for an Oscar in his first film role, as Willy Loman's son Biff in "Death of a Salesman" (1951). He also played Marilyn Monroe's husband in "The Misfits" (1961) and appeared in "Twilight Zone: The Movie" (1983).

He was the brother of the acclaimed writer and critic Mary McCarthy, author of the best-selling 1963 novel "The Group." She died in 1989 at age 77.

Cult Status

McCarthy was known mainly for his role as Miles Bennell, the family doctor in Don Siegel's "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Thanks in part to repeated showings on television in the 1960s, the film achieved cult status.

McCarthy took it all in stride. He was always gracious when answering questions about the movie from fans and journalists. He even spoofed himself in a cameo appearance at the beginning of the 1978 remake, banging on the windows of a car driven by Donald Sutherland's character in an homage to the original.

Fans have argued for decades about the meaning of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." Some saw it as an allegory about the perils of McCarthyism. Others viewed it as an attack on the conformity of Communism.

"There was no assignment of political points of view when we were making the film," McCarthy told the Bangor (Maine) Daily News in 1997. "People began to think of McCarthyism later. I thought it was really about the onset of a kind of life where the corporate people are trying to tell you how to live, what to do, how to behave."

'You're Next!'

Based on a magazine serial by Jack Finney, the movie takes place in the fictional town of Santa Mira, California, where Miles has just returned from a medical convention. He begins to learn from his patients that some of their relatives have changed. They act strange and show no emotion.

At first Miles attributes the changes to mass hysteria but soon discovers to his horror that their bodies have been duplicated by giant seed pods while they were sleeping. As Miles and his love interest, Becky, played by Dana Wynter, try to flee and stay awake, they are pursued by the alien impostors.

The original ending of the film had McCarthy on a highway banging on car windows and yelling: "Look, you fools. You're in danger. Can't you see? They're after you. They're after all of us. Our wives, our children, everyone."

Then, looking into the camera in an extreme close-up, he shouts: "They're already here. You're next!"

The studio deemed that conclusion too grim and forced Siegel to "frame" the film as a flashback with a prologue and a happy epilogue that has the police finally believing Miles's story and mobilizing the FBI.

Flu Epidemic

Kevin McCarthy was born on Feb. 15, 1914, in Seattle to Martha Therese Preston and Roy Winfield McCarthy.

When he was 4, his family moved to Minneapolis. Shortly after, both parents died in the worldwide flu epidemic. His grandparents told him they had gone away, without further explanation.

In an interview with the Irish Echo newspaper 87 years later, McCarthy said he remembered himself as "this little kid, who was standing in a pile of snow at 11 o'clock in the morning and wondering what happened to his parents, who had disappeared suddenly.'

McCarthy's grandmother turned him and his three siblings over to her sister, whose husband physically abused them. Mary eventually moved back with relatives in Seattle while Kevin spent his youth shifting between homes of various relatives.

He graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, in 1932 and briefly attended Georgetown University before dropping out.

Shakespeare Role

McCarthy later attended the University of Minnesota after persuading a guardian to give him the $26 admission to the state school. He joined the student theater group, which was casting for Shakespeare's "Henry IV Part I." He told a friend that he had trouble with Shakespeare's English.

"You don't have to make sense of it; just talk loud," his friend told him. "So I talked loud," McCarthy said. He got the part.

McCarthy frequently appeared on television. He co-starred with Lana Turner in the short-lived ABC series "The Survivors' (1969-1970). He played a wealthy patriarch on the prime-time NBC soap opera "Flamingo Road" (1980-1982) and the romantic interest for Beatrice Arthur in ABC's "Amanda's" (1983).

He also was in the NBC miniseries "Poor Little Rich Girl" (1987) with Farrah Fawcett and the 1997 HBO film "The Second Civil War."

McCarthy had two children with his second wife, Kate Crane McCarthy, and three children from his first marriage.

[Pubrick]

How did that guy get a bigger write up than Claude Chabrol.. 

[SiliasRuby]

Different papers, different writers and Kevin McCarhy was in a bigger movie that more people have heard of than what Claude did. Sad but true. Also, the guardian isn't a french paper. I'm sure in the french paper there was a huge article.

[Stefen]

He was old as shit. Who cares? I hope I can live to 80, much less 96.

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RJ Fletcher has the .

[mogwai]

^

He was the bomb in UHF.

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Sally Menke, longtime film editor for Quentin Tarantino, found dead near Griffith Park
September 28, 2010 |  6:27 am

Menke Director Quentin Tarantino's longtime film editor, who went hiking with her dog amid the extreme heat Monday, was discovered dead early Tuesday morning by searchers in Beachwood Canyon, according to law-enforcement sources.

Award-winning film editor Sally Menke, 53, worked on such movies as "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" and "Jackie Brown."

Menke had gone hiking in the morning, and her friends alerted police after she failed to come home.

Search dogs, an LAPD helicopter and officers from patrol units spent hours in Griffith Park searching for her.

Her locked car was found in a Griffith Park parking lot. Menke's dog was found alive, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because the investigation was ongoing, said Menke's body was found at the bottom of a ravine near 5600 block of Green Oak Drive.

No cause of death was immediately reported, and it's unclear whether the heat was a factor.

[Pubrick]

Sally Menke, longtime film editor for Quentin Tarantino, found dead near Griffith Park
September 28, 2010 |  6:27 am

Menke Director Quentin Tarantino's longtime film editor, who went hiking with her dog amid the extreme heat Monday, was discovered dead early Tuesday morning by searchers in Beachwood Canyon, according to law-enforcement sources.

Award-winning film editor Sally Menke, 53, worked on such movies as "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" and "Jackie Brown."

Menke had gone hiking in the morning, and her friends alerted police after she failed to come home.

Search dogs, an LAPD helicopter and officers from patrol units spent hours in Griffith Park searching for her.

Her locked car was found in a Griffith Park parking lot. Menke's dog was found alive, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because the investigation was ongoing, said Menke's body was found at the bottom of a ravine near 5600 block of Green Oak Drive.

No cause of death was immediately reported, and it's unclear whether the heat was a factor.

and gloria stuart, aged 100.

[matt35mm]

Sally Menke, longtime film editor for Quentin Tarantino, found dead near Griffith Park
September 28, 2010 |  6:27 am

Menke Director Quentin Tarantino's longtime film editor, who went hiking with her dog amid the extreme heat Monday, was discovered dead early Tuesday morning by searchers in Beachwood Canyon, according to law-enforcement sources.

Award-winning film editor Sally Menke, 53, worked on such movies as "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill" and "Jackie Brown."

Menke had gone hiking in the morning, and her friends alerted police after she failed to come home.

Search dogs, an LAPD helicopter and officers from patrol units spent hours in Griffith Park searching for her.

Her locked car was found in a Griffith Park parking lot. Menke's dog was found alive, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The sources, who spoke on the condition that they not be named because the investigation was ongoing, said Menke's body was found at the bottom of a ravine near 5600 block of Green Oak Drive.

No cause of death was immediately reported, and it's unclear whether the heat was a factor.

That's terrible!  She was great.  It sucks when people die at the height of their skills/career like this, and so young.

[72teeth]

i wonder if it was a heat thing or a murder thing... either way, a sad loss for film, Goodbye Sally