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That there guy has written a lot of things I've loved...didn't know by name but his career speaks volumes.
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Forrest J Ackerman
1916-2008 Forrest J. Ackerman has passed away after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure and requesting no further treatment. Last month, the editor of Famous Monsters Magazine - who inspired generations of sci-fi, horror and fantasy professionals and fans - was bidding farewell to his friends and loved ones. He celebrated his 92nd birthday on November 24th. Forry made my youth monstrous. I will miss him dearly. |
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It is a sad, sad day. I'll miss you Forry. Rest in peace. |
sad news. he had a nice run, but it's still always sad news.
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RIP Dr. Acula
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Just lookin' at her makes me wanna Mcfly back to the 50's and tap it... :( R.I.P |
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R.I.P. to a natural beauty. |
Real beauty in every sense of those two words. She epitomised sexuality and glamorised it in an era of revolutionary cinema and media.
R.I.P. wonderful and sexy Bettie Page. |
Robert Prosky
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the keep christine among countless others... this has been a bad year |
Van Johnson @ 92
not too many here will know him |
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Sad part is that my dad told me she died. http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e3...69/jungle2.jpg |
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We seem to have missed one in-between...
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/b...rlyGarland.jpg Beverly Garland, the B-movie actress who starred in 1950s cult hits such as “Swamp Women” and “Not of This Earth” and who went on to play Fred MacMurray’s TV wife on “My Three Sons,” died Friday, December 5th, at her Hollywood Hills home after a lengthy illness. She was 82. Garland made her film debut in the 1950 noir classic “D.O.A.,” launching a 50-year career that included 40 movies and dozens of television shows. http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z...Picture021.jpg She gained cult status for playing gutsy women in low-budget exploitation films such as “The Alligator People” and a number of Roger Corman movies including “Gunslinger,” “It Conquered the World” and “Naked Paradise.” “I never considered myself very much of a passive kind of actress,” she said in a 1985 interview with Fangoria magazine. “I was never very comfortable in love scenes, never comfortable playing a sweet, lovable lady.” http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...gy_Beverly.jpg Garland showed her comedic chops as Bing Crosby’s wife in short-lived mid-’60s sitcom “The Bing Crosby Show.” She went on to be cast in “My Three Sons” as the second wife of MacMurray’s widower Steve Douglas during the last three seasons of the popular series that aired from 1960-72. Her television credits also included “Remington Steele,” “Scarecrow and Mrs. King,” “Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and “7th Heaven.” Garland was born Beverly Fessenden in Santa Cruz, Calif., and grew up in Glendale. She married actor Richard Garland, but they were divorced in 1953 after less than four years together. In 1960, she married real estate developer Fillmore Crank, and the couple built a Mission-style hotel in North Hollywood, now called Beverly Garland’s Holiday Inn. Garland, whose husband died in 1999, remained involved in running the hotel. She was the honorary mayor of North Hollywood and served on the boards of the California Tourism Corp. and the Greater Los Angeles Visitors and Convention Bureau. |
She definitely smoked up the screen in DOA. RIP Beverly.
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This is very sad... :(
Robert Mulligan, who directed the classic film “To Kill a Mockingbird,” with its sensitive look at a child’s world shaken by the racism of a Southern town, died Saturday in Lyme, Conn., after a battle with heart disease. He was 83. http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...iganbadham.jpg Mulligan was nominated for an Oscar for “Mockingbird,” the adaptation of Harper Lee’s bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The 1962 film starred Gregory Peck, who won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the small-town lawyer who defends a black man falsely accused of rape. The story unfolds largely from the point of view of Atticus’ young daughter, Scout, memorably played by Mary Badham. Phillip Alford played his son, Jem. The New York Times wrote that the film’s opening segment “achieves a bewitching indication of the excitement and thrill of being a child.” Mulligan was also known as the director of Reese Witherspoon’s first film, “The Man in the Moon,” which came out in 1991. It was his last film, and the family drama brought Witherspoon notice as the younger of two teenage daughters grappling with her first love. Among his other credits were “Fear Strikes Out,” the 1957 drama starring Anthony Perkins as troubled ballplayer Jim Piersall; “Summer of ‘42,” the 1971 wartime coming-of-age story starring Gary Grimes and Jennifer O’Neill; and the 1972 horror hit “The Other.” Additional notable features he directed included “Inside Daisy Clover,” “Love With the Proper Stranger,” “Up the Down Staircase” and “Same Time, Next Year,” with Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda. He also carved out a solid career as a TV director before moving over to film, working on such drama series as “Studio One,” “The Philco Television Playhouse” and “The Alcoa Hour.” But “Mockingbird” would remain his most famous work. In 2003, an American Film Institute listing of the top heroes in film history ranked Peck’s Atticus Finch as No. 1. “The big danger in making a movie of ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is in thinking of this as a chance to jump on the segregation-integration soapbox,” Mulligan told the New York Times in 1961 while the planning for the film was in its early stages. “The book does not make speeches. It is not melodramatic.” Mulligan was born in the Bronx, N.Y., and studied at Fordham U. He is survived by his wife of 37 years, Sandy; three children; two grandchildren; and a brother. R.I.P. from a very sad person typing this... |
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I was coming here to post both of these. Great losses, both of them. Pinter was a hugely influential playwright. Kitt was the best Catwoman ever and a bold artist who exuded sexuality- particularly in her music, very overtly. I'll miss them both.
I have 6.5 hours of Eartha Kitt music and will do a marathon in tribute. Not sure exactly when, yet. |
She was a great Catwoman.......R.I.P. Eartha
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I'm sure a lot of you have already caught this on TCM, but I thought they did an exceptional job this year and that it should be posted:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcTFsZwUAQ8 Beautiful montage, with a gorgeous, simple, haunting song. Really touching. |
Edward D. Cartier, whose illustrations graced "The Shadow" and numerous other science fiction and mystery publications in a career that spanned several decades, has died at 94.
Cartier died Dec. 25 at his home in Ramsey, according to his son, Dean Cartier. The elder Cartier had suffered from Parkinson's disease in recent years, his son said. Cartier's artwork appeared in works by authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, but he is perhaps best known for the hundreds of illustrations he did for "The Shadow" in the 1930s and 1940s. Written by Walter B. Gibson, "The Shadow" novels appeared in pulp magazines and detailed the exploits of a mysterious, black-attired crime fighter. Cartier began doing illustrations for the novels in 1936. Not long after that, he turned down an offer to be an assistant to Norman Rockwell, according to Anthony Tollin, editor of "The Shadow & Doc Savage" reprint trade paperbacks. In addition to more than 800 illustrations for "The Shadow," Cartier drew hundreds of illustrations for numerous other science fiction magazines. He also was the premier artist for the Fantasy Press and Gnome Press book publishing houses in the 1950s. Dean Cartier said his father created a Christmas card that he sent to family and friends each year starting in the late 1970s. The last one, drawn in 2005, depicted Santa Claus handing "The Shadow" a gift. |
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