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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 12, 2020 9:30:30 GMT -5
I best remember Pasko as writing some stuff from the late '70s/early '80s that I really enjoyed, like a few issues of the revived Metal Men, the Plastic Man stories from Adventure (art by Joe Staton), the Dr. Fate origin from First Issue Special and then the Dr. Fate back-ups in Flash. When people were posting their favorite Pasko stories on Back Issue's fb page yesterday, I remembered he also wrote the fun first two issues of DC Comics Presents, the Superman and Flash team-up. I always ran hot and cold on his work. I still think his Dr. Fate was really good...maybe as good as the character has ever been. But he also spent a lot of time writing really lame Superman stories...even by Superman standards.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2020 9:57:23 GMT -5
I liked Pasko's Superman stuff, in the late 70s. His E-Man, at First, tried a little too hard, I thought, though there was some good satire of what was going on in comics. Cuti had a sharper edge to his E-Man stories. He seem to spend the later 80s taking over on Chaykin's stuff and trying to write like him, without really capturing the wiseass quality. Blackhawk had some good moments, in its short lifespan.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 12, 2020 11:29:08 GMT -5
Yeah, if I'm remembering it correctly, Pasko wrote a bunch of those Superman stories in issues that were included in Whitman 3-packs (like DC Comics Presents) and I recall liking those back in the day. But yeah, I agree with codystarbuck about his work on E-man: trying too hard is a good way to describe it. He definitely had some great ideas, but I thought his satire lacked Cuti's light touch.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 16, 2020 14:17:50 GMT -5
Just saw that another long-time comedic actor, Fred Willard, has died at the age of 86. That guy has been in a ton of stuff, both movies and TV, but I recall him best for his many guest appearances in sitcoms, and for his brief appearance as the officer at the Air Force base in Spinal Tap (and a few other mockumentaries made by Christopher Guest).
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Post by Prince Hal on May 16, 2020 14:29:18 GMT -5
My first memories of the very funny Fred Willard are of his playing Jerry Hubbard, Barth Gimble (Martin Mull)'s sidekick on "Fernwood 2Night" back in the mid 70s. "And me, I'm Jerry Hubbard!" Of the Guest movies, I particularly love him in "Best in Show" and especially, "Waiting for Guffman." No one played the role of the overly self-assured man who had little reason to be as Willard.
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Post by EdoBosnar on May 16, 2020 14:58:40 GMT -5
Yeah, he was really good in Waiting for Guffman.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 16, 2020 16:22:41 GMT -5
Big fan of Willard’s work in the various Christopher Guest mockumentaries.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 17:06:57 GMT -5
RIP to designer Frank Bielec, best known for his participation on Trading Spaces. He was 72. That show was a staple of my wife and I's viewing when we were dating and in our newlywed years and inspired some of the first home improvement projects I did on the house when I moved in (the refinishing of the finished game room in the basement I did the first summer I was here).
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Post by Confessor on May 16, 2020 18:11:29 GMT -5
Friend of the Beatles and photographer of the band, Astrid Kirchherr has died at age 81. Her influence on the Beatles is considerable, especially in that her and her group of "exi's" (so-called existentialists) all wore the moptop hairstyle that the Beatles would adopt. She was also a legitimately great photographer and her pre-fame pictures of the band in Hamburg provide an invaluable record of that era. She also dated the band's ill-fated original bass player Stuart Sutcliffe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-52687056?SThisFBIn other music death-related news, Phil May, lead singer with '60s English R&B/psychedelic band The Pretty Things, has died at 75. The Pretty Things never really enjoyed much commercial success, but they were one of the bands around Swinging London. Their 1968 psychedelic concept album S.F. Sorrow is a lost classic of the era and often cited as being the first rock opera, predating the Who's Tommy by a good year or more. S.F. Sorrow was recorded at Abbey Road studios at the same time as the Beatles were recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Pink Floyd were recording Piper at the Gates of Dawn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/entertainment-arts-52683543
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Post by codystarbuck on May 16, 2020 18:58:35 GMT -5
Don't know where to start with Fred Willard; so good in even the lousiest movie or tv show. Always had the best line, always funny.
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Post by foxley on May 16, 2020 20:04:35 GMT -5
Wow, Fred Willard was so prolific.
I really loved him as the former child star turned manager who keeps trying to shoehorn his old catchphrase into the band's song in A Mighty Wind.
I was also a fan of the underrated one season sitcom Back to You, where he played the newsroom's off-beat sports anchor. That show was really made but its supporting cast of Fred, Ty Burrell, Ayda Field, and Josh Gad.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2020 20:32:52 GMT -5
The Reaper has been busy today. R.I.P. to Phyllis George, one of the trailblazers for women broadcasters in sports, she was 70; and Lynn Shelton, best known for directing episodes of GLOW and Mad Men, she was 54.
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Post by beccabear67 on May 17, 2020 13:16:45 GMT -5
Good grief, so many deaths! Fred Willard, Astrid Kirchherr... and Phil May. Three people who have made life a little bit more interesting and enjoyable for me. I have a ton of Pretty Things (and Electric Banana, and Fenmen).
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Post by shaxper on May 17, 2020 13:21:15 GMT -5
I know it's pretty random, but I always associate Fred Willard most clearly with American Wedding. He had to be the funniest part of that film.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 18, 2020 14:09:46 GMT -5
R.I.P. Ken Osmond, best known for playing Eddie Haskell on Leave it to Beaver. Apparently Osmond became a member of the LAPD when he found he couldn't get acting work after Leave it to Beaver ended. I'll try not to hold that against him.
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