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Post by The Captain on Jan 21, 2022 14:07:41 GMT -5
Grew up going to see RHPS in Houston Texas, and the film *always* started with the full video of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on the giant screen . . before the big red lips appeared. Interesting. Our theater always played the videos for “I Do the Rock” and “Paradise Garage” by Tim Curry before they showed the movie.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 21, 2022 14:10:54 GMT -5
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Post by The Captain on Jan 21, 2022 14:19:48 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this, Prince Hal. I put a notice in the Moon Knight Trailer thread a few days ago, but never got around to adding it here.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 21, 2022 14:43:45 GMT -5
I just heard on the evening news that rock musician Meat Loaf has died at age 74. Given his health problems in recent years, this not much of a surprise, but still sad news for those us who grew up listening to his music (and who, maybe, still attempt to do the "Would you offer your throat to the wolf with the red roses?" intro from 'You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth' in his voice).
He also had a second career as an actor, most famously appearing as Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and testicular cancer sufferer Bob in Fight Club.
R.I.P. Marvin Lee Aday a.k.a. Michael Lee Aday a.k.a. Meat Loaf.
if reporting is accurate? he was un-vaxxed (and an anti-vaxxer), and he died from Complications of Covid. the best sourcing I can find is that his friend Kevin Sorbo (also an anti-vaxxer) mentioned he died of Covid in a tweet so. . .yeah. . preventable most likely, and sad. Grew up going to see RHPS in Houston Texas, and the film *always* started with the full video of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" on the giant screen . . before the big red lips appeared. He was a good actor, and a GREAT singer. really is a shame. Yeah, he was sadly solidly in the anti-vax/anti-mask/anti-social distancing camp.
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Post by Mormel on Jan 21, 2022 15:08:50 GMT -5
RIP Meat Loaf and Louie Anderson. Louie's a fair bit less well-known here in the Netherlands than Meat Loaf was, but they used to air his cartoon Life With Louie here in the early 2000s and I quite enjoyed it.
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Post by foxley on Jan 21, 2022 21:42:03 GMT -5
While watching an obituary on the news last night, I learned something about Meat Loaf I did not previously know. Apparently the Bat Out of Hell album was not a big success in the US originally. The first country in which the album went gold was Australia, and it was after this that it caught on in America and became huge. As a result, Meat Loaf had a soft spot for Oz and toured here frequently. (Although it has to be said that his final tour here was something of a disaster, as his ongoing health issues were already taking a toll.)
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 21, 2022 22:26:44 GMT -5
RIP Meat Loaf and Louie Anderson. Louie's a fair bit less well-known here in the Netherlands than Meat Loaf was, but they used to air his cartoon Life With Louie here in the early 2000s and I quite enjoyed it. Life with Louie was great; really could have been more of a prime time cartoon. The character he was playing on Baskets was supposed to be based on his mother, in terms of how he played the role. Louie always seemed like a sweetheart of a guy who had a lot of issues, from childhood; but, used humor to get through them.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 21, 2022 22:43:12 GMT -5
Also passing away was Buddhist monk and author Thich Nhat Hanh.... Born in Hue, in Vietnam, he entered a zen Buddhist monastery at 16 and was involved in the peace movement within Vietnam, trying to bring an end to the war between the North and South. The South Vietnamese regime considered "peace" to represent communism and he found himself exiled after he was denied re-entry to South Vietnam, after a tour of the United States. He went to France to try to help broker a peace; but, the eventual victory of the North left him an exile. Hanh was a noted writer of zen buddhist spiritual beliefs and his books were major works for Western audiences. he was finally allowed to visit Vietnam, in 2005; and, again in 2007. In 2014, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and was unable to speak. In 2018 it was announced that he had been allowed to return to Vietnam and live out his final days in a temple. Martin Luther King Jr nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1967 and strongly pushed for the prize to be awarded to it; but, broke protocol by speaking publicly about it. The prize was not awarded in 1967 (nor in 1966). The world has lost a great spiritual teacher and voice for peace and the preservation of all life on the planet. He counted Martin Luther King Jr, Thomas Merton, and numerous other teachers of mindfullness and proponents of peace.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2022 22:51:31 GMT -5
Also passing away was Buddhist monk and author Thich Nhat Hanh.... Born in Hue, in Vietnam, he entered a zen Buddhist monastery at 16 and was involved in the peace movement within Vietnam, trying to bring an end to the war between the North and South. The South Vietnamese regime considered "peace" to represent communism and he found himself exiled after he was denied re-entry to South Vietnam, after a tour of the United States. He went to France to try to help broker a peace; but, the eventual victory of the North left him an exile. Hanh was a noted writer of zen buddhist spiritual beliefs and his books were major works for Western audiences. he was finally allowed to visit Vietnam, in 2005; and, again in 2007. In 2014, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and was unable to speak. In 2018 it was announced that he had been allowed to return to Vietnam and live out his final days in a temple. Martin Luther King Jr nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1967 and strongly pushed for the prize to be awarded to it; but, broke protocol by speaking publicly about it. The prize was not awarded in 1967 (nor in 1966). The world has lost a great spiritual teacher and voice for peace and the preservation of all life on the planet. He counted Martin Luther King Jr, Thomas Merton, and numerous other teachers of mindfullness and proponents of peace. My friend back east (and best man in my wedding) was a devotee of Thomas Merton and turned me on to both Merton and Thich Nhat Hanh when we were teaching together in the early 2000s. Because of him, I read both Seven Story Mountain and Living Buddha, Living Christ back to back for a book club we belonged to. It was a period of rethinking my life, and the point where I started settling down enough to think about a future rather than living in the moment, and these two works were fundamental building blocks of that transition in my life. I met my future wife shortly after this, and I am not sure I would have been ready to make the kind of changes in my life that meeting her and moving halfway across the country to start a life with her if not for my friends influence and the profound impact the works of Merton and Hahn had on me at that point in my life. RIP and may you find the peace you deserve. -M
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jan 22, 2022 6:12:45 GMT -5
Also passing away was Buddhist monk and author Thich Nhat Hanh.... Born in Hue, in Vietnam, he entered a zen Buddhist monastery at 16 and was involved in the peace movement within Vietnam, trying to bring an end to the war between the North and South. The South Vietnamese regime considered "peace" to represent communism and he found himself exiled after he was denied re-entry to South Vietnam, after a tour of the United States. He went to France to try to help broker a peace; but, the eventual victory of the North left him an exile. Hanh was a noted writer of zen buddhist spiritual beliefs and his books were major works for Western audiences. he was finally allowed to visit Vietnam, in 2005; and, again in 2007. In 2014, he suffered a brain hemorrhage and was unable to speak. In 2018 it was announced that he had been allowed to return to Vietnam and live out his final days in a temple. Martin Luther King Jr nominated Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1967 and strongly pushed for the prize to be awarded to it; but, broke protocol by speaking publicly about it. The prize was not awarded in 1967 (nor in 1966). The world has lost a great spiritual teacher and voice for peace and the preservation of all life on the planet. He counted Martin Luther King Jr, Thomas Merton, and numerous other teachers of mindfullness and proponents of peace. His writing was always amazing, easily transitioning from deep and powerful to funny in a single paragraph. I loved his How to... series of books.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 23, 2022 18:07:49 GMT -5
Jean-Claude Mézières has passed away. That brilliant creator probably influenced my own comics more than anyone, just as he inspired most of modern SF.
Valérian will always remain a classic, I am sure.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 23, 2022 20:57:28 GMT -5
Jean-Claude Mézières has passed away. That brilliant creator probably influenced my own comics more than anyone, just as he inspired most of modern SF. Valérian will always remain a classic, I am sure. I just saw this at work. Death of a Titan! Mezieres met his friend and collaborator, Pierre Christin, at the age of two, in an air raid shelter, during WW2! He attended the Institut des Arts Appliqués, in Paris, where he met fellow student and life-long friend Jean "Moebius" Giraud, with whom he shared a love of American Westerns and sci-fi. In 1965, he got to live out his dream and came to America and worked on a ranch in Utah, which he described as "being better than my dreams. He came to Utah, after travelling across the US, because Christin was teaching there and Mezieres also produced some art to earn money. The pair collaborated on a story, called Le Rhum du Punch, which they sent to Giraud, in France. he showed it to Rene Goscinny, who edited Pilote (besides writing Asterix) and he agreed to publish it. He also met his wife, Linda, in Utah, as she was one of Christin's students. She followed him back to France, when he returned. Mezieres picked up work from Goscinny, illustrating The Extraordinary and Troubled Adventures of Mr August Faust, but chafed under editorial restrictions. Christin had returned to France to help start a school of journalism and the pair decided to collaborate on a new series. Since westerns were in a bit of a state of saturation (with Blueberry, Lucky Luke and Jerry Spring in their heyday), the decided to try some sci-fi. Goscinny wasn't a fan of the genre; but, he wanted to diversify Pilote and the result was Valerian, publishing the first story in 1967 and continuing to produce new albums until 2010 and then 2 volumes of post scripts and short pieces. Mezieres was a conceptual designer, along with Moebius, on Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. The had started pre-production, with a script that featured the hero as a worker in a robotics factory. Besson put the project on hiatus to work on Leon (aka The Professional), and Mezieres returned to Valerian, producing The Circles of Power, which included a cab driver and a floating taxi cab. When Besson was ready to return the The Fifth Element, he saw the album and re-wrote the hero as a cab driver. He designed aliens and vehicles and the luxury line Fhloston Paradise, which was the setting for the latter part of the film. Valerian was a massive influence in European sci-fi and bande desinee and many of Mezieres designs and characters were swiped for other works, including the Star Wars prequels, though there are strong parallels in the original trilogy. Valerian's ship bore a resemblance to the later design of the Millennium Falcon, Laureline wears an outfit similar to Leia's slave girl outfit, in Jedi, and an early album features a disfigured antagonist, whose face is hidden under a helmet. Mezieres crafted a joke about the situation.... However, Doug Chiang, who did conceptual art for The Phantom Menace and other prequels is alleged to have kept a set of Valerian albums by his work table, during pre-production. Mezieres' art was just amazing, throughout the series..... Truly, one of the giants has passed.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 23, 2022 21:05:33 GMT -5
For my money, L'empire des mille planètes remains the finest SF comic story ever. My thanks to fellow CCF member antoine for trading his copy of Terre en flammes, the original (and longer) version of La cité des eaux mouvantes, which I had first seen a looooong tome ago in an issue of Pilote, read while I accompanied my mom at the laundromat. Such memories are worth gold.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 23, 2022 21:06:05 GMT -5
Also passing away was Don Wilson, rhythm guitarist and co-founder of the ventures, of the Hawaii 5-0 theme and "Walk, Don't Run".
The lineup of the group changed over the years, but Wilson was always there, until his retirement, in 2015.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2022 9:03:52 GMT -5
And so it ends, the original line-up all up in the stars reunited to jam "Walk Don't Run" again. RIP Don Wilson, you and the group over the years defined the twangy instrumental rock that was so catchy and easy on the ears. Associated with the surf rock genre, but to me went beyond that.
I remember listening to my parents' 2 album Ventures "Best Of" collection on vinyl over and over when I was little, these were a lot of the first songs I learned on guitar as well (as I'm sure many other guitar players can say). And who else can say they actually outsold the Beatles in a major country (Japan)!
Another great Ventures tune (Wilson wrote "part 2"):
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