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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 26, 2023 11:36:41 GMT -5
I am a huge fan of the movie Shaft and a ton of that has to do with Richard Roundtree. Shaft is both an important movie and a very good movie. Important in that it showed that there was an audience for movies aimed at an urban audience rather than the generic audience that Hollywood had aimed at for decades. Roundtree is a great thinking action hero in that movie. Beyond Shaft he was a very good actor that had a hard time finding quality film roles but was able to find work on stage and on TV. R.I.P.
While I love and enjoy the big studio blaxploitation films like Mandingo, Across 110th Street and Super Fly, they were sort of late to the game on targeting urban audiences. Shaft was the first real "big budget" production of the genre, with MGM going out on a limb and paving the way for the others. Although the independent/small studio films of Ossie Davis, Melvin Van Peebles and Rudy Ray Moore were made on much more of a shoestring budget, I think they clicked better with the true target demographic. Roger Corman and Samuel Arkoff's AIP produced and/or distributed way more budget films of the genre, and in a rather effective manner. However, by the time the blaxpo trend rolled around they already understood a thing or two about niche marketing; given their track record with drive-in audiences.
The big Hollywood studios just found a way to cash in.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Oct 27, 2023 9:29:35 GMT -5
Comics artist Steve Erwin, probably best known as co-creator of the DC book Checkmate and also for drawing Deathstroke's book in the early 90s has passed away at 63.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 27, 2023 11:16:40 GMT -5
Bummer, he did a nice Deathstroke.
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Post by Calidore on Oct 27, 2023 11:37:15 GMT -5
Sad news; I liked his work too.
Also passing way too young was mangaka Hisaya Nakajo, of heart disease at age 50. She's best known here for For You in Full Blossom (original title: Hanazakari no Kimi-tachi e, a.k.a. Hana-Kimi), which was one of the earliest shoujo manga to get a solid foothold in the U.S.
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 27, 2023 18:21:20 GMT -5
Richard Moll, best known as the hulking but sweet-natured bailiff Bull Shannon on Night Court, has died at the age of 80. Moll has a comic book connection as well, voicing Two-Face on Batman: The Animated Series back in the '90s.
Cei-U!
Farewell to a gentle giant!
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 27, 2023 21:24:31 GMT -5
Comics artist Steve Erwin, probably best known as co-creator of the DC book Checkmate and also for drawing Deathstroke's book in the early 90s has passed away at 63. Liked his art, on otherwise forgettable stories. I'm about to hit 57 and 63 is way too close. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 27, 2023 21:31:58 GMT -5
Richard Moll, best known as the hulking but sweet-natured bailiff Bull Shannon on Night Court, has died at the age of 80. Moll has a comic book connection as well, voicing Two-Face on Batman: The Animated Series back in the '90s. Cei-U! Farewell to a gentle giant! Awwwwwwwww I loved Moll and saw him a lot, in the 70s and 80s, before he hit it big, with Night Court. Due to his size, he got used a lot for thugs and monster roles, like in Sword and The Sorcerer and Metalstorm, the destruction of Jared Syn. He had done voice work earlier, as he voiced a beat poet, in Ralph Bakshi's American Pop. His work as Harvey Dent was spectacular, especially when they transitioned him from Dent to Two-Face, after a few episodes of him just as Harvey. Great verbal work that sold the split personality. I loved watching him work with Selma Diamond, and then Florence Halop, as Flo, then Marsha Warfield, as Roz. Each pairing just had great chemistry, even as they were different. So long Aristotle Nostradamus Shannon! |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 28, 2023 20:19:24 GMT -5
Matthew Perry dead at 54. They are saying drowning in his jacuzzi.
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Post by Confessor on Oct 28, 2023 21:07:17 GMT -5
Matthew Perry dead at 54. They are saying drowning in his jacuzzi. Yikes! Very sad. Unfortunately, I think he had a pretty unhappy life after finding fame in Friends. He'd apparently really wanted fame, but when it finally came to him he found the pressure of it to be hard to handle. I know he had struggled a lot with alcohol and opioid addiction. Maybe opioids were involved in this? Perhaps he passed out, or went "on the nod", as addicts say, while in the jacuzzi?? Pure speculation on my part, obviously. |
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Post by Calidore on Oct 29, 2023 5:29:02 GMT -5
Matthew Perry dead at 54. They are saying drowning in his jacuzzi. Yikes! Very sad. Unfortunately, I think he had a pretty unhappy life after finding fame in Friends. He'd apparently really wanted fame, but when it finally came to him he found the pressure of it to be hard to handle. I know he had struggled a lot with alcohol and opioid addiction. Maybe opioids were involved in this? Perhaps he passed out, or went "on the nod", as addicts say, while in the jacuzzi?? Pure speculation on my part, obviously. I had exactly the same thought, though drowning in tubs is also a sad accident that happens without chems being involved. Terrible news in any case. He was very talented, and one of the highlights of Friends for me was the comedic chemistry he found with Matt LeBlanc. Their double act is a highlight of the outtakes also. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 29, 2023 7:24:20 GMT -5
So far , they are saying that there were no drugs found on the scene. Let's see if the autopsy says different.
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Post by foxley on Oct 30, 2023 2:10:03 GMT -5
Found this quote from Matthew Perry and thought it was worth sharing;  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 1, 2023 20:13:23 GMT -5
Legendary/infamous Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight has passed away, at 83. I guess the Grim Reaper ducked the chair he threw at him.  I'm an Illinois grad; he wasn't too popular, around these parts. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 3, 2023 10:25:18 GMT -5
RIP to astronaut Ken Mattingly, of Apollo 16 and the man bumped from Apollo 13, because of measles.
Mattingly was a Navy pilot, who joined NASA in `1966 and was on the support crew for Apollos 8 and 11 and was to be the command module pilot for Apollo 13, when he had to be bumped from the crew, due to exposure to German Measles. Mattingly, along with several others, would be instrumental in developing start up procedures for the command module, after it had been powered down, for re-entry to Earth.
Mattingly got to fly with Apollo 16 and retired from NASA in 1985 and from the Navy, with the rank of Rear Admiral.
Mattingly was also a key member of the Shuttle team and commanded two shuttle missions.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 3, 2023 11:18:34 GMT -5
RIP to astronaut Ken Mattingly, of Apollo 16 and the man bumped from Apollo 13, because of measles. Mattingly was a Navy pilot, who joined NASA in `1966 and was on the support crew for Apollos 8 and 11 and was to be the command module pilot for Apollo 13, when he had to be bumped from the crew, due to exposure to German Measles. Mattingly, along with several others, would be instrumental in developing start up procedures for the command module, after it had been powered down, for re-entry to Earth. Mattingly got to fly with Apollo 16 and retired from NASA in 1985 and from the Navy, with the rank of Rear Admiral. Mattingly was also a key member of the Shuttle team and commanded two shuttle missions. A great explorer moving on to new worlds. R. I. P. |
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