RIP Jay
General "RIP" announcements that might be of interest
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Jay Robinsons role of Caligula in The Robe and Demetrious & The Gladiators was one of the best villain roles ever. You actually hated him and couldn't wait for someone to take him out.
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Villains like that are always the best, truely detestable villains like Alan Rickman in Die Hard, Lee Marvin in Liberty Valance etc. Too often in films the villain is likeable or camp
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RIP Stanley
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Reiko Douglas, Entertainer on TV Talk Shows, Dies at 77
I remember seeing Reiko Douglas and her husband, Jack Douglas, on countless talk shows back in the late 50's and early 60's.
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'Country Bumpkin' Singer Cal Smith Dies at 81
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RIP Cal
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Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic writer to win Pulitzer fiction prize, dies aged 62
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RIP Oscar
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Character actor Ed Lauter died. You may not know the name but you'll know the face.
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Met him at a memorabilia show in Chicago 2 years ago-nice guy. Loved him in The Longest Yard, and Death Wish 3. He seemed to be in everything in the late 70s and thru the 80s, then kinda disappeared. But according to IMDB, he's been pretty much busy up to the end. RIP...
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Character actor Ed Lauter died. You may not know the name but you'll know the face.
You're right I didn't know the name but instantly knew who he was. He'll always be CPT Knaur(sp) to me.
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Noel Harrison, co-star of Girl From U.N.C.L.E. has died:
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RIP Ed
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RIP Noel
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Larri Thomas, Dancer and Actress, Dies at 81
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Writer William Harrison dies
Renowned fiction writer William Harrison, who lived in Fayetteville for the last 50 years, died yesterday. He was a week shy of his eightieth birthday.
A novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter, his works include the short story "Roller Ball Murder," made into the film "Rollerball" in 1975 (he wrote the screenplay) and the novels "Burton and Speke" and "Africana." In all, he published nine novels and three short-story collections.
In 1966, he founded and became co-director, along with James Whitehead, of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas. Harrison was a key figure in developing the program into one of the best in the nation.
http://www.arktimes.com/RockCa…ter-william-harrison-dies
Burton and Speke became the movie Mountains of the Moon
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RIP Larri
RIP William
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Hal Needham Dead; Legendary Stuntman and Director Was 82
Hal Needham, longtime stuntman and director of “Smokey and the Bandit” and “Cannonball Run” for Burt Reynolds, died Friday in Los Angeles after a short battle with cancer, his manager confirmed. He was 82.
At one time the highest paid stuntman in the world, he was said to have broken 56 bones, broken his back twice, punctured a lung and knocked out a few teeth while working on 4500 TV episodes and 310 feature films. His work was admired by generations of filmmakers including Quentin Tarantino.
Needham, a native of Tennessee, broke into show business as a stunt double for Richard Boone on the series “Have Gun, Will Travel.” Among the hundreds of films on which he did stunts were “Stagecoach,” “How the West Was Won,” “The Bridge at Remagen,” "McLintock," “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” and “Little Big Man.”
He became friends with Reynolds, who offered Needham the opportunity to direct “Smokey and the Bandit,” for which Needham had written the screenplay. Needham also directed “Hooper,” “Stroker Ace,”"Street Luge” and “Rad.”
Needham received a Governors Award from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences last year, where he was introduced by Tarantino, who said, “I have ripped off a lot of shots from you, and today I say, ‘Thank you very much.’” At the tribute, Needham called himself “the luckiest man alive and lucky to be alive.”
He developed numerous camera and production innovations, and won a Scientific and Engineering Oscar in 1987 for the design and development of the Shotmaker Elite camera car and crane. Among his other inventions were the air ram, air bag, car cannon turnover, nitrogen ratchet, jerk-off ratchet and rocket power.
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