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Christopher Evan Welch, Actor on Stage and Screen, Dies in L.A
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French Director Edouard Molinaro Dies at 85
Sometimes, all you have to do is direct one film -- one singular film -- to guarantee your shot at immortality.
Chances are good you've never seen (or even heard about) French filmmaker Edouard Molinaro's only Hollywood-produced effort -- Just the Way You Are, a slight but likable 1984 dramedy best remembered (by the few who remember it at all) as a highlight of Kristy McNichol's short-lived movie career. And it's extremely likely you've never seen most of the many movies he directed in his homeland.
But even if you're the type of moviegoer who avoids subtitles as avidly as Superman keeps his distance from Kryptonite, you've surely heard of, and have likely enjoyed, his all-time most successful French flick: La Cage aux Folles, the enormously popular 1978 international hit that spawned two sequels, a Broadway musical, and a high-grossing Hollywood remake.
Molinaro's La Cage is emblematic of a time in US art-house history when a savvy distributor (in this case, United Artists Classics) might be able to keep a movie planted in theaters long enough to slowly but steadily build a crossover audience, and possibly turn a popular entertainment into a full-fledged pop-culture phenomenon. Indeed, in Houston, La Cage ran long enough at the now-shuttered Greenway 3 Theatre -- the better part of a year, actually -- to build an audience loyal enough to keep coming back to that venue for more alt-film fare for 20-plus years.
Not incidentally, La Cage aux Folles did its bit to make straight moviegoers less uncomfortable with the concept of same-sex marriage, decades before many of those moviegoers were able to accept such unions in real life. Which, of course, is another good reason to pay due respect to Edourad Molinaro, who passed away Saturday at age 85. Many better-known directors have left behind less significant legacies.
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R.I.P. ‘Ellen’ Actress Kate Williamson
Character actress Kate Williamson, who played Mrs. Rogers on ABC’s Ellen and turned in supporting roles in films including Barry Levinson’s Disclosure, Dahmer, Dream Lover, and Racing with the Moon, died Friday evening at her Encino, CA home. She was 83. Williamson, born Robina Jane Sparks, was the daughter of actress/singer Nydia Westman and producer/writer Salathiel Robert Sparks. In 1954 she married actor and acting teacher Al Ruscio, whose credits include The Godfather, Part III , Life Goes On, and Seinfeld. Ruscio had served on the SAG board of directors and died less than a month ago on November 12. The couple leaves behind four children, three of whom also went into showbiz: Actress and poet Elizabeth Ruscio, director and editor Michael Ruscio, production designer Nina Ruscio and teacher Maria Ruscio.
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I think the remake may have lead to her death.
Eleanor Parker of The Sound of Music Dies at 91
Eleanor Parker, a three-time Oscar nominee who played the scheming baroness in The Sound of Music, has died. She was 91.
Family friend Richard Gale said Parker died Monday morning due to complications from pneumonia.
Gale told the Associated Press the actress "passed away peacefully, surrounded by her children at a medical facility near her home in Palm Springs."
The red-haired actress had best-actress Oscar nominations in 1951 and 1952 for her roles as a prison inmate in Caged and as Kirk Douglas's frustrated wife in Detective Story.
Her third nomination was for the challenging role of polio-stricken opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody.
The 1965's The Sound of Music in which her icy character loses Christopher Plummer to Julie Andrews, was her last major film role.
In last week's live TV version of The Sound of Music, the role of the baroness was given a different spin by Broadway actress Laura Benanti.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20764590,00.html
BTW,
NBC, Emboldened By ‘The Sound of Music’ Success, Launches Annual Franchise
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R.I.P Eleanor
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Eleanor Parker? Hot!
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rip Eleanor Parker
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Unfortunately, two more: Don Mitchell has died at age 70, star of IRONSIDE, and Italian actress Rossana Podesta, possibly best known for starring in ULYSSES with Kirk Douglas, died at 79.
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Peter O'Toole has died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12…a-is-dead-at-81.html?_r=0
Gay Talese profiles O'Toole in 1963.
http://longform.org/stories/peter-o-toole-on-the-ould-sod -
RIP Peter O'Toole
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The great voice of Ray Price has been silenced. His recording of For the Good Times makes me cry.
http://www.cmt.com/news/countr…y-legend-dead-at-87.jhtml
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and they keep coming:
Joan Fontaine has died-
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Hold on a second, it seems Ray Price's son prematurely announced his death, he's only in a coma but fading fast.
Ray Price's Son Prematurely Reports Father's Death
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This one's a few months late, but I don't think he's been mentioned. Larry Pennell died back in August:
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Just read on another site that 40's-50's-60's actress Audrey Totter died Friday at 95. I remember seeing her on a number tv shows and movies back in the day.
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