June 7, 20206 yr comment_827702 Gah! Bah! I was just thinking about Rupert Hine’s solo music. Always enjoyed this particular trio of songs: and this song was ahead of its time (Picture Phone): https://youtu.be/M-H5l1owKJg Report
June 17, 20206 yr comment_828654 Patrick Poivey, French voice of Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Kyle MacLachlan, Charlie Sheen, Spike Lee, Don Johnson, and Mickey Rourke, dies at 72 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/patrick-poivey-french-voice-of-bruce-willis-dies-at-72?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other Edited June 17, 20206 yr by blessingx Report
June 18, 20206 yr comment_828754 RIP Dame Vera Lynn BBC News - Obituary: Dame Vera Lynn, a symbol of resilience and hopehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13118290 Report
June 18, 20206 yr comment_828755 Even though she had got to 103, it was still sad that she had eventually gone. And indeed Grahame, a symbol of resilience and hope. Report
June 19, 20206 yr comment_828844 Apparently We'll meet Again was recorded with accompaniment from a Hammond Novachord, a 163 tube polyphonic synthesizer. Only manufactured from 1939 to 1942 (because the supply of tubes dried up as the War progressed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novachord (A positively petite instrument as compared with the 210 ton, 67kW power consumption Telharmonium at the turn of the century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium ) Report
June 19, 20206 yr comment_828857 6 hours ago, Craig Sawyers said: Apparently We'll meet Again was recorded with accompaniment from a Hammond Novachord, a 163 tube polyphonic synthesizer. Only manufactured from 1939 to 1942 (because the supply of tubes dried up as the War progressed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novachord (A positively petite instrument as compared with the 210 ton, 67kW power consumption Telharmonium at the turn of the century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telharmonium ) Want. Report
June 19, 20206 yr comment_828861 RIP Actor Ian Holm https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13960349 Edited June 19, 20206 yr by blessingx Report
June 19, 20206 yr comment_828862 RIP Mr. Holm. Enjoyed his work in more movies than I can count. Report
June 20, 20206 yr comment_828925 RIP Ian,.. I was thinking of him in a round about way the other day. Lately, I've been taken by the flat picking savant Molly Tuttle and I was trying to remember the first name of DeNiro's character in Brazil (Harry). After googling, I couldn't help but notice how many of the leads actors (including Ian Holm) had passed. Curse like,.. Report
June 22, 20206 yr comment_829160 RIP Joel Schumacher https://variety.com/2020/film/news/joel-schumacher-dead-dies-batman-director-1234644961/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/joel-schumacher-dead-batman-robin-st-elmos-fire-flatliners-director-was-80-1137490 https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53144082 Report
June 23, 20206 yr comment_829215 Here’s an interesting read... What I say to film schools is making movies is not all blow jobs and sunglasses https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/joel-schumacher-in-conversation.html Report
June 29, 20206 yr comment_829856 Charles Webb, Elusive Author of ‘The Graduate,’ Dies at 81 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/books/charles-webb-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare “He had a very odd relationship with money,” said Caroline Dawnay, who was briefly Mr. Webb’s agent in the early 2000s when his novel “New Cardiff” was made into the 2003 movie “Hope Springs,” starring Colin Firth. “He never wanted any. He had an anarchist view of the relationship between humanity and money.” He gave away homes, paintings, his inheritance, even his royalties from “The Graduate,” which became a million-seller after the movie’s success, to the benefit of the Anti-Defamation League. He awarded his 10,000-pound payout from “Hope Springs” as a prize to a performance artist named Dan Shelton, who had mailed himself to the Tate Modern in a cardboard box. At his second wedding to Ms. Rudd — they married in 1962, then divorced in 1981 to protest the institution of marriage, then remarried around 2001 for immigration purposes — he did not give his bride a ring, because he disapproved of jewelry. Ms. Dawnay, the only witness save two strangers pulled in off the street, recalled that the couple walked nine miles to the registry office for the ceremony, wearing the only clothes they owned. Lots of people momentarily embrace the idea of leaving the rat race, like the characters in “The Graduate.” Mr. Webb and Ms. Rudd did it, with all the consequences it entailed. If they regretted the choice, they did not say so. “When you run out of money it’s a purifying experience,” Mr. Webb told The Times of London after the couple moved to England. “It focuses the mind like nothing else.” Edited June 29, 20206 yr by blessingx Report
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