The RIP thread...

OG fash basher Max Levitas. We need you now more than ever, bossman.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/11/max-levitas-obituary-cable-street-antifascism/

Just heard on the news the voice of hal , Douglas Rain

Stan Lee
#snap

https://youtu.be/HnByuUqMeko

Jeez - hours upon hours spent at Weird Fantasy and the Popular Book Centre in New Cross, all because of Stan Lee.

Mario Rossin of Rossin fame.

And he was doing cameos in the comics long before. I remember him and Jack Kirby being barred from the Reed/Sue wedding in the comic.

John Wilson

'That's a clonking great fish....'

https://www.itv.com/news/anglia/update/2018-11-13/norfolk-tv-and-fishing-legend-john-wilson-dies-in-thailand/?fbclid=IwAR3FWgqOvPU3ehR4YVMl8w93D0mHvCkphSQ1V79KvVrvCgIRgX30VHxSHI8

A genuinely nice man, he let me fish with him when I was a spotty 14 year old at school in Norfolk.

Douglas Rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xssnp7R51A

“We watched the movie,” Demme said. “It played like gangbusters, and
we got terrific response from the audience. Craig [McKay, the film’s
editor] and I were high-fiving each other. Okay, we’re locked, baby. I
got a phone call the next day at my house. ‘Hi, this is William
Goldman calling.’ I was like, ‘Oh, hi. God, one of my favorite writers
of all time.’ He said he thought the picture was terrific, but he
thought there was one section that was holding it back from its full
potential power. This came after Dr. Lecter escapes, and there was
this scene that took somewhere between eight and twelve minutes. Jack
Crawford is called on the carpet. They are summoned by the attorney
general, who was played by Roger Corman. Crawford’s kicked off the
case. Clarice is kicked out of the academy. They go downstairs, and
there’s this blistering, really terrific scene on the steps. Clarice
just can’t let go of saving the senator’s daughter. Her brain is going
a mile a minute, and Crawford is telling her, ‘Didn’t you hear what
happened up there? I’m off the case. You’re out of this thing. There’s
no way on earth…’ But she said she was going to Calumet. Clarice looks
at Crawford and says, ‘God Dammit Jack, I’m going.’ We cut to her in
the car, crossing the bridge where she’s about to encounter Buffalo
Bill. So Goldman said, ‘Take all that out.’ I’m like, ‘What? That’s
one of the biggest scenes in the movie. Really? What?’ And he says,
‘That’s what my gut’s telling me. You guys should really take a look
at it.’ So I was like, ‘Well, listen, thank you for this. Goodbye.’

Orion “I got to the cutting room and told Craig about this
conversation, almost laughing about it. Craig was not really pleased
because we were really…locked. But we said, let’s just take that
section out, and watch the movie again, right here on the Steenbeck in
the cutting room. So we lifted it out, watched it. And the power of
just going to Jodie without all that other stuff…I think Goldman
might’ve called it ‘the third act launchpad exposition stuff.’ It was
just an extraordinary difference, an immeasurable improvement. That is
William Goldman.”

https://deadline.com/2018/11/william-goldman-dies-oscar-writer-butch-cassidy-and-the-sundance-kid-all-the-presidents-men-1202503283/#respond

Bob Blythe.

No more lfo (pop) not techno

Nicholas Roeg :/

Nicholas Roeg

When he was good, he was very, very good: Walkabout, Performance, Man Who Fell To Earth.

Don't Look Now.

Don't Look Now.

When was he not good?
Transcendent always....

Ricky Jay, the best magician ever

When was he not good?

His later films were of "variable" quality. Full Body Massage, for example, consisted mainly of Mimi Rogers getting her norks out.

Stephen Hillenburg

RIP Harry Leslie Smith. I enjoyed his writing in his later years.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/28/harry-leslie-smith-dies-aged-95