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#8376 Post by The Pachyderminator » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:46 pm


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#8377 Post by MichaelB » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:50 pm

Exactly the same link that I posted, and it still doesn't work in Europe.

But I was able to glean all I needed elsewhere.

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#8378 Post by The Pachyderminator » Sun Jun 21, 2020 12:53 pm

It's the link you meant to post, but you actually posted a direct link to the GDPR page, which confused me at first as I didn't know why the site would think I'm located in Europe.

Edit: Perhaps the archived version of the page can be viewed in Europe? http://web.archive.org/web/202006210156 ... story.html

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#8379 Post by Feego » Sun Jun 21, 2020 5:24 pm

MichaelB wrote:David E. Gluck, the previously anonymous performer of a, erm... somewhat unorthodox musical number in John Waters' Pink Flamingos (and if you've seen the film - and possibly even if you haven't - you'll know exactly what I'm talking about).
I certainly knew exactly what you were talking about, but I’m rather surprised the Baltimore Sun featured Waters’ graphic description of it!

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#8380 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jun 22, 2020 3:23 pm

Joel Schumacher discussion moved here


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#8382 Post by Reverend Drewcifer » Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:31 am

That sentence took me on a real journey.

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#8383 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jun 23, 2020 9:40 am

Another big Epstein pal. I'm sure there was no foul play and we can just close the books!

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#8385 Post by Reverend Drewcifer » Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:10 pm

Stuart Cornfeld

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#8386 Post by brundlefly » Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:48 am

Charles Webb, author of 'The Graduate,' clerk at a Kmart, itinerant farmworker, house cleaner, caretaker at a nudist colony

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#8387 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:01 am

Carl Reiner

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#8388 Post by FrauBlucher » Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:04 am

He and Mel Brooks were the 2000 year old men. He gave it a go.

This will probably need it’s own thread.

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#8389 Post by knives » Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:06 am

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#8391 Post by therewillbeblus » Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:26 am

He was great for many reasons, but as someone who grew up watching The Jerk countless times as a child, that's an impassible mark

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#8392 Post by beamish14 » Tue Jun 30, 2020 11:43 am


Oh my god. Just one of the sharpest minds in the business. Like John Cleese, his unbelievable skill as a writer and formidable
intellect was constantly on display when using social media (which I believe he said helped keep him alive longer).

I saw him at a double bill of the ridiculously unavailable Enter Laughing and The Comic at the American Cinematheque
several years ago. He loved pissing off any potential Republicans in the audience :lol:

If you haven't seen them, please seek out those two aforementioned films. Enter Laughing started out as his novel, and was
subsequently adapted into a play, then a film, a musical, and a DIFFERENT musical! Elaine May's performance in it is one for the ages.

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#8393 Post by Dylan » Tue Jun 30, 2020 12:12 pm

Composer Johnny Mandel at 94. His credits include M*A*S*H, The Sandpiper, I Want to Live!, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea, Point Blank, The Americanization of Emily, Agatha, The Verdict, Pretty Poison, That Cold Day in the Park, and many, many more.

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#8394 Post by JSC » Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:12 pm

Louis Mahoney, actor (with a long list of tv and film credits including Doctor Who, Fawlty Towers) and activist.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-53233171

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#8395 Post by Feego » Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:33 pm


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#8396 Post by colinr0380 » Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:21 am

therewillbeblus wrote:
Tue Jun 30, 2020 10:26 am
He was great for many reasons, but as someone who grew up watching The Jerk countless times as a child, that's an impassible mark
He really felt responsible for just how idiosyncratic so many of those Steve Martin starring 'early, funny' comedy films were. I'm slightly more partial to The Man With Two Brains (but that is also because Kathleen Turner is deliciously evil!), but what other partnership could have produced Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid or the accidental possession comedy All of Me!

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#8398 Post by whaleallright » Thu Jul 02, 2020 9:48 pm

colinr0380 wrote:
Wed Jul 01, 2020 1:21 am
...or the accidental possession comedy All of Me!
All of Me is one of those films that should not work--indeed, it should have been a horrible misfire--yet it does. Gotta give Reiner a lot of credit for that, not least for successfully meshing two very different comic personae.

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#8399 Post by knives » Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:02 am

That one played so many times on television as a kid I have some sequences, especially the fateful possession stuck in my head although I'd be surprised if I've seen it in twenty years!

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#8400 Post by MichaelB » Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:08 am

Earl Cameron, at the tragically young age of 102.

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