Curtain Call

[Antares]

Keiju Kobayashi, Japanese character actor of the 40's, 50's & 60's. He worked with Naruse, Ozu, Inagaki, Okamato and Kurosawa. If you've ever seen Tsubaki Sanjûrô, he played the sneezing samurai in the closet. He was very popular in his day, not only on film, but on Japanese television. A sad loss to Japanese cinema.

[Antares]

Irving Ravetch, Oscar-nominated screenwriter

[Antares]

Composer Geoffrey Burgon

[Antares]

Jazz musician Buddy Collette

[Antares]

Actress Jackie Burroughs

[hal9g]

Singer Eddie Fisher

[Antares]

Gloria Stuart

[Antares]

Sally Menke

[Najemikon]

What awful news. She's worked with Tarantino since the start and I know we have our disagreements about him, but his films do have a style that she was very much a part of.

[Antares]

I just read where the temperature in southern California was over 110 degrees the day she went hiking. I don't like to speak ill of the dead, but she was a fool. She probably went out with just a small plastic bottle of water and that's it.

Hiking is my main hobby, and it always amazes me how foolish amateur hikers can be sometimes. You never hike when it's in the triple digits, you dehydrate at such an alarming rate.

[Rogmeister]

I just saw a note where Arthur Penn passed away last night...the day after his 88th birthday.  Among the movies he directed were The Left-Handed Gun (a major mistake because Billy the Kid, who the movie was about, wasn't left-handed at all), The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant, and Little Big Man.

[Antares]

His obit

[Antares]

Greg Giraldo

[DJ Doena]

Tony Curtis (85)

[Antares]

His obit