RIP Irvin Kershner

Irvin a fost profesorul lui Lucas, si acesta l-a rugat sa-l ajute cu continuarea la filmuletzul cu Razboiul stelelor, si a iesit Imperiul Contrarataca. A facut si comeback-ul lui Bond, in lumina Imperiului surely, Never Say Never Again (titlu dedicat lui Connery). Si anterior, cu Connery, A Fine Madness (1966), comedia SPYS (1974), thrillerul Ochii Laurei Mars (pe un scenariu de John Carpenter !, 1978), si Robocop 2, la final (1990). A murit la 87 de ani, de cancer pulmonar.

"If the second one worked, then [Lucas] could make more," Kershner said. "If the second one didn't work, then that would be the end of Star Wars."

interviu din 1990 cu "Kersh"

Kerh cu Lucas si Lawrence Kasdan pe platou la TESB (ep. 5)

"I was shocked one day: I'm shooting, and I look over and way in the back of about 50 people is George standing there. And I said, "George, come over here!" He was sort of embarrassed, he's so shy! So he came over and watched the shooting. That was the morning that we shot a scene that ended up about 6 seconds on film and it took us 10 hours to shoot! Everything kept breaking! Nothing worked! (Laughter) And George just stood there and never said a word. George is just about the best producer I've ever worked with. He made sure that everything was there

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George Lucas despre Kershner:
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The world has lost a great director and one of the most genuine people I’ve had the pleasure of knowing,” says Lucas. “Irvin Kershner was a true gentleman in every sense of the word. When I think of Kersh, I think of his warmth, his thoughtfulness and his talent. I knew him from USC — I attended his lectures and he was actually on the festival panel that gave the prize to my THX short. I considered him a mentor. Following Star Wars, I knew one thing for sure: I didn’t want to direct the second movie myself. I needed someone I could trust, someone I really admired and whose work had maturity and humor. That was Kersh all over. I didn’t want Empire to turn into just another sequel, another episode in a series of space adventures. I was trying to build something, and I knew Kersh was the guy to help me do it. He brought so much to the table. I am truly grateful to him. He was a friend as well as a colleague. He will be missed.”

Piesa zilei (28.11.10): Piano Man !

la Tokyo in 2006

It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The Regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin

He says, "Son, can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes."

La la la, di da da
La la, di da da da dum

Chorus:
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says, "Bill, I believe this is killing me."
As the smile ran away from his face
"Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place"

Oh, la la la, di da da
La la, di da da da dum

Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talkin' with Davy, who's still in the Navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin' alone

Chorus
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you got us feeling alright

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been comin' to see
To forget about life for a while
And the piano, it sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say, "Man, what are you doin' here?"

Oh, la la la, di da da
La la, di da da da dum

Chorus:
Sing us a song you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight
Well we're all in the mood for a melody
And you got us feeling alright

piesa din 1973, poate cea mai buna lui Billy Joel,
aici la Jay Leno cu Elton John

the harmonica is bobdyalnesque :)
zice Jay: "it doesen't get better than that" . YeP. True
cu scrie un fan hardcore: anume Azraelean

Elton John+Billy Joel = Mozart+Beethoven
An orgasm for the ears.

:-)+:-)
another LA song, like the ones of Randy Newman
dedicated to MI, on my way to Sece's E varza B-day...

Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinkin' alone

????

The Walking Dead !

cam au dreptate !!!
odata e Frank Darabont, apoi e comic-ul cult f. bun (80 de episoade pina acum), ongoing and neverending still, creat de Robert Kirkman in 2003 (image comics)
"a continuing story of survival horror"

pe lista empire de 30 comic books esentiale e nr. 8
e survival horror crincen si sunt zombi vs. oamenii supravietuitori in ce mai buna traditie Romero

au fost 4 episoade pe amc pina acum si mai sunt 2 din primul sezon (pt ca s-a anuntat si doiul !)

mai sunt si efectele lui Greg Nicotero

"We hope to do for zombies what Mad Men did for advertising!"
(Frank Darabont)

RIP Julien Guiomar, Ingrid Pitt & proiectionistul de la Studio

aflu de la the house next door:
Julien Guiomar and Ingrid Pitt have passed. You may know him as the Spanish pirest from Luis Buñuel's The Milky Way and her for traipsing through a number of Hammer films.
Pe Guiomar, character actor mai ales de comedie il stiu din
La moutarde me monte au nez (imi sare tandara) cu Pierre Richard, din Zizania si Aripioara sau picior, cu Luis De Funes, din Mirii anului II filmat in Romania in 1970, cu Belmondo si tot cu el Incorigibilul si Animalul, si cu el si Alain Delon in Borsalino si doar Delon in Alibi pentru un prieten (La mort d'un pourri). A murit pe 22 noiembrie, avea 82 de ani.

Ingrid Pitt , actrita-cult, The Queen of Scream, “the most beautiful ghoul in the world”, avea 73 de ani. A jucat in Unde se avinta vulturii (Where Eagles Dare, 1968) cu Richard Burton si Clint, si in Who Dares Wins (1982), cu SAS comando. Dar rolul emblematic este din The Vampire Lovers (1970, Roy Ward BAker, dupa Carmilla de Sheridan Le Fanu, horror leasbian erotic Hammer, si Contesa Dracula (1971). A jucat si in Wicker man, originalul din 1973 (v. post anterior Cage!). A debutat in Dr. Jivago (1965), intr-un rolisor. A scris carti, romanul de spionaj The Cuckoo Run, aparut in 1980, un altul despre familia Peron in 1984 si autobiografia, Life's A Scream (1999). A murit la Londra pe 23 noiembrie, la 2 zile dupa ziua ei.
articol memorial excelent in New York Times
un colaj cu ea de pe youtube:

biografie fascinanta:

Pitt was born Ingoushka Petrov in Poland to a German father and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II she and her family were imprisoned in a concentration camp. She survived and in Berlin in the 1950s met and married an American soldier and ended up living in California. After her marriage failed, she returned to Europe but after a small role in a film, she headed to Hollywood where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in the movies. Her natural hair colour was brown, though she frequently lightened it to blonde.

sit oficial, pittofhorror
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si asta seara (vineri, 26 nov) proiectionistul veteran de la Studio, in timp ce proiecta EUROPOLIS, la premiera, la inceputul proiectiei, de atac de cord. Numele lui e Constantin Munteanu si avea 68 de ani. Cred ca a proiectat multe din filmele despre care am scris mai sus (cele frantuzesti f4 sure). A fost macabru mai ales in contextul filmului, despre moarte si care se incheie cu o inmormintare, cu tot cu sicriul-magarus in hol. Si cum am iesit a inceput ploaia. Si am aflat ca au murit 2 persoane si-n timpul filmarilor. O fi filmul cursed ? Ca e cursed 2 be bad anyway, si afisul e horror.