R.i.p 2010

[The_Return]

Wow...shit couple of days.

RIP

[newb]

30 years ago today



most of you weren't even born yet.

[cheebacheeba]

I was about a month and a half away from being born...a few of his songs
(Imagine and Starting over) were still huge on the charts on the day I was born.

[TheWickerFan]

I was 11 years old at the time, but I remember hearing the news clearly. Such an awful tragedy.

[Elvis_Christ]

Also 30 years ago today...

[Sistinas666]

R.I.P. Darby.

[_____V_____]

FANGORIA reports the passing of beloved French erotic-horror filmmaker Jean Rollin.

The director died last night, after a long illness. He was 72.

Fans of European genre films, especially those coming out of the free-thinking 1970s, are no doubt aware of the work of Rollin—a talented, gentle poet of sensual horror, a man who made personal, lush and haunting works that were often ghettoized alongside the efforts of some of his more crass contemporaries and yet almost always offered something more, something richer and more melancholy.

With films like THE NUDE VAMPIRE, REQUIEM FOR A VAMPIRE, LIPS OF BLOOD, FASCINATION, THE LIVING DEAD GIRL and THE GRAPES OF DEATH, Rollin left behind a body of work as infatuated with spurting blood as it was enamored of the curves of the female form, often depicting both within the same frame. Like his colleague Jess Franco (with whom he unofficially “collaborated on VIRGIN AMONG THE LIVING DEAD and ZOMBIE LAKE), Rollin employed a variety of pseudonyms, depending on the quality of his work and the genres they fell under. Some of those nom de plume pictures included several works of hardcore pornography, a strain of cinema the director was never fully comfortable making.

Loved by legions, misunderstood by many and sadly ignored by the rest, Rollin's work is widely available on DVD and is ready to be rediscovered. Within the confines of his catalogue you will find beauty, surrealism, sex, sadness and very real human truths hiding within a fantastical world. There really was no one quite like him.

Deepest sympathies and respect to his friends and family.

To learn more about Jean Rollin’s legacy, visit the official site -

http://www.shockingimages.com/rollin

[zwoti]

[_____V_____]

Yet another legend of a genre falls...


Blake Edwards 1922–2010


LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Edwards, the veteran writer and director behind the Pink Panther movies, has sadly died at the age of 88.

Edwards died from complications of pneumonia at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, said publicist Gene Schwam. Blake's wife, Julie Andrews, and other family members were at his side. He had been hospitalized for about two weeks.

In a career that stretched back to the mid-50s, Edwards was oversaw the creation of more than 30 films, including the seafaring comedy Operation Petticoat, starring Cary Grant and Tony Curtis, and the classic Breakfast At Tiffany’s, which starred Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard.

He then went on to write and direct the enormously successful The Pink Panther in 1963, the comedy starring David Niven as the suave thief attempting to steal the gigantic diamond of the title, and Peter Sellers as the bumbling French inspector Jacques Clouseau.

The success of The Pink Panther saw Edwards return to direct seven sequels, including A Shot In The Dark (1964), The Return Of The Pink Panther (1975) and Son Of The Pink Panther (1993).

Outside the Pink Panther films, Edwards found success with the 1979 comedy, 10, starring Dudley Moore and Bo Derek, and Blind Date, a pre-Die Hard hit for Bruce Willis.

Despite his inarguable brilliance behind the camera, Edwards never won an Oscar himself, though he was presented with an Honorary Award in 2004.

Both versatile and prolific, Blake Edwards will be remembered as one of Hollywood’s great comedy directors, and will be greatly missed.

R.I.P.

[newb]

Originally Posted by zwoti

damn.......didn't realize he was that old.

R.I.P.


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