Rest in Peace..2007 version

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I'm at a loss for words.



The French mime artist Marcel Marceau has died at the age of 84, his family has announced.
The performer was known around the world for his portrayal of a white-faced clown with battered hat.

Born in Strasbourg in 1923, Marceau studied under mime master Etienne Decroux in Paris.

His daughter Camille said he died on Saturday evening, adding that details of the burial at Paris's Pere Lachaise cemetery would be given out later.

[Disease]

One less mime..... damn!

[newb]

The older people will know who this is.

LOS ANGELES - Robert Goulet, the strikingly handsome singer with the rich baritone who soared to stardom on the Broadway stage in 1960 playing Lancelot in the original production of "Camelot," died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. A native of Lawrence, Mass., he was 73.

Mr. Goulet, who recently had been diagnosed with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, was awaiting a lung transplant, said Norm Johnson, a spokesman for the singer.

The singer had fallen ill while flying home to Las Vegas after performing at a Sept. 20 concert in Syracuse, N.Y.

"Robert Goulet was a monumental presence on the stage and had one of the great voices of all time, which often overshadowed his many other talents," pianist Roger Williams said in a statement yesterday. "He really could do it all - act, dance, and was as funny as hell, especially when he was making fun of himself. Robert always took his craft seriously but never took himself seriously. Oh, how we will miss this great guy."

Mr. Goulet had moved to Canada when he was a teenager and had been a popular singer on Canadian television when he auditioned for the role of the brave young knight in Lerner and Loewe's "Camelot," opposite Julie Andrews' Guinevere and Richard Burton's Arthur.

[GorePhobia]

I know who Robert Goulet is and it's a shame we lost him.

RIP Robert

[Doc Faustus]

On March 17th, we lost the great Freddie Francis. Cinematographer for the Elephant Man, director of several Hammer films including Paranoiac and Dracula has Risen from the Grave, and one of the masters of contemporary English Gothic. Just a few weeks back, it was Charles Griffith, the mind behind Little Shop of Horrors, a Bucket of Blood and other brilliant drive-in schlock. Lastly, let us not forget Ingmar Bergman, who left a serious footprint on the genre with the Virgin Spring, and contemporary variation on the Medieval morality play the Seventh Seal. Geniuses all.

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R.I.P all of you. You will be remembered.

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Best known for his haunting works "Rosemary's Baby" and "The Boys from Brazil," author Ira Levin died Monday of a heart attack at the age of 78.



Levin was a playwright and television scribe whose first novel "A Kiss Before Dying" was published in '54. And like many of his books, it was adapted for the screen. "Rosemary's Baby" - the story of a New York wife selected to give birth to the child of Satan - arrived on shelves 14 years later. Roman Polanski masterfully adapted the tale in 1968.

"The Boys from Brazil" and other property's followed including "The Stepford Wives" and "Sliver."

"Deathtrap", a comedy-thriller by Levin, ran four years on Broadway, and was crisply done for the cinema by Christopher Reeve and Michael Caine.

In Levin's play "Dr. Cook's Garden", the friendly doctor in an idyllic Vermont community has been pruning more than just his garden. Bing Crosby played Dr. Cook in a pretty good TV movie, way back in 1971.

Levin's next novel was "This Perfect Day", a subversive science-fiction story set in a future where disease, deformity, discrimination and all other societal ills have been cured, and everyone's immunized every week. Remarkably, This Perfect Day has never been filmed, and these days it's probably too radical for Hollywood to try.

Levin is survived by three sons and three grandsons.

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Oh my god...I...I can't think of anything to say.

[newb]

R.I.P. Mr. Levin

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Costume designer Marit Allen, who created wardrobe for films including "Brokeback Mountain," "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" died of a brain aneurism on Nov. 26 in Sydney, Australia. She was 66.

At the time of her death, Allen was working with George Miller on the Warner Bros' super-hero adventure, "Justice League of America."

Helmer Nicolas Roeg persuaded Allen to enter the film business from a career in fashion journalism, and she went on to work on Roeg films including "Don't Look Now," "Bad Timing," "Eureka" and "The Witches."

She also worked frequently with Ang Lee, on films including "Ride with the Devil" and "Hulk."

Over a career that spanned 33 years, her feature credits included "La Vie en Rose," "Love in the Time of Cholera," Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man," "Mermaids," "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and "Little Shop of Horrors."

Nominated for two Emmys, a BAFTA and a Costume Designer's Guild award, Allen was born in England and graduated from U. of Grenoble, France. She began her career in 1961 working for Queen Magazine in the fashion department as a trainee and quickly rose to edit and write the young fashion pages. She moved to British Vogue in 1963, and spent 10 years there during the height of the swinging London scene. In 1973, she established the bachelor's degree course in Journalism at Central St. Martin's Art College.

She is survived by a son, two daughters, a sister and two grandchildren.