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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Obits</title>
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		<title>Eulogising Miramax</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/robert-zemeckis/eulogising-miramax.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Gallagher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Disney are most certainly feeling the pinch. The hot news this month from the studio giant with the big round ears is that Robert Zemeckis' ImageMoversDigital is set to be no more, following hot on the heels of the decision to get rid of the sadly declining Miramax.
Personally, I will shed far more tears for Miramax, than I will for IMD (though I wouldnt ever go as far as this). 
Flicking through this month's 250th Birthday Issue Empire mag (I honestly despair at their continued level of self-congratulation) the one thing that stuck out the most for me was the final page- a memorial of sorts for the now sadly departed Miramax in the genius shape of a scene from modern classic sex, lies and videotape.
While the scene wasnt actually the most memorable of the film, it brought back to me just how much I adored the film, and specifically James Spader's performance in it, the first (and astoundingly, only) time I saw it. Any film of any sort that manages to tease a good performance out of stoney-faced Andie MacDowell has got to be a winner in life as well.
And now Miramax, it seems, is officially no more.  

 
Of course this ...]]></description>
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		<title>Corey Haim Dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I doubt if anyone who saw Corey Haim on the disastrous-but-addictive reality show The Two Coreys is surprised to learn this morning that the former Lucas was found dead of a drug overdose. He spent much of two seasons on the show slurring, throwing tantrums, and crying uncontrollably. The guy was obviously on the edge from something. Now we can confirm it was drugs.

And what a waste. Haim was absolutely adorable in the role of Lucas, a nerd who falls in love with a girl out of his league. Haim had the looks and talent to completely dominate films for years. Unfortunately, Haim found drugs at an early age. Haim was even doing drugs during the shoot for The Lost Boys, his biggest role, and he was what ... sixteen years old? Drugs completely evaporated that talent, and left the kid a conceited, hollowed shell that Hollywood quickly discarded. Here he is at this time, denying the drugs that he was obviously on while making this horrible promotional video:

He mostly disappeared for several years before turning up on E! in 2001 completely wasted:

He still had the looks at this point, but his brain was pickled and useless. But as time ...]]></description>
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		<title>Former Joker, Andrew Koenig commits suicide at 41</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Batman: Dead End]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before The Dark Knight - my favourite on screen interpretation of The Joker wasn't in fact Jack Nicholson from Batman 89' but actually a small one scene stint from Andrew Koenig in Sandy Collora's fan-made short titled Batman: Dead End.

Watching the short again, it hasn't aged as well as I remember it and The Joker comes off as a little whiny and Koenig's line delivery doesn't have the right rhythm but considering this was a low-budget short, probably done in a couple of takes - I think it's a wonderful effort and addition to the Joker on screen mythology. I always hoped Koenig would be hired to reprise the role, maybe voicing an animated movie or something but alas it never happened.

The same Andrew Koenig, 41 years old and son of Star Trek's Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) and former regular on 80's t.v. drama Growing Pains, was found dead yesterday in a wooded area of a near by park after committing suicide. He hadn't been seen since 11 days previously after visiting friends in Vancouver.

Sad, too soon, of course. A guy whose talent was never fulfilled. ]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Robin Wood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 09:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was saddened this morning to hear of the week old death of great film essayist Robin Wood, news which either wasn't widely reported online or I just didn't stumble across by virtue of a busy workload.

Wood died of leukemia, aged 78, with his long time partner Richard Lippe at his side at their home in Toronto.



Wood's writings on Alfred Hitchcock helped, and greatly inspired my own essays during my university years studying "the master of suspense". My personal summations on Rear Window and Psycho were really born out of Wood's encouragement to look deeper at Hitch, to see things below the surface and to note that nothing in a Hitchcock movie was present out of coincidence.

Indeed, his greatest strength as a writer besides his elegant prose style was his ability to make you question everything in a Hitchcock movie; why this, why that, and once you began to do that, Hitchcock's movies became so incredibly easy to read because he intended the viewer to think that way. The deeper you looked into his movies, the more rewarding they often became.



I can't imagine what it must have been like writing about Hitchcock in the 1960s, at a time when the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Brittany Murphy dies aged 32</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is against me this morning, I literally have 10 minutes to knock this one out. I wasn't actually going to post anything on the site until tonight with the day I've got ahead of me but when I checked the news this morning, I couldn't ignore this story completely.

It felt right that I get something up.

Daily Mail are reporting that American actress Brittany Murphy, has passed away of a heart attack way too soon. BBC say it was natural causes, though that just doesn't happen at the age of 32. Either way it's so sad.



My favourite performance of hers was as Shellie in Sin City, where she seemed to have grown to a state where she felt completely comfortable with her body and her undenied attractiveness. From the sounds of the articles going up right now, it seems she took a nosedive physically after this movie and it's resulted in this. It's tragic, really.

I enjoyed her work in 8 Mile and her brilliant performance in Don't Say A Word. She came onto the scene in Clueless, of course.

Just felt like I was getting to know her. So sad. I'll write more later. ]]></description>
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		<title>Sgt. Howie won&#8217;t ever be forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has there ever been a more virtuous protagonist in the history of film that has suffered such an atheistic-valued, appallingly gut-wrenching and disturbingly sick exit as Sgt. Tom Howie, played by Edward Woodward in the 1973 low-budget British horror classic The Wicker Man?
Woodward's performance was so intense, so memorable
and so effective... everytime I saw him outside of this
film, I had to double take. I forgot he was only an actor,
and wasn't really dead.

I would guess not. I certainly can't think of any, not any leading or scratch that, any major character in any film that has succumbed so horribly. Woodward played the part with so much honesty and righteousness, playing a deep man of religious faith who is tested at every corner, by ever person, with the forbidden fruits of life.

SPOILER TAG: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS THE END OF THE ORIGINAL WICKER MAN...

Woodward's performance in The Wicker Man is without question, one of the best ever given by a leading man in this genre.
Edward Woodward has died, aged 79 according to the BBC. Thanks for the memories. ]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick Swayze 1952 &#8211; 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Patrick Swayze lost his two year battle with pancreatic cancer last night, passing away "peacefully" whilst surrounded by his family at his home in Houston. He was 57.

As most have attested, there was two Patrick Swayze's, both equally as compelling as the other. In my personal experience - there was the Swayze my mum fell in love with, the lean built and tough guy dancing instructor Johnny Castle from Dirty Dancing or the murdered Sam Wheat in Ghost, who just wanted to communicate with his lover from the grave.

For me, Swayze will always be the cover guy of the two VHS movies that were always on the top of my mum's video pile next to our old t.v. I always fondly remember a bus journey to Spain in 1992 when Ghost screened on the coach ride, and I remember her in floods of tears.

Then there's the one I enjoyed from Road House, Point Break and Red Dawn. A man's man, the often no-nonsense taking Swayze, the coolest guy on screen for a big run in the 80's. He kind of took over where John Travolta left off, bursting onto the scene when Travolta started to fade in 1983. His first ...]]></description>
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		<title>Life goes by pretty fast&#8230; John Hughes is dead at 59</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Before there was Judd Apatow, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith and Richard Linklater - there was John Hughes. He was the voice of the 80's generation, no doubt.

Sure James Cameron, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg and their technical innovations and imagination for the grandeur side of entertainment, forever changed how movies were made with their output in the 80's, but in terms of funny, relatable and just plain rewarding comedy - Hughes had no equal.

In a 10 year spell almost everything he struck was gold. Man, the images from these movies, the memories, the emotions, the music, the characters - what a legacy....
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, THE BREAKFAST CLUB, SIXTEEN CANDLES, WEIRD SCIENCE, PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES, UNCLE BUCK, PRETTY IN PINK, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION, THE GREAT OUTDOORS, DUTCH and HOME ALONE.
Hughes died of a heart attack today whilst taking a walk in New York. This won't be the last tribute to Hughes on this website. 
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		<title>Karl Malden dies aged 97</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately not all of us will live to 97, and with a body of work to leave behind which is as impressive and accomplished as the legendary Karl Malden, who has died today, aged 97. So many of us will leave this world with unfinished business, with things not achieved, but Malden is one of those rare talents of cinema who you believe fulfilled his ambitions, and he left a lasting legacy that couldn't have been improved on. 



But yet for such a great body of work, I always felt he was never truly given the recognition he deserved and history will forever deem him in the shadows of other giants. His three most famous roles; On the Waterfront, his Best Supporting Oscar winning role in A Streetcar Named Desire and his left field villain performance in One-Eyed Jacks, were all up against that titanic screen stealer Marlon Brando. You look too at Patton, and his brief scenes in that film would be over-shadowed by George C. Scott's amazing role. 

View more news videos at: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/video.

However it's none of those movies that I know Malden best. Instead it's his role as the chief detective in Alfred Hitchcock's superb thriller I, Confess which I remember most fondly, ...]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The King of Pop&#8221; Michael Jackson dies aged 50</title>
		<link>http://www.obsessedwithfilm.com/obits/michael-jackson-the-king-of-pop-dies-aged-50.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took the BBC an age but a little while ago they finally confirmed what the L.A. Times, TMZ and other sources had confirmed much earlier, that "The King of Pop" Michael Jackson had died aged 50, after suffering from a heart attack. He wasn't breathing when paramedics arrived at his home, so I think we all knew he was gone some time ago. 



Jackson was a few weeks short of an unprecedented 50 night tour in London, a massive comeback which many couldn't believe he would ever be able to fulfil. And indeed he won't, not that any of us thought it would end for him like this. 

I've been watching the media's coverage of this breaking news for about three hours now, can't bring myself to go to sleep. 

 

 

 

ORIGINAL POST....

 

Confusion... dead.... coma.... cardiac arrest.... Tragedy. What's going on?

Sounds to me like Michael Jackson has died. I'm watching the BBC live stream, don't wanna say much more until we hear something definite. Very sad way to end a very sad story of how an icon fell. A world without Jackson isn't one I thought I would have to contemplate just yet. 


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		<title>Farrah Fawcett, a fallen &#8220;Angel&#8221; who once upped my grades; dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my secondary school years, I had a pervert Religious Studies teacher who I'm certain once upped my grades at my biggest failing subject because I was able to provide him with a few recorded off the t.v. VHS episodes of Charlie's Angels reruns. He didn't have cable but I did, and I saw an opportunity to get a little helping hand in return for a nostalgic kick out of seeing a former crush on his small screen for him.

Of course I wouldn't be able to prove it but my version of giving my teacher a blowjob must have had some effect on my grades because they shot up but I sure didn't try any harder. 

That's what I reminded of today when I read that 70's female pin-up and Angel's original Farrah Fawcett who played Jill Munroe for one season has lost her battle with cancer, aged 62, at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was first diagnosed with the illness three years ago. 



This classic image of 70's yummy iconography will be how must remember Fawcett.
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		<title>David Carradine gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 23:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only his voice was used in the first Kill Bill movie, but his slow, precise and softly sinister tone matched with Tarantino's unique signature dialogue and visual powers of suggestion allowed David Carradine to be a bigger villain than he had been in all of his previous films combined. 

I would say that no movie in the history of cinema has an un-seen villain that hangs over a film so successfully as Kill Bill Vol. 1.

You didn't need to see his face in the first chapter to know it was David Carradine, and the weight of his filmography in the Kung Fu/Martial Arts genre filled in the blank for us. It was a role several decades in the making, but truth be told we hadn't really seen anything till Vol. 2.



In Kill Bill Vol. 2, the film is totally his. He owns it, just like Grier in Jackie Brown. Go back and watch it, he's only really in four scenes but the movie is ALL HIM. 

At 72, Carradine had a good number of roles still left in him before fate took him from this Earth today. Though his upcoming CV dangerously showed an actor who had tumbled back down to the fringes of the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Patrick McGoohan is no longer a number, he is now a free man</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 10:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick McGoohan died yesterday, aged 80.

The star, writer, director , figurehead and co-creator of the absolute classic British 60's t.v. show THE PRISONER was a man who strived to make projects he felt a connection too, that he thought would stand the test of time . He once even turned down the role of James Bond, just before Sean Connery was cast and became a worldwide icon in DR NO. This was a man who wasn't out to become famous or rich. He knew he had higher aspirations that to become a Hollywood "star".

McGoohan starred alongside Connery in the late 50's movie HELL DRIVERS. They were constantly compared but one went one way and the other a completely different route.



McGoohan became a cult icon. His show THE PRISONER found him as a former spy who was held captive in a small, mysterious village whose spirit was constantly broken as he failed time and time again to escape. It ran on ITV between 1967 and 1968 and is now regarded as one of the more perfect mini-series in the history of television...


It blended the conventions of a spy thriller, a great science fiction yarn, sometimes a horror story and always had ...]]></description>
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		<title>Khan&#8217;t Be So &#8230; Ricardo Montalban Is Gone!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cover your Corinthian leather tonight. Ricardo Montalban is dead.

To kids of the seventies, he was the mysterious Mr. Roarke on Fantasy Island.



To kids of the eighties, he was the hissing, broad-chested villain of Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.



When someone has injected themselves into popular culture as often as Montalban, it's difficult to determine their greatest role. He created a singular and unique entity in Mr. Roarke; for many, Fantasy Island was their first exposure to this striking and unforgettable performer. Then, a few years later, Montalban created one of my all-time favorite villains with the genetically-superhuman Khan. And then, at the turn of the decade, Montalban showed amazing comedic skill in the first Naked Gun moive as the dapper multimillionaire Vincent Ludwig. For me, Khan was a triumphant performance that set the tone for the entire film, as well as created perhaps the most memorable character in the long running Star Trek franchise.

I wouldn't say Montalban was a great actor, though; he was a presence. His thick, ever-present accent, his tanned good looks, his wide, muscular chest ... man, I'm getting hard just thinking about all of this ... gave his roles an air of dignified otherworldliness that ...]]></description>
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		<title>We lost too many greats in 2008&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Let's pray that is enough for now".

Well it wasn't. Post this video we lost two memorable figures from various depictions of the Batman universe, Eartha Kitt (the second Catwoman from the 60's show) and only this weekend Pat Hingle, Commissioner Gordon in the first four Warner Bros. BATMAN movies.

Here's TCM's tribute to the greats we lost in 2008. Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Heath Ledger, Richard Widmark, Stan Winston, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella.... so many icons. It's cut to “God Only Knows” by Joe Henry.

You can read all our tributes HERE. ]]></description>
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		<title>Commissioner Gordon, Pat Hingle dies.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:49:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pat Hingle appeared in all four of the Tim Burton/Joel Schumacher Batman movies and despite the respective writing teams not really knowing what to do with his Commissioner Gordon character, Hingle astonishingly always carried a presence when he would turn up onto the scene. Albeit belatedly onto the scene, it has to be said.

Hingle was a good enough character actor to make more out of the small role through his movement and tone than what was written, at least he did for my young mind when watching BATMAN and BATMAN RETURNS continuously in the mid 90's

Of course much older and wiser, and in the post-Gary Oldman era of the character when you see how good a performance is possible from the role, Hingle's Gordon looks like a bumbling fool. But somehow, call it nostalgia maybe, I like seeing his Gordon on screen when I re-watch those movies.

Hingle had a great authoritative presence, a voice that belonged in John Ford Westerns of the 30's and 40's. It's no wonder he played so many cops or gunslingers with power. Actually another memory of mine is Hingle playing in Sam Raimi's THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, the kind of supporting role he suited ...]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Mulligan, director of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, dies aged 83</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York born director Robert Mulligan literally had the weight of the literary world on his shoulders when in 1962 he adapted Harper Lee's much loved novel TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, a novel which had only just been published. Think DA VINCI CODE if it had been made just a few years earlier (I obviously mean in terms of how many people must have read it and not it's impact on everyone's lives).

But to Mulligan's great credit, he not only didn't screw the adaptation up like so many directors have of great novels before and since but he also managed to transform it into a worthy piece of cinema. A work that on it's own right, is one of the greatest drama's ever told. A movie that IMDB currently lists at No. 47, a massively high placing for a movie made in 1962 which I'm certain those who have voted FIGHT CLUB and THE USUAL SUSPECTS so high probably haven't seen.



He got an Oscar winning career performance out of Gregory Peck and along with Elmer Bernstein's memorable score, turned in a landmark film. Many directors would become more well known and have a fuller filmography of popular movies but so ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oscar nominated scribe of REAR WINDOW dies aged 89</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Michael Hayes, the Academy Award nominated scribe of REAR WINDOW died of natural causes at his home in Hannover last Wednesday, aged 89.

He was one of Alfred Hitchcock's most trusted screenwriters, bringing flirtatious and suspenseful qualities to Hitch's two Grace Kelly pics, the aforementioned REAR WINDOW and TO CATCH A THIEF.



He also worked with Hitchcock on THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY and the 1956 version of THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, the latter being a movie they fell out over after Hitchcock insisted that another previous screenwriter of his 1934 version should get a duel writing credit.

Hayes didn't agree and neither did the WGA who gave Hayes sole credit. They would never work with each other again.

Hayes went on to win another Oscar nomination for the 1957 drama PEYTON PLACE and would enjoy an instant thriving career in the 50's and 60's with high profile movies for Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner and Tony Curtis.

His last credit was the 1994 Kevin Spacey movie IRON WILL.
READ WASHINGTON POST'S OBIT TO HAYES HERE ]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Newman is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hollywood has lost another giant of cinema in 2008, the great Paul Newman died on Friday, loosing his battle with lung cancer aged 83. It was only a few weeks ago that Newman told his family, "I want to die at home" as his condition worsened in hospital.

On Friday, he got his wish, passing away at his home in Connecticut.

The one time Academy Award Winner (THE COLOR OF MONEY) and the nine time runner up, not to mention Honorary Award winner in 1986, was one of the biggest Hollywood leading men icons of the 20th Century.



With a legacy as rich as Newman's, it's difficult to look at one particular role that defined the cultural icon's career because there simply isn't one, his whole career defines him. He left an outstanding body of work, much like his great friend and collaborator Robert Redford, he was a leading man for decades and was able to adapt to the ever changing world of movie-making.



The great example of this was his amazing Oscar nominated performance as Fast "Eddie" Felson, a small time pool player in THE HUSTLER in 1961 and then 23 years later following that up with an Academy Award winning performance playing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Don LaFontaine dies aged 68</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don LaFontaine died yesterday, aged 68. He voiced over 750,000 television spots and 5,000 trailers and was the king of the voiceover.


His voice was so recognisable and chilling, Wiki call it "ominous and sonorous". I couldn't put it better myself, I always thought his voice was reminiscent of how I thought Freddy Krueger would sound in my head.

He made good looking movies, sound amazing but he could also make absolute trash actually sound half-decent. He was the voice of film for the 80's and early 90's and perfectly suited the era of the big action pop culture of the Stallone and Arnie's of this world.

I dare say if you visited the theatre as an adult during that period, you would be hard pressed to watch a trailer not voiced by him at any going visit. It's said at his peak he was recording something like 35 trailers/commercials a day.

His incredible work on Friday the 13th I would think will be his most memorable work...

Though he always contended that his trailer for The Elephant Man was his best work, which he did in a Rod Serling style-e.

His legacy will undoubtedly include the phrase "In a world...", which he perfected so well ...]]></description>
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