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	<title>Obsessed With Film &#187; Obits</title>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Edward Woodward]]></category>
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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>
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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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		<title>Isaac Hayes is dead at 65</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isaac Hayes died yesterday, aged 65. He was found at his home next to a treadmill, it's believed he died whilst working out but his cause of death is not yet known.


Depending on your age, you may have a very different idea as to who Hayes was but it's a testament to his work as an artist that he managed to keep himself fresh and adaptable to the ever changing world climate.

If you are in your 20's, your best memory of Hayes could well be as the voice of Chef in South Park, the popular but always satirical soul-signing chef at the school cafeteria. Amazingly at the height of South Park's popularity at the beginning of the decade, Hayes even had a U.K. number one single as Chef with the hilariously stupid Chocolate Salty Balls (P.S. I Love You) which I'm not ashamed to admit, I actually purchased.


Hayes left the show in 2006 when an episode aired the previous year titled Trapped in the Closet which was an attack on Scientology and particularly the media sensation that surrounded Tom Cruise at the time which Hayes (as he was an open scientologist) didn't appear in or agree with.

After continuing questions about ...]]></description>
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		<title>Actor/comedian Bernie Mac dies aged 50</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most unfortunate irony of all ironies is that no less than 30 minutes ago I was watching Ocean's Thirteen for the second time, just marveling at what a wonderful cast of faces and personalities Stephen Soderbergh had managed to put together for his trilogy.

And then I come home and I have to report on this news which has come to a shock to me, a real, real shock.

BBC report that actor/comedian and all round likeable on screen personality Bernie Mac has died aged 50. It's said he was hospitalized last week for Pneumonia and sadly it proved to be fatal earlier today.


Born in 1957 as Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago, Illinois - Mac was brought up in relative poverty, a popular notion (which is attributed to his uncle) is that he once lived in a two bedroom apartment with nine other people.

His childhood inspiration was comedian Bill Cosby and with such a great icon to look up to, it only took him to the age of 20 before he was a regular at Chicago's Cotton Club even if the money was enough to keep him living. He worked as a janitor, furniture mover, appliance hauler, and delivery man so ...]]></description>
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		<title>Stan Winston Is Gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ray DeRousse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you think about the hacks, vultures, and whores that spill over the top of the Hollywood puke bucket, you really begin to appreciate a man like STAN WINSTON. As a technological visionary, his foresight and talent is nearly unmatched in the long history of cinema. As a person, he was positive, optimistic, and boundlessly energetic. In other words, he was a class act in a classless business.

The mere mention of his credits elicits awe and childlike glee among movie fans: TERMINATOR 2, JURASSIC PARK, PREDATOR, ALIEN NATION, ALIENS, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, and IRON MAN. His creations in these films - the T-Rex, the Alien Queen, the red-eyed Terminator exoskeleton, and the Predator alien - are the definition of iconic, instant legends that seared pop culture. Winston's secret to success was his ability to distill performances from jiggling pieces of rubber and hissing hydraulic hoses. Unlike other effects artists, Winston was never content with a puppet's ability to move; he wanted it to feel alive.

For me, Winston's greatest asset was his ability to collaborate in the movie process. His creations, as spectacular as they always were, never overshadowed or betrayed other departments or technical credits. For instance, take the amazing T-Rex ...]]></description>
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		<title>Alexander Courage &#8211; composer of the original STAR TREK theme is gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Courage, the composer of the memorable and iconic original 60's Star Trek theme which now transcends that series and is a score of popular culture - passed away at his California home on May 15th.

The exotic tune played at the opening credits of all three of the original Star Trek seasons but it's the memorable opening of an electric tune then building fanfare which would go on to truly define Star Trek for decades to come in both Star Trek: The Next Generation and every big screen Trek movie barring one... would open with a variation on that familiar opening.

Michael Giacchino, the composer of the new Star Trek reboot had this to say...
I feel that Star Trek owes a great deal to the music of Jerry Goldsmith. His work for the movie series is just amazing. However, in my opinion, Alexander Courage is responsible for the musical heart to the world of Star Trek. I feel that if you were to strip away everything, bit by bit, in order of importance, the last thing you would be holding in your hands would be the sheet music for the opening fanfare to the Star Trek Main Theme. To me, that ...]]></description>
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		<title>Sydney Pollack is dead at 73</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 06:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Holmes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prolific actor, producer, director and all around nice guy - Sydney Pollack died at his home yesterday, losing his battle with cancer at the age of 73.

Pollack worked in the industry successfully for three decades, never suffering a dip in his career, though he never really changed his methods or persona. They say truly talented people can work in the industry during any era, and Pollack certainly carried that sense about him. Always in demand for making movies, always with interesting stories to tell or characters to play. He leaves behind a fantastic film legacy...

20 movies as a director...

Pollack's finest achievement, Out of Africa - a movie that won him a Best Director and Best Picture Oscar about a doomed love affair between Robert Redford and Meryl Streep set in 20th century Kenya.

He was also Oscar nominated for Tootsie, where Pollack's off screen disagreements with star Dustin Hoffman became legendary, adding extra authenticity to their scenes together in the movie. It's probably the most fun way to remember Pollack, watching him get angrier and angrier as the movie goes on.

And They Shoot Horses Don't They?

Other notable films, being the pretty decent Tom Cruise thriller The Firm, a movie which is ...]]></description>
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