Conference bookie::movies

There are a couple of topics - 96 & 111  but those are specific to individuals 
at the moment.

    re. 0
    - it is true, he died from cancer with 80 yrs, I think.
    
    A.

Stewart Granger trivia: his real name was James Stewart but since it was
already being used the studio had him change it.



Randy

Vincent Price died Monday of lung cancer at the age of 82. Price was best 
known for his roles in various thrillers although they only accounted for
20 of his 110 films. He originally intended a career as an art teacher and
was enrolled in the masters program at the University of London (his under-
graduate degree was from Yale) when he auditioned for a role in the play
"Chicago" on a dare and won it. He did a lot of work as a character actor
for Fox, including _Laura_, _Song of Bernadette_, _Leave Her to Heaven_,
_Dragonwyck_, etc. He's probably best known for a series of films he made
for Roger Corman in the 60's. Needless to say it's a loss, for his wonderful
voice if nothing else.


Randy

	Re: .4

	See note 164.10 in the Vincent Price topic for a full press
	release.

Article: 1816
Message-ID: <italy-fellini-obitURb26_3OV@clarinet.com>
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.interest.people,clari.news.europe,clari.news.movies
Subject: Film director Federico Fellini dies
Copyright: 1993 by UPI, R
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 6:00:31 PST
 
	ROME (UPI) -- Italian film director Federico Fellini, who died Sunday
in a hospital after a two-week coma, was viewed as a genius by some of
his contemporaries who called him ``Il Mago'' -- the magician -- for his
ability to draw brilliant performances from amateurs.
	But to many professional actors the director's technique was far too
heavy-handed. As one of them phrased it: ``No one stars in a Fellini
picture except Fellini.''
	Fellini, 73, suffered a stroke on Aug. 3, 1993, in a hotel in his
hometown of Rimini. He had been recuperating from heart bypass surgery.
	He was reported to be recovering some mobility through therapy at a
Rome hospital when he suffered heart and respiratory failure Sunday
(Oct. 17) and lapsed into a coma.
	One of his last public appearances was last March, when he received
his fifth Oscar, an honorary statuette for his body of work, at the 65th
annual Academy Awards.
	``I really did not expect it, or perhaps I did,'' he said playfully,
``but not before another 25 years.''
	Fellini, whose four previous Academy Awards were for best foreign
language film, was unfazed by criticism that he cared nothing for his
actors' feelings, that he preferred them as blank canvasses on which he
could paint his scenes,
	He won his Oscars for ``La Strada,'' ``Nights of Cabiria,'' ``8 1/2'' --
an autobiographical film about a director making a picture -- and 
``Amarcord.''
	His wife, Giulietta Masina, starred in ``La Strada'', as a simple-
minded girl bought for a plate of pasta by strong man Anthony Quinn, and
in ``Nights of Cabiria'' as a prostitute. ``Amarcord'' was a nostalgic
record of his youth in Rimini.
	Fellini's ``La Dolce Vita'' in 1959 took the top award at Cannes and
made a star out of Marcello Mastroianni but was denounced by the Vatican
as obscene in its depiction of moral corruption and social alienation.
Catholics were forbidden to see it. After the Milan premiere a man spat
at Fellini. After the Rome premiere he was challenged to a duel.
	Fellini accepted that he was a controversial figure with his own
highly individual methods of operating. For example, he stopped filming
for two weeks on one project to give himself time to collect his
thoughts and to draw his own portraits of the kind of faces he wanted,
then sent scouts to find people like them, amateur or professional.
	When a newspaper called him ``crudely despotic'' and others accused
him of brutalizing actors and writers, he retorted, ``What am I supposed
to do, stop making films?''
	Those who admired him and felt the end justified the means were
matched anecdote for anecdote by those who felt he used everybody and
dropped them as soon as he was through, including some of his closest
aides.
	For his film ``Casanova'' in 1980, he signed a famous actor from the
Comedie Francaise who came prepared to give the performance of his life.
	``This is what you do,'' Fellini said shortly. ``You look right,
count to three. Look left, count to three. Open your mouth.''
	Star Donald Sutherland said Fellini made him file down his front
teeth and wear a completely new nose. He was not given his lines till
the very last moment. Fellini did not want to use Sutherland's voice and
when his aides protested he replied that Casanova wasn't a Canadian so
why should he use a Canadian's voice? -- though he did.
	``It's a fantastic experience working with Federico,'' Sutherland
said, ironically. ``He gives one this tremendous sense of security.''
	However he admired what Fellini managed to put on on the screen.
	During the filming of ``Casanova'' someone stole the film of three
weeks worth of shooting. Fellini and others waited for the ``filmnapper''
to make a ransom demand. But none came and he had to reshoot the scenes,
leaving the production temporarily out of money.
	Fellini was born in Rimini Jan. 20, 1920, and educated in religious
schools. In his last year in high school he began leading the shiftless
life depicted in his film ``I Vitelloni,'' which in his case meant
hanging around film studios and theaters.
	In 1938 he went to Florence and worked as proofreader and cartoonist
for a comic strip magazine, an experience that was useful later in
making ``The White Sheik.''
	Then he went on to Rome where he was a police reporter for Il Populo
di Roma and wrote and illustrated stories for a satirical publication.
In 1943 he married Masina and opened ``The Funny Face Shop'' where
American soldiers could get quick portraits and caricatures.
	Fellini by then had a reputation as a comedy writer but director
Roberto Rosselini asked him to collaborate on a serious film project.
That script became ``Open City,'' an international success.
	In 1950 Fellini directed ``Variety Lights'' on his own. It was a flop
but it convinced him he was a director and that the successful films
would come in time.
	He never looked at rushes -- screenings of scenes filmed the day
before -- delegating to his cameramen what most directors would regard an
essential task.
	He had a passion for authentic detail. In Casanova he had costumes
dyed with the same vegetable dye used in Casanova's time.
	Fellini kept photographs of interesting faces, many of them convicts.
He said once that he had a better collection than the FBI.
	The director and his wife lived for years in an apartment on the Via
Margutta in Rome, near the Spanish Steps. He was a familiar site around
the capital, in his trademark wide-brimmed hat and long scarf, soaking
up the street life from an outdoor table at the Piazza Del Popolo when
he was between film projects.
	His work pace slowed in the 1980s, but early last summer before his
stroke Fellini was working on ``Director's Notebook,'' a series being
produced with state-run RAI television.
	As one of the country's major cultural icons, the extroverted Fellini
made the most of his status. His nomination as an Italian senator for
life was seen as a reward for his artistic contribution.
	Despite international acclaim, ``Il Mago'' remained Italian to the
core and felt he produced his best work in his native land.
	``When I leave Italy I lose my bearings,'' he said during the preview
of ``Amarcord'' in Rimini. ``In any foreign country, I feel alone and
without moorings, I don't understand a thing.''

    River Phoniex died too.  (Looks like Coke)

    yep.  I finally NEXT/UNSEENED my way to it.  (After my entry)  I should
    get caught up before entering!

	Bill Bixby died from cancer yesterday at age 59.  The
	CNN HN obit. only gave his TV credits, did he have any
	[non-made-for-TV] movie credits?

    yes I believe he was in a few of Elvis' movies.....as he was a good
    friend of his.

Yes, he was very busy all around (the entries with "..." are TV series;
the rest should be self-explanatory).  Of these, Clambake and Speedway
are also Elvis movies.  Probably not comprehensive; for instance, his
most recent job of directing "Blossom" is not shown (per rules of the
database).

Birth Date: 22 January 1934, San Francisco CA
Filmography as Actor:
  "Joey Bishop Show, The" (1961)
  Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
  "My Favorite Martian" (1963)  [Tim O'Hara]
  Irma la Douce (1963)  [Tattooed Sailor]
  Ride Beyond Vengeance (1966)
  Clambake (1967)
  Speedway (1968)
  "Courtship of Eddie's Father, The" (1969)  [Tom Corbett]
  Congratulations, It's a Boy! (1971) (TV)
  Couple Takes a Wife, The (1972) (TV)
  "Magician, The" (1973)
  Magician, The (1973) (TV)
  Shirts/Skins (1973) (TV)
  Barbary Coast, The (1974) (TV)
  Apple Dumpling Gang, The (1975)  [Russel Donavan]
  "Rich Man, Poor Man" (1976) (mini)
  Great Houdinis, The (1976) (TV)
  Invasion of Johnson County, The (1976) (TV)
  Black Market Baby (1977) (TV)
  Fantasy Island (1977) (TV)
  Incredible Hulk, The (1977) (TV)
  Kentucky Fried Movie, The (1977)
  "Incredible Hulk, The" (1978)
  Murder Is Easy (1981) (TV)  [Luke Williams]
    (aka Agatha Christie's 'Murder Is Easy' (TV))
  "Goodnight, Beantown" (1983)
  International Airport (1985) (TV)
  Sin of Innocence (1986) (TV)  [David McGary]
    (aka Two Young People)
  Incredible Hulk Returns, The (1988) (TV)
  Trial of the Incredible Hulk, The (1989) (TV)
  Death of the Incredible Hulk, The (1990) (TV)  [Doctor David Banner]
  Diagnosis of Murder (1992) (TV)  [Nick Osborne]
Filmography as Director:
  Barbary Coast, The (1974) (TV)
  Trial of the Incredible Hulk, The (1989) (TV)
  Death of the Incredible Hulk, The (1990) (TV)
  Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991) (TV)
  Baby of the Bride (1991) (TV)
  Woman Who Loved Elvis, The (1993) (TV)

    Emile Ardolino, director of _Dirty Dancing_ and _The Nutcracker_, among
    others.  I don't recall the cause of death.

    re .13, I think it was AIDS.
    
    Lorna
    

    Don Ameche passed away yesterday at age 85 from cancer.

    Myrna Loy died yesterday at age 88. She was "discovered" by Rudolph
    Valentino and started her career in silent films, went on to what is
    probably her best-known role as Nora Charles in the "Thin Man" movies,
    and kept on working on stage, screen, and television until illness
    slowed her down in the last ten years or so of her life. Not a bad
    career...
    
    -b

    Someone trid telling me Kevin Beacon was killed, shot outside a bar or
    something and I hadn't heard anything about it.....so could someone
    tell me if this is true or not?
    
    Natalie

    Are you thinking perhaps of River Phoenix, who died a couple months
    back outside a bar in LA from possibly drug-related causes?
    
    - Dave

    Cesear Romero died yesterday...
    
    -sandy
    

    re.18
    
    No, I wasn't but maybe this guy was... :^{

	Telly Savalas died of prostate cancer at age 70 on Sat.
	He was best known as Kojack on TV, but he did at least
	one film (one of the Posiden adventure movies, I believe
	the "beyond ..." one).

	The newspaper said he left the hospital 3 weeks ago
	to die quietly at home near his family.  Quiet is
	the word, this obit. in the paper is the only press
	I've seen on him!!!

    
    Made a good Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and a good
    Southern-accented psycho-bigot in The Dirty Dozen.
    
    Too bad, but if he went peacefully and without pain then he made out
    pretty well.
    
    DFW

    He was also in The Battle of the Bulge.
    
    Tyrone
    

He was great in "Kelly's Heroes"!

alan

    re-1
    
    Donald Sutherland was excellant in that too.He played the hippy tank
    commander.."don't think them negative thoughts,man!" 8)
    
    
    						ian

re .24

Are you sure Telly Savalas was in "Kelly's Heroes"   ?

I can't recall the role he played.


TKS

	> Are you sure Telly Savalas was in "Kelly's Heroes"   ?

	> I can't recall the role he played.

	Absolutely positive as I watched it this last week...

	He plays the leader of the platoon of foot soldiers, the third
	of the three "gunfighters", with Eastwood and Sutherland, to
	bargain with the Tiger tank commander...

    The character was Big Joe.
                 Jeff Peters

    He was chilling homicidal in "The Dirty Dozen".

    
    
    I could never understand Donald sutherlands char in KElleys Heros.
    I mean, here it is WWII and he's acting like someone from the Beat
    generation/60's. His char is funny but somehow seems out of place.
    
                -=-=-R~C~W-=-=-

    
    	Sheriff Lobo?
    
    	That's too bad.
    
    							GTI

    Joseph Cotton, 88, died at home of pneumonia.

>     Joseph Cotton, 88, died at home of pneumonia.

	someone has subsequently created a seperate topic
	for Joseph Cotton.  Please see topic 458.

    The acclaimed film director Derek Jarman died on Sunday (20th Feb),
    after a long battle against Aids.
    
    Mikef

	Jimmy Stewarts wife died last week.  Can Jimmy be far behind?

    James Stewart's wife - Gloria

    
    
    
    
    Heard on the radio, that Dinah Shore died of cancer today.She was
    76 years old.
    
    Dave
    

    
    	I was amazed to see that the A-Team lasted 5 years.
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI

	Died yesterday (Thursday) from cancer at age 81.

	He played in early horror films, was even in a larel & hardy
	film, but is probably best known from his role in "Star Wars".

RE: .42

>> but is probably best known from his role in "Star Wars".

To me, Peter Cushing is Hammer Horror.  He made many films for Hammer, often
appearing with Christopher Lee.  The one that I always remember is "Twins of 
Dracula", where Cushing plays a puritanical village elder who is forced to 
take in his nieces (twins), one of whom becomes a bad'un, and there is much 
blood, scences with flimsy nightwear, and bad guys getting snuffed.

cheer

	..klaas..

    British director Lindsay Anderson ("If...", "O Lucky Man", etc) died
    Tuesday at the age of 71, while on vaction in France.

	In case any didn't hear last week, Raul Julia had a stroke and
	was recovering in a NY City Hospital....

	... well today he passed away :-(

	Ch. 4 news last night also reported last night that Raul Julia
	also had contracted some disease while filming in the Amazon
	jungle several years back and that he never fully recovered
	(they seem to be hinting it may be related).

His obituary in todays paper lists some (highlights) of his film credits:

The Panic in Needle Park, 1971
Eyes of Laura Mars, 1978
Tempest, 1982
Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985
Compromising Positions, 1985
The Morning After, 1986
Tango Bar, 1988
The Penitent, 1988
Moon Over Parador, 1988
Tequila Sunrise, 1988
Romero, 1989
Mack the Knife, 1989
Presumed Innocent, 1990
The Rookie, 1990
Havana, 1990
The Addams Family, 1991
The Plague, 1992
Addams Family Values, 1993

    
    	Martha Raye died last week.
    
    	Burt Lancaster died late last week.
    
    							GTI
    

    re .47

>	Ch. 4 news last night also reported last night that Raul Julia
>	also had contracted some disease while filming in the Amazon
>	jungle several years back and that he never fully recovered
>	(they seem to be hinting it may be related).

    Entertainment Tonight said he had food poisoning recently and he only
    recovered from it this past summer. Didn't mention anything about a
    disease he contracted in the Amazon. But during the interview last
    summer, he looked awfully thin.

    Lisa

Robert Lansing, most famous from 12 O'Clock high also died last week.  
Don't know what movies he was in though.

Paul

    Donald Pleasant died? Could someone post more info please? I really
    liked his work...
    
    Michael
    

    Canadian director Phillip Borsos, at 41, of leukemia, in Vancouver.  
    
    His films included "The Grey Fox," "One Magic Christmas," "Bethune: 
    The Making of a Hero," and most recently "Far From Home."
    
    -Stephen

Doug McClure died of lung cancer at age 59.

-- Nina

    
    	Who's he?
    

    Attractive, blond guy from The Virginian.  That's what I
    remember him from anyway.
    
    Sue

Wasn't he also the hero in the movie "The Land that Time Forgot"...
you know... the one with a submarine ending up in some prehistoric
land...

/scott

    .58
    
    yes, with Susan Penhaligon in a rather fetching fur bikini
    
    ric

    
    Lotsa hokey SF movies.  I'm pretty sure "The Simpson's" character actor
    that does all the lame TV ads is partially aimed at him (isn't his name
    in the cartoon "Troy McClure?")
    
    - Sean

    Lana Turner, at 75, after a battle with throat cancer.
    
    Sue