RIP: In Memoriam Thread

[BetterForgotten]

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[DRW50]

ILC was a show that I and a lot of other kids my age were crazy over in the early '90s. I am still sorry some of the finest talent from the show never had the recognition they deserved...

[victoria foxton]

 

  

[victoria foxton]

 

  

[janea4old]

I see that Michael Fairman deleted that tweet and his link.  SOD had also tweeted about this and then deleted it.

Daytime Confidential clarified:
https://daytimeconfidential.com/2022/01/02/susan-flannery-to-appear-on-e-daily-pop 
"UPDATE: Flannery's appearance on Daily Pop has been cancelled for today. No word on if or when it will be rescheduled."

[SFK]

From broadwayworld.com:

Joan Copeland, Stage and Screen Actress and Sister of Arthur Miller, Dies at 99

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Joan-Copeland-Stage-and-Screen-Actress-and-Sister-of-Arthur-Miller-Dies-at-99-20220104?utm_source=newsletterdaily&utm_medium=email

 

She played Viki's aunt Gwendolyn Lord Abbott on OLTL.

[Vee]

I didn't see this posted. @DRW50

 

[DRW50]

Thanks for finding that. The photo is from Betty's last appearance on Mama's Family - fitting. That's a lovely interview, and very honest as well.

Edited January 5, 2022 by DRW50

[victoria foxton]

 

  

[Faulkner]

Great filmmaker.

 

 

A fantastic 1972 Dick Cavett interview with Peter, Robert Altman, Mel Brooks, and Frank Capra (!) that’s worth watching if you have free time:

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His already legendary interview with Vulture from 2019:

 

[Bright Eyes]

I also highly recommend listening to season one of TCM's podcast detailing Peter Bogdanovich's career and life.

[Vee]

Oh goddamnit.

[Faulkner]

It felt like yesterday (a year ago when Cloris Leachman passed) you were talking about Texasville.

[Vee]

Was I? I don't remember. I know @DRW50saw it recently and enjoyed it.

Bogdanovich's career as a critic, rediscovering classic Hollywood filmmakers and actors and re-conceptualizing them, often in the brilliant and extensive series of interview books he did with both stars and filmmakers, did so much for the backbone of modern criticism as we know it today. And that's before we even get to his own amazing career as a director. The Last Picture Show is a masterpiece; What's Up Doc? is one of the greatest screwball comedies of all time. At Long Last Love, reviled upon release, is IMO a demented piece of musical genius. The director's cut of Texasville is a languid, witty and very human portrait of a rich characters' world.

Film geeks love to jab at Bogdanovich for his ego and inflated sense of self-importance, but I don't think they've ever (at least in my lifetime) forgotten his true value as a historian, an interviewer, a critic and yes, a director. If people have never read his interview books I hope they'll seek them out. The work he left us in print and onscreen is immeasurable; his wealth of memory and personal experience and stories, starting with his long and complex friendship with Orson Welles and going down the line, is eternal.

And here: https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/peter-bogdanovich-in-conversation.html

[BetterForgotten]

Brilliant, but troubled man by most accounts. 

I mostly remember his feud with Cher during the making and promotion of Mask. 

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