Jump to content

RIP: In Memoriam Thread


Faulkner

Recommended Posts

  • Members

Absolutely! And you can also elements of gospel (of the Sister Rosetta Tharpe kind) as well as elements of the blues, this woman was from Nutbush Tennessee and never abandoned that part of her. Even as she incorporated new sounds during her career, she never abandoned what she had built before.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 3.7k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Members

I never watch the trash factory that is The View anymore, but someone sent me their opening segment today. What caught me was Sunny Hostin mentioning that in her years as a federal prosecutor (specializing in child sex crimes), she couldn't recount the number of times an abused woman or child told her that learning about Tina's story and seeing the example she set encouraged them to come forward and want better for themselves. I've seen that myself in conversations with various people whenever Tina is discussed as well.

I have to say, even without the legacy she's left behind in music/entertainment, if her lasting legacy was ultimately encouraging people (even if just one person) to deal with their trauma and want better for themselves - what more could she have asked for? That was a life well spent. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I didn't see this posted with Shaffer, Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, etc. Apologies if it has been.

Please register in order to view this content

A real full circle moment. Little Richard behind her visibly delighted is great.

For the ER fans, if you want to cry:

 

Edited by Vee
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Marlene Clark was also in Hal Ashby’s film The Landlord, a film, which besides never having gotten its fair due, really showed how luminous Diana Sands was as a leading woman and what possibilities were lost in her untimely death. Hopefully, Ms. Clark’s passing was peaceful.

Like @Veesaid, she was standout in a great many roles.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

As I mentioned, I was at one of 'em! I never thought it'd turn up again.

And yes, @DramatistDreamer The Landlord is excellent. For those who don't know, Bill Gunn wrote and/or directed all of these. While Marlene Clark isn't in it, Gunn's public television soap opera, Personal Problems - shot on old-time video - was also restored and released not long ago and is now free to watch on Kanopy. I have talked about it here in the past, back when I first saw it during the Bill Gunn retro in which Stop was screened over a decade ago in NYC, but I highly recommend all of the above. I remember Stop being pretty good.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

@Vee In some of those “esteemed” art schools, I could never understand why the works of some filmmakers were never shown in class. They will show the likes of Bertolucci (who, yes, directed visual stunning films, but even then, the characterizations that showed up on screen were often highly problematic) but not a film like the Landlord, which was a film that had great performances as well as had a lot to say, some of those issues are not only still with us but have intensified. At least when I was in one of those schools I got a sense that there was not much interest in presenting students with those types of films if it centered on a situation in the U.S. In countries like Brazil or India, sure, but not in the great US of A.

Edited by DramatistDreamer
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Yeah, Hal Ashby is held in fairly high esteem for auteurs of that era but The Landlord is definitely one of his films that regularly goes overlooked. The fact that it's a film that deals directly in issues of race vs. some of his more prominent and famous works like Harold or Maude or Being There doesn't seem like coincidence. (And Bill Gunn is an even more niche name - until recently, a lot of people I think assumed Ganja & Hess was just another sort of blaxploitation Dracula riff.)

I do wonder if Criterion will eventually pick up The Landlord. I've had the Warner Archive disc for years.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

Other Hal Ashby films are shown but not The Landlord and I believe there is a definite reason for that. Or at least a motive behind it. I can personally attest to this. Being There had a cult-like following among a certain group of instructors and students in the school I attended, but the Landlord never got so much as a mention.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • AlwaysAMC - Your posts are a crack up; they make me laugh.  Thanks.  I especially like how detailed you get enthused about something, and how you curtly and flippantly you reject that which you find subpar.  LOL.   What's great about Annie is her increasing rooting value as time goes on.   I often wanted Annie to be victorious.  Watros infuses her with an energy and a vulnerability that really works, even at times when neither should. Soap viewers often remember and talk about the Big Moments, which is fine, but what I also find really interesting is the 1-2 week time frame that follows the Big Moment.  Later, there are scenes between Annie and Rick involving a trip to the hospital (no way am I telling you why and what happens - hopefully no one does) that I think are as well done as the Big Moment.  Astonishing stuff.
    • @alwaysAMC Glad you made it to the soft rock theme. I share your disgust for the Gilly story, as many viewers did. Gilly was never a big character, but she was a part of why the early '90s feel real and different for GL, and she deserved a much better exit. This was also the last worthwhile role Amelia Marshall had on daytime (I don't even know if Passions fans would disagree). This was also Petronia Paley's only major chance at story and as someone who always appreciated her work, I'm sorry it did not go better for her. And I liked Charles Ewing a great deal on Loving, so I was even more unhappy with how they treated Griffin. It's a deeply offensive role, in many ways.  As for slapping, you may enjoy this, if you are able to find anything onscreen underneath all the ham. It really goes into hysteria in the second clip. As a bonus, you also get a quick glimpse of why the Billy and Mindy recasts were not accepted by viewers. One positive I will say about this clip is that it's one of the few times I remember the show making clear that Roger was able to defend himself if he had to do so.

      Please register in order to view this content

       
    • ER Season 15 (first-ish time) BUFFY Season 3 (First time)
    • Probably less than a NBC or ABC soap. There were occasionally slaps. Women slapped men. And parents occasionally slapped their children. There was a period when Mindy and Roxie would fight. But slaps between women were few and far between. The only one between women I can really recall is Vanessa slapping Nadine. There was once where Bea Reardon almost slapped Vanessa, but she didn't. There are probably more, but in general, I always thought CBS soaps (aside from B&B, which used to love Stephanie slapping Brooke) shied away slapping, sort of the way they limited "hell"s and "damn"s to so many per week.  
    • Please register in order to view this content

      My favorite moments are with Erika and then Robin and Tim Stickney around 7/8 minutes. There are also little yellow bumper moments with the crew, which I enjoy more than the real ones.  There's also a music video at the end to I Will Survive, with Linda Dano and JFP having a cameo (they certainly do know how to survive). Also a fun bit with a frazzled crew member showing cards with the names of every EP she presumably worked for at the show.
    • I think in the long run they can probably get more out of Gio, even though I know GM probably won't be around long enough for it to matter. The show has a real problem on how to handle Nik in future, which affected Spencer. Laura is moribund and her role in Spencer's story didn't do her many favors. They would have kept Esme around even longer. A lot of Sprina fans would have hated GM as he was replacing NAC. And even the fans who did accept him wouldn't have mattered because Frank likely would have split that relationship up ASAP. There's a good chance we'd get a Spencer/Emma pairing, only with Emma and the actress playing her getting dragged on social media every day and with people calling her a racist.
    • I like the pool set as well.  It's something different, guys and girls in skimpy clothes and all that.  I dislike when they have characters in full on business attire having meetings there though.  That seems silly. The pool depth is also ridiculous.  They should just have characters sitting on the side with their feet in the pool if they can't shoot it correctly.
    • I also assumed Tanquir was in Africa. Montega was in the Caribbean, more like Cuba.
    • I got the impression Andre was opening up to Dani about his feelings, that's why I thought he was about to admit he was in love with her. Dani has no idea that what's good for her is right in front of her face. Tomorrow we might get a love scene set to an R&B slow jam.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy