Members SFK Posted September 19, 2022 Members Share Posted September 19, 2022 Marva Hicks (Jacara, OLTL) has passed away. https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2022/09/marva-hicks-dead-broadway-actor-lion-king-motown-musical-1235122319/amp/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted September 19, 2022 Members Share Posted September 19, 2022 (edited) @SFK Sorry to hear this. I had been thinking of Jacara recently when @Vee and a few of us were talking about Labine-era OLTL. Marva was really too good for soaps or the show by that point, honestly. She certainly seems to have had a very distinguished career elsewhere. Edited September 19, 2022 by DRW50 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Faulkner Posted September 23, 2022 Author Members Share Posted September 23, 2022 (edited) Sad, unexpected news. If you want to read Wolf Hall, the ebook is on sale on Amazon for $2.99. Edited September 23, 2022 by Faulkner 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted September 24, 2022 Members Share Posted September 24, 2022 A terrific speech. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted September 24, 2022 Members Share Posted September 24, 2022 (edited) Louise Fletcher was so good in so many things (and was the inspiration for Lily Tomlin's character in Nashville but didn't get the part, something she never forgave Robert Altman for), but there was such a specific artistry and tone to her work that it could be mistaken for stilted or alien. It wasn't, it was simply on its own unmistakable wavelength. Most know her from her big Oscar-winning role, but I know her best from Flowers in the Attic and other roles, like when I watched her valiantly attempt to carry the weight of the hysterically bad Exorcist II: The Heretic (in a role originally written for George Segal) - nothing broke her stride. Most of all, I'll remember her most as the very complex antiheroine/villain Kai Winn on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a character that ran the gamut of everything from religious fundamentalist to a quietly revolutionary woman of faith, from a craven and ambitious power player to a broken and disillusioned ex-believer, to a liberated woman who finally finds personal passion in the arms of a terrible dark force. Edited September 24, 2022 by Vee 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Contessa Donatella Posted September 24, 2022 Members Share Posted September 24, 2022 (edited) I'm so sad. It helps to read your write-up & remember her in things. But, the thing I remember most fondly was the last movie Natalie Wood made, with Christopher Walken, and L. Fletcher was an anchor in that drama. I'm blank on the name but it will come to me later today. I am glad she was 88! I was too impatient to wait, thinking about it, so I looked it up. It was called "Brainstorm". Edited September 24, 2022 by Tonksadora looked up the name 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Taoboi Posted September 24, 2022 Members Share Posted September 24, 2022 (edited) Le sigh. That is sad to hear. Louise Fletcher in Flowers in the Attic was the stuff of nightmares to me as a kid. RIP Edited September 24, 2022 by Taoboi 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted September 25, 2022 Members Share Posted September 25, 2022 That's also where I first saw Louise, along with absolute trash like Two Moon Junction and its sequel that would run on pay cable late at night. She was luminous and you never felt like she was slumming, even though she was. I wish she'd gotten the part in Nashville. I love Lily Tomlin, but she doesn't do anything for me in that role, and when I rewatch the movie I tend to skip most of that storyline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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