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Dianne Feinstein has passed away:

 

BREAKING: Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a trailblazer in U.S. politics and the longest-serving woman in the Senate, has died at 90. https://t.co/NFExqhBvMZ pic.twitter.com/pEHAANiGyU

— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 29, 2023

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These aggressive brain cancers are merciless.

Tim Wakefield, the knuckleball pitcher who helped the Boston Red Sox win two World Series titles, has died of brain cancer at age 57. https://t.co/ul37BFJiwi

— ESPN (@espn) October 1, 2023

On 9/29/2023 at 8:23 AM, Faulkner said:

Dianne Feinstein has passed away:

 

The other day when I woke up & first thing read that she had passed & I thought about that day in San Francisco when Harvey Milk was assassinated & she was not only there that day but tried to save him & then held him in her arms & I've always thought that her life was forged in that crucible of those events that day. And I just keep thinking about it. And her end of life was so difficult & now she's at peace. I have always had so much admiration for her & she is such a loss to our society, but I know she needed to go. What a servant she was!! Many happy returns, Madam, and rest in power and peace. The thoughts of many go with you. 

On 9/3/2023 at 10:58 PM, I Am A Swede said:

 

 

On 9/3/2023 at 11:46 PM, DRW50 said:

Sorry to hear about Gayle's passing. She was also a very known pulp/B-movie actress for years.

Gayle played an English aristocrat on Dallas and she ended up a real one when her longtime husband was knighted. Born Gayle Hunnicutt, she died Gayle, Lady Jenkins.

Unbelievably sad. What an underrated giant. His last feature-length film, “Benediction,” is a powerful gem that somehow got slept on.

Terence Davies, Esteemed British Director of 'Distant Voices, Still Lives,' Dies at 77 https://t.co/bFOlCFGCM2

— Variety (@Variety) October 7, 2023

His final work, a short film.

I shared this before but few months ago I drunk messaged Terence Davies on instagram to tell him how much I loved Benediction thinking he’d not see it. He replied kindly a few hours later. He was my favorite filmmaker and his work meant a lot to me. Hope he rests in peace. pic.twitter.com/T5RDXMuy67

— ege e.a. (@egeofanatolia) October 7, 2023

Related: We should all be as livid about Downton Abbey as Terence Davies was when I interviewed him once pic.twitter.com/TmB87MFjGI

— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) November 21, 2019

When @SightSoundmag asked me last week to pen an obituary for Terence Davies, I was decimated. I also knew nothing I wrote in the space allotted could do justice to the films or to the human being. It was an honor to have lived with his cinema.https://t.co/S8j6NqXiTX pic.twitter.com/aMSMrMxxfE

— Reverse Shot (@reverse_shot) October 7, 2023

When I first saw Benediction last year—the most wracking experience I’ve had in a theater—I sent an effusive letter to Terence via his Instagram, from which I received this characteristically generous and thoughtful reply. I’m so grateful that I got to express my thanks to him pic.twitter.com/pNxjzr1cyA

— 𝔅𝔯𝔦𝔞𝔫 🦇 (@_Sheehogue_) October 7, 2023

 

 

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Thank you @Faulkner for gathering all this together I never would have seen otherwise.

Same sentiments as DR. I honestly was not familiar with his work, but because of you I know now that I have to rectify that.

16 hours ago, DRW50 said:

Thank you @Faulkner for gathering all this together I never would have seen otherwise.

 

16 hours ago, Bright Eyes said:

Same sentiments as DR. I honestly was not familiar with his work, but because of you I know now that I have to rectify that.

You’re welcome. Someone posted the various streaming services that have his films. Benediction is on Hulu:

Wow. Another shocker. Used to watch him all the time on Food Network. Was being treated for an allergic reaction and died from anaphylactic shock.

Michael Chiarello, Celebrity Chef and Former Food Network Star, Dies at 61 https://t.co/fTs1edb6Es

— Variety (@Variety) October 8, 2023

I don’t know if I knew about his sexual harassment allegations. There have been so many cases.

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I remember when some of Davies' more recent films opened in NYC to much acclaim. I've always meant to dig into his explorations of his youth from a gay perspective. Now I'll have to.

https://deadline.com/2023/10/anthony-hickox-dead-horror-director-of-waxwork-hellraiser-iii-was-64-1235568541/

Legendary comics creator Keith Giffen has died.

Giffen is known best for his classic work on my beloved Legion of Super-Heroes and his irreverent, fun revival of the Justice League in the late '80s, as well as co-creating Rocket Raccoon from Guardians of the Galaxy, Lobo, Ambush Bug and many other characters and books. But I grew up with, and loved best, his controversial late '80s revamp of the OG Legion in 1989, the "Five Years Later" Legion, which was basically thirtysomething in space with a bold new art style, formal/panel experimentation, no uniforms or codenames and a lot of controversial changes, where the teenage superheroes had grown up, gotten old and tired, facing down a corrupt universe that had left them behind. It was both of a piece with the deconstructionist movement of the period in comics yet also way ahead of its time progressively; a mature, epic saga, it's only been more appreciated in recent times.

Edited October 12, 20232 yr by Vee

@Vee Thank you for shining more of a light on Keith Giffen. I don't have the full experiences with his work that you do, but I still remember reading through the Darkseid issues he and Paul Levitz created in the early '80s. The Legion were moribund for a very long time, but Giffen and Levitz gave them a sense of not only purpose, but of wonder, alongside an increasingly complex outline of their world. I think what I remember most about the Great Darkness issues are how well they used poor, long-maligned Supergirl, and how much they seemed to influence the tone taken in some of the Crisis - life and death stakes among bleak space rocks.

I also have to give a lot of credit to Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis for what they did with the Justice League. As one of the people who enjoyed the disastrously received reboot with Vibe, Gypsy, Vixen, etc. the shift to the wacky humor wasn't entirely to my taste, but I appreciated the spotlight on lesser known characters and the shift to Europe and international waters. Their Justice League run felt very, very much on the nose for that time and place, yet without chasing the grimdark highs or event-mania that would go on to gut comics to their core in the '90s.