Always loved this clip of a young Stella. RIP.
Great docu, by the way.
― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Sunday, 5 May 2024 13:33 (four months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_rRCfRdmQ
Bernard Hill, Theoden in LOTR & captain Smith in Titanic
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68962192
― StanM, Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:15 (four months ago) link
Ah man
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:22 (four months ago) link
Yosser RIP
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:30 (four months ago) link
... fuck yer Titanics and hobbits.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:31 (four months ago) link
hes exquisite in lotr, almost certainly the best performance in it
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 5 May 2024 14:32 (four months ago) link
Yeah, was just thinking that. It's a performance that is both consistent and has range, and absolutely plays off with everyone around him just so, especially Miranda Otto's Eowyn. Each of their scenes together are fantastic.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:22 (four months ago) link
(And Tom D., we never got Blackstuff over here at the time! Wish we had!)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:23 (four months ago) link
Damn RIP
His character arc is one of the more impressive and complex ones, if not the most. He's performed as flawed, prone to moments of selfishness and anger, occasional poor judgement, absolutely human, and the most astonishingly and thrillingly heroic at the perfect time. I think him and Otto were in the running for the MVPs of that series in terms of how they grounded it.
― omar little, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:28 (four months ago) link
yep his stuff in LOTR is top grade acting - what comes to mind would be someone like christopher lee; full commitment and seriousness regardless of the possible sillyness of the content
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:30 (four months ago) link
Yeah, it's very Tolkien to not let the interiority of his characters out much aside from the hobbits themselves, and so the translation to a different medium by default allows for more. That plus the screenwriting team decided -- I think rightly -- to foreground his son's death more, adding weight to his reactions and decisions. (That plus, per Hill's own mention of it in the DVD commentary, he was the one who came up with the "No parent should have to bury their child" moment, drawing on an instance some years prior where, IIRC, he'd been talking with a mother who'd lost a child in a bombing in the UK or Ireland and she said that to him. It's not Tolkien's Theoden but it absolutely works in the film.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:33 (four months ago) link
I was thinking he'd already passed but was mixing him up with fellow Blackstuff actor Michael Angelis.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:38 (four months ago) link
rip bernard hill, he nearly steals the third movie from under everyone’s noses
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:44 (four months ago) link
i didn't know who he was and i clicked on the link and went ah yeah! he was awesome! but i was totally thinking of the other dragon show. the jean reno type guy. so now i still don't remember this guy but RIP! great job. you obviously made quite an impression on real fans of the thing. for the record the other guy was my favorite character on the other dragon show. and i still like jean reno.
― scott seward, Sunday, 5 May 2024 15:53 (four months ago) link
Hill is really good in Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 5 May 2024 18:45 (four months ago) link
Late to thread. So great in lotr Every single fucking time, when he leads his people into battle screaming “deeaaaathhhhh!” my eyes fill with tearsIdk why, some weird buried dna memory of my Viking ancestors (me: 5’4” never been in a fight, chronically sickly)
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:07 (four months ago) link
Forgot he was in drowning by numbers, absolutely one of my all time favorite films
― realistic pillow (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:08 (four months ago) link
Jazz Musician, Bill Holman, 96
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:13 (four months ago) link
STEVE ALBINI
https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:22 (four months ago) link
holy shit
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:36 (four months ago) link
i dislike this very much
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:39 (four months ago) link
yeah we need his curmudgeoning now more than ever
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:41 (four months ago) link
Rip to one of the best x
― nxd, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:43 (four months ago) link
and despite his storied credentials, he'd happily record your buddy's band as well.. not one to rest on his laurels
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:48 (four months ago) link
what the actual
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:48 (four months ago) link
fuck
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:55 (four months ago) link
?!
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 16:56 (four months ago) link
what the hell??
― donna rouge, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:08 (four months ago) link
too young! And he's on the cover of this month's Wire!
― Are you addicted to struggling with your horse? (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:09 (four months ago) link
Well, this sucks.
― steely flan (suzy), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:13 (four months ago) link
What the hell
― frogbs, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:20 (four months ago) link
Good piece from last year
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:21 (four months ago) link
Heart attack apparently
― Big Bong Theory (stevie), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 17:28 (four months ago) link
Just the worst news
Only just seen this, jesus christ thats horrible news
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:09 (four months ago) link
damn
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 18:39 (four months ago) link
apparently died at his studio? I mean... if you have to go, there could be worse ways
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 19:58 (four months ago) link
It seems such a blue collar way to die, heart attack at your work place. None of your ODing after a coke binge.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 20:02 (four months ago) link
Dennis Thompson, Drummer & Final Member of The MC5
https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:06 (four months ago) link
Pete McCloskey, former Congressman and Presidential candidate.
In a 1981 interview, he stated that he thought he "was the first Republican elected opposing the war" despite the fact that his "constituency, two to one, favored the war in 1967."
McCloskey was the first member of Congress to publicly call for the impeachment of President Nixon after the Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre. He was also the first lawmaker to call for a repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that had allowed for the War in Vietnam. He chose, in early 1975, to see for himself the effects of US bombing in Cambodia, stating afterwards that his country had committed "greater evil than we have done to any country in the world, and wholly without reason, except for our benefit to fight against the Vietnamese."
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:26 (four months ago) link
Italian singer/Songwriter Giovanna Marini
https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/c61006352566429c4afc3f303db776cc/4386243/giovanna-marini-la-vivazione-la-partita-truccata-Cover-Art.jpg
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:36 (four months ago) link
xxpost Dennis Machinegun Thompson, also of one-off supergroup New Race
― StanM, Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:55 (four months ago) link
Crazy that anyone in MC5's orbit made it 75.. It's too bad Thompson won't be there for the Hall of Fame induction, I think he actually cared about it
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 9 May 2024 20:57 (four months ago) link
RIP dennis, RIP MC5 ;_;
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:32 (four months ago) link
Shirley Conran, writer and mother of designer Jasper, 91.
― steely flan (suzy), Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:37 (four months ago) link
Oh fuck, RIP Dennis ;_;
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:39 (four months ago) link
Infamous global money launderer Ramón Fonseca Mora of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm made famous in the Panama Papers investigation, 71https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-law-firm-co-founder-ramon-fonseca-mora-dies-in-hospital/
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 10 May 2024 01:48 (four months ago) link
Gosh, I'm reading Shirley Conran's novel Lace right now and have been for a couple of months. It's quite saucy... and long (over 700 pp). It's what's known as a "bonkbuster," a term I learned recently. There was a TV miniseries made of Lace in the 1980s.
― Josefa, Friday, 10 May 2024 02:05 (four months ago) link
Ha, we had a copy of Lace around the house — maybe my sister had it, I think she and her friends all read it — and as a teenager I remember skimming it for the sex scenes. There were a bunch!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 10 May 2024 02:37 (four months ago) link