| Author | Message | ||
     Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.57.22 |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090114/ap_en_tv/obit_mcgoohan Wouldn't it be great if we all lived to be 100. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 79.187.206.46 |
Ah, fuck no. This one feels personal to me. I know it shouldn't with everything that's happening. But this man means a lot to me on many levels. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.84 |
Same here - this one makes me feel very very sad, probably because The Prisoner appealed to me on so many, many levels when I was a teenager in exactly the same way the homogenized fashion conscious bullshit we get as fantasy TV nowadays doesn't. He was creative, he was angry, he was an utter control freak, he was quite possibly a bit of a nutter, and he was responsible for one of the best pieces of modern art in any medium - a timeless classic that was intended to demonstrate the possibilities of television but instead ended up putting almost all of it to shame. RIP | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47 |
Shit, I'm sick of this. Fuck off, Death. Just fuck right off. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Indeed, RIP. A true Great. What a fucking legacy to leave behind, though... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.74.96.200 |
He probably wisely did it before the "re-imagining" appeared . . . He did his thing and no one ever really got it who didn't deserve to get it. Salutations. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Just heard Ricardo Montalban's died as well. Fuck. | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182 |
Proto- I think you just put it better than anyone else could. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.152.164 |
This year's already turning out to be a grim'un. Very sad about MacGoohan... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.208 |
And Matthew Kelly. And Bob Carolgees. And Sooty. Oops - wrong thread. Wrong bloody forum, actually... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.193 |
Did anyone spot Roger de Courcey (minus Nookie Bear) in the recent BBC remake of The 39 Steps? | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.161.253.208 |
Has a puppet ever died? | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.152.211.38 |
I haven't seen it but I understand that Meet the Feebles has lots of puppet-based sex and violence. Some marionettes in Team America died. I hear Jim Henson was working on a film early in his career about a society of real people and puppets, wherein the puppets were 2nd class citizens, and there was a murder. Sounds VERY like Roger Rabbit, now that I type it out... | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.17.14.1 |
I swear, I was scanning the videos in my local library's rental room yesterday, and I stopped on one starring Ricardo Montalban... I froze on it, I can't even remember what film it was... I was entranced for a moment by his name, no reason for me why I should be... and then today, I find out... weird.... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.233.247 |
You killed him, you bastard. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Meet the feebles has several graphic puppet deaths. After all the tag line was "Hell hath no fury like a psycho hippo with a heavy machine gun". It's possibly my favourite early Peter jackson film. On a more sombre note - John Mortimer is no more. Not really a genre loss but a sad loss to fiction itself. RIP. |