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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 17, 2019 13:22:30 GMT -5
Also director Franco Zeffirelli, at age 96. Probably best known for Romeo & Juliet (complete with nudity) and Jesus of Nazareth. Was also a conservative politician in Italy, in the late 90s. Complicated guy.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 21, 2019 14:21:40 GMT -5
R. I. P. the Vertigo Imprint. Also Zoom and Ink. To be fair, Vertigo was largely dead as soon as Karen Berger left and was definitely dead when Shelly Bond was let go. Still it's sad to say goodbye to an imprint that truly did change the industry and at one time was the gold-standard for comics.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 21, 2019 17:48:32 GMT -5
Also director Franco Zeffirelli, at age 96. Probably best known for Romeo & Juliet (complete with nudity) and Jesus of Nazareth. Was also a conservative politician in Italy, in the late 90s. Complicated guy. Zeffirelli's version of Hamlet, the one with Mel Gibson and Helena Bonham-Carter, is my favorite Shakesperean film. He didn't film the play, he used it to make a movie. Big difference.
Cei-U! I summon the fallen titan!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2019 0:09:40 GMT -5
R. I. P. the Vertigo Imprint. Also Zoom and Ink. To be fair, Vertigo was largely dead as soon as Karen Berger left and was definitely dead when Shelly Bond was let go. Still it's sad to say goodbye to an imprint that truly did change the industry and at one time was the gold-standard for comics. It died when WB decided to change the contracts and no longer actually do creator-owned comics. It became you create the ideas, we'll publish it and give you a few crumbs from the fruit of your efforts that we'll call creator participation When you financially disincetivize people bringing their best ideas to you and incentivize them to go elsewhere (in this case usually Image), you can't act surprised when the line tanks. WB essentially ripped the heart of of Vertigo then, and it just took until now for them to pull the sheet over the corpse they created then. -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 22, 2019 18:58:14 GMT -5
R. I. P. the Vertigo Imprint. Also Zoom and Ink. To be fair, Vertigo was largely dead as soon as Karen Berger left and was definitely dead when Shelly Bond was let go. Still it's sad to say goodbye to an imprint that truly did change the industry and at one time was the gold-standard for comics. Kind of like Epic, when Archie Goodwin punched out.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 23, 2019 7:21:05 GMT -5
R. I. P. the Vertigo Imprint. Also Zoom and Ink. To be fair, Vertigo was largely dead as soon as Karen Berger left and was definitely dead when Shelly Bond was let go. Still it's sad to say goodbye to an imprint that truly did change the industry and at one time was the gold-standard for comics. Kind of like Epic, when Archie Goodwin punched out. I didn't hear that they refused to give the creators ownership, but I did read somewhere that they didn't Pay Starlin sometimes. So it was a disincentive to stay there.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 23, 2019 8:32:45 GMT -5
Kind of like Epic, when Archie Goodwin punched out. I didn't hear that they refused to give the creators ownership, but I did read somewhere that they didn't Pay Starlin sometimes. So it was a disincentive to stay there. I'm referring more to the idea that the imprint really reflected the vision and dynamic of the editor. Berger for Vertigo, Goodwin for Epic.
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Post by beccabear67 on Jun 23, 2019 15:52:48 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jun 23, 2019 17:21:08 GMT -5
Awww...man. Dude was supremely talented. 100 years is a long haul.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 23, 2019 20:56:32 GMT -5
Judith Krantz has died at age 91. I read her best-known novel, Scruples, years and years ago and was decidedly unimpressed. But somebody must've liked her books because they made her a boatload of money. Condolences to her family, friends, and fans.
Cei-U! I summon the Queen of the Trashy Novel!
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 25, 2019 12:24:14 GMT -5
Judith Krantz has died at age 91. I read her best-known novel, Scruples, years and years ago and was decidedly unimpressed. But somebody must've liked her books because they made her a boatload of money. Condolences to her family, friends, and fans. Cei-U! I summon the Queen of the Trashy Novel! Same people who bought Jackie Collins, Danielle Steele and Mary Higgins Clark. Never underestimate the attraction of trash to middle aged and senior women. By the same token, you could sell their husbands other some book about how to improve their golf swing or a CIA analyst who kills thousands of trained assassins.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2019 21:31:57 GMT -5
A pair of Hollywood actors passed today... Max Wright, best known for his role on Alf as Willie Tanner, passed at age 75 and Billy Drago, known for his roles in The Untouchables, Pale Rider and Charmed, passed at age 73 -M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 27, 2019 13:40:19 GMT -5
Max Wright was a great guest actor, for years, before Alf. Always did a great and memorable job with even the smallest roles.
Drago was the kind of actor who was rarely going to play the good guy. He was born to play a villain.
"Your friend died screaming, like a stuck Irish pig!"
The Untouchables is pure fantasy (Nitti committed suicide, in 1943); but, Drago helped make it engaging fantasy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2019 16:37:48 GMT -5
Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs passed away this morning in Texas at age 27. No cause of death has been released. Tonight's game against the Texas Rangers has been postponed.
-M
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 1, 2019 23:50:51 GMT -5
Yeah, saw that on NPR's site; found unresponsive, in his hotel room. That doesn't sound good. One presumes that he would be subject to physicals, for the major leagues, that would have caught something like a heart condition, which leaves some other, depressing possibilities. Whatever the cause, 27 is a baby.
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