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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 25, 2022 20:48:16 GMT -5
He also did an episode of Babylon 5, as a man searching for the Holy Grail. For me, it will always be three performances: Sark/Dillinger, in Tron; Dr John Leslie Stephenson/Jack the Ripper, in Time After Time; and, especially, Evil, in Time Bandits.  He was great in A Christmas Carol with George C Scott as Scrooge and himself as Bob Cratchet. Yeah that was a good one, apart from Scott's attempts at an English accent. One of his (Warner) rare sympathetic turns, too. I had forgot that he voiced The Lobe, in Freakazoid. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 25, 2022 21:04:03 GMT -5
Also passing away was Japanese actress Yoko Shimada, best known for playing Lady Mariko, in the mini-series adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun.  She had a long career in Japan, including the original Kamen Rider hero series, in 1971; but, it was as Lady Mariko, love interest to Richard Chamberlain's John Blackthorne. The character was one of the standouts of the mini-series and her role also had her work in many scenes, with Toshiro Mifune, as Lord Toronaga. The character inspire Mariko Yashida, Wolverine's love interest, in The X-Men and his solo mini-series, from Claremont and Frank Miller. She had further comic connections in that she appeared in the 1995 Canadian adaptation of Crying Freeman (starring Mark Dacascos), based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami. One of her stranger features is Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears. It's a movie about a woman who supports her family, who wants to be a pro wrestler and finally meets a trainer and begins a career. She is one of the few legit actors in the thing, though I can't tell what her role is, as there isn't much info about it. he character is Devil Naomi, which sounds like a wrestler; but, I doubt she actually wrestles in it. the rest of the cast is a who's who of Japanese women's pro wrestling, from the early 90s including Chigusa Nagayo (of the legendary Crush Gals, who were both wrestlers and pop stars, in Japan, spawning a generation of young women who desired to be wrestlers), Aja Kong, Bull Nakano, Kyoko Inoue, Kaori Fuji, and Manami Toyota. It was, apparently, an attempt to create a film vehicle for Nagayo, based on her fame with the Crush Gals. They were massive stars, in Japan, in the late 80s. |
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Post by foxley on Jul 26, 2022 2:42:42 GMT -5
R.I.P. Paul Sorvino. Probably best known as Paulie in Goodfellas. I also really liked him as Frank Costello in Godfather of Harlem. Just a ton of great roles over a very long quality career.  And Sgt. Phil Cerreta back in the early days of Law & Order. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 26, 2022 3:42:41 GMT -5
Also passing away was Japanese actress Yoko Shimada, best known for playing Lady Mariko, in the mini-series adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun. She had a long career in Japan, including the original Kamen Rider hero series, in 1971; but, it was as Lady Mariko, love interest to Richard Chamberlain's John Blackthorne. The character was one of the standouts of the mini-series and her role also had her work in many scenes, with Toshiro Mifune, as Lord Toronaga. The character inspire Mariko Yashida, Wolverine's love interest, in The X-Men and his solo mini-series, from Claremont and Frank Miller. She had further comic connections in that she appeared in the 1995 Canadian adaptation of Crying Freeman (starring Mark Dacascos), based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami. One of her stranger features is Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears. It's a movie about a woman who supports her family, who wants to be a pro wrestler and finally meets a trainer and begins a career. She is one of the few legit actors in the thing, though I can't tell what her role is, as there isn't much info about it. he character is Devil Naomi, which sounds like a wrestler; but, I doubt she actually wrestles in it. the rest of the cast is a who's who of Japanese women's pro wrestling, from the early 90s including Chigusa Nagayo (of the legendary Crush Gals, who were both wrestlers and pop stars, in Japan, spawning a generation of young women who desired to be wrestlers), Aja Kong, Bull Nakano, Kyoko Inoue, Kaori Fuji, and Manami Toyota. It was, apparently, an attempt to create a film vehicle for Nagayo, based on her fame with the Crush Gals. They were massive stars, in Japan, in the late 80s. How old was she when she passed ? |
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Post by foxley on Jul 26, 2022 5:12:00 GMT -5
Also passing away was Japanese actress Yoko Shimada, best known for playing Lady Mariko, in the mini-series adaptation of James Clavell's Shogun. She had a long career in Japan, including the original Kamen Rider hero series, in 1971; but, it was as Lady Mariko, love interest to Richard Chamberlain's John Blackthorne. The character was one of the standouts of the mini-series and her role also had her work in many scenes, with Toshiro Mifune, as Lord Toronaga. The character inspire Mariko Yashida, Wolverine's love interest, in The X-Men and his solo mini-series, from Claremont and Frank Miller. She had further comic connections in that she appeared in the 1995 Canadian adaptation of Crying Freeman (starring Mark Dacascos), based on the manga by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami. One of her stranger features is Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears. It's a movie about a woman who supports her family, who wants to be a pro wrestler and finally meets a trainer and begins a career. She is one of the few legit actors in the thing, though I can't tell what her role is, as there isn't much info about it. he character is Devil Naomi, which sounds like a wrestler; but, I doubt she actually wrestles in it. the rest of the cast is a who's who of Japanese women's pro wrestling, from the early 90s including Chigusa Nagayo (of the legendary Crush Gals, who were both wrestlers and pop stars, in Japan, spawning a generation of young women who desired to be wrestlers), Aja Kong, Bull Nakano, Kyoko Inoue, Kaori Fuji, and Manami Toyota. It was, apparently, an attempt to create a film vehicle for Nagayo, based on her fame with the Crush Gals. They were massive stars, in Japan, in the late 80s. How old was she when she passed ? 69, according to IMDB. |
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Post by commond on Jul 26, 2022 8:51:02 GMT -5
Yoko Shimada had a pretty severe fall from grace after her affair with Yuya Uchida. She ended up being in huge debt which led to a bunch of scandals. She actually does do some wrestling scenes in that film. It's kind of an interesting film as it was based on a stage play by the famous Japanese playwright, Kohei Tsuka, and directed by noted Samurai film director, Eiichi Kudo. Chigusa had a role in one of Tsuka's plays following her first retirement in '89, and he was so impressed by her that he wrote an entire play about her and women's professional wrestling. They shot the film in actual wrestling venues with real fans, which apparently inspired Chigusa to make her comeback in '93.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 26, 2022 12:54:09 GMT -5
Tony Dow, 79, RIP, Cancer The Beav stands alone  |
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Post by Dizzy D on Jul 26, 2022 16:32:19 GMT -5
Tony Dow, 79, RIP, Cancer The Beav stands alone There is something weird going on here though:
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 26, 2022 16:33:56 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 26, 2022 17:51:59 GMT -5
Was his wife calling the insurance company yet ? Sheesh. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 26, 2022 18:59:46 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 27, 2022 15:31:05 GMT -5
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Post by Calidore on Jul 27, 2022 18:34:49 GMT -5
RIP Cliff Johnson, singer/guitarist for local band Off Broadway, who had a hit back in the '80s with "Stay in Time".
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 28, 2022 20:39:02 GMT -5
RIP to British actor & singer Bernard Cribbins, probably best known on this side of the pond for Doctor Who (the Peter Cushing movies and the revived tv series) and The Fawlty Towers episode, "The Hotel Inspectors."  Cribbins was a long time character actor and appeared in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 AD (the second Peter Cushing Doctor Who movie) and later appeared during David Tennant's run, as well as shows like Fawlty Towers, Worzel Gummidge, Last of the Summer Wine, Jackanory, Coronation Street, and his own ITV series, Cribbins. He appeared in films like Casino Royale (the spoof), Mouse on the Moon, Dunkirk (1958), World of Suzy Wong, several Carry On films, Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River and The Railway Children. Cribbins was also noted for several novelty songs, like "Right Said Fred," "The Hole in the Ground," and "Gossip Calypso." I didn't know it until I just saw it; but, he served in the Parachute regiment, in Palestine, during the period just before the partitioning and the recognition of Israel.  Cribbins was also noted for narration and voice work and narrated the popular children's series The Wombles, and voiced The Water Rat in The Wind and The Willows, for BBC Radio. So long to a great actor.... |
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Post by foxley on Jul 29, 2022 3:06:26 GMT -5
I didn't know it until I just saw it; but, he served in the Parachute regiment, in Palestine, during the period just before the partitioning and the recognition of Israel. Indeed. Cribbins spoke about at length in various interviews after his career got a second wind from Doctor Who (I am remembering one particular one in Doctor Who Magazine). In his first appearance in the series, he plays an unnamed newspaper vendor who meets the Doctor outside Buckingham Palace in "Voyage of the Damned". He was wearing a woolly hat--the episode is set at Christmas--and he added his own paras badge to the hat as a little bit of characterization; as the character would have done national service and been proud of it.
That should have been it, but the actor who played Donna Noble's father died just before Donna was supposed to join as a regular companion. As her father was important for her storyline, the writer's had to quickly insert a replacement character. Cribbins had made quite a impression on the writing and production team, so rather than creating a new character out of the whole cloth, they brought him back, making him Donna's grandfather (her mother's father) and giving him a name: Wilfred Mott.
They also picked up on the paras badge and made it part of Wilf's background; talking to Cribbins about his experiences. The speech Wilf gives in "The End of Time" about his time in Palestine and being afraid to die is drawn from Cribbins own experiences over there.
When I was checking a couple of details on Wikipedia, I discovered this:
I wonder how much of this was completed and if it will ever see the light of day.
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