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Post by foxley on Oct 5, 2022 12:26:04 GMT -5
I saw that the other day, and meant to see if it was mentioned here. NPR had quotes from an interview about that event and the threats she got. Brave woman. I sometimes wonder if she wasn't, at least partially, an inspiration for your avatar, Dawnstar. I've never read a comment about the character's genesis. I could see both her and Buffy St Marie as people who could have put the idea for the character into the heads of Levitz & Grell. I did ask Iron Mike about his inspiration for Dawnstar at a con several years ago. He did not mention any particular actresses as inspiration, but given Dawny debuted only four years after the '73 Oscars, Littlefeather may have been a subconscious influence on the design. Given his interest in Native American culture, Grell would certainly have been aware of her. |
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Post by Cei-U! on Oct 7, 2022 15:06:41 GMT -5
Comedian Judy Tanuta passed away today at the age of 72. She was an acquired taste for a lot of people but she always made me laugh. Rest in peace, funny lady.
Cei-U!
I summon the kleenex!
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 7, 2022 20:26:41 GMT -5
Comedian Judy Tanuta passed away today at the age of 72. She was an acquired taste for a lot of people but she always made me laugh. Rest in peace, funny lady. Cei-U! I summon the kleenex! Loved her stuff; especially, her cameo in Weird Al's parody of the Crash Test Dummies, as Lorena Bobbitt..... |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2022 14:53:57 GMT -5
RIP to Angela Landsbury, who passed today at age 96.
-M
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 11, 2022 15:47:13 GMT -5
RIP to Angela Landsbury, who passed today at age 96. -M That's a tough one. A long and wonderful life, though she endured more than a few personal heartaches. Saw her maybe 35 or 40 years ago as Mama Rose in "Gypsy" on the old summer theatre circuit and she was a freaking dynamo. Have also watched and listened to her in "Sweeney Todd" a hundred times (on film with George Hearn, on the album with Len Cariou) and her performance as Mrs. Lovett still never ceases to amaze me. Started when she was about 18 in "Gaslight" (1944), in which she more than held her own with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. IIRC, she may have been Oscar-nominated for it. Almost always "played older," even as a kid. One of her best performances was a chilling one as Laurence Harvey's malevolent monster of a mother in "The Manchurian Candidate." (He was a couple of years younger than she.) She was like a female Richard III in that one. I never watched her TV show, but I was glad she landed such a high-paying gig after her many years of working so hard for her money. |
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Post by impulse on Oct 11, 2022 16:24:03 GMT -5
Wow, I don't mean this to be flip, but I didn't realize she was still alive. RIP to her and condolences to her family.
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Post by tartanphantom on Oct 11, 2022 16:37:31 GMT -5
One of her best performances was a chilling one as Laurence Harvey's malevolent monster of a mother in "The Manchurian Candidate." (He was a couple of years younger than she.) She was like a female Richard III in that one.
"Raymond, why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"
As Raymond's mom, Angela not only the Queen of Diamonds... she was the 4-D chessmaster.
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Post by foxley on Oct 11, 2022 17:35:41 GMT -5
Huge loss. Such a terrific talent.
I am of an age where I saw Bedknobs and Broomsticks as child. And I was a huge fan of Murder, She Wrote, as I love the fairplay whodunnit. And despite all the jokes made about it, the show ran for 12 seasons, so it must have been doing something right.
But there was so much more to her career. Gaslight and The Manchurian Canditate have already been mentioned. She was the voice of Mrs Potts in Beauty and the Beast. And a glance through her filmography reveals so many great films: The Court Jester, The Long, Hot Summer, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Death on the Nile, The Company of Wolves...the list goes on.
More recently she had a cameo as the Balloon Lady in Mary Poppins Returns, which was a nice 'tip of the hat' as she was one of the actresses originally considered for the role of Mary Poppins. And I just discovered that she has a cameo in the soon-to-be-released Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which I had been planning to see anyway, but now I have an extra reason for doing so.
Vale Angela Lansbury.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 11, 2022 21:16:41 GMT -5
She is terrific in The Court Jester and they let her play her relative age. Really fun movie. Murder She Wrote was fun, for what it was and it was largely carried on the strength of her performance. I did enjoy her crossover with Magnum PI. She also played Miss Marple, in The Mirror Crack'd She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, for Gaslight. Here she is, as Princess Gwendoline, in The Court Jester....  Two of her co-stars, Mildred Natwick and Glynis Johns, appeared in episodes of Murder She Wrote. |
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Post by foxley on Oct 11, 2022 21:53:42 GMT -5
Not her best performance, but I recently saw her in an obscure film noir called Please Murder Me alongside a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr. Worth hunting out if you're a noir buff.
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Post by berkley on Oct 11, 2022 22:57:54 GMT -5
I happened to watch her The Court Jester just a week or two back She was really good playing the wilful young princess and showed a flair for comedy I hadn't known she possessed, not having seen many of her movies. And yes, as codystarbuck mentioned, The Court Jester itself is a really funny movie, one of the best comedies I've ever seen, in fact.
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Post by Icctrombone on Oct 12, 2022 6:07:40 GMT -5
She was great in Sweeney Todd.
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 12, 2022 10:58:31 GMT -5
Just found out that Hector Lopez (#11), who played for the Yankees form 1959-66, during the final glory years of their dynasty and their abrupt fall from greatness.
A darn good hitter at times, but was pretty much a butcher in the field.
But he was the first Black manager at the AAA level and was for many years the best Panamanian to play for the Yankees.
Traded to the Yanks from Kansas City on May 26, 1959, the same day that Harvey Haddix pitched his famous 12-inning perfect game, only to lose it, the no-hitter and the game in the 13th.
(Also my fifth birthday, if anyone is keeping score.)
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Post by Farrar on Oct 12, 2022 15:11:14 GMT -5
RIP Ms. Lansbury. I saw her onstage in Sweeney Todd, Blithe Spirit, and The Best Man. What a talent! Not her best performance, but I recently saw her in an obscure film noir called Please Murder Me alongside a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr. Worth hunting out if you're a noir buff. Just watched that a few months ago on YouTube! Excellent performances. I remember being surprised when I first watched National Velvet, she played one of Taylor's siblings.  Well-known still from NV:  |
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Post by Prince Hal on Oct 12, 2022 15:38:16 GMT -5
RIP Ms. Lansbury. I saw her onstage in Sweeney Todd, Blithe Spirit, and The Best Man. What a talent! Not her best performance, but I recently saw her in an obscure film noir called Please Murder Me alongside a pre-Perry Mason Raymond Burr. Worth hunting out if you're a noir buff. Just watched that a few months ago on YouTube! Excellent performances. I remember being surprised when I first watched National Velvet, she played one of Taylor's siblings. Well-known still from NV: Love National Velvet and loved Lansbury in it. In the NY Times obit today, it mentioned that the shape of her face was all wrong for the lighting in movies. It favored angular narrow faces like Hepburn's and thus she was often overlooked as a potential star, as opposed to a "character" actress. A movie like which they don't make any more.  One other notable role I didn't mention earlier was her prescient part as Spencer Tracy's cynical, bloodless, sharp-elbowed, sharp-tongued political consultant (and mistress) in "State of the Union," in which she was just 23 and Tracy was almost 50. |
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