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Post by Calidore on Sept 6, 2024 19:16:02 GMT -5
Very sad news about Bernie Mireault.
RIP to legendary Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who has died from the effects of long COVID at 83.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 6, 2024 20:32:42 GMT -5
RIP to British tv presenter, writer and voice artist Brian Trueman. He began his career at BBC radio, doing small roles, then playing Harry Whittle, on the radio comedy "The Clitheroe Kid." He was also the announcer, in later days. He was a newsreader and presenter for Grenada (part of the ITV network), and hosted the film review program Cinema, on Grenada, taking over from Michael Parkinson. He had a long career as a writer and sometime voice artist, especially for Cosgrove-Hall animation, providing scripts and voicing Stiletto Mafiosa, on Danger Mouse, and Nanny, on Count Duckula, as well as Henchman Weasel, on Wind in the Willows. He wrote episodes for Thomas The Tank Engine (Thomas and Friends) and stories for the Aardman Wallace & Gromit shorts.
I always found it interesting that Stiletto, in Danger Mouse, had an Italian accent, in the original British cartoons; but, when they were shown on Nickelodeon, in the US, in the mid-80s, he had a cockney accent, though both voiced by Trueman.
According to Brian Cosgrove, that was to avoid upsetting Italian-Americans.....especially ones who knew a guy....capice?
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Post by foxley on Sept 7, 2024 22:20:33 GMT -5
R.I.P. to songwriter Will Jennings, who has passed away at the age of 80. Jennings was a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame and won several awards including three Grammy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards. He was best known for writing the lyrics for the songs "Tears in Heaven" and "My Heart Will Go On".  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Sept 9, 2024 16:01:59 GMT -5
James earl jones dead at 93.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Sept 9, 2024 16:07:48 GMT -5
Oh, man. Sad news - and I didn't realize he was that old.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 9, 2024 16:36:36 GMT -5
Jones voiced two of my all-time favorite movie villains (Vader and Thulsa Doom) but I think his role in Field of Dreams as Terrance Man may be my favorite role of his. Rest in power good sir.
-M
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 9, 2024 17:38:22 GMT -5
Oh, man. Sad news - and I didn't realize he was that old. He made his Broadway debut in the late 50s. I loved him in 1970s The Great White Hope, which got him his only (well deserved) Oscar nomination. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 9, 2024 20:18:32 GMT -5
Aw crap! Mark Waid just announced that John Cassaday passed away at 52. His work on Planetary was always nothing short of stellar.
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 9, 2024 20:35:17 GMT -5
Oh, man. Sad news - and I didn't realize he was that old. He made his Broadway debut in the late 50s. I loved him in 1970s The Great White Hope, which got him his only (well deserved) Oscar nomination. I saw brief clips of him, years ago, from stage performances of Othello and Fences and even that tiny bit was masterful. So many favorite roles, from his CIA officer, in Sneakersj, to The Great White Hope, Alex Hailey in Roots: The Next Generation, a retired police detective, who blackmails Sidney Poitier and He Who Shall Not Be Named (but created Fat Albert) into helping a community center job program, for teenagers, in A Piece of the Action. One of my real favorites was his turn as a sergeant major, with The Old Guard, in Francis Ford Coppola's Gardens of Stone, particularly when he conducts an inspection.... I saw that film while in college, going through the NROTC program. My buddies and I loved that film and both his performance and that of James Caan. Highly underrated film. |
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 9, 2024 21:40:20 GMT -5
Aw crap! Mark Waid just announced that John Cassaday passed away at 52. His work on Planetary was always nothing short of stellar. I just saw this. A great loss. Cassaday had a distinctive style and excelled at so many genres in comics. And so young. His legacy will survive him. -M |
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Post by Yasotay on Sept 11, 2024 1:05:00 GMT -5
James earl jones dead at 93. Am I the only one who feels that Jones's Darth Vader would have been equally perfect for Dr. Doom? To this day, any time I see Doom in a comic, I can't help but think of Jones's Vader.
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Post by MRPs_Missives on Sept 11, 2024 1:12:34 GMT -5
James earl jones dead at 93. Am I the only one who feels that Jones's Darth Vader would have been equally perfect for Dr. Doom? To this day, any time I see Doom in a comic, I can't help but think of Jones's Vader. Since Latveria is in Eastern Europe, I always hear Doom with a more Eastern European accent than the raspy Vader (or even Thulsa Doom) voice of Jones. -M |
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Post by berkley on Sept 11, 2024 1:57:32 GMT -5
Am I the only one who feels that Jones's Darth Vader would have been equally perfect for Dr. Doom? To this day, any time I see Doom in a comic, I can't help but think of Jones's Vader. Since Latveria is in Eastern Europe, I always hear Doom with a more Eastern European accent than the raspy Vader (or even Thulsa Doom) voice of Jones. -M
If only Marvel's Doctor Doom had come along a decade or so earlier he might have saved Bela Lugosi's career!
But I do sympathise with Yasotay's idea that James Earl Jones would done a great voice for Dr. Doom. But I dn't think it would have been exactly like Darth Vader's - the two characters are similar in many ways but one of the biggest differences is the way they talk - Doom is much more verbose than Vader, it seems to me.
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Post by Yasotay on Sept 11, 2024 10:32:04 GMT -5
Since Latveria is in Eastern Europe, I always hear Doom with a more Eastern European accent than the raspy Vader (or even Thulsa Doom) voice of Jones. -M
If only Marvel's Doctor Doom had come along a decade or so earlier he might have saved Bela Lugosi's career!
But I do sympathise with Yasotay's idea that James Earl Jones would done a great voice for Dr. Doom. But I dn't think it would have been exactly like Darth Vader's - the two characters are similar in many ways but one of the biggest differences is the way they talk - Doom is much more verbose than Vader, it seems to me.
I find your lack of faith disturbing. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Sept 11, 2024 11:38:15 GMT -5
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