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Post by PigsnieLite on Dec 16, 2010 23:02:27 GMT -5
Yes. And STILL DEBATING morons like Tony Blair in those Atheist vs Christian thingies. Maybe he needs the money but, at this point in his ebbing life, isnt he supposed to be spending more quality time wid his family? His health doesnt look like its improving much.
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Post by Avril on Jan 4, 2011 5:02:27 GMT -5
I love Pete Postlethwaite. RIP, you amazing man. ‘Best actor in the world’ Postlethwaite dies, 64
Matthew Weaver January 4, 2011
THE man described by Steven Spielberg as ‘‘probably the best actor in the world’’, Pete Postlethwaite, has died at the age of 64.
Friends said Postlethwaite died peacefully in hospital in Shropshire, England on Sunday after a long battle with cancer.
The character actor and political activist received an Oscar nomination for his performance as Guiseppe Conlon in the 1993 film In The Name of the Father, about the wrongful convictions of the Guildford Four for an IRA bombing.
Pete Postlethwaite pictured in Sydney during a visit to Australia in 2003. ... originally wanted to be a priest.
Photo: Wade Laube
His other notable films included Brassed Off and The Usual Suspects.
He worked with Spielberg on two films in 1997 – the fantasy adventure film The Lost World: Jurassic Park, and Amistad about a slave mutiny on a ship.
More recently, he spent two years intermittently travelling with the singer-songwriter Archie Roach in Australia for the documentary Liyarn Ngarn, entering Aboriginal communities and being struck by ‘‘the pain that is still being felt on both sides’’.
Postlethwaite, who once studied to be a priest, became involved with the film when he learnt that a friend from his seminary days, Bill Johnson, had adopted a member of the stolen generations who was later killed in a Perth race attack.
‘‘It’s a journey through Aboriginal Australia, a learning journey for me. It was a way of seeing Australia through Aboriginal eyes,’’ Postlethwaite told the Herald in 2007.
‘‘I wasn’t prepared for how deeply it would affect me, the traumas and emotional shocks. It became a journey of discovery for myself.’’
He was also well-known for his political activism. He was the frontman in the climate change film The Age of Stupid, arriving at the 2009 London premiere on a bicycle.
After the film’s release he threatened to hand back the OBE he was awarded in 2004 over the British government’s decision to give the go-ahead for a coal-fired power station in Kent.
Two of his most recent appearances were in Inception, last year’s hit science-fiction film, and The Town. Postlethwaite, who lived in rural Shropshire near the Welsh border, was being treated at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital.
He is survived by his wife, Jacqui, son, Will, and daughter, Lily.
Guardian News & Media and agencies, with Erik Jensen and Josephine Tovey
Video here: www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/best-actor-in-the-world-postlethwaite-dies-64-20110103-19dxw.html
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 4, 2011 10:35:36 GMT -5
I dont know why the headlines are *Best Actor in the World* just becuz Steven Spielberg said so (work wid more actors, Steven!) -- but yes, Pete wuz a Most Splendid Actor. It wuz no surprise here though, becuz he has been interviewed several times about his deteriorating health. No more pain, Pete. God bless you.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Mar 23, 2011 12:08:21 GMT -5
Now thats whut I call Pounds of Makeup! GoodNight, Liz! May Richard Burton sing you to your Rest.
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Post by Avril on Mar 23, 2011 16:56:52 GMT -5
She was beautiful, though. Probably didn't need the makeup, except for this movie.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Mar 23, 2011 17:04:26 GMT -5
How about her eyebrows? How real are those?
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Post by Avril on Mar 23, 2011 20:54:46 GMT -5
She always had those. Even in National Velvet when she was 12.
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Post by dragrat on May 25, 2011 11:44:14 GMT -5
Now, why has an Australian actor been missed on this thread? Bill Hunter -- Yes I know, the image is big!! Songs and memories to farewell Hunter
Australian music and stories from family and friends will help celebrate the life of Bill Hunter at a memorial service in Melbourne tomorrow.
The veteran actor was surrounded by family and friends when he succumbed to inoperable cancer in a Melbourne hospice on Saturday night, aged 71.
Hunter was one of Australia's most popular film and television performers, starring in over 60 films, including Strictly Ballroom, Muriel's Wedding and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
Details of the memorial service have been released by Hunter's manager, Mark Morrissey, who will be one of those addressing family, friends and fans at the Princess Theatre at 2.00pm (AEST) on Thursday.
A performance by Australian songwriting legend Paul Kelly will open the service before Hunter's acting colleagues Rod Mullinar, Gary Foley, David Field and Mick Molloy share their reminiscences.
"Extraordinary instinct and intelligence, a very profound human being," Field earlier said.
"The everyman on the street was the man he loved - from hobo upwards he didn't mind.
"He always had time for everyone. For all his kind of roaring bluff, he was a very sensitive and very gentle man."
The actor's family will be represented by his brother John Hunter and niece Kate Hunter, as well as his former wife Rhoda Roberts.
With songs from Oliver Jao Smith and The Maza Sisters, the service will be closed by Paul Kelly, performing his classic number Leaps & Bounds.
The ABC is televising its own tribute to Hunter, described by many as a quintessentially Australian actor.
It will screen the classic films Mad Dog Morgan, Stone and Strictly Ballroom on Saturday and Sunday, and a retrospective in its Artscape program on Sunday.
-ABC/AAPSourced from ABC News: www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/25/3226091.htm
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Post by PigsnieLite on May 25, 2011 12:45:21 GMT -5
HEY, I know that face! Wasnt he the dude in PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT who wuz married to that Filipina flaky lady and then fell in love wid Terence Stamp?
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Post by dragrat on May 25, 2011 19:12:27 GMT -5
Indeed it is!
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Post by PigsnieLite on May 25, 2011 20:04:20 GMT -5
Im sure he's also played Santy Claus.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jun 9, 2011 12:23:14 GMT -5
Goodbye, Trouble! (the late lamented Maltese pup of Leona Helmsley) I hope you find your horrible mistress on Rainbow Bridge, you poor thing. But maybe she'll be nicer after she's been dead 4 years.
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Post by Avril on Jun 24, 2011 19:53:17 GMT -5
Farewell Peter Falk. RIP. I wonder if you knew counsellor trainees were taught to be 'Columbo counsellors'? Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor In Television’s ‘Columbo,’ Dies at 83
Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo. By BRUCE WEBER Published: June 24, 2011 The New York Times
Peter Falk, who marshaled actorly tics, prop room appurtenances and his own physical idiosyncrasies to personify Columbo, one of the most famous and beloved fictional detectives in television history, died on Thursday night at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 83.
Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo.
His death was announced in a statement from Larry Larson, a longtime friend and the lawyer for Mr. Falk’s wife, Shera. He had been treated for Alzheimer’s disease in recent years.
Mr. Falk had a wide-ranging career in comedy and drama, in the movies and onstage, before and during the three and a half decades in which he portrayed the unkempt but canny lead on “Columbo.” He was nominated for two Oscars; appeared in original stage productions of works by Paddy Chayefsky, Neil Simon and Arthur Miller; worked with the directors Frank Capra, John Cassavetes, Blake Edwards and Mike Nichols; and co-starred with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis and Jason Robards.
But Mr. Falk’s prime-time popularity, like that of his contemporary Telly Savalas, of “Kojak” fame, was founded on a single role.
A lieutenant in the Los Angeles Police Department, Columbo was a comic variation on the traditional fictional detective. With the keen mind of Sherlock Holmes and Philip Marlowe, he was cast in the mold of neither — not a gentleman scholar, not a tough guy. He was instead a mass of quirks and peculiarities, a seemingly distracted figure in a rumpled raincoat, perpetually patting his pockets for a light for his signature stogie.
He drove a battered Peugeot, was unfailingly polite, was sometimes accompanied by a basset hound named Dog, and was constantly referring to the wisdom of his wife (who was never seen on screen) and a variety of relatives and acquaintances who were identified in Homeric-epithet-like shorthand — an uncle who played the bagpipes with the Shriners, say, or a nephew majoring in dermatology at U.C.L.A. — and who were called to mind by the circumstances of the crime at hand.
It was a low-rent affect that was especially irksome to the high-society murderers he outwitted in episode after episode. In the detective-story niche where Columbo lived, whodunit was hardly the point; the murder was committed and the murderer revealed in the show’s opening minutes. How it was done was paramount. Typically, Columbo would string his suspects along, flattering them, apologizing profusely for continuing to trouble them with questions, appearing to have bought their alibis and, just before making an exit, nailing them with a final, damning query that he unfailingly introduced with the innocent-sounding phrase, “Just one more thing ....” It was the signal to viewers that the jig was up.
It was also the title of Mr. Falk’s anecdotal memoir, published in 2006, in which he summarized the appeal of the show.
“What are you hanging around for?” he wrote, referring to the viewer. “Just one thing. You want to know how he gets caught.”
Mr. Falk had a glass eye, resulting from an operation to remove a cancerous tumor when he was 3. The prosthesis gave all his characters a peculiar, almost quizzical squint. And he had a mild speech impediment that gave his L’s a breathy quality, a sound that emanated from the back of his throat and that seemed especially emphatic whenever, in character, he introduced himself as Lieutenant Columbo.
Such a deep well of eccentricity made Columbo amusing as well as incisive, not to mention a progenitor of later characters like Tony Shalhoub’s Monk, and it made him a representative Everyman too. Off and on from 1968 to 2003, Mr. Falk played the character numerous times, often in the format of a 90-minute or 2-hour television movie. Each time Columbo, the ordinary man as hero, brought low a greedy and murderous privileged denizen of Beverly Hills, Malibu or Brentwood, it was an implicit victory for the many over the few.
“This is, perhaps, the most thoroughgoing satisfaction ‘Columbo’ offers us,” Jeff Greenfield wrote in The New York Times in 1973: “the assurance that those who dwell in marble and satin, those whose clothes, food, cars and mates are the very best, do not deserve it.”
Peter Michael Falk was born in Manhattan on Sept. 16, 1927, and lived for a time in the Bronx, near Yankee Stadium, but grew up mostly in Ossining, N.Y, where his father owned a clothing store and where, in spite of his missing eye, he was a high school athlete. In one story he liked to tell, after being called out at third base during a baseball game, he removed his eye and handed it to the umpire.
“You’ll do better with this,” he said.
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jun 24, 2011 19:57:39 GMT -5
I posted this on Movie Vault but since I know you hardly ever visit there anymore, I'll post this again here for you. Peter Falk in his finest hour at the Dean Martin Pot Roast. ;D
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Post by Avril on Jun 24, 2011 20:08:04 GMT -5
Brilliant! ROFLMAO. ;D
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