RIPs

[Heath C Ackley]

My memories of Barry Norman will always be as a kid sneaking out of bed to creep to the top of the stairs to listen to Film coming up from the living room TV. I would choose the moment to ask for a glass of water when I thought a film clip was imminent. My parents were none the wiser. I still remember that one such ruse led to me watching a farm boy and a princess swing across a chasm away from the white-suited bad guys.

[sheridan]

My memories of Barry Norman will always be as a kid sneaking out of bed to creep to the top of the stairs to listen to Film coming up from the living room TV. I would choose the moment to ask for a glass of water when I thought a film clip was imminent. My parents were none the wiser. I still remember that one such ruse led to me watching a farm boy and a princess swing across a chasm away from the white-suited bad guys.

That film rings a bell - not this one is it?



A film that somehow manages to have a main spaceship which looks phallic and yonic at the same time...

My Barry Norman memory is watching him comment on the royal premiere of Labyrinth, having just come home from the cinema to see it (premiers don't seem to occur on the same day as general releases these days).

[Heath C Ackley]

Er...no I was thinking of something more popular than that particular epic. (All that I recall of Battle was Sybil Danning - strange that).
Back to the late Barry Norman. With his father a director back in the 40s/50s/60s he was born in the film industry. His reviews were filled with honesty and wit. I can recall his interviews with directors and actors - especially with Spielberg and Tarantino - as being particularly good.
Not all appreciated his talents though, John Wayne once ended a interview by calling him a 'pinko'!

[sheridan]

Er...no I was thinking of something more popular than that particular epic. (All that I recall of Battle was Sybil Danning - strange that).
Back to the late Barry Norman. With his father a director back in the 40s/50s/60s he was born in the film industry. His reviews were filled with honesty and wit. I can recall his interviews with directors and actors - especially with Spielberg and Tarantino - as being particularly good.
Not all appreciated his talents though, John Wayne once ended a interview by calling him a 'pinko'!

Well, I don't hear much good about John Wayne, so that must be a vote of confidence.

[sheridan]

Carol Lee Scott, actress and singer, 74.  Most famous as Grotbags from various Rod Hull and Emu series (plus a few stand-alone series).

[Heath C Ackley]

Joan Lee, wife of Stan Lee, at the age of 93:

http://www.cbr.com/joan-lee-dead-at-93/

The story of they met all those years ago sounds like something out of those old romance comics Lee and Kirby used to create back in the 60s and 70s.

[flip-r mk2]

Father of the modern zombie genre George A Romero age 77.


filippo

[Greg M.]

That's sad news. Romero's impact on my favourite genre of cinema is absolutely incalculable. A great loss.

[Dark Jimbo]

Not to worry, he'll most likely be back in a day or two.

[sheridan]

Not to worry, he'll most likely be back in a day or two.

It writes itself, I tell you!

[Professor Bear]

Martin Landau, best known as Commander Koenig in Space 1999, and Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood.

[Tjm86]

NOOOOOOOOOO .....

the Rulers of Luton have finally been victorious.

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

That is unfortunate news about both George Romero and Martin Landau. A zombie Space 1999 might have been fun though most critics believe the series was a reanimated Star Trek anyway. Pah, what do they know?

[Smith]

Sam Glanzman

[sheridan]

That is unfortunate news about both George Romero and Martin Landau. A zombie Space 1999 might have been fun though most critics believe the series was a reanimated Star Trek anyway. Pah, what do they know?

Exactly, you don't get women's hair inexplicable going purple when they go to the moon in Trek!