Friday, January 29, 2021

Strip Nude For Your Killer (1975)


STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER  (1975)  ¢ 1/2
    D: Andrea Bianchi
    Edwige Fenech, Nino Castelnuovo, Femi Benussi,
    Solvi Stubing, Erna Schurer, Franco Diogene, Amanda
A serial killer in a motorcycle helmet stalks a bunch of people who work at a Milan modeling agency. Some of the victims get naked. Most of them end up dead. All of them act like idiots. A title like that would attract a certain audience, don't you think?

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

They Wear No Clothes! (1941)

 
THEY WEAR NO CLOTHES!  (1941)  ¢ ¢
    D: [?]
A contrived documentary on nudism, exploring the various reasons and methods people come up with to take off their clothes. Movies like this were produced and distributed to certain select theaters with just one obvious purpose: to provide their (mostly male) audience with a requisite quota of (mostly female) skin. Mission accomplished.

Monday, January 25, 2021

Naked Zombie Girl (2014)

 
NAKED ZOMBIE GIRL  (2014)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Rickey Bird Jr.
    Meghan Chadeayne, D.T. Carney, Joshua Keith Matthews,
    Ali Dougherty, Mark MacPherson, Rickey Bird Jr.
A girl driving a junkyard Cadillac down an empty country road gets attacked by zombies. She escapes by running away, but her dress gets caught in the car door and now she's naked and the zombies are after her. She finds temporary shelter in a boarded-up shack, where, conveniently enough, there's a chainsaw, so now she's a naked girl with a chainsaw and those zombies had better be paying attention. This movie doesn't waste much time getting to the good stuff: blood, gore, nudity, zombies and low-grade effects. There's practically no dialogue, but zombies aren't known for their rhetorical eloquence, and the title character's too busy chainsawing zombies to do much talking, anyway. For a 25-minute film shot on a limited budget with a title like "Naked Zombie Girl", it's better than you might expect.

Friday, January 22, 2021

The 2020 Covie Awards

 
In a normal year around this time, there'd be a post announcing the winners of the coveted Scobie Awards, honoring movies released in the year that just ended. Due to the pandemic and all, that's not going to happen this year. Instead, the Movie Buzzard is pleased to announce the first-ever Covie Awards, recognizing artistic achievement (or its opposite) in some of the (mostly older) films I managed to see last year. With luck and the vaccine, the Scobies will return a year from now. And, who knows, maybe the Covies will, too.

Best Short Animated Film: "First Animation" (2020)
Best Foreign Language Film: "Un Carnet de Bal" (1937)
Best Documentary Art Film About Another Art Film: "Notfilm" (2015)
Best Documentary About a Rock-&-Roll Band: "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" (2019)
Most Authentic-Looking Reconstructions In a Documentary: "Stories We Tell" (2012)
Best Dancing: "No Maps On My Taps" (1978)
Worst Ed Wood Movie: "Nympho Cycler" (1971)
Most Boring Movie That a Lot of Critics Really Liked: "The Fearless Vampire Killers" (1967)
Best Performance By a Silent Actor In a Sound Film: Harpo Marx in "A Silent Panic" (1960)
Best Performance By an Actor In the Only Movie He Ever Made: Alex Cressan in "Tamango" (1958)
Best Performance By an Actress Wearing a Pink Bikini: Geena Davis in "Earth Girls Are Easy" (1988)
Best Performance By an Actress Wearing Only a Towel: Valerie Perrine in "Steambath" (1973)
Best Performance By an Actress Playing a Character Being Interrogated By the Cops While Smoking a Cigarette: Jean Arthur in "The Whole Town's Talking" (1935
Best Performance By a Former Child Actor Playing a Mad Scientist: Jackie Coogan in "Mesa of Lost Women" (1953)
Best Sidekick Performance: William Bendix in "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court" (1949)
Best Mad Scene: Vincent Price in "Madhouse" (1974)
Most Fun Impersonation of a Famous Movie Star By Another Famous Movie Star: Errol Flynn imitating Humphrey Bogart in "Never Say Goodbye" (1946)
Wickedest Scene-Stealing: Clu Gulager in "The Killers" (1964)
Cringiest Performance In the Age of Black Lives Matter: Stepin Fetchit in "Steamboat Round the Bend" (1935)
Most Enjoyable Performance In a Movie That Didn't Amount To Much: Ed Wynn in "Dear Brigitte" (1965)
Most Satanic Performance In a Made-For-TV Movie: Donald Sutherland in "Quicksand: No Escape" (1992)
Best Animal Performance:  John Wayne's horse in "Ride Him, Cowboy" (1932) and the raccoon in "Red Skies of Montana" (1952)
Best Performance By a Horde of Insects: The killer bees in "The Bees" (1978)
Most Depressing Animal Sequence: The bullfight in "The Assassination of Trotsky" (1972)
Most Excruciating Performance By an Actress In a Supporting Role That's Way Over the Top But Also Kind of Brilliant: Debra Blee in "The Malibu Bikini Shop" (1986)
Best Performance By an Eyeball: Jimmy Stewart's glass eye in "Fool's Parade (1971)
Best Performance By an Actor Named Imhof: Roger Imhof in "Steamboat Round the Bend" (1935)
Best Rock-&-Roll Performance: Chuck Berry in "Let the Good Times Roll" (1973)
Trippiest Rock-&-Roll Moment: Jimmy Page playing a theremin in "The Song Remains the Same" (1976)
Hottest Couple: Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel in "Portrait of a Lady On Fire" (2019)
Coolest Shades: Charles Bronson's tinted specs in "The White Buffalo" (1977)
Romantic Subplot Least Likely To Go Anywhere (And You Wouldn't Want It To): Pamela Sue Martin's crush on Gene Hackman in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972)
Noir On a Shoestring: "Destination Murder" (1950)
Actor You Wouldn't Expect To See Playing a Priest Playing a Priest: Frank Sinatra in "The Miracle of the Bells" (1948)
Set Design: "Brats" (1930)
Ensemble: "The Last Full Measure" (2019)
Best Use of Location In a Movie Shot On Location: The state of Montana in "Certain Women" (2015)
Why Some French Movies Are Worth Watching Even When the Movies Are Kind of Dull and the Characters In Them Brood Too Much: Sylvie Testud in "The Captive" (2000)
Best Movie To Watch Stoned: "Curious Alice" (1971)
Up In Smoke: The Seven Gables in Seattle
Herman Scobie Memorial Award For Career Achievement: Tom Skerritt

Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Slaves of Babylon (1953)


SLAVES OF BABYLON  (1953)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: William Castle
    Richard Conte, Linda Christian, Maurice Schwartz,
    Terrance Kilburn, Michael Ansara, Leslie Bradley,
    Ruth Storey, John Crawford, Julie Newmar
Before he made all those gimmicky, low-budget horror movies, William Castle directed this storybook biblical epic based on the Book of Daniel. It doesn't look too bad, despite the fact that Castle wasn't exactly Cecil B. DeMille and had to get by with a cast of dozens rather than thousands. Richard Conte, who didn't do a lot of period movies, manages to keep a straight face most of the time, though his Jersey City accent slips through now and then, suggesting that maybe he's not from ancient Babylon, after all. The six-pointed stars the slaves all wear have a particular resonance in a film released less than a decade after the end of World War Two.

Monday, January 18, 2021

College Hounds (1929)

 
COLLEGE HOUNDS  (1929)  ¢
    D: Zion Myers, Jules White
A Dogville short about a college football game. (The rival schools are Airedale and Spitz.) One of nine so-called "barkies" produced at MGM between 1929 and 1931 - live-action films in which all the parts are played by talking dogs. Woof.

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Woman At War (2018)

 
WOMAN AT WAR  (2018)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Benedikt Erlingsson
    Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurdarson,
    Juan Camillo Román Estrada, Jörundur Ragnarsson
An Icelandic ecoterrorist, a sort of one-woman monkey-wrench gang, has to make some tough personal decisions when her chance to adopt a kid comes up just as the authorities start to close in. As the planet edges closer to environmental disaster, movies like this one make more and more sense. Halldóra Geirhardsdóttir gives an uncompromising performance as the compulsively hard-headed protagonist, a role that in an American remake would be perfect for Jodie Foster. 

Thursday, January 14, 2021

D.W. Griffith: Father of Film (1993)


D.W. GRIFFITH: FATHER OF FILM  (1993)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
If any filmmaker can be singled out as indispensable to the early evolution of movies, it's D.W. Griffith. As Charlie Chaplin put it, "He was the teacher of us all." Griffith didn't invent motion pictures - he didn't even invent the closeup - but he had an instinctive grasp of the medium's potential, and by putting all the available pieces together, he transformed what had been a low-end novelty into an art form with its own visual language. This three-part documentary tracks Griffith's life and career from his early work as an actor through his groundbreaking shorts at Biograph to "The Birth of a Nation", "Intolerance", "Broken Blossoms" and beyond. It's a story of luck and nerve, passion and ambition, massive acclaim and eventual eclipse. Griffith turned out most of his great work between 1909 and 1921. By the time the Jazz Age dawned, his old-style romanticism was starting to seem out-of-date. He continued to make movies into the early sound era, but by then his influence on the popular imagination had slipped away. He released his last feature, "The Struggle", in 1931, and after some work as an adviser on "One Million B.C." (1940), he was a finished in Hollywood. (Longstanding rumors that he directed parts of that film are apparently untrue.) He died in 1948.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

The 10 Best Movies of 2020

 
Along with a lot of other things lately, the coronavirus threw a monkey wrench into the Movie Buzzard's annual Top Ten List. There just weren't many new movies to choose from. The following list was scraped together from the movies I saw last year, either for the first time ever, or for the first time in 30 or 40 years. I managed to catch a few of them in theaters before the pandemic closed things down. Most were viewed on YouTube or TCM.

MOVIES I LIKED A LOT:
"Berlin: Symphony of a City" (1927)
"1917" (2019)
"Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band" (2019)
"Heavy Trip" (2018)
"Certain Women" (2015)
"Un Carnet de Bal" (1937)
"Stories We Tell" (2012)
"The Steel Helmet" (1951)
"Portrait of a Lady On Fire" (2019)
"Vampyr" (1932)

MOVIES I MIGHT WATCH AGAIN SOMETIME:
"Fool's Parade" (1971)
"Two For the Seesaw" (1962)
"The Typewriter, the Rifle and the Movie Camera" (1996)
"Midsummer Madness" (2007)
"Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958)
"Desperado" (1995)
"The Crossing" (2000)
"Edge of Darkness" (1943)
"Dead Reckoning" (1947)
"Two For the Road" (1967)

SECRET TREASURES:
"The Lure" (2015)
"The White Buffalo" (1975)
"The Secret Ways" (1961)
"Destination Murder" (1950)

GUILTY PLEASURES:
"Madhouse" (1974)
"The Rhythm Section" (2020)
"The Tingler" (1959)
"Swedish Gas Pump Girls" (1980)

TOXIC WASTE:
"A Darker Fifty Shades: The Fetish Set" (2015)

Sunday, January 10, 2021

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (1976)


THE GREAT SCOUT AND CATHOUSE THURSDAY  
    D: Don Taylor                                                         (1976)  ¢ ¢
    Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Kay Lenz,
    Strother Martin, Elizabeth Ashley, Sylvia Miles
A slapstick western about a retired cavalry scout, a half-breed Indian, their con-man sidekick and a skinny young hooker who team up to get even with a slick crook during the presidential campaign of 1908. A cast like that isn't hard to watch, but the material they've got to work with doesn't amount to much. Your only chance to see Oliver Reed play an Indian with gonorrhea, which also tells you something about the level of comic inspiration the movie's operating on.

Friday, January 8, 2021

The Juniper Tree (1990)

 
THE JUNIPER TREE  (1990)  ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Nietzchka Keene
    Björk Gudmundsdóttir, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir,
    Valdimar Örn Flygenring, Gudrún Gisladóttir
An Icelandic movie set in some long-ago century, about two sisters who leave the place where their mother's been burned as a witch and move in with a widowed farmer and his young son. The older sister marries the farmer, but the boy hates her and wants her gone, while the younger sister, who has a mystical connection with nature, starts to have visions of their dead mother. It's stark and spare and very Nordic, shot in black and white and based on a fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm. Curiously, for a movie that looks and feels so distinctly Scandinavian, it's in English and the director's an American. Ms. Gudmundsóttir plays the ingenuous younger sister, her first appearance in a theatrical film.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

Princess of the Nile (1954)


PRINCESS OF THE NILE  (1954)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Harmon Jones
    Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie,
    Michael Ansara, Edgar Barrier, Wally Cassell,
    Jack Elam, Dona Drake, Honey Harlow
Storybook adventure set in 13th-century Egypt, starring Jeffrey Hunter as the heroic Prince of Baghdad, Michael Rennie as a treacherous Bedouin chief, and Debra Paget as the provocative Princess of the Nile. Paget's dance routines are a highlight, and the stilted dialogue is fun. Lee Van Cleef appears uncredited as one of Rennie's men.

Monday, January 4, 2021

Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970)


TELL ME THAT YOU LOVE ME, JUNIE MOON 
    D: Otto Preminger                                 (1970)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    Liza Minelli, Ken Howard, Robert Moore,
    James Coco, Kay Thompson, Fred Williamson,
    Clarice Taylor, Leonard Frey, Angelique Pettyjohn
Three patients with various disabilities meet in a hospital and decide to rent a house together when they're released. There's a good story in this - Marjorie Kellogg wrote the script from her own novel - but everything about it seems a little too obvious. When the title character winds up alone late at night with a guy who's clearly a pervert, she asks herself why she doesn't just run away. She hasn't got an answer for that, and neither does the film. So she strips for him, and then teases him about it, and then something horrible happens (go figure) which lands her in the hospital. It's more than a little apparent that one of the housemates is gay, but the way the film resolves that issue feels like a betrayal. The movie opens and closes with Pete Seeger walking through the redwoods strumming a guitar and singing "Old Devil Time". Those segments don't have much to do with anything in the story, but the lyrics kind of connect, and it's always good to see Pete out there singing.
 

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Final Reel 2020

 

CAROL ARTHUR, 85, actress

“Blazing Saddles” 

“The Sunshine Boys” 

“Robin Hood: Men In Tights”

BABY PEGGY MONTGOMERY, 101, actress

“Little Red Riding Hood” 

“Captain January” 

“Little Miss Hollywood”

ORSON BEAN, 91, actor

“Instant Karma” 

“Being John Malkovich” 

“London Affair”

STEVE BING, 55, producer

“Get Carter” 

“Rock the Kasbah” 

“Rules Don’t Apply”

HONOR BLACKMAN, 94, actress

“Goldfinger” 

“Shalako” 

“The Glass Tomb” 

MARK BLUM, 69, actor

“Blind Date” 

“Crocodile Dundee” 

“Shattered Glass” 

WILFORD BRIMLEY, 85, actor

“Cocoon” 

“The Natural” 

“Tender Mercies” 

CHADWICK BOSEMAN. 43, actor

“Marshall”,

“Black Panther” 

“42”,

THOMAS JEFFERSON BYRD, 70, actor

 “Bulworth” 

“Bamboozled”  

“He Got Game”

EDD BYRNES, 87, actor

“Up Periscope” 

“Grease” 

“Payment In Blood”

ZOE CALDWELL, 86, actress

“The Purple Rose of Cairo” 

“Birth”,

“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close”

R.D. CALL, 70, actor

“Waterworld” 

“Last Man Standing”

“Judgement In Berlin”

MARGE CHAMPION, 101, dancer, actress

“Show Boat” 

“Jupiter’s Darling”

 “The Swimmer”

MICHAEL CHAPMAN, 84, cinematpgrapher

“Taxi Driver” 

“Raging Bull” 

“The Wanderers”

SOUMITRA CHATTERJEE, 85, actor

“The World of Apu” 

“The Fiancee” 

“Portrait of a Life”

ANTHONY CHISOLM, 77, actor

“Blackout” 

“Nasty Baby” 

“Condemned”

RON COBB, 83, production designer

“Leviathan” 

“The Last Starfighter” 

“Conan the Barbarian”

LYNN COHEN, 86, actress

“Munich” 

“Deconstructing Harry” 

“Cradle Will Rock”

SEAN CONNERY, 90, Actor

“The Man Who Would Be King” 

“Robin and Marian” 

“The Hill”

ROBERT CONRAD, 84, actor

“Sudden Death” 

“Palm Springs Weekend” 

“The Lady In Red”

KEVIN CONWAY, 77, actor

“Gettysburg” 

“Thirteen Days”

 “Slaughterhouse-Five”

BEN COOPER, 86, actor

“Johnny Guitar” 

“The Rose Tattoo”

 “The Eternal Sea”

NICK CORDERO, 41, actor

“A Standup Guy”

 “Going In Style” 

“Mob Town”

CIS CORMAN, 93, producer

“Nuts” 

“The Prince of Tides” 

“The Mirror Has Two Faces”

BEN CROSS, 72, actor

“Paperhouse” 

“Chariots of Fire” 

“A Bridge too Far”

ALLEN DAVIAU, 77, cinematographer

“Bugsy” 

“Empire of the Sun” 

“The Falcon and the Snowman”

MAC DAVIS, 78, actor, songwriter

“North Dallas Forty” 

“True Vinyl” 

“Where the Red Fern Grows” 

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND, 104, actress

“Captain Blood” 

“The Snake Pit” 

 “Lady In a Cage”

SONIA DARRIN, 96, actress

“The Big Sleep”

“Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man” 

“Bury Me Dead"

ROBERT DE MORA, 85, costume designer

“Marathon Man” 

“Winter Kills” 

“The Wanderers”

BRIAN DENNEHY, 81, actor

 “Gorky Park” 

“Silverado” 

“Legal Eagles” 

NATALIE DESSELLE, 53, actress

“B*A*P*S”

 “Set It Off” 

“Gas” 

KIRK DOUGLAS, 103, actor

 “Ace In the Hole” 

“Paths of Glory”

“Spartacus”

SHIRLEY DOUGLAS, 86, actress

“Lolita” 

“Dead Ringers” 

“Shadow Dancing” 

JAMES DRURY, 85, actor

“Ride the High Country” 

“Pollyanna” 

“The Last Wagon” 

JA’NET DUBOIS, 87, actress

“I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” 

“A Piece of the Action”,

“Waterproof”

JOHN ERICSON, 93, actor

“Forty Guns”

“Day of the Badman” 

“Slave Queen of Babylon”

CONCHATA FERRELL, 77, actress

“Erin Brockovich” 

“Edward Scissorhands” 

“True Romance”

LEE FIERRO, 91, actress

“Jaws” 

“The Mistover Tale” 

“Jaws: The Revenge”

RHONDA FLEMING, 97, actress

 “Gun Glory” 

“Bullwhip” 

“The Crowded Sky”

HARRIET FRANK JR., 96, writer

“Hud”  

“Norma Rae”  

“Murphy’s Romance”

BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN, 90, writer

“Splash”

“Stir Crazy” 

“Steambath”

JOHN FRASER, 89, actor

“Repulsion” 

“Operation Crossbow” 

“Tunes of Glory”

JACK GARFEIN, 89, director

“Something Wild” 

“The Strange One”

ALLEN GARFIELD, 80, actor

“Nashville” 

“Putney Swope”,

“The Conversation”

RUTH GASSMANN, 85, actress

“Michael and Helga” 

“Robinson and His Tempestuous Slaves”

DANNY GOLDMAN, 80, actor

“M*A*S*H” 

“Young Frankenstein”

 “The Strawberry Statement”

STUART GORDON, 72, director

“From Beyond” 

“Space Truckers” 

“King of the Ants”

JULIETTE GRÉCO, 93, actress

“The Roots of Heaven” 

“The Sun Also Rises” 

“The Naked Earth”

MICHAEL HALL, 92, actor

“The Best Years of Our Lives” 

“The Last Musketeer” 

“Blood of Dracula”

RONALD HARWOOD, 85, writer

“The Dresser” 

“The Pianist” 

“One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich”

BUCK HENRY, 89, writer, actor

“Candy” 

“The Graduate”

 “What’s Up, Doc?”

RICHARD HERD, 87, actor

 “All the President’s Men” 

“Sgt. Bilko” 

“The Mule”

IAN HOLM, 88, actor

“Alien”  

“Brazil” 

“Big Night” 

GRANT IMAHARA, 49, actor, special effects

“Van Helsing” 

“The Matrix Reloaded”

 “Galaxy Quest”

ENRIQUE IRAZOQUI, 76, actor

“The Gospel According To St. Matthew” 

“The Long Winter”

ANTHONY JAMES, 77, actor

“Sam Whiskey” 

“High Plains Drifter”

 “Unforgiven”

ZIZI JEANMAIRE, 96, dancer, actress

“Hans Christian Andersen” 

“Anything Goes” 

“Follies Bergère”

TERRY JONES, 77, writer, actor, director

“Monty Python’s Life of Brian” 

"Erik the Viking"

“Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

RISHI KAPOOR, 67, actor

“Badman” 

“All Is Well”,

 “Destiny and Fate”

AL KASHA, 83, songwriter

“The Poseidon Adventure” 

“The Towering Inferno”

 “Freaky Friday”

HUGH KEAYS-BYRNE, 73, actor

“Mad Max” 

“Mad Dog Morgan”,

“Where the Green Ants Dream”

JACK KEHOE, 85, actor

“The Sting”

 “Melvin and Howard” 

“The Killers”

IRRFAN KHAN, 53, acor

“Slumdog Millionaire” 

“The Darjeeling Limited”,

“Life of Pi”

SHIRLEY KNIGHT, 83, actress

“Dutchman” 

“The Group”, 

“As Good As It Gets”

TOMMY LISTER, 62, actor

“Hauntsville” 

“Death’s Door” 

“Slasher Party”

LITTLE RICHARD, 87, musician, actor

“Sunset Heat” 

“Purple People Eater” 

“Down and Out In Beverly Hills”

MICHAEL LONSDALE, 89, actor

“Ronin”,

“The Name of the Rose” 

“Goya’s Ghosts”

TRINI LOPEZ, 83, musician, actor

“The Dirty Dozen” 

“Antonio” 

“The Phynx”

REBECCA LUKER, 59, actress

“Spectropia” 

“Not Fade Away” 

“The Rewrite”

VERA LYNN, 103, singer, actress

“One Exciting Night” 

“We’ll Meet Again” 

“Rhythm Serenade”

DARRYL MACDONALD, 70, curator, promoter

Seattle International Film Festival 

JOHNNY MANDEL, 94, composer

“M*A*S*H” 

“Point Blank”  

“The Last Detail”

LINDA MANZ, 58, actress

“Days of Heaven” 

“The Wanderers” 

“Out of the Blue”

JOSÉ MOJICA MARINS, 83, actor, director, writer

“End of Man”

“Hellish Flesh” 

“The Strange World of Coffin Joe”

JIRI MENZEL, 82, actor, writer, director

“Capricious Summer” 

“Larks On a String” 

“Closely Watched Trains”

NORMA MICHAELS, 95, actress

 “The Zodiac Killer” 

“Emma’s Chance”

 “Go For Broke”

CLARK MIDDLETON, 63, actor

“Sin City” 

“Last Call”

 “Snowpiercer” 

ENNIO MORRICONE, 91, composer

“Black Belly of the Tarantula” 

“When Women Had Tails” 

“Eye of the Cat”

KELLYE NAKAHARA, 72, actress

“Clue”  

“Doctor Dolittle” 

“3 Ninjas Kick Back”

DARIA NICOLODI, 70, actress

“Inferno”  

“Delirium” 

“Scarlet Diva”

LENNIE NIEHAUS, 90, composer

“Pale Rider” 

“Space Cowboys”

 “Absolute Power”

NADIA NIGHT, 44, actress

“XXXX XXXX”

 “XXX XXXXX XXXX”

“XXX XXXXX XXXXX 17”

MARGARET NOLAN, 76, actress

“Goldfinger” 

“Carry On Cowboy” 

“Bikini Paradise”

NOBUHIKO ÔBAYASHI, 82, actor

“The Drifting Classroom”

 “The Deserted City” 

“The Last Snow”

KEN OSMOND, 76, actor

“Leave It To Beaver” 

“Dead Women In Lingerie” 

“High School U.S.A.”

GEOFFREY PALMER, 93, actor

“Tomorrow Never Dies” 

“A Fish Called Wanda” 

“Anna and the King”

ALAN PARKER, 76, director

 “Angel Heart”

 “Bugsy Malone” 

“Midnight Express”

IVAN PASSER, 86, writer, director

“Intimate Lighting” 

“Silver Bears”

 “Cutter’s Way”

KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI, 86, composer

“Dominus” 

“Fear Me Not”

 “Demon”

MICHEL PICCOLI, 94, actor

 “Belle de Jour”  

“Atlantic City”

 “La Belle Noiseuse”

PEGGY POPE, 91, actress

“Nine To Five” 

“The Substitute”  

“The Last Starfighter”

KELLY PRESTON, 57, actress

“Eulogy” 

“Jerry Maguire”

 “Citizen Ruth” 

JOHN PRINE, 73, musician, actor

“Falling From Grace” 

“Daddy and Them”

 “Waiting On a Song”

DAVID PROWSE, 85, actor

“Star Wars” 

“A Clockwork Orange” 

 “Jabberwocky”

SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT, 34, actor

“Welcome To New York” 

“Detective Byomkesh Bakshi” 

“Drive”

TOMMY RALL, 90, actor

“Kiss Me Kate”

 “Pennies From Heaven”

 “My Sister Eileen”

ELSA RAVEN, 91, actress

 “The Moderns”

“Back To the Future” 

“Titanic”

JAMES REDFORD, 58, writer, producer, director

“Paper Tigers”

 “Toxic Hot Seat” 

“California Typewriters”

HELEN REDDY, 78, singer, actress

“Pete’s Dragon” 

“The Perfect Host” 

“Airport 1975”

CARL REINER, 98, writer, director, actor

“Oh, God!”

 “All of Me”

“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”

ANN REINKING, 71, dancer, actress

“Movie Movie”,

“Micki + Maude” 

“All That Jazz”

DIANA RIGG, 82, actress

“The Hospital”

 “Theater of Blood”,

“On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”

NAYA RIVERA, 33, actress

“Mad Families” 

“Frankenhood” 

“At the Devil’s Door”

ANNIE ROSS, 89, singer, actress

“Short Cuts” 

“The Player” 

“Pump Up the Volume”

RENI SANTONI, 82, actor

“Dirty Harry” 

“The Student Nurses” 

“Private Parts” 

JOHN SAXON, 84, actor

“Blood Beach” 

“Cannibals In the Streets”  

“Black Christmas” 

MURRAY SCHISGAL, 93, writer

“Tootsie”

 “The Typists”,

“The Tiger Makes Out”

JOEL SCHUMACHER, 80, director

“The Lost Boys”  

“Batman Forever”

 “Falling Down”

ESTHER SCOTT, 66, actress

“Encino Man” 

“Dreamgirls”  

“Out To Sea”

LYNN SHELTON, 54, director

“Your Sister’s Sister” 

“Outside In”

 “We Go Way Back”

MATTY SIMMONS, 93, producer

“Animal House” 

“Class Reunion” 

“Disco Beaver From Outer Space”

MARTIN SPELLMAN, 94, actor

“Boys Town” 

“Fangs of the Wild” 

“Santa Fe Stampede”

JERRY STILLER, 92, actor

“Airport 1975”

“The Ritz” 

“The Taking of Pelham One Two Three”

DYANNE THORNE, 83, actress

“Up Yours” 

“Hellhole” 

“Lash of Lust”

PAMELA TIFFIN, 78, actress

“One, Two, Three” 

“Harper”, 

“The Hallelujah Trail”

ANN TODD, 88, actress

“The Blue Bird”,

“How Green Was My Valley”,

“Destry Rides Again”

NICHOLAS TUCCI, 38, actor

 “Long Lost” 

“The Stuff” 

“The Worst Year of My Life”

MAX VON SYDOW, 90, actor

“The Seventh Seal”

 “Hannah and Her Sisters” 

“The New Land”

LYLE WAGGONER, 84, actor

“Wizards of the Demon Sword” 

“Dead Women In Lingerie”

 “Surf II”

DAWN WELLS, 82, actress

“The New Interns” 

“Winterhawk”

 “Silent But Deadly”

STUART WHITMAN, 92, actor

“The Mark” 

“The Comancheros”  

“The Longest Day”

BARBARA WINDSOR, 83, actress

“Carry On Camping” 

“Carry On Spying” 

“Carry On Abroad”

FRED WILLARD, 86, actor

“Waiting For Guffman”

“Best In Show”

 “A Mighty Wind” 

 

      “Inviting people to laugh with you 

        when you’re laughing at yourself 

        is a good thing to do. You may be 

        the fool, but you’re the fool in 

        charge.”

                                                Carl Reiner