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SUMMERTIME BLUES: The Grim Reaper harvests some of the greatest; Carl Barks, Curt Siodmak, and others
Father Geek here performing a duty I've put off way TOO long; talking to you about how I feel about several prominent deaths that occurred during the last half of this summer. During this same time period I have been extremely busy; a week at the San Diego Comic Convention, 2 days on the set of Pearl Harbor, a week in Madrid Spain, a week in Mexico City, and 10 days at Tarantino's Film Fest here in Austin, plus I became a Grand Dad with all that that entails too. I'm sorry this is long over due.
We have lost some true greats in the last few weeks; writer/artist CARL BARKS, writer/director CURT SIODMAK, actress LORETTA YOUNG, actor/icon ALEC GUINNESS, and the dancing giant HAROLD NICHOLAS.
CARL BARKS...
In the beginning... Donald was just a duck, a silly, stupid duck. He had little personality, charm, or character. He had no family, no nemesii, no past, no future. Then came Carl Barks... and Donald became world famous. Carl's DONALD DUCK COMICBOOKS sold over 3,000,000 copies each throughout the late 1940's and the 1950's, and had an estimated 10,000,000 diehard readers every month. Donald got a girlfriend, nephews, and a very very famous uncle. There was Grandma Duck, Gyrogeargoose, and the Beagle Boys. Carl Barks gave Donald a world to live and have adventures in, and in so doing he gave the real world a way to escape it's problems and worries. The BOMB took a backseat and Carl spoke to that little kid deep inside us all. And ol' Father Geek loved him for it!
What did Carl Barks do for the motion picture industry you may ask? Well, for starts he wrote well over 30 duck cartoons for Disney between 1937 and 44 including 1937's MODERN INVENTIONS, 38's SELF-CONTROL and GOOD SCOUTS, 40's WINDOW CLEANERS and BONE TROUBLE, 41's TRUANT OFFICER DONALD and OLD MacDONALD DUCK, 42's DONALD GETS DRAFTED and THE VANISHING PRIVATE, 43's HOME DEFENSE, and 44's TROMBONE TROUBLE. He also worked as an animator. Remember 1936's phantastic classic THRU THE MIRROR... yep, that was Carl's work. And more recently at the age of 89 he created the character designs, and worked with the storyboard artists and production designers on 1990's DUCK TALES THE MOVIE - TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP.
Father Geek counts himself lucky to have met Carl Barks twice in my life, to have introduced my 3 year old son to him. On the wall of my bedroom is a color autographed photo of the Disney legend at his canvas, paint brush in hand, a smile spreading broad across his face. Its been hanging somewhere in my home for over a quarter of a century. It will never come down.
When Barks set out on the long road thru his life's work comicbooks were considered by most to be hack work, he continued to work during the period when philistine censors and government witch hunters condemned him and his co-workers as the devil's agents. Barks and his ducks have outlived the world's mood swings, and while he died a man of modest means (Disney would never repay him what they owed), his children, millions of them across the globe, will never forget him.
"I am pleased to see reprints of my works, especially as I thought the ducks and their adventures to be mere blips on the radar screen of human forgetfulness."CARL BARKS
Hey folks, Harry here briefly... Carl Barks gave me so much through his stories and his paintings. But more than anything he made 123321, 321123 and 123123 mean something to me.
CURT SIODMAK...
As Father Geek sits here at his keyboard above my left shoulder hanging on the wall is the original release insert movie poster for 1943's FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and Patrick Knowles. This classic Universal Horror film (the favorite of many) was written by none other than CURT SIODMAK.
He was born in Dresden, Germany in 1902 and he worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to novels and motion pictures, He fled Hitler's version of his home land, 1st to England were he wrote TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, then to Hollywood. And we're all the richer for it.
This giant of silver screen prose gave us many genre classics including; 1940's BLACK FRIDAY, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE APE, and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 1941 he wrote the iconic THE WOLF MAN for Universal. Then in 42 he turned out THE INVISIBLE AGENT. Then the next year we got I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, SON OF DRACULA, and FMTWM. 1944 saw him write HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, and Karloff's THE CLIMAX. He penned THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS in 46 and TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN in 1949. 51 saw BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53 THE MAGNETIC MONSTER and the great DONOVAN'S BRAIN, 55 had the appearance of THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, and in 1956 he gave the world one of the best ever alien invasion flicks with EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. 1961 was the year of THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, and in 64 it was THE BRAIN, and in 1970 we got HAUSER'S MEMORY. Several of these were adapted from his novels. Further in addition to writing over 50 produced screenplays in 40 years Curt directed another 8 films including 51's BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53's MAGNETIC MONSTER, 56's CURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZON, 58's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, and 61's DEVIL'S MESSENGER. He also Produced, acted, and served on film crews during his long career in the motion picture industry.
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
CARL BARKS...
In the beginning... Donald was just a duck, a silly, stupid duck. He had little personality, charm, or character. He had no family, no nemesii, no past, no future. Then came Carl Barks... and Donald became world famous. Carl's DONALD DUCK COMICBOOKS sold over 3,000,000 copies each throughout the late 1940's and the 1950's, and had an estimated 10,000,000 diehard readers every month. Donald got a girlfriend, nephews, and a very very famous uncle. There was Grandma Duck, Gyrogeargoose, and the Beagle Boys. Carl Barks gave Donald a world to live and have adventures in, and in so doing he gave the real world a way to escape it's problems and worries. The BOMB took a backseat and Carl spoke to that little kid deep inside us all. And ol' Father Geek loved him for it!
What did Carl Barks do for the motion picture industry you may ask? Well, for starts he wrote well over 30 duck cartoons for Disney between 1937 and 44 including 1937's MODERN INVENTIONS, 38's SELF-CONTROL and GOOD SCOUTS, 40's WINDOW CLEANERS and BONE TROUBLE, 41's TRUANT OFFICER DONALD and OLD MacDONALD DUCK, 42's DONALD GETS DRAFTED and THE VANISHING PRIVATE, 43's HOME DEFENSE, and 44's TROMBONE TROUBLE. He also worked as an animator. Remember 1936's phantastic classic THRU THE MIRROR... yep, that was Carl's work. And more recently at the age of 89 he created the character designs, and worked with the storyboard artists and production designers on 1990's DUCK TALES THE MOVIE - TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP.
Father Geek counts himself lucky to have met Carl Barks twice in my life, to have introduced my 3 year old son to him. On the wall of my bedroom is a color autographed photo of the Disney legend at his canvas, paint brush in hand, a smile spreading broad across his face. Its been hanging somewhere in my home for over a quarter of a century. It will never come down.
When Barks set out on the long road thru his life's work comicbooks were considered by most to be hack work, he continued to work during the period when philistine censors and government witch hunters condemned him and his co-workers as the devil's agents. Barks and his ducks have outlived the world's mood swings, and while he died a man of modest means (Disney would never repay him what they owed), his children, millions of them across the globe, will never forget him.
"I am pleased to see reprints of my works, especially as I thought the ducks and their adventures to be mere blips on the radar screen of human forgetfulness."CARL BARKS
Hey folks, Harry here briefly... Carl Barks gave me so much through his stories and his paintings. But more than anything he made 123321, 321123 and 123123 mean something to me.
CURT SIODMAK...
As Father Geek sits here at his keyboard above my left shoulder hanging on the wall is the original release insert movie poster for 1943's FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and Patrick Knowles. This classic Universal Horror film (the favorite of many) was written by none other than CURT SIODMAK.
He was born in Dresden, Germany in 1902 and he worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to novels and motion pictures, He fled Hitler's version of his home land, 1st to England were he wrote TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, then to Hollywood. And we're all the richer for it.
This giant of silver screen prose gave us many genre classics including; 1940's BLACK FRIDAY, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE APE, and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 1941 he wrote the iconic THE WOLF MAN for Universal. Then in 42 he turned out THE INVISIBLE AGENT. Then the next year we got I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, SON OF DRACULA, and FMTWM. 1944 saw him write HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, and Karloff's THE CLIMAX. He penned THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS in 46 and TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN in 1949. 51 saw BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53 THE MAGNETIC MONSTER and the great DONOVAN'S BRAIN, 55 had the appearance of THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, and in 1956 he gave the world one of the best ever alien invasion flicks with EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. 1961 was the year of THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, and in 64 it was THE BRAIN, and in 1970 we got HAUSER'S MEMORY. Several of these were adapted from his novels. Further in addition to writing over 50 produced screenplays in 40 years Curt directed another 8 films including 51's BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53's MAGNETIC MONSTER, 56's CURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZON, 58's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, and 61's DEVIL'S MESSENGER. He also Produced, acted, and served on film crews during his long career in the motion picture industry.
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
What did Carl Barks do for the motion picture industry you may ask? Well, for starts he wrote well over 30 duck cartoons for Disney between 1937 and 44 including 1937's MODERN INVENTIONS, 38's SELF-CONTROL and GOOD SCOUTS, 40's WINDOW CLEANERS and BONE TROUBLE, 41's TRUANT OFFICER DONALD and OLD MacDONALD DUCK, 42's DONALD GETS DRAFTED and THE VANISHING PRIVATE, 43's HOME DEFENSE, and 44's TROMBONE TROUBLE. He also worked as an animator. Remember 1936's phantastic classic THRU THE MIRROR... yep, that was Carl's work. And more recently at the age of 89 he created the character designs, and worked with the storyboard artists and production designers on 1990's DUCK TALES THE MOVIE - TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP.
Father Geek counts himself lucky to have met Carl Barks twice in my life, to have introduced my 3 year old son to him. On the wall of my bedroom is a color autographed photo of the Disney legend at his canvas, paint brush in hand, a smile spreading broad across his face. Its been hanging somewhere in my home for over a quarter of a century. It will never come down.
When Barks set out on the long road thru his life's work comicbooks were considered by most to be hack work, he continued to work during the period when philistine censors and government witch hunters condemned him and his co-workers as the devil's agents. Barks and his ducks have outlived the world's mood swings, and while he died a man of modest means (Disney would never repay him what they owed), his children, millions of them across the globe, will never forget him.
"I am pleased to see reprints of my works, especially as I thought the ducks and their adventures to be mere blips on the radar screen of human forgetfulness."CARL BARKS
Hey folks, Harry here briefly... Carl Barks gave me so much through his stories and his paintings. But more than anything he made 123321, 321123 and 123123 mean something to me.
CURT SIODMAK...
As Father Geek sits here at his keyboard above my left shoulder hanging on the wall is the original release insert movie poster for 1943's FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and Patrick Knowles. This classic Universal Horror film (the favorite of many) was written by none other than CURT SIODMAK.
He was born in Dresden, Germany in 1902 and he worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to novels and motion pictures, He fled Hitler's version of his home land, 1st to England were he wrote TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, then to Hollywood. And we're all the richer for it.
This giant of silver screen prose gave us many genre classics including; 1940's BLACK FRIDAY, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE APE, and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 1941 he wrote the iconic THE WOLF MAN for Universal. Then in 42 he turned out THE INVISIBLE AGENT. Then the next year we got I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, SON OF DRACULA, and FMTWM. 1944 saw him write HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, and Karloff's THE CLIMAX. He penned THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS in 46 and TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN in 1949. 51 saw BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53 THE MAGNETIC MONSTER and the great DONOVAN'S BRAIN, 55 had the appearance of THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, and in 1956 he gave the world one of the best ever alien invasion flicks with EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. 1961 was the year of THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, and in 64 it was THE BRAIN, and in 1970 we got HAUSER'S MEMORY. Several of these were adapted from his novels. Further in addition to writing over 50 produced screenplays in 40 years Curt directed another 8 films including 51's BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53's MAGNETIC MONSTER, 56's CURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZON, 58's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, and 61's DEVIL'S MESSENGER. He also Produced, acted, and served on film crews during his long career in the motion picture industry.
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
When Barks set out on the long road thru his life's work comicbooks were considered by most to be hack work, he continued to work during the period when philistine censors and government witch hunters condemned him and his co-workers as the devil's agents. Barks and his ducks have outlived the world's mood swings, and while he died a man of modest means (Disney would never repay him what they owed), his children, millions of them across the globe, will never forget him.
"I am pleased to see reprints of my works, especially as I thought the ducks and their adventures to be mere blips on the radar screen of human forgetfulness."CARL BARKS
Hey folks, Harry here briefly... Carl Barks gave me so much through his stories and his paintings. But more than anything he made 123321, 321123 and 123123 mean something to me.
CURT SIODMAK...
As Father Geek sits here at his keyboard above my left shoulder hanging on the wall is the original release insert movie poster for 1943's FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and Patrick Knowles. This classic Universal Horror film (the favorite of many) was written by none other than CURT SIODMAK.
He was born in Dresden, Germany in 1902 and he worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to novels and motion pictures, He fled Hitler's version of his home land, 1st to England were he wrote TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, then to Hollywood. And we're all the richer for it.
This giant of silver screen prose gave us many genre classics including; 1940's BLACK FRIDAY, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE APE, and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 1941 he wrote the iconic THE WOLF MAN for Universal. Then in 42 he turned out THE INVISIBLE AGENT. Then the next year we got I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, SON OF DRACULA, and FMTWM. 1944 saw him write HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, and Karloff's THE CLIMAX. He penned THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS in 46 and TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN in 1949. 51 saw BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53 THE MAGNETIC MONSTER and the great DONOVAN'S BRAIN, 55 had the appearance of THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, and in 1956 he gave the world one of the best ever alien invasion flicks with EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. 1961 was the year of THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, and in 64 it was THE BRAIN, and in 1970 we got HAUSER'S MEMORY. Several of these were adapted from his novels. Further in addition to writing over 50 produced screenplays in 40 years Curt directed another 8 films including 51's BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53's MAGNETIC MONSTER, 56's CURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZON, 58's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, and 61's DEVIL'S MESSENGER. He also Produced, acted, and served on film crews during his long career in the motion picture industry.
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
Hey folks, Harry here briefly... Carl Barks gave me so much through his stories and his paintings. But more than anything he made 123321, 321123 and 123123 mean something to me.
CURT SIODMAK...
As Father Geek sits here at his keyboard above my left shoulder hanging on the wall is the original release insert movie poster for 1943's FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN with Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, and Patrick Knowles. This classic Universal Horror film (the favorite of many) was written by none other than CURT SIODMAK.
He was born in Dresden, Germany in 1902 and he worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to novels and motion pictures, He fled Hitler's version of his home land, 1st to England were he wrote TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, then to Hollywood. And we're all the richer for it.
This giant of silver screen prose gave us many genre classics including; 1940's BLACK FRIDAY, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE APE, and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 1941 he wrote the iconic THE WOLF MAN for Universal. Then in 42 he turned out THE INVISIBLE AGENT. Then the next year we got I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, SON OF DRACULA, and FMTWM. 1944 saw him write HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, and Karloff's THE CLIMAX. He penned THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS in 46 and TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN in 1949. 51 saw BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53 THE MAGNETIC MONSTER and the great DONOVAN'S BRAIN, 55 had the appearance of THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, and in 1956 he gave the world one of the best ever alien invasion flicks with EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. 1961 was the year of THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, and in 64 it was THE BRAIN, and in 1970 we got HAUSER'S MEMORY. Several of these were adapted from his novels. Further in addition to writing over 50 produced screenplays in 40 years Curt directed another 8 films including 51's BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53's MAGNETIC MONSTER, 56's CURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZON, 58's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, and 61's DEVIL'S MESSENGER. He also Produced, acted, and served on film crews during his long career in the motion picture industry.
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
He was born in Dresden, Germany in 1902 and he worked as a newspaper reporter before turning to novels and motion pictures, He fled Hitler's version of his home land, 1st to England were he wrote TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL, then to Hollywood. And we're all the richer for it.
This giant of silver screen prose gave us many genre classics including; 1940's BLACK FRIDAY, THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS, THE APE, and THE INVISIBLE WOMAN. In 1941 he wrote the iconic THE WOLF MAN for Universal. Then in 42 he turned out THE INVISIBLE AGENT. Then the next year we got I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE, SON OF DRACULA, and FMTWM. 1944 saw him write HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, THE LADY AND THE MONSTER, and Karloff's THE CLIMAX. He penned THE BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS in 46 and TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN in 1949. 51 saw BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53 THE MAGNETIC MONSTER and the great DONOVAN'S BRAIN, 55 had the appearance of THE CREATURE WITH THE ATOM BRAIN, and in 1956 he gave the world one of the best ever alien invasion flicks with EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. 1961 was the year of THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, and in 64 it was THE BRAIN, and in 1970 we got HAUSER'S MEMORY. Several of these were adapted from his novels. Further in addition to writing over 50 produced screenplays in 40 years Curt directed another 8 films including 51's BRIDE OF THE GORILLA, 53's MAGNETIC MONSTER, 56's CURUCU BEAST OF THE AMAZON, 58's TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, and 61's DEVIL'S MESSENGER. He also Produced, acted, and served on film crews during his long career in the motion picture industry.
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
Father Geek can't say he'll miss CURT SIODMAK, geek headquarters has several posters of his work scattered about in different rooms, and we have ALL his genre work on either Video, DVD, Laserdisc, or 16mm film. Curt had a long productive life. Without necessarily meaning to he turned 10's of thousands of people into hopeless Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy geeks. He helped to mold my personality and that of my son and daughter. He opened our minds to many strange and unusual possibilities. For all of that... Thanks Curt!!! We won't miss you... because we will NEVER forget you.
Harry here briefly. There are things that are forever engrained in my conciousness because of this man. Without Curt Siodmak.... "ATTENTION... PEOPLE OF EARTH... ATTENTION" would mean nothing. And when I look at the moon.. my first thought, my only thought is... "Even a man who is pure at heart, and says his prayers at night, may become a wolf when the wolfsbane blooms, and the autumn moon is bright" I've known that little stanza of poetry since the age of 3. Curt contributed to my earliest geek thoughts... bless him.
HAROLD NICHOLAS...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
HAROLD NICHOLAS was one half of perhaps the GREATEST dance team in the history of motion pictures. Once seen... you will NEVER forget his high flying cartwheels landing in full splits. How about those leaps over other dancers onto drum after drum, each landing in ball bursting perfectly timed to the music splits(no wire work here, just great skill), and all those incredibile tap numbers beyond human indurance.
Born in the south of 1921, Harold danced his way to the top of Hollywood and then RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and The White House. Once married to the equally famous Dorothy Dandridge he proved too skinny to go to WWII, but he astounded us repeatedly with his superior athletic skills in dozens of motion pictures. Films like PIE PIE BLACKBIRD, EMPEROR JONES, KID MILLIONS, TIN PAN ALLEY, RECKLESS AGE, THE PIRATE, UPTOWN SATURDAY NIGHT, THAT'S ENTERTAINMENT, TAP, THE FIVE HEARTBEATS, FUNNYBONES, and the true masterwork STORMY WEATHER. Harold sang and danced his way into the hearts of the world with an unbelievable body of beautiful work. Search it out... you will not regret the effort, he will blow your mind.
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
Harold died July 3rd, Father Geek can see him now... all decked out in a white tux... tapping up those stairs all the way to the pearly gates, flying high, and landing in those amazing splits of his. Heaven will have to be a little more Heavenly with HAROLD NICHOLAS in attendance.
Oh my god... Until Father Geek wrote this... I had no idea that he had passed on. I first saw Harold Nicholas dance about the age of 5. I remember him and his brother seemingly attempting the dancing form of suicide. They danced with abandon and joy... as though they were human hummingbirds. I get tired merely thinking of their routines. Harold has earned his rest like few others.
LORETTA YOUNG...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
Most of our readers are probably not familar with the work of LORETTA YOUNG because she retired in 1961. Further she successfully fought to keep her award winning TV show from ever having reruns, Buuuuuuut Father Geek remembers her. My mother had the family watch everyone of her great TV shows in the years when families had only one TV in the house.
Loretta Young is one of the very last of her kind. A great super star from the era of great Hollywood studios with stables of great directors, actors and actresses. Starting in pictures in 1917 she appeared in THE SHEIK with Valentino, KISMET, PLATINUM BLONDE, BORN TO BE BAD, CALL OF THE WILD, SUEZ, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, ALONG CAME JONES, THE STRANGER, THE ACCUSED, and over 100 more major motion pictures. She won an Academy Award for best actress for 1947's THE FARMER'S DAUGHTER and was nominated for another for COME TO THE STABLE in 1950.
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
"The Loretta Young Show" ran in prime time on NBC from 1953 till 1961. She won Emmy's for best actress in a dramatic series in 1955, 57, and 59. She was nominated for 5 others in 54, 56, 58, 60, and 1961. She won a Golden Globe in 1959, and another in 1987 for her come out of retirement Christmas Special.
One of the screen's great beauties, in an era when it just wasn't done she had Clark Gable's daughter out of wedlock. Her 3rd husband was Academy Award winning costume designer Jean Louis who dressed Loretta in fantastic gowns for the opening of all of her TV shows, a different gown each week. She was a symbol of serenity, beauty, and grace for millions of women throughout the 40's, and 50's. Women like my mother who was struck deeply by he passing last month.
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
Harry here, I think of Loretta Young instantly when I hear TITANIC spoken aloud.... Kate Winslet comes second.
SIR ALEC GUINNESS...
Father Geek was in Spain when Obi-wan died... I was walking down a narrow street in Madrid when I over heard a young Spanard and his girlfriend discussing in Spanish the great lost to the film world by the death of Alec Guinness. I headed to one of the nearby street stands selling newspapers. And there it was, "Muere Alec Guinness, Maestro del juego teatral" screamed the headline. "El versatil actor ingles interpreto 'El puente sobre el rio Kwai' a second headline proclaimed. Yet another stated,"La modestia y la disciplina claves de un gran artista." Here I was in Spain and they devoted 2 full pages of the Madrid newspaper to this English actor's passing, with articles by 5 different writers. And NO headline reference to STAR WARS. Sir Alec would have been so happy. There were several photos; "Guinness, como Coronel Nicholson" and there were shots from HOTEL PARAISO, a performance of MACBETH, and with an Academy Award.
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
This is the way he would have wanted it. Praise for a career, not a single role. This heavily honored actor was so much more than Obi-wan. He was the winner of 2 NY Film critic circle awards, 2 National Board of Review awards, 2 BAFTA's, a golden globe, a Berlin Golden Bear, and 2 oscars; none of these for anything to do with STAR WARS.
In a 70 film career stretching from 1934 to 1996 Sir Alec stunned and delighted us with a variety of great characters on the screen. From Fagan to Jacob Marley's Ghost to Professor Godbole, from Holland to Gulley Jimson, from Pope Innocent III to Juilus Caesar to Ben Kenobi he gave us a world of people we'll never forget... that the world will never forget. EL PAIS de Martes 8 de Agosto de 2000 taught me that.
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
Harry here, I have tried to not think about Alec Guinness' passing. I can't do it. When I think about it... I get sad. I think of him as light blue and glowing... that warm voice of his... that gleam in his eye and sly smile. But at the same time... because I first met Alec in STAR WARS... I was sort of numb to hearing of his death... But still... I haven't put on the original trilogy since his death. I am almost afraid to. As a matter of fact, I've avoided all of his films since his death. I need more distance before I can watch them, and even when I do... I will realize that the person I'm looking at... this is the first time I'm watching him alive when he isn't. Jimmy Stewart and Gene Kelly nearly emotionally destroyed me when I heard of their deaths. I was on the plane headed to Amsterdam when Dad flashed the newspaper headline at me. I was numb. Like a hole opened up in me. Like a voice died in my head. I get way to melodramatic about this sort of thing... But I'm a very emotional person. And Alec Guinness was one of those people that I cared for deeply... cinematically speaking. Sigh...
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You mentioned how much Guiness obviously hated his Star Wars fame, but you started your section on him with a "Where I Was When Obi-Wan Died"-type sentence. Even if that was YOUR favorite role of his, you kinda went against yourself later on by saying how he wasn't all Star Wars and none of his awards were related to it. Anyway, the whole thing is very nice, and it's cool that you know so much about people that most of us AICNers don't know too much about or never got to read about much. I know I never knew who brought Donald Duck to popularity, not that I care much now, but it's still cool to see all that info from someone who's passionate about it. Well done and God rest Alec Guiness, who's best role for me was Colonel Nicholson.
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I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Sidomak about fifteen years ago. He always liked laughing at his Universal film calling it "Frankenstein Wolfs the Meetman" and laughed a lot afterwards. A nice man.
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Carl Barks has always been one of my heroes. Not only did he create marvelous stories and characters, but his work made possible the later comics from Don Rosa and William Van Horn. After hearing that he died, I pulled a hardbound volume from my shelf and read once again about square eggs, totem pole organs, ancient viking helmets, and everyday life in Duckburg. Thank God for one of our great artists and storytellers.
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Like many others, I became a big fan of Sir Alec in the summer of 1977. Not not for reasons you may think. Our PBS station showed his old Ealing studio comedies from the 1950's. Yeah, of course I loved "Star Wars" that summer, and Obi-Wan was always my favorite character. But go watch films like "The Lavender Hill Mob', "The Man in the White Suit", "The Ladykillers" and especially "Kind Hearts and Coronets". Those films made me a fan!
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I first came across Barks' cartooning in a hardbound comic reprint anthology called "A Smithsonian Book of Comic-Book Comics". Came out in 1981 and beautifully reproduced some of the greatest and most influential comics of the first half of the 20th century. There're first appearances by Batman, Superman, and Plastic Man, a brilliant C.C. Beck Captain Marvel story, comics by Basil Wolverton, pre-comic strip Pogo comics, Eisner's "The Spirit", EC war comics...in other words, the absolute best of the best. And you better believe there was a Barks duck story. I suppose I didn't think it was cool at the time (it had no muscle-bound guys in colorful tights), but as years passed, my tastes broadened and my knowledge of cartooning grew. As I learned about the artistry of comics, I began to really dig those ducks. The drawing style was cartoony, but the draftsmanship behind it was anything but simple. Barks could *draw*, man, and draw anything. A quick glance and you might dismiss his work as simple, easy to duplicate, but look a little closer and you'll see that Barks was as fine an artist as Europe's famed Moebius. He could write too - anything from one page gags to straight adventure stories with only a few light moments. His Scrooge McDuck adventures, considered by many to be his best, were the inspiration for Disney's enjoyable cartoon "Duck Tales". I believe a number of episodes were even adapted directly from his original works. Reading Barks' adventure stories, you'll also see that they were clearly an inspiration for some great modern comics like Jeff Smith's "Bone". These weren't just throwaway kids' comics, these were all-ages comics that adults could enjoy as well. Like Herge's "Tintin", Barks' duck stories stand the test of time, and do credit to the easily-mocked but actually very noble concept of "wholesome entertainment". Anyone interested in Barks' work should hop on over to Amazon.com and do a search on his name. It'll turn up a number of fine reprint editions, very affordable. Sadly, the coffee table book that collects the best duck adventures, "Uncle Scrooge: His Life & Times", is out of print. It's worth doing some looking for though, as it features beautifully re-colored art, fond remembrances from Barks, and an introduction by George Lucas. In his later years, Barks painted "fine art"-style oil paintings of the ducks' greatest adventures. Beautiful stuff, not the slap-dash airbrush work you see on the cover to Disney videos. They're highly prized pieces, fetching six-figure amounts, but here're two links where you can just look at 'em if you're a penniless fan like me: http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/barks/barksdex.html ***** http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/moneybin/oil_paintings.html ***** I'm sure there are better galleries out there with greater numbers of enlargeable thumbnails, but those were the best I could find on short notice. So long, Mr. Barks. You'll be remembered!
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...let me transcribe a few of the laudatory quotes for Carl Barks that appear on the back cover of the excellent reprint volume, "Uncle Scrooge: His Life & Times". ****** From Time Magazine: "The vintage stories collected in this sumptuous volume...are strong evidence that Scrooge and his creator Carl Barks belong in the great mainstream of American Folklore." ****** From George Lucas: "My greatest source of enjoyment in Carl Barks's stories is his imagination: these tales are full of unique and special and exotic ideas. They are a priceless part of our literary heritage." ****** And lastly, a very humble Barks assesses his own work: "I always tried to write a story that I wouldn't mind buying myself." Cool.
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Hold on to that autographed picture, there's nothing I wouldn't do for that. Carl Barks is one of the greatest geniuses to ever grace the comic book page, don't let anybody forget it. Every story by him is solid gold I wish they didn't sell them so expensive.
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I don't know about the rest of you, but Carl Barks taught me how to read. Rag edged copies of my father's Walt Disney Comics and Stories and Uncle Scrooge three hole punched (forgive them, they didn't know) in a large binder. Three of them, actually. I started reading them when I was about five and I've never stopped. Every single one of those Barks Duck stories is wonderful and utterly timeless today as they were when I was a kid (& when my dad was a kid). What a life. What a legacy. What a terrible, irreplacable loss.
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What can you say when two people
of the silver screen passes over
but also had an iconic factor in popculture?The cinema has lost
a few more of its great sons and daughters during this summer but
Popculture has not in the sense
that these people for their styles
became bigger then the people
who made them.Carl Barks world of
duckburg(Not Disney's)Is and always will be part of the popculture as its truly americana
It shall endure as generations will discover these comics and delight in this world and the stories that it tells of an cantankerous duck.Whether the people who read it knows if this
is carl barks work you will get a few who are inspired by it and
start to follow their chosen path
by this inspiration.They will
remember the name.And thats how his name will endure forever.
Alec Guiness in STAR WARS is
Obi-Wan Kenobi and to generations to come that yet to see the film
always will be...In that film
Like he will be Col Nicolson in
BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI and
the criminal professor in THE LADY KILLERS,He became those characters an character actor
of the highest caliber and nothing less.To popculture he's
an icon in an iconic film but it
will never overshadow his career
in films for it is(STAR WARS)part of a golden resume of a great list of films that Guiness has
starred in.Two days after his death the BBC showed an interveiw Alec did for a show
called PARKINSON.In it he made his feelings about star wars very clear that he thought the dialoge needed some work but he found
himself turning the page and that it was an innocent and enjoyable film.He may have hated what it had become but he didn't hate the film.He also related a story
concerning James Dean on how he met him a couple of times and the last time he met him he had a terrible preminition about Jamse's new car and warned him not to drive it which you can guess the rest.This was a great tribute to one great actor, as this show was recorded a year after STAR WARS release it was touching that it was about ALEC GUINESS the man and his films not obi wan kenobi a character he unwittingly immortilised. -
These are for people that think horror is just scare your pants
routine.I've only seen three films of Curt Siodmak properly
THE WOLF MAN,BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS and EARTH VS FLYING SAUCERS.On the footnote it looks
as if WOLF MAN was a scarefest but it has alot more going on then that like the idea that did the lead character become a
werewolf because of supernatural
means or did he believe it so much
that he became one. Your never quite sure which is the real explanation and therein lies the beauty of the film the manic
desperation of Lon Chaney Jnr trying to stop an inevitiabilty
he believes will happen and no
seemingly cure ..except death.
The same type of theme was present
in the beast with five fingers
that people thought the hand of a dead piano player came back to life and all the evidence pointed
that it was real until the end
when the truth was revealed the
delusions of a madman.The loss
of Curt Siodmak will be missed
for someone that can write these
fantastic movies.Though im not sure if the oscars will give him
a tribute in their obituary montage(I hope so)Curt Siodmak
will not be forgotten by the people who appeciate his work and
the generations of fans to come
that will discover his work and
appeciate him for it.
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