Obituaries

[Foxx]

33

 

[Fansince88]

34 minutes ago, Foxx said:

33

 

Way too young. 

[B-Man]

Susan Backlinie, the First Victim of the
Shark in ‘Jaws,’ Dies at 77

Hollywood Reporter, by Mike Barnes 

 

Original Article

 

Susan Backlinie, the stuntperson and actress who as a young skinny-dipper out for a nighttime swim off the coast of Amity Island became the shark’s first victim in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, has died. She was 77. Backlinie died Saturday at her home in Ventura, California, her convention agent, Matthew Templeton, told The Daily Jaws website. Backlinie was a nationally ranked swimmer and professional diver who had performed as a mermaid and worked as an animal trainer when she was hired at age 28 to play the skinny-dipping Chrissie in Universal’s Jaws (1975).

 

 

[B-Man]

 

Thank you Roger.

 

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer
and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

Variety, by Richard Natale 

 

Original Article

 

Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98. Corman died May 9 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., surrounded by family members, the family confirmed to Variety. “His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,'” the family said in a statement. Corman’s empire, which existed in several incarnations, including New World Pictures

 

 

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[Crap Throwing Clavin]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

Thank you Roger.

 

Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer
and King of B Movies, Dies at 98

Variety, by Richard Natale 

 

Original Article

 

Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98. Corman died May 9 at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., surrounded by family members, the family confirmed to Variety. “His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,'” the family said in a statement. Corman’s empire, which existed in several incarnations, including New World Pictures

 

 

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As bad as his films were - and they were really bad, for the most part - an entire generation of directors and producers learned techniques from his films that made the movie era of the '70s-'90s what it was...and that was a really damned good era.  RIP.

[Fansince88]

8 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

As bad as his films were - and they were really bad, for the most part - an entire generation of directors and producers learned techniques from his films that made the movie era of the '70s-'90s what it was...and that was a really damned good era.  RIP.

3:20 in. John was genius! 

https://youtu.be/GsqWdhyPlAU?si=unq5tn4HU9ZrvijT

[Pete]

Aj smith passed way. Great front office man for the bills. No surprise the drought started after he left. Went to chargers in 2000, put together some very good teams there. Rip

 

 

Edited Monday at 12:17 PM by Pete

[B-Man]

 

 

RIP: David Sanborn, Grammy award-winning saxophonist, dead at 78.

 

 

[Crap Throwing Clavin]

 

I thought he'd died years ago, to be honest.

[RochesterRob]

3 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

I thought he'd died years ago, to be honest.

  He was Buffalo Bill after all.  The fictional talk show host on a fictional television station in the Buffalo, NY market.  The show ran 1982-1983.  

[Taro T]

4 hours ago, Crap Throwing Clavin said:

 

I thought he'd died years ago, to be honest.

 

Buffalo Bill died?  It must've been that crew member that recorded the Sabres game and asked everyone to not tell him what happened and then Bill told him Perreault got a hat trick.

 

Him, or Gina Davis.  She always was sketchy.  Hot, but sketchy.  

 

😉 

 

RIP Mr. Coleman.