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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 30, 2024 4:53:18 GMT -5
Jeri Taylor, who (among other credits) helped transition Star Trek: The Next Generation from a more high-concept, character secondary series to a more character-driven one. Although the show still generally relied on “mystery of the week” type plots they were often more closely integrated with the characters’ emotional arcs of the episode. She then went on to co-create Star Trek: Voyager, being maybe the key personality establishing the concepts behind it and then righting the show’s direction after the rocky (generously described) first couple of seasons. That second season is sooo much better than I remembered when I reviewed it for this very site, when I described it as one of the worst seasons of any iteration of Star Trek (of course, that was before Discovery...). It's often quite flawed but normally in fairly interesting ways and it's very rarely boring, the ultimate sin that DS9's second season is really struggling to overcome. There's a few fantastic episodes (Meld in particular is just brilliant) and though it's far from amazing it's picking itself up remarkably quickly. Moving the focus away from the more junior members of the crew helps a lot too and Janeway really starts to come to the fore in the second half, to the season's great benefit. Anyway, definitely sad to see Jeri Talylor go but it's been heartening to see how many people have been nice about her. |
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Post by Trurl on Oct 30, 2024 8:46:10 GMT -5
RIP Terry Garr. Going to have a roll in the hay in her honour.
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Post by Floyd Diabolical Barber on Oct 30, 2024 9:45:21 GMT -5
Teri Garr, 79. Inga in Young Frankenstein is one of the funniest performances ever. Roll in ze hay... I was in high school when Young Frankenstein came out. I was at the U of I for Engineering Open House when it was playing on campus town at the Coed Theater. I snuck out of some boring presentation dinner to go see it. Smartest move I ever made. I got to see Terri Garr roll in the hay. I remember that David Letterman wouldn't even try to pretend he didn't have the biggest crush on her when she would appear on Late Night. I remember one episode in the middle of a hot summer when the AC in the studio had stopped working. They had sent the audience home, and the show was just Dave and Paul and a couple of guests, and they filmed it in Dave's office. Terri Garr was one guest, and when she commented on how hot it was in the office. Dave replied "Well, there is a shower in that bathroom right there, you can cool off if you like." They all talk for a while, and every few minutes Dave says "You sure you don't want a shower? It is pretty hot in here.". They go to commercial, and when they come back, Dave and Paul are just sitting quietly at Dave's desk, listening to the shower running. I think Terry may have been singing. The last time I saw her on Letterman, which may be the last time I saw her live anywhere, she was already quite ill, and Dave spoke for a minute to the audience about her illness, which had not been widely publicized. He then went over to the edge of the stage, gently took her arm, and helped her walk to the couch. She struggled a bit through the interview but you could tell that Letterman had real affection for her. What can I say? I had a crush on her too. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 30, 2024 12:57:11 GMT -5
Prole Hole Even beyond critical judgment it suffered a pretty steep drop ratings-wise—idk how much of that was a secular trend and how much was the show’s own fault but on a pure business level she ensured the show’s survival. Even apart from people’s feelings about Voyager, though, I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t be nice given the killer roster of episodes she either authored or wrote or had a hand in for (just ones which I’ve never seen a bad word about: “The Wounded,” a pretty transformative episode for Trek as a whole, “The Drumhead,” “Unification,” “I Borg,” “Chain of Command,” “One,” “Nothing Human”). Another note of Teri Garr—everyone (rightfully) brings up her role in Young Frankenstein, one of the great things with Garr was her ability to layer emotions—zaniness on top, irony in the middle, sadness on the bottom. My favorite performance of hers is in After Hours, whose partly-stuck-in-the-early-mid-sixties character kind of provides a link back to her role in the background light pop culture of the time.
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 4, 2024 3:24:13 GMT -5
Quincy Jones, 91.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Nov 4, 2024 9:05:35 GMT -5
His Wikipedia page reads like a better version of Forrest Gump. What a life. |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 8, 2024 21:30:33 GMT -5
Genre acting legend Tony Todd, at 69.
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Post by WKRP Jimmy Drop on Nov 8, 2024 21:49:25 GMT -5
Genre acting legend Tony Todd, at 69. Noooooooooooo |
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Nov 8, 2024 22:31:27 GMT -5
Genre acting legend Tony Todd, at 69. He'll come back if you say his name in a mirror 5 times |
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Post by ABz B👹anaz on Nov 9, 2024 0:02:28 GMT -5
Genre acting legend Tony Todd, at 69.  He was great in everything. Deep Space Nine's "The Visitor" was one of the best episodes of the entire series. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Nov 9, 2024 1:05:19 GMT -5
Genre acting legend Tony Todd, at 69.
OH NO! Aw, that is so sad.
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Post by Scruff on Nov 11, 2024 8:54:32 GMT -5
I am SUPER bummed about Tony Todd. There's a lot of really good background info on Candyman, including the director working with the NAACP to make sure the film didn't veer into racism in its portrayals. But I think the best part was Tony Todd having it written in his contract that he would get a $1,000 bonus for every bee sting he received. Afterall, he really did have bees stuck in his mouth. I admire that sort of self-advocacy.
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 13, 2024 7:39:06 GMT -5
Timothy West, 90.
A luminary of British stage and screen. I don't know how well known he was across the pond, but he was married to Prunella Scales of Sybil Fawlty fame. In the late 90s, I saw them both star in The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter at Newcastle's illustrious Theatre Royal. Pretty good.
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Post by Prole Hole on Nov 21, 2024 4:31:24 GMT -5
John Prescott, 86. A heavyweight political bruiser from the Tony Blair years and vital to getting Labour back into power after the Thatcher/Major years. Reasonably unscathed by scandal, except one or two that by today's standards seem mild (he has two Jaguars! May have had an affair!) and never quite comfortable with the New Labour shiny image but never quite comfortable at home on the union side after reaching power with a taste for some of the trappings of power.. Memorably punched a member of the public and on a separate occasion was soaked at a music awards ceremony by Chumbawamba for selling out the Liverpool dockers.
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 21, 2024 7:43:50 GMT -5
John Prescott, 86. A heavyweight political bruiser from the Tony Blair years and vital to getting Labour back into power after the Thatcher/Major years. Reasonably unscathed by scandal, except one or two that by today's standards seem mild (he has two Jaguars! May have had an affair!) and never quite comfortable with the New Labour shiny image but never quite comfortable at home on the union side after reaching power with a taste for some of the trappings of power.. Memorably punched a member of the public and on a separate occasion was soaked at a music awards ceremony by Chumbawamba for selling out the Liverpool dockers. There was also the time he downed a pint in one on camera. Can't overlook that when we're establishing working class credentials. It's worth pointing out that he was, of course, the relentless target of snobbish mockery by members of the press for his 'humble beginnings' - the same press who today castigate the Labour party for having lost touch with its working class roots, and who mock Angela Raynor in the same way. |
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