Showing posts with label obituaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label obituaries. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

DREW STRUZAN - (1947-2025)

Drew Struzan, Renowned Poster Artist for ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Back To The Future,’ and 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade', Dies at 78.

A great artist is no longer with us! Drew's posters during the Golden Era of Movie Artworks were iconic! He defined the art of movie promotion through his paintings, sadly, an art form no longer in existence today! He was an amazing artist when posters were not just photoshopped composites but real handmade pieces of artwork! Movie Posters are much poorer for his loss!  RIP Drew Struzan!


                  





Wednesday, September 24, 2025

GOOD NEWS / BAD NEWS

The good news is that, finally, the complete four seasons of THE HUCKLEBERRY HOUND SHOW have been released  after 20 years since the first season premiered on DVD on November 15, 2005. I had been waiting for the missing episodes of this show ever since then and now its here in a great Blu-Ray package looking better than ever thanks to the Warner Archive Collection!




THE BAD NEWS:
Claudia Cardinale passed away on September 23 at 87 years old.
Born and raised in La Goulette, a neighbourhood of Tunis, Cardinale won the "Most Beautiful Italian Girl in Tunisia" competition in 1957, the prize being a trip to Italy, which quickly led to film contracts, due above all to the involvement of producer Franco Cristaldi, who acted as her mentor for a number of years and later married her. After making her debut in a minor role with Egyptian star Omar Sharif in Goha (1958), Cardinale became one of the best-known actresses in Italy, with roles in films such as Rocco and His Brothers (1960), Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Cartouche (1962), The Leopard (1963) and Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963).
From 1963, Cardinale appeared in The Pink Panther opposite David Niven. She went on to appear in the Hollywood films Blindfold (1966), Lost Command (1966), The Professionals (1966), Don't Make Waves (1967) with Tony Curtis, The Hell with Heroes (1968), The Red Tent (1969), A Fine Pair (1968), The Salamander (1981), and the Sergio Leone Western Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a joint U.S.–Italian production, in which she was praised for her role as a former prostitute opposite Jason Robards, Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.
(From WIKIPEDIA)



Arrivederci, cara bella Claudia!

Sunday, April 6, 2025

GOODBYE, DENNIS!

 RIP JAY NORTH (1951-2025)

An important part of my childhood has passed on! Jay North was the star of TV's DENNIS THE MENACE show. We were both the same age and I followed Dennis antics closely, identifying with him in many forms.  Sorry to see you go, Jay! You made my childhood brighter!


Jay North, who played Dennis Mitchell in the original 1959 “Dennis the Menace” TV series, died Sunday after a battle with cancer, his long-time friend Laurie Jacobson confirmed in a social media post. He was 73.  





                           Jay North with cartoonist Hank Ketcham, creator of DENNIS THE MENACE


DENNIS THE MENACE  reunion! (1988)





“Dennis the Menace,” based on Hank Ketcham’s comic strip of the same name, ran for 146 episodes across four seasons. The show followed North’s Dennis “the menace” Mitchell, a young troublemaker who terrorizes his aging neighbor Mr. George Wilson (Joseph Kearns) through a never-ending series of mischievous deeds. Other cast members include Herbert Anderson, Gloria Henry, Billy Booth, Sylvia Field and Gale Gordon.



 

Sunday, August 25, 2024

SEAN CONNERY as James Bond.

 Sean Connery would've been 94 years old today. Born in August 25th, 1930, he passed away on 0ctober 31, 2020. I've always been a big fan of all his movies but I choose to remember him today as James Bond 007, one of his most famous roles!






Monday, September 25, 2023

RIP ILLYA KURYAKIN


                                      SAD NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF ENTERTAINMENT - 
David McCallum, who starred as Illya Kuryakin alongside Robert Vaughn’s Napoleon Solo in the 1960s hit spy drama “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” and had a supporting role as pathologist Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard on the top-rated series “NCIS” decades later, died Monday of natural causes in New York City. He was 90.


                                                  As Ashley-Pitt in THE GREAT ESCAPE


                                                                       Ducky Mallard in NCIS



As Illya Kuryakin with Robert Vaughn as Napoleon Solo in
                                                         THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.


He was in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD as Judas Iscariot, THE GREAT ESCAPE, SOL MADRID, AROUND THE WORLD UNDER THE SEA, TV's The Invisible Man, Sapphire & Steel TV series, NCIS as Ducky Mallard and many other distinguished roles, but he will always be Illya Kuryakin to me!  - RIP David McCallum -


                          Listen to Hugo Montenegro's recording of the song ILLYA, from the
                                 1965 LP Original Music From The Man From U.N.C.L.E.