This another one of those "Dabney Coleman was still alive?!?" moments

I've been wanting to rewatch 9 to 5 for at least a decade now. Maybe this is the time.

RIP
 

I've been putting this off...

Steve Albini Top Ten (*omitting In Utero at request of deceased*)

PJ Harvey - Dry
Pixies - Sufer Rosa
Jesus Lizard - Liar
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
The Breeders - Pod
Pigface - Gub
Poster Children - Daisychain Reaction
Dirty Three - Ocean Songs
Low - Things We Lost in the Fire
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture


Roger Corman Top Ten

Masque of Red Death
A Bucket of Blood
The Undead
Not of This Earth
House of Usher
St Valentine's Day Massacre
Pit and the Pendulum
Little Shop of Horrors
X; The Man With X-Ray Eyes
The Trip
 

crumbsroom wrote:

Godspeed Morgan Spurlock, even though I also can't help but think that death by McDonald's is probably one of the best ways anyone could possibly go.

I personally don't care for the 'personality-centered' subgenre of documentaries, but I couldn't help but wonder the same question.  It's odd that they haven't released the type of cancer he had, as I think that could be very relevant, if it were something like liver, pancreatic or intestinal/colon.  Maybe even kidney.  It's unavoidable to suspect that 30 full days of Micky Ds, even 20 years later, could leave a timebomb in one's biome.  Of course, I have no idea what, if any, other habits he may have had along the way.

Rampop II wrote:

He eventually came out as a lifelong alcoholic in 2017. He famously stated, "I haven't been sober for more than a week in thirty years." While that inevitably raises speculations, Spurlock's doctor did say his liver was normal at the outset of his Super–Size Me experiment, and was turning into "paté" before it ended. So, who knowwws...

There's a bit of fact-checking of Super-Size Me out there, and one of the more prominent criticisms is that Spurlock had failed to disclose to the doctors used in the film the amount of alcohol he was simultaneously consuming (which was apparently considerable) and how this would have been such a substantial contribution to his liver health, in conjuction with a high-sodium transfat diet, that its omission could only be an intentional deception.  And I don't really know what "sober more than a week" really means.  A weekend binger?  Or a handle a day?

Jinnistan wrote:

I don't want to act like I'm not corny.

Top Five Sherman Brothers

Trust in Me
Chim Chim Cheree
I Wanna Be Like You
Heffalumps and Woozles
Deep in the Dark
 

That's a pretty solid collection.
Incidentally a couple of days ago Chitty Chitty Bang Bang randomly popped into my head while I was driving. No reason why it should, except that my engine chittys quite a bit. I haven't seen that movie or heard that song since I was a kid. Maybe it was in the ether.

Then earlier today I was paying a moving violation online (separate incidents) and was prompted to review the website's terms, and out of nowhere I heard Dabney Coleman from Tootsie, "Oh God, here come the terms..." 

Shit, we're just two month's shy of Cloak and Dagger's 40th birthday.

 

Favorite Donald Sutherland moments?

Oh fuck

R.I.P.

As a child, there were very few adult actors who really leapt off the screen for me. Sutherland may have been the first. I just remember that face and that voice and the way he moved, in particular one night after coming upon his Invasion of the Body Snatchers playing on the television. I was always looking for anything that was horror related but I watched it because of him. I remembered it years later because of him.

He's arguably my favourite ever. And, of course, he was Canadian. I could smell it on him, even way back then. It's a particular blend of rugged and weird that mostly seems to grow up here.

Legend.

And less than 24 hours after James Chance. What a bummer of a week.


 

Jinnistan wrote:

I thought you didn't like The Contortions.

No, I love them. Also like his James White and the Blacks record.

Teenage Jesus was the no wave band I wasn't particularly big on.

Jinnistan wrote:

...I don't know if I'm just off the radar or if no one cared to mention it or if (I suspect) it's just now being announced to the public. 

I'm pretty sure it just hit the presses.