ZNAK SAGITE — više od fantastike — edicija, časopis, knjižara...

RIP. Očekivano, ali na kraju krajeva ima ljudi koji se ne uklapaju i za koje se pitaš kako su i ovoliko izdržali. BTW, meni je ovo žena sinoć saopštila probudivši me iz sna... Friki.

RIP. I MAX RISPEKT.

Značajna ličnost srpskog filma i jedinstvena osoba.

RIP

Bila je sjajna    R.I.P.

Sonja je imala shta da kaze...samo nije imao ko da je chuje...

Ko zeli da sazna barem delic od onoga kakva je Sonja bila ko osoba, znachi ne kao shto velika vecina "napacene raje" misli da je ona bila samo glumica i raspala narkomanka koja se druzila sa ekipom BGD novog talasa evo jednog njenog 6-ominutnog govora iz '99 kada je za vreme bombardovanja imala ta jaja ko retko ko (ko skoro niko) da kaze neshto drugachije od onoga shto se plasiralo po RTS-u uz pesmice tipa "Volimo te otadzbinu nasha" i slichne IZUZETNE "patriotske" akcije koje su zna se shta su bile, svakom je jasno ko se seca tog perioda a ko nije bio napaljen od strane medija nego svestan kolko tolko shta nam se zapravo dogadja. Naravno nece se svi sloziti sa ovim mojim napisanim ali nije ni poenta sloziti se sa mnom nego saslushati ovaj neprocenjivi Sonjin govor o nama samima. Naravno ovo nigde nikada nije pushteno jer je bila blokada svih medija tako da se moze naci samo na ovoj adresi na netu u mp3 formatu. Skinite, saslusajte, prepoznajte ili nemojte. PEACE.

http://alfa.users.sbb.rs/sonja.mp3

Ne mogu da verujem. RIP.

Šećerna vodica na rts2.

http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=6747

Nekrolog na POPBOKSU, napisala Vladislava. Malo joj je preopširan i prerasplinut uvodni deo, bar što se mene tiče, ali ovo posle je sasvim lepo sročila...

Quote from: "Milosh"http://www.popboks.com/tekst.php?ID=6747

Nekrolog na POPBOKSU, napisala Vladislava. Malo joj je preopširan i prerasplinut uvodni deo, bar što se mene tiče, ali ovo posle je sasvim lepo sročila...

Vladislava V. je našla svoju formu... Samo, brine me to prećutno odobravanje narkomanije koje provejava između redova...

Npr:

QuoteI samog Boga ti dobri ljudi sagledavaju kroz izreke poput: ,,Ko se čuva i Bog ga čuva". Tako oni čuvaju najpre naša tela a zatim i naše duše, braneći nas od metafizičke hladnoće brigom i pridikovanjem, čineći svet oko nas malo dosadnim ali barem donekle sigurnim mestom.

Ipak, ceo jedan ogroman, drugi i drugačiji svet prosijava iza tako postavljenih slabih brana. Njegova je privlačnost neodoljiva a snaga neizmerna.

Ono što se dogodilo talentovanoj i lepoj Sonji Savić treba da bude pre svega cautionary tale i tužna opomena da i najsjajnije i najizuzetnije, ako skrenu sa staze od žutih cigala, čeka ista sudbina kao i ostale.

Quote from: "Kunac"Ono što se dogodilo talentovanoj i lepoj Sonji Savić treba da bude pre svega cautionary tale i tužna opomena da i najsjajnije i najizuzetnije, ako skrenu sa staze od žutih cigala, čeka ista sudbina kao i ostale.

ova apologija mediokritetizma svakako nije ni poenta tog texta a ni  sonjine sudbine.
ako išta, ona je dokazala da sa staze VREDI skrenuti, ako su plodovi uzbrani van utabanih staza takvi i toliki kao njeni.

Mislim da Kunac nije imao na umu apologiju mediokritetstva (ha!) već više statement of fact. Čak blagi lament nad društvom koje kažnjava istupanje iz stroja itd. itd.  Iz koga se može zatim ekstrapolirati ovo što ti kažeš.

Ali možda i griješim, boli me glava od jutros...

Imam osećaj da će sad i tebe Ghoul da prozove za apologiju mediokritetstva (do vraga, morao sam da pogledam kako si ti napisao reč kako ne bih zajebao! definitivno bih morao da se ispavam...), a kad smo kod apologija ja bih rekao da je to iz Kunca progovorio zabrinuti profesor...

U svakom slučaju, nisam pratio kako su el. mediji ovo ispratili, samo sam pročitao ono što je Ghoul postovao glede RTSa i to zaista deluje sramotno, čak i za RTS...

meho je dokazani i samoproklamovani mediokritet, čovek iz naroda koji je gledao jedva 10 filmova i pročitao 20 knjiga u životu, i to pretežno sf-a, dakle nema tu šta da prozivam, on sam se izdaje za takvog, a njegova odbrana mediokriteta i zabrinutih profesora sa cautionary tales je, ako ništa drugo, barem sasvim dosledna.

Hteo sam da dam svoje mišljenje, a onda me je zaustavio tekst sa mp3. Poverovao sam u njega, za trenutak, a onda se sve izvitoperilo i pretvorilo u gomilu suprotnosti od kojih su sazdane naše životne nedoumice.
Isus nije razapet zato što se pokorio dominantnom mišljenju, već upravo zato što to nije učinio. Svi ostali citati su izbor dominantnih da bi pokoreni ostali pokorni. Debilni Arsenije III Čarnojević nije branio narod već svoju guzicu jer se iz Dubrovnika vratio kad je mislio da Austrijancima ide dobro, pa kad je general Pikolomini riknuo od kuge u Skoplju, zbrisao i ispraznio Kosovo i započeo ono što nam se sada događa. Ghoul bi rekao da će Zlo učiniti sve da ne bismo poverovali u njega.

Zbog onih koje je Neron bacio divljim zverima, zbog onih koje je Dioklecijan nemilosrdno satirao, zbog onih koji su nestali u zlodelima nakon svih Reformacija u svetu, zbog Vartolomejske noći, zbog ropskih odnosa, koji uprkos svim naporima traju, danas kao trafiking ili eksploatacija stotina miliona dece ili na brodovima koji sklapaju elektronsku opremu u beskrajnim putovanjima s ovog na onaj kraj sveta, zbog neverending nuklearnih pretnji, zbog Koreja, Vijetnama, Kambodža, Avganistana, Iraka... zbog transformacije svetskog tržišta u zelenašku utakmicu, zbog panične bitke da se svetski resursi što pre do kraja unište, zbog stava da postoji samo danas, a da je sutra potpuno nevažno, svaka pobuna je samo dokaz da humanizam još postoji.

Sirota Sonja Savić je precenila svoj početak i nije bila u stanju da se suoči sa nastavkom. Gledao sam par prvih njenih filmova i već tada znao da će biti potrošna roba, ali nisam znao da to neće moći da podnese. Počivala u miru.

Žao mi je. Iako mi je pozorište strano, iako mi je eksperimentalno pozorište još stranije, jedna njena monodrama u hladnoj Pivnici u Skadarliji ostaće mi zauvek u uspomeni...

Paul Newman RIP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman;_ylt=AofZn9Xx1FfhaRKgnqQB9a.yFz4D

R.I.P.

Quote from: "Ghoul"ako išta, ona je dokazala da sa staze VREDI skrenuti, ako su plodovi uzbrani van utabanih staza takvi i toliki kao njeni.

Taj rad Ghoule,to je taj rad, isto ono ko za Poa shto si reko, znachi zaista zivot nije tolko bitan ako je "zrtvovan" za pravu stvar...kao da je duze pozivela josh jedno 10-15 godina to bi znachilo da je kao OK...i da se imala rashta roditi (se tako kaze ?)...mislim da nije bash tako...mislim da nije pogreshila nimalo, drugi se mogu smtrati za narkoamane ali ne i Sonja, Sonja je napravila neshto, i to je zaista vredno, znachi to shto je pritom cepala heroin je zaista nebitno u celoj toj prichi, znachi pogledajmo njena dela...to je dokaz, saslushajte je kako pricha u dokumentarcu o Mladenovicu, ako je neko sazeo sustinu to je ona, ovi ostali su svi redom mlaki u poredjenju sa njom,z anchi kakav Vejvoda, niko joj nije ni do bre potkolenice od te ekipe sa kojom je odrasla, znachi za razliku od mnogih iako se gudrala svest joj je bila chista a to retko ko moze, skoro pa niko...shto kaze nash narod : SONJA JE OBJASNILA...

Quote from: "Milosh"Paul Newman RIP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obit_newman;_ylt=AofZn9Xx1FfhaRKgnqQB9a.yFz4D

Ode i Plavooki. Kakav je samo to glumac bio. Jedan od mojih omiljenih. Takve više ne prave...

QuoteКада су га пре три године питали шта би волео да пише на његовој надгробној плочи, Њумен је одговорио:

- Некада сам мислио да треба да стоји: ,,Овде почива Пол Њумен чија каријера се завршила оног часа када су његове плаве очи постале смеђе." Одустао сам од тога и смишљам нешто друго.

Evo teksta iz Ilustrovane politike od pre nedelju i kusr...

http://www.ilustrovana.com/tekst.php?broj=2592&tekst=01

Cool Hand Paul

R.I.P.

R.I.P., Macku na usijanom limenom krovu:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051459/

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Buč Kesidi  

The Hustler !

RIP i sve to, ali taj njumen ima unikatno nezanimljivu i neimpresivnu filmografiju – bar za mene – u kojoj jedva da mi 2 ili 3 naslova nešto sitno i nebitno u životu znače, a sve ostalo može i sutra poplava da odnese.
u tom pogledu je redak primer 'velikog' holivudskog glumca koji nije uradio ama baš ništa što bi me igde zagolicalo, nijednu mega-giga ulogu za moj groš.
pri tom, nije nimalo slučajno da se radi o jednom od užasno retkih glumaca tog renomea koji NIKADA nije igrao u hororu.
dakle, običan dosadnjaković kome se posrećilo da ima TE plave oči i da izgleda kao švaler za curice koje padaju na prvu loptu...

De, ne sviraj (nekomu, te necemu): imas gore par nabrojanih filmova, antologijskih, postavljenih u nasim postovima, a ima ih jos; cuj, "...nije nimalo slučajno da se radi o jednom od užasno retkih glumaca tog renomea koji NIKADA nije igrao u hororu." - *ebo te horor, da te *ebo, k'o da je horor nekakav etalon "vrijednosti" (inace, zhanr sa najvise zastupljenih idiotluka, muckova napravljenih u nekom od njih/zhanrova, izuzimajuci pornografiju).

Sad cu ja reci nesto shto se reci ne sme, al shta cu kad me goni taj Shejtan, Abraxas il' koji vec danima pa mi ne da mira   :

Tako je Ghoule, tako govori pravi...


































... GERANTOFIL  

nisam ovo trebo, nisam, kaaajajaj-em se      

nisam ni reko da je horor nekakav etalon "vrijednosti" – ali je svakako rečito da taj čovek NIKADA nije igrao u hororu, čime se ZAISTA MALO velikih glumaca može 'pohvaliti'.

ponavljam: RETKO dosadna filmografija, retko dosadan i uniforman glumac, počinjem da zevam samo kad POMISLIM na njega, a kamo li kad ga vidim...
da ne pominjem da se sasvim predvidiva, i meni odvratna, grupacija ljudi oduševljava takvim 'veličinama' – otprilike ista ta stoka koja se gurala po onoj CG plaži da zvera u madonu, i sl...

Quote from: "Son of Man"Tako je Ghoule, tako govori pravi...
... GERANTOFIL  

oćeš reći - nekrofil?

Quote from: "Ghoul"
ponavljam: RETKO dosadna filmografija, retko dosadan i uniforman glumac, počinjem da zevam samo kad POMISLIM na njega, a kamo li kad ga vidim...

Pa, OK (izuzev onog o "prisutnosti u hororu"): licna preferancija (ili ne), sta se tu moze...

Quote from: "Ghoul"oćeš reći - nekrofil?

Ne, ne, ne...mislim da sam bio sasvim jasan, ochigledno je da ti se nije svidjao ovaj deka shto znachi da mozda volish neke druge (horror) deke a ?  

Quote from: "Ghoul"RIP i sve to, ali taj njumen ima unikatno nezanimljivu i neimpresivnu filmografiju – bar za mene – u kojoj jedva da mi 2 ili 3 naslova nešto sitno i nebitno u životu znače, a sve ostalo može i sutra poplava da odnese.

Neverevatno. Gotovo identičnu rečenicu ja sam rekao pre 15 godina. Bila je to jedna od mojih retkih grešaka, opravdana mladošću i nedovoljnim filmskim znanjem.

Ali ne treba ishitreno zaključiti da je Ghoulovo filmsko znanje danas približno jednako mome od pre 15 godina.

Pre 20 i kusur, možda...

Umro francuski glumac Guillaume Depardieu (37).

tek sad videh ovo

Quote from: "Alex"ali ne treba ishitreno zaključiti da je Ghoulovo filmsko znanje danas približno jednako mome od pre 15 godina.
Pre 20 i kusur, možda...

nema to veze sa znanjem već sa (ne)ukusom.

Pre 19 godina u Parizu umro pisac Danilo Kiš

Romansijer, esejista i prevodilac Danilo Kiš, jedan od najprevođenijih srpskih pisaca, umro je na sutrašnji dan pre 19 godina u Parizu, gradu u kojem je s prekidima živeo od 1959. godine, a po svojoj želji sahranjen je u Beogradu, po pravoslavnom obredu.

Rođen 1935. godine u Subotici, kao dete oca mađarskog Jevrejina i majke Crnogorke, Kiš je odrastao u porodici mešane vere, judaizma i pravoslavlja i mađarske i srpske kulture. Kao pisac odbijao je svrstavanje u bilo koji kontekst, krtikovao sve vrste provincijalizama, a nacionalizam je video kao "kolektivnu paranoju", ideologiju banalnosti, odnosno totalitarizma. Pisac ogromne energije i erudicije, Kiš je umro samo godinu dana nakon što je 1988. godine izabran za dopisnog člana Srpske akademije nauka i umetnosti, dobio "Avnojevu" nagradu i dve međunarodne književne nagrade - u Italiji (Premio di Tevere) i u Nemačkoj (Preis des Literaturmagazins).
Na Kišovo književno stvaralaštvo uticala je mešovita verska sredina Subotice i kasnije, od 1937. godine i Novog Sada, gde je 1939. godine kršten po pravoslavnom obredu u vreme donošenja antijevrejskih zakona u Mađarskoj. Snažan pečat utisnula je i smrt oca Eduarda koji je 1944. godine odveden u Aušvic iz kojeg se nije vratio.
"Prva pesma koju sam napisao - imao sam tada devet godina - imala je kao temu glad, dok je druga, više ili manje u istom periodu, imala kao temu ljubav. Eto, taj scenario, bol, proganjanje, smrt, i dalje je osnova moga dela", napisao je Kiš u "Gorkom talogu iskustva". Po završetku rata 1947. godine, s majkom Milicom i sestrom Danicom, posredstvom Crvenog krsta, Kiš je repatriran na Cetinje, gde 1954. godine završava srednju školu. Na Filozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu diplomirao je 1958. godine kao prvi student na katedri za Istoriju svetske književnosti sa teorijom književnosti, a dve godine kasnije završava poslediplomske studije.
Prva dva Kišova romana "Mansarda" i "Psalam 44" objavljena su 1962. godine u izdanju beogradskog "Kosmosa", roman "Bašta, pepeo" 1965. godine, zbirka priča "Rani jadi" (za decu i osetljive) 1969. godine. Za roman "Peščanik" objavljen 1972. godine dobio je NIN-ovu nagradu, koju je nekoliko godina kasnije vratio. Zbirku priča "Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča" objavljuje 1976. godine, a polemičku knjigu "Čas anatomije", u kojoj je po oceni kritičara superiorno odbranio svoje stavove i napade na "Grobnicu za Borisa Davidoviča" , objavio je 1978. godine.
Zbirku pripovedaka "Enciklopedija mrtvih", za koju dobija Andrićevu nagradu, objavio je 1984. godine, dve godine kasnije dobija nagradu "Skender Kulenović" i francuski orden "Vitez umetnosti i književnosti", a 1987. godine Sedmojulsku nagradu. Te godine, već oboleo od raka pluća, prevodi Lotreamona, Verlena, Kenove "Stilske vežbe", rediguje svoje rane prevode pesama Endre Adija.

Iako je, vjerovatno, izlisno ovo akcentirati, ali zaista je malo pisaca njegovog kvaliteta i znacaja koji su pisali u okviru juznoslavenske knjizevnosti.
U tu endemsku skupinu pisaca, ubrajam i njegovog licnog pajtasha, takodje pocivseg, velikog pisca Borislava Pekica.

Neal Hefti, Composer, Is Dead at 85
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By BRUCE WEBER
Published: October 15, 2008

Neal Hefti, whose renown as a forward-looking composer and arranger for Woody Herman and Count Basie was probably overwhelmed forever after he went to Hollywood and wrote the theme for the 1960's television show "Batman," and for the movie and television versions of "The Odd Couple," died Saturday at home in Toluca Lake, Calif. He was 85.
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Mr. Hefti, left, with Frank Sinatra, during a 1961 recording session.
Selected Compositions
Batman Theme
Odd Couple Theme
"Cute"
(youtube.com)

He died suddenly from an undetermined cause, his son, Paul, said. Mr. Hefti's death was first reported in a blog posting by a friend, the singer Nancy Sinatra, on the website www.sinatrafamily.com.

Over the years, Mr. Hefti, first known as a jazz trumpeter in the 1940s and 1950s, was much admired and much in demand as an arranger, conductor and occasional record producer; he worked with Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Mel Tormé and Tony Bennett, among others. He also led his own bands, and he was active as a player until 1960.

But his greatest sphere of influence was as an arranger and composer for other jazz artists. His early travels with jazz bands took him to New York, where he was mesmerized by the bebop playing of Dizzy Gillespie, and joined the Herman band — known as First Herd — in 1944. He was influential in moving that band from its swing roots in the direction of bebop.

He spent only two years with the Herd; when he left in 1946, he took the singer Frances Wayne, his new wife, with him. But by then he had created new arrangements for Herman's compositions like "Woodchopper's Ball" and "Blowin' Up a Storm," and composed tunes like "Apple Honey," "Wild Root" and "The Good Earth."

He toured with Harry James and he arranged tunes for Buddy Rich. Though he also toured and recorded with his own bands, sometimes with his wife, he never achieved real success as a bandleader. For him, the decade of the 1950's was characterized by his association with the Basie band, for which he wrote perhaps his best known jazz tunes, including "Splanky," "Little Pony," "Li'l Darlin',." whose tempo Basie famously slowed down to a luscious and sensual crawl, and the perky "Cute."

"If it wasn't for Neal Hefti, the Basie band wouldn't sound as good as it does," Miles Davis said in 1955. "But Neal's band can't play those same arrangements nearly as well."

Starting in the 1960s, Mr. Hefti found great success writing television and film scores. In addition to writing the theme for "The Odd Couple" (1968), which would be burned into the memories of baby boomers with the creation of the television series in 1970, he composed the scores for two other Neil Simon films, "Barefoot in the Park" (1967) and "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" (1972). His other film work included "Duel at Diablo" (1966), a brutal Western; Elaine May's farce "A New Leaf" (1971), and the gleeful sex comedies "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964), "Boeing Boeing" (1965) and "How to Murder Your Wife" (1965).

There was a politically incorrect strain to Mr. Hefti's work, possibly tongue-in-cheek; for the 1965 biographical film "Harlow," he and Bobby Troupe wrote the bluesy, winkingly sexist tune, Girl Talk." (For the same movie, Mr. Hefti wrote "Lonely Girl," the Bobby Vinton hit.)

"He felt his true work was done for the movies and television," Paul Hefti said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. What his father especially liked about writing for the screen, he said, was that he was not restricted by a band's instrumentation, that he could write for whatever combo, for whatever musicians he wanted.

Oddly enough, his most famous tune is among his least musically interesting, even if it was somehow brilliantly apt: the jauntily arch and repetitive theme for the television series "Batman." Mr. Hefti said that the show was so campy it took him weeks to come up with a suitable melody. It won him his only Grammy.

Neal Paul Hefti was born in Hastings, Neb., on Oct. 29, 1922. He received a trumpet as a Christmas present when he was 10 years old; according to family lore, his mother encouraged him to play so that, if he were drafted, he would be in the band and not the infantry. By the time he was out of high school, he was arranging and playing for local bands in order to contribute to the household. He saw Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie play when they passed through nearby Omaha before he ever saw them in New York.

His wife died in 1978; a daughter died in 1997. In addition to his son, also of Toluca Lake, Mr. Hefti is survived by a brother, Joe, of Pensacola, Fla.; a sister, Pat Wacha, of Clarkson, Neb.; and three grandchildren.

"He told me he tore up more paper on 'Batman' than on any other work he ever did," Paul Hefti said. "He had to find something that worked with the lowest common denominator, so it would appeal to kids, yet wouldn't sound stupid. What he came up with was a 12-bar blues with a guitar hook and one word."

Heh. Rispekt i RIP.

Fashion critic Mr. Blackwell dies in Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES – Mr. Blackwell, the acerbic designer whose annual worst-dressed list skewered the fashion felonies of celebrities from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died. He was 86.

Blackwell died Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of complications from an intestinal infection, publicist Harlan Boll said.

Blackwell, whose first name was Richard, was a little-known dress designer when he issued his first tongue-in-cheek criticism of Hollywood fashion disasters for 1960 — long before Joan Rivers and others turned such ridicule into a daily affair.

Year after year, he would take Hollywood's reigning stars and other celebrities to task for failing to dress in what he thought was the way they should.

Being dowdy was bad enough, but the more outrageous clothing a woman wore, the more biting his criticism. He once said a reigning Miss America looked "like an armadillo with cornpads."

A few other examples:

Madonna: "The Bare-Bottomed Bore of Babylon."

Barbra Streisand: "She looks like a masculine Bride of Frankenstein."

Christina Aguilera: "A dazzling singer who puts good taste through the wardrobe wringer."

Meryl Streep: "She looks like a gypsy abandoned by a caravan."

Sharon Stone: "An over-the-hill Cruella DeVille."

Lindsay Lohan: "From adorable to deplorable."

Patti Davis: "Packs all the glamour of an old, worn-out sneaker."

Ann-Margret: "A Hells Angel escapee who invaded the Ziegfeld Follies on a rainy night."

Camilla Parker-Bowles: "The Duchess of Dowdy."

Bjork: "She dances in the dark — and dresses there, too."

Spears: "Her bra-topped collection of Madonna rejects are pure fashion overkill."

The critic acknowledged he had mixed feelings about appearing so publicly mean. Most of the women he put through the wringer, he said, were people he genuinely admired for their talent if not their fashion sense.

"The list is and was a satirical look at the fashion flops of the year," he said in 1998. "I merely said out loud what others were whispering. ... It's not my intention to hurt the feelings of these people. It's to put down the clothing they're wearing."

He told the Los Angeles Times in 1968 that designers were forgetting that their job "is to dress and enhance women. ... Maybe I should have named the 10 worst designers instead of blaming the women who wear their clothes."

Surprisingly, the woman who topped his worst-dressed list for 1982 (announced in early 1983) was the newly married Diana, Princess of Wales. He said she had gone from "a very young, independent, fresh look" to a "tacky, dowdy" style. She quickly regained her footing and wound up as a regular on Blackwell's favorites list, the "fabulous fashion independents."

Blackwell had started out as an actor himself, having been spotted by a talent agent while still in his teens. He landed a job as an understudy in the Broadway production of Sidney Kingsley's heralded drama "Dead End."

Although he got to play the role of the Dead End Kids' leader on stage only one time, it led him to Hollywood where he landed bit parts in such films as "Little Tough Guy" (uncredited) and "Juvenile Hall" (as Dick Selzer).

He abandoned his acting career in 1958 after failing to make it in movies and switched to fashion design. He claimed to be the first to make designer jeans for women, and his salon had begun to attract a few Hollywood names when he issued his first list covering the fashion faux pas of 1960. (Italian star Anna Magnani and Gabor were among his early victims.)

It quickly brought him the celebrity he had long coveted, and he quickly became a favorite on the TV talk show circuit. He hosted his own show, "Mr. Blackwell Presents," in 1968 and appeared as himself in such TV shows as "Matlock" and "Matt Houston."

In 1992, he sued Johnny Carson for claiming that he had added Mother Teresa to his list, saying the comment exposed him to hatred and ridicule. NBC's response was that the "Tonight Show" host was obviously joking.

"Did you see what he said about Mother Teresa? 'Miss Nerdy Nun is a fashion no-no,'" Carson had said. "Come on now, that's just too much."

During his heyday the issuing of Blackwell's annual list was an eagerly anticipated media event.

On the second Tuesday in January he would assemble reporters at his mansion for a lavish breakfast before making a dramatic entrance for the television cameras.

By the turning of the millennium, however, the list had lost its juice and Blackwell took to issuing it by e-mail.

Born Richard Sylvan Selzer in 1922, Blackwell recounted in his autobiography, "From Rags to Bitches," a troubled, poverty-ridden childhood in which he was variously a truant, thief and prostitute.

He is survived by Robert Spencer, his partner of nearly 60 years.



In this Oct. 19, 2006 file photo, acid-tonged fashion critic Mr. Blackwell, Richard Blackwell, gets a kiss from his declared best dressed dog winner, during an event promoting 'Dine With Your Dog Day' at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, in Los Angeles. Blackwell died Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008 of complications from an intestinal infection, publicist Harlan Boll said.
(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, file)

Frank Navetta R.I.P.

Frank Navetta osnivach, gitarista i chovek koji je nadenuo ime kultnom americkom punk bendu Descendents je umro posle krace bolesti 31. oktobra 2008. Meni su Descendents iz tog prvog perioda uz ALL i SNUFF naravno bili najgotivniji bendovi na taj fazon, znachi LP "I don't wanna grow up" je samo takav kult, meni bolji i od "Milo Goes to College". Frank je napustio bend za vreme snimanja tog po meni najboljeg albuma o odrastanju 1985. godine. "Ako ODRASTANJE znaci da mora da postanem kao ti onda ne zelim uopste da odrastem, jer ne zelim da budem kao ti" kroz taj namerni klinacki fazon i uz suludu deciju melodijicu su porucivali tada Desendentsi i ko je to pokapiro shvatio je tacno sto su hteli kazu.

http://beogradskihcpunk90-ih.blogspot.com/2008/11/frank-navetta-rip.html

Uh, baš RIP. Nikad volo ni All ni Descendents preterano, ali rispektovo.

Michael Crichton dies, aged 66
rip

Rest In Peace, Michael!      

E, breee.....

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QuoteUmro Hendrixov bubnjar Mitch Mitchell

Bubnjar Mitch Mitchell, najpoznatiji kao član trija Jimi Hendrix Experience, juče je pronađen mrtav u hotelskoj sobi u Portlandu.

Imao je 62 godine; zvaničnici kažu da je po svoj prilici umro prirodnom smrću, a u planu je autopsija, preneo je AP.

Nema više nikoga iz Experiencea: Hendrix je umro 1970, a basista Noel Redding 2003.

Mitchell je bio na turneji Experience Hendrix; poslednji put je nastupio u petak u Portlandu.

Miča sam baš, baš baš voleo i trudio se da skidam njegove fore... Baš mi žao.

RIP Forrest J. Ackerman 1916 - 2008

bio je FAN, sa svim dobrim i lošim što uz to ide.
ipak, ako je i grešio, grešio je iz prevelike ljubavi.

imao je pismenu prepirku sa lavkraftom na stranicama weird tales (da, TOLIKO je star!), a hpl mu se odužio tako što je po njemu nazvao vrstu korova na veneri, u priči U ZIDINAMA ERIKSA (eno je u NEKRONOMIKONU)...

Umrla je moja pin-up miljenica Bettie Page, nasmejana crnka sa šiškama koja je obeležila 50-te and beyond. Dugo je živela, dočekala lepu starost, ali to ne menja činjenicu da me je ova vest potresla i rastužila. Slava joj.

LOS ANGELES – Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.

Page was placed on life support last week after suffering a heart attack in Los Angeles and never regained consciousness, said her agent, Mark Roesler. He said he and Page's family agreed to remove life support. Before the heart attack, Page had been hospitalized for three weeks with pneumonia.

"She captured the imagination of a generation of men and women with her free spirit and unabashed sensuality," Roesler said. "She is the embodiment of beauty."

Page, who was also known as Betty, attracted national attention with magazine photographs of her sensuous figure in bikinis and see-through lingerie that were quickly tacked up on walls in military barracks, garages and elsewhere, where they remained for years.

Her photos included a centerfold in the January 1955 issue of then-fledgling Playboy magazine, as well as controversial sadomasochistic poses.

"I think that she was a remarkable lady, an iconic figure in pop culture who influenced sexuality, taste in fashion, someone who had a tremendous impact on our society," Playboy founder Hugh Hefner told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She was a very dear person."

Page mysteriously disappeared from the public eye for decades, during which time she battled mental illness and became a born-again Christian.

After resurfacing in the 1990s, she occasionally granted interviews but refused to allow her picture to be taken.

"I don't want to be photographed in my old age," she told an interviewer in 1998. "I feel the same way with old movie stars. ... It makes me sad. We want to remember them when they were young."

The 21st century indeed had people remembering her just as she was. She became the subject of songs, biographies, Web sites, comic books, movies and documentaries. A new generation of fans bought thousands of copies of her photos, and some feminists hailed her as a pioneer of women's liberation.

Gretchen Mol portrayed her in 2005's "The Notorious Bettie Page" and Paige Richards had the role in 2004's "Bettie Page: Dark Angel." Page herself took part in the 1998 documentary "Betty Page: Pinup Queen."

Hefner said he last saw Page when he held a screening of "The Notorious Bettie Page" at the Playboy Mansion. He said she objected to the fact that the film referred to her as "notorious," but "we explained to her that it referred to the troubled times she had and was a good way to sell a movie."

Page's career began one day in October 1950 when she took a respite from her job as a secretary in a New York office for a walk along the beach at Coney Island. An amateur photographer named Jerry Tibbs admired the 27-year-old's firm, curvy body and asked her to pose.

Looking back on the career that followed, she told Playboy in 1998: "I never thought it was shameful. I felt normal. It's just that it was much better than pounding a typewriter eight hours a day, which gets monotonous."

Nudity didn't bother her, she said, explaining: "God approves of nudity. Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, they were naked as jaybirds."

In 1951, Page fell under the influence of a photographer and his sister who specialized in S&M. They cut her hair into the dark bangs that became her signature and posed her in spiked heels and little else. She was photographed with a whip in her hand, and in one session she was spread-eagled between two trees, her feet dangling.

"I thought my arms and legs would come out of their sockets," she said later.

Moralists denounced the photos as perversion, and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Page's home state, launched a congressional investigation.

Page quickly retreated from public view, later saying she was hounded by federal agents who waved her nude photos in her face. She also said she believed that, at age 34, her days as "the girl with the perfect figure" were nearly over.

She moved to Florida in 1957 and married a much younger man, as an early marriage to her high school sweetheart had ended in divorce.

Her second marriage also failed, as did a third, and she suffered a nervous breakdown.

In 1959, she was lying on a sea wall in Key West when she saw a church with a white neon cross on top. She walked inside and became a born-again Christian.

After attending Bible school, she wanted to serve as a missionary but was turned down because she had been divorced. Instead, she worked full-time for evangelist Billy Graham's ministry.

A move to Southern California in 1979 brought more troubles.

She was arrested after an altercation with her landlady, and doctors who examined her determined she had acute schizophrenia. She spent 20 months in a state mental hospital in San Bernardino.

A fight with another landlord resulted in her arrest, but she was found not guilty because of insanity. She was placed under state supervision for eight years.

"She had a very turbulent life," Todd Mueller, a family friend and autograph seller, told The Associated Press on Thursday. "She had a temper to her."

Mueller said he first met Page after tracking her down in the 1990s and persuaded her to do an autograph signing event.

He said she was a hit and sold about 3,000 autographs, usually for $200 to $300 each.

"Eleanor Roosevelt, we got $40 to $50. ... Bettie Page outsells them all," he told The AP last week.

Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, Tenn., Page said she grew up in a family so poor "we were lucky to get an orange in our Christmas stockings."

The family included three boys and three girls, and Page said her father molested all of the girls.

After the Pages moved to Houston, her father decided to return to Tennessee and stole a police car for the trip. He was sent to prison, and for a time Betty lived in an orphanage.

In her teens she acted in high school plays, going on to study drama in New York and win a screen test from 20th Century Fox before her modeling career took off.

Bettie Page 1923-2008.

 RIP.

Umro je Mark Felt, zvani "Duboko grlo", najslavniji tajni informator u novijoj istoriji. On je obaveštavao novinara Boba Woodwarda koji je sa Carlom Bernsteinom pokrenuo istragu oko afere Votergejt i doveo do ostavke Ričarda Niksona.

Vala, za kraj 2008 / početak 2009 nam ne gine neki nekrolog-emitor... toliko nama bitnih ljudi je umrlo u relativno kratkom periodu...