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The Great Hollywood Die-Off
Tough week for the entertainment industry: After the passing of Eddie Fisher last week and the death of Tarantino editor Sally Menke on Monday, yesterday added director Arthur Penn and the legendary Tony Curtis to the rolls of the departed. (Also, comedian Greg Giraldo.) Whoever's working on the Oscar "parade of the dead" montage should probably get started now.
I'm anticipating this to evolve into the finest zombie movie of all time.
Re the extremely odd and extremiler touching Mr. Curtis: RIP to Sidney Falco and Slave Boy:
http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/anorak-city/2010/09/the-day-tony-curtis-joined-the.html
The boy with the Ice Age face.
The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river.
'Watch me run a 50-yard dash with my legs cut off!'
Is there a particular reason why this hasn't been a named season of death? How many is official?
Can we go with "The Fall of Man?"
Or is that just stupid? Yeah, probably stupid. I'll shut up now.
Tony Curtis passed away? Aw, man. Now I have to cancel work so I can watch "The Bad News Bears Go To Japan".
Also, Academy Award nominated actor Joe Mantell, who played the best friend in "Marty", passed away this week at age 94. He was also supposedly the guy who said, "Forget it, it's Chinatown."