2020 Deaths.

[fsn]

I saw that. I remember reading of his exploits in the Belgian Congo.

[GrumpyOldMan]

Kirk Douglas at 104

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11009244

He's Spartacus.

[steve_holmes_11]

Kirk Douglas at 104

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-11009244

He's Spartacus.

What a guy!

[FierceKitty]

Good riddance. If he hadn't been in a position to mess the director about, Spartacus might have been a real Kubrick. And wrecking one of those is like burning a Shakespeare manuscript.

[Techno]

 

But a rather good innings.

Cheers - Phil

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Exceedingly good innings

[Steve J]

What a life! One of my all time favourite films is 'Vikings' and 'Paths of Glory' is superb and he resisted Kubrick changing the ending to have the soldiers spared.

[FierceKitty]

I don't believe that for a second. Kubrick, honour to his memory, was not one to sprinkle sugar on an ending.

[fsn]

For me, his best film was "7 Days in May". That perfectly caught the paranoia of the Cold War.

Homourable mention to "Tough Guys" (again with Burt Lancaster) which showed he could still twinkle at 73.

I will toss in "The Heroes of Telemank" (oblifgatory Bank Holiday viewing when I was a child), "The Final Countdown", "The Vikings (we laughed at that), "The Young Man with the Horn" (steady, lads), and "Saturn 3" with Farrah Fawcett (I said - steady, lads).

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Dont forget "Paths of Glory".....

[Westmarcher]

Yes for 'Paths of Glory.'

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi794607385?listId=ls025720609&ref_=hm_hp_i_1

[steve_holmes_11]

Dont forget "Paths of Glory".....

There's a scene before the attack where he walks along the trench.

One that may be mirrored today in the Hollywoodland sector of the afterlife.

                                 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Andy Weatherall. 
Might not mean much to some of our members, but he was the genius behind the production of 'Screamadelica'

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/feb/17/andrew-weatherall-british-producer-behind-screamadelica-dies-aged-56?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook

[mollinary]

I don't believe that for a second. Kubrick, honour to his memory, was not one to sprinkle sugar on an ending.

Hi FK,

I am going to do something I don't think I have ever done before, recommend Wikipedia, and defend Steve J in the same post!  The wiki entry on Paths of Glory quotes two sources to support this story. Do you have any to refute it?

[Steve J]

Never heard of Andy Weatherall, but when it's someone your age, it does scare the **** out of you!