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Awwwwww...the great jazz harmonica player. He was fantastic. And a good whistler too. He did the the harmonica solo on Billy Joel's Leave a Tender Moment Alone and whistling on Irish Spring soap commercial among other things. RIP to a legend.
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Up until today I never realised he did the Sesame Street tune too. It's probably common knowledge, but i honestly didn't know.
Just imagine how many people must have heard his music over the years without even realising it was Toots !
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https://youtu.be/BLzPRyMmOGY - we're bad! Scene from the hilarious Stir Crazy (1980).warning contains some bad language.
Gutted! I really liked Gene Wilder and I absolutely loved Stir Crazy,See No Evil,Hear No Evil,Silver Streak,etc and didn't dislike the ones that were classed as his duds such as Hanky Panky and Haunted Honeymoon.
I can't believe I've never actually got around to watching Young Frankenstein which by all accounts is an absolute blast!
R.I.P
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I was thinking last weekend that i should rewatch Stir Crazy and now they are both gone. Blazing Saddles and Stir Crazy are classics and i should rewatch Young Frankenstein too. He truly is one of the greatest comedians, RIP Gene Wilder.
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Alexis Arquette, sister of Rosanna, Patricia, David and Richmond, dies at 47.
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Curtis Hanson, director of L.A. Confidential, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and 8 Mile among many others, passes away at 71.
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RIP Curtis Hanson, there´s lots of good stuff on his resume.
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Curtis Hanson was great: screenwriter for The Silent Partner, one of the best thrillers ever made, and director of LA Confidential and Wonder Boys, both brilliant, brilliant films.
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Nunn's credits include Sharkey's Machine (1981), School Daze (1988), Glory (1989), New Jack City (1991), The Last Seduction (1994), Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead (1995), and Spiderman 1-3 (2002-2007), but most memorably he played the character "Radio" Raheem in Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989).
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I always really liked Bad Influence which Hanson directed in 1990 with Rob Lowe and James Spader and I didn't dislike The Bedroom Window which he made prior to it in 1987.
I definitely recognise Bill Nunn from above,Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead was a cool little thriller with quite the cast!
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I remembered Bill Nunn from the tv show The Job, where he played a pussy whipped husband and detective in NYC along with Denis Leary. It only aired for one season. It was not renewed due to 9-11 as they did not want to offend anyone (ABC network). The last thing I saw him in was another tv show produced by Leary called Sirens. I didn't k ow his primary residence was in Pittsburgh, in the Shadyside section. My friend said she saw him many times in the local grocery store, Giant Eagle. RIP Bill Nunn 😥
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quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: I definitely recognise Bill Nunn from above,Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead was a cool little thriller with quite the cast!
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If this was a promotional stunt for Arrow's upcoming Herschell Gordon Lewis box-set which comes out next month, it would have been the best, most hilarious way to attract some extra attention !
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A book on the films of Tonino Valerii was released recently :
Also passed away :
John Vulich
Special effects & make-up artist whose credits include Friday The 13th 4, Ghoulies, Day Of The Dead, Troll, Crawlspace, TerrorVision, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, From Beyond, Dolls, The Lost Boys, and TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Vulich died in his sleep, and was only 55.
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Eccentric singer-songwriter and founding member of UK popgroup Dead Or Alive, best known for hit-single You Spin Me Round (Like A Record), passed away after suffering a heart attack. Burns was 57.
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British fotographer and filmmaker, best known for softcore erotica such as Bilitis (1977), Tendres Cousines (1980), and Premiers Désirs (1983), was found dead at his home in Paris. Hamilton was 83.
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Joe Dever was born on February 12, 1956, in Chingford and died on November 29, 2016.
He was a British fantasy author and game designer.
Joe was originally a musician, Dever became the first British winner of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Championship of America in 1982.
In 1984, Denver released the first book of the Lone Wolf series of young-adult game books, and the series has since sold over 11.5 million copies worldwide (as of September 2014).
Fawlty Towers star Andrew Sachs, who played hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in the BBC sitcom, has died aged 86, his family has confirmed. Sachs, who had been suffering from dementia for four years, died on 23 November and was buried on Thursday.
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