R.i.p.

[Sandman]

[18:39] <wu-nix> BREAKING NEWS Legendary actor Marlon Brando has died in a Los Angeles hospital, his attorney tells the AP. CNN working to confirm.
[18:39] <very|sad|> naspa
[18:40] <Sandman> naspa
[18:40] <Jimmy_X> naspa

Naspa™

[asad.maru]

A murit nashul la cateva zile dupa ce mi l-am ales ca avatar

sad

[Alice in Wonderland]

da? plzzzzzzzzzzzzz pune-l si tu pe Iliescu la avatar... macar cateva zile

[Sandman]

Sau pe Nastase...

[Assassin]

Oscar-winning composer Goldsmith dies

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Academy Award-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith, who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from the "Star Trek" and "Planet of the Apes" series to "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and "Dr. Kildare," has died. He was 75.

Goldsmith died in his sleep Wednesday night at his Beverly Hills home after a long battle with cancer, said Lois Carruth, his personal assistant.

A classically trained composer and conductor who began musical studies at age 6, Goldsmith's award-dappled Hollywood career -- he was nominated for 17 Academy Awards, won one, and also took home five Emmys -- spanned nearly half a century.

He crafted an astonishing number of TV and movie scores that have become classics in their own right. From the clarions of "Patton" to the syrupy theme for TV's "The Waltons," Goldsmith sometimes seemed virtually synonymous with soundtracks.

He took on action hits such as "Total Recall," which he considered one of his best scores, as well as the "Star Trek" movies and more lightweight fare, like his most recent movie theme, for last year's "Looney Tunes: Back in Action." His hundreds of works included scores for "The Blue Max," "L.A. Confidential," "Basic Instinct" and "Chinatown."

Goldsmith's output also spilled into television, with the themes for shows including "Dr. Kildare," "Barnaby Jones" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." He also wrote a fanfare that is used in Academy Awards telecasts.

He won his Oscar for best original score in 1976 for "The Omen." He also earned five Emmy Awards and was nominated for nine Golden Globe awards, though he never won one. (List of Goldsmith's credits)

"He could write anything. He did Westerns, comedies," Carruth said. "He preferred writing for more character-driven, quiet films but somehow they kept coming back to him for the action films."

Born February 10, 1929 in Los Angeles, Goldsmith studied with famed pianist Jacob Gimpel and pianist, composer and film musician Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He fell in love with movie composing when he saw the 1945 Ingrid Bergman movie "Spellbound," Carruth said, and while attending the University of California took classes with Miklos Rozsa, who wrote the Oscar-winning score for that film.

In 1950, he got a job as a clerk typist at CBS and eventually got assignments for live radio shows, writing as much as one score a week. He later turned to television.

In the late 1950s he began composing for movies. His career took off in the 1960s with such major films as "Lonely Are the Brave" and "The Blue Max." He earned his first Academy Award nomination for his work on 1962's "Freud."

Goldsmith was known for his versatility and his experimentation. He added electronics to the woodwinds and brasses of his scores. For 1968's "Planet of the Apes," he got a blaring effect by having his musicians blow horns without mouthpieces. With a puckish sense of humor, he reportedly wore an ape mask while conducting the score.

"He experimented a lot and that's what made him so popular with his fans," Carruth said. "When he wrote, he got inside of the characters and he wrote what he felt they were thinking and feeling."

Some of his motion picture scores were adapted for ballets. Goldsmith also wrote composed orchestral pieces and taught occasional music classes at local universities.

He is survived by his wife, Carol; children Aaron, Joel, Carrie, Ellen Edson and Jennifer Grossman, six grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/07/2....ap/index.html

Si chiar zilele astea am ascultat muzica din The 13th Warrior...

[.:indie:.]

BEDFORD, New York (AP) -- Christopher Reeve, the star of the "Superman" movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52.

Reeve fell into a coma Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home, his publicist, Wesley Combs, told The Associated Press by phone from Washington, D.C., on Sunday night.

Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound that he developed, a common complication for people living with paralysis. In the past week, the wound had become severely infected, resulting in a serious systemic infection.

"On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank Northern Westchester Hospital for the excellent care they provided to my husband," Dana Reeve, Christopher's wife, said in a statement. "I also want to thank his personal staff of nurses and aides, as well as the millions of fans from around the world who have supported and loved my husband over the years."

Reeve broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Virginia.

Enduring months of therapy to allow him to breathe for longer and longer periods without a respirator, Reeve emerged to lobby Congress for better insurance protection against catastrophic injury and to move an Academy Award audience to tears with a call for more films about social issues.

He returned to directing, and even returned to acting in a 1998 production of "Rear Window," a modern update of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller about a man in a wheelchair who becomes convinced a neighbor has been murdered. Reeve won a Screen Actors Guild award for best actor in a television movie or miniseries.

"I was worried that only acting with my voice and my face, I might not be able to communicate effectively enough to tell the story," Reeve said. "But I was surprised to find that if I really concentrated, and just let the thoughts happen, that they would read on my face. With so many close-ups, I knew that my every thought would count."

In his public appearances, he was as handsome as ever, his blue eyes bright and his voice clear.

"Hollywood needs to do more," he said in the March 1996 Oscar awards appearance. "Let's continue to take risks. Let's tackle the issues. In many ways our film community can do it better than anyone else. There is no challenge, artistic or otherwise, that we can't meet."

In 2000, Reeve was able to move his index finger, and a specialized workout regimen has made his legs and arms stronger. He has also regained sensation in other parts of his body.




RIP

[CBR]

Tanar...


RIP

[Cowboy]

Pacat...

[42]

Mai bine. Aia nu era viata, in scaun cu rotile. Pacat de el, a avut ghinion.

[Sandman]

Crap. Superman died

[pontiacu]

Actress Anne Bancroft Dies at 73

[The Punish3r]

RIP , may God have mercy on her soul :|

[Amyd]

Astazi au murit intr-un accident teribil de masina Cristian Nemescu si cu Andrei "Otto" Toncu. Ambii imi erau prieteni, ambii tineri, ambii in plina ascensiune profesionala - Cristi era poate cel mai promitator regizor din generatia tanara, lucrand la primul sau film de lung-metraj, Andrei era cel mai talentat sunetist de film din Romania.

Ce nenorocire...

[[stryder]]

In accidentul de la eroilor cumva?

[apathic_me]

Vazusem chiar alaltaieri un scurt-metraj al lui Nemescu, "Mihai si Cristina" si ma minunam de cat de talentat este.

[.:indie:.]

A murit Ernest `Badia` Maftei.
RIP
Nu stiam ca are cancer...chiar nu ma asteptam.Era plin de viata si la aproape 90 de ani.

[Strangelove]

Heath Ledger, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2005 for his role as a gay cowboy in "Brokeback Mountain," was found dead today in a Manhattan apartment, New York police told CNN. A possible drug overdose was suspected. Ledger was 28.

[Megalomaniac]

The evil twin i-a pus capac, se pare.

[Alexneo]

Ce pacat. Chiar imi placea cum juca. Si din ce am vazut in trailere, se pare ca are un rol foarte reusit in ultimul film, rolul Jokerului in "The Dark Knight". rest in peace

[Dead Ghost]

Fffff, ce naiba... Pacat.