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Rest In Peace...
Heath Ledger -
Brad Renfro -
Ashleigh Aston Moore - - Chrissy - Now & Then
Heath Ledger -
Brad Renfro -
Ashleigh Aston Moore -
- Chrissy - Now & Then
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m&m fkan
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that's too bad...I liked her in Psycho.
Claudia
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groovyk1
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blueschild007
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He will be missed. R.I.P.
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Ali Marie
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Rip.
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jackiehydelover
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I'm planning on watching Apt. Pupil tonight in honor of Brad. It's taken me a week to be able to watch one of his films but I think I'm ready. I was going to watch one of Heath's but I just can't right now. I'll be crying throughout the whole thing.
I never thought I'd be bumping this thread for two young, great actors. Brad Renfro and Heath Ledger. I'm still in shock and in grief for these two youngsters that were just starting to live.
But there's nothing to be done now except remember them. That won't be a problem since they have left a part of themselves in movies and appearances.
Prayers for their families and friends.
I'm still in shock and in grief for these two youngsters that were just starting to live. But there's nothing to be done now except remember them. That won't be a problem since they have left a part of themselves in movies and appearances.
Prayers for their families and friends.
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Firestar007
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Very sad news
My condolences to her family and friends.
My condolences to her family and friends.
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capesidefan
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lost a legend today, who will mostly be remembered as one of the first scream queens in psycho....
'Psycho' Star Janet Leigh Dies at 77
Mon Oct 4,10:24 AM ET Entertainment - Reuters
By Arthur Spiegelman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Janet Leigh, whose dozens of starring roles were eclipsed by a single movie moment -- the motel shower stabbing scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," has died at the age of 77, a family spokeswoman said on Monday.
Leigh "died peacefully in her home on Sunday afternoon" in Beverly Hills with her husband, Robert Brandt, and her actress daughters, Jamie Lee Curtis (news) and Kelly Curtis, at her side, the spokeswoman said.
Leigh had been battling vasculitis -- an inflammation of the blood vessels -- for a year, she said.
Leigh's film career started in 1947 after actress Norma Shearer discovered her photograph on a hotel reception desk and recommended her for an MGM studio contract.
She appeared opposite such stars as Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn (news), Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston (news), James Stewart and ex-husband Tony Curtis (news) in dozens of movies including at least two classics, "The Manchurian Candidate" in 1962 and Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil" in 1958.
But lasting film fame came not from the love interest or damsel in distress roles that the blond actress specialized in more than 50 movies but from a film in which she played a thief on the run.
The camera only cares about Leigh for the first 45 minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" as she plays office worker and embezzler Marion Crane who stops for the night at the Bates Motel where in minutes she is slashed to death in a shower by a man dressed up as his mother -- Anthony Perkins playing motel keeper Norman Bates.
Leigh spent a week filming the shower scene which is built of 70 takes lasting only seconds each in which the killer's knife is not shown cutting her. The scene, which lasts only minutes, was voted the most famous movie death scene by readers of the British magazine Total Films, outranking such tragedies as the death of Bambi's mother and King Kong's fall from the Empire State Building..
TRAUMA
Leigh was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for the role and for years maintained that the trauma of seeing it made it impossible for her to take a shower without fear.
Total Film's editor Simon Crook, told the BBC in an interview that it was "the sheer violence of the edit rather than any explicit gore" that made the shower scene so distressing.
He said that "not once do we see Anthony Perkins' knife touch Leigh's body; instead, the shot features 70 different angles, over 90 cuts and of course, those shrieking violins" of the background music.
In an interview with wnbc.com @ The Movies' Tim Lammers in 2000, Leigh said that after she saw the shower scene on film for the first time she wanted to take only baths.
"When I saw it condensed and edited in a way that only Hitchcock could do it, it was so frightening to me that it made me realize that it's an extremely vulnerable position we're in, while in a shower," she said. "I never even thought about it that way before. I just couldn't get back in a shower after that. I just thought it was stupid to put yourself in that position."
In another interview she said, "'Psycho' gave me very wrinkled skin. I was in that shower for seven days - 70 set-ups. At least, he (Hitchcock) made sure the water was warm."
Born Jeanette Helen Morrison, she was the only child of a couple that crossed the country working at different jobs. She described her childhood as lonely and eloped for the first of four marriages at age 14.
After Shearer discovered her picture on the reception desk at the hotel where her father worked, Leigh signed an MGM contract and played in such films as "The Romance of Rosy Ridge" (1947), "Little Women" (1949), "Angels in the Outfield" (1951), "Scaramouche" (1952) and "Houdini" (1953), which also starred her third husband Tony Curtis.
In 1962, she married businessman Robert Brandt.
'Psycho' Star Janet Leigh Dies at 77
Mon Oct 4,10:24 AM ET Entertainment - Reuters
By Arthur Spiegelman
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Janet Leigh, whose dozens of starring roles were eclipsed by a single movie moment -- the motel shower stabbing scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," has died at the age of 77, a family spokeswoman said on Monday.
Leigh "died peacefully in her home on Sunday afternoon" in Beverly Hills with her husband, Robert Brandt, and her actress daughters, Jamie Lee Curtis (news) and Kelly Curtis, at her side, the spokeswoman said.
Leigh had been battling vasculitis -- an inflammation of the blood vessels -- for a year, she said.
Leigh's film career started in 1947 after actress Norma Shearer discovered her photograph on a hotel reception desk and recommended her for an MGM studio contract.
She appeared opposite such stars as Gary Cooper, Errol Flynn (news), Frank Sinatra, Charlton Heston (news), James Stewart and ex-husband Tony Curtis (news) in dozens of movies including at least two classics, "The Manchurian Candidate" in 1962 and Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil" in 1958.
But lasting film fame came not from the love interest or damsel in distress roles that the blond actress specialized in more than 50 movies but from a film in which she played a thief on the run.
The camera only cares about Leigh for the first 45 minutes of Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film "Psycho" as she plays office worker and embezzler Marion Crane who stops for the night at the Bates Motel where in minutes she is slashed to death in a shower by a man dressed up as his mother -- Anthony Perkins playing motel keeper Norman Bates.
Leigh spent a week filming the shower scene which is built of 70 takes lasting only seconds each in which the killer's knife is not shown cutting her. The scene, which lasts only minutes, was voted the most famous movie death scene by readers of the British magazine Total Films, outranking such tragedies as the death of Bambi's mother and King Kong's fall from the Empire State Building..
TRAUMA
Leigh was nominated for a best supporting actress Oscar for the role and for years maintained that the trauma of seeing it made it impossible for her to take a shower without fear.
Total Film's editor Simon Crook, told the BBC in an interview that it was "the sheer violence of the edit rather than any explicit gore" that made the shower scene so distressing.
He said that "not once do we see Anthony Perkins' knife touch Leigh's body; instead, the shot features 70 different angles, over 90 cuts and of course, those shrieking violins" of the background music.
In an interview with wnbc.com @ The Movies' Tim Lammers in 2000, Leigh said that after she saw the shower scene on film for the first time she wanted to take only baths.
"When I saw it condensed and edited in a way that only Hitchcock could do it, it was so frightening to me that it made me realize that it's an extremely vulnerable position we're in, while in a shower," she said. "I never even thought about it that way before. I just couldn't get back in a shower after that. I just thought it was stupid to put yourself in that position."
In another interview she said, "'Psycho' gave me very wrinkled skin. I was in that shower for seven days - 70 set-ups. At least, he (Hitchcock) made sure the water was warm."
Born Jeanette Helen Morrison, she was the only child of a couple that crossed the country working at different jobs. She described her childhood as lonely and eloped for the first of four marriages at age 14.
After Shearer discovered her picture on the reception desk at the hotel where her father worked, Leigh signed an MGM contract and played in such films as "The Romance of Rosy Ridge" (1947), "Little Women" (1949), "Angels in the Outfield" (1951), "Scaramouche" (1952) and "Houdini" (1953), which also starred her third husband Tony Curtis.
In 1962, she married businessman Robert Brandt.
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shrrshrr
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Two movie icons. Thanks for the news.
And thanks for posting, Chaz.
And thanks for posting, Chaz.
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capesidefan
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I remeber when i was little and watching the superman movies
sounds like Superman, Christopher Reeves passed away today, came across the wire, at least thats what my local news just said.... Sounds like the family will say something tomorrow.. Rest in peace.
sounds like Superman, Christopher Reeves passed away today, came across the wire, at least thats what my local news just said.... Sounds like the family will say something tomorrow.. Rest in peace.
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Buttacup
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Aww I love that Animal House! How sad about both of them
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Hermoine_Granger
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oh and dont forget Susan Plaschette died this week too
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summerbug
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This was very sad news. I definitely agree about him being a politician and complicated - that seems very fitting from what we were allowed to learn about him.
Streetcar Named Desire was a classic and his finest work - to me.
Streetcar Named Desire was a classic and his finest work - to me.
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*MaRiGoLd*
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His acting changed the art world in general, because he was not only an actor.....he was a politician, a poet.....and a very complicated human being...i hope he's in a good place right now...
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icyrainbow
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When I heard the news this morning, I was really upset. The Godfather is my all time favorite movie and Marlon Brando is a big part of the reason why. I always felt like the other two movies lost some of their energy because he wasn't there. He was an amazing actor. I also loved him in On the Waterfront, part of one of my favorite on screen couples with Eva Marie Saint. He will be missed.
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capesidefan
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haven't seen meet wally sparks, but wouldn't mind seeing it... good old lady's bugs, classic movie 
yeah that was some funny stuff...
Still have to say back to school is a fave of mine..
yeah that was some funny stuff... Still have to say back to school is a fave of mine..
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~*~Celebriän~*~
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Oh my God, I did not know that!
He really was a legend. And will always be.
May he rest in peace.
He really was a legend. And will always be.
May he rest in peace.