A transmission from the deep south.
Dennis Hopper dies at 74. Mark Cousins in The Guardian:
He read the screenplay of Blue Velvet and famously told David Lynch that he was Frank Booth. The rapist-fetishist Booth took the mania of Hopper’s 1970s characters up a gear but, set in Lynch’s Eisenhower-textured world, he looked like one of the most terrifying characters in the history of the movies.
People die and things change but sometimes you wish they didn’t, or at least that they would hold back and the world would stop turning just for a while. But that would mean that there was no longer work to be done. Paul was clever and funny and moody and brisk, and he left early. He had things to do.
— From Chad Taylor’s heartfelt tribute to Paul Reynolds, a local strategist, broadcaster and all-round institution who passed away unexpectedly over the weekend. Rest well Paul.
We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.
— An excerpt from Franny and Zooey by the late J.D. Salinger (1919-2010). (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Dan O’Bannon, 1946–2009.
![From Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright’s tribute to the late Edward Woodward, who died in Cornwall today, aged 79:
I digress slightly, but let me say that if you [want] to pay tribute to Edward today, then simply watch the original version of The Wicker Man. It is a film that he was very proud of and I think that it ranks as one of the best British films of all time. It certainly has an indisputably harrowing ending.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kt8pckmaWD1qz6jndo1_400.jpg)
From Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright’s tribute to the late Edward Woodward, who died in Cornwall today, aged 79:
I digress slightly, but let me say that if you [want] to pay tribute to Edward today, then simply watch the original version of The Wicker Man. It is a film that he was very proud of and I think that it ranks as one of the best British films of all time. It certainly has an indisputably harrowing ending.
An exhibition of photographs by Dean Rogers opens this weekend at the Wapping Project in London, depicting the locations where nine of our cultural heroes were killed in car crashes. Here: cosmic rocker Marc Bolan, September 16, 1977. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Television news anchorman Walter Cronkite, the most trusted man in America, dies at 92. (via Peter Nidzgorski)
Michael took his place in the choir next to Elvis, Buddy, & Janis. Troubles faded. Finally he could just do what he loved, sing & dance.
— Very Short Story on Twitter. RIP.
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