Cheetah Chrome obit

Dead Boys Guitarist Cheetah Chrome Dies at 71

 He was not on the list.

Eugene Richard O’Connor, the punk rocker known as Cheetah Chrome and guitarist of the Dead Boys, died Sunday, his bandmates confirmed on Instagram. He was 71.

“We are incredibly sad to announce the news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Cheetah Chrome,” the band wrote in the post. “Cheetah was a true original, an architect of the punk rock movement. A one-man hurricane tearing up the musical landscape with his feral guitar riffs and manic energy. Beyond all that Cheetah was also just a really sweet guy that loved rock-roll. We extend our deepest condolences to Cheetah’s family, friends and fans around the world. His music lives on and will continue to inspire others for generations to come. We ask for privacy during this difficult time. Godspeed Cheetah. Tony, Chris, Mark and the entire Dead Boys family.”

Cheetah Chrome was a Cleveland, Ohio-born punk-rock musician based in Nashville. He started as a guitarist in Rocket from the Tombs in 1974 before starting Frankenstein with Dead Boys members Stiv Bators and Johnny Blitz. The band quickly evolved into Dead Boys.

The three-piece band released their first album, “Young, Loud and Snotty,” in 1977 and their second, “We Have Come for Your Children,” in 1978 before breaking up a year later. The band reunited for a series of live performances over the years, but never put out another studio album. In honor of its 50th anniversary, the band had plans to tour their debut album in 2027.

O’Connor is survived by his wife, Anna O’Connor, and his 14-year-old son Rogan, who reside in Nashville.

Tone Capone obit

Tone Capone, Producer of ‘I Got 5 On It,’ Dies at 59

Capone’s funk-infused beats fueled hits by Scarface, Mac Dre, E-40 and more, plus the Luniz' global smash. 

He was not on the list.

Tone Capone, a prolific producer who brought the mobb music style of Bay Area hip-hop to the world with the smash hit “I Got 5 On It,” died on Saturday. He was 59.

Capone’s death was reported online Sunday by close family. A cause of death was not immediately known. Capone had been living in the Las Vegas area since 2021.

Along with the Luniz’ “I Got 5 on It,” Capone produced many regional hip-hop classics that remain in regular rotation. Those include 3xKrazy’s “Keep It on the Real,” Mac Dre’s “Fire” and “Not My Job,” Celly Cel’s “It’s Goin’ Down,” Devin the Dude’s “Sticky Green” and E-40’s “Ring It.”

Across his career, Capone produced or worked with others constituting a who’s-who of Bay Area rap, including the Jacka, Dru Down, The Click, Conscious Daughters, Mac Mall, Messy Marv, Andre Nickatina, Spice 1, San Quinn and many more.

As a beatmaker steeped in the funk and soul of the 1970s, Capone’s rap production emphasized the the first downbeat of each measure, accompanied by exaggerated bass tones and live instruments. Along with his charting hits, his sound found receptive ears in Houston, Texas, where he worked with rapper Scarface, Devin the Dude and others.

Capone was born Anthony Douglas Gilmour in Berkeley, and was raised in North Oakland, near Bushrod Park. His house was filled with the music of the era: Earth Wind & Fire, the Crusaders, Parliament, Kool & the Gang, Curtis Mayfield, Donald Byrd.

While attending Berkeley High School, he learned how to DJ using a friend’s turntables. Before long, he began DJing at events — parties at fraternity houses, or at the Lake Merritt boathouse — with friend Nick Peace, who would become a prolific hip-hop producer himself.

In the mid-1980s, after high school, Capone began making beats with the technology of the time: four-track cassette recorders, drum machines, turntables and tape decks. Shortly after buying his first Technics 1200 turntable, he committed himself to making music instead of hustling. While Bay Area rap had been famously independent, some of Capone’s earliest work was commissioned by major labels for the Oakland group Capital Tax and R&B trio SWV.

In 1993, fate intervened. Capone reconnected with a friend from Berkeley High, Mike Marshall, who’d had a hit song with “Rumors,” by his group Timex Social Club. The two were at Capone’s house one day when members of the Luniz happened to visit, bringing song ideas.

One of the songs, in a rough sketch, was “I Got 5 On It.” On the spot, Marshall wrote the melody for the hook, Capone created a beat based on the Club Nouveau song “Why You Treat Me So Bad,” and before long, the track was laid down in the studio.

Released in 1995, “I Got 5 On It” was an immediate hit in the Bay Area, and reached the Top Ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Gradually, the song grew to enjoy global recognition, aided by a remix featuring Dru Down, Spice-1, E-40, Shock G, and Richie Rich. In 2019, a slow, brooding remake of Capone’s beat was utilized by director Jordan Peele in the horror film Us.

After chart success, Capone kept working. Through producing Oakland rapper Seagram, signed to Houston’s Rap-a-Lot Records, Capone met the producer Mike Dean, who suggested he join upcoming sessions for the rapper Scarface.

The resulting album, 1997’s The Untouchable, went platinum, with Capone’s production work throughout. Tracks included the Rick James flip “Mary Jane,” and “Smile,” a major hit featuring one of the last verses recorded by Tupac Shakur. (In his memoir Diary of a Madman, Scarface names Capone in a list of the all-time best producers, alongside Dr. Dre, Pharrell and Timbaland.)

Capone also connected with Mac Dre in the late 1990s, going on to produce the Ohio Players-inspired single “Fire,” the street classic “Not My Job,” the track “Genie of the Lamp” and others before Mac Dre’s death in 2004.

In the 21st century, Capone stayed active among a respected cohort of artists, pushing himself to try new tempos and styles. Before his death, he had recently worked with the Punjabi rapper Kanwar. He also took a day job, working at a hospital, before retiring.

At press time, no services have been announced.

George Chuvalo obit

Canadian boxer George Chuvalo, who faced Muhammad Ali in his prime, dead at 89

 

He was not on the list.

George Chuvalo, the iron-chinned Canadian heavyweight who took the best punches from the giants of boxing without ever falling, has died. He was 89.

Chuvalo suffered from dementia late in life and had been residing in a long-term care facility in Toronto. He died Saturday according to multiple online posts by family and friends.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who said the boxer was a family friend, shared condolences on social media Saturday.

"My thoughts are with all of George's family and loved ones as we mourn his passing," he said.

Chuvalo went the distance with Muhammad Ali in bouts in Toronto and Vancouver, and absorbed the hardest shots sluggers Joe Frazier and George Foreman had to offer without being knocked down.

It was unfathomable family tragedy after he retired that brought him to his knees.

"If you added up every punch I took and multiplied the total by 10,000, it wouldn't begin to equal the pain of losing three sons and a wife to drugs and suicide," he said in his 2013 autobiography Chuvalo: A Fighter's Life, co-written with Murray Greig.

The son of Croatian immigrants was born Sept. 12, 1937, in Toronto's Junction neighbourhood. He became intrigued by boxing after seeing The Ring magazine at a newsstand.

Chuvalo was 10 years old the first time he stepped through the ropes, and a growth spurt combined with an interest in weightlifting saw him develop into a six-foot, 210-pound fighter.

After a brief amateur career, he turned pro in 1956, winning notice for performances at the Jack Dempsey Tournament at Maple Leaf Gardens.

But by the early 1960s, Chuvalo's career had stagnated under ineffective guidance until Toronto poultry magnate Irv Ungerman took over as his manager.

Chuvalo parlayed several wins into an attention-getting 11th-round stoppage over contender Doug Jones at Madison Square Garden in 1964. He returned to that mecca of boxing the next year, narrowly losing a decision to former champ Floyd Patterson in a bout The Ring named best of 1965.

'He just keeps coming and coming'

Chuvalo's style was inexorable without being reckless. He moved forward with thudding blows from both hands to the head and body, producing stoppages in 88 per cent of his wins.

"You can't believe his strength," Canadian fighter Bill Drover once told a writer. "There's no way to stop him. He just keeps coming and coming. The only way you can stop him is with a stick of dynamite."

Chuvalo would always insist his defence was better than advertised, but it was his durability that was remarkable. He was able to absorb the shots, he said, thanks to a 17.5-inch neck strengthened through exercises.

Chuvalo found himself fighting for the heavyweight title in 1966 as a replacement foe when Ali's affiliation with the Black Muslims and controversial anti-Vietnam-War stance made him a pariah in the U.S.

The challenger's prospects were described in a New York Times headline: Bettor's-Eye View of Chuvalo: A Big Bum With a Lot of Heart.

While Chuvalo failed to become Canada's first heavyweight champion since Tommy Burns in the early 1900s, he earned praise for a gritty performance. Ali famously called him the toughest man he had faced up to that point, but Chuvalo was ambivalent being the first to take the champ 15 rounds.

"In a crazy way, that fight is what defines me for a lot of my fellow Canadians but it took a long time before I came to appreciate how good it made me feel," he said.

Never knocked down

With wife Lynne and five children at home, Chuvalo appreciated the paydays the Ali performance begat. He would beat contenders Jerry Quarry and Manuel Ramos, losing close bouts to Oscar Bonavena and Jimmy Ellis.

Chuvalo was stopped for the first time in 1967 by Frazier, requiring a silicone implant to keep an eyeball from drooping. The loss to Foreman in the fourth round three years later was also notable, with the referee stepping in before Chuvalo's "never knocked down" streak might have been ended.

Chuvalo's loss to Ali in Vancouver in 1972 was not as compelling or as close as the first bout. He retired for good on a winning note six years later, finishing with a record of 73 wins, 18 losses and two draws, with 64 of his wins coming by knock out.

Unlike with Ali and others, the toll of concussive blows wasn't evident on the surface. Chuvalo was articulate and spoke in rapid-fire bursts, with a quip or self-deprecating joke usually at the ready.

But like many fighters, he had a tough time transitioning to the "humdrum" nature of life, as he once described it. At various points, he opened a nightclub, got his real estate licence, promoted fights, hosted a TV show and took cinema's worst ever arm-wrestling defeat in a cameo in David Cronenberg's The Fly.

Chuvalo told CBC Radio in 1968 he didn't want his four sons boxing for a living, but it was outside the ring where he couldn't protect them. The youngest, Jesse, became hooked on heroin after a prescription for pain medication ran out and was just 19 when he fatally shot himself in 1985.

Older brothers George Jr. and Steven had by then also become users of the drug and involved in petty crime to feed their habits. Steven Chuvalo described a feeling of "worthlessness" he and his two addicted brothers felt in an interview with CBC's the fifth estate in 1995.

"My dad spent quite a few years chasing us around the city, Georgie and I in particular, and dragging us out of drug houses and heroin houses and basically just trying to keep us alive," he said.

George Jr., three days sprung from jail in Kingston, Ont., overdosed on Halloween 1993.

Just four days after that, 49-year-old Lynne Chuvalo swallowed pills and left a suicide note.

"I never thought she'd do it, but I'm not surprised," Chuvalo told the New York Times a short time later, adding his wife never got over the first burial of a child.

Steven Chuvalo, who spoke on the fifth estate of wanting to make his father proud, would overdose and die eight months after that program aired.

Chuvalo would persevere, marrying again, and cherishing time spent with oldest son Mitch, daughter Vanessa, and his grandchildren. He would travel the country, speaking bluntly to students, as captured in a CBC Radio report in 1998.

"I'd like to think if you're ever tempted with the idea of doing drugs, or you ever flirt with doing drugs, I hope you think of me, George Chuvalo, and what drugs did to my family."

In 2017, reports surfaced of family drama involving Chuvalo's surviving children and the fighter's second wife, Joanne, who he was divorcing. Some of the disputes centred around the state of Chuvalo's cognitive decline and his future care.

On a podcast five years later, Mitch Chuvalo said his father no longer recognized him when he visited.

By that time, his legacy had been recognized by the City of Toronto, with the official opening in 2019 of the 7,000-square foot George Chuvalo Community Centre, located in the Junction.

Jeremy Thomas obit

Legendary film producer Jeremy Thomas passes away at 77 years-old

 

He was not on the list.

The British producer, a longtime friend of A Rabbit’s Foot Editor-in-chief Charles Finch, helped bring to life over 80 films across six incredible decades in the film industry. He leaves behind a monumental legacy.

We are saddened to learn that Jeremy Thomas has passed away at 77 years-old.

The legendary British producer and Oscar winner helped bring to life over 80 films across six decades in the film industry. From Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Best Picture winner The Last Emperor to Jonathan Glazer’s Sexy Beast and David Cronenberg’s Crash, Thomas made a name for himself as a champion of international cinema and of daring, boundary-pushing auteur filmmakers.

Born Jeremy Jack Thomas on 26 July 1949 in London, he came from a film family—his father Ralph Thomas directed the Doctor series, and his uncle Gerald Thomas helmed the Carry On franchise. He started young, working his way up from the processing labs to the cutting room as an assistant editor, before producing his first film, Mad Dog Morgan, in 1976 after working in Australia with director Philippe Mora. He leaves behind a monumental legacy.

Charles Finch, founder and Editor-in-chief of A Rabbit’s Foot, remembers Thomas as a longtime friend. “He made great movies, and was a loyal and dear friend. His father, Ralph, made a film with my father, Peter, called No Love for Johnnie. We spent plenty of time talking movies, cars, and praising the devilled kidneys at Wilton’s. On behalf of the entire team at A Rabbit’s Foot, we thank him for his work, wisdom, writing, and unwavering support of our publication.”

 you can revisit a special piece that Thomas wrote for our first issue, in which he reflects on his adventures at the Cannes Film Festival, mixing with the jet-set and Japanese cinema icons of his time. Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fasterds, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival lasr week, and Takashi Miike’s Bad Liutenant: Tokyo, premiering on September 14th at the Toronto International Film Festival, will cap off Thomas’ magnificent career.

His father was the film director Ralph Thomas, best known for directing the 'Doctor' film series. His Uncle was Gerald Thomas, director of the "Carry On" film series. Films were part of Jeremy's life since childhood, when holiday were spent on locations or in the studios. From the age of ten, his only ambition was to make films. Originally, he wanted to be a director but ended up as a producer. He started from school, working in the processing labs, then, a year later, he was in the cutting rooms as an assistant, graduating to editor. After helping director Phillipe Mora edit 'Brother Can You Spare a Dime', he went with him to Australia in 1974 and produced his first film, 'Mad Dog Morgan', which Phillipe directed. After two years, he returned to Britain and put together 'The Shout', which won the 'Grand Prix de Jury at Cannes Film Festival. He now found himself on the producing circuit, his output ranging from 'The Great Rock 'n Roll Swindle' to 'Bad Timing' and to 'Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence. In 1985, he set up his own film distribution company, Record Releasing, and took over the Gate Cinema in London's Notting Hill Gate and the Cameo Cinema in Edinburgh. In 1986, he won the Vittorio de Sica prize, while the following year he was invited to be a member of the Cannes Film Festival Jury.

 

Producer

Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo

producer

Completed

2026

 

Wilder & Me

producer

Pre-production

 

Stages

executive producer

Filming

 

Lost and Found in Paris

producer

Pre-production

 

Becoming Capa

producer

Post-production

 

Kate Mara and Rooney Mara in Bucking Fastard (2026)

Bucking Fastard

6.6

producer

2026

 

I Am Curious Johnny (2025)

I Am Curious Johnny

4.7

producer

2025

 

Stephen Graham, Kit Rakusen, Andrea Riseborough, and Anson Boon in Heel (2025)

Heel

6.8

produced by

2025

 

Grand Maison Paris (2024)

Grand Maison Paris

6.2

producer

2024

 

Irène Jacob in Shikun (2024)

Shikun

4.8

executive producer

2024

 

Daniel Brühl, Esther Garrel, Riccardo Scamarcio, Volker Bruch, and Katie Clarkson-Hill in Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia (2024)

Race for Glory: Audi vs. Lancia

5.8

producer

2024

 

Viggo Mortensen, Garret Dillahunt, Danny Huston, and Vicky Krieps in The Dead Don't Hurt (2023)

The Dead Don't Hurt

6.4

producer

2023

 

Ryūichi Sakamoto in Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus (2023)

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus

8.0

executive producer

2023

 

Anselm (2023)

Anselm

7.2

executive producer

2023

 

EO (2022)

EO

6.7

executive producer

2022

 

Stephen Dorff, Danny Huston, and Tony Todd in Traveling Light (2021)

Traveling Light

5.2

producer

2021

 

Shane MacGowan in Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan (2020)

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

7.7

executive producer

2020

 

Pinocchio (2019)

Pinocchio

6.3

producer

2019

 

Sakurako Konishi and Masataka Kubota in First Love (2019)

First Love

6.7

producer

2019

 

Danny Huston, Etsushi Toyokawa, Munetaka Aoki, Mirai Moriyama, Shôta Sometani, Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu, and Yûta Koseki in Samurai Marathon (2019)

Samurai Marathon

6.2

producer

2019

 

Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko, Adam Driver, and Joana Ribeiro in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote

6.3

executive producer

2018

 

Dogman (2018)

Dogman

7.2

producer

2018

 

Jo Brand and Alan Yentob in Imagine (2003)

Imagine

7.6

TV Series

executive producer

2018

2 episodes

 

Habaneros (2017)

Habaneros

7.5

executive producer

2017

 

Takuya Kimura in Blade of the Immortal (2017)

Blade of the Immortal

6.7

producer

2017

 

Thinley Dorji in Hema Hema (2016)

Hema Hema

6.7

executive producer

2016

 

Willem Dafoe and Maria Fernanda Cândido in My Hindu Friend (2015)

My Hindu Friend

5.8

executive producer

2015

 

Jeremy Irons, Elisabeth Moss, Sienna Guillory, James Purefoy, Tom Hiddleston, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans, and Louis Suc in High-Rise (2015)

High-Rise

5.5

producer

2015

 

Wojciech Mecwaldowski in 11 Minutes (2015)

11 Minutes

5.7

executive producer

2015

 

Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, and Stacy Martin in Tale of Tales (2015)

Tale of Tales

6.4

producer

2015

 

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marie-Josée Croze, James Franco, and Rachel McAdams in Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

Every Thing Will Be Fine

5.5

executive producer

2015

 

Vara: A Blessing (2013)

Vara: A Blessing

6.9

executive producer

2013

 

Jude Law in Dom Hemingway (2013)

Dom Hemingway

6.1

producer

2013

 

Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston in Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Only Lovers Left Alive

7.2

producer

2013

 

Kon-Tiki (2012)

Kon-Tiki

7.1

producer

2012

 

Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, and Michael Fassbender in A Dangerous Method (2011)

A Dangerous Method

6.4

producer

2011

 

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai

7.3

producer

2011

 

Pina (2011)

Pina

7.6

executive producer

2011

 

Yael

Short

executive producer

2010

 

13 Assassins (2010)

13 Assassins

7.5

executive producer

2010

 

Vincent Gallo in Essential Killing (2010)

Essential Killing

6.1

executive producer

2010

 

Paul Bettany in Creation (2009)

Creation

6.6

producer

2009

 

Empire of Silver (2009)

Empire of Silver

6.1

executive producer

2009

 

Two Fists, One Heart (2008)

Two Fists, One Heart

5.9

executive producer

2008

 

Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley, and Eva Green in Franklyn (2008)

Franklyn

6.0

producer

2008

 

Palermo Shooting (2008)

Palermo Shooting

6.1

executive producer

2008

 

Fast Food Nation (2006)

Fast Food Nation

6.3

producer

2006

 

Glastonbury (2006)

Glastonbury

6.6

executive producer

2006

 

Tideland (2005)

Getting Gilliam

6.5

executive producer

2005

 

Jampa Kalsang Tamang and Tenzin Chokyi Gyatso in Dreaming Lhasa (2005)

Dreaming Lhasa

6.4

executive producer

2005

 

Tideland (2005)

Tideland

6.3

producer

2005

 

Don't Come Knocking (2005)

Don't Come Knocking

6.6

executive producer

2005

 

Promised Land (2004)

Promised Land

5.5

executive producer

2004

 

Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings (2004)

Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings

8.1

TV Mini Series

executive producer: UK

2004

 

Travelers and Magicians (2003)

Travelers and Magicians

7.4

executive producer

2003

 

Louis Garrel, Michael Pitt, and Eva Green in The Dreamers (2003)

The Dreamers

7.1

producer

2003

 

Young Adam (2003)

Young Adam

6.3

producer

2003

 

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

Rabbit-Proof Fence

7.4

executive producer

2002

 

Mira Sorvino, Ben Kingsley, Jay Rodan, and Fiona Shaw in The Triumph of Love (2001)

The Triumph of Love

5.8

executive producer

2001

 

Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone in Sexy Beast (2000)

Sexy Beast

7.3

producer

2000

 

Takeshi Kitano, Omar Epps, and Claude Maki in Brother (2000)

Brother

7.1

producer: Recorded Picture Company

2000

 

Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Ryûhei Matsuda, and Shinji Takeda in Taboo (1999)

Taboo

6.8

executive producer

1999

 

The Cup (1999)

The Cup

6.9

executive producer

1999

 

All the Little Animals (1998)

All the Little Animals

6.7

producer

1998

 

The Brave (1997)

The Brave

6.1

executive producer

1997

 

Victory (1996)

Victory

6.2

executive producer

1996

 

Jennifer Lopez, Jack Nicholson, and Stephen Dorff in Blood and Wine (1996)

Blood and Wine

6.0

producer

1996

 

John Malkovich in The Ogre (1996)

The Ogre

6.8

executive producer

1996

 

Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas, James Spader, and Deborah Kara Unger in Crash (1996)

Crash

6.4

executive producer

1996

 

Liv Tyler in Stealing Beauty (1996)

Stealing Beauty

6.5

producer

1996

 

Keanu Reeves and Alex Wiesendanger in Little Buddha (1993)

Little Buddha

6.2

producer

1993

 

Naked Lunch (1991)

Naked Lunch

6.9

producer

1991

 

Christopher Eccleston in Let Him Have It (1991)

Let Him Have It

7.1

executive producer

1991

 

The Sheltering Sky (1990)

The Sheltering Sky

6.7

producer

1990

 

Nick Nolte and Debra Winger in Everybody Wins (1990)

Everybody Wins

5.1

producer

1990

 

Richard Vuu in The Last Emperor (1987)

The Last Emperor

7.7

producer

1987

 

Good to Go (1986)

Good to Go

5.1

executive producer

1986

 

Theresa Russell and Michael Emil in Insignificance (1985)

Insignificance

6.4

producer

1985

 

John Hurt and Laura del Sol in The Hit (1984)

The Hit

7.0

produced by

1984

 

Eureka (1983)

Eureka

5.9

producer

1983

 

David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano, Tom Conti, Ryūichi Sakamoto, and Jack Thompson in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (1983)

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

7.2

producer

1983

 

Art Garfunkel in Bad Timing (1980)

Bad Timing

6.9

producer

1980

 

Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon, Glen Matlock, Malcolm McLaren, Sid Vicious, and Helen Wellington-Lloyd in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980)

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

6.4

executive producer

1980

 

The Shout (1978)

The Shout

6.5

producer

1978

 

Dennis Hopper in Mad Dog Morgan (1976)

Mad Dog Morgan

6.1

producer

1976

 

Editorial Department

Daniel Schweiger, Robert Maschio, Jeff Tschida, and Rachael Hastings Adair in Date or Disaster (2003)

Date or Disaster

8.2

Short

additional editor

2003

 

Moments (1974)

Moments

6.8

assistant editor

1974

 

John Phillip Law and Caroline Munro in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad

6.8

assistant editor

1973

 

Assassin (1973)

Assassin

6.1

assistant editor

1973

 

The Love Ban (1973)

The Love Ban

4.7

assistant editor

1973

 

Jimmy Cliff in The Harder They Come (1972)

The Harder They Come

6.8

assistant editor

1972

 

Sandy Ratcliff in Family Life (1971)

Family Life

7.5

first assistant editor

1971

 

Tam Lin (1970)

Tam Lin

5.7

second assistant editor (uncredited)

1970

 

Additional Crew

Vincent Gallo in Essential Killing (2010)

Essential Killing

6.1

presents

2010

 

Paul Bettany in Creation (2009)

Creation

6.6

presenter

2009

 

Rosanna Arquette, Elias Koteas, James Spader, and Deborah Kara Unger in Crash (1996)

Crash

6.4

presenter

1996

 

Naked Lunch (1991)

Naked Lunch

6.9

presenter

1991

 

Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, and Pete Townshend in The Kids Are Alright (1979)

The Kids Are Alright

8.0

special consultant

1979

 

Editor

Maxine Cantway in Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)

Brother Can You Spare a Dime

7.0

Editor

1975

 

A Misfortune

3.3

TV Short

Editor

1973

 

St. Adolf II

Short

Editor

1971

 

Director

All the Little Animals (1998)

All the Little Animals

6.7

Director

1998

 

Actor

I Think I Cannes (1997)

I Think I Cannes

2.5

1997

 

Production Management

Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle Huppert, and Marie-France Pisier in The Brontë Sisters (1979)

The Brontë Sisters

6.4

production manager

1979

 

Thanks

Think of England (2025)

Think of England

8.0

thanks

2025

 

Ryūichi Sakamoto in Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017)

Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

7.6

special thanks

2017

 

S Is for Stanley (2015)

S Is for Stanley

6.9

thanks

2015

 

Saoirse Ronan in Brooklyn (2015)

Brooklyn

7.5

thanks

2015

 

Lindsay Duncan, Dougray Scott, and Kara Tointon in Last Passenger (2013)

Last Passenger

5.7

special thanks

2013

 

Michael Caine in Harry Brown (2009)

Harry Brown

7.2

thanks

2009

 

David Schneider in Clive Hole (2008)

Clive Hole

TV Movie

special thanks

2008

 

Guantanamero (2007)

Guantanamero

4.8

special thanks

2007

 

Brenda Blethyn and Peter Mullan in On a Clear Day (2005)

On a Clear Day

6.9

thanks

2005

 

Outside the Window: Events in France, May 1968

7.1

Video

very special thanks

2004

 

John Diehl and Michelle Williams in Land of Plenty (2004)

Land of Plenty

6.4

special thanks

2004

 

Festival Express (2003)

Festival Express

7.5

special thanks

2003

 

Besieged (1998)

Besieged

6.8

special thanks

1998

 

Peggy Ashcroft and John Mills in When the Wind Blows (1986)

When the Wind Blows

7.7

special thanks

1986

 

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film (1984)

The Man Who Left His Soul on Film

5.7

TV Movie

special thanks

1984

 

Self

Joie de vivre

Self - Interviewee

2026

 

Dustin Hoffman, Mark Wahlberg, and Denzel Washington in Días de cine (1991)

Días de cine

6.7

TV Series

Self - Interviewee

2021–2022

3 episodes

 

Jeremy Thomas in The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (2021)

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas

6.4

Self

2021

 

Festival de Cine de San Sebastián (1989)

Festival de Cine de San Sebastián

TV Series

Self (video)

2020

1 episode

 

Mad Dog Morgan: Extended 'Not Quite Hollywood' Interviews (2019)

Mad Dog Morgan: Extended 'Not Quite Hollywood' Interviews

Video

Self - Producer of 'Mad Dog Morgan'

2019

 

Arena (1975)

Arena

7.7

TV Series

Self

2015

1 episode

 

The Reel Britain (2014)

The Reel Britain

Short

Self

2014

 

Poster design by Jean-Michel Alberola at Item Editions, France

The Last Impresario

7.0

Self - Interviewee

2013

 

Seduced and Abandoned (2013)

Seduced and Abandoned

6.6

Self

2013

 

One Plus One (2011)

One Plus One

7.1

TV Series

Self - Film producer

2013

1 episode

 

Seile sin egen sjø (2012)

Seile sin egen sjø

6.3

Self

2012

 

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom (2011)

Tony Curtis: Driven to Stardom

7.2

TV Movie

Self

2011

 

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

7.6

Self

2008

 

The Making of 'Tideland' (2007)

The Making of 'Tideland'

6.3

Video

Self

2007

 

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation' (2007)

The Manufacturing of 'Fast Food Nation'

6.1

Video

Self

2007

 

The 2006 European Film Awards

6.9

TV Special

Self

2006

 

Tideland (2005)

Getting Gilliam

6.5

Self

2005

 

Trade Secrets (2005)

Trade Secrets

Video

Self

2005

 

Cinema Sex Politics: Bertolucci Makes 'The Dreamers'

7.5

TV Movie

Self

2003

 

Rabbit-Proof Fence: Cast and Crew Interviews (2002)

Rabbit-Proof Fence: Cast and Crew Interviews

Video

Self - Executive Producer

2002

 

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano (2000)

Scenes by the Sea: Takeshi Kitano

7.6

TV Movie

Self

2000

 

David Cronenberg, Peter Weller, and William S. Burroughs in Naked Making Lunch (1992)

Naked Making Lunch

7.1

Self

1992

 

Moving Pictures (1990)

Moving Pictures

5.8

TV Series

Self

1991

1 episode

 

The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988)

The 60th Annual Academy Awards

5.7

TV Special

Self - Winner

1988

 

Fanny Ardant in La nuit des César (1976)

La nuit des César

5.5

TV Series

Self - Winner

1988

1 episode

 

The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards (1988)

The 45th Annual Golden Globe Awards

4.7

TV Special

Self - Winner

1988

 

Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou (1965)

Cannes Film Festival

6.7

TV Series

Self - Jury Member

1987

2 episodes

 

David Bowie in The Oshima Gang: The Making of 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence' (1983)

The Oshima Gang: The Making of 'Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence'

6.1

Video

Self

1983

 

Renato Casaro - Il futuro che scopre il passato

Renato Casaro - Il futuro che scopre il passato

Self

 

Archive Footage

Biography (1987)

Biography

7.7

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2003

1 episode

 

Extreme Close Up with...

TV Series

Self (archive footage)

2001

1 episode

 

Bain Boehlke obit

Bain Boehlke, visionary Minneapolis theater founder, dies at 87

His exacting artistry turned a neighborhood playhouse into a theatrical destination. 

He was not on the list.

Actor Bain Boehlke, 87, died on Sept. 11. Boehlke was mostly known for Minneapolis-based theater; he founded the Children’s Theater Company and the Jungle Theater, also appearing in such theatrical productions as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Hamlet, The House of Blue Leaves, and A Life in the Theater. Onscreen, he played small supporting roles in Fargo, Four Boxes, and Influencer. Actress Michelle Barber said of Boehlke, “He led with his passion, and he didn’t care what you, as a fancy actor, thought. He wanted to deliver the most exquisite work he imagined.”

Actor

Influencer (2022)

Influencer

7.4

Howard

2022

 

Golden

Short

Hank

2013

 

Justin Kirk and Terryn Westbrook in Four Boxes (2009)

Four Boxes

4.5

Neighbor

2009

 

Fargo (1996)

Fargo

8.1

Mr. Mohra

1996

 

Director

Jungle Encounters

Short

Director

2013

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives (1984)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives

5.7

Director

1984

 

Producer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives (1984)

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Memories and Perspectives

5.7

producer

1984

 

Thanks

MN Original (2010)

MN Original

TV Series

special thanks

2013

1 episode

 

Self

Jungle Encounters

Short

SelfSelf - artistic director

2013

 

MN Original (2010)

MN Original

TV Series

selfSelf - The Jungle Artistic DirectorSelf - Jungle Theater founder ...

2011–2013

2 episodes

 

Archive Footage

Frances McDormand and James Gaulke in Fargo (1996)

Minnesota Nice

6.8

Video

Self (archive footage)

2003

 

Princess Astrid obit

Princess Astrid of Norway Dies at 94 Just Two Days After Brother King Harald’s Funeral

The elder sister of the late King serv First Lady of Norway

 She was not on the list.

Princess Astrid of Norway has died at 94.

The princess, whose official title was Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner, died just two days after the funeral of her younger brother, the late King Harald V.

The Norwegian Royal House announced the news on Friday, Sept. 11, sharing that the princess “passed away peacefully” earlier that day.

“His Majesty the King has received with great sorrow the news that Princess Astrid has passed away,” the palace said. Her nephew, the new King Haakon VIII, also ordered that the flag over the Royal Palace balcony be flown at half-mast.

“Throughout a long life, Princess Astrid represented the Royal House in a warm and dutiful manner,” the King said. “Aunt Astrid was an important support to King Harald and the rest of our family. We learned a great deal from her, and she was not afraid to speak her mind.”

Princess Astrid was married to the late Johan Martin Ferner from 1961 until his death in 2015, and they had five children: Cathrine, Benedikte, Alexander, Elisabeth and Carl-Christian Ferner.

Her children, who do not hold royal roles, released a statement upon the news of their mother’s death, saying, “In our grief, we stand together with gratitude. Thank you for all the wonderful memories. You will forever hold a great place in our hearts.”

The Storting, the supreme legislature of Norway, also paid tribute to the late princess, saying, “A highly beloved member of the royal family has left us. Norway has lost a memorable and highly esteemed princess. Our condolences go to the royal house and the closest family.”

She was born prior to Norway introducing absolute primogeniture and thus was never in line to the throne; however, Astrid supported the crown throughout her life.

Following the death of her mother, Crown Princess Märtha, she helped her father, King Olav, by serving as the First Lady of Norway, a position comparable to the role of a Queen Consort, until her brother married the future Queen Sonja in 1968.

King Haakon announced that his late aunt will receive a state funeral, the details of which will be announced at a later date.

While she was able to attend her brother’s funeral at Oslo Cathedral on Wednesday, Sept. 9, Princess Astrid has suffered health issues over the last year. She was hospitalized in March after contracting pneumonia and was forced to forgo royal duties as she recovered.

While she was never in line to the Norwegian throne, Princess Astrid was distantly part of the U.K.’s line of succession due to being a great-grandchild of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. At the time of her death, she was the oldest living descendant of Queen Victoria.

Many of today’s European royal families share connected bloodlines thanks to the strategic matchmaking of 19th-century monarchs like Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark. Queen Victoria, in particular, is sometimes referred to as “the grandmother of Europe” for how many family trees have grown from her line of descendants.

Through their shared royal lineage, Astrid and the late Queen Elizabeth were second cousins. Following her death, and that of King Harald, the only remaining great-grandchildren of King Edward VII are the Duke of Kent, Prince Michael of Kent, Princess Alexandra of Kent and the Duke of Gloucester.

Felicity Green obit

Felicity Green, trailblazing fashion journalist who helped launch the Biba look in the 1960s

 

She was not on the list.

Felicity Green, who has died aged 100, was the most influential fashion editor of the 1960s and the first woman to be appointed to the board of a national newspaper.

As fashion editor of the Daily Mirror at a time when the paper was selling more than five million copies a day, “Felicity Green on the fashion scene” was one of the first to write about Twiggy and Mary Quant and was instrumental in launching the Biba look which swept all before it in the mid-1960s.

It was in 1964 that she asked Barbara Hulanicki, who had previously worked as a fashion illustrator on the Mirror and was now running a small mail-order company, to design a dress as an offer for readers. She promoted the outfit, a gingham dress and matching headscarf costing less than £3, in a full-page spread, expecting it to win 3,000 orders at best.

When 17,000 orders came flooding in, the Biba look was born. Soon, Biba opened its first boutique on Abingdon Road in Kensington and within five years it had opened a five-storey department store on Kensington High Street – a temple of fashion noted for its decadent atmosphere and languid sales assistants in black lipstick and green nail varnish.

Felicity Green followed a clear philosophy. Eschewing the high-end Paris collections, she wrote features in which fashion related to ordinary people’s lives, budgets and even attitudes. She herself, she explained, had never been fashionable: “Fashion needs to be followed at a very, very respectful distance. My blueprint for fashion is to be simple and stylish.”

Not everyone was impressed, however. Cecil King, chairman of the post-war Daily Mirror, once threatened to fire Felicity Green for running a feature on mini-skirts, expostulating: “How long are you going to continue to put those ridiculous clothes in my newspaper? Can you imagine the wife of a Sheffield bus-driver wearing that?” But it was King who was later fired.

Felicity Green was eventually promoted to be executive women’s editor across all three Mirror group titles and in 1973 was appointed publicity director, becoming, in the words of a trade magazine, the first director “to powder her nose before a board meeting.”

By this time she had learnt to deal with such casual misogyny. However when in 1978 she discovered that a newly appointed board member, a male journalist, was being paid £30,000 a year, more than twice her own salary of £14,000, she resigned in outrage.

The only child of Emanuel Green and his wife Annie, Felicity Green was born on June 26 1926 and grew up in poverty above a bike shop in Dagenham. Her parents’ marriage was not happy. Her mother was totally deaf and her father had a terrible temper, so she found herself acting as peace-maker during their frequent rows. Felicity’s passion for fashion was fired by outings with her father to the cinema, where she fell in love with the clothes worn by the Hollywood movie stars of the 1930s and 1940s.

After a stint as “the worst pupil Pitmans ever had”, Felicity Green landed her first job as a secretary at a magazine entitled Woman & Beauty, where, before she was allowed to sit behind a typewriter, she had to walk the office dog and make the coal fires and coffee.

Within a couple of years she impressed the editor-in-chief enough to be promoted to fashion editor, though she was still treated as a dogsbody. On one occasion she was invited by the editor to meet Harold Wilson, a rising star in the Labour Party firmament who was then President of the Board of Trade. She accepted with alacrity but there was a twist. “I had given myself one of the first Toni perms, and the editor wanted me to give one to Mary Wilson, who was coming with Harold… While the great and the good had drinks, I did the perm in the bathroom and got a thank you poem from Mary.”

She moved on to become fashion editor of Housewife, and then to an advertising agency. It was while she was there, in 1955, that Hugh Cudlipp, then editorial director of the Daily Mirror, called to ask her what she thought of a paper he had launched called the Woman’s Sunday Mirror.

She wrote a fierce critique and what followed was “an odd meeting” in which Cudlipp “assumed I would be joining.” She became associate editor of the new journal, beginning a long association with the Mirror group.

The Woman’s Sunday Mirror did not last long, but Felicity moved on to the Sunday Pictorial (later the Sunday Mirror) and in 1961 joined the Daily Mirror as associate editor – the highest-flying female journalist in Fleet Street.

She recalled being warned by a colleague that to survive in the masculine world of newspapers, she must understand that many of her colleagues would resent having to work for a woman: “You will have to give some of them a bollocking from time to time, but do it gracefully and always let him leave your room with his balls intact.” It was, she recalled, a very good piece of advice.

Part of her remit was to inject the paper with a more “feminine” feel, and in her first week there the features editor proudly announced that he had been doing some special work for her pages and had worked up “some nice borders with bows”. She had to let him down gently. After she had been there for a few months one of the sub-editors remarked that she must be relieved now that “all that hatred has disappeared.” “And I said, ‘Hatred?’ And he said, ‘You mean you didn’t notice it?’”

She recalled that all the senior executives had well-stocked refrigerators in their offices and that drinking would begin after the morning editorial conference and continue until the early afternoon, by which time the morning staff were too drunk to do the paper, so a whole new team would come in. She refused to participate.

But she felt that some of the prejudice against women in the workplace was understandable. When she became a director of the group in the mid-1960s, she inherited a section of the paper where all the heads of department were men, ruling the roost over girls who were in many cases much more talented than they were. “I made it my business to promote these women. But within two years, every single one had left to have a family.”

After resigning from the Mirror Felicity Green ran the UK office of Vidal Sassoon, but later returned to journalism, helping to launch Working Woman magazine and advising the boards of the Express, the Telegraph and the publishers of M&S Magazine.

For five years in the 1990s she was a senior lecturer on the Saint Martin’s School of Art fashion journalism course and later she became a mentor of fashion journalism students at the school. In 2014 she published Sex, Sense and Nonsense: Felicity Green on the ’60s Fashion Scene.

She was appointed OBE for services to journalism in 2012.

Felicity Green married, in 1952, Geoffrey Hill; he died in 1992. She had never wanted children, fearing that she would not be a good mother, but during an appearance as a castaway on Desert Island Discs in 2011 she confessed that she would have loved grandchildren.

Felicity Green, born June 26 1926, died September 10 2026

Gary Myers obit

Gary Myers, patriarch of Myers racing family, dead at 76

 

He was not on the list.

Former NASCAR driver and patriarch of the Myers racing family, Gary Myers, died at the age of 76 on Thursday night, according to his son.

Gary Myers made 47 starts over the course of his 5-year NASCAR career, according to Motorsport Stats.

Myers is the father of professional racers Burt and Jason Myers.

Gary Myers himself also came from a lineage of racing royalty; he is among the second generation of four generations of racers in the Myers family. He is the son of NASCAR driver Billy Myers and his uncle is Bobby Myers; both are two of the early legends of Bowman Gray Stadium. His cousin, Danny ‘Chocolate’ Myers, is a longtime NASCAR staffer and personality.

Continuing in the tradition of his father and uncle, Gary Myers won 38 races at Bowman Gray Stadium.

Burt Myers shared a heartfelt tribute to his father on Facebook:

“Last night I lost my hero. He fought so hard but was so tired. My daddy is in Heaven and can finally do the things he wanted to do the last several years. Thank God for the times we had. He taught me everything I know. Selfishly I want him here but I know he is much better off now. I miss him so much. I love you Daddy!”

Roger Simon obit

Roger Simon

1948 - 2026

 He was not on the list.

Roger Simon, a retired political columnist and best-selling author, died Sept. 10, 2026, of pneumonia at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. He was 78.

Roger was a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1975 to 1984, giving voice to ordinary people in the finest newspaper tradition to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable (Illinois Gov. James "Big Jim" Thompson was a regular target). He wrote with grace, insight, and wit.

Sun-Times editor James Hoge assigned Roger to cover the 1976 presidential campaign, and he covered every presidential campaign and nominating convention for the next 40 years, interviewing every president from Jimmy Carter to Barack Obama and warning in 2016 of the danger posed by Donald Trump. Along the way, he wrote four acclaimed campaign books. More than one reviewer called his work the best political book they had read. An earlier book, "Simon Says," featured a collection of Sun-Times columns; its title referred to his one-line rants and societal observations that were a reader favorite.

Roger received more than three dozen first-place awards and twice won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award for Commentary. He is a three-time winner of the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award, three-time winner of the Peter Lisagor Award from the Chicago Headline Club, eight-time recipient of the Page One Award from the Chicago Newspaper Guild, and recipient of a first-place national writing award from the National Association of Black Journalists. The Associated Press called his work "sensitive, relevant and written with understated elegance." He was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame and the Illini Media Hall of Fame.

In addition to the Sun-Times, he worked for U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune, Bloomberg News, and City News Bureau of Chicago and was a columnist for the Waukegan News-Sun, Baltimore Sun, and Politico, from which he retired in January 2017. For more than 25 years, his column was syndicated by Creators Syndicate. Roger abided by what he called the columnists' credo: Sometimes in error, never in doubt.

Roger Mitchell Simon was born in Chicago on March 29, 1948, and received a B.A. degree in English from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where he wrote a column for the Daily Illini.

Survivors include his wife of 49 years, Marcia Kramer Simon, of Bethesda, MD; a sister, Lynne Copp (Al Wayne); sisters-in-law Darlene (Ray) Grossman and Sandy (Dan) Wiczer; seven nieces and nephews, and 10 grand-nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Barry Simon, sister-in-law Donna Kramer, and a nephew.

Roger wrote that when he died, he wanted to be buried in Chicago so he could still be part of its politics. Burial (yes, in Chicago) will be private. A celebration of life will be held at a later date in Washington. Contributions may be made to your favorite charity. Arrangements by Chicago Jewish Funerals - Skokie Chapel, 847.229.8822, www.cjfinfo.com.