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I was sad to learn that actor Alan Rickman had died. I would have happily rented his voice at any time. Everyone seems to be posting about his roles in
Harry Potter and
Die Hard. I liked him in
CBGB and
Robin Hood and
Sense and Sensibility and
Hitchhiker's Guide and all sorts of other movies that people have not mentioned. I wish I could have seen and heard him on stage.
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Haskell Wexler had a wonderful eye. He served in the Merchant Marine during World War II. His ship got torpedoed and as the crew sat in the lifeboat, the German U-Boat surfaced and the survivors through they would be machine gunned. Instead, the captain recorded the scene with a movie camera. Wexler wondered whether the captain was using black and white or color stock. I particularly like
Bound For Glory. I need to see more of his documentaries.
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Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond also died. He left Hungary after the 1956 revolution and settled in the United States. He worked with everyone from Robert Altman to Woody Allen. He did some cool stuff with colors. Newscasters had trouble pronouncing his name.
