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Goodbye Mr. Hammond: Leslie Nielsen Leaves Us
Man, I hate celebrity obituaries. They seem overly superficial and obligatory, summarizing a man’s life with a hit-and-run of his Wikipedia entry. So there’s nothing I can contribute of any depth in mourning the passing of Leslie Nielsen except to explain what he meant personally to me, and his entertaining romp in a retro slasher.
Edmund Purdom 1924-2009
It is with great sadness that I write that Mr. Purdom has passed away at the age of 82 years old.
Purdom began acting in theater in 1945 and went on to have a prestigious career in films, including appearing in the films Julius Caesar (1953) and The Egyptian (1954). But let’s face it, he was [...]
Mother Superior 1925 – 2008
It might be a little late in mentioning, but Lilyan Chauvin who played the incredibly terrifying Mother Superior in Silent Night, Deadly Night passed away on June 26th of this year.
Some things about Miss Chauvin you might not know:
She was quite beautiful (She was actually compared to Greta Garbo)
She was a DGA Director (how cool [...]