In Memoriam

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Alan Parker, Versatile Film Director, Is Dead at 76

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/m...ead-at-76.html

[Kirby101]

Wilford Brimley, at 85.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/tr...NMV4L5DE6QNNY/

One of those actors who was always "old". He was actually younger in Cocoon than Tom Cruise in MI Rouge Nation or Brad Pitt in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

[CaptCleghorn]

One of those actors who was always "old". He was actually younger in Cocoon than Tom Cruise in MI Rouge Nation or Brad Pitt in Once Upon A Time in Hollywood.

That's an interesting fact I did not know. As a diabetic myself, I tend to focus far more on his advocacy that I do his actual IMDB resume. He was one of the good ones.

[numberthirty]

That's an interesting fact I did not know. As a diabetic myself, I tend to focus far more on his advocacy that I do his actual IMDB resume. He was one of the good ones.

Credit where it's due, the man's role in The Thing was always a seriously unsung gem.

[Iron Maiden]

Credit where it's due, the man's role in The Thing was always a seriously unsung gem.

I was just going to mention the same film.

[CaptCleghorn]

I was just going to mention the same film.

Thus driving me to look for and watch this.

[Tami]

Credit where it's due, the man's role in The Thing was always a seriously unsung gem.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

That's an interesting fact I did not know. As a diabetic myself, I tend to focus far more on his advocacy that I do his actual IMDB resume. He was one of the good ones.

Yep, Mr. Brimley was perhaps the biggest public advocate for diabetes.

[Joker]

Diabeetus. RIP Wilford.

Alan Parker, Versatile Film Director, Is Dead at 76

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/m...ead-at-76.html

This one is going to get largely overlooked, which is a shame. If nothing else, he directed The Wall and should be remembered for that.

[Javasaurus]

This one is going to get largely overlooked, which is a shame. If nothing else, he directed The Wall and should be remembered for that.

Parker directed a number of notable films that I remember over the years. The Commitments was one that really stands out for me.

[Joker]

Absolutely. He directed a handful of great films. The Wall probably has the most cultural clout, though.

[4saken1]

Computer scientist, pixel inventor Russell Kirsch dead at 91

Pixels, the digital dots used to display photos, video and more on phone and computer screens, weren't an obvious innovation in 1957, when Kirsch created a small, 2-by-2-inch black-and-white digital image of his son, Walden, as an infant. That was among the first images ever scanned into a computer, using a device created by his research team at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institutes of Science and Technology).

This work “laid the foundations for satellite imagery, CT scans, virtual reality and Facebook,"

[Tendrin]

Holy **** Chadwick Boseman o.o

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obit...ampaign=buffer

[Kirby101]

Crap, that's so sad.

[WestPhillyPunisher]

Holy **** Chadwick Boseman o.o

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/obit...ampaign=buffer

Learned the news when I woke up this morning. Shocking as hell and very sad. And, in a case of cosmic irony, Mr. Boseman died on August 28th, the birthday of Jack Kirby who co-created the Black Panther.