A Horse Named Stranger Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Louise Fletcher has passed away. Probably best known as either Nurse Ratched or as Kai Winn. Deadlines? What Deadlines? and Corvinus85 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corvinus85 Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 Fletcher's casting in DS9 was one of the amazing mysteries to me. SF TV shows of the 90s usually didn't include Oscar winners among their cast members. Deadlines? What Deadlines? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted September 24, 2022 Share Posted September 24, 2022 2 hours ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: Louise Fletcher has passed away. Probably best known as either Nurse Ratched or as Kai Winn. One of the greatest antagonists of all time. Her picture comes up when you Google the word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindwalker Posted September 25, 2022 Share Posted September 25, 2022 Kai Winn, my favorite Trek villain! She didn't have to raise her voice to be menacing. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbunting Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Fred Ward passed recently. He was in The Right Stuff and what I really remember him from, Tremors! He was in a lot of other things but he'll always be from Tremors in my mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IheartIheartTesla Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 On 9/24/2022 at 8:45 AM, Corvinus85 said: Fletcher's casting in DS9 was one of the amazing mysteries to me. SF TV shows of the 90s usually didn't include Oscar winners among their cast members. Lets not forget Whoopi though.... Sad to hear about Louise Fletcher's death. Cant say her character was my favorite on DS9, but thats all the more credit to her portrayal of Kai Winn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Still an all-time banger. RIP: DireWolfSpirit, Corvinus85, Mark Antony and 2 others 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbunting Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Yep, Coolio nailed that one. Only remember a couple songs of his but that one still gets the volume turned up. He at least he lived to see 59 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 He also has a pretty prolific career as a character actor in film and television; including voicing Kwanzaa-bot on Futurama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DireWolfSpirit Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 He was a Grammy winner, RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLastWolf Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Sacheen Littlefeather She declined Brando's Oscar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 What a legend. She also raised John Wayne's blood pressure to the point where he came "that close" to beating up a woman on live Tee Vee. Not his most galant moment. They were all drunk off their asses or tripping balls anyway. Robert Wagner is pouring sweat and Natalie Wood can't even see straight. And you can bet the jacket on this asshole got the duke's blood raging before Sacheen even hit the stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Not sure that's what Wagner should be pouring sweat over in the RIP thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Loretta Lynn has died at age 90. Loretta Lynn, coal miner's daughter and country queen, dies at 90 (omaha.com) Even though I am not much of a country music fan, after loving the film Coal Miner's Daughter years ago I've always had fond feelings for Loretta Lynn. She certainly was a trailblazer for women in her genre of music. Ran, dbunting and Deadlines? What Deadlines? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 (edited) Angela Lansbury has passed away at 96 years of age. I'm of an age where Murder, She Wrote was something I wasn't interested in but it was very present on television and I don't know often I paused for a minute or two on it as a kid before moving on to try and find a cartoon. More significantly for my memories of her was Beauty and the Beast, and her beautifully sweet and poignant rendition of its main song: Her first Academy award nomination (of 3; she never won, but did get an Honorary Award in 2014) was for the 1944 film Gaslight... which happens to the source of the word "gaslighting" (it itself was based on a play, "Gas Light", but the film was much more well known). She was also excellent in The Picture of Dorian Gray and especially in The Manchurian Candidate (her other two Academy Award nominations.) Edited October 11, 2022 by Ran dog-days, Deadlines? What Deadlines?, A Horse Named Stranger and 1 other 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Horse Named Stranger Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 She also played the role of Gwendolyn, Princess of England in The Court Jester. Ran 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 6 minutes ago, A Horse Named Stranger said: She also played the role of Gwendolyn, Princess of England in The Court Jester. Indeed! Ormond 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ormond Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Angela Lansbury's death does make me very sad. It feels like she's been part of my life almost in the same way as Queen Elizabeth II was -- a famous British woman who's always there in the background of my mind. I suppose it's fitting that they died at the same age so close to each other. In addition to "Murder She Wrote" and her Disney work, I remember often seeing clips of her playing Mrs. Lovett in the musical "Sweeney Todd". I will miss her. Ran and Toth 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Chatywin et al. Posted October 11, 2022 Share Posted October 11, 2022 Her IMDB page is remarkable. Bedknobs and Broomsticks was one of my favorites as a kid. Ormond 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadlines? What Deadlines? Posted October 11, 2022 Author Share Posted October 11, 2022 I think I saw that in the theater as a kid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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