In Memoriam • Page 63

Damn, that’s a real shame. Gonna spin some PS music tonight

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variet...s-this-is-us-writer-dead-dies-1234631013/amp/

Jas Waters, writer for This Is Us, passed away.

 

Long time Batman writer & editor, who also wrote Green Lantern/Green Arrow & Amazing Spider-Man. Created Ra’s al Ghul, Talia, & the John Stewart Green Lantern.

If you prefer a darker, more grounded take on Batman, Denny O'Neil was the one who took him there after the campier 60s version, before Frank Miller or Tim Burton or Christopher Nolan did so.

 

Yesterday Dutch WW2 resistance hero Bettsy Goudsmit-Oudkerk passed away at the age of 96. She was the last living staff member of a kindergarten for Jewish children opposite the Hollandsche Schouwburg in Amsterdam, through which 600 Jewish children were smuggled to safety. Goudsmit-Oudkerk was 17 years old when she worked at the daycare center on Plantage Middenlaan in Amsterdam.

Goudsmit-Oudkerk's mother and grandmother were deported and killed in early 1943, just over two years following the loss of her father to a cerebral hemorrhage. Her brother, Gerrit, was also arrested in France and was later killed. Another brother, Nol, was rounded up at the Hollandsche Schouwburg where he was deported to Auschwitz, and later killed.

Following the war, she helped care for Jewish children who were orphaned in the Netherlands.

Until four years ago, she never spoke publicly about it, but she agreed to tell her story at the urging of her children.

She was one of the rare ones. R.I.P. Bettsy.

 

No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one we must all take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.

Ian Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88

 

Fuck

 

Crying at my desk rn

 

He's great in so many things, but he's staggeringly good in The Sweet Hereafter.

RIP

 

one of the best parts of one of the best movies of all time

 

He’ll always be Vito Cornelius from The Fifth Element to me

 

He'll always be milky mouth from Alien to me.

 

Just watched the first lord of the rings for the first time last night.

 

He looks like one of my old managers and that’s all I think about whenever he’s in a scene.

 

omg I’m almost jealous. enjoy the journey!

 

Nice. I am planning to watch them for the first time ever sometime in the next couple weeks. My friends have been giving me shit for so long lol

 

Thanks! We really liked the first one and we’re going to watch the two towers tonight.

 

Yeah I never watched them when they came out and just kept putting them off then saw they were on HBO Max and decided it was time.

 

two towers is probably my most watched movie ever

 

gonna need to do a rewatch soon. It’s been too long

 

How different are the extended editions? I’ve been meaning to watch them.

 

They’re pretty different! Each one is just about a half hour longer and they add whole scenes and new context to previously existing scenes while also occasionally making some cuts to material found in the theatrical versions. If you’re a fan of the books and wanted more of the source material, the extended versions are definitely the way to go. I’m not sure what the streaming quality is wherever they may be found, but I must add here that the original DVD releases of the extended editions are the only versions I’ve ever owned because they redid the color grading for the blu ray release and it just doesn’t look right to me.

 

They add a lot. Having only seen the extended ROTK, i genuinely wonder how the original made any sense.