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December, 2018 As the year ends, The Screening Room pauses to reflect on those who have passed away this year. These actors, directors, and screenwriters will forever live on through their work. Their talent will not be forgotten.
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Neil Simon (1927-2018)
Neil Simon successfully wrote for the stage, screen and television. In 1967 he adapted his 1963 Broadway hit Barefoot in the Park for the screen. Post-honeymoon blues follow uptight Paul (Robert Redford) and free-spirited Corie (Jane Fonda) as they adjust to married life in a tiny Greenwich Village apartment.
Rated G.
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Tab Hunter (1931-2018)
Tab Hunter's career began in films and later he had success as a recording artist, television actor, film producer and author. Battle Cry is a realistic drama of the Marines in World War II--their training, trial by combat, and the story of the people they left waiting at home.
Unrated.
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Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018)
Four men who predicted the mid-2000s financial crisis attempt to make it big by using the "credit default swap" innovation. Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has a memorable cameo in which he uses a seafood stew to explain collateralized debt obligations.
Rated R.
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Burt Reynolds (1936-2018)
During the late 70s, a producer of porn films assembles a group of actors and crew who become family to each other. Burt Reynolds won several awards, including a Golden Globe ®, for his performance as porn filmmaker Jack Horner.
Rated R.
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Barbara Harris (1935-2018)
In exchange for a $10,000 reward, a cab driver and a psychic team up to find a dead man who is not really dead, and in the process they become involved with a jewel merchant and his Woman in Black. Tony Award® winning actress Barbara Harris stars as Blanche, the psychic.
Rated PG.
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Morgana King (1930-2018)
Jazz singer Morgana King only appeared in five films. The first two are part of the Godfather trilogy. In both films, King portrays the matriarch of the Corleone family, Carmela.
Rated R.
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William Goldman (1931- 2018)
William Goldman won Academy Awards® for the screenplays he wrote for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and All President's Men. In 1972 he wrote the screenplay for The Hot Rock about a team of cat burglars whose meticulous plot try to steal a diamond from a museum does not go as planned. Starring Robert Redford and George Segal. Rated PG.
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Scott Wilson (1942-2018)
Best known for his portrayal of Hershel Green on the television series The Walking Dead, Scott Wilson had a very long career. In only his second role, he stars in this 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book about the senseless murders of a Kansas farm family and the search for their killers. Rated R.
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Milos Forman (1932-2018)
Milos Foreman won Academy Awards® for directing two Best Picture winners, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Amadeus. Among his other works is this 1999 biography of the late, eccentric comic Andy Kaufman.
Rated R.
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Dorothy Malone (1924-2018)
Wealthy Texas oilman Jasper Hadley finds his dynasty crumbling around him and his children a disappointment. Dorothy Malone won an Academy Award® for her portrayal of Hadley's self-destructive alcoholic daughter.
Unrated.
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