#rip peter fonda

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[blackswaneuroparedux]

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

Glenda Jackson

Although Glenda Jackson was absent from screen and stage for nearly a quarter of a century, when she devoted herself to her political career, she managed to appear in a wide variety of roles on either side of her time as an elected MP to Parliament. 

Almost uniquely amongst actors of her generation, she managed to straddle the line between leading actress and character actor, being both a bankable star and a fascinatingly unpredictable performer who would enliven any film or production that she was in. It is hard to think that she ever gave a bad performance.

She deservedly won two Oscars during her illustrious career on both stage and screen. The second Oscar that she won, for the 1973 romantic comedy-drama A Touch of Class, was an appropriate acknowledgement of a decorous and classy performance in a decorous and classy film, and one still fondly remembered now. However, the picture that she first received an Academy Award for, Ken Russell’s inimitable 1969 DH Lawrence adaptation Women in Love, was considerably less restrained.

When she was cast, she was by no means a known international quantity. She had achieved success on stage with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since the early Sixties - most notably as Ophelia, opposite David Warner’s Hamlet, in Peter Hall’s legendary 1965 production - and had reprised her stage role as Charlotte Corday, the assassin of Jean-Paul Marat, in Peter Brook’s film of Peter Weiss’s play Marat/Sade, but she had never starred in a major picture. 

Until Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, Jackson had not regarded herself as a political actor, in the way Jane Fonda or Redgrave did. She had long been a Labour party member, and gave time and energy to single-issue campaigns, such as human rights, Oxfam and abortion.

She considered standing for parliament and won despite Labour overall losing to John Major in 1992. In 1997, re-elected in the Tony Blair landslide, she served briefly as a junior transport minister, but she became an increasingly critical voice on her own side, especially over the Iraq war. She was rarely heard in the Commons, but always remained a highly popular constituency MP.

She left politics and made a surprise return to acting in 2015, making waves in a BBC Radio 4 series based on the novels of Emile Zola. It was when she played King Lear on stage at the Old Vic - a role that she later reprised on Broadway in 2019 - that the ferocity and power of her performance was a reminder to many who had been too young to see her in her earlier stage roles that she was a magnificent and multi-faceted performer.

Jackson continued to appear in television and film until the end of her life. However, her last definitive role came a few years ago, in which she starred as Maud Horsham, an elderly woman suffering from dementia who attempts to solve a mystery, even as she ebbs away. She won virtually every award going for the part, including another Emmy and a Bafta,

RIP Glenda Jackson RIP 1936-2023

[watchmorecinema]

Tribute to Roger Corman

Roger Corman passed away recently, at 98. He was a powerhouse of cinema. His own movies, of which he directed more than 50, were all cheap B-movies. The films he produced (nearly 400) were much of the same. Yet, he used his position to give new players a chance to get some experience. Martin Scorsese, Jack Nicholson, Peter Bogdanovich, Sylvester Stallone, Robert DeNiro, David Carradine, Peter Fonda, Sandra Bullock, Tommy Lee Jones, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Joe Dante, James Cameron and dozens upon dozens of more people got their start with Corman. He also handled distribution for a lot of foreign films that other companies passed on, including work by Kurosawa, Truffeau, Fellini and Ingmar Bergman. It's not a stretch at all to say that the face of cinema would be completely different without him; the last 50 years of movies owes a huge debt to Roger Corman.

If you are going to watch one of his films I'd suggest:

Masque of the Red Death

The Little Shop of Horrors

X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes

A Bucket of Blood

These are all low budget films but they've got fun ideas and are easy to watch. Just a lot of fun.

RIP to a real one.

[krispyweiss]

Roger McGuinn at Midland Theatre, Newark, Ohio, Aug. 22, 2023

There’s no need for Roger McGuinn to write a book. His Songs and Stories With … tour is his autobiography. And hearing the man speak and sing about his incredible life and career is much more enjoyable than reading about it anyway.

As the jangle of an electric guitar playing the Byrds’ arrangement of “My Back Pages” filled the hall - “My ‘My Way,’” McGuinn called it - he walked on stage, stepped to a mic and began to sing. At 81, McGuinn’s voice betrayed some fragility at various points during his two-set, 110-minute performance inside Newark, Ohio’s, three-quarters-full Midland Theatre. But he still plays and sings like a Byrd.

After the opener, McGuinn, dressed in all black save for a red feather in his fedora, took a seat and, surrounded by a banjo, 12- and six-string acoustic guitars, his trusty electric Rickenbacker and tropical plants, proceeded to tell his life’s story. And the concert had the arc of a book, beginning with his childhood in Chicago where he first heard “Heartbreak Hotel” and “Be-Bop-A-Lula” - snippets of which he played - before he went to the Old Town School of Folk Music and got turned on to Bob Gibson and Lead Belly, leading McGuinn to offer full versions of “Daddy Roll ’Em” and “On Easter Morn’ He Rose.”

A teenaged McGuinn then met Pete Seeger, from whom he learned “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” played on electric, and “Rolling Down to Old Maui,” rendered acoustically. He was hired by the Limeliters, met David Crosby in California and Joan Baez (“Virgin Mary”) in New York. He traveled to South America and was inspired to write what would become the bridge of “Chestnut Mare” while sitting on a cliff and eventually went to work for Bobby Darin in Las Vegas - McGuinn was there when Darin discovered Wayne Newton. This was all before McGuinn met Peter Fonda, which prompted “The Ballad of Easy Rider.”

McGuinn wrapped the first set with “I Wasn’t Born to Follow” and “Mr. Spaceman.” He opened set two the way he’d opened the gig, with the sounds of “So You Want to be a Rock ’n’ Roll Star” announcing his arrival and “Lover of the Bayou” following. And despite any wear and tear on his vocal cords, the McGuinn of 2023 is smoother than the raspy McGuinn of 1970’s (Untitled).

From here, McGuinn’s storytelling turned nonlinear as he talked about his friendship with Tom Petty (“King of the Hill”); touring Europe with him and Bob Dylan (a singalong “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”); and the shenanigans of Dylan’s Rolling Thunder trek. It was here that McGuinn got permission to record Joni Mitchell’s “Dreamland,” also performed, and was inspired to write “Jolly Roger” by the pirate-like nature of the cross-country escapade in a retrofitted Greyhound bus borrowed from Frank Zappa

McGuinn plucked the banjo on “Old Blue” and recalled working in the Brill Building and nicking the Beach Boys to write and record “Beach Ball” with the the City Surfers, featuring the Bee Gees on background vocals. He then went on to explain how the Byrds ripped off the Beatles not only in their name but by taking the latter’s idea of using folk chords in rock music and - sampling “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to demonstrate - as inspiration for creating folk-rock with songs like “The Water is Wide” and “You Showed Me.”

The Byrd was as enthusiastic as a small child with a new toy when he talked about reconnecting with Crosby and joining forces with Gene Clark, Michael Clarke and Chris Hillman; meeting the Beatles and the Stones in England; and serving as the opening act for Hoyt Axton, whose mother wrote the aforementioned “Heartbreak Hotel,” thus bringing the story full circle.

The set proper closed with McGuinn showing off his substantial lead-guitar chops on a lengthy acoustic rendering of “Eight Miles High,” before he walked off without a word. He walked back on without a word, preceded again by the telltale jangle, and performed “I’ll Feel a Whole Lot Better,” “She Don’t Care about Time” and “May the Road Rise to Meet You” while standing at the off-center mic.

Including parts or all of 30 songs in total, the set and its stories left even the most knowledgable McGuinn fans even more so. And no one left a stranger.

Grade card: Roger McGuinn at Midland Theatre - 8/22/23 - A-

8/23/23

[rosesinvalley]

Rip Peter fonda

I love you Peter Fonda

Peter Fonda est mort le 16 août 2019, producteur et acteur principal d’Easy rider mais surtout icône des bikeurs et de la contre-culture américaine en 1969 depuis la sortie du film.

Il allait fêter le 50 ème anniversaire du film qui le rendit au sommet de sa gloire avec sa Captain America, une Harley Hydra Gilde customisée chopper par ses soins pour le film.

Ami de Jack Nicholson et Dennis Hopper depuis cette aventure tumultueuse. Peter nous a fait rêver et montrer l’Amérique, celle qui bascule.

Easy rider restera le film d’une génération accro à la moto et au ride, celle qui nous embarque dans l’inconnu.

Le deuxième film culte moto auquel il a ridé est Les Anges sauvages (The Wild Angels) de Roger Corman sorti en 1966.

Merci Monsieur Peter Fonda.

[plaguedocaiko]

One last thing about Dtalia while its on my mind,

A few weeks ago, or a couple, I haven't really kept track,

I was rewatching Thomas and the Magic Railroad because that movie slaps,

And I had the thought of "what if Vanya got isikaied onto the Island of Sodor." Its probably not as entertaining as I thought it was, but the image of Vanya trying to grapple with being on an island with no people*, but dozens of talking trains, a bus, as well as other things.

And Vanya somehow becomes this fatherly-ish figure to them. And tells snooty ass Gordon not to be so bossy. And tells Diesel 10 to stop being a bully.

Again it was funny to me at the time. Just a silly scenario I thought of while walking down memory lane.

*Also I know other people technically exist but in Magic Railroad and the other versions of Thomas Ive seen, I never see any other humans.

*And in Magic Railroad, the humans on Sodor consist of Mr. Conductor and his cousin, Lily, her grandpa, and Lily's friend she made when coming to Shining Time

*Also also- the fact Alec Baldwin plays in this movie, and also played in the live action Cat in the Hat, Im pretty sure. Two very different characters but I have a hard time seeing one without the other now. Every time I see Mr. Conductor in MR, I also see Alec Baldwin in TCITH ripping off his girdle and picking his belly button, and when the dog whizzed on his taco. So yeah lmao.

*and Peter Fonda (Lily's grandpa) brings an atmosphere that you would not expect from a damn Thomas the Tank Engine movie. In Nostalgia Critic's words "Its Thomas the fucking Tank Engine!", not that I mind that much lmao

[greysbasket]

Harley easy rider

#Harley easy rider movie

#Harley easy rider full

#Harley easy rider movie

Hopper and Fonda hosted a wrap party for the movie and then realised they hadn't shot the final campfire scene. Many other replicas have been built since the film’s release. The demolished bike was rebuilt by Dan Haggerty and shown in a museum. One "Captain America" was demolished in the final scene, while the other three were stolen and probably taken apart before their significance as movie props became known. Each bike had a backup to make sure that shooting could continue in case one of the old machines failed or got wrecked accidentally. The 1949, 19 Harley Davidson Hydraglide bikes were purchased at an auction for US$ 500 (equivalent to approx. In total, four former police bikes were used in the film. The motorcycles for the film, based on hardtail frames and Panhead engines, were designed and built by chopper builders Cliff Vaughs and Ben Hardy, following ideas of Peter Fonda, and handled by Tex Hall and Dan Haggerty during shooting. All Harley-Davidson have had Panhead Motors which were standard from 1947 through 1965. I can tell that those two choppers are 1951 Harley-Davidson Panheads because of the motor. I once had rented this film, and watch the whole thing. La fin tragique des deux motos (et des deux pilotes) Le dernier geste de Dennis Hopper avant de mourir: Un doigt d'honneur! Quelles différences entre un Panhead normal et un Panhead police? Someone made it 4 stars, because yesterday it was only 3. I watched it yesterday (ffwd) and I was thinking the same. Wickey wrote what about to give these 5 stars? Unfortunately the original bikes were stolen after the film ! Ended up getting 73 superglide because of the movie. People would say, 'Wow, Terry Southern co-wrote that.Both customized 1951 HD FLH Police MotorcyclesĮxcellent movie. Having him with us as a writer on the script put it above periscope depth. Peter Fonda said of Southern's contributions, "He gave us dark humor and a literary panache that Dennis and I did not have. Well, one of them was the producer and other was the director, so there was no way the Writers Guild was going to allow them to take a screenplay credit unless I insisted." Not listening to the WGA, Southern allowed them to have their credits on the film, which was largely improvised. He said that he and Dennis liked the film so much, they wanted to be in on the screenplay credits. After they had seen a couple of screenings of it on the coast, I got a call from Peter. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, Southern claimed, "Peter was to be the actor and producer, Dennis the actor and director, and a certain yours truly, the writer. In an interview with The Guardian, Dennis Hopper claimed that Terry Southern wrote nothing in the film besides contributing the title, as he broke his hip in a fall.

#Harley easy rider full

Some of the scenes which were in the original cut, but got deleted are: The original opening showing Wyatt and Billy performing in a Los Angeles stunt show (their real jobs), the two of them being ripped off by the promoter, getting in a biker fight, picking up women at a drive-in, cruising to, and escaping from Mexico to score the cocaine they sell, an elaborate police and helicopter chase that took place at the beginning after the dope deal, with police chasing Wyatt and Billy over mountains, and across the Mexican border, the road trip out of Los Angeles, edited to the full length of Steppenwolf's ''Born to Be Wild'' with billboards along the way offering wry commentary, Wyatt and Billy being pulled over by a cop while driving their motorcycles across highway, two of them encountering the black motorcycle gang, ten additional minutes for the volatile café scene in Louisiana, where George deftly keeps the peace, Wyatt and Billy checking in a hotel before going over to Madam Tinkertoy's, extended and much longer Madam Tinkertoy sequence, extended versions of all of the campfire scenes, including the enigmatic finale in which Wyatt says ''We blew it, Billy.'' All deleted footage is believed to be lost. There are various reports about exact running time of original rough cut of the movie Four hours, four and a half hours, or five hours.

[groupiesoutrageously]

RIP to the visionary Peter Fonda. The son of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, Peter paved his own way as an actor, director, and countercultural icon. Easy Rider (1969), which he produced, co-wrote and starred in was a pivotal moment for both the counterculture and independent filmmaking. 

[saddayfordemocracy]

Remembering Peter Fonda, (1940-2019)

Peter was vocal activists in the '70s and '80s. The siblings campaigned for Vote Yes on Proposition 65, which restricted toxic waste in California in an effort to preserve clean drinking water. 

[keepingitneutral]

Remembering Peter Fonda, (1940-2019)  

Peter Fonda was the son of old Hollywood royalty, and although he rejected the mantle of tinselly fame he stood to inherit from his father Henry Fonda, his own personal glamour was always something to behold. 

Fonda, who died on Aug. 16 at age 79, got his start in small television roles in the early 1960s. But it wasn’t until the end of that decade that he found his true path forward, in the iconoclastic 1969 road drama Easy Rider, directed by and co-starring his friend and fellow free spirit Dennis Hopper and written by Fonda, Hopper and Terry Southern. (The script would earn the three an Academy Award nomination.)

Easy Rider, with its plot involving free love, a cross-country motorcycle trip and lots of drugs, became a grand temple of counterculture cinema, and Fonda’s Wyatt–a lanky, untroubled adventurer open to the world–its patron saint. 

After that, Fonda never became a star in the conventional leading-man sense, but he gave marvelous performances throughout his career, especially in the 1990s: he won a Golden Globe for his role as a Vietnam vet turned beekeeper in Ulee’s Gold (1997), and in The Limey (1999) he gave a superb performance as aging record mogul Terry Valentine, a slick charmer who earns this acute appraisal from one of his young girlfriends: 

“You’re not specific enough to be a person. You’re more of a vibe.” 

Fonda, though, was both a person and a vibe. His performances were gorgeously idiosyncratic, and the mere act of watching him was its own kind of freedom. 

Decades after Easy Rider, he could still make you feel just like Wyatt: beautiful and wild and ready for anything.

A life in movies (clockwise from top left): in 1966 with Jane Fonda in Venice, attending the Venice Film Festival with the film The Wild Angels; in 1968, in New Orleans, with Dennis Hopper on the set of Easy Rider ; in 1955, arriving in Rome with his father Peter Fonda and sister Jane Fonda - Henry was to begin filming War and Peace on location in the city.

PHILIPPE LE TELLIER/PARIS MATCH VIA GETTY IMAGES; SUSAN WOOD/GETTY IMAGES; BETTMAN/GETTY IMAGES

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[larryblaw]

RIP Peter Fonda. Next time I’m in New Orelans I’ll drop acid in a cemetery in your honor.

prismacolor, 4x6”

[kizo2703]

RIP Peter Fonda

😢😢😢

[c86]

RIP Peter Fonda