Dead Pool 2024

[grumbler]

Roger Corman, legendary B-movie producer and director. Helped launch many New Hollywood directors.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2024/05/12/roger-corman-hollywood-mentor-and-king-of-the-bs-dies-at-98_6671178_30.html

I've read numerous books by and about Hollywood, and he appeared in almost every one of them, almost always in a positive light.  Living to 98 with such good innings is a good life.

[Syt]

[Sheilbh]

Right, which is why I am not sure you made a comment about there being a gap between truth and malice.

I thought it was striking - and still do - that in one court you have a finding of no libel because of the defence of truth and in another a finding of libel with actual malice. The gap between those two results seems pretty huge.

Roger Corman, legendary B-movie producer and director. Helped launch many New Hollywood directors.

RIP indeed

Went through a big phase of watching a fair few of his films (I don't think anyone, not even Corman, could have watched them all). Honestly I associated him with 50s and 60s Vincent Price films - I had no idea he was still alive.

[crazy canuck]

Right, which is why I am not sure you made a comment about there being a gap between truth and malice.

I thought it was striking - and still do - that in one court you have a finding of no libel because of the defence of truth and in another a finding of libel with actual malice. The gap between those two results seems pretty huge.

Right, which is why I am not sure you made a comment about there being a gap between truth and malice.

I thought it was striking - and still do - that in one court you have a finding of no libel because of the defence of truth and in another a finding of libel with actual malice. The gap between those two results seems pretty huge.

But you are just repeating the statement that made me question why you think there is a gap.  Let me ask it this way, why are you surprised that different defences render different results?  And especially in defamation cases where truth is an absolute defence.

[Savonarola]

RIP David Sanborn

[Sheilbh]

Oh RIP Alice Munro

An absolute giant.

[crazy canuck]

Oh RIP Alice Munro

An absolute giant.

One of the greats.

[Barrister]

A name I hadn't thought of for many years, but instantly recognizeable:

RIP Dabney Coleman, age 92.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dabney-coleman-dead-9-to-5-mary-hartman-tootsie-1235902521/

[grumbler]

    He was the best jerk of them all.

[Caliga]

 

[Tonitrus]

RIP Doge. 

[PDH]

RIP Doge. 

good memes aren't supposed to die

[grumbler]

RIP Bill Walton.  Not likely that your record 44 points in the 1973 NCAA National Championship (on 21 of 22 shooting!) will ever be matched.

[Razgovory]

Robert Pickton died.  Someone jammed a broom handle through his head.

[Jacob]

Apparently he'd been telling fellow inmates that he was writing a book. I've seen speculation that the murder was organized to stop him from implicating anyone else - like his brother and the various criminals who went to party at his farm. If so, we can hope that he managed to write enough down to make a difference.