Tag: 2000s

RIP, Roger Lloyd-Pack

Actor Roger Lloyd-Pack has died. Lloyd-Pack appeared in Doctor Who; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; Only Fools and Horses; The Vicar of Dibley; Tinker, Tailor Soldier, Spy (2011); and many other films and television shows. The BBC and The AV Club have obituaries. The BBC is […]

RIP, Dave Madden

Actor and comedian Dave Madden has died. He was best known for his portrayal of Reuben Kincaid in the television series, The Partridge Family and his work on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh In.  The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times have obituaries. Here Madden appears after […]

RIP, Russell Johnson

Actor Russell Johnson has died. Johnson was best known as the Professor on the television show, Gilligan’s Island, and as physicist Steve Carlson in This Island Earth (1955). Terence Towles Canote has more on Johnson’s life and work at A Shroud of Thoughts. The New York Times and […]

In Memoriam, Run Run Shaw

The Gutter’s own Carol writes a little about Run Run Shaw, Shaw Brothers and TVB.  “So often we talk about history as this disembodied thing, these external events. And then there is someone like Sir Run Run, who contained almost the entire arc of modern entertainment in his […]

Maybe we’ll buy a boat

In the house I grew up in, at the front of the garage, there was a pair of boat supports on the wall. No boat, just the two long arms sticking out at roughly skull level so you had to manoeuver awkwardly underneath them to reach the cars. […]