Meat Loaf was an American singer noted for his grotesque stage persona. He is best known for interpreting two songs written by Jim Steinman: “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” (1977) and “I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)” (1993) .
Meat Loaf became 74.
Steinman died died last year.
Ricardo Bofill was a Spanish architect who built Xanadu (1971), La Muralla Roja (1973) and Walden 7 (1975).
His work references Gaudí, Palladio and Archigram.
Bofill’s opus is of major significance in European postmodern architecture.
Jean-Jacques Beineix was a French film director best known for Betty Blue (1986).
There was something about this film, which I saw when I was 21, which I found very off-putting.
I can never forget when she smears that plate of spaghetti bolognese all over her face.
But the scene above, where she snubs the landlord and throws everything out of the caban by the sea, their beach house, is quite hilarious. Then she lights up the place, foreshadowing here coming madness.
Must see film when you are 21, totally optional afterwards.
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Fred Van Hove was a Belgian jazz pianist known for his work in free jazz.
Ronnie Spector was an American singer best known for interpreting “Be My Baby” (1963).
James Mtume was an American musician and songwriter best-known for his composition “Juicy Fruit” (1983).
RIP Marilyn Keith Bergman (1928 – 2022) was the female half of the American husband-wife duo of lyricists and songwriters.
They are known for writing the lyrics to such songs as “The Windmills of Your Mind”.
Sidney Poitier was a Bahamian-American actor famous for such performances as in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967).
Mariano Laurenti was an Italian film director known for his work in the commedia sexy all’italiana genre.
In that genre he directed several films in the ‘decamerotico’ subgenre, like the one above.
Ubalda, All Naked and Warm (1972) is nothing more than one big excuse to show the naked breasts of Edwige Fenech and Karin Schubert.
Peter Bogdanovich was an American director and general film person.
To me, he is an integral part of the Roger Corman phenomenenon.
Of all his films, I have the fondest memories of Paper Moon, I remember the beginning of that film vividly.
Above, a documentary by a certain Adam Hulin.
Happy new year from us.