TV Squad (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Filed under: Celebrities , Obituaries , Reality-Free A roundup of TV people from in front of the camera and behind the scenes who have passed away. John Phillip Law: He was a veteran actor best known for such films as Barbarella , The Golden Voyage of Sinbad , The Cassandra Crossing , Tarzan The Ape Man , and Hurry Sundown . He appeared in many TV shows over the years, including The Love Boat , Murder,...
Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, 82, has died in Florida. He revolutionized modern art by literally turning trash into something else: Rauschenberg first paintings in the early 1950s comprised a series of all-white and all-black surfaces under laid with wrinkled newspaper. In later works he began making art from what others would consider junk—old soda bottles, traffic barricades, and stuffed birds...
Glorfindel of Gondolin (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
John Phillip Law, the actor who played the well-tanned angel Pygar in one of the most absurd movies ever made, has died. Read the L.A. Times obituary. Oh, and if you haven't seen Barbarella, Queen of the Galaxy, you should....
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
He was a youthful 70, still handsome, still a very young guy in spirit and hadn't lost any of his professional ambition. He was always auditioning, checking his car phone for messages from his agency; he loved to work...
Bright Lights After Dark (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
If you're a fan of the films of Otto Preminger, Roger Corman, or Mario Bava – or, like me, all three – you will be saddened to learn of the death earlier this week of John Phillip Law , who was an iconic presence in the films of all three directors. For Preminger, he played a poor white farmer in Hurry Sundown (1967), and an acid-dropping hippie in Skidoo (1968). For Corman, he played the symbol of...
