home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.obituaries      My grave will have an error msg on it...      227,651 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 226,484 of 227,651   
   Adam H. Kerman to Mig.Rhodes   
   Re: Tony Strong, 102, scenic artist,work   
   24 Sep 24 14:02:06   
   
   From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Mig.Rhodes  wrote:   
      
   >Tony Strong, who has died aged 102, was a scenic artist who created   
   >convincing worlds for films, theatre and television; he was equally   
   >adept at delicate foreground details such as the tarot cards in the   
   >Roger Moore film Live and Let Die as he was at enormous backcloths, such   
   >as the 1314ft-long, 40ft-high snowscape for Sidney Lumet’s Murder on the   
   >Orient Express, or the eerie mountains behind the Overlook Hotel in The   
   >Shining...   
      
   >He created the tarot cards for the Bond film Live and Let Die – and had   
   >a nasty moment when he spotted the shark tank had sprung a leak   
      
   >https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/24/tony-strong-s   
   enic-artist-monty-python-james-bond/   
      
   Why is it always sharks?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca