From: aisling@fjordstone.com   
      
   >>On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:57:09 -0500, enovak7924@aol.com wrote   
   (in article <1140814629.157445.19290@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):   
      
   > I thought as long as you were a member of SAG - they would know if a   
   > member had died. Though I'm not sure if just passing away is enough to   
   > get you into the reel (then again, Larry Hovis...) <<   
      
   It's kind of like if you died, and your college alumni newsletter didn't   
   print your obit - how could they know about it unless someone informed them?   
   Same with SAG.  And the Oscars are through AMPAS, anyway, so even if SAG had   
   some amazing way of finding out right away, they'd still have to notify   
   AMPAS, and probably lots of SAG members die every day.  There are people who   
   are SAG members who haven't done a film in twenty years, or who do _one_ film   
   _ever_.   
      
   There are Trek people still foaming at the mouth that DeForrest Kelley wasn't   
   mentioned at the Oscars or the Emmys the year he died; it's up to the family   
   and/or the agent to make that notification.  And if _they_ didn't do it, and   
   no fans took it upon themselves to do it, the organizations can't really be   
   faulted.  They can't be aware of every single actor who's died, unless they   
   happen to scan the obits every day (and even then, in Andreas's case, the   
   obit appeared only in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch - a week later, there was a   
   "Passings" notice in the LA Times, but someone less prominent than he was -   
   that one-armed man role was in a huge blockbuster of a film - might not have   
   even rated a "Passings" item).   
      
   >> And its a shame his B5 role needs to be probably be played down to be   
   > taken more seriously. It's easily the best work of his entire career. <<   
      
   It's not so that he can be taken more seriously - the Academy honors work in   
   film, so if we make a big deal about B5, they'll think that he was mainly a   
   television actor.  Just as if we carry this through to its natural conclusion   
   and try to convince the Emmys to honor Andreas, we'll want to _stress_ B5,   
   and play down his movie career.   
      
   Amy   
      
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