Wanted to post the same.
It was set for release a year ago, so this should have been possible. But it’s a shema that he’ll never know about audience reactions.
RIP.
2 Likes
According to reporting, he did see the movie and was pleased, saying that audiences were in for a surprise (since this version is said to follow the play’s structure, rather than that of the film).
He was also recently at the opening of “Assassins” off-Broadway, the first preview of “Company” on Broadway (delayed by the pandemic), and had been to the theatre last Wednesday to see both a matinee and an evening performance.
When 40+ years ago I told my brother that I was gay, he said he already knew. I asked how, and he replied: “The Sondheim.” For many gay men of a certain age (and others as well of all ages), he was the soundtrack of their lives, and they accumulated and cherished milestones marking whom they had seen essay what role.
I can only repeat David Lindsay-Abaire’s tweet, which for me said it best: “Everybody rise.”
3 Likes
Here is a 23 year old Sondheim behind Humphrey Bogart on the set of Beat the Devil. He got on set with a friend who’s father was a friend of John Huston.
4 Likes
My favorite Sondheim song (from my favorite Sondheim musical), which turned out to be his favorite as well. When doubt or despair show up, just say/sing to yourself “If it happened, I was there.”
Here Sondheim explains how a simple vamp became a perfect musical number. I am linking to part one only. Not high quality, but a great example of how an artist’s mind works–not genius first, but diligence, which when pursued sometimes blossoms into genius:
2 Likes
4 Likes
So long, Adam - we hardly got to know you,
He knew where you kept your gun…
2 Likes
4 Likes
A superb actor.
RIP.
2 Likes
Before FYEO I knew him from the TV series “Who Pays the Ferryman?”, which was aired in The Netherlands somewhere in the late seventies, which I watched together with my mother, who loved it. So it was fun to see him again a couple of years later in the Bond movie, playing a character again living in Greece.
2 Likes
an excellent series and indeed when he showed his face in a 007 movie I could remember the series immediately, may he rest in peace.
1 Like
He at one point was in the running to replace Danny Boyle on what was then Bond 25 but took himself off the list to do another project…
2 Likes
Terribly sad news, especially just a month shy of her 100th birthday.
4 Likes
Oh my, sorry to hear this.
R.I.P.
1 Like
Dammit, one last kick in the ass from 2021 on the way out the door.
Active, beautiful and at the top of her game to the last. Well done, Betty. RIP.
3 Likes
Peter Bogdanovich…
R.I.P.
4 Likes
Sad news. The Last Picture Show is an amazing film.
1 Like
Here goes another pioneer of the business…
R.I.P.
4 Likes
Oh no. RIP.
3 Likes