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Harry Dean Stanton has died at the age of 91.
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/harry-dean-stanton-dead-dies-big-love-twin-peaks-1202560703/
... Mr. Stanton seems authentic. Time and again, this sense of genuineness served as a kind of guarantee, proof that he was offering us what seemed like truth rather than something manufactured and plastic, something like Hollywood. Mr. Stanton studied acting, including with Martin Landau who had studied with Lee Strasberg and knew the strength of screen stealth. Mr. Landau once said that “how a character hides his feelings tells us who he is.” Whether Mr. Stanton absorbed this observation into his methodology or just followed his own inclinations, he often did his finest work by tunneling into moments rather than inflating them.
As the years tugged at Mr. Stanton’s face, pulling down the corners of his mouth and further hollowing out his cheeks, his face became a fantastic landscape. Mr. Wenders understood its power beautifully. When Mr. Stanton first appears in “Paris, Texas,” Travis looks as emptied out and stunned as you would expect of a man tramping in the desert with too little water. Gradually, though, as the story opens up, Mr. Stanton fills Travis with tremors of feeling and fugitive smiles. By the end, this shadow has become a man who is as substantial as the rocky land through which he once staggered and, much like Mr. Stanton himself, a kind of monument.
The first question a lot of people will have about “The Orville,” Seth MacFarlane’s first live-action television series — “Aren’t you afraid of being sued by the folks who own ‘Star Trek’?” — was asked and answered last month at the Television Critics Association press tour. Dana Walden, the Fox TV chief executive, gave a long reply that included the phrase, “We obviously have a big legal team.”
So yes, Fox is aware that Mr. MacFarlane’s hourlong comedy emulates the original “Trek” series to a degree somewhere between sincere homage and creepy necrophilia. Its sets, costumes and characters are so Trekker-esque that it makes this fall’s officially sanctioned “Star Trek: Discovery” (on CBS All Access) look like a radical departure.
I thought I'd share some images I captured with my iPad today. My finger got into one, but not bad.
Until today (in Anchorage) it was sunny & warm, but now it rains. The air is good however, the salmon are running (we're watching), and we enjoy ourselves.
This seal really wants a part in the movie.
Thanks for correcting me KC. I remember saying Lago as I was typing but for whatever reason I typed Laredo. Not sure how I did that. I was watching tv so I guess I'll use that as my excuse. Anyways thanks
A shot of trivia here -- can anyone say what a group of sea otter are called?
... occupies much of West Texas, southeastern Arizona, parts of the middle and lower Rio Grande Valley and the lower Pecos Valley in New Mexico, as well as the central and northern portions of the Mexican Plateau. It is bordered on the west by the extensive Sierra Madre Occidental range, along with northwestern lowlands of the Sierra Madre Oriental range. On the Mexican side, it covers a large portion of the state of Chihuahua, along with portions of Coahuila, north-eastern Durango, the extreme northern part of Zacatecas, and small western portions of Nuevo León. With an area of about 362,000 km2 (139,769 sq mi), it is the third largest desert of the Western Hemisphere and the second largest in North America, after the Great Basin Desert.
