The Notable Death Thread

Robert Redford, the Sundance Kid, has pulled his last sting. RIP
One of Redford’s memorable movies, at last to me, was Situation Hopess - But Not Serious. A strange film with Alec Guinness and Mike Connors. Not highly rated on IMDB but I rather liked it.
 
Robert Redford, the Sundance Kid, has pulled his last sting. RIP
I find it astonishing that while he got an Oscar for directing Ordinary People, he never received one for his acting. He was often accused of playing only versions of himself, but he had a way of using his silences as effectively as his dialog. (A shining example of that is All Is Lost, where his dialog was practically non-existent.) I can't think of any movie where his roles could have been better played by anybody else.

And his founding of the Sundance film festival and his environmental and political activism display his character even more than the roles he played.
 

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91​

Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
 

Jane Goodall, Eminent Primatologist Who Chronicled the Lives of Chimps, Dies at 91​

Her discoveries in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behaved in the wild broke new ground and represented what was called “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
She was one of those people who went their own way, saw what others couldn't, and made us all reflect on where we fit in to the world of the great apes. She'll be missed.
 
Wow, did she have a good run for her money. She was on a speaking tour in California when she died.

That leaves Birutė Galdikas as the last survivor of the three primate scientists hired by Louis Leakey. She never attained the same level of popular acclaim (and in Dian Fossey's case, notoriety) of the other two women, though her contributions to the field have been just as impressive.
 
Back
Top