Sergei Dubin wrote: > Yeah, > that's definitely sad news. Learned about it yesterday. Interesting (well, > tragic too) is that AP claims he died of self-inflicted gunshot wound and > later in the story claims indirectly that he shot himself unable to struggle > anymore with cancer. > > >From: "Wayney" <[log in to unmask]> > >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] > >To: "surrealmovies" <[log in to unmask]> > >Subject: [surrealmovies] Richard Farnsworth RIP > >Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 09:44:43 +0100 > > > >I was saddened to hear the news this morning that Richard Farnsworth has > >died last night. He was 80. Richard will always be remembered by me, and > >many others, for his performance as Alvin Straight in David Lynch's The > >Straight Story. That was a wonderful humble performance, and I thought > >should have won the Academy award for best actor this year. He was also a > >stuntman, and co-founded the Stuntmen's Association if 1961. He was > >involved in the movie business for over sixty years. He was always > >nominated for an Academy award for his role in Comes a Horseman in 1978. > >You will be missed Richard. > > > >http://www.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Arts/10/07/obit.farnsworth.ap/index.html > > > >Wayney. > > > > > >Richard Farnsworth 1920 - 2000 > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > "Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams." - Luis Buñuel > > "If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker." - Peter Greenaway > > "I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." - Alexandro Jodorowsky > > "It's just a fantastic thing, to get lost inside a world of film." - David Lynch > > Wayney's Movie World http://www.wayney.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]