A tribute to Richard Bright
By Burbanked on Feb 21, 2006 in Celebrities, Movies | 1,234 views |
By now we’ve all read the sad, strange news about actor/Corleone protector/Fredo whacker Richard Bright’s death in a NY bus accident. What’s wonderful to find in such cases, however, are tributes to the character actor when they’re written with the affection of a true film lover. So please take a look at this simple, insightful and genuinely-felt article by Kim Morgan, here writing at the MSN Movies Filter blog.
Not much else to say, really.




My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun.











