#Gary Kurtz

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Dark Crystal (1982)

#the dark crystal gif #80s fantasy movies #skeksis #jim henson #frank oz #gary kurtz #puppets #practical effects #trial by stone #1980s #1982 #gif #chronoscaph gif

[nkp1981]

Irvin Kershner and Gary Kurtz walking through the Hoth Rebel Base set

#carrie fisher #princess leia #mark hamill #luke skywalker #harrison ford #han solo #irvin kershner #gary kurtz #the empire strikes back #star wars

[80smovies]

Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back

#Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back #Star Wars #Episode V #The Empire Strikes Back #Mark Hamill #Harrison Ford #Carrie Fisher #Irvin Kershner #George Lucas #Gary Kurtz #Lawrence Kasdan #Leigh Brackett #80s

[birdsagainstgravity]

Sparkling-tailed Woodstar (Tilmatura dupontii)

© Gary Kurtz

#sparkling-tailed woodstar #tilmatura dupontii #trochilidae #apodiformes #gary kurtz #birds

[kurara123]

rare footage from ESB with producer Gary Kurtz and actor Jeremy Bulloch as Boba Fett

footage from Obi Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return by bobafettfanclub.com

Bonus:

#lol #boba fett #jeremy bulloch #gary kurtz #esb #bts #sw #my post

[star-wars-forever]

#star wars #carrie fisher #peter mayhew #princess leia #chewbacca #gary kurtz

[machetelanding]

#the empire strikes back #science fiction #fantasy #movies #1980 #1980s #mark hamill #carrie fisher #george lucas #gary kurtz #star wars #hollywood #filmmaking #behind the scenes #black and white

[mark-19]

Remembering Gary Kurtz, and his contributions to Star Wars on this corporate holiday to commercial commemoration. Adding emotional resonance to a goofy space B-movie created modern movie making (for good or ill), and as we have seen since he left SW, the emotion has been drained in order to offer us, first, merchandising opportunities and, now, commodified nostalgia. I put this out, but no one will care, to remember that sometimes vision and conviction mean more than money and corporate pats-on-the head.

#Star Wars #Gary Kurtz #The Empire Strikes Back #May the Fourth #George Lucas #Prequel Trilogy #Sequel Trilogy #The Mandolorian #Andor #Rogue One #Kenobi #The Book of Bobba Fett #Return of the Jedi

[scifipinups]

On this day...

The Empire Strikes Back - June 20, 1980

Fisher with producer Gary Kurtz

#on this day #premieres #carrie fisher #sci fi #science fiction #gary kurtz #episode v #star wars #the empire stikes back #80s #6-20-1980 #bts #behind the scenes

[geekcavepodcast]

"Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson" Short Story Collection Announced from Titan Books

Titan Books has announced a collection of short stories inspired by Sam Wilson and the Marvel Comics universe titled Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson. The prose collection is edited by Jesse J. Holland and contains short stories by L.L. McKinney, Maurice Broaddus, Gar Anthony Haywood, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Kyoko M. Gary Phillips, Sheree Renée Thomas, Alex Simmons, and more.

Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson goes on sale on June 11, 2024.

(Image via Marvel Comics - Cover of Captain America: The Shield of Sam Wilson)

#captain america the shield of sam wilson #sam wilson #captain america #jesse j holland #ll mckinney #maurice broaddus #gar anthony haywood #nicole givens kurtz #kyoko m #gary phillips #sheree renee thomas #alex simmons #titan books #marvel comics #TGCLiz

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Dark Crystal (1982)

#the dark crystal #80s movies #80s fantasy movies #jim henson #frank oz #gary kurtz #gelflings #skeksis #puppets #practical effects #1980s #1982

[homomenhommes]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 3

1895 – The libel trial instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

1924 – Marlon Brando, American actor born. (d.2004); Academy Award-winning American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century. Widely regarded as one of the most influential actors of modern time, Brando is best known for his roles as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire and Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront, both directed by Elia Kazan in the early 1950s, but mostly for his Academy-Award winning performance as Vito Corleone in The Godfather. He also portrayed Colonel Walter Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, the latter two directed by Francis Ford Coppola in the 1970s. Brando was also an activist, lending his presence to many issues, including the American Civil Rights and the American Indian Movement. He was named the fourth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

Brando's sexuality has been a matter of debate. Not only did he have numerous affairs with women (such as actress Rita Moreno, who reportedly attempted suicide after they broke up), but he is also alleged to have enjoyed sex with men. In his 1976 biography The Only Contender by Gary Carey, Brando was quoted as saying, Homosexuality is so much in fashion it no longer makes news. Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. I have never paid much attention to what people think about me.

He would appear to have had many such experiences and his name has been linked with many including Cary Grant, Rock Hudson, Farley Granger, Montgomery Clift, John Gielgud and James Dean.

Brando and Wally Cox

He also appears to have had a long-term relationship with fellow actor Wally Cox, who was also his best friend since their childhood days. Brando is quoted as saying: "If Wally had been a woman, I would have married him and we would have lived happily ever after."

After Cox died in 1973, Brando kept his ashes for 30 years; they were eventually scattered with his own. Cox's third wife only discovered he possessed them after reading an interview in TIME Magazine where Brando was quoted as saying: "I have Wally's ashes in my house. I talk to him all the time." She wanted to sue, but her lawyers would not accept the case.

Another alleged lover was the French actor Christian Marquand, after whom Brando named his son.

During the filming of Streetcar (1951), in the garden of Vivien Leigh's's mansion, David Niven discovered Brando and Laurence Olivier swimming in the pool. Olivier was kissing Brando. "I turned my back to them and went back inside to join Vivien. I'm sure she knew what was going on, but she made no mention of it. Nor did I. One must be sophisticated about such matters in life."

In a recent biography Brando Unzipped, Darwin Porter, (2006) details the alleged affairs with Grant, Hudson, and Granger. The book also features an alleged picture of Brando performing fellatio on a male lover. The validity of the photograph has yet to be substantiated.

James Dean And William Bast

1931 – William Bast was an American screenwriter and author living in Los Angeles. In addition to writing scripts for motion pictures and television, he is the author of two biographies of the screen actor James Dean.

Bast was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. When his family moved to Los Angeles, enrolled at UCLA, where he majored in Theater Arts, rooming with a fellow Theater Arts student from Indiana named James Dean. In 1952 he moved to New York to join Dean and pursue a career in radio and television. There, he initially worked in the Press Relations department at CBS and subsequently, in 1953, wrote his first scripts for the NBC television sitcom The Aldrich Family.

After the death of Dean in an automobile accident in 1955, Bast chronicled his five year relationship with the actor in James Dean: a Biography. After moving to London, Bast wrote The Myth Makers for Granada Television, a fictionalized drama inspired by Dean's funeral, which Bast perceived as grotesque and publicity-driven, with a shattering effect on Dean's rural-American family and his hometown of Fairmount, Indiana. In the United States, the script was produced again by NBC's Dupont Show of the Month and aired under the title The Movie Star.

In 1975, Bast produced and scripted James Dean: Portrait of a Friend for NBC, a movie for television based upon his first James Dean biography.

In 2006, Barricade Books (USA) published Surviving James Dean, a second, more candid book by Bast about his relationship with Dean; which featured material that Bast did not include in his earlier account due to personal trepidations and social mores of the 1950s. In Surviving James Dean Bast describes Dean in a compassionate light; how they met at UCLA, shared an apartment in Santa Monica, dated the same woman, and also had a sexual relationship. He also describes the events that happened to him after Dean's death, largely as a result of having written his first book.

In the late 1950s, Bast adapted Jean Giraudoux's play Tiger at the Gates for Granada Television, and wrote scripts for the BBC and Independent Television, including episodes of the classic series The Prisoner. Back in the States he wrote episodes for Combat!, Perry Mason, Ben Casey, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Honey West, and Dr. Kildare, among other series.

He died on May 4, 2015 at the age of 84; he had Alzheimer's disease.He was partnered in work and life to Paul Huson, actor and author.

1942 – Tony DeBlase (d.2000), one of the great innovators and leaders of the leather community and creator of the Leather Pride Flag was born. Throughout his life Tony DeBlase contributed to the leather community in a variety of ways.

He used the two aliases of Fledermaus and Richard W. Krousher for his fictional work which focused on leather and S and M. Of his many awards "the one DeBlase said he treasured most was the coveted Caligula Award from Chicago Hellfire Club for service to Inferno". DeBlase joined the Chicago Hellfire Club shortly after its inception. "What's more, DeBlase was a major factor in the development of Inferno and in exporting the lessons learned and formulas tested there to other, less experienced SM clubs".

In 1969 DeBlase, a gay man, got married and moved to Chicago. He describes the situation, "I got married in [19]69. The woman had been my secretary while I was museum directory. She had polio as a child and was confined to a wheel chair. Told her I was gay. I loved her very much. We had several good years together"In 1982 he published a collection under his alias Fledermaus which have become “imitated classics of the genre”. He chose the name because of his work outside of leather and S&M. "Its a German word for bat. … Since I was doing my dissertation on bats, and the story was set in a German castle, it seemed like an appropriate name"

By 1986 DeBlase had divorced and he and his male partner moved to San Francisco and bought the Drummer family of magazines.

In 1989 in Chicago he presented a 'proposed' idea for a pride flag for the leather community, which was widely adopted. He presented the flag at International Mr. Leather. The flag was originally created by DeBlase because wanted a symbol for the community.

He died peacefully in Portland, Oregon, on July 21, 2000, after an extended illness, largely involving liver failure. He was survived by his lover of more than 24 years, Dr. Andrew Charles.

1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges.

1959 – David Hyde Pierce is an American actor, best known for his role as psychiatrist Dr Niles Crane on the sitcom Frasier.

Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York. He moved to New York City, where he worked several menial jobs (including selling ties at Bloomingdales and working as a security guard) while acting in the theatre during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Pierce's first big television break came in the early 1990s in a sitcom that was cancelled after a brief run despite promising reviews. His career would soon, however, take off with a role on another sitcom. Because of his resemblance to Kelsey Grammer, the role of Niles Crane on the Cheers spin-off Frasier was created for him.

Pierce also acts in movies from time to time. He appeared alongside Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle, with Jodie Foster in Little Man Tate and alongside Ewan McGregor in Down With Love. Pierce has a distinctive voice and, like his Frasier co-star Kelsey Grammer, is often called upon to provide voice work.

In 2005, he joined Tim Curry and others in the stage production of Spamalot. In August/September 2006, he starred in Curtains, winning him a 2007 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical.

Pierce's father and grandfather suffered from Alzheimer's Disease, resulting in him being very active in fighting for research into the disease. He is also a regular supporter of AIDS charities as well as gay and lesbian causes.

After years of media speculation about his sexuality, Pierce came out in 2007. Pierce's longtime life partner is TV writer/director/producer Brian Hargrove. He and Hargrove were married in California on October 24, 2008, just before Proposition 8 was adopted as law, banning same-sex marriages in the state. They live in New York and Los Angeles.

1963 – Colorado repeals its ban on voting by anyone convicted of sodomy.

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #345

The Skeksis were originally going to speak a language based either in Ancient Egyptian or Indo-European roots in the film. The basis of the language differed depending on who you asked about it; Gary Kurts has said the language was created by linguist Alan Garner and had inspiration from Ancient Egyptian, however David Odell said it was his creation with Indo-European roots. This idea was scrapped after test audiences responded poorly to it.

Sources:

"Reflections on Making The Dark Crystal and Working with Jim Henson." David Odell. In: The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Vol. II. Brian Froud, Joshua Dysart, Alex Sheikman, Lizzy John. 2012.

"Producing the World of The Dark Crystal: A new direction for the man behind "Star Wars" and "Empire" Gary Kurtz." David Hutchison. Starlog: The Magazine of the Future. Issue 66. January 1983. Pages 16-20.

#jim henson #the muppets #muppets #muppet facts #muppet facts oc #fun facts #Skeksis #the dark crystal #the dark crystal (1982) #dark crystal #Alan Garner #Gary Kurts #David Odell #starlog #david hutchison #brian froud #joshua dysart #Alex Sheikman #lizzy john

[bobafettfanclub]

Remembering the late Gary Kurtz today on the anniversary of his birthday The "Empire" producer (who also produced Star Wars) is seen here with Boba Fett portrayed by Jeremy Bulloch More info: https://www.bobafettfanclub.com/fettpedia/gary-kurtz/

#starwars #bobafett #bobafettfanclub #dailyfett

[goalhofer]

2023 In Memoriam Part 8

2nd Lt. Oscar Wilkerson, 96

Dimitrious Stanley, 48

Larry Coyer, 79

Iriki Satoshi, 55

Marguerite Jauzelon, 105

Arne Espeel, 25

Kevin Bell, 67

Robert Hébras, 97

David Jolicoeur, 54

Ted Lerner, 97

Doug Fisher, 75

Ramón Palacios, 102

J. Paul Taylor, 102

Maj. Gen. W. Russell Todd, 94

Brian DuBois, 55

Zia Mohyeddin, 91

Roger Bonk, 78

Conrad Dobler, 72

Archbishop William Joseph Kurtz, 87

Toyoda Shōichirō, 97

Charley Ferguson, 83

Allen Green, 84

Maj. Gen. Gary L. Harrell, 71

#Religion #Tributes #Celebrities #Planes #Illinois #Sports #Football #Ohio #West Virginia #Baseball #Japan #France #Soccer #Belgium #Texas #Books #Music #Rap #New York City #New York #Money #Washington D.C. #Maryland #Wisconsin #Politics #Spain #New Mexico #Washington #Virginia #Movies

[derekfoxwit]

The Best Picture Oscar My Way (1980-1999)

Here’s Part 2 of Best Picture My Way (as started here). All information about my approach with this category can be found on that linked first part.

For convenience sake, I’ll relay this message. Only the films I add onto here as nominees will have listed nominated producers next to the movie’s title. (Here’s the Wikipedia page for the rest.)

1980

The Empire Strikes Back - Gary Kurtz

Raging Bull

The Elephant Man

Coal Miner’s Daughter

Ordinary People

1981

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Das Boot - Gunter Rohrbach; Michael Bittins

Reds

On the Golden Pond

Chariots of Fire

1982

Tootsie

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog; Willi Segler; Lucki Stipetic

Missing

Gandhi

1983

Fanny and Alexander - Jorn Donner

Terms of Endearment

Scarface - Martin Bregman

Mender Mercies

The Right Stuff

1984

Amadeus (still)

The Terminator - Gale Anne Hurd

Love Streams - Yoram Globus; Menahem Golan

Ghostbusters - Ivan Reitman

A Passage to India

1985

Back to the Future - Neil Canton; Bob Gale

The Color Purple

After Hours - Robert F. Colesberry; Griffin Dunne; Amy Robinson

Ran - Masato Hara; Serge Silberman

Witness

1986

Platoon (still)

Misery - Rob Reiner; Andrew Scheinman

Hannah and Her Sisters

A Room with a View

Blue Velvet - Fred C. Caruso

1987

The Last Emperor (still)

The Princess Bride - Rob Reiner; Andrew Scheinman

Broadcast News

Moonstruck

Fatal Attraction

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Frank Marshall; Robert Watts

Rain Man

Dangerous Liaisons

Mississippi Burning

The Last Temptation of Christ - Barbara De Fina

1989

Do The Right Thing - Spike Lee

Driving Miss Daisy

Dead Poets Society

My Left Foot

Cinema Paradiso - Giovanna Romagnoli

1990

Goodfellas

Dances with Wolves

Edward Scissorhands - Tim Burton; Denise Di Novi

Ghost

The Godfather Part III

1991

The Silence of the Lambs (still)

Thelma & Louise - Ridley Scott

Beauty and the Beast

Boyz in the Hood - Steve Nicolaides

JFK

1992

Unforgiven (still)

A Few Good Men

Malcolm X - Spike Lee; Marvin Worth

Reservoir Dogs - Lawrence Bender; Harvey Keitel

Aladdin - Ron Clements; John Musker

1993

Schindler’s List (still)

The Piano

Philadelphia - Jonathan Demme; Edward Saxon

In The Name of the Father

The Fugitive

1994

The Lion King - Don Hahn

Forrest Gump

Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

Eat Drink Man Woman - Kong Hsu; Li-Kong Hsu

1995

Toy Story - Bonnie Arnold; Ralph Guggenheim

Se7en - Phyllis Carlyle; Arnold Kopelson

The Postman (Il Postino)

Before Sunrise - Anne Walker-McBay

Braveheart

1996

Fargo

Trainspotting - Andrew Macdonald

Secrets & Lies

Jerry Maguire

The English Patient

1997

Titanic (still)

Good Will Hunting

L.A. Confidential

Princess Mononoke - Toshio Suzuki

Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson; Lloyd Levin; John S. Lyons; JoAnne Sellar

Lost Highway - Deepak Nayar; Tom Sternberg; Mary Sweeney

As Good as It Gets

The Full Monty

1998

Saving Private Ryan

Life is Beautiful

The Thin Red Line

The Big Lebowski - Joel and Ethan Coen

Mulan - Pam Coats

Central Station - Arthur Cohn; Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre; Robert Redford; Walter Salles

The Truman Show - Edward S. Feldman; Andrew Niccol; Scott Rudin; Adam Schroeder

Rushmore - Barry Mendel; Paul Schiff

Shakespeare in Love

1999

The Matrix - Joel Silver

American Beauty

The Green Mile

The Sixth Sense

Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson; JoAnne Sellar

The Straight Story - Neal Edelstein; Mary Sweeney

Man on the Moon - Danny DeVito; Michael Shamberg; Stacey Sher

Being John Malkovich - Steve Golin; Vincent Landay; Sandy Stern; Michael Stipe

#cinema #academy award #oscars #award show #alternative #animation #film #movies #I'm officially insane #international cinema #hollywood #the matrix #coen brothers #steven spielberg #disney #martin scorsese #robert zemeckis