Michael Gordon
@newlegendmike.bsky.social
Writer, publisher, and sayer of "Howdy!" on various podcasts.
“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm, and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.”
RIP Sally Kirkland (1941-2025)
RIP Sally Kirkland (1941-2025)
November 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm, and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.”
RIP Sally Kirkland (1941-2025)
RIP Sally Kirkland (1941-2025)
“You’re willing to take a plunge from any height. There’s just something about being in front of a camera. And being in front of an audience is the same thing. It’s hopeless. I guess I’m just a ham.”
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025)
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025)
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“You’re willing to take a plunge from any height. There’s just something about being in front of a camera. And being in front of an audience is the same thing. It’s hopeless. I guess I’m just a ham.”
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025)
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai (1932-2025)
“Through film, you could see how another culture lived. And that’s what I’ve been doing now, reflecting our culture for other people to see.”
RIP Lee Tamahori (1950-2025)
RIP Lee Tamahori (1950-2025)
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Through film, you could see how another culture lived. And that’s what I’ve been doing now, reflecting our culture for other people to see.”
RIP Lee Tamahori (1950-2025)
RIP Lee Tamahori (1950-2025)
“I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It’s a challenge to make goodness appealing.”
RIP Pauline Collins (1940-2025)
RIP Pauline Collins (1940-2025)
November 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
“I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It’s a challenge to make goodness appealing.”
RIP Pauline Collins (1940-2025)
RIP Pauline Collins (1940-2025)
“I’m not an actor. I’m a teacher. The screen or the stage is my blackboard, and so whatever I taught is what’s in you.”
RIP Diane Ladd (1935-2025)
RIP Diane Ladd (1935-2025)
November 3, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“I’m not an actor. I’m a teacher. The screen or the stage is my blackboard, and so whatever I taught is what’s in you.”
RIP Diane Ladd (1935-2025)
RIP Diane Ladd (1935-2025)
“When I’m shooting, I am always very conscious that I’m shooting actors, not locations. I have to shoot for the actor, for his character, what will look right and say the right things about the actor and character.”
RIP Adam Greenberg (1938-2025)
RIP Adam Greenberg (1938-2025)
November 3, 2025 at 3:35 AM
“When I’m shooting, I am always very conscious that I’m shooting actors, not locations. I have to shoot for the actor, for his character, what will look right and say the right things about the actor and character.”
RIP Adam Greenberg (1938-2025)
RIP Adam Greenberg (1938-2025)
“The joy of being an actor is to deliver good writing to people.”
RIP Prunella Scales (1932-2025)
RIP Prunella Scales (1932-2025)
October 28, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“The joy of being an actor is to deliver good writing to people.”
RIP Prunella Scales (1932-2025)
RIP Prunella Scales (1932-2025)
“When you’re working, you’re very professional and you do the work. You know your lines and you hit your marks and your collar’s clean. There is a wonderful world out there besides what you do on screen.”
RIP June Lockhart (1925-2025)
RIP June Lockhart (1925-2025)
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 AM
“When you’re working, you’re very professional and you do the work. You know your lines and you hit your marks and your collar’s clean. There is a wonderful world out there besides what you do on screen.”
RIP June Lockhart (1925-2025)
RIP June Lockhart (1925-2025)
“I really wanted to create a character who would be memorable…I relished the idea of driving children back behind the sofa. I knew that if I got Sil's laugh right, it would be the clincher.”
RIP Nabil Shaban (1953-2025)
RIP Nabil Shaban (1953-2025)
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
“I really wanted to create a character who would be memorable…I relished the idea of driving children back behind the sofa. I knew that if I got Sil's laugh right, it would be the clincher.”
RIP Nabil Shaban (1953-2025)
RIP Nabil Shaban (1953-2025)
“We wanted to make catchy but twisted pop songs, but we were just two weird guys from Leeds Poly art school. Being in the charts was never the plan. We were electro punks. We never saw ourselves as ‘new romantics!‘”
RIP David Ball (1959-2025)
RIP David Ball (1959-2025)
October 24, 2025 at 7:36 AM
“We wanted to make catchy but twisted pop songs, but we were just two weird guys from Leeds Poly art school. Being in the charts was never the plan. We were electro punks. We never saw ourselves as ‘new romantics!‘”
RIP David Ball (1959-2025)
RIP David Ball (1959-2025)
“One of two things happen in heavy dramatic moments like that, as actors. You either put the bit between your teeth and do it. Or you realize how totally dotty being an actor is. …Feigning fear, or courage. It’s the Peter Pan syndrome, never got past the age of five.”
RIP Samatha Eggar (1939-2025)
RIP Samatha Eggar (1939-2025)
October 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“One of two things happen in heavy dramatic moments like that, as actors. You either put the bit between your teeth and do it. Or you realize how totally dotty being an actor is. …Feigning fear, or courage. It’s the Peter Pan syndrome, never got past the age of five.”
RIP Samatha Eggar (1939-2025)
RIP Samatha Eggar (1939-2025)
“A lotta people have come up to me and tell me, you know if it wasn’t for me they would have never picked up a guitar. If I knew that was gonna be the case, I probably woulda practiced a little more.”
RIP Ace Frehley (1951-2025)
RIP Ace Frehley (1951-2025)
October 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
“A lotta people have come up to me and tell me, you know if it wasn’t for me they would have never picked up a guitar. If I knew that was gonna be the case, I probably woulda practiced a little more.”
RIP Ace Frehley (1951-2025)
RIP Ace Frehley (1951-2025)
“This is my hobby, this is my life, this is my passion, this is what it’s all about ... making art.”
RIP Drew Struzan (1947-2025)
RIP Drew Struzan (1947-2025)
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“This is my hobby, this is my life, this is my passion, this is what it’s all about ... making art.”
RIP Drew Struzan (1947-2025)
RIP Drew Struzan (1947-2025)
“Comics have been my whole life…They were my first passion, and kept me going when things were tough…Comics - reading them, making them - gave me escape. I never had the career I hoped for, but at least I’m staying true to that love, right to the end.”
RIP Christopher Mills (1965-2025)
RIP Christopher Mills (1965-2025)
October 14, 2025 at 6:10 AM
“Comics have been my whole life…They were my first passion, and kept me going when things were tough…Comics - reading them, making them - gave me escape. I never had the career I hoped for, but at least I’m staying true to that love, right to the end.”
RIP Christopher Mills (1965-2025)
RIP Christopher Mills (1965-2025)
“I get hired for my style and my feel. So, if a song calls for…the ‘Rebel Yell’ alley — that kind of style — then they’ll hire me. I kind of do it the best. I mean, it’s not just that style, either…I can do whatever it takes for the feel to sound good.”
RIP Thommy Price )1956-2025)
RIP Thommy Price )1956-2025)
October 12, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“I get hired for my style and my feel. So, if a song calls for…the ‘Rebel Yell’ alley — that kind of style — then they’ll hire me. I kind of do it the best. I mean, it’s not just that style, either…I can do whatever it takes for the feel to sound good.”
RIP Thommy Price )1956-2025)
RIP Thommy Price )1956-2025)
“I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we’re all afraid of it and when we’re afraid of it, you run to something much easier, something that looks like candy.”
RIP Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
RIP Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“I just have to keep going back to the core and think that we’re all afraid of it and when we’re afraid of it, you run to something much easier, something that looks like candy.”
RIP Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
RIP Diane Keaton (1946-2025)
“I’ve never wanted the accolades. It’s just wonderful to have them, but it’s not what I’ve been after. I just want to play my bass and make sure everything I do on that bass is the right thing, for what I think is the right thing for that particular song.”
RIP John Lodge (1943-2025)
RIP John Lodge (1943-2025)
October 11, 2025 at 1:41 AM
“I’ve never wanted the accolades. It’s just wonderful to have them, but it’s not what I’ve been after. I just want to play my bass and make sure everything I do on that bass is the right thing, for what I think is the right thing for that particular song.”
RIP John Lodge (1943-2025)
RIP John Lodge (1943-2025)
“John Woodvine is a very serious actor…but underneath all of that there’s a sort of wicked twinkle in his eye constantly and when the camera is not on him he’s doing something to you just waiting for you to go.” - Davyd Harries in Doctor Who “The Armageddon Factor”
RIP John Woodvine 1929-2025
RIP John Woodvine 1929-2025
October 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
“John Woodvine is a very serious actor…but underneath all of that there’s a sort of wicked twinkle in his eye constantly and when the camera is not on him he’s doing something to you just waiting for you to go.” - Davyd Harries in Doctor Who “The Armageddon Factor”
RIP John Woodvine 1929-2025
RIP John Woodvine 1929-2025
“It takes a lot of scribbles. The table gets covered in them. Then, you throw them away. Slowly you narrow it down. You subtract, you don’t add…The less you give away, the better.”
RIP Renato Casaro (1935-2025)
RIP Renato Casaro (1935-2025)
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
“It takes a lot of scribbles. The table gets covered in them. Then, you throw them away. Slowly you narrow it down. You subtract, you don’t add…The less you give away, the better.”
RIP Renato Casaro (1935-2025)
RIP Renato Casaro (1935-2025)
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of ditterence you want to make.”
“I fell in love with Tarzan and I was very jealous of that wretched wimpy Jane of his.”
RIP Jane Goodall 1934-2025
“I fell in love with Tarzan and I was very jealous of that wretched wimpy Jane of his.”
RIP Jane Goodall 1934-2025
October 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of ditterence you want to make.”
“I fell in love with Tarzan and I was very jealous of that wretched wimpy Jane of his.”
RIP Jane Goodall 1934-2025
“I fell in love with Tarzan and I was very jealous of that wretched wimpy Jane of his.”
RIP Jane Goodall 1934-2025
“I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. l’ve never revealed myself or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.”
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
September 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM
“I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. l’ve never revealed myself or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.”
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
RIP Claudia Cardinale (1938-2025)
“All of the films that l've made are about the country I live in and grew up in...I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.”
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
September 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“All of the films that l've made are about the country I live in and grew up in...I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.”
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
“All of the films that l’ve made are about the country I live in and grew up in...I’ve always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that’s where complexity lies.”
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
September 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“All of the films that l’ve made are about the country I live in and grew up in...I’ve always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that’s where complexity lies.”
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
“Whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It’s always just about the work at hand. That’s the fun part. The other part is always something Ive had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it’s important.”
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
September 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
“Whenever I go and do a new project, I never think about the outcome. It’s always just about the work at hand. That’s the fun part. The other part is always something Ive had a struggle with, which is promoting the film. I know it’s important.”
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
RIP Robert Redford (1936-2025)
“We had an opportunity to do a lot of music that was married to visuals, and so, that in itself kinda seems to ensure that they’ll have a life of their own that’ll probably far outlast mine.”
RIP Bobby Hart (1939-2025)
RIP Bobby Hart (1939-2025)
September 14, 2025 at 4:09 PM
“We had an opportunity to do a lot of music that was married to visuals, and so, that in itself kinda seems to ensure that they’ll have a life of their own that’ll probably far outlast mine.”
RIP Bobby Hart (1939-2025)
RIP Bobby Hart (1939-2025)