Tag: RIP

Annie Girardot was one of France’s most enduring, acclaimed and popular female star during the 1970s. The multiple-Cesar Award-winning actress died Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. She was 79. Girardot was a fantastic actress whose work ranged from popular comedy to melodrama. We recall some of her roles in Claude Lelouch‘s A Man Who Pleases Me, in which she played opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo. Or Luchino Visconti‘s ...

We heard the news this morning and we were very sad about it: Tony Curtis died on Wednesday at his Las Vegas home of a cardiac arrest. We have seen him in ‘The Defiant Ones’, ‘The Outsider’ but he is mostly remembered for his role in ‘Some Like It Hot’ with Marilyn Monroe. He starred in more than 100 films but for many (including for Max Dana who mentioned him in this post) he was Danny Wilde in the 1971 ...

Claude Chabrol, one of the creators of the New Wave movement, died yesterday at the age of 80. Our favorite films from him are Le Beau Serge, Les Bonnes Femmes, Landru, Les Biches, La Femme infidèle, Le Boucher but also Madame Bovary, L’ivresse du pouvoir and Bellamy. This year he played Gainsbourg’s Music Producer in 2010 drama film: Serge Gainsbourg, vie héroïque by Joann Sfar. He loved to study human behavior and all his characters had ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. The ...

Actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper died Saturday at his home in the Los Angeles beach community of Venice, surrounded by family and friends, after cancer battle. Many will remember him in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’, ‘Easy Rider’, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘Blue Velvet’ and ‘Hoosiers’. But Hopper was not only an actor and a director, he most of all was an artist. In 2008, Dennis Hopper was be the ...

A music was resonating from Max Dana‘s office this morning: it was Lena Horne singing ‘Stormy Weather’. We were intrigued by this beautiful voice but it wasn’t the first time we heard it. As some of you may already know, Max Dana is huge fan (not to say an expert) of the Jazz singers of this era. ‘The great  Lena Horne died’, she said. Some of us didn’t know who she was (and I am one of them, I should be ...

  Actor Patrick Swayze has passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Very sad news. He was best known for his roles in hit films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, and I was shocked (but sadly not surprised…) when I read the news early this morning when I arrived at the office. He was a great actor and a great dancer too, his films are among my favorites.   In March 2008 he announced he was suffering from an especially deadly form of ...

  Sen. Edward Kennedy was a towering figure in the Democratic Party, the patriarch of the first family of Democratic politics, one of the most influential and longest-serving senators in U.S. history (one of only six senators to serve more than 40 years). He was the younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and New York Sen. Robert Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, known as the “Lion of the Senate“, was one of Washington’s most effective ...