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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: Wayback on November 11, 2010, 08:11:38 AM

Title: RIP Dino DeLaurentiis, film producer, 91
Post by: Wayback on November 11, 2010, 08:11:38 AM

Film producer Dino DeLaurentiis (La Strada, Barbarella, Serpico, Death Wish, King Kong ('76), 3 Days of the Condor, Orca, Flash Gordon, Ragtime, Conan the Barbarian/Destroyer, Dune) was 91:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-dino-delaurentiis-20101112,0,5972031,full.story
and: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/thedailymirror/2010/11/dino-de-laurentiis-1919-2010.html

Title: Re: RIP Dino DeLaurentiis, film producer, 91
Post by: RGMike on November 11, 2010, 08:23:51 AM

Quote from: Wayback on November 11, 2010, 08:11:38 AM

Film producer Dino DeLaurentiis (Barbarella, Serpico, Death Wish, King Kong ('76), 3 Days of the Condor, Orca, Flash Gordon, Conan the Barbarian/Destroyer, Dune) was 91:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101111/en_nm/us_delaurentiis

when I heard it on the news this morning, I immediately flashed on John Belushi's famous impersonation on SNL: Aykroyd, as Tom Snyder, interviewing Belushi, as DeLaurentiis, who (in exaggerated Italian accent) is defending his critically-panned remake of King Kong. "When-a Jaws-a die, nobody cry. But-a when-a my KONG-a die -- *everybody* cry!"  (couldn't find the clip on YT, but trust me, it was hilarious)