RIP Thread

Reports coming in that Buck Henry passed at 89, noted screenwriter and sometimes performer, who wrote the screenplay for "The Graduate", co-created "Get Smart", among others.
OK, also the screenplay for the 1968 film "Candy", based on an "unfilmable" sex farce novel by Terry Southern. They all couldn't be winners, but anyone who has seen "Candy" would agree with Henry's assessment as recorded in a LIFE Magazine article.

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Reports coming in that Buck Henry passed at 89, noted screenwriter and sometimes performer, who wrote the screenplay for "The Graduate", co-created "Get Smart", among others.
OK, also the screenplay for the 1968 film "Candy", based on an "unfilmable" sex farce novel by Terry Southern. They all couldn't be winners, but anyone who has seen "Candy" would agree with Henry's assessment as recorded in a LIFE Magazine article.

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The reports coming in are sadly true unfortunately.

 
Reports coming in that Buck Henry passed at 89, noted screenwriter and sometimes performer, who wrote the screenplay for "The Graduate", co-created "Get Smart", among others.
OK, also the screenplay for the 1968 film "Candy", based on an "unfilmable" sex farce novel by Terry Southern. They all couldn't be winners, but anyone who has seen "Candy" would agree with Henry's assessment as recorded in a LIFE Magazine article.

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I remember him as Colonel Korn in the 1970s Catch-22 movie.
 

 
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RIP to the reason I started drumming. May he rest well.
He is my biggest drumming influence (and he got me into playing a large kit). He was just so amazing and talented. How many other drummers do you know that actually write music?
 
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RIP Toba. I have seen her many times every year since she arrived to the zoo in 1975 (yes, I'm really old), before my earliest memories. She had five children through the years and got to see them, too. I'll be honest, this is soul crushing.

 
Christopher Tolkien, chairman of the Tolkien estate and the one who edited and published vast tracts of his father's unpublished notes and stories from Children of Hurin to The Fall of Gondolin, and a scholar and author in his own right, passed from this world today at the age of 95, and has gone to the halls of waiting to sit beside his father until the world is renewed.

Aside from his unparalleled contribution to the Tolkien lore and backstory, he was also the single most dedicated figure in preventing his fathers work being devoured completely by the hollywood machine. We can only hope his successors are just as vigilant.
 
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