He was also the first Japanese driver to win a rally in the World Rally Championship (the 1991 Rallye Côte d’Ivoire)
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I saw Night of the Shooting Stars back when I was in college and took a class in Italian Cinema. In fact, the reporter quoted my professor (now at Yale) in this obituary:
"They charted a very important path in postwar Italian cinema,” said Millicent Marcus, a professor of Italian studies and film studies at Yale University, counting the brothers among the filmmakers who “elaborated on the neorealist premise of making films that matter.”
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Previously on the BBS:
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I like this observation of Stafford made by Alexi Leonov. From Wikipedia:
Because of Stafford’s pronounced drawl when speaking Russian, Leonov later joked that there were three languages spoken on the mission: Russian, English, and “Oklahomski”
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You know the score pal, you’re not cop you’re little people.
I share my tribute to M. Emmet Walsh. A clip from my “remove all dialog” cut of Blade Runner.
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Now I remember you’d mentioned this, & I’d commented, before…
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His book on non-human emotions is awesome.
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They covered his passing on the radio locally… He lived not too far from where I do… 
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ATL Drag legend Charlie Brown has died…
But his memoirs are coming out this year…
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From back in the 80s… 
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I refrain from commenting
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Some are taken far, far too late.
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“His central message could not be more important,” the Harvard psychologist and author Steven Pinker told The Guardian in 2014, “namely, that human reason left to its own devices is apt to engage in a number of fallacies and systematic errors, so if we want to make better decisions in our personal lives and as a society, we ought to be aware of these biases and seek workarounds. That’s a powerful and important discovery.”
I remember reading this:
I remember it as surprisingly insightful about some forms of common, irrational behavior. But sadly, I remember very little from it now. 
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Wow, I didn’t know this…
In August 1969, Gossett had been partying with members of the Mamas and the Papas when they were invited to actor Sharon Tate’s house. He headed home first to shower and change clothes. As he was getting ready to leave, he caught a news flash on TV about Tate’s murder. She and others were killed by Charles Manson’s associates that night.
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