[HN Gopher] Olivia de Havilland, sophisticated star of Hollywood...
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Olivia de Havilland, sophisticated star of Hollywood's golden age,
dies at 104
Author : happy-go-lucky
Score : 48 points
Date : 2020-07-26 17:27 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
| Wildgoose wrote:
| As a Go player, my favourite anecdote about Olivia de Havilland
| is that her father became so addicted to the game in Japan that
| his wife divorced him. He married a Japanese woman and went on to
| write the first Go book written in English.
| aazaa wrote:
| Wikipedia maintains a list of films now in the public domain. de
| Havilland's films are of the right age to be on the list, but
| don't appear to be. Most of the films on the list got there from
| failure to renew the copyright, a requirement which has since
| disappeared.
|
| > Prior to 1988, all motion picture films published after 1909
| with a copyright notice where the 28th year of copyright would
| occur before 1988, had to be registered and before the 28th year,
| the registration had to be renewed, or the copyright for the film
| would expire and it would enter the public domain. This would
| apply to all films registered for copyright prior to 1960.
| Copyright renewals became optional in 1988.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_in_the_public_do...
| jimbob45 wrote:
| Hitler himself may have watched her in Captain Blood or Robin
| Hood. She lived to be astoundingly old and was supremely
| talented.
| gkoberger wrote:
| You probably could have gone with FDR.
| [deleted]
| lkramer wrote:
| Quickest example of Godwin's law I've seen in a while.
| tzs wrote:
| Nope. Godwin's law involves comparisons to Hitler or Nazis.
| This was a use of Hitler as a marker in time to indicate the
| era de Havilland was from.
| CamperBob2 wrote:
| Godwin's Law has also been explicitly suspended by its
| originator for the duration, not that it applies here.
| interestica wrote:
| Another time marker: an American slave ship survivor may have
| seen her in Gone with the Wind.
|
| https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/03/last-slav...
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Deathlist 2020 [1] looks to overtake a 17/50 record set in 2017.
|
| [1]: https://deathlist.net/
| asveikau wrote:
| Wow. Imagine for a moment being a famous person of a certain
| age and making that list. As if strangers on the internet are
| betting on, almost plotting your demise.
| turndown wrote:
| I think the list is interesting in a cultural sense, but I
| agree that the way it works is disturbing to say the least.
| Consider the discussion post for Phillip Mountbatten[0] for
| the kind of enlightened discussion the site hosts...
|
| 0: https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/8107-1-prince-philip-
| duke...
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| I don't think it bothers Philip. Members of his family have
| had worse than some harmless online haters. Some were
| killed by bombs [1], including 14 y.o. children.
|
| [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st
| _Earl_...
| Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
| Kirk Douglas was absolutely beating their expectations,
| finally dying this year only on his 18th appearance.
| [deleted]
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