Editor Jim Clark dies – Arlen dead
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LOS ANGELES, March 2, (Agencies): Jim Clark, who won an Oscar for editing Roland Joffe’s “The Killing Fields” and was also nominated for his work on the director’s film “The Mission,” died in the UK on Feb. 25. He was 84 and had been ill for some time.
News of his death was announced by the Guild of British Film and TV Editors on Feb. 26.
His credits also include Stanley Donen’s “Charade” (1963); John Schlesinger’s “Darling” (1965), “The Day of the Locust” (1975) and “Marathon Man” (1976); Michael Apted’s “Agatha” (1979), “Nell” (1994) and Bond film “The World Is Not Enough”; Michael Caton-Jones’ “Memphis Belle” (1990) and “City by the Sea” (2002); and Mike Leigh’s “Vera Drake” (2004) and “Happy-Go-Lucky” (2008).
In addition to the Schlesinger films listed above, he did uncredited work on the director’s “Far From the Madding Crowd” and served as a creative consultant on the helmer’s 1969 classic “Midnight Cowboy.”
Achievement
Clark received the American Cinema Editors’ career achievement award in 2005.
Born James Clark in Boston, Lincolnshire, he eventually moved to London and began to work at Ealing Studios in 1951 as an assistant editor. He later served as freelance assistant editor, under editor Jack Harris, on two films directed by Donen. When Harris chose not to work on Donen’s next project, the director gave Clark the job on 1960’s “Surprise Package.”
Alice Arlen, who was Oscar nominated for co-writing “Silkwood” with Nora Ephron, died Monday in Manhattan. She was 75.
Mike Nichols directed the 1983 film that told the story of Karen Silkwood, a lab worker who was killed in a suspicious car crash on her way to meet a reporter. Meryl Streep played Silkwood, who was attempting to expose dangerous radiation levels at the nuclear plant where she worked.
Arlen, who came from a family of prominent journalists, began her career as a journalist. After “Silkwood,” she took on another film based on true events, Louis Malle’s “Alamo Bay.” It was the story of the conflict in the Gulf of Mexico between Vietnamese immigrants and Texas shrimp fishermen.
Arlen and Ephron also collaborated on Susan Seidelman’s 1989 “Cookie,” about the daughter of a Mafia boss, on which Arlen was executive producer. Her other screenplays included the 2002 film “The Weight of Water,” adapted from an Anita Shreve novel; television movie “A Thief of Time,” based on a Tony Hillman novel; and “Then She Found Me,” co-written with Victor Levin and Helen Hunt, based on an Elinor Lipman novel.
Lee Reherman, the former Ivy League football star who shot to fame as the towering, muscular Hawk on the popular 1990s television show “American Gladiators,” died Tuesday. He was 49.
Reherman, who followed “Gladiators” with a successful career as an actor-producer, died at his home in Manhattan Beach, his publicist, Anthony Turk, told The Associated Press.
Cause of death wasn’t immediately known, but the former athlete hadn’t been feeling well in recent days after undergoing hip replacement surgery, Turk said. He died soon after his girlfriend returned home Tuesday to find him ill.
A standout offensive tackle at Cornell University who also had a tryout with the Miami Dolphins, Reherman wasn’t just the huge, grappling athlete viewers saw on “American Gladiator.” He was a scholar as well.
British writer Louise Rennison, author of the hit young-adult novel “Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging,” has died.
Her publisher, HarperCollins, tweeted that “it is with huge sadness that we can confirm the death of our much loved author and friend, Louise Rennison.”
Her agent, Clare Alexander, told The Bookseller magazine on Tuesday that Rennison died after an illness. She was in her 60s and lived in Brighton on England’s southern coast.
Rennison was best known for the humor-packed series “The Confessions of Georgia Nicolson,” about a teenager grappling with puberty and embarrassing parents.
According to her publisher, Rennison based several episodes in the books on her own childhood in Leeds, northern England, where she lived in a three-bedroom house “with her mum, dad, grandparents, aunt, uncle and cousin.”
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