[via Cinema Blend]

• Al Drebin (c.1918-2007) - Owner of Budget Films, an archive company that supplies footage to films, television shows and humanitarian projects. He died of heart failure September 18, in Los Angeles. (Variety)
• Edith Campion (1923-2007) - Poet, actress and mother of filmmakers Anna Campion and Jane Campion. She appears in the former's 1989 short The Audition and in the latter's 1990 feature An Angel at My Table. She died September 16 in Otaki, Manawatu, New Zealand. (ABC Radio Australia)
• Mark Copeland (1962-207) - Steadicam operator for The Gravedancers, National Lampoon's Pucked, The Ultimate Gift and the upcoming The Key Man. He died in a helicopter crash September 11, in Sarasota, Florida. (CBC-Raleigh)
  
• Joel Fein (c.1944-2007) - Oscar-nominated sound mixer for The Buddy Holly Story. He was also a recording sound mixer for Blade Runner and Fletch Lives and the restorations of Bridge on the River Kwai and Spartacus. As a sound re-recording mixer, he worked on Back to the Future II, Midnight Run, The Hard Way, Ghost Dad and Gary Sinise's Of Mice and Men, and as a score mixer, he worked on Bachelor Party. Later in his life he concentrated on television work, for which he won an Emmy and was nominated twice more. He died September 22 in Wichita. (The Wichita Eagle)
• Alice Ghostley (1926-2007) - Character actress (pictured) best known for her television roles on Bewitched and Designing Women. She is familiar to Grease fans as the film's automotive shop teacher, Mrs. Murdock. She also appears in The Graduate, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Flim-Flam Man, The Odd Couple II and as herself in the documentary Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age. She died of cancer September 21, in Studio City, California. (NY Times)

This will forever brand me as a totally irredeemable dork, but one of my favorite movies ever is Grease. I know, I know. It's cheesy. But it's fun-cheesy, and it always reminds me of long, hot summer days (and oh, those summer nights ...) spent reenacting scenes from Grease with appropriately decked-out Barbie dolls with my best friend. We'd have the Grease soundtrack playing on her rickety, battery-operated Holly Hobbie record player, which we'd sing along with full blast. The big battle, of course, was over who would get to be Sandy and who would have to be Danny. I usually won this battle, because my friend had a lower voice that was (or so I ruthlessly convinced her) far better suited toward the role of Danny Zuko than my own soprano. Grease was, hands-down, one of the favorite films of my pre-adolescence.

Let me just get this right out of the way: I'm not a big fan of this whole Hairspray thing. Yeah, I saw the movie back in the day and listened to all the praise pouring out of the Broadway show, however it doesn't do it for me one bit. So, now you can understand me when I say that I am so not looking forward to another movie version. Oh, you didn't hear they were making another Hairspray? Or maybe you just forgot already?

Well, they are making another movie version and this one will star John Travolta, Billy Crystal and Queen Latifah. I don't think I've seen such an awkwardly put together cast since, well, ever. Now, reports are coming in that this already confusing cast may be adding another random actress to it in Michelle Pheiffer.

But Michelle may not be so random after all. You may remember a certain Michelle Pfeiffer leading the pack in a certain Grease 2? The same Grease 2 that had a Grease 1 come before it and star none other than a certain John Travolta? No word yet on who the actress will play, but if it all goes down, Hairspray redux could produce the ultimate reunion...that no one asked for. Or wanted.