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RIP: Reel Important People -- April 14, 2008

by Christopher Campbell Apr 14th 2008 // 5:03PM

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Larry Pizer (1925-2008) - Cinematographer who shot Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise and the director's music video for Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing in the Dark", James Ivory's The Europeans, Ismael Merchant's The Proprietor and In Custody, Karl Reisz' Isadora and Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, as well as Timerider, Folks! and Mannequin 2: On the Move. He died of cancer February 27, in New York. (Variety)

Iris Burton (1930-2008) - Dancer-turned-agent who appears in The Ten Commandments and Top Banana and who helped launch the careers of River Phoenix and Henry Thomas. Other child stars she represented include Joaquin Phoenix, Drew Barrymore, Kirk Cameron, the Olsen twins and Fred Savage. She died after suffering from pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease April 5, in Woodland Hills, California. (Variety)

by Robert Newton Aug 26th 2005 // 5:44PM

Twelve years after River Phoenix, the reincarnation of James Dean, died of a drug overdose on the sidewalk outside the Johnny Depp-owned Viper Room in Hollywood, Depp is getting back into the club business. Depp, currently starring in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, has invested with longtime business partner Salvatore Jenco in the Las Vegas club, The Empire Ballroom so that they might restore it to "an era of lost elegance and service". Depp was recently onhand at the memorial service for Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary gonzo journalism pioneer whom Depp played in Terry Gilliam's 1998 film, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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