Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Space Shuttle Discovery OV-103

The Age of Discovery has ended, I weep for the future, alone in the dark. Discovery: Flew 148 million miles (238 million km) Completed 39 missions Completed 5,830 orbits Spent 365 days in orbit in over 27 years. Flew more flights than any other Orbiter. Launched of the Hubble Space Telescope. First Orbiter Shuttle and first mission flight …

Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Harry Morgan

It’s been a hard week for good character actors… Harry Morgan past away today. Morgan was at least in his twilight years at 96, but that does put Eli Wallach on a timer, and that is a horrible thing to think on… For many, Morgan was Col. Potter, though I do remember him from Dragnet, …

Black Lanterns Wail: RIP Bill McKinney

A wonderful character actor has passed awaytoday. Bill McKinney was best known for the  1972’s Deliverance, but I know him from the movie pictured above, The Outlaw Josey Wales. Still a villian, but it’s a better movie and McKinney is better in it… [if the video doesn’t automatically skip to 1:49 to see Bill] Doing …

Black Lanterns Wail: RIP John Neville

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is by far one of my, if not my absolute, favorite movies of all time… It is certainly Terry Gilliam’s best work, and one I can watch a dozen times in a row… And, now it will be a tincher of sadness. John Neville, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, …