With Shirley MacLaine in Desperate Characters, Frank D. Gilroy, 1971.
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Kenneth Mars, 1936-2011
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Ah, but for me Kenneth Mars will always be about that pitch-perfect accent (and that hair!) in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’
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And a sad note, too, of the passing of Dave Friedman, the shameless showman behind such populist pulchritude, stupendous splatter (and alliteratively advertised films) as “Blood Feast,” “She Freak” and “Trader Hornee.”
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