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I read about this on holiday:
Ted Demme, who has died aged 37 after a heart attack, emerged from the shadow of his uncle, the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, to become one of the most forceful independent filmmakers in the United States. Ted achieved commercial success in his own right with the comedy Life (1999), and won critical acclaim for the biopic, Blow (2001), starring Johnny Depp as a drug trafficker. This account of the rise of a smalltime drug pusher was an accomplished, visually ravishing work. Johnny Depp's perversely brilliant performance received - as did the film - some criticism for making the pusher attractive, but the portrait of a man annihilated by his own misdeeds showed Demme's maturity. A new thriller, Nautica, with Ewan McGregor and Heath Ledger, was in pre-production at the time of his death.
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Anyone who has seen 'Blow' will know that this is a sad loss to the film world. A sad, bitter irony has emerged in coroners reports suggesting that cocaine was to blame for his heart attack. But nevertheless, America has lost one of its best young talents, who made one of last year's better films.
Ted Demme, who has died aged 37 after a heart attack, emerged from the shadow of his uncle, the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, to become one of the most forceful independent filmmakers in the United States. Ted achieved commercial success in his own right with the comedy Life (1999), and won critical acclaim for the biopic, Blow (2001), starring Johnny Depp as a drug trafficker. This account of the rise of a smalltime drug pusher was an accomplished, visually ravishing work. Johnny Depp's perversely brilliant performance received - as did the film - some criticism for making the pusher attractive, but the portrait of a man annihilated by his own misdeeds showed Demme's maturity. A new thriller, Nautica, with Ewan McGregor and Heath Ledger, was in pre-production at the time of his death.
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Anyone who has seen 'Blow' will know that this is a sad loss to the film world. A sad, bitter irony has emerged in coroners reports suggesting that cocaine was to blame for his heart attack. But nevertheless, America has lost one of its best young talents, who made one of last year's better films.
Damn. He was a damn good director. It's a pity.
I read about this on holiday:
Ted Demme, who has died aged 37 after a heart attack, emerged from the shadow of his uncle, the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, to become one of the most forceful independent filmmakers in the United States. Ted achieved commercial success in his own right with the comedy Life (1999), and won critical acclaim for the biopic, Blow (2001), starring Johnny Depp as a drug trafficker. This account of the rise of a smalltime drug pusher was an accomplished, visually ravishing work. Johnny Depp's perversely brilliant performance received - as did the film - some criticism for making the pusher attractive, but the portrait of a man annihilated by his own misdeeds showed Demme's maturity. A new thriller, Nautica, with Ewan McGregor and Heath Ledger, was in pre-production at the time of his death.
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Anyone who has seen 'Blow' will know that this is a sad loss to the film world. A sad, bitter irony has emerged in coroners reports suggesting that cocaine was to blame for his heart attack. But nevertheless, America has lost one of its best young talents, who made one of last year's better films.
Ted Demme, who has died aged 37 after a heart attack, emerged from the shadow of his uncle, the Oscar-winning director Jonathan Demme, to become one of the most forceful independent filmmakers in the United States. Ted achieved commercial success in his own right with the comedy Life (1999), and won critical acclaim for the biopic, Blow (2001), starring Johnny Depp as a drug trafficker. This account of the rise of a smalltime drug pusher was an accomplished, visually ravishing work. Johnny Depp's perversely brilliant performance received - as did the film - some criticism for making the pusher attractive, but the portrait of a man annihilated by his own misdeeds showed Demme's maturity. A new thriller, Nautica, with Ewan McGregor and Heath Ledger, was in pre-production at the time of his death.
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Anyone who has seen 'Blow' will know that this is a sad loss to the film world. A sad, bitter irony has emerged in coroners reports suggesting that cocaine was to blame for his heart attack. But nevertheless, America has lost one of its best young talents, who made one of last year's better films.