RIP.

I grew up with the Jackson 5.  I stopped paying attention after the Thriller/Billie Jean era ended.  It was just too sad to see him in later years.

BTW--did the news bring down LJ?  Even Wikipedia has had sporadic outages.

Also Farah Fawcett.  So sad.  I like 10 million other girls in America during the 70s, had a Farrah Fawcett haircut.

Found via missyjack is this wonderful fanvid made by deirdre_c .  A tribute to Kim Manners--please find it our her site here and leave her feedback.  Fanvid includes clips from Kim's episodes.

Guys, I tracked all the comments on three LJ posts just before I left for my drawing class last night at 5:30 pm.  It was the posts from missyjack , anteka  and canadiangoddess  about reports from the set of SPN about Kim.

I didn't log in last night when I returned from class.  I was too hyped from the drawing class itself.

When I logged in this morning there were 210 emails of ( Read more... )

From anteka  here:

"Eric Kripke flew up from LA today to be on the Supernatural set to offer support to the cast and crew. He gave a really wonderful talk about Kim, about how he will be greatly missed. It was very heartfelt and there were a few tears at the end. The mood on set is pretty dark, but the fact that Kripke flew up just to rally the crew ( Read more... )

I posted on my other LJ today about how thankful I felt.  One of the items I mentioned was that while yesterday was so very, very sad.  I felt so warm from the outpouring from fandom about Kim.

Just now the wonderful missyjack  posted her refections on this in her LJ.  Check it out here.

I just had to include this in my LJ -- but it's from her post above.  ( Read more... )

There are a thousand plus one terrific tribute posts to Kim out on my flist. I wanted to link to raloria's tribute this morning. It has single screen caps of all of the SPN episodes Kim directed. I love this umbrella shot from Scarecrow. Seeing all those shots of an emotional Dean and reading yesterday about how masterful Kim was at getting the ( Read more... )

From here (via post here by sam_dean ):

"It is with extraordinarily heavy heart that I report the death last night, Jan. 25, of my friend Kim Manners. I first met Kim when he directed me in an episode of The X-Files, for which he was a major figure in the appeal of that show, its look, style, and movement. I thought, in that few days, that I had found one ( Read more... )

This is the kind of person I want to work for.

Kim Manners you were a gem and will be very missed.

“We spend way too much time with each other not to enjoy each others' company.”  Kim Manners quoted by Jensen, Summer 2008.

Posted here by hanncoll .

More context at the post above.  But from Kripke:

"Everyone at 'Supernatural' is walking around in a daze, shocked and absolutely devastated.  Kim was a brilliant director; more than that, he was a mentor and friend.  He was one of the patriarchs of the family, and we miss him desperately.  He gave so much to 'Supernatural,' and ( Read more... )

Via missyjack :

Jim Beaver just posted on his MySpace.

Jim is in mourning for one of the best friends and best directors he's ever known--Kim Manners, who died last night from lung cancer

I'm like...in total and complete SHOCK.  I had no idea he was ill.  If it weren't for the Jim Beaver source, I'd so be doubting this right now.  I'm still not so sure.  ( Read more... )