Comments | growyourwings: Kim Manners--We will miss you

growyourwings

Kim Manners--We will miss you

Jan 26, 2009 13:31

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... )

spn, deaths: kim manners, kim manners, deaths, deaths: 2009

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mrsr58 January 26 2009, 21:46:30 UTC

WHAT?????

growyourwings January 26 2009, 21:47:58 UTC

I KNOW!!! I was/am so SHOCKED by this!

mrsr58 January 26 2009, 22:13:59 UTC

right after i posted i decided that i am crushed but even more so, DEVISTATED. he was my favorite director (going back to x-files) and the boys seem to respond to him like no one else.
i have no words.

fickleone January 27 2009, 00:09:43 UTC

Devastated is exactly right.

bowtrunckle January 26 2009, 22:06:07 UTC

What terrible news. Thoughts to his friends and family. :(

growyourwings January 26 2009, 22:09:46 UTC

I keep thinking about his friends and family. It seems so sudden if he really just learned about it at the beginning of the season.

siriusslash January 26 2009, 23:03:03 UTC

I just can't even wrap my head around this. I know that we really don't get alot of news about the talent behind the screen but I had never heard anything about him even being ill. This is soooo sad!!!

growyourwings January 26 2009, 23:12:27 UTC

I know. I am so devastated by this news. As I'm reading this hit all across my flist and fandom, I keep reading about and remembering how many of us first started realizing how close the SPN crew was. Like a family. And Kim was so intrinsically a part of that.

This was really the first show ever that I've followed where I've learned about all the behind-the-scenes people from the writers to the directors to the sound men, to the hair and makeup and costume folks.

I can even imagine what Kim's family and SPN family are feeling right now.

fickleone January 26 2009, 23:55:45 UTC

I keep thinking it has to be a mistake (even though I know it's not).

Devastated is a really apt description.

fickleone January 26 2009, 23:56:36 UTC

'I keep remembering hearing Jensen talk about their first experience having Kim direct "Dead in the Water" (which I just re-watched yesterday.) Jensen was so expansive in his appreciation of Kim's talent.'

...and the bee story...

growyourwings January 27 2009, 00:01:15 UTC

OMG. Yes.. The infamous Bee Story.

I'm so, so sad.

I really wish we'd gotten to see him.

Remember the Paley interview?

fickleone January 27 2009, 00:08:41 UTC

I REALLY had a feeling that we were going to be able to see him at a convention.

growyourwings January 27 2009, 00:10:21 UTC

I know! I kept thinking that it was likely the best chance for him to appear.

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