Adieu, Jean-Pierre Cassel

[Trevor]

  

I have been prevented from accessing the IMDB for about six months now and have only recently been allowed back (yesterday, in fact) and got the shocking piece of news that one of France's premier actors had passed away two months ago.

Jean-Pierre Cassel was in the first film that I saw in a cinema ~ Sidney Lumet's Murder On The Orient Express ~ and he was also in the fine French thriller The Crimson Rivers as the outwardly pleasant but inwardly evil Dr Cherneze where he acted alongside his son Vincent, although they had no scenes together.

The film world has lost a great actor and a wonderful person: merci beaucoup, Jean-Pierre, may you rest in peace and, as you said to Richard Widmark, may you now have pleasant dreams.

[Doc Daneeka]

This seems intrusive but why were you blocked from the IMDb?

[Trevor]

  Not intrusive at all, Mr B. 

I have been on the IMDB daily for about the last six or so years, trying to make the users of that site aware of South Africa's 112 year old film industry, trying to send them info and titles and general interraction with the people on the boards there. Most of my reviews have our website address underneath and we get a lot of enquiries through that site: I remember getting something like twenty per week, directed from that site.

Then, some poephol at some department here decided that I was spending too long on the site, so they blocked me from it. They only let me log on again when I protested and they saw what I was actually doing there, instead of being onwww.nakedandninety.com as they no doubt thought I was. 

PS: I will only translate the Afrikaans word poephol if Menard begs me to.