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Weather’s role in wildfires in Atlantic Canada | SaltWire #weather #climatechange #wildfireseasonWASHINGTON - Low-budget cinema maestro Roger Corman, who cranked out hundreds of outrageous films over six decades and helped launch the careers of acclaimed directors Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, James Cameron and Ron Howard, died on Thursday at age 98, family members said.
Corman's work - he produced more than 300 films and directed about 50 - was filled with those weird, cool and crazy moments. The movies were shot swiftly on the cheap and only a handful lost money. Sometimes his proteges thanked Corman by giving him cameo roles, such as the FBI director in"The Silence of the Lambs" and a congressman in"Apollo 13."At Corman's 2009 Oscar ceremony, Howard fondly recalled getting a shot to make his directorial debut with"Grand Theft Auto" at a time when he was viewed as a lightweight TV sitcom actor. Howard said he complained to Corman about not getting sufficient resources.
He directed"The Little Shop of Horrors" , filming it in just two days and one night. It featured a young Nicholson, who had impressed Corman in an acting class, and an icky plot about a lonely flower shop worker who creates a carnivorous plant that craves human flesh.
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