The Remains of the Producer

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A Tomb with a View

(Props to Greg)

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Ismails End

(More plaudits for Greg)

Lovers of prissy costume dramas are in mourning as filmmaker Ismail Merchant has died at the age of 68. Merchant and long-time partner James Ivory made more than 40 glacially-paced films about well dressed people with impeccable diction, including adaptations of E.M. Forster novels A Room With a View, Howards End, each of which won three Oscars. Not all their products were so high-minded, as they were also the forces behind the 1995 laugher Jefferson In Paris, starring Nick Nolte as the fondling founding father. Merchant was elevating the culture right to the end, with four films in production at the time of his death.