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Apparently Ismail Merchant creator of Posh Catherine Cookson style movies has passed over! What will Helena do for cash now?

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He's right, it's just been flashed up on the BBC website - apparently he was 68 but that's all they're saying right now.

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this news is deeply shiocking to me..he was a genius who was irreplaceable

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Ismail Merchant has died.

 

Educated in Bombay and the U.S., Indian-born Ismail Merchant was destined for a business administration career. Rather than waste away in banking or speculating, lifelong movie buff Merchant put his skills to work in the creative arts. He found the perfect collaborators in the form of German/Indian novelist Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and California-born director James Ivory. The Merchant/Ivory productions written by Jhabvala, among them Shakespeare Wallah (1965), Bombay Talkie (1969), Roseland (1977), The Europeans (1979), A Room with a View (1984), and Howard's End (1992), have set an international standard for superior production values at the least possible cost. These accomplishments are all the more remarkable when one realizes that Merchant and Ivory are almost constantly at each other's throats over artistic and financial matters -- and make no effort to hide their squabbles from the public. In addition to his administrative duties, Merchant has occasionally turned director; among his efforts was the Oscar-nominated short The Creation of a Woman. Merchant has also carved a niche in the culinary world with his best-selling cookbook, Ismail Merchant's Indian Cuisine. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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he is a no body Ismail Merchant is a filmmaker dies aftering suffering from

 

abdominal ulcers. ;) he has done flim's such as the Mystic Masseur.

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he is a no body Ismail Merchant is a filmmaker dies aftering suffering from

 

abdominal ulcers.  ;) he has done flim's such as the Mystic Masseur.

Can this be merged with the original thread please?

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No I think the bad english on this site should be permantly preserved;

"Pour encourager les autres"

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No I think the bad english on this site should be permantly preserved

Even when it is deliberate?

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Of all the Merchant Ivory films why would anyone use Mystic Masseur as an example? And how come "abdominal", "ulcers" and "masseur" are all spelt correctly but those really tricky ones like "films" and "nobody" aren't?

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