February 17, 2007
Solveig Dommartin, RIP
One of those strange things: On January 20 of this year, while fiddling around looking for stuff on YouTube, I realized that Wings of Desire, my favorite film, is twenty years old. I wrote this piece, mainly because I was intrigued by the notion of making a stage play of that film.
Tonight I was looking for something else on the Internet Movie DataBase, and thought, "gee, I wonder if Solveig Dommartin has done anything recently."
When I clicked on her name I was shocked to see that she had died on January 17th of this year, only three days before I was thinking about Wings of Desire, which was as much about her as it was about Damiel (and was her first film appearance). She was only 45 and died of cardiac arrest.
Posted by erik at February 17, 2007 12:52 AMEthyl,
What has happened, to the best of my memory, is that one of the family's has bought out the other. I am not sure which one (I read an article in either the Bee or the Land Park freebie newspaper), but when I was there around Christmas/New Years (the last time I have been in Sacramento, believe it or not), nothing had changed in terms of quality, or the regular staff I see there. The meats were of the same quality that they always were, the wine selection good, etc.
I will probably be making a trip soon, since I am running out of the honey/truffle mustard that I get there (amazing stuff - their house brand).
Thanks for writing and reading!
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at February 23, 2007 10:51 AMErick, I have read your website for quite a while now. I have read about Taylorsmarket and have a question. I heard they had been bought out, is this true and is Brian Mcneil still the manager?
Just curious, you have written quite a few peices about them.
Thanks,
ethyl