Farewell to Ismail Merchant

It's been a while since a Merchant-Ivory film dazzled me the way Howards End or Remains of the Day did, but just the same, producer Ismail Merchant will be sorely missed. One of the pioneers of art house cinema.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/25/merchant.death.ap/index.html