Obits

How fitting for a man who so embraced technology and social media.

A fitting film to end a 46 year-long career with. For fifteen years I have been reporting on Ebert's reviews...

As a kid, Ava DuVernay had her picture taken with Roger Ebert. Years later, when her film I Will Follow...

    Faced with painful news I have a really bad tendency to fog my thoughts with mindless distractions. I...

Source: Ray Pride And here are some of his New Yorker cartoons captions - the winning entry, pictured above.  More...

The Chicago Sun Times is reporting that Roger Ebert has passed on.  The cancer had returned, was the last thing...

Merchant Ivory and Oscar-winning screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died at 85 years old. It truly is the end of...

Oscar winning Fay Kanin, former writer and producer, died today. She was 95. Kanin had been one of the people...

A lovely tribute:

It was horrifying news to wake up this morning and find out that the great Harris Savides had died. Though...

He gave us the gliding and often dreamlike images of Zodiac, The Game, Milk, Elephant, Somewhere, Birth. The great Harris...

(LATimes) Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an...

I first met Gil Cates when I was an undergrad, an older undergrad, at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and...

Oscar-producer Gil Cates has died at the age of 77. The Academy's statement Regarding his passing. Beverly Hills, CA –...

Oh Steve Jobs.  I've had so many Apple computers by now I can't remember when it even began. I had...

Cliff Robertson's Oscar-winning performance in Charley is viewable in its entirety on youtube.

Too sudden, too soon.

The great Polly Platt has finally succumbed to the ravages of ALS and died, reports Nikki Finke. Platt leaves a...