Obits

Glenda Jackson effectively led at least two lives. One as an artist and one as an advocate. It may be...

I suppose talking about Treat Williams’ hair may be an odd way to begin an appreciation of his commendable career,...

In the long history of women escaping abusive men, few stories are more well known than that of Tina Turner’s...

It was never hard to pick Ray Stevenson out in a scene. All you had to do was look for...

As an athlete, to my mind, Jim Brown had only one comparable: Wilt Chamberlain. While they may have played two...

Before I knew him as an actor and activist, Harry Belafonte was a sound to me. That voice letting out...

It’s a strange thing to find out that David Finfer, the Oscar-nominated editor of The Fugitive was your wife’s godfather,...

To most, I suspect the great Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s most notable success was for his work (along with David...

The thing I always loved about Lance Reddick may not be what first comes to mind for most. I just...

And I thought writing about Tom Sizemore was hard. For all his misdeeds (and his police blotter looked like a...

I don’t know when exactly Tom Sizemore’s demons took over his life and destroyed what was fast becoming a remarkable...

Before Richard Belzer became John Munch on the landmark crime drama Homicide: Life on the Streets, he made his bones...

I never thought of Raquel Welch as an actor, I thought of her as a force of nature. In fact,...

Tom Luddy has died, just before the 50th anniversary of the Telluride Film Festival. He leaves behind an enormous legacy...

As the cliché goes, timing is everything in life. Just three days ago, as I was scrolling through all my...

Sometimes you get ahead with laughter. Actually, I’m willing to bet a lot of the time we all do. It’s...

To state it plainly, when it comes to matters of spirituality and politics, I agreed with Kirstie Alley on almost...

For a very brief time in the first half of the ‘80s, Irene Cara was everywhere. Cara started out as...

"Well, well, well..." Like most gay men my age, I met Leslie Jordan when he sauntered on screen as Beverly...

When considering the career of Robbie Coltrane, I think it’s fairly safe to say that for most people one of...