Obits

More tan than George Hamilton, as suave as Warren Beatty, and almost as handsome as Robert Redford, Robert Evans was...

Things happen when you are away and in a country with bad WIFI. I was in Rome when the news...

While Valerie Harper’s lengthy career touched seven different decades, it’s fair to say she was best known for one particular...

Peter Fonda may have been the least accomplished of the Fonda film power trio (no shame in that, the bar...

D.A. Pennebaker was a wildly productive documentarian with 60 credits amassed over a 50-plus year career. His greatest gift was...

Rutger Hauer's career peak in America was relatively brief, but my, did it ever burn bright. The strapping, remarkably handsome...

In a career that spanned 60 years, character actor Rip Torn was perhaps best known for bringing a crusty edge...

Franco Zeffirelli’s career encompassed nearly 60 years of directing features, television movies, operas, and shorts. While the Italian-born filmmaker met...

Sylvia Miles was nearly 45 years old when she got her big break. Cast as an aristocratic woman who picks...

Tim Conway’s career began in earnest with his hilarious performance on McHale’s Navy way back in 1962. Conway was the...

Doris Day was the Julia Roberts of her time…only bigger. For two decades, she was America’s Sweetheart. If the term...

It goes without saying, yet it must be said Peggy Lipton was impossibly beautiful. I’m always amazed by the fact...

Alvin Sargent cut his teeth 'til they were razor sharp writing for early 1960s television programs , like Naked City,...

Hollywood is mourning the death of Agnès Varda. The French filmmaker passed away earlier today. Varda was known as the...

It’s hard to calculate how much Sondra Locke’s career was helped and hurt by her long-running personal and professional relationship...

The death of legendary film director Bernardo Bertolucci on November 26, 2018 brings into tight focus the challenge of assessing...

It can be easy to overlook the spectacular hot streak that began Nicolas Roeg’s directorial career. Not many filmmakers start...

Where to even start with William Goldman. I'll start here. When I first began my site the tagline was "Nobody...

Stan Lee was a creator of worlds. Ones that sad kids and sometimes sad adults could enter into and feel...

Arnold Kopelson is not a name that trips off the tongue of the average cinefile, let alone the regular moviegoer....