Jeez. More bad news from the Motor City—Ron Asheton, guitarist for the original and resurrected Stooges, was found dead in his Ann Arbor home, age 60. A heart attack is…
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Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) from the courtroom balcony, To Kill A Mockingbird, shot by Russell Harlan, 1962 Sylvia Barrett (Sandy Dennis) and an empty classroom, Up the Down Staircase, shot…
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...or so he seemed, both as an actor and as a goodwill ambassador for show business in general and Tinseltown in particular. Van Johnson, seen above in 1949's In The Good…
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A bad weekend for some distinctively lovely women of film, and their fans. Nina FochNot a day after the death of Nina Foch, the glamourous Netherlands-born star of My Name…
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From Werewolf of London, 1935I never met the man who coined the term "sci-fi" and founded and edited the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, but it's safe to say that…
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In Pola XIt is terrible to learn of the death of Guillaume Depardieu, of pneumonia, at the age of 37. The actor had a famously eventful and troubled life, and…
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