In Memoriam

One of the great "bit" character actors has left us, at...well somewhere in his 90s. His frantic phone exchange with Jerry Lewis, alternating with his attempts to handle a home-invading…

There was a time—and a fairly long one—when he was the most beautiful man in film. And he didn't make a big deal of it. Seemed rather to relish passing…

Those of us fortunate enough to have known David Foster Wallace personally didn't know him as David Foster Wallace. We knew him as Dave Wallace, as that is what he…

Posted by Aaron Aradillas Don LaFontaine, the Voice of the Movie Trailer, has gone silent at age 68. Here are a few of my personal favorites from the nearly 4000…

I learned this morning, via an e-mail from a mutual friend who was very close to him, that the critic and artist Manny Farber died last night, at his home…

As much as his departed partners Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun did, the journalist turned entrepreneur/producer transformed modern American music. A few things he had his hand in: Ray Charles. I…