In Memoriam

From Rosemary's Baby, 1968There was a period in my moviegoing, late '70s and  early '80s,…

It was pretty widely known that Dennis Hopper had been terminally ill for some time;…

My old friend Joseph Failla wrote me to commiserate today:"I just read about Frank Frazetta's…

Even as one wishes she had made more films, one can only admire her for…

L'amour par terre, Jacques Rivette, 1984  Une visite au Louvre, Danielle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub,…

As Redgraves go, she was one who—how to put this?—appeared to take herself far less…

From left: Juliet "Aunt Peg" Anderson, Ron Jeremy, and Veronica Hart, A Girl's Best Friend,…

She was charming, she was graceful, she had the voice of an angel, and—not too…

The ever-great Jean Simmons, at her most disturbingly beautiful in Preminger's perverse thriller Angel Face,…