Well, I have now never seen the Greatest Film of All Time(TM). I guess I need to fix that. I have seen one or two Akerman films and found them.
This is the grave of Sam Spiegel. Born in 1901 in Jaroslaw, Poland (though it was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire), Spiegel grew up in a wealthy Jewish household..
Should have had a better career overall and made a lot of very questionable choices (the list of roles he turned down is astounding), but of course he was great.
One of the truly great character actors of the last half-century is gone. When I think of Hall, I think of his great work in Hard Eight, Paul Thomas Anderson's.
A legend is gone. [SL] Friend of the blog Glenn Kenny has a great tribute. I plan on screening Broadcast News and Body Heat at my earliest convenience... [EL} Kenny's.
This is the grave of Nita Naldi. Born in 1894 in a New York tenement to Irish immigrant parents, Nonna Dooley grew up very poor. Four of her five siblings.
Lost a real one today: Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black revolutionary’s survival on the run — proved.
This is the grave of Harry Carey, Sr. Born in 1878 in The Bronx, Carey grew up in an elite family. His father was a highly respected lawyer who eventually.
