Farewell to Harmon Killebrew. Not unexpected, of course. Killebrew wasn't on the list, but see Jonathan Bernstein's list of the greatest living baseball players. My main quibble would be at catcher, where I think Ivan Rodriguez certainly deserves an audience alongside Bench and Piazza.
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R.I.P.: Gerard Smith. Phoebe Snow. Poly Styrene. ...more from Roy, who like a commenter reminds me that I forgot to mention Hazel Dickens. Harlan County, USA is available on.
Pierre Celis, who died yesterday, is something of a legend in the beer world. The basic story is that he unilaterally resurrected the style of Belgian Witbier back in the.
R.I.P. See Kenny, Zoller Seitz, Edroso, and this oldie-but-goodie from Dargis. Roy's post, with its account of Lumet's setting of Newman's summation in The Verdict, has many insights but I especially like this one: His work was uneven, but I don't know that we'd have...
Obit here in the NYT. Not much to add to this. I was too young to vote in that disaster (my first was the 1986 mid-terms), but I still remember.
Affection for Taylor is a generational thing; by the time I started watching films with any seriousness, she had become less artist than icon. For my parents and especially my.
Above: my favorite card, in a collection that includes (admittedly non-mint) Gretzky and Lemieux rookies R.I.P.
R.I.P. Snider is actually a significant part of my childhood, not of course because of his starring role on the Only Team That Ever Mattered (and we shouldn't forget the.
Don Kirshner, the man responsible for the music behind the Monkees, has died. The Monkees represented everything that was most crass and reprehensible about the pop music scene of the.
Looking forward to baseball, and remembering Dave Niehaus.
If I had to choose my "most underrated middlebrow filmmaker," it would definitely be Jim Sheridan, whose work I've admired for a long time (up to and including 2009's fine.
Bobby Farrell, R.I.P. A real blow for fans of rigorous, sober-minded historical analysis. (OK, I guess that will be when Frank Farian dies, but...)