Hey friends. I had the fortunate luck of publishing a couple of things on the same day and wanted to share them here in one convenient location. The good folks at the Atlantic let me go long on Neil Young, the Ditch Trilogy and the...
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Gregg Allman is dead at the age of 69. I don't think anyone is surprised that he did not live into his 90s.
Andrzej Wajda, the bard of political freedom in film and, in my opinion, the greatest living filmmaker, is dead at the age of 90. Wajda's career is absolutely titanic. His.
The Teamsters reformer who was beaten by goons at the 1976 Teamsters convention after challenging IBT president Frank Fitzsimmons and proposing a rule that any Teamster who took a bribe from an employer be kicked out of the unions has passed away.
In all the celebrations of Peter O'Toole upon his death, let us not forget the equally sad demise of the great Joan Fontaine. Farran Nehme with more.
Joseph Kugelmass' thoughtful response to my Whitney Houston post is instructive: Most celebrity deaths are not emotional events for me. I cared a lot more about Amy Winehouse’s death than.