There's a whole bunch of folks who have died in the last few days who deserve a mention, but none of them quite would be likely to get a whole post. So let's do them all real quick. Tatsuya Nakadai will always be remembered for...
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Unquestionably one of the biggest figures of late 20th century American acting and she's what made most of those Woody Allen films work. Not to mention being a fashion icon.
The long-time president of the United Steelworkers of America has died. What made Gerard a special union leader was his ability to shift his union away from the declining steel.
Like a lot of people my age, I primarily know Claudia Cardinale from her role as Jill in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West, which is in my view one of the ten best films ever made. But of course she was...
I can't say I was the biggest Redford fan in the world. I certainly liked him well enough in several roles, but when facing off with Paul Newman, no one.
We lost another of the great figures of the civil rights movement: Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three.
Terence Stamp, RIP. The Limey is one of my favorite films ever made. ...[update by Rob] https://youtu.be/VKcpoyC6RMA?si=Xn5ywghUl7r0V6yV
We have lost one of the greatest titans of American music: The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has.
Gen X weeps: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, died in Costa Rica on Sunday..
Oh no, not David Gergen, who will provide us with more centrist bromides that challenge no one and say nothing except that billionaries are right and should control the planet?
Jimmy Swaggart is dead. I regret to note that while he was on my obituary list, I did not get to him in time (I am working up a good.
Even though it wasn't that long ago, we've almost forgotten how pretty progressive policymakers could come from the Rocky Mountain states. As Colorado, New Mexico ,and to a lesser extent.