Harold Ramis has passed. My favorite scene from his greatest film. Incidentally, I visited Punxsutawney in August. It is not a nice place.
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The great jazz trumpeter has passed, way too young. I saw him play with Other Dimensions in Music (also featuring William Parker, Rashid Bakr, and Daniel Carter) in Atlanta in.
Two huge losses of civil rights movement legends this week. First Amiri Baraka died. Then Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro 4 that sparked the student wing of the civil.
I'm not too big on the idea of hero, but there is something about the person persecuted for making others' lives better that gets to me. One of the greats passed away yesterday. Dr. Kenneth Edelin, absurdly convicted in 1975 of manslaughter for conducting an...
Another of the great country legends has traveled to the great honky tonk in the sky. Today, Ray Price doesn't have the cache of Cash, Nelson, Haggard, or Williams. But.
One of the great women of film noir has passed. She's perhaps best known for her work in Lady in the Lake, which is famous primarily for being shot entirely.
The great free jazz drummer has passed. Here's a clip of him in possibly my favorite jazz band of all-time, Last Exit, with Peter Brotzmann, Bill Laswell, and Sonny Sharrock..
Stanley Kauffmann, the dean of American film criticism and one of the greatest film critics in history, has passed. He worked for decades at The New Republic, including in the.
The great U.S. historian Lawrence Goodwyn has passed. The author of the single best book even written on the Populists, Democratic Promise, The Populist Movement in America (as well as the shorter version, The Populist Moment), Goodwyn made the concerns of these impoverished 19th century...
Anyone who can write awesome scenes like this needs to be remembered upon his death.
The director of Hang 'Em High and Magnum Force is no more.