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Category Archives: RIP
R.I.P. Jeff Baena
The news that director Jeff Baena was found dead at his home, an apparent suicide, has really saddened me. And also thrown me off. Suicide always does. It’s upsetting. He was only 47 years old. I’ve admired his films, both … Continue reading
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Goodbye Paula. You will be missed.
To the Supernatural community we have created here, and I know many of you still show up on occasion, I have been informed of the very sad news that Paula – a regular commenter here – passed away this past … Continue reading
R.I.P. Judith Jamison
R.I.P. to legend Judith Jamison. I feel so fortunate I saw her on Broadway in Sophisticated Ladies! I was a kid and had no idea what was going on, really, but I appreciated every second of it (it was only … Continue reading
R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson
I paid tribute to this legend on my Substack. Thank you so much for stopping by. If you like what I do, and if you feel inclined to support my work, here’s a link to my Venmo account. … Continue reading
R.I.P. Maggie Smith
I’m sometimes inconsistent in my tributes here but it doesn’t mean I don’t have thoughts about those I didn’t write about! James Earl Jones died on September 9 and I didn’t write anything here because I was in Scotland and … Continue reading
Delon, part deux
I loved reading my good friend Farran’s tribute to Alain Delon – in all his complexity, and my God, his life was complex – on Ebert.
This famous picture tells the whole story of Alain Delon
Mick Jagger accepted defeat. He knew better than to even try to compete with Alain Delon. Which is WILD when you consider who Mick Jagger was at this particular moment in time. The Rolling Stone frontman couldn’t compete with Delon. … Continue reading
Alain Delon’s chilly beauty. RIP
Alain Delon thought, “A world without Gena Rowlands is not a world worth living in.” I put a piece up on my Substack about Delon which I wrote years ago, and it was his beauty and how it operated in … Continue reading
“I like to be wrung out.” — Gena Rowlands
A little bit more on Gena on my Substack.
Goodbye, Gena Rowlands
Gathered myself together, and wrote a tribute – yet another one, really – to Gena Rowlands for Ebert. I did my best. It won’t be the last time I write about her. We’ll be dealing with this career, trying to … Continue reading