Category Archives: RIP

Goodbye Paula. You will be missed.

Posted on November 12, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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R.I.P. Judith Jamison

Posted on November 10, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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R.I.P. Kris Kristofferson

Posted on October 2, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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R.I.P. Maggie Smith

Posted on September 27, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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Delon, part deux

Posted on August 20, 2024 by sheila

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.

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This famous picture tells the whole story of Alain Delon

Posted on August 18, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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Alain Delon’s chilly beauty. RIP

Posted on August 18, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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“I like to be wrung out.” — Gena Rowlands

Posted on August 18, 2024 by sheila

A little bit more on Gena on my Substack.

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Goodbye, Gena Rowlands

Posted on August 16, 2024 by sheila

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 →

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R.I.P. Edna O’Brien

Posted on July 28, 2024 by sheila

We knew this day was coming but still … it’s a sad one. A connecting thread is lost, with the 20th century, with my father, who introduced me to O’Brien’s work (and not just her work but what she meant, … Continue reading →

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