Category Archives: Obituaries

Patricia Neal, 1926-2010

By Administrator | Published: Monday, August 9, 2010
“Patricia Neal, an Oscar Winner Who Endured Tragedy, Dies at 84,” New York Times
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Rue McClanahan

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, June 3, 2010
Walk the Angry Beach (1968)
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Louise Bourgeois

By Administrator | Published: Monday, May 31, 2010
“I have been to Hell and back and let me tell you it was wonderful.”
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Dennis Hopper

By Administrator | Published: Sunday, May 30, 2010
Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet (1986)
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Dede Allen (1923-2010)

By Administrator | Published: Sunday, April 18, 2010
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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Robert Culp (1930-2010)

By Administrator | Published: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
From “How to Be the Other Woman” by Lorrie Moore He emerges from nowhere, looks like Robert Culp, the fog rolling, then parting, then sort of closing up again behind him. Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969)
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Michael Jackson, King of Pop

By Administrator | Published: Thursday, June 25, 2009
My grandmother was born in 1905 and I don’t remember her having much interest in the popular culture of my childhood. I just don’t think she paid that much attention to a lot of what was on television and the radio in the 70s and 80s. But she always loved to watch Michael Jackson move. [...]
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Bea Arthur, 1922-2009

By Administrator | Published: Saturday, April 25, 2009
I really assumed she’d live forever. Such amazing delivery and timing. Bea Arthur, star of ‘Golden Girls’ and ‘Maude,’ dies at 86, LA Times Golden Girl Bloopers, YouTube
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Estelle Bennett, 1942-2009

By Administrator | Published: Saturday, February 14, 2009
Estelle Bennett, Ronnie Spector and Nedra Talley-Ross Estelle Bennett, a Singer for the Ronettes, Is Dead at 67, NY Times
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Joe Ades, 1934-2009

By Administrator | Published: Tuesday, February 3, 2009
I’m very sorry to learn from today’s New York Times that the white-haired gentleman with the elegant beard and wonderful lulling, trilling voice who sold vegetable peelers in Union Square and elsewhere has passed away. I am glad, though, to have learned his name. From Howard Kaplan’s excellent 2006 profile in Vanity Fair: Joe pushes [...]
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