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Fans, colleagues mourn death of actor William Hurt – The Washington Post
By Travis M. Andrews, March 13, 2022 at 7:56 p.m. EDT Movie fans spent Sunday night mourning the death of William Hurt — and celebrating his remarkable career. The Oscar-winning actor, cemented into film history for roles in “Broadcast News,” “Body Heat,” “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and “The Big Chill,” among others, died March…
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From the National Recording Registry: Remembering Don Everly | Now See Hear! | library of congress
From August 25, 2021, by Stacie Seifrit-Griffin An Evening with Don Everly,February 1, 1937 – August 21, 2021 It is truly the end of an era with the passing of the talented, charming and iconic Don Everly. The influence The Everly Brothers have had on so many musicians and genres of music is immeasurable. Don…
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Charlie Watts Was the Coolest Rolling Stone | GQ
Remembering the legendary drummer, who died today at 80. By Gabriella Paiella, August 24, 2021 Trying to name the coolest member of the Rolling Stones is like picking a favorite child or sibling. But come on: it was obviously drummer Charlie Watts. In a band that defined glamour and excess, he was measured—the backbone of…
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Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs dies at age 81
LOS ALTOS, Calif. (AP) — Charles “Chuck” Geschke — the co-founder of the major software company Adobe Inc. who helped develop Portable Document Format technology, or PDFs — died at age 81. Geschke, who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area suburb of Los Altos, died Friday, the company said. “This is a huge loss…
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Yaphet Kotto: Top Roles on Film and Television – Variety
Yaphet Kotto, the veteran actor known for his performances in “Alien,” the James Bond film “Live and Let Die” and the television series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died March 15. He was 81. Kotto famously played technician Dennis Parker in 1979’s “Alien” and William Laughlin alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Running Man.” He had…
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Joan Weldon Dead: Actress Pursued by Giant Ants in ‘Them!’ Was 90 | Hollywood Reporter
The Warner Bros. contract player also appeared in several Westerns and was a standout in the world of musical theater. Joan Weldon, the actress and singer dubbed “filmdom’s fairest exterminator” after her turn as a young scientist investigating giant, radiation-mutated ants in the 1954 sci-fi classic Them!, has died. She was 90. Weldon died Feb.…
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small-Press Publisher, Dies At 101 : NPR
Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of the First Amendment in a famous court case. His most famous work is a 1958 collection of poetry called A Coney Island of…
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Remembering Christopher Plummer – I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere
The world has lost another significant Sherlock Holmes actor. Christopher Plummer passed away today at the age of 91 after suffering a fall. Plummer was a versatile actor, at home on the stage, television, and film, and the variety of his roles underscored his versatility and talent. From his early career on stage and television,…
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Kevin Starr, author of California histories and former state librarian, dies at 76 – LA Times
Great historian and writer, enjoyed his books, he brought to life and to the pages the stories that made California’s history… “Filling this gap would become his life’s work, making him the state’s foremost historian and one of its most revered public intellectuals. For half a century, he chronicled the greed, cruelty, enlightenment, innovation, vanity…
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Rod Taylor, 84, Target in ‘The Birds,’ Dies – NYTimes.com
Rod Taylor, the ruggedly handsome Australian-born actor who fended off attacks from above in Alfred Hitchcock’s revered horror film “The Birds” and helped an 8,000th-century people escape a monster race in the film version of the science-fiction classic “The Time Machine,” died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84. His death…
