But that dislocated background may have helped give Robert Starer the clear-sighted anti- sentimentality that makes his music so effective.Anderson, MartinIndependent
The career trajectory of once-objectified CanadianBaywatchbabe Pamela Anderson, 57, is reflected and channeled into a poignant turn inThe LastShowgirl,where she plays the eponymous performer whose future is thrown into question when her...
ActressJennifer Jones, who won an Academy Award for her performance inThe Song of Bernadette, died Thursday at her home in Malibu; she was 90. The recipient of four other Oscar nominations, Jones was known as Phylis Walker early in her career, when she was married to actorRobert Walker, ...
My obituary for Bear can be found here. Bester, Alfred. Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester. Vintage/Random House, 1997. First edition proof, trade paperback format, a Fine- copy with a tiny chip to tip of bottom front corner, gold “A Vintage Original” sticker on...
According to his lengthy New York Times obituary, "[h]e concluded well before leaving the Pentagon that the war was futile, but he did not share that insight with the public until late in life. In 1995, he took a stand against his own conduct of the war, confessing in a memoir that...
I haven’t been able to find an obituary for her, but the following is from a Facebook post (written by Chris Berry):“Corky Cristiani–the last of the original family members who came to the United States from Italy in 1934–has passed away.Over the years she appeared not only as a...
Wendy (once Walter) Carlos, Stevie Wonder and Emerson, Lake and Palmer performed on and composed for Moogs, and Moog instruments crossed musical genres to become an integral sound in jazz, progressive rock and hard funk, as well as in university and commercial studios.Anderson, Virginia...
[Obituary. JOHN WILLCOCKS, born a t Mussoorie, India, on the 31st July, 1859, died a t Ealing on the 21st August, 1913. After passing out first of hisyearfromtheThomason Civil Engineering College, Roorkee, he entered the Indian Public Works Department in 1879, and passed almosthisentire...
Obituary: Robert SoetensRobert Soetens, violinist: born Montlucon, France 19 July 1897; married 1921 Maud Laury (died 1977); died Paris 22 October 1997.Anderson, Martin
Georges Lautner obituary Director of witty French comedy-thrillersSince the dawn of cinema, France has simultaneously and uninterruptedly produced good mainstream movies and arthouse films. Georges Lautner, who has died aged 87, unabashedly claimed that the almost 50 films he directed from 1958 to ...