Ever since reading his 1979 memoir “Dreemz,” I’ve had a soft spot for Ben Stein, the former Nixon speechwriter who became a character actor, game-show host, political pundit, poster boy for creationism and New York Times investment columnist (a gig…
John Hughes, the director of such iconic teen comedies as “16 Candles,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Beuller’s Day Off,” died Thursday in New York, the Associated Press reports.
Hughes also directed “Planes, Trains and Automobiles,” much of which was filmed in St. Louis.…
NEW YORK (AP) - Natasha Richardson, a gifted and precocious heiress to acting royalty whose career highlights included the film “Patty Hearst” and a Tony-winning performance in a stage revival of “Cabaret,” died Wednesday at age 45 after suffering a…
When John Updike died Tuesday at age 76, American literature lost its sharpest eye and most lyrical voice.
A two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, he once said that his ideal reader was a boy somewhere “to the east of Kansas”…
Patrick McGoohan died this week in Los Angeles. He was 80.
Born in New York but raised in the U.K., McGoohan was best known as the creator and star of the TV series “The Prisoner.” It was a surreal story about a…
Charlie Kieskalt died Saturday while doing what he loved: watching a movie. He was at a theater with his granddaughter when he had a stroke. He was 59.
Charlie, also known as Mr. Movie, was the projectionist at the Skyview Drive-in…
Funny thing about celebrities who speak their minds: We only think it’s a bad idea when we disagree with them.
Since 9/11, it’s been increasingly common for pundits to sneer at actors and musicians who express their political opinions. The…
Last week, after Richard Widmark died, I listed the legends of Hollywood who still walked among us. I forgot a big one: Charlton Heston. Heston died yesterday at age 84.
Heston’s filmography from IMDB
Coincidentally, he died on the birthday of two…
Time magazine recently anointed George Clooney as “the last movie star,” which is some reference to his classic charisma. But when Richard Widmark died this week at age 93, I wondered who really is the last holdover from Hollywood’s golden…
