Attention Must Be Paid: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Sometimes, it can be hard to believe it’s been long enough. For many years, Philip…
Attention Must Be Paid: Hedy Lamarr
I can’t help wondering if she would’ve been happier if she could have just worked…
Attention Must Be Paid: Roland Young
It’s interesting to me that the Academy both decided that the title role of Cosmo…
Attention Must Be Paid: Elaine Stritch
Look, I love me some Patti LuPone. How could I not? But if I’m honest,…
Attention Must Be Paid: Buddy Hackett
It seems that he’d clean up his comedy when he did it on TV, which…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ruby Dee
There is a movie listed as being “filming” starring Ruby Dee. Who has been dead…
Attention Must Be Paid: Gore Vidal
Grown-up nerds like Gore Vidal. And even he’s kissed more boys than I ever will.…
Attention Must Be Paid: Kathleen Freeman
Once again, we are exactly in this column’s wheelhouse. An actress with some three hundred…
Celebrating the Living: Wendy Carlos
Few of the people we’ve discussed have been celebrated by NASA. If you go to…
Attention Must Be Paid: Divine
I remember a few years back, I watched the documentary I Am Divine and realized…