Attention Must Be Paid: Mary Shelley
She was nineteen. She was living as married, but her partner was already married to…
Celebrating the Living: Clare Higgins
It wouldn’t bother Clare Higgins that I’ve never seen Hellraiser all the way through, as…
Attention Must Be Paid: Lon Chaney, Jr.
Honestly, he’d be upset to be billed here as Lon Chaney, Jr. Leaving aside that…
Celebrating the Living: John Carpenter
Halloween tradition holds that someone will appear for Horrortober who produces the reaction of “wait,…
Attention Must Be Paid: Zita Johann
One of the recurring fascinations for this column is people who just . . .…
Celebrating the Living: Sandra Lee Gimpel
One of the long-running challenges around here is “write about this person without an IMDb/Wikipedia…
Attention Must Be Paid: Lon Chaney
When silent actors fail to make movies in the sound era, the automatic assumption is…
Celebrating the Living: LeVar Burton
It was the summer of 1983. We children were expected to do yard work, if…
Attention Must Be Paid: Ann Doran
Both Wikipedia and IMDb claim that Ann Doran was in over 500 movies, though IMDb…
Disney Byways: Roy’s Legacy
Roy Oliver Disney doesn’t come up much. You can tell, because this may well be…