Celebrating the Living: Paul Williams
What the Williams family does, apparently they do well. Older brother John J. was a…
Attention Must Be Paid: Luise Rainer
Five years ago, she was the first person whose obituary I wrote for this site.…
Celebrating the Living: Marge Champion
I’d be surprised if anyone else from about half her movies were still alive. She…
Attention Must Be Paid: Harry Redmond, Jr.
He didn’t have as impressive a career as his wife, which is not something we…
Celebrating the Living: Richard Lester
Every once in a while, retirement can make you think a person’s dead. When someone…
Attention Must Be Paid: Dorothea Holt Redmond
Today I learned that there was a 1949 made-for-TV production of the Agatha Christie work…
Celebrating the Living: Irene Bedard
For a while this school year, there was a kid on my son’s school bus…
Attention Must Be Paid: Walt Disney
When Walt Disney died in 1966, the first thing the company did was try to…
Celebrating the Living: Norman Lear
The kicker about that headline that mistakenly referred to Norman Mailer as the oldest-ever Emmy…
Attention Must Be Paid: Audrey Totter
I have this theory that women named Audrey are always beautiful. Audrey Hepburn. Audrey Tatou.…