I can't say I was the biggest Redford fan in the world. I certainly liked him well enough in several roles, but when facing off with Paul Newman, no one ever questioned who was the better actor. But he was more than capable, especially if...
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We lost another of the great figures of the civil rights movement: Joseph McNeil, who jolted the civil rights movement with a surge of youth activism when he and three.
Terence Stamp, RIP. The Limey is one of my favorite films ever made. ...[update by Rob] https://youtu.be/VKcpoyC6RMA?si=Xn5ywghUl7r0V6yV
We have lost one of the greatest titans of American music: The master of the Tex-Mex accordion Leonardo "Flaco" Jimenez, whose tradition-drenched sound came to define conjunto or Tejano music of South Texas, has died. Throughout a career that spanned more than 70 years, he carried that sound to...
Gen X weeps: Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor who rose to fame as a teenager playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show” in the mid-1980s, died in Costa Rica on Sunday..
Oh no, not David Gergen, who will provide us with more centrist bromides that challenge no one and say nothing except that billionaries are right and should control the planet?
Jimmy Swaggart is dead. I regret to note that while he was on my obituary list, I did not get to him in time (I am working up a good one on that hypocritical scumbag and extremely brief GOP speaker Bob Livingston though. I've also...
Even though it wasn't that long ago, we've almost forgotten how pretty progressive policymakers could come from the Rocky Mountain states. As Colorado, New Mexico ,and to a lesser extent.
The real shock is that Sly Stone actually lived to 82. And the last 50 years were pretty bad. But my God did he transform music for a few years..
A lot of pretty famous and pretty good people died this week. It's Memorial Day so let's remember them. First, Chuck Rangel. He was actually #8 on my obituary to-write list, but I've been slacking a bit on these and it didn't happen. I didn't...
I had completely forgotten Michael Ledeen existed, but he's dead and we should not mourn. That guy never found a situation where some killing wasn't the answer, whether it was.
Without question, Norm was one of the best characters in network sitcom history. RIP.