This is the grave of Jack Lemmon. Born in 1925 in Newton, Massachusetts, Lemmon was a sickly child in a well-off but broken home. He had three ear surgeries by the time he was 10 and his parents had divorced by then too. But his...
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This is the grave of Wolfgang Petersen. Born in 1941 in Emden, Germany, Petersen was the son of a German naval officer. The father seems to have survived the war..
This is the future grave of Irwin Winkler. Born in New York in 1931, Winkler grew up in a Jewish immigrant family there. His family lived near Coney Island and.
This is the grave of Ross Hunter. Born in 1920 in Cleveland (although this might be speculative; evidently there was long belief that he lied about his age), Martin Fuss grew up in a Jewish household, pretty middle class it seems. He joined the military...
The desire to see every famous person portrayed in a formulaic biopic is one of the most frustrating things to me about modern media, third only to the entire comic.
This is the grave of John Huston. Born in 1906 in Nevada, Missouri, Huston grew up with the movies. His father was Walter Huston after all. There was a brief.
We have lost Tom Wilkinson, one of the great character actors of the last half-century. He was fantastic in so many films--In the Bedroom, The Full Monty, Michael Clayton, evidently some dumbass Batman movie, The Ghost Writer, Shakespeare in Love, Oscar and Lucinda, Grand Budapest...
This is the grave of Frank Borzage. Born in 1894 in Salt Lake City, Utah, Frank Borzaga was the son of a Italian immigrant miner and his Swiss wife. There's.
I personally loathe nostalgia in a quite visceral way. I legitimately feel that a huge part of my job as a historian is a war on nostalgia, especially in the.
This is the grave of Darryl Zanuck. Born in 1902 in the ridiculously named town of Wahoo, Nebraska, Zanuck moved with his mother to Los Angeles in 1908. The reason for the move is that young Darryl had bad health and the family evidently had...
This is the grave of Adolph Zukor. Born in 1873 in Ricse, in what is today Hungary, Zukor grew up in a middling Jewish family. His father ran a store..
This would be a horrible loss to the film community. It’s not every day that Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Paul Thomas Anderson team up. But IndieWire has learned they.