Sam Bottoms 1955-2008
December 18, 2008
One of the four Bottoms Brothers, memorable as the retarded Billy (his film debut) in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show. RIP.
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One of the four Bottoms Brothers, memorable as the retarded Billy (his film debut) in Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show. RIP.
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The time is right for Milk. Gus Van Sant’s cinematic consideration of the man who arguably did more than anyone to raise this country’s gay consciousness arrives at a crucial time. What a cruel joke that in the space of a month, our democracy managed to bestow the highest office in the land on a…
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William Gibson, Playwright (The Miracle Worker, Two for the Seesaw, Golda’s Balcony) 1914-2008 (above, with Anne Bancroft and wife Margaret) Gerald Schoenfeld, Chairman of the Shubert Organization, 1924-2008
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With the opening of the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, the din of cranky naysayers have reached a fever pitch: the car chases don’t make sense, they say, the character is too emotional, where are the spiffy gadgets, blah, fucking blah. The displeased throng should get over themselves. Quantum’s take on the further…
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Fast cars, explosions, double-crossers, hot mamas and Daniel Craig–it’s a heavenly day when Quantum of Solace opens at the Ziegfeld (!) on Friday, November 14
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Edie Adams, 1927-2008. Growing up Edie was everywhere: on television variety shows and especially commercials. In my head I still hear her voice, a jazzy belt that could make Muriel Panatella Cigars sound like the coolest thing on earth. Thanks to her, I’m sure that company made a lot of dough. RIP.
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RIP Fred Crane (right, with George Reeves as the Tarlton Twins in Gone with the Wind) 1908-2008
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Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008. Composer, the penultimate soul man. RIP.
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She would have turned 85 on July 25. Forever famous as Sophia on television’s The Golden Girls, but it was in Broadway’s Torch Song Trilogy (1982) that I first laid eyes on Estelle Getty. Thereafter, she was doomed to serve up variations on the cantankerous little old lady, but what’s to complain? After all, it…
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