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The author of screenplays (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies) and plays (The Trip to Bountiful, The Young Man from Atlanta, Dividing the Estate). What delicate, human worlds he gave us. What a towering talent. RIP.
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Delaney Bramlett, Freddie Hubbard, Bernie Hamilton, Daniel Nagrin, Ann Savage, and Edward Purdom—this list of high-and-low cultured show folk said their last goodbyes at year’s end. Now Pat Hingle’s gone, a character actor whose work spanned TV, film and the Broadway stage. So many memorable performances (he was unforgettable as the hood who burned a…
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The film director whose versatility behind the lens gave us masterpieces like To Kill A Mockingbird, and other flicks that were merely fascinating—Inside Daisy Clover, Fear Strikes Out, The Other, Love With The Proper Stranger, Up The Down Staircase, to name but a few. If you’re unfamiliar with these soulful, intimate works (ones containing great…
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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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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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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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Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008. Composer, the penultimate soul man. RIP.
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