With the passing of 83 year old movie legend Paul Newman yesterday at his home in Westport, Connecticut, plenty will be said about his storied career, long and successful marriage, foray into charitable salad dressings and pasta sauces, irreverent and self-deprecating humor, piercing blue eyes and iconic roles like Butch Cassidy and Cool Hand Luke. [...]
I’m always a little bit excited to use tags that I don’t use very often — but I’m not excited to use my obituary tag on Sydney Pollock, who died Sunday at his home in the Pacific Palisades. He was diagnosed with cancer 9 months ago.
From his role as Jack in one of my very [...]
I don’t have much to say about the death of Charlton Heston. Should I be sad? The guy was pretty old. I’m also embarrassed to admit that I haven’t seen very many of his most famous films, including Ben-Hur, Planet of the Apes and The Ten Commandments (apart from bits and pieces every Easter…actually, that’s [...]
When I was 15, I thought it would be cool to be a film snob. It’s hard to be a 15 year old girl and be a snob about anything – if you want to have any friends, which I did want. Actually, I needed friends, because I couldn’t drive yet and didn’t want to [...]