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RIP Film Critic Elliott Stein
When I worked at my first journalism gig as associate editor at Film Comment Magazine back in the 80s, Elliott Stein was one of my favorite regular contributors. He was erudite about world cinema, an omnivorous global cinephile and historian who knew more about Asian cinema than anyone I knew.
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RIP PR Pioneer Lois Smith: Tributes from Kingsley, Siegal, O'Donnell
Lois Smith, who died last weekend from complications due to a fall, helped to define modern PR. Back in 1971, she founded, along with Pat Kingsley (who handled Tom Cruise for years), New York's Pickwick Public Relations, and went on to pursue production at Marble Arch and United Artists before retur...
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The Web Remembers Andy Williams (1927-2012), 'Moon River' Crooner, Grammy & Emmy Winner
'60s crooner and TV host Andy Williams died Tuesday night after a yearlong battle with bladder cancer. A major music star contemporary with Elvis and Sinatra, Williams had 18 gold records, with three going platinum, and was nominated for five Grammys, along with hosting the show a number of times. H...
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RIP Director Tony Scott
RIP "Top Gun" director Tony Scott, who jumped off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro to his death around 12:30 PM on Sunday. The police identified the body they pulled from the water as the 68-year-old British filmmaker ("Unstoppable," "The Taking of Pelham 123"). H...
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Obit: Publicist Dale Olson Repped the Stars, from MacLaine to Hudson
Dale Olson, the veteran Hollywood publicist who convinced Rock Hudson to admit that he was dying of AIDS, died Thursday, August 9 at the age of 78 after a long battle with cancer. Because the first victims of AIDS were homosexuals, AIDS was an unmentionable disease in 1985 when Olson persuaded the ...
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Obit: New York Film Critic Judith Crist
Judith Crist, the tough, witty, and often caustic film critic who combined a passionate love for movies with an equally passionate distaste for movie rubbish, died Tuesday, August 7 at the age of 90. According to her son, Steven Crist, she died at her Manhattan home after a long illness. ...
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Obit: 'Chorus Line' Composer Marvin Hamlisch Wrote for Film, Theater and TV --and Streisand
Marvin Hamlisch, a composer who moved effortlessly from movies to musical theatre to television, winning Grammys, Emmys, Oscars and a Tony award, died unexpectedly on Monday, August 6, at the age of 68 after a brief illness. Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers are the only two composers who have won all o...
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Remembering Gore Vidal, Prolific Author-Screenwriter-Playwright and First-Rate Feuder (VIDEO)
Gore Vidal, one of America's most accomplished author-essayist-playwright-screenwriters and famous for his feuds with other great thinkers, died July 31 from pneumonia at age 86. Below, a roundup from the web.
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One Day with Chris Marker, Film Essayist and Influencer
One day, sometime deep in the last millennium, I had the good fortune to be on the receiving end of a phone call from the filmmaker Jean-Pierre Gorin telling me not to make any plans for the next day, and if I had plans, to cancel them. Why, I asked. Because, he said, we’re going to visit Chris Ma...
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OBIT: French Avant-Garde Filmmaker Chris Marker (VIDEO CLIP)
French writer and avant garde multimedia artist/photographer/filmmaker Chris Marker died at age 91 on July 29. The film that they screen most at film schools is Left Bank Cinema entry "La jetee" (1962), followed by "A Grin Without a Cat" (1977), "Sans Soleil" (1983) and his documentary essay on Akir...
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