Category: people

“Somehow, in the midst of reviewing five movies a week and working on a half-dozen other writing projects, he found time and energy to respond to his commenters. It is partly this ubiquity that makes his loss feel so personal.”

But the writing life spurs her on.

Blank made “sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music and a host of other idiosyncratic subjects, including Mardi Gras, gaptoothed women, garlic and the filmmaker Werner Herzog.”

“The three volumes, totaling 1,600 meticulously researched pages, were published in 1977, 1981 and 1984. The final volume won a National Book Award.”

“Two years before Marcel Duchamp’s death in 1968, the Belgian director, Jean Antoine, filmed an interview with the artist in his Neuilly studio in the summer of 1966. … Here is [a transcript] the interview with the artist from our March 1993 issue, until then unpublished.”

“In recognition of [Roger Ebert’s] life and achievements, we reprint below excerpts from an oral history of his legendary partnership with fellow film critic Gene Siskel, originally published in 2012 in the first issue of The Chicagoan.”

“It would be easy for any performer to mistake the wild acclaim she received on Tuesday for a broader vote of confidence despite her frailty, but Ms. Stritch’s physical ailments have caught up with her. She is a diabetic and has suffered a number of falls and small strokes that have eroded her memory.”

“As the first partner to the famous Muppeteer, Henson was instrumental in the creation of the earliest characters in the brood of marionette-puppet hybrids. The initial crew of zany foam personalities included Kermit, who made his 1955 debut on the TV show Sam and Friends not as a frog, but as a green-hued lizard made from an old coat belonging to Jim’s mother.”

The 59-year-old writer, best known for his novel The Wasp Factory, wrote: “I am officially Very Poorly.”