Paul Newman, a movie star who straddled the end years of golden Hollywood and the new Hollywood era of anti-heroes, has died after a battle with cancer. Newman was one of the great iconic actors in film with classic roles in films in every decade through the 1990s. He was an actor who transcended his [...]
Norman Whitfield – a key member of Motown’s late 60s assembly line as a writer/producer, is dead at age 65. At Motown he co-wrote classics like “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”, “Just my Imagination”, “Ball of Confusion”, “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”, “Cloud Nine”, and “War” pushing the staid label into more socially conscious [...]
Rick Wright, a founding member of British rock band Pink Floyd, died today of cancer. He was 65. Wright was a versatile and innovative keyboardist with an influence that ranged beyond Floyd’s progressive rock into techno and electronica. Wright co-wrote several Floyd songs including the classics “Us and Them” from 1973′s Dark Side of the [...]
Hyper-referential post-modern author David Foster Wallace ended his own life this weekend. Best known for his half-ton Pynchon in a blender Infinite Jest he also wrote a number of short story collections and essays. My own favorite is one my wife had to entice me to read, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again [...]
Author Gregory Mcdonald who created the characters of investigative reporter Irwin Maurice (I.M.) Fletcher – better known as Fletch – and Boston’s own Inspector Flynn – has died of cancer. Fletch was a sensation when he was introduced to readers in 1974, spawning numerous books and two films starring Chevy Chase. Chase caught the hip [...]
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