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Angela Lansbury, Titan of the Stage and Screen, Dead at 96 She earned numerous accolades throughout her over-75-year career.
By Zoe Guy
Charles Fuller, Award-Winning Playwright, Dead at 83 He earned a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for A Soldier’s Play .
By Zoe Guy
Hilary Mantel, Decorated Wolf Hall Author, Dead at 70 She won the Booker Prize twice for her celebrated historical series.
By Zoe Guy
Joe E. Tata, Beverly Hills, 90210 Actor, Dead at 85 He played the owner of the Peach Pit, Nat Bussichio.
By Zoe Guy
remembrance
Aug. 19, 2022
Farewell to Wolfgang Petersen, and to the Sincere Action Movie The director turned silly melodramas into works of pure catharsis, and defined a generation of American action films in the process.
By Bilge Ebiri
Wolfgang Petersen, Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story Director, Dead at 81 The German director defined action thrillers for a generation with films such as In the Line of Fire .
By Zoe Guy
Anne Heche Has Died at 53 The actor suffered severe injuries after a car crash in L.A. earlier this month.
By Bindu Bansinath
Olivia Newton-John Has Died Her Grease co-star John Travolta paid tribute to the actor on Instagram.
By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
James Caan, The Godfather and The Gambler Actor, Dead at 82 Representatives confirmed the death of the leading man on Twitter.
By Zoe Guy
Kazuki Takahashi, Famed Yu-Gi-Oh! Creator, Dead at 60 He was found floating off the coast of Nago City in Japan.
By Zoe Guy
Madeleine Albright Has Died The first woman to serve as U.S. Secretary of State died on Wednesday at 84.
By Danielle Cohen
Betty Davis Has Died The iconic funk singer and patron saint of female desire has died at 77.
By Danielle Cohen
Remembering Ricardo Bofill, Architect of Otherworldly Social Housing His buildings fill dystopic films, but function more colorful utopias for the residents who actually live in them.
By Kate Wagner
Drakeo the Ruler, Influential West Coast Rapper, Dead at 28 The family intends to file a lawsuit against concert promoters next week.
By Wolfgang Ruth
Sheldon Silver Was Albany’s Foremost ‘No’ for Decades He spent nearly 40 years in the state assembly, and the past two in prison.
By Christopher Bonanos
remembrances
Jan. 22, 2022
Honoring His Mother Was Louie Anderson’s Life’s Work Throughout his decades-long career, the comedian learned to love himself the way his mother loved him.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
My Sidney Poitier He was always transcendent, but there was nothing quite like watching the late actor and director take control of the screen in the 1970s.
By Odie Henderson
in memoriam
Dec. 28, 2021
Out of Time: The Life’s Work of Jean-Marc Vallée The late director and editor’s best film and television projects are united by a resolute commitment to immersive, subjective storytelling.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
appreciation
Dec. 23, 2021
Joan Didion’s Greatest Two-Word Sentence The power of an ice-cold, unflinching gaze.
By Molly Fischer
Virgil Abloh, Trailblazing Fashion Designer, Dies at 41 The designer, who brought American style to Paris at Louis Vuitton and created a sensation with his own label, Off-White, had a rare form of cancer.
By Matthew Schneier
The Measureless Influence of Stephen Sondheim There was very little he thought a musical could not do.
By Mark Harris
Remembering the ‘Tireless’ Halyna Hutchins, a Rising Cinematography Star Friends and colleagues recall the cinematographer’s work ethic and artistic eye: “There is no excuse I can accept for this loss.”
By Chris Lee
Christopher Ayres, Voice of Frieza in Dragon Ball Series, Dead at 56 Ayres has been credited over 200 times during his voice-acting career.
By Alejandra Gularte
in memoriam
Sept. 7, 2021
Death of a Storyteller Rare is the actor who can locate the specific in the universal and vice versa. Michael K. Williams was that actor.
By Matt Zoller Seitz
chuck close
Aug. 20, 2021
Chuck Close, Artist Mutineer A critic considers the legacy of an intractable force in portraiture who turned himself into an artist non grata.
By Jerry Saltz
The Hostel Has Closed on Nantucket The Star of the Sea — a cheap place to be — has been purchased and, yes, kicked the bucket.
By Kim Velsey
Acclaimed Writer Janet Malcolm Has Died She was known for her sharp criticism, especially of journalism.
By Mia Mercado
Jim Steinman, Master of Excess At his best, humor and his natural talents came together — most often in the work of Meat Loaf — to create ineffable moments of pop and rock grandeur.
By Bill Wyman
On the Talented, Monstrous James Levine The Met’s longtime artistic director, fired for sexual abuse, has died at 77.
By Justin Davidson
No One Was Safe from Phil Spector The producer made countless contributions to music, but his ego overshadowed them all.
By Bill Wyman
remembrance
Sept. 18, 2020
The Glorious RBG I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.
By Irin Carmon
Gail Sheehy Never Stopped Reporting A memorial tribute to one of New York’ s most daring writers.
By Christopher Bonanos
Pete Hamill Was One of Us, Only Better at It The peerless observer of New York life died yesterday at 85.
By Christopher Bonanos
remembrance
July 30, 2020
A Rolling Tribute to New York’ s John Homans We’ll be republishing this page frequently, as his colleagues join in remembering him.
By Christopher Bonanos
Kelly Preston Dies at 57 After Struggle With Breast Cancer The ‘Jerry Maguire’ actress was married to John Travolta for 28 years.
By Hannah Gold
Christo Made Us Feel the Awe-Inspiring Impermanence of Human Achievement Some scoff at these works as mere spectacle. They are spectacle. But that isn’t nothing.
By Jerry Saltz
On Larry Kramer, The Normal Heart, and Playwriting As Screed “I had internalized that meat-ax political drama was a synonym for ‘clumsy.’ But it dismantled all my craft preconceptions.”
By Helen Shaw
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May 9, 2020
Little Richard Put Wild Sex Into the Top 40 for Good The self-described king and queen of rock and roll died today at 87.
By Bill Wyman
There Was One Great Role Brian Dennehy Never Got to Play Robert Falls talked about the great American actor, who died on Wednesday at 81.
By Helen Shaw
What Elizabeth Wurtzel Was Really Like My friend Elizabeth Wurtzel was everything we weren’t supposed to be.
By Nancy Jo Sales
Remembering Elizabeth Wurtzel, a Proudly Difficult Person “She had a tiny nuclear reactor where the rest of us have a breastbone.”
By Benjamin Wallace
Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing and Moonstruck Actor, Dead at 86 “The world has lost one of its greatest actors who also happened to be a wonderful human being.”
By Rebecca Alter
On John Simon Considering the longtime New York critic, who died yesterday at 94.
By Christopher Bonanos
remembrances
Oct. 5, 2019
The Trailblazing Power of Diahann Carroll A celebration of the Dynasty star, her indelible six-decade career, and the ‘70s rom-com Claudine .
By Odie Henderson
Robert Frank, 1924–2019: The Rage and the Benevolence A remembrance by Frank’s biographer, including an excerpt from his book.
By RJ Smith
appreciations
July 31, 2019
Frank Rich: Hal Prince Directed the Greatest Musical Production I Ever Saw And, Frank Rich recalls, there was a lot more greatness where that came from.
By Frank Rich
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