Richard Corliss, the film critic for TIME Magazine, passed away at the age of 71 due to complications following a stroke Thursday night. TIME editor Nancy Gibbs sent a note to the staff Friday morning about his passing, which you can read here. Corliss was a film critic with TIME for 35 years, sharing bylines alongside fellow …
Albert Maysles, the documentarian behind such groundbreaking films as Grey Gardens and The Rolling Stones documentary Gimme Shelter, died Thursday evening. This morning, The Criterion Collection announced his passing via their Facebook page. He was 88. Maysles innovated the “fly on the wall” style of filmmaking, and his films from Salesman to Grey Gardens to …
Mike Nichols, the Oscar winning director of The Graduate and the storied star of Broadway, passed away Wednesday evening. He was 83. Nichols is one of the famous few EGOT winners, having started his career as a comedy performer with an improv comedy troupe and in a comedy duo along with Elaine May. His Broadway …
Joan Rivers, the legendary comedian, TV personality, actress, and red carpet host, passed away Thursday after over a week long struggle in which she was kept alive on life support and put into a medically induced coma. She was 81. “It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. …
Oscar winning director and actor Richard Attenborough has passed away at the age of 90. Born in 1923, Attenborough served in the served in the Royal Air Force during World War II. He began acting on stage, but made the transition to film in a small role in David Lean’s In Which We Serve in …
Lauren Bacall, starring alongside her husband Humphrey Bogart in Old Hollywood Classics like The Big Sleep, Key Largo and To Have and Have Not, has passed away at the age of 89. The Humphrey Bogart Estate and Twitter account had the news: With deep sorrow, yet with great gratitude for her amazing life, we confirm …
In a heartbreaking turn of events, iconic actor of both TV and film Robin Williams has passed away today at the age of 63. The Hollywood Reporter states that the shocking death may have unfortunately been a result of suicide. Variety quotes his wife Susan Schneider’s statement, “I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin’s …
Elaine Stritch, a 5-time Tony nominated Broadway legend and a recurring character on TV’s 30 Rock, passed away this morning at the age of 89. Stritch made her Broadway debut in 1946 for the production Loco and had since starred in productions by William Inge, Noel Coward and Stephen Sondheim. In 1995 she was inducted …
Eli Wallach, the star of many a classic Old Hollywood Western, passed away Tuesday, The New York Times reported. He was 98. Wallach was most notably known as Tuco from Sergio Leone’s masterpiece The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, but he also worked alongside Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in The Misfits, Yul Brynner …
I have never met a person as boundlessly enthusiastic as my Quebecois co-host Michael Ryan. We all have a reserve of positivity residing within us; some are smaller than others, but Mike’s was infinite. Upon seeing the news, posted to his Facebook page from his parents, Michele and Terry, that Mike had passed away, I …