Buck Henry: Heaven Could No Longer Wait by David Phillips January 12, 2020 4 News When you talk about the career of Buck Henry, you do so in two parts. The one in front of... Read more
Sue Lyon: Pronounced Lo-Lee-Ta by David Phillips December 30, 2019 0 News Sue Lyon’s acting’s career began in a manner as controversial as one could imagine. As the underage object of affection... Read more
Remembering Danny Aiello In ‘Do The Right Thing’ by David Phillips December 14, 2019 11 Obits When you look over Danny Aiello’s resume, it’s hard not to go bug-eyed just over the films you forgot he... Read more
Night Falls On Ron Leibman by David Phillips December 9, 2019 5 News Over a sixty-plus year career, Ron Leibman enjoyed memorable success on stage, television, and the big screen. Starting in the... Read more
Robert Evans: The Kid Departs The Picture by David Phillips October 29, 2019 3 News More tan than George Hamilton, as suave as Warren Beatty, and almost as handsome as Robert Redford, Robert Evans was... Read more
Lady Diahann by David Phillips October 13, 2019 1 ADTV Things happen when you are away and in a country with bad WIFI. I was in Rome when the news... Read more
Valerie and Rhoda by David Phillips August 30, 2019 1 ADTV While Valerie Harper’s lengthy career touched seven different decades, it’s fair to say she was best known for one particular... Read more
Peter Fonda’s Gold by David Phillips August 17, 2019 1 Obits Peter Fonda may have been the least accomplished of the Fonda film power trio (no shame in that, the bar... Read more
D.A. Pennebaker: The Other Legend in the Room by David Phillips August 4, 2019 1 News D.A. Pennebaker was a wildly productive documentarian with 60 credits amassed over a 50-plus year career. His greatest gift was... Read more
Rutger Hauer Off the Shoulder of Orion by David Phillips July 24, 2019 3 Obits Rutger Hauer's career peak in America was relatively brief, but my, did it ever burn bright. The strapping, remarkably handsome... Read more
Defending Rip Torn’s Life by David Phillips July 11, 2019 3 Obits In a career that spanned 60 years, character actor Rip Torn was perhaps best known for bringing a crusty edge... Read more
Franco Zeffirelli: Master of Language and Emotion by David Phillips June 15, 2019 3 Obits Franco Zeffirelli’s career encompassed nearly 60 years of directing features, television movies, operas, and shorts. While the Italian-born filmmaker met... Read more
Sylvia Miles Made the Most of Every Moment by David Phillips June 12, 2019 2 Obits Sylvia Miles was nearly 45 years old when she got her big break. Cast as an aristocratic woman who picks... Read more
Tim Conway: Born To Befuddle by David Phillips May 15, 2019 1 Obits Tim Conway’s career began in earnest with his hilarious performance on McHale’s Navy way back in 1962. Conway was the... Read more
Doris Day’s Sentimental Journey by David Phillips May 15, 2019 16 Obits Doris Day was the Julia Roberts of her time…only bigger. For two decades, she was America’s Sweetheart. If the term... Read more
The Mysterious Allure of Peggy Lipton by David Phillips May 12, 2019 2 News It goes without saying, yet it must be said Peggy Lipton was impossibly beautiful. I’m always amazed by the fact... Read more
The Extraordinary Alvin Sargent by David Phillips May 12, 2019 0 News Alvin Sargent cut his teeth 'til they were razor sharp writing for early 1960s television programs , like Naked City,... Read more
Hollywood Remembers Agnès Varda – Godmother of French New Wave Film by Jazz Tangcay March 29, 2019 4 News Hollywood is mourning the death of Agnès Varda. The French filmmaker passed away earlier today. Varda was known as the... Read more
Sondra Locke And Eastwood’s Shadow by David Phillips December 14, 2018 54 News It’s hard to calculate how much Sondra Locke’s career was helped and hurt by her long-running personal and professional relationship... Read more
Bernardo Bertolucci and Separating the Art From the Artist by David Phillips November 30, 2018 10 featured The death of legendary film director Bernardo Bertolucci on November 26, 2018 brings into tight focus the challenge of assessing... Read more
