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David Hedison, Actor Who Found Fame in a Submarine, Dies at 92
David Hedison, the tall, dark and handsome actor who rose to fame as the by-the-book submarine captain on the prime-time series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 92.Terry Allen Kramer, Tony-Winning Producer, Is Dead at 85
Terry Allen Kramer, the colorful Broadway producer who won five best-production Tony Awards in 16 years but was just as well known as the grande dame of Palm Beach, Florida, socialites, died Thursday at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell hospital in Manhattan. She was 85.
Art Basel's Asian Art Gets to Hong Kong via New York and Los Angeles
There you are in Hong Kong, making your way through the convention center and this newest iteration of Art Basel. Ah! There’s a group of bamboo and rattan sculptures by Sopheap Pich, the Cambodian artist, inspired by trees in his homeland. And there, at the same booth, a new map — she’d call it a cartographic work — by Tiffany Chung, the Vietnamese artist. Maybe it’s a new addition to “The Vietnam Exodus Project,” whose images Holland Cotter described in The New York Times as “personal, polit...
Met Gives Music Gallery a Makeover
NEW YORK — That’s Japan on your left. The first thing you may notice, inside a glass case filled with musical instruments, is the eighth-century koto, a long, low instrument with strings sometimes played while sitting on the floor. Southeast Asia is on your right. What looks like a small crocodile is a 19th-century mi-gyaung, or crocodile zither, from Myanmar (when it was Burma).
Peter Tork, Court Jester of the Made-for-TV Band The Monkees, Dies at 77
Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with The Monkees, died Thursday at a family home in eastern Connecticut. He was 77.Peter Tork, Court Jester of The Monkees, Is Dead at 77
Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with The Monkees, died Thursday at a family home in eastern Connecticut. He was 77.Peter Tork, Court Jester of the Monkees, Is Dead at 77
Peter Tork, a struggling musician who became an overnight teenage idol in the 1960s with the Monkees, died Thursday at a family home in eastern Connecticut. He was 77.Bruno Ganz, Who Played an Angel and Hitler, Is Dead at 77
Bruno Ganz, the melancholy Swiss film actor who played an angel longing for the visceral joys of mortality in “Wings of Desire” and a defeated Hitler with trembling hands facing his own mortality in “Downfall,” died Friday at his home in Zurich. He was 77.June Whitfield, a Star of 'Absolutely Fabulous,' Dies at 93
June Whitfield, the diminutive British actress whose seven-decade career reached its peak as Edina Monsoon’s dotty, acerbic mother in the hit comedy series “Absolutely Fabulous,” died Friday in London. She was 93.Penny Marshall, TV Sitcom Star and Hollywood Director, Dies at 75
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.Penny Marshall, TV Sitcom Star and Hollywood Director, Dies at 75
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.Penny Marshall, TV Sitcom Star and Hollywood Director, Dies at 76
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.Penny Marshall, TV Sitcom Star and Hollywood Director, Dies at 76
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom “Laverne & Shirley” and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like “Big” and “A League of Their Own,” died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.Paul Benjamin, a 'corner man' in 'do the right thing,' is dead
In a career that lasted almost half a century, he also appeared on screen opposite Clint Eastwood and other stars and was frequently seen on television.
Peggy Lipton, 'Mod Squad' star who bridged TV generations, dies at 72
Peggy Lipton, the angel-faced actress who starred in “The Mod Squad” and made a television comeback in the “Twin Peaks” series, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 72.
Peggy Lipton, 'Mod Squad' and 'Twin Peaks' actress, dies at 72
Peggy Lipton, the angel-faced actress who starred in “The Mod Squad” and made a television comeback in the “Twin Peaks” series, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 72.
Bibi Andersson, luminous presence in Bergman films, dies at 83
Bibi Andersson, the luminous Swedish actress who personified first purity and youth, then complexity and disillusionment, in 13 midcentury Ingmar Bergman films, died Sunday in Stockholm. She was 83.
Nina Mae McKinney, who defied the barriers of race to find stardom
About 20 minutes into “Hallelujah,” Hollywood’s first all-sound feature with an all-black cast, Nina Mae McKinney appeared on screen as Chick, a singer and dancer, in a sexy flapper dress.
Norman Gimbel, Grammy and Oscar-winning lyricist, dies at 91
The death was confirmed by his son Tony, managing partner of his father’s music publishing company, Words West.
