The Tree of Life star describes the free-form family vibe in making a film with the world’s most reclusive director
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CNBC: Squawk Box's Mark Haines Dies at 65
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CNBC just issued the sudden and sad news that Mark Haines, founding anchor of the channel’s signature program Squawk Box, died last night. The channel has launched a lot of business-news stars in its time, but Haines was as close as anyone to being its defining face and voice. Like a …
Tim Hetherington: War Hero Who Shot With a Camera
The Restrepo director was both a soldier among frontline photographers and a missionary with no dogma but to give people the look and feel of the wars their governments wage in their name
Elizabeth Taylor's Littlest Role
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Word has come out that legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor has died. I will leave it to my colleagues on the film side to properly eulogize her life and career, but I wanted to take a second to remember one of her appearances on TV. Her part consisted of just one word, but her …
Columnist, Pundit, MTP Eminence David Broder Dies
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The Washington Post announced today that 81-year-old political columnist David Broder has died of complications from diabetes. The dean of Washington journalists (an unofficial title he carried most of his professional life) was one of the most important chroniclers and explainers of …
Remembering Jane Russell: Brunette Bombshell
Back then they were called bosoms. Jane Russell had some, and Howard Hughes knew what to do with them. Russell’s breasts — not actors Walter Huston and Thomas Mitchell — were the stars of Hughes’s 1943 western The Outlaw. …
Kevin Smith: Why He’s Going Rogue with Red State
The director talks to TIME about his new movie, thumbing his nose at the Hollywood studio system and why he’s serious about leaving film
Remembering Anne Francis (1930-2011)
Francis died Sunday, Jan. 2, of pancreatic cancer at a rest home in Santa Barbara, Calif. She was 80.
Leslie Nielsen, 1926–2010: He Was Funny. And Don't Call Him Shirley
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Leslie Nielsen, star of TV’s Police Squad! as well as the Airplane and Naked Gun movies, has died at age 84. Nielsen was a dramatic actor who turned to comedy relatively late, but the first half of his career was preparation for the second, in which he became one of Hollywood’s …
Remembering Creator of Moose and Squirrel
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Alexander Anderson, creator of Rocky and His Friends and the subsequent spinoffs involving the cold-war-era capers of the flying squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, died Friday. TIME film critic Richard …
Tom Bosley, 1927-2010: American Dad
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Tom Bosley, a TV fixture as the Cunningham paterfamilias on Happy Days, died today at age 83.
There are two types of TV dads: those who play somebody’s dad, and those who make you feel as if they could be—almost, in some way, as if they are—your dad. Bosley was the latter. His …
Barbara Billingsley Dies At 94
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Barbara Billingsley, best known as Cleaver family matriarch June in Leave It to Beaver, has died at age 94. Through June Cleaver, Billngsley created one of that handful of TV characters who we’ve come to know not just as people but as symbols of the ideas and social threads of an …
Stephen J. Cannell, Wise Guy of Primetime, Dies at 69
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Stephen J. Cannell, creator or producer of dozens of TV series over several decades, is reported to have died at age 69. Cannell’s extensive list of achievements includes a number of well-known TV series, especially cop and crime shows, and likely The Rockford Files and The A-Team …