Little Miss Lollipop, the all-time child star, dies at age 85. A look back at her extraordinary career
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Aaron Sorkin: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Saved 10 Lives
The creator of ‘The West Wing’ and the renowned actor shared a struggle with drug addiction. Sorkin remembers a performer who dominated the real estate upon which his characters walked
WATCH: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 7 Greatest Movie Roles
The actor died Sunday at 46. Watch clips from some of his most memorable roles
Arlo Guthrie Remembers Pete Seeger: “He Would Just Wave His Hand, and You Could Hear People Singing”
The iconic folk singer shares memories of his colleague and friend
Director Justin Lin on Paul Walker: A Fast Friend
The “Fast & Furious” vet shares his memories of the late actor
Remembering Phyllis Diller: Stand-Up Comedy Pioneer
She burst through the sex barrier, and could reel off gag lines with the best of the boys
The Death of the Original Cosmo Girl: Helen Gurley Brown (1922–2012)
A journalistic legend, she saw and realized the commercial potential of the female libido in the magazine-publishing industry
The Tao of Cooper: Why High Noon Still Matters
I discovered what a really good actor my father, Gary Cooper, was on the set of High Noon, when I watched the filming of the movie’s memorable wedding scene. We did not visit my father at work often. He found it distracting to …
An Andy Griffith Tribute, with Song Lyrics
The news that Andy Griffith died this morning, at the age of 86, provoked an odd combination of feelings at our office: sadness at his death, wistfulness for the simple black-and-white world he represented and, in spite of all that sorrow, a strong desire to whistle. You don’t have to have been a fan of The Andy Griffith Show to whistle …
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Dick Clark, America’s Party Chaperone, Dies at Age 82
The sentence “Dick Clark died today” seems like a contradiction in terms. If there was someone who was supposed to be forever young, untouched by time, it was him: if not immortal, then at least amortal. He was a contradiction: one of TV’s longest-serving colossi, best known for shows that celebrated eternal youth (American Bandstand) …
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Andrew Breitbart, 1969-2012
Maybe the most telling thing about the news that conservative blog impresario Andrew Breitbart had died was that as word spread on Twitter this morning, many people passed it along with the caveat that it might not be true, …
The Voice: Whitney Houston (1963-2012)
One of the greatest voices in the history of American popular music has been silenced. An appreciation of the talents of Whitney Houston
