A film critic who influenced a generation of moviegoers, Crist was known for her acerbic reviews. But to her journalism students, she was that rare teacher who could lodge herself into a pupil’s soul
Remembrance
Nobody Did It Better: Memories of Marvin Hamlisch, 1944-2012
The Oscar-, Tony-, Emmy-, Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning composer is dead at 68
Marilyn Monroe 50 Years Later: In TIME and Out of Time
A wondrous comedienne, a troubled spirit and the great media magnet of her era, the blond bombshell spilled the secrets of her abused childhood for the readers of TIME in 1956
A Roaring Literary Lion: Remembering Gore Vidal, 1925–2012
From ‘The Best Man’ to ‘Myra Breckinridge,’ nothing was out of bounds in the work of this famed man of letters
Sherman Hemsley, Jeffersons Star, Dies at Age 74
Sherman Hemsley, the onetime stage actor who became a pop-culture fixture as dry-cleaning entrepreneur George Jefferson on All in the Family and The Jeffersons, has died at age 74.
As Norman Lear created him and Hemsley brought him to life, George was an example of how the same things that make sitcom characters outsized and hilarious …
Ernest Borgnine: Farewell to Marty and McHale
Remembering the actor who filled a 60-year movie career playing sadists, slapstick sailors and one unforgettable lug named Marty
Andy Griffith: His Hottest Decade Was the ’50s
TV fans love him for Mayberry and Matlock, but at the start of his career he had a top-10 record, two hit Broadway shows, one popular movie and another — A Face in the Crowd — that turned his smiling-yokel persona into a …
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 …
Nora Ephron: A Life of Voice and Detail
The star of Ephron’s films “Sleepless in Seattle” and “You’ve Got Mail” reflects on the genius of a colleague and friend
Remembering Andrew Sarris: A Great American Film Critic
He changed the way people look at movies. He wrote the most influential book on American films. He was a mentor and a friend. He is irreplaceable.
R.I.P. Ray Bradbury: He Jumped Off Cliffs and Never Hit the Ground
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn’t afraid of looking uncool—he wasn’t scared to openly love …
From TIME’s Archive: Ray Bradbury on Literature, Big Government and Jumping Off Cliffs
TIME talked to the celebrated science fiction author in 2010 on the occasion of his 90th birthday
Richard Dawson, 1932–2012
Richard Dawson, actor, game show host and professional charmer, died Saturday at age 79. Dawson first came to fame on American televisions as good-humored British POW Cpl. Newkirk on Hogan’s Heroes, but he was best-known as a sly, saucy daytime TV conversationalist on Match Game and, most famously, Family Feud.
On Match Game, that …