David Hedison, the tall, dark and handsome actor who rose to fame as the by-the-book submarine captain on the prime-time series âVoyage to the Bottom of the Sea,â died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 92.
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.
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, 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, 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, the melancholy Swiss film actor who played an angel longing for the visceral joys of mortality in âWings of Desireâ and a defeated Hitler with trembling hands facing his own mortality in âDownfall,â died Friday at his home in Zurich. He was 77.
June Whitfield, the diminutive British actress whose seven-decade career reached its peak as Edina Monsoonâs dotty, acerbic mother in the hit comedy series âAbsolutely Fabulous,â died Friday in London. She was 93.
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom âLaverne & Shirleyâ and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like âBigâ and âA League of Their Own,â died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom âLaverne & Shirleyâ and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like âBigâ and âA League of Their Own,â died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 75.
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom âLaverne & Shirleyâ and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like âBigâ and âA League of Their Own,â died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.
Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom âLaverne & Shirleyâ and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like âBigâ and âA League of Their Own,â died Monday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 76.
There you are in Hong Kong, making your way through the convention center and this newest iteration of Art Basel. Ah! Thereâs 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 â sheâd call it a cartographic work â by Tiffany Chung, the Vietnamese artist. Maybe itâs a new addition to âThe Vietnam Exodus Project,â whose images Holland Cotter described in The New York Times as âpersonal, polit...
NEW YORK â Thatâs 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).
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, the angel-faced actress who starred in âThe Mod Squadâ and made a television comeback in the âTwin Peaksâ series, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 72.
Peggy Lipton, the angel-faced actress who starred in âThe Mod Squadâ and made a television comeback in the âTwin Peaksâ series, died Saturday in Los Angeles. She was 72.
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.
About 20 minutes into âHallelujah,â Hollywoodâs 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.