October 14, 2023 Piper Laurie, a rare surviving Golden Age performer who went on to become far better known for a mid-career renaissance, has died at 91. Laurie as "the girl" — any girl — in her starlet days (Image via movie still) ExtraTV confirms she died in L.A. Saturday, October 14, after a period…
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‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ Actress Shirley Knight Dies @ 83
Shirley Knight, nominated for the Oscar twice in the '60s and a familiar face ever since on TV, in movies, and, in smaller doses, on the stage, died Wednesday in San Marcos, Texas, her daughter Kaitlin Hopkins reported on Facebook. She was 83. Part of a tableau in 1968's Petulia (Image via Warner Bros.) In…
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Past & Curious: ‘Butch’ Shocker, Notre Dame Gutted & More
Links to the past with relevance today: Classic team (Image via 20th Century Fox) EW: Ninety-year-old Burt Bacharach admitted at the TCM Classic Film Festival this weekend that "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" almost didn't make the cut in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Nailed it! (Image via Fortune Creative) THE GREEN…
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Patricia Nell Warren, ‘The Front Runner’ Author, Dies @ 82
Boy Culture reports that The Front Runner (1974) author Patricia Nell Warren died Saturday at 82. Warren with her most famous work (Images via headshot/Bantam) Born in Helena, Montana, on June 15, 1936, Warren wrote from her earliest years and was the winner of the Atlantic Monthy College Fiction Contest. Through an early marriage to Ukrainian poet…
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‘Butch Cassidy,’ ‘All the President’s Men,’ ‘Princess Bride’ Writer William Goldman Dies @ 87
William Goldman, the screenwriter best known for his Oscar-winning scripts for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and Al the President's Men (1976), has died, Deadline reports. (more…)
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Georgann Johnson of ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ Early TV Series, Dies @ 91
It feels like a large number of stars who have made it to 90 are passing away en masse this year. Their ages make their departures perhaps not so surprising, but no less sad. Georgann Johnson, a prolific actress on the stage, on TV, and in film died June 4 in L.A. Her daughter confirmed…
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Paul Newman’s Long, Hot Career: 10 Must-Sees
Hard to believe, but 2018 marks the tenth year since screen great Paul Newman died. He passed away at 83 on September 26, 2008. (more…)
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