Category actors & actresses

SEND IN THE CLOWNS: Remembering Robin Williams (1951-2014)
For decades, Robin Williams made me laugh. Monday night, he made me cry. Like many, I found myself suddenly paralyzed and weeping at the terrible news that Williams had passed by his own hand at the age of 63. And not just because he was a famous and familiar person (actually, in spite of those trappings […]

BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD: Remembering Philip Seymour Hoffman
Such sad and awful news. So sad and awful, in fact, that part of me couldn’t really face marking or commenting on it. Since first hearing the tragic report yesterday, I’ve been stunned, hoping the news proved to be a hoax (as most of us did when the news spread like wildfire on the Interwebs and […]