In November of 2018, Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures), a dazzling seven-by-ten-foot, acrylic-on-canvas painting from 1972, set the all-time auction record for a living…
Read more David Hockney, Art Icon, Dies at 88Camilla Carr, the Texas-born actress who appeared for director S.F. Brownrigg in the low-budget 1970s horror films Don’t Look in the Basement, Poor White Trash Part II and…
Read more Camilla Carr, Actress in ‘Keep My Grave Open’ and ‘Designing Women,’ Dies at 83His birth name was Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani. To the world at large he was Valentino, the last emperor of fashion. The Chic. He passed away at one…
Read more Valentino Garavani, the Last Emperor of Fashion, Dies At 93Roger Allers, the Oscar- and Tony-nominated animated film director best known for helming 1994’s The Lion King, died Saturday. He was 76. Allers died suddenly at his home…
Read more Roger Allers, ‘The Lion King’ Co-Director, Dies at 76Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, the inseparable younger sister of Spain’s Queen Sofía, has passed away in Madrid’s Zarzuela Palace. A statement from the Royal House reads:…
Read more Princess Irene of Greece, Queen Sofia of Spain’s Sister, Dies at Age 83Con Pederson, the CGI pioneer who spent two and a half years alongside Douglas Trumbull creating the dazzling Oscar-winning visual effects for the Stanley Kubrick masterwork 2001: A…
Read more Con Pederson, CGI Pioneer and ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Visual Effects Artist, Dies at 91Meyer Gottlieb, the Holocaust survivor who helped relaunch Samuel Goldwyn Films, where he produced features including Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and the 2013…
Read more Meyer Gottlieb, Samuel Goldwyn Films Co-Founder and ‘Master and Commander’ Producer, Dies at 86The world lost a host of icons in 2025, from nonagenarians with decades of great work behind them to younger stars whose lives were cut tragically short. Read…
Read more 23 Beloved Celebrities Who Died in 2025Brigitte Bardot, the iconic international screen siren who retired from acting to become an animal rights activist, died Sunday, according to a representative from animal protection charity The…
Read more Brigitte Bardot, French Star and Sex Symbol, Dies at 91Filipino tech entrepreneur Diosdado “Dado” Banatao died at the age of 79. Banatao is known for pioneering the technology that made personal computers possible, thus putting Silicon Valley…
Read more Filipino engineer and entrepreneur dies at 79Marilyn Granas, who served as the first stand-in for Shirley Temple in films including Bright Eyes, Curly Top and The Little Colonel, has died. She was 98. A…
Read more Marilyn Granas, First Stand-In for Shirley Temple, Dies at 98Mohammad Bakri, a Palestinian director and actor who sought to share the complexities of Palestinian identity and culture through a variety of works in both Arabic and Hebrew,…
Read more Mohammad Bakri, Renowned Palestinian Actor and Filmmaker, Dies at 72In the end, Alex Hunter picked the day of his death. Boulder’s longest-serving district attorney — who defined more than a quarter century of criminal justice for the…
Read more Alex Hunter, Boulder’s longest-serving DA and key figure in JonBenét Ramsey case, dies at 89Dawn Little Sky, an actress who appeared onscreen in Gypsy, The Apple Dumpling Gang and Rawhide and worked as an artist at Walt Disney Studios, has died. She…
Read more Dawn Little Sky, Actress and Disney Artist, Dies at 95As I think about Dick Cheney after his death, my memory offers up a snippet from an interview I had with Bob Michel when I was reporting for…
Read more Dick Cheney’s Brand of ConservatismOtto Nemenz, the Austrian cinematographer and camera operator whose namesake company designed and supplied cutting-edge cameras and lenses to film and television productions for more than four decades,…
Read more Otto Nemenz, Supplier and Designer of Cameras and Lenses for Hollywood, Dies at 83Lee Weaver, the familiar character actor known for his work on The Bill Cosby Show, the Loni Anderson-starring Easy Street and the Coen brothers’ O Brother, Where Art…
Read more Lee Weaver, Actor in ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou,’ ‘The Bill Cosby Show’ and ‘Easy Street,’ Dies at 95Klaus Doldinger, the German saxophonist and composer who created the soundtracks to Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, had died. He was 89. Doldinger died on…
Read more Klaus Doldinger, Composer of ‘Das Boot’ and ‘The NeverEnding Story,’ Dies at 89By the time I reached the fourth grade, Diane Keaton had already cemented herself as my preferred romantic heroine. Snow White and The Sound of Music’s Maria von…
Read more Diane Keaton Was a Genre Unto HerselfThe world was stunned Saturday at the news that Diane Keaton—the iconic actor known for Annie Hall, Something’s Gotta Give, the Godfather trilogy, and many other films—had died.…
Read more Hollywood Honors Diane Keaton: “Incredible and Indelible”
