Cormac Roth, musician and son of actor Tim Roth, died on Oct. 16 after a battle with cancer, the family announced Monday. He was 25.
1 Oscar Directors: Winners and Nominees (A to Z): Nationality, Social Class, Family, Occupational Inheritance
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Death in Hollywood: Edith Piaf, French Chanteuse, 1915-1963
Years of alcohol abuse alongside copious amounts of medications, initially for rheumatoid arthritis and later insomnia, took their toll on Piaf’s health. A series of car accidents only exacerbated her addictions and she eventually underwent a series of surgeries for a stomach ulcer in 1959. Coupled with a deteriorating liver and the need for a […]
Movie Stars: Commercial Appeal (Gable, Grant, Wayne, Eastwood)
Joan Mellen: Male stars who have consciously and stridently demonstrated on screen what it means to be a man. John Wayne was not a star who appealed mostly to women. He was a “men’s men,” intended for male audiences, like Clint Eastwood. While Bogart, Cary Grant and Clark Gable were popular heroes for both male […]
Directors: Losey, Joseph–Filmography, 1948-1986 (“The Boy with Green Hair” to “The Trout”)
Joseph Losey Filmography, 1948-1986 (“The Boy with Green Hair” to “The Trout”)






