Celebrating the Living: Francis Ford Coppola
Several years ago, a group of us took an emergency road trip down to the…
Celebrating the Living: Tippi Hedren
I’ll admit that, if I were Tippi Hedren, I’d be kind of pissed that my…
Celebrating the Living: Ken Watanabe
I have to confess that 2016 is making me kind of paranoid about people’s health.…
Celebrating the Living: Kathy Bates
It must be a bit disheartening to make your career from being plain. Especially in…
Celebrating the Living: Billy Crystal
For reasons, the first thing I did as I got ready to write this week…
Celebrating the Living: Margaret O’Brien
I mean, how low do you have to be to steal a kid’s Oscar? It’s…
Celebrating the Living: Jeremy Irons
If I were asked to pick a single quality that Jeremy Irons projects better than…
Celebrating the Living: Helen Mirren
Long-time readers will know that it’s my tradition, these last nine months, to use an…
Celebrating the Living: Hector Elizondo
One of the things I try to do for this column is remember people we’d…
Celebrating the Living: Patti LuPone
The secret, of course, is that I don’t picture her first. I hear her voice.…