Invulnerable to ploys by music scene weasels: Steve Albini, 1962-2024 (by Miller)
Big Black’s 1987 album Songs About Fucking does not fuck around. There are lots of…
Make Sure It Flourishes: Andre Braugher, 1962-2023
It’s the voice first. Yes, many great roles, even if our article image is from…
I Gravitate Towards Sort of Broken Characters Who Try to Be Better People: Matthew Perry, 1969-2023
If I were a Friend, I would have been Chandler. This is something I believe…
Nobody Thought About Me As an Actress: Piper Laurie, 1932-2023
I was out of town for the weekend. In point of fact, I stopped for…
The Public May Think I’m Weird: Paul Reubens, 1952-2023
I hear his voice first. Not as Pee-wee Herman, a character I frankly never liked…
Words to Become Notes and Conversations to Become Symphonies: Tina Turner, 1939-2023
Tina Turner’s was probably the most famous gas credit card in history. It’s the one…
We Have More to Do: Harry Belafonte, 1927-2023
His two biggest influences were Paul Robeson and Martin Luther King, Jr. He sang with…
I Can Have It All: Irene Cara, 1959[?]-2022
It was one of the times in my life I spent the most isolated. My…
Providing I Can Put One Foot in Front of the Other, I Will Continue to Act: Angela Lansbury, 1925-2022
Angela Lansbury was the fourth person I wrote about for Celebrating the Living. She had…
You Know, I Lived in the Real World: Louise Fletcher, 1934-2022
There is a lot more to Louise Fletcher than One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.…