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20 August 2008
Jerry
Wexler, producer of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles, dead at
91
24 June 2008
Social
satirist George Carlin dead at 71
30 May 2008
American
filmmaker Sydney Pollack (1934-2008)
19 April 2008
Hugo
Claus 1929-2008: "Each day we should wake up foaming at
the mouth at the injustice of things"
18 April 2008
Charlton
Heston and postwar American filmmaking
8 April 2008
Richard
Widmark (1914-2008)
3 April 2008
Actor
Paul Scofield (January 21, 1922-March 19, 2008): “I’m
an actor because I’m good at it”
Jules Dassin, victim of the anti-communist witch-hunt,
dies at 96
31 January 2008
Heath
Ledger dead at 28: a life tragically cut short
4 January 2008
The
art of Oscar Peterson: legacy of a jazz piano virtuoso
19 October 2007
Obituary:
Grace Paley and political culture
20 August 2007
Drummer
Max Roach dies: Last of the bebop pioneers
17 August 2007
Ingmar
Bergman (1918-2007):
An appreciation and a lament
30 July 2007
Sustaining
a humanist approach in the twentieth century: George Tabori (1914-2007)
13 June 2007
Ousmane
Sembène, major figure in African cinema, dead at 84
27 April 2007
Obituary:
Kurt Vonnegut, satirist and pessimist
15 February 2007
Shakespearean gravitas in political satire:
British actor Ian Richardson dead at 72
17 January 2007
James
Brown, one of the greats of post-war American popular music
15 December 2006
Obituary:
Naguib Mahfouz, novelist of Egypt and humanity
12 December 2006
Pianist
Jay McShann, last of Kansas City's jazz giants, dies at 90
28 November 2006
An
appreciation of jazz singer Anita O'Day, 1919-2006
Letters
on filmmaker Robert Altman
23 November 2006
American
filmmaker Robert Altman dead at 81
18 October 2006
Gillo Pontecorvo, Italian director of The Battle
of Algiers, dead at 86
A 2004 interview with the WSWS
20 June 2006
"To Each Time Its Art, to Art Its Freedom"
Modernist architect Harry Seidler dies in Australia
8 June 2006
"America's
American" dreamer: poet Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
6 June 2006
"Be persistent in exploring human nature, and
dare to run around in no-man's land"
Veteran Japanese director Shohei Imamura dies
5 May 2006
Pramoedya
Ananta Toer, novelist of the colonial oppressed, dead at 81
8 March 2005
Two readers respond to "Arthur Miller, an
American playwright"
21 February 2005
Arthur
Miller, an American playwright
2 February 2005
Veteran
British surrealist dies
4 January 2005
Artie
Shaw: a remarkable twentieth-century American life
14 October 2004
A
painter of raw nerve: Leon Golub, 1922-2004
23 August 2004
Henri
Cartier-Bresson dies--a pioneer of modern photography
3 July 2004
Marlon
Brando, 1924-2004
24 April 2004
Britain:
Bob Copper, foremost traditional singer dies
2 March 2004
A
survivor against the odds--noted New Zealand writer Janet Frame
dies
19 January 2004
Alan
Bates (1934-2003)--a key figure in British drama
2 October 2003
Johnny
Cash: a timeless voice of country music
30 September 2003
Elia
Kazan: director, HUAC informer dead at 94
15 September 2003
“Reality doesn’t interest me...”...
Leni Riefenstahl--propagandist for the Third Reich
8 August 2003
Obituary:
John Schlesinger, filmmaker, 1926-2003
13 January 2003
Obituary:
Joe Strummer of The Clash, dead at 50
30 October 2002
Actor
Richard Harris: a great talent only occasionally fulfilled
19 July 2002
Issues
raised by the career of US filmmaker John Frankenheimer
10 July 2002
Ray
Brown, jazz bass virtuoso, dies
4 July 2002
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri (1932-2002)
Pioneer of contemporary Aboriginal art dies
3 April 2002
Billy
Wilder, filmmaker and satirist, dead at 95
18 March 2002
Leading Australian documentary filmmaker dies
Robin Anderson (1950-2002)
7 March 2002
"I
told you I was ill," Spike Milligan (1918-2002)
14 February 2002
Dave
Van Ronk, folk and blues artist, dead at 65
23 November 2001
Four Weddings actress Charlotte
Coleman dies, aged 33
9 August 2001
Joe
Henderson: Another jazz great dies
3 July 2001
Actor
Jack Lemmon dead at 76: something essential about postwar America
29 June 2001
The
passing of a blues legend:
John Lee Hooker
5 May 2001
Jazz
drummer Billy Higgins dies
26 February 2001
Why
was Stanley Kramer so unfashionable at the time of his death?
11 January 2001
Kirsty
MacColl: a life in song
6 September 2000
Alec
Guinness (1914-2000)--an appreciation
31 August 2000
Judith
Wright (1915-2000)--Australian poet dies
16 June 2000
Jacob
Lawrence dead at 82: a major American painter
10 June 2000
Tito Puente dead at 77
The soul of Latin music dies
27 May 2000
John
Gielgud: A life in the theatre (1904-2000)
11 April 2000
Ian
Dury (1942-2000):
a poet of the spoken word
24 January 2000
Curtis Mayfield dies:
A modest man of great musical talent and sensitivity
20 January 2000
French filmmaker Robert Bresson (1901-1999)
"When one is in prison, the most important thing is the
door"
8 January 2000
Obituary: Albert Tucker (1914-1999)
Artist of a turbulent epoch dies
6 January 2000
A brief tribute to Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22
31 December 1999
Country
music singer Hank Snow dead at 85
18 December 1999
An American artist
Paul Cadmus dies at 94
30 October 1999
Blacklisted
US film director Abraham Polonsky dead at 88
13 October 1999
Jazz
vibraphonist Milt Jackson dead at 76
23 September 1999
Alfredo Kraus (1927-1999)
One of Spain's finest tenors dies
11 August 1999
Jim
Allen: A lifetime's commitment to historical truth
13 July 1999
Obituary:
Joaquin Rodrigo, famed Spanish composer dies
10 June 1999
Mel
Torme, an appreciation
3 June 1999
Obituary:
Arthur Boyd (1920-1999):
"Concepts involve the future, possessions don't"
13 May 1999
Actor
Dirk Bogarde dead at 78
27 March 1999
Stanley
Kubrick--an appreciation
16 December 1998
A
personal tribute to film director Alan Pakula by writer John
Nichols
9 September 1998
Japanese filmmaker dead at 88
Akira Kurosawa's achievement
26 June 1998
Alfred
Kazin, champion of American literature: An appreciation |
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