The New York Times – Film:
He fawned over Old Hollywood stars and sparred with Frank Sinatra. Nora Ephron marveled at his ability to get his subjects to say the things they did.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Manuela Hoelterhoff, Pulitzer-Winning Arts Critic, Dies at 77
The New York Times – Music:
She won the top journalism honor for criticism while with The Wall Street Journal. She later wrote a wry, perceptive book about the backstage world of opera.
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Donlyn Lyndon, Last Surviving Creator of the Sea Ranch, Dies at 90
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
With his classmates Charles Moore, William Turnbull Jr. and Richard Whitaker, he designed an icon of modern architecture on a windswept bluff in Northern California.
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Doris Fisher, Co-Founder of the Gap, Dies at 94
The New York Times – Fashion & Style:
The company she started in 1969 with her husband, Don, grew from a single store selling jeans and records to a $16 billion brand that remade the apparel industry.
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Seymour Bernstein Dies at 99; Stage Fright Cut Short His Piano Career
The New York Times – Music:
After giving his last public concert in 1977, he moved into teaching. A 2014 documentary directed by Ethan Hawke put him in the spotlight once more.
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Andy Kershaw, Radio D.J. Who Tuned Britons Into World Music, Dies at 66
The New York Times – Music:
A longtime BBC host, he traveled the world in search of artists his audience “didn’t know they wanted.” Then he took an unexpected turn into war reporting.
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Stephanie Chernikowski, 84, Dies; Photographed the ‘Rough Magic’ of Punk
The New York Times – Music:
She captured the radiant chaos at New York City clubs like CBGB in the 1970s, when bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Patti Smith Group were emerging.
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Dean Tavoularis, Oscar-Winning Production Designer for Coppola, Dies at 93
The New York Times – Film:
He worked on 13 Francis Ford Coppola films, including “The Godfather” trilogy and “Apocalypse Now,” and recreated the Las Vegas Strip for “One From the Heart.”
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David Allan Coe, Singer Who Personified Outlaw Country, Dies at 86
The New York Times – Music:
Mr. Coe, who wrote “Take This Job and Shove It” and other chart-topping hits, was a transgressive exponent of the outlaw country movement of the 1970s and ’80s.