Billy Strayhorn Would Be Only 110 Today
Happy birthday to super-composer Billy Strayhorn, who was born on this day in 1915. Billy Strayhorn is best known as the composing partner of Duke Ellington; together they created classic …..
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Arkady Renko’s Last Case
Arkady Renko is not dead, but we’ve heard all of his tales that we’ll ever hear. That’s because his amazing creator, Martin Cruz Smith, died this July at age 82. …..
Richard Linklater has a cool new (wave) film coming out
Director Richard Linklater has a new film at Cannes: Nouvelle Vague. It’s about the making of Breathless, the 1960 classic of the French New Wave. (Until just now, I didn’t know …..
Francis I is Dead: Remembering a Great-Hearted Pope
[Editor’s note: Pope Francis I has died, just one day after greeting the usual Easter crowds in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square. He was 88. No cause of death has …..