By: Lynn Peril

Scream­ingly funny, yet type­cast forever as Ted Baxter.

By: Mark Kingwell

“Yale Scholar Wrote for Pro-Nazi Newspaper”

By: Lucy Sante

She could make a rising inflection transcend all the bitterness.

By: Tor Aarestad

A Pat-Benatar-loving Linda Blair gone to seed?

By: Barbara Bogaev

“I’d sooner clean and paint the house / Than read a book by Botho Strauss.”

By: Brian Berger

He replaced an irreplaceable genius.

By: Alix Lambert

Hurt Locker was very good — not always a pre­requisite for Oscar-winners

By: Franklin Bruno

Works of art to be completed by the audience…

By: Brian Berger

She knew her idiom, and never half-assed it.

By: Brian Berger

He was a greater writer than assassin.

By: Alix Lambert

“You need first of all, a bad camera!”

By: Adam McGovern

He is the poet of what you think you might have heard.

By: Franklin Bruno

His sound was brawny, guttural, and tremendously expressive.

By: Lucy Sante

In American humor, she discerned “a deep-lying mood of dis­severance.”

By: Greg Rowland

Psychedelic spy shenanigans, laced with Dali, Welles, Kirby and Eisner.