By: Alix Lambert

She came by her depth and sensitivity the hard way.

By: Greg Rowland

France had Existentialism; England had Hancock.

By: Joshua Glenn

Was this philosophical romancer a “science fiction” author?

By: Brian Berger

“Catch me at the flicks, Apollo rap Frederick Douglass”

By: Franklin Bruno

Andre Bazin wrote “he directs facts” — but did he?

By: Adam McGovern

He let you know authority was a crock, even when he was the one holding it.

By: Peggy Nelson

His breakthrough was to see the mind as a linguistic construct.

By: Alix Lambert

“‘This is how you’ll end.’/‘Just lie quietly,’ I said to myself…”

By: Tom Nealon

It’s been said that he was the last man to know everything.

By: Lynn Peril

The boozy, self-absorbed Patsy Stone is one of TV’s greatest characters.

By: Lynn Peril

A great gossip, and an acerbic critic of writers and artists in Paris

By: Deb Chachra

“I felt my job was not to become a good bass player.”

By: Adam McGovern

Her genius is to critique masculinity by burlesquing femininity.

By: Brian Berger

“Coarse sexuality. Data and cynical commentary… Jokes!”

By: Adam McGovern

He couldn’t have been more perfect if he’d been put together in a lab.