By Daniel D'Addario 2/03/12 7:00pm

Obituaries

Ben Gazzara Dies at 81

The Times reports that Ben Gazzara, famed for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and the films of John Cassavetes, has died at 81. In the video, Gazzara discussed his role in the Cassavetes film Husbands.

By Marshall Fine 2/26/07 12:00am

Richard Lewis: The Metamorphosis

At 59, after 13 years of sobriety and almost two of marriage, Richard Lewis is as content as a driven, neurotic, workaholic comedian can be.

After a self-enforced layoff from stand-up of about two months, Mr. Lewis will perform at Comix, a new club in Manhattan’s meatpacking district, on Feb. 23 and 24. He’s eager Read More

By Scott Eyman 2/06/06 12:00am

Cassavetes, Volatile Contrarian, Mulish Master of Improvisation

The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s the truth of behavior, not drama—drama demands a sense of narrative.

Movies like Faces (1968), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Killing of a Read More

By Scott Eyman 2/06/06 12:00am

Cassavetes, Volatile Contrarian, Mulish Master of Improvisation

The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s the truth of behavior, not drama—drama demands a sense of narrative.

Movies like Faces (1968), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Killing of Read More

By Scott Eyman 9/27/04 12:00am

A Homey, Intimate Look At the Screen’s True Artists

Who the Hell’s In It: Portraits and Conversations, by Peter Bogdanovich. Knopf, 528 pages, $35.

As Mack Sennett should have said, let’s cut to the chase: “Audrey Hepburn was a beacon of tasteful glamour, of sensitivity and of the integrity and innocence of youth: a symbol of unalloyed kindness, morality and goodness on a Read More

By Peter Bogdanovich 6/15/98 12:00am

Gooaaal! … Bob Newhart on Funny … CBS Snickers With Glee in Kilborn Crisis … Live at Five ‘s ‘Killer’ Story

Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week

In 1980, John Cassavetes wrote and directed, and Columbia Pictures released, an explosive movie John had done everything he could to avoid making, including asking me to direct it instead. Cassavetes, remember, was the brilliantly iconoclastic actor and filmmaker who, more than anyone except Orson Welles, had essentially Read More