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Vespers – Page 4 – Ennis Smith

Vespers

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Books, Vespers

Samuel Menasche, Poet 1925-2011

August 25, 2011

Current Affairs, Music, My back pages, Vespers

Jerry Leiber 1933-2011, Nick Ashford 1942-2011

August 23, 2011

Both were members of song writing teams that shifted the landscape of American popular music. The titles say it all: try to imagine a world without the Leiber-Stoller penned Jailhouse Rock, Hound Dog, Stand by Me, Yakety Yak, Kansas City, Is that All There Is? Everyone from Peggy Lee to Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen (check…

Film, My back pages, Television, Theater, Vespers

Jane White, Actress 1922-2011

August 9, 2011

“Who is that?” I recalled thinking as a child when I first saw Jane White in a television version of Once Upon a Mattress. As the imperious Queen Aggravain, her performance was a lesson in comedy and drop-dead stylishness; she was something special, and I looked forward to seeing her again. But sightings were rare—hers…

Music, Vespers

Dan Peek, Member of America, 1950-2011

July 27, 2011

You could almost call him the voice of America. Dan Peek‘s dry, wary baritone is the one you heard fronting such songs as A Horse with No Name, Tin Man, Ventura Highway and Lonely People. Some would say that America was at the forefront of the California sound that pervaded FM Radio back in the seventies;…

Film, Music, New York, Television, Theater, Vespers

Tom Aldredge, 1928-2011

July 25, 2011

Unless you are a fan of television’s Damages (guilty), most people are unfamiliar with the work of the great Tom Aldredge. On that show he played Glenn Close’s protector, the circumspect Uncle Pete in a subtle character portrayal that was typical of a man whose career made more of a mark on the Broadway stage,…

Music, Vespers

Amy Winehouse, Singer, Newest Member of the 27 Club, 1983-2011

July 23, 2011

Too sad for words. A real talent, gone too soon. RIP, miss…

Art, Vespers

Lucian Freud, Searing Portraitist, 1922-2011

July 22, 2011

Art, Music, Vespers

Alexander Steinweiss, Inventor of the Album Cover 1917-2011

July 20, 2011

When Alexander Steinweiss pitched the idea of using original art on covers used to house vinyl records back in 1937, it revolutionized Columbia Records. Sales soared, and other companies followed suit. Album covers are all but dead now, miniaturized into jewel cases for CDs (whose death knell peals with the advent of MP3s), but some…

Art, Vespers

Cy Twombly 1928-2011

July 6, 2011

A modern master. Read Jerry Saltz’s consideration of this great artist here. RIP

Film, Television, Theater, Vespers

Anna Massey 1937-2011

July 5, 2011

One of the best British actresses ever, she could go from light comedy to period drama without breaking a sweat. Retrospect: catch her in anything, but especially Hitchcock’s Frenzy, Another Country and the Powell/Pressburger masterwork (her second film) Peeping Tom. RIP.