[DeadCelebrityAlert] Award-winning, acerbic movie critic Judith Crist, 90

 

Film critic Judith Crist, who became known to moviegoers nationwide for her tough, no-nonsense reviews during her tenure at NBC's Today during the 1960s, has died. She was 90. ...

During her long career, she often was a trailblazer. At the New York Herald Tribune, where she worked for 22 years, she became the first woman to serve as a full-time critic for a major American newspaper. She was the Today show's first movie reviewer, appearing from 1964 to 1973. She was the founding film critic for New York magazine when it began publishing in 1968, and she spent 22 years as a reviewer for TV Guide.

"To be a critic, you have to have maybe 3 percent education, 5 percent intelligence, 2 percent style and 90 percent gall and egomania in equal parts," Crist once said. And she didn't shy away from cutting some of the biggest movies of the day down to size.

Acknowledging the frenzy of press that surrounded the making of 1963's Cleopatra, she wrote, "The mountain of notoriety has produced a mouse," and she took a scalpel to Elizabeth Taylor's performance, saying, "She is an entirely physical creature, no depth of emotion apparent in her kohl-laden eyes, no modulation in her voice, which too often rises to fishwife levels." She dismissed Carroll Baker's seductive performance in 1956's Baby Doll as "more bomb than bombshell." And she called 1965's The Sound of Music "icky-sticky."

Some filmmakers repaid her in kind. Billy Wilder said that inviting Crist to review a film was "like asking the Boston Strangler for a neck message." But when she won a New York Newspaper Club Award for Criticism for her scathing review of Otto Preminger's Hurry Sundown, Preminger sent a telegram that read, "Congratulations on your night of triumph from the man without whom all this would not be possible." ...

Additionally, she taught at the Columbia School of Journalism for more than 50 years, longer than anyone else in the school's history. ...

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Re: Marvin Hamlisch - Playbill's Obit

 

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer of A Chorus Line, Dies at 68
By Robert Simonson
07 Aug 2012

Marvin Hamlisch


Marvin Hamlisch, who achieved theatre immortality as the composer of the iconic musical A Chorus Line, died Aug. 6 following a brief illness. He was 68.

Mr. Hamlisch's other theatre works included the musicals They're Playing Our Song, Jean Seberg, Smile, The Goodbye Girl and Sweet Smell of Success. He also wrote songs for Nora Ephron's play Imaginary Friends. His latest show, The Nutty Professor, recently opened in Tennessee. But it was with the groundbreaking A Chorus Line—which told of the frustrations and worries of a group of anonymous dancers trying out for a Broadway musical—that he made his mark as a theatre figure.

He was already famous as an all-around wunderkind when he began work on A Chorus Line. A child prodigy, he was accepted into Juilliard at the age of six—the youngest child ever to be welcomed by the august Manhattan institution. His first Broadway job was as rehearsal pianist for Funny Girl starring Barbra Streisand—a professional relationship that would last his entire life. Producer Sam Spiegel hired him to play piano at his parties, where he made connections, leading to his writing his first film score, for "The Swimmer" starring Burt Lancaster. Many more film scores followed.

It seemed his fate to brush up against show-business legends while on his way up the ladder. He wrote songs for Liza Minnelli, worked with Judy Garland and was accompanist and straight man for Groucho Marx during a 1974-75 tour.

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Composer Marvin
Hamlisch dies at 68
in Los Angeles

 
 
 
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Marvin Hamlisch, who
composed the scores for dozens of movies
including "The Sting" and won a Tony for "A
Chorus Line," has died in Los Angeles at
68.

Family spokesman Jason Lee says Hamlisch
died Monday after a brief illness. 

Other details aren't being released. 

Hamlisch's career included composing,
conducting and arranging music from
Broadway to Hollywood. 

His movies included "The Way We Were"
and "Sophie's Choice." 

He won three Academy Awards, four
Emmys and a Tony.

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Tony winner Mark O'Donnell, 58

 

Mark O'Donnell, the Tony winning writer behind "Hairspray" and "Cry-Baby," was found dead Monday morning in New York City. O'Donnell, 58, reportedly succumbed to cardiac arrest in the lobby of his Upper West Side apartment building. The AP reports an autopsy is scheduled for Tuesday. ...

"He was a good guy," [neighbor Jonathan Brown] told DNAInfo ... "Never an unkind word -- at least one that wasn't in jest." ...

O'Donnell is survived by his identical twin brother Steve. ...

Steve later drew a distinction by way of their sexuality, calling it "the more sensational aspect of our relationship." Mark was gay, and Steve is straight...

In 2003, O'Donnell and co-writer Thomas Meehan shared a Tony and a Drama Desk award for their musical adaptation of the 1988 John Waters film "Hairspray." Both went on to work on the 2007 film version, as well as the 2008 Tony-nominated 'Cry-Baby,' another Waters' adaptation. ...

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[DeadCelebrityAlert] Actress Lupe Ontiveros, 69

 

Lupe Ontiveros, a Mexican-American character actress who struggled through Hollywood typecasting to play memorable roles in television and film and become a model of perseverance for Latino actors, died on Thursday [July 26, 2012] in Whittier, Calif. She was 69.

A son, Nicholas Ontiveros, said the cause was liver cancer.

Ms. Ontiveros worked steadily throughout a career of more than 35 years in roles as disparate as a murderous fan in "Selena" and a domineering mother in "Real Women Have Curves," which brought her a special jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. She was nominated for an Emmy as Eva Longoria's suspicious mother-in-law in the ABC series "Desperate Housewives."

In "Selena," released in 1997, Ms. Ontiveros was so credible as the killer of the popular Tejano music star Selena Quintanilla, played by Jennifer Lopez, that for years the singer's fans would hiss at her when she walked into a public place. ...

Ms. Ontiveros's signature role became that of the Hispanic maid, which she figured she had played more than 150 times in television and films, like James L. Brooks's "As Good as It Gets" and Steven Spielberg's "Goonies." ...

Ms. Ontiveros pined for roles that would showcase her talents, she said in interviews. She wished to play a judge, or perhaps Hispanic heroines like the 17th-century Mexican poet and nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, or the union organizer Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers. But more often than not she was offered the maid. ...

Ms. Ontiveros, who lived in Pico Rivera, Calif., is survived by her husband, Elias Ontiveros Jr.; her sons Nicholas, Alejandro and Elias, and two granddaughters.

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