The sophist­ication of Jones’s voice has never dimin­ished its authen­ticity.

When trash meets art.

She excelled at rapacious clingers, albatrosses, and bad mothers.

High Corman: pell-mell, hep, bizarrely hybridized.

Her young voice throbbed with friction and experience.

His music and his life disguised joy as menace — and vice versa.

He may be the best put-on artist since Andy Kaufman.

A contro­versial auteur who aimed at truck drivers and college students.

The foppish poses, the aspect of wounded nobility…

The documentary films of FREDERICK WISEMAN (born 1930) are usually set in…

He knew his audience inside and out.

“Just because you got them big udders don’t make you something special.”…

Filmmaker PRESTON STURGES (1898-1959) made a joyful mockery of the Hays Code…

Novelist, poet, and newspaper man DON MARQUIS (1878-1937) was once a household…

In 1965, SHIRLEY MULDOWNEY (born 1940) beat down the doors of the…

With his casual athleticism and big white teeth, with his good-looking features…

Look at the way people describe JOEY RAMONE’s (1951-2001) voice: “bleat,” “snarl,”…

STUDS TERKEL (1912–2008): shovel-ready and irony free. Fifty years from now, who…

We’ve fallen out of touch with TORI SPELLING (born 1973) lately. We…

JONATHAN RICHMAN (born 1951) sings to us exactly as we speak to…

JAMES MASON (1909–1984), actor, gave us Brutus, Captain Nemo, Hugo Drax. But…

Rest in peace, BEA ARTHUR (1922–2009). She was intelligent, decent, effortlessly funny,…