By: Brian Berger

He unsettled movie genres even as he helped define them.

By: Brian Berger

She starred in four films that made her a noir icon.

By: Brian Berger

Visionary, Bolshevist, Paramount Pictures’ newest star.

By: Brian Berger

His speed, touch, range and daring were unrivaled.

By: Brian Berger

“My intention is to make interesting photographs. That’s it.”

By: Brian Berger

“I’d only written these things for the sake of the sounds.”

By: Brian Berger

A composer in search of ambivalence and revelation.

By: Brian Berger

He replaced an irreplaceable genius.

By: Brian Berger

She knew her idiom, and never half-assed it.

By: Brian Berger

He was a greater writer than assassin.

By: Brian Berger

Superior technique and intellect plus searing emotionalism.

By: Brian Berger

“Sherwood Anderson knew something. He had the instinct.”

By: Brian Berger

The copious spirit of a public intellectual and unlikely youth-culture avatar.

By: Brian Berger

As a painter, he was more poet than architect.

By: Brian Berger

“We play unsegregated music.”