By: Mark Kingwell

Auteur of the unforgettable fork-dance of dinner rolls.

By: Joshua Glenn

Inventive, smart, funny, poignant, brilliantly weird.

By: Devin McKinney

An unwilling agent of social subversion.

By: Mark Kingwell

A beautifully conflicted Marxist intellectual.

By: Brian Berger

Typist by day, jazzbo by night.

By: Adam McGovern

Anything could happen but nothing couldn’t be taken away.

By: Brian Berger

One of the most soulful tenor men of his generation.

By: Brian Berger

His first film was 1932’s PIE, PIE, BLACKBIRD.

By: Brian Berger

He wrote a bestselling work of socialist utopianism.

By: Joe Alterio

He invented the manic, spongey cartoon style we take for granted.

By: Mark Kingwell

He could write to amuse… or irritate.

By: Adam McGovern

Pattern-recognition, or divination?

By: Devin McKinney

He wanted to seduce Ma Bell.

By: Franklin Bruno

An overlooked Motown Records songwriter.

By: Brian Berger

“Coarse, brutal, sordid, bestial, but painted with marvelous vividness”