By: Deb Chachra

“I felt my job was not to become a good bass player.”

By: Adam McGovern

He couldn’t have been more perfect if he’d been put together in a lab.

By: Adrienne Crew

He was a transmedia personality before the word’s invention.

By: Deb Chachra

Genre actors can be asked to play roles that are seven kinds of impossible.

By: Mimi Lipson

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

By: David Smay

His role as Harold made him an icon: flattened, but illuminated and sacred.

By: Brian Berger

“All Lean’s movies are Life Epics, about individuals… and their dawning conscience.”

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE LADY VANISHES (1938)

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939)

By: Jason Grote

A brutality so extreme as to border on black comedy.

By: Adrienne Crew

Her steely eroticism lent a sense of refinement to depraved encounters.

By: Joshua Glenn

A scene from CLAMBAKE (1967)

By: David Smay

Beauty — rapturous sexy sexy, glorious abandon at war with ethics.

By: Lynn Peril

“There has never been anything like this before in human society.”

By: Franklin Bruno

He preferred thieves and roués to bosses, bureaucrats, and burghers.