As president of the American Spectator Foundation since 2016, Donald Rieck was our publisher, the man who worried and acted on his worries; the man who kept our office humming and afloat in uncertain times; our all-around go-to guy. A…
Movie and TV Director Arthur Hiller has passed away of natural causes. He was 92. Born to a Jewish family in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Hiller was reared on Yiddish theatre by his father who sold second-hand musical instruments. Hiller served…
John McLaughlin, the host of the syndicated political talk show The McLaughlin Group has passed away at the age of 89. McLaughlin had hosted the program from its inception in 1982 until missing the show for the first time this…
Folk singer Glenn Yarbrough passed away of complications of dementia on Thursday. He was 86. Yarbrough was drawn to folk music in 1950 when Woody Guthrie performed at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland. Somehow, Guthrie ended up in Yarbrough’s…
Character actor David Huddleston passed away on Tuesday at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico from complications of heart & kidney disease. He was 85. You probably don’t recognize his name, but his acting career in TV and movies…
Writer, director, producer and occasional actor Garry Marshall passed away on Tuesday of pneumonia following a stroke. He was 81. Marshall cut his teeth as a writer in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s of TV on shows like The…
Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg passed away on Saturday following a massive heart attack last Tuesday. He was 82. Schanberg was best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War, specifically the Nixon Administration’s secret bombing…
On Saturday night, I was attending a Marx Brothers play in New York City (which I shall elaborate upon in a few days). During intermission, my Dad, his friend and I got into a conversation about Meryl Streep and her…
Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor who would earn a Nobel Peace Prize for documenting his experiences at Auschwitz and Buchenwald and speaking out against human rights abuses around the globe, passed away yesterday at the age of 87. Born in…
Scotty Moore, best known as Elvis Presley’s lead guitar player, passed away yesterday at the age of 84. It was Moore along with bass player Bill Black who accompanied Elvis on “That’s All Right” at Sun Records in July 1954…
