Tag: Remembering
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Remembering William Whitworth’s Editorial Eye
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William Whitworth, who worked as a writer and editor at The New Yorker for fourteen years and then served as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly from 1980 to 1999, died last Friday in Arkansas, the state where he was born. He was a brilliant and intuitive editor who could see around corners and beyond writers’…
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Remembering Inland’s Dan Goodwin: Industry Leadership, Public Service, Philanthropy
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As chairman & CEO of the Inland Group, Dan Goodwin made notable accomplishments in a wide variety of fields. Photo credit: Business Wire In 1968, when Dan Goodwin and three fellow Chicago schoolteachers started a single-family homebuilding company as a sideline, they had no idea that they were launching an industry giant. “We weren’t planning…
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Remembering Concorde, which made its final flight 20 years ago : NPR
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A British Airways Concorde takes off from London’s Heathrow Airport in 2001. David Parker/BWP Media/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption David Parker/BWP Media/Getty Images A British Airways Concorde takes off from London’s Heathrow Airport in 2001. David Parker/BWP Media/Getty Images This is part of a special series where NPR looks back at our coverage of…
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Remembering Terence Davies, the Greatest British Director
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There’s a special pain to the news of the death of the British filmmaker Terence Davies on Saturday at the age of seventy-seven: his career, filled with some of the greatest movies of the past forty years, has always seemed just to be getting started, and, to the end, he kept the exuberant bearing of…
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Remembering a British Actor of ‘Rising Reputation’
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1957 was a big year for David McCallum, the respected Glasgow-born actor known for “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” “The Great Escape” and his 20-year run on “NCIS” as quirky pathologist Dr. Donald “Ducky” Mallard. From the Oct. 23, 1957, edition of weekly Variety The actor, who died Sept. 25 at the age of 90, logged…
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Remembering William Friedkin, A Hollywood Director Possessed
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Friedkin’s life ended like a true Friedkin film. It’s hard to tell if he won or lost, or something in between, or if those terms even apply. Photo: Laura Lezza/Getty Images Was William Friedkin the best director of the 1970s? Maybe. He was certainly the most 1970s director, making ’70s movies long after the ’70s…
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Remembering My Hijacking | The New Yorker
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We were flying from Tel Aviv to New York on a September day in 1970. I had turned twelve in June, and my sister Catherine would turn fourteen in December. We were flying alone because our mother lived in Israel and our father lived in America. We boarded at six o’clock in the morning, but…
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Remembering Ian Falconer, the New Yorker Artist and Author of the “Olivia” Books
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Ian Falconer, the author of the “Olivia” books and of more than thirty New Yorker covers, died on Tuesday, at the age of sixty-three, after a brief illness. During his short but illustrious career, he designed numerous opera and ballet sets and costumes, and received a Caldecott Medal for “Olivia,” in 2001. Falconer was exacting.…
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Kunokaiku urns designed to allow “remembering through ritual”
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LA-based travel photographer Marianna Jamadi has collaborated with Mexico City-based ceramic practice Menat Studio to create a collection of commemorative urns. Jamadi wanted the urns to be objects that could fit seamlessly within the modern home after she struggled to find suitable urns for her parents’ ashes. “I noticed a gap in urns that were thoughtfully…
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Remembering the comfort of the 90s mall food court
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This story is part of Image Issue 15, “Diaspora,” a fantastic voyage through the mecca of food, from Hollywood haunts to mall food courts to L.A. staples. Read the whole issue here. The first real job I ever had, with a biweekly paycheck and taxes taken out, was at the Footaction in the Los Cerritos…
