Category Archives: RIP

Mira Tibblin RIP

Paris is a magical city. Parisians boast about the French capitol as ‘La Ville-Lumière’ or City of Lights as much for its illumination as its well-deserved reputation for thought. I was lucky enough to have lived in Paris during the 80s. I learned the language, I ate the food, and I slept with the women. […]

Good-Bye Philippe Waty

Tomorrow in Paris friends of Philippe Waty will be gathering to say good-bye. He was a good guy.

Poor Baby

Last February Whitney Houston died in suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She was found submerged in the bathtub. The loss of the megastar saddened her fans around the world and yesterday the LA coroner announced the causes of death as accidental drowning due to cocaine, Benadryl, Xanax, marijuana and Flexiril. Heart failure was […]

Whitney Houston RIP

Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1986, scoring # 1 hits with “Saving All My Love for You”, “Thinking About You” and “Greatest Love of All,” and WHITNEY HOUSTON was that year’s top-selling LP. The next year she scored a mega-hit with her single I WANNA LOVE SOMEBOY. Success after success propelled Whitney […]

Ben Gazzara RIP

The actor Ben Gazarra passed away last week. He starred in TV and movies for over sixty years, but I will always remember him from his staggering honest role as a luckless LA strip club owner. The 1976 John Cassavetes film opens with Cosmo Vitelli paying off a gambling debt to a loanshark at a […]