Another celebrity in his 90s: Hal Holbrook died at 95. Such a long and extraordinary career. If you haven't seen *Into the Wild,* I urge you to see it, it's a powerful, fascinating movie, and Holbrook gave such a touching, gentle performance in it. I'm going to feature my favorite Holbrook movie performance - - as Deep Throat in *All the President's Men*:
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Composer David Del Tredici died the other day at the age of 86. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1980 for "In Memory of a Summer Day," part one of Child Alice. He wrote many pieces inspired by A
The Best Actress winner for 2000 was Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich. That performance was a beguiling mixture of diva and mensch so instead I'm going to focus on two other Best Acrtess nominees tha