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  1. remembrance
    Michelle Trachtenberg’s Dawn Was the Beating Heart of BuffyThe little sister from hell gave the show’s later seasons new stakes and pathos.
    By Fran Hoepfner
  2. rip
    Fox's "Sleepy Hollow" Special Screening - Arrivals
    Roberto Orci, Star Trek and Transformers Screenwriter, Dead at 51The creator of Fringe, Sleepy Hollow, and Matador died from complications of kidney disease.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  3. remembrance
    Jimmy Carter, Governor Of Georgia
    Jimmy Carter’s Legacy: Imperfect GreatnessHis postpresidential greatness is what will be remembered. But he was a shrewder politician than people realize.
    By Ed Kilgore
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    OG Maco, ‘U Guessed It’ Rapper, Dead at 32The Atlanta rapper was a Vine sensation, part of XXL’s 2015 ‘Freshman Class,’ and an early champion of Doja Cat.
    By Hershal Pandya
  5. remembrance
    Noel Parmentel Jr., the Man Joan Didion Left BehindWhen she said good-bye to all that.
    By Linda Hall
  6. remembrance
    The Comedy Team of Bob NewhartHe played straight man and comic at the same time.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  7. remembrance
    No One Could Tee Up a Bullfrog Like Bill CobbsHe built a career on wise, one-shot characters, and he made everything from Demolition Man to The Sopranos better because of it.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  8. remembrance
    Donald Sutherland Was Some Kind of Movie StarFew actors committed as ferociously. Few actors were so damned much fun to watch.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  9. remembrance
    New York Giants
    Willie Mays Was New York’s GiantAnd his time here was so much more than The Catch.
    By Chris Smith
  10. remembrance
    Dabney Coleman Was the Perfect Onscreen JerkMaybe likeability is overrated.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  11. obit
    No One Wrote About Sex Like Alice MunroIn Munro’s stories, women blow it all on desire.
    By Madeline Leung Coleman
  12. remembrance
    Listening to Andre Braugher“When he acted, the words were notes; the sentences, lyrics; every monologue, an aria.”
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  13. wakes
    The Unwavering Sinéad O’ConnorFriends, collaborators, and admirers on the life and legacy of a “machete-cutting truth teller.”
    By Drew Fortune
  14. remembrance
    Norman Lear’s TruthHe depicted the American experiment, one family at a time.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  15. obituaries
    Henry Kissinger, the Devil at the Dinner PartyHenry Kissinger’s long final act — after Harvard and D.C. and Cambodia — was spent at New York’s more rarefied tables.
    By Choire Sicha
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    Robbie Robertson, the Band Co-founder and Film Composer, Dead at 80Known for investigating the sounds of Americana with Bob Dylan and collaborating with Martin Scorsese.
    By Zoe Guy
  17. remembrance
    A Hollywood Director PossessedWilliam Friedkin made movies like The Exorcist and Sorcerer his way, no matter what changes transformed his industry.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  18. remembrance
    Blakeney Schick Listened So You Could TooRemembering our colleague from On With Kara Swisher.
    By Nayeema Raza
  19. remembrance
    It Was Easy to Get Pee-wee HermanHe was one of many characters Paul Reubens inhabited. Any of them could have been stars.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Jane Birkin, Actor, Singer, and Fashion Icon, Dead at 76She was found dead at her home in Paris.
    By Charu Sinha
  21. remembrance
    Kenneth Anger Never Cooled OffBut the filmmaker’s renegade aesthetic is all over the mainstream, from Martin Scorsese to David Lynch.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  22. urban wildlife
    Pale Male, Fifth Avenue’s Beloved Hawk, Has DiedHe grew famous for nesting on — and then being evicted from and welcomed back to — a window lintel on Fifth Avenue opposite Central Park.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  23. remembrance
    Al Jaffee’s Snappy, Not So Stupid MAD LegacyMAD’s longest-serving cartoonist invented a way to do something unusual: turn a pulp-magazine page into an animated, interactive feature.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  24. obituary
    Logan Roy Wouldn’t Look Back“I fuckin’ love news.”
    By Christopher Bonanos
  25. remembrance
    Mimi Sheraton Ate Everything for UsIn 1972, she nibbled her way into magazine history.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  26. remembrance
    Barbara Walters’s Superpower Was FairnessShe made subjects believe they were getting an open-minded hearing — and that made them talk.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  27. remembrance
    George Lois, the Impossible Ad ManThe madman (but not a Mad Man, he was quick to tell you) behind Maypo, MTV, and Muhammad Ali’s Esquire cover has died at 91.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  28. remembrance
    Jerry Lee Lewis Was an SOB Right to the EndThe talented hell-raiser of early rock and roll died at 87.
    By Bill Wyman
  29. remembrance
    Mike Davis Was RightAbout the fires in Malibu, the hostile approach to urban planning, the inequality crushing Los Angeles.
    By Alissa Walker
  30. remembrance
    Angela Lansbury Could Play Cozy or Criminal, Grand or Grand GuignolFrom Gaslight to Mame to Sweeney Todd to Beauty and the Beast, with a long, comfortable stop in Cabot Cove.
    By Helen Shaw
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    David A. Arnold, Comedian and Fuller House Writer, Dead at 54He released two Netflix specials and was one of only a few Black showrunners in television.
    By Hershal Pandya
  32. remembrance
    ‘A Combination of Permission and Exaltation’On Peter Brook and The Empty Space.
    By Helen Shaw
  33. rip
    Technoblade, Late Minecraft YouTuber, Honored by Gaming World“He will be missed dearly,” the official Minecraft account tweeted.
    By Jason P. Frank
  34. rip
    Robert Morse, Mad Men and Broadway Star, Dead at 90“The moon belongs to everyone.”
    By Ashley Shannon Wu
  35. obit
    Liz Sheridan, Seinfeld Mom and Broadway Dancer, Dead at 93The late actress documented her affair with James Dean in her memoir.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  36. r.i.p.
    R.I.P. Mr. GIFStephen Wilhite, the creator of the GIF, was 74.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  37. obit
    Traci Braxton, Singer and Toni Braxton’s Sister, Dead at 50Her sister Toni Braxton announced the news Saturday morning.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  38. rip
    Emilio Delgado, Luis on Sesame Street for 45 Years, Dead at 81He held the record for Mexican American actor with the longest-running role in TV history.
    By Ashley Shannon Wu
  39. rip
    Monica Vitti, Italian Actress and Muse, Dead at 90The L’Avventura star died in Rome on Wednesday.
    By Ashley Shannon Wu
  40. obit
    Drakeo the Ruler, Influential West Coast Rapper, Dead at 28The family intends to file a lawsuit against concert promoters next week.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  41. obit
    Comedian and Baskets Star Louie Anderson Dead at 68He was hospitalized for blood cancer treatment.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  42. vulture lists
    12 Meat Loaf Stories That Proved He Lived One Hell of a LifeWarning: The late Meat Loaf was known to embellish a story or two.
    By Dan Reilly
  43. obit
    Charlie Watts Held the Rolling Stones Together for Half a CenturyRemembering the legendary drummer, without whom the greatest rock and roll band in history might’ve crumbled.
    By Bill Wyman
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    Paul Mooney, Trailblazing Comedian and Writer, Is Dead at 79After suffering a heart attack at his home.
    By Zoe Haylock
  45. obituary
    On the Talented, Monstrous James LevineThe Met’s longtime artistic director, fired for sexual abuse, has died at 77.
    By Justin Davidson
  46. remembrance
    The Outlaw History of Arturo Di Modica’s Crosby Street StudioIt’s the Charging Bull sculptor’s largest yet least obvious New York work.
    By Christopher Bonanos
  47. obit
    The Woman Who Taught Us PleasureRemembering Betty Dodson, the pioneering sex educator.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  48. obit
    American Idol Finalist Nikki McKibbin Dies at 42The singer-songwriter suffered complications from an aneurysm.
    By Hannah Gold
  49. q+a
    George C. Wolfe on the ‘Audacity’ of His Late Mentor Stanley Crouch“Even if you didn’t agree with him, there was an incredible thoughtfulness that was going on,“ the playwright said of the combative jazz critic.
    By Matt Stieb
  50. deaths
    Kool & the Gang Co-Founder Ronald ‘Khalis’ Bell Dead at 68He started the legendary funk group with his brother Robert “Kool” Bell in 1964.
    By Chris Murphy
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