Matt Sayles / Associated PressActors Jack Larson, right, and Noel Neill pose together at the film premiere of "Superman Returns" in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.
Earl Gibson III / APBilly Paul, center, a jazz and soul singer best known for the No. 1 hit ballad and "Philadelphia Soul" classic "Me and Mrs. Jones," died April 24, 2016. He was 81. Read more.
Jon Simon / APCharacter actor Abe Vigoda, known for his roles in "The Godfather" and the television series "Barney Miller," died Jan. 26, 2016. He was 94. Read more.
Sang Tan/APDavid Gest, a music producer, reality TV star and former husband of Liza Minnelli, died April 12, 2016. He was 62. Read more.
John Paul Filo / APMorley Safer, the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent who was equally at home reporting on social injustices, the Orient Express and abstract art, and who exposed a military atrocity in Vietnam that played an early role in changing Americans' view of the war, died May 18, 2016. He was 84. Read more.
Carl Court / Getty-AFPNick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. Read the full review.
Charles Tasnadi / APCuban leader Fidel Castro, the icon of leftist revolution who thrust his Caribbean nation onto the world stage by provoking Cold War confrontation and defying U.S. policy through 11 administrations, died Nov. 25, 2016. He was 90. Read more.
Francine Orr / Los Angeles TimesEnglish actor Alan Rickman, best known for roles in "Love Actually," "Die Hard" and as Professor Snape in the "Harry Potter" films, died Jan. 14, 2016, after battling cancer. He was 69. Read more.
Mary Altaffer / APFormer U.S. Congressman Michael G. Oxley, who helped write a landmark business regulatory law following the collapse of Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., died Jan. 1, 2016, at age 71.
Rick Rowell / ABC via Getty ImagesAgnes Nixon, who created popular daytime TV dramas such as "One Life to Life" and "All My Children," died Sept. 28, 2016. The Chicago-born Northwestern University graduate was 93. Read more.
APOn "22, A Million," Justin Vernon reimagines his music from the bottom up by letting technology — synthesizers, treated vocals, electronic sound effects — dictate. The songs retain their melancholy cast, but now must fight for air beneath static and noise. Read the full review.
John J. Kim / Chicago TribuneSinger-songwriter Leonard Cohen, one of popular music's most influential figures for four decades, known most widely for the song "Hallelujah," died Nov. 10, 2016. He was 82. Read more.
Brendan Smialowski / APGwen Ifill, who covered politics for some of the country's premier newspapers before transitioning to broadcast journalism and making her greatest mark as one of the most prominent TV anchors of her generation, died Nov. 14, 2016. She was 61. Read more.
Matt Sayles / APMaurice White, whose sweeping compositions for the group he founded, Earth, Wind & Fire, encompassed jazz, soul, gospel, blues, Latin and African music, died Feb. 4, 2016. He was 74. Read more.
Tony Gutierrez / APJanet Reno, who was the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and became the epicenter of multiple political storms during the Clinton administration, died Nov. 7, 2016. She was 78. Read more.
Jean-Baptiste Lacroix, AFP/Getty ImagesThe new album embraces her individuality more explicitly than ever, both more autobiographical and more politically and socially direct than anything she'd recorded previously. It's a rawer, less elaborate work than its predecessors, yet still hugely ambitious. Read the review
Danny Moloshok / APGrant Tinker, who brought new polish to the TV world and beloved shows including "Hill Street Blues" to the audience as both a producer and a network boss, died Nov. 28, 2016. He was 90. Read more.
Matt Sayles/Invision/APKendrick Lamar's "Untitled, Unmastered" is presented as an unfinished work, though it rarely sounds like one. Read the review.
Getty ImagesVan Williams, best known for his starring role as Britt Reid/the Green Hornet in the 1966-67 TV series "The Green Hornet," died Nov. 28, 2016. He was 82. Read more.
Rob Carr / AP 2007Harper Lee, the elusive novelist whose child's-eye view of racial injustice in a small Southern town, "To Kill a Mockingbird," became standard reading for millions of young people and an Oscar-winning film, died Feb. 19, 2016. She was 89. Read more.
Getty ImagesDan Haggerty, best known for his role in "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams," died from cancer Jan. 15, 2016. He was 74. Read more.
Stephen Dunn / 2010 Hartford Courant photoThree-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee — best known for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" — died Sept. 16, 2016. He was 88. Read more.
Alik Keplicz / APPolish film director Andrzej Wajda, whose career maneuvering between a repressive communist government and an audience yearning for freedom won him international recognition and an honorary Oscar, died Oct. 9, 2016. He was 90. Read more.
Joe Faraoni / APJohn Saunders, the versatile sportscaster who had hosted ESPN's "The Sports Reporters" for the last 15 years, died Aug. 10, 2016. He was 61. Read more.
Richard Drew / APFred Hellerman, right, a founding member of the influential folk music quartet the Weavers, died Sept. 1, 2016. He was 89. Read more.
Kidwiler Collection / Getty ImagesBuddy Ryan, the defensive architect of the Super Bowl champion 1985 Chicago Bears, died on June 28, 2016. He was 82. Read more.
Damien Meyer/ AFP/Getty ImagesFrench New Wave director Jacques Rivette, who often explored the blurry line between reality and fantasy in a career spanning six decades and more than 20 features, died Jan. 29, 2016. He was 87. Read more.
Pixar / APWoody introduces the gang to a homemade spork toy with self-esteem issues in "Toy Story 4." Read the review.
Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times"Lemonade" is more than just a play for pop supremacy. It's the work of an artist who is trying to get to know herself better, for better or worse, and letting the listeners/viewers in on the sometimes brutal self-interrogation. Read the full review.
Ron Wolfson / WireImageDenise Matthews, the singer who fronted Vanity 6 and collaborated with Prince, has died at the age of 57. Read more.
Chicago Tribune PhotoGordie Howe, known as "Mr. Hockey" for his enduring skills and the fierce competitiveness that inspired him to come out of retirement at 45 to play alongside two of his sons, died June 10, 2016. He was 88. Read more.
Marty Lederhandler / APAngela Paton, an actress best known for appearing with Bill Murray in "Groundhog Day," died May 26, 2016. She was 86. Read more.
John Rooney / APHeavyweight champion Muhammad Ali, who thrilled the world even after the punches had taken their toll and his voice barely rose above a whisper, died June 3, 2016. He was 74. Read more.
Stephan Chernin / APSir George Martin, the Beatles producer who guided, assisted and stood aside through the band's swift, historic transformation from rowdy club act to musical and cultural revolutionaries, died March 8, 2016. He was 90. Read more.
Cris Bouroncle / AFP/Getty ImagesBoutros Boutros-Ghali, a veteran Egyptian diplomat who helped negotiate his country's landmark peace deal with Israel but then clashed with the United States when he served a single term as U.N. secretary-general, died Feb. 16, 2016. He was 93. Read more.
John Konstantaras / Chicago TribuneOn her seventh studio album, "Golden Hour" (MCA Nashville), the singer-songwriter doesn't get hung up on genre. She's made a style-hopping pop album that infuses her songs with a relaxed spaciousness while muting, but not ignoring, her country roots. Read the review
Craig Barritt / AFP/GettyBill Nunn, a veteran character actor whose credits ranged from the "Spider-Man" movie franchise to such Spike Lee films as "Do the Right Thing" and "He Got Game," died Sept. 24, 2016. He was 63. Read more.
Yui Mok / APRod Temperton, a British-born musician and songwriter with a singular knack for pop-funk who wrote the Michael Jackson classics "Thriller," ''Rock With You" and many other hits, died in late September. He was 66. Read more.
Richard Shotwell / APAnton Yelchin, a rising actor best known for playing Chekov in the new "Star Trek" films, was killed by his car as it rolled down his driveway June 19, 2016. He was 27. Read more.
APPlaywright Peter Shaffer, whose durable, award-winning hits included "Equus" and "Amadeus," died June 6, 2016. He was 90. Read more.
Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago TribuneNow "Schmilco" (dBpm Records) arrives, a product of the same recording sessions that produced "Star Wars" but a much different album. Though it's ostensibly quieter and less jarring than its predecessor, it presents its own radical take on the song-based, folk and country-tinged side of the band. Read the full review.
Jordan Strauss / AP"Blonde" is a critique of materialism with Frank Ocean employing two distinct voices, like characters in a play, a recurring theme throughout the album and perhaps its finest sonic achievement. A party spirals out of control, the music rich but low key, a melange of organ and hovering synthesizers. Ocean uses distorting devices on his voice to add emotional texture and to enhance and sharpen the characters he briefly embodies. The upshot: They're all little slices of Ocean's personality with a role to play and they each sound distinct. Read the full review.
Bebeto Matthews / APNobel laureate Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Holocaust survivor whose classic "Night" became a landmark testament to the Nazis' crimes and launched Wiesel's long career as one of the world's foremost witnesses and humanitarians, died July 2, 2016. He was 87. Read more.
Raymond Boyd / Getty ImagesChicago radio legend Herb Kent, the longest-running DJ in the history of radio and a fixture on local airwaves for more than 70 years, died Oct. 22, 2016. He was 88. Read more.
Chris Sweda / Chicago TribuneWarpaint's unerring feel for gauzy hooks and slinky arrangements germinated over a decade and flourished on the quartet's excellent 2014 self-titled album. But the band has always nudged its arrangements onto the dance floor — subtly on record, more overtly on stage — and "Heads Up" (Rough Trade) gives the group's inner disco ball a few extra spins. Read the review.
Laurie Sparham / APA grown-up Christopher Robin returns to the Hundred Acre Wood and his best friend Winnie the Pooh. Read the review.
Yalonda M. James / APLincoln "Chips" Moman, a producer, guitarist, and songwriter, who helped Elvis Presley engineer a musical comeback in the late 1960s and then moved to Nashville to record country legends such as The Highwaymen, died June 13, 2016. He was 79. Read more.
Mark Humphrey / APCountry singer Sonny James, who recorded romantic ballads like "Young Love" and turned pop songs into country hits, died Feb. 22, 2016. He was 87. Read more.
Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago TribuneSharon Jones, the stout powerhouse who shepherded a soul revival despite not finding stardom until middle age, died Nov. 18, 2016. She was 60. Read more.
Jay LaPrete / APJohn Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Dec. 8, 2016. The last survivor of the original Mercury 7 astronauts was 95. Read more.
Ronald Martinez / Getty ImagesCraig Sager, the longtime NBA sideline reporter famous for his flashy suits and probing questions, died Dec. 15, 2016, after a battle with cancer. He was 65. A native of Batavia, Illinois, Sager attended Northwestern, where he walked onto the football and basketball teams and served as the school's "Willie the Wildcat" mascot for three years. Read more.
Associated PressAuthor Richard Adams, whose 1972 classic, "Watership Down," sold 50 million copies, died on Dec. 27, 2016. He was 96. Read more.
Matt Sayles / Invision / APPrince, a quintuple threat instrumentalist-singer-songwriter-producer-performer who became one of the towering figures in music the last four decades, died April 21, 2016. He was 57. Read more.
Frank Perry, AFP/Getty ImagesAlan Vega, the singer of iconic New York proto-punk band Suicide, died July 16, 2016. He was 78. Read more.
Michael Crabtree / APBurt Kwouk, who played martial arts expert Cato in the comic "Pink Panther" films, died May 24, 2016. He was 85. Read more.
Gill Allen / APBud Collins, who helped popularize the sport of tennis through his writing and television commentary, died on March 4, 2016, at 86. Collins was a columnist for the Boston Globe for almost 50 years and spent 35 years doing analysis of major tennis tournaments for NBC. Read more.
APNot many albums could survive Ed Sheeran performing reggae, but Pharrell Williams always took chances — not all of them successful — in N.E.R.D.Despite the Sheeran gaffe, "No One Ever Really Dies," the band's first album in seven years, is a typically diverse, trippy ride from the group that established Williams' career as a performer in the early 2000s alongside Chad Hugo and Shay Haley. Read the full review.
Richard Shiro / APPat Conroy, author of "The Great Santini" and "The Prince of Tides," died March 4, 2016, in Beaufort, S.C., at age 70 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. Read more.
Gary Friedman / Los Angeles TimesWriter-director Garry Marshall, whose deft touch with comedy and romance led to a string of TV hits that included "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley" and the box-office successes "Pretty Woman" and "Runaway Bride," died July 19, 2016. He was 81. Read more.
Paul Harris / Getty ImagesZsa Zsa Gabor, the jet-setting Hungarian actress who made a career out of multiple marriages, conspicuous wealth and jaded wisdom about the glamorous life, died Dec. 18, 2016. She was 99. Read more.
Erika Doss / APAn Atlanta teenager (Amandla Stenberg) deals with the death of her friend in "The Hate U Give," director George Tillman Jr.'s fine adaptation of the best-selling young adult novel. Read the review.
Tobin Yelland / APRisk-prone 13-year-old Stevie (Sunny Suljic, left) shares some of his angst with one of the local LA skateboarding idols, Ray (Na-Kel Smith), in writer-director Jonah Hill's "Mid90s." Read the review.
Tom Keller / APGloria Naylor, whose debut novel "The Women of Brewster Place," became a best-seller, a National Book Award winner and a TV miniseries released through Oprah Winfrey's production company, died Sept. 28, 2016. She was 66. Read more.
Henry Herr Gill / APChess Records co-founder Phil Chess, who with brother Leonard helped launch the careers of Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and others and amassed a catalog of rock and electric "Chicago" blues that profoundly influenced popular music in the 1950s and beyond, died Oct. 18, 2016. He was 95. Read more.
Teresa Isasi / APReunited for a family wedding, former lovers played by Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping in "Everybody Knows," directed by Asghar Farhadi. Read the review.
Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ASPiRE TVThomas Ford, the actor who played Martin Lawrence's best friend Tommy Strawn on the hit 1990s sitcom "Martin," died Oct. 12, 2016. He was 52. Read more.
APRobert Vaughn, who starred as Napoleon Solo on "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." died Nov. 11, 2016. He was 83. Read more.
Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles TimesGarry Shandling, who as an actor and comedian pioneered a pretend brand of self-focused docudrama with "The Larry Sanders Show," died March 24, 2016, in Los Angeles. He was 66. Read more.
Matt Sayles / Invision/APJon Polito, a character actor whose more than 200 credits ranged from "Homicide: Life on the Street" and "Modern Family" to the Coen Brother films "Barton Fink" and "The Big Lebowski," died Sept. 1, 2016. He was 65. Read more.
Kevork Djansezian / APVisionary London architect Zaha Hadid, renowned for her swooping, strongly sculpted buildings and for being the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize, her field's highest honor, died March 31, 2016. She was 65. Read more.
Nuccio DiNuzzo / Chicago Tribune"Black America Again" (ARTium/Def Jam) arrives as a one of the year's most potent protest albums. The album sags midway through with a handful of lightweight love songs, but finishes with some of its most emotionally resounding tracks: the "Glory"-like plea for redemption "Rain" with Legend, the celebration of family that is "Little Chicago Boy," and the staggering "Letter to the Free." Read the review.
Frazer Harrison / Getty ImagesRon Glass, the handsome, prolific character actor best known for his role as the gregarious, sometimes sardonic detective Ron Harris in the long-running cop comedy "Barney Miller," died Nov. 25, 2016. He was 71. Read more.
AP"Love & Hate" shows Kiwanuka breaking out of that stylistic box. His core remains intact: a grainy, world-weary voice contemplating troubled times in intimate musical settings. The album announces its more ambitious intentions from the outset, with the trembling strings, episodic piano chords and wordless vocals of the 10-minute "Cold Little Heart." It's a striking, if atypical, approach to reintroducing himself to his audience — a five-minute preamble before Kiwanuka begins to sing. Read the full review.
Philip Holman / APMother Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, died March 27, 2016. She was 92. Read more.
APGeorge Kennedy, center, who won a supporting actor Oscar for his role alongside Paul Newman in the beloved film "Cool Hand Luke," and was also a fixture of 1970s disaster movies including the "Airport" franchise and "Earthquake," died Feb. 28, 2016. He was 91. Read more.
Douglas Mason / Getty ImagesJoan Marie Johnson of The Dixie Cups died Oct. 9. 2016. She was 72.
Graham Bartholomew / APA tropical island boat captain (Matthew McConaughey) and his much-abused ex-wife (Anne Hathaway) enter a vortex of rough justice and fancy riddles in "Serenity." Read the review.
NBC / NBCU Photo Bank via Getty ImagesBob Elliott, right, was one half of the comedy team of Bob and Ray with Bob Goulding, left. Elliott died Feb. 3, 2016. He was 92. Read more.
CBS Films/Lily GavinPenniless, driven, the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) regards his next canvas subject in "At Eternity's Gate," directed by visual artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Read the review.
Wade Payne / APPat Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history who uplifted the women's game from obscurity to national prominence during her 38-year career at Tennessee, died June 28, 2016. She was 64. Read more.
Tina Fineberg / Associated Press / For Tribune NewspapersUmberto Eco, an Italian novelist and intellectual of worldwide renown who imbued his work with humor and scholarship and whose novel "The Name of the Rose" became a global phenomenon, died Feb. 19, 2016. He was 84. Read more.
Jonathan Hession / APIsabelle Huppert and Chloe Grace Moretz star in the thriller "Greta." Read the review.
Katie Darby/Invision/APChristina Grimmie, a vivacious, outgoing singer whose career was born on social media and propelled toward the big time by television on "The Voice," died June 10, 2016. The 22-year-old was shot and killed as she was signing autographs for fans after performing in Orlando. Read more.
Christophe Ena / APFormer New York Philharmonic principal conductor Pierre Boulez, who moved between conducting, composition and teaching over a long career that made him one of the leading figures in modern classical music, died Jan. 5, 2016. He was 90. Read more.
Hector Mata / AFPChyna, the WWE star who in the 1990s became one of the best-known and most-popular female professional wrestlers in history and who billed herself as the "9th Wonder of the World," died April 20, 2016. She was 45. Read more.
APActor-comedian Alan Young, who played the amiable straight man to a talking horse in the 1960s sitcom "Mister Ed," died May 19, 2016. He was 96. Read more.
Steve C. Wilson / APFormer U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, one of the first incumbents ousted in a national wave of tea party-led anger in 2010, died May 4, 2016. He was 82. Read more.
Stephen Shugerman / Getty ImagesKimbo Slice, a street-fighting sensation from Miami whose fisticuffs went viral on YouTube, died June 6, 2016. Slice, whose real name was Kevin Ferguson, was 42.
Frank Gunn / The Canadian PressSound often says it all in Drake's world, but "Views" plays in a narrow range. The trademark hovering synths and barely-there percussion edge out most of the hooks, in favor of long fades and enervated tempos that start to drag about halfway through this slow-moving album. Read the review.
David Appleby / APElton John (Taron Egerton) lays down a track for his express train to super-stardom in "Rocketman." The musical biopic co-stars Jamie Bell as lyricist Bernie Taupin. Read the review.
Damian Dovarganes/APKeith Emerson, the flamboyant, English prog-rock pioneer who rose to fame as the keyboardist for supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer in the 1970s, died March 11, 2016. He was 71. Read more.
WellGo USAChildhood friends and uneasy lovers played by Yoo Ah-in (left) and Jeon Jong-seo (center) find their lives disrupted by a mysterious man of means (Steven Yeung, right) in "Burning." Read the review.
Mark J. Terrill / APFrank Sinatra Jr., who carried on his famous father's legacy with his own music career and whose kidnapping as a young man added a bizarre chapter to his father's legendary life, died March 16, 2016. He was 72. Read more.
Jessica Hill / APGene Wilder, the frizzy-haired actor who brought his deft comedic touch to such unforgettable roles as the neurotic accountant in "The Producers" and the mad scientist of "Young Frankenstein," died Aug. 29, 2016. He was 83. Read more.
APVanellope von Schweetz (voiced by Sarah Silverman) and Ralph (John C. Reilly) zip around the web in a mad dash to save Vanellope's arcade game, "Sugar Rush," in this wild sequel to the 2012 "Wreck-It Ralph." Read the review.
Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago TribuneIn contrast, "Junk" (Mute"), M83's seventh studio album, sounds chintzy — a bubble-gum snyth-pop album that indulges Gonzalez's love of decades-old TV soundtracks, hair-metal guitar solos and kitschy pop songs. Read the full review.
Steve Wilkie / APUnburdened by Batman and Superman, the DC Comics realm turns in a not-bad origin story buoyed by Zachary Levi as the superhero version of 15-year-old Billy Batson (Asher Angel). Read the review.
Shawn Baldwin / APPaul Kantner, a founding member of the Jefferson Airplane who stayed with the seminal San Francisco band through its transformation from 1960s hippies to 1970s hit makers as the eventual leader of successor group Jefferson Starship, died Jan. 28, 2016. He was 74. Read more.
Gus Ruelas / APFlorence Henderson, who went from Broadway star to become one of America's most beloved television moms in "The Brady Bunch," has Nov. 24, 2016. She was 82. Read more.
Bob D'Amico / ABCActress Theresa Saldana, known for movies including "Raging Bull" and nominated for a Golden Globe for her work on TV's "The Commish," died June 6, 2016. She was 61. Read more.
Steve Mitchell / USA Today SportsMiami Marlins pitching ace Jose Fernandez was killed in a boat accident on the jetty rocks off Miami Beach on Sept. 25, 2016. He was 24. Read more.
Jill Sagers-Wijangco / Chicago TribuneErnestine Anderson, the internationally celebrated jazz vocalist who earned four Grammy nominations during a six-decade career, died March 10, 2016. She was 87. Read more.
Patti Perret/CBS FilmsCystic fibrosis patients Stella (Haley Lu Richardson) and Will (Cole Sprouse) negotiate a tricky mutual attraction in "Five Feet Apart," directed by Justin Baldoni. Read the review.
Tatum Mangus / APStephan James and KiKi Layne play Fonny and Tish, expectant parents in 1970s Harlem in the new James Baldwin adaptation "If Beale Street Could Talk." Read the review.
Charles Osgood / Chicago TribuneTom Hayden, the preeminent 1960s radical who roused a generation of alienated young Americans, became a symbol of militancy by leading riotous protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and added Hollywood glamour to his mystique with an activist partnership and marriage to film star Jane Fonda, died Oct. 23, 2016. He was 76. Read more.
Dan Balilty / APShimon Peres, a former Israeli president and prime minister, whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state and who was celebrated around the world as a Nobel prize-winning visionary who pushed his country toward peace, died Sept. 28, 2016. He was 93. Read more.
Atsushi Nishijima / APThis image released by Fox Searchlight Films shows Olivia Colman in a scene from the film "The Favourite." (Atsushi Nishijima/Fox Searchlight Films via AP)
Bebeto Matthews / APJohn Tishman, center, a builder whose company has worked on some of the most high-profile developments in the country, died Feb. 6, 2016. He was 90 years old.
Geoff Robins / AFP/Getty ImagesRob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died March 22 after fighting cancer. He was 46. Read more.
Dan Steinberg / APGlenn Frey, who co-founded the Eagles — one of the most commercially successful bands of the last half-century — and left behind a trove of indelible melodies including 17 Top-40 hits died Jan. 18, 2016. He was 67. Read more
Emily Aragones / APA late-night TV talk show host (Emma Thompson) faces falling ratings, personal crises and a blindingly white-male writers' room in "Late Night," co-starring and written by Mindy Kaling. Read the review.
Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles TimesDebbie Reynolds, seen here in 2012, an actress known for the musical "Singin' in the Rain," and her Oscar-nominated role in "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," died on Dec. 28, 2016, a day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died. Reynolds was 84. Read more.
John Raoux / APBoy band promoter Lou Pearlman, known for launching groups such as the Backstreet Boys and 'NSync, died in prison Aug. 19, 2016, while serving a 25-year sentence for one of the largest Ponzi schemes in Florida history. Read more.
Ron Frehm / APDavid Bowie, the innovative and iconic singer whose illustrious career lasted five decades, died Jan. 10, 2016, after battling cancer for 18 months. He was 69. Read more.
FPG / Getty ImagesE.R. Braithwaite, the Guyanese author, educator and diplomat whose years teaching in the slums of London's East End inspired the international best-seller "To Sir, With Love" and the popular Sidney Poitier movie of the same name, died Dec. 12, 2016. He was 104. Read more.
Andrew H. Walker / Getty ImagesPhife Dawg, a founding member of the hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest, died March 22, 2016. He was 45. Read more.
John MacDougall/ AFP/Getty ImagesImre Kertesz, the Hungarian writer who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Literature for fiction largely drawn from his experience as a teenage prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, died March 31, 2016. He was 86. Read more.
Richard Drew / APFyvush Finkel, the Emmy Award-winning character actor whose career in stage and screen started in Yiddish theater and led to memorable roles in "Fiddler on the Roof" on Broadway and on TV in "Boston Public" and "Picket Fences" died Aug. 14, 2016. He was 93. Read more.
AP"Everything Now" is a tighter but not better album. The heavyweight arena anthems of Arcade Fire's 2004 debut, "Funeral," are long gone, replaced by brooding lyrics encased in lighter music. Read the review.
Steve Eichner / Getty ImagesAttrell Cordes, who formed the hip-hop duo P.M. Dawn with his brother and was also known by the name Prince Be, died June 17, 2016. Read more.
Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune"American Dream" is a breakup album of sorts but not in the traditional sense. This is about breakups with youth, the past, and the heroes and villains that populated it. It underlines the notion of breaking up as just a step away from letting go — of friends, family, relevance. Read the review.
AP file photoArnold Palmer, a Pennsylvania greenskeeper's son who became one of golf's most charismatic champions and made millions of dollars by turning his popular "everyman" image into one of the most lucrative sports brands in the world, died Sept. 25, 2016. He was 87. Read more.
Annie Wells / Los Angeles TimesWilliam Christopher, who was known as Father Mulcahy on "MASH" from 1972 to 1983, died Dec. 31, 2016. He was 84. Read more.
Chip Bergmann / APA high-powered ad agency executive (Tika Sumpter, right) takes in her ex-con sister (Tiffany Haddish, center) in "Nobody's Fool." Read the review.
Al Seib / Los Angeles TimesActor Ken Howard, who starred in the 1970s series "The White Shadow" and served as president of SAG-AFTRA, died March 23, 2016. He was 71. Read more.
Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles TimesRalph Stanley, a patriarch of Appalachian music who with his brother Carter helped expand and popularize the genre that became known as bluegrass, died June 23, 2016. He was 89. Read more.
Chris Pizzello / APJoey Feek, left, part of country duo Joey + Rory with husband Rory Lee Feek, died at home in Indiana on March 4, 2016, after a long battle with cancer. She was 40. Read more.
Jeff Baenen / APBobby Vee, whose rise toward stardom began as a 15-year-old fill-in for Buddy Holly after Holly was killed in a plane crash, died Oct. 24, 2016. He was 73. Read more.
Eric Risberg / APPeter Mondavi, a wine country innovator who led his family's Charles Krug Winery through more than a half-century of change died Feb. 20, 2016. He was 101. Read more.
Matt Kennedy / APWashington D.C. power brokers Dick Cheney (Christian Bale) and Lynne Cheney have a date with destiny in Adam McKay's "Vice," co-starring Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld. Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actor for Christian Bale, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Rockwell, Best Supporting Actress for Amy Adams, Best Director for Adam McKay, Best Original Screenplay, Best Film Editing,
Sue Ogrocki / APLeon Russell, who sang, wrote and produced some of rock 'n' roll's top records, died Nov. 13, 2016. He was 74. Read more.
Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune"Ye" isn't so much a musical statement as a 23-minute, seven-track therapy session. Read the review
Damian Dovarganes / APPatty Duke, who won an Oscar as a teen for "The Miracle Worker" and maintained a long and successful career throughout her life, died March 29, 2016. She was 69. Read more.
Atsushi Nishijima / APQueen Anne's (Olivia Colman) court wrestles with the question of how to finance a war with France. Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz), the Duchess of Marlborough, uses her wits, her body and the queen's bed to coerce Anne into raising taxes on the citizenry in order to keep the off-screen battle going. Then the unexpected arrival of her country cousin, Abigail (Emma Stone), a noblewoman fallen on hard times. A dab hand with medicinal herbs, Abigail quickly rises above servant status to become the queen's new favorite. Game on! Read the review. Nomainted for: Best Picture, Best Actress for Olivia Colman, Best Supporting Actress for Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz, Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design,
Jim Cooper / APJerry Heller, the combative music manager whose fraught relationship with the seminal hip-hop group N.W.A was searingly portrayed in the box office hit "Straight Outta Compton," died Sept. 2, 2016. He was 75. Read more.
AP"Peace Trail" — Neil Young's second album this year and sixth since 2014 — is occasionally fascinating. It's also not very good, a release that surely would've benefited from a bit more time and consideration, which might have given Young's ad hoc band — drummer Jim Keltner and bassist Paul Bushnell — a chance to actually learn the songs. But the four-day recording session sounds like a getting-to-know-you warmup instead of a finished product. Read the full review.
Rick Bowmer / APCountry music legend Merle Haggard died April 6, 2016 of pneumonia. He was 79. Read more.
Daniel Smith / APGenie (Will Smith, right) explains the three-wishes thing to the title character (Mena Massoud) in Disney's "Aladdin," director Guy Ritchie's live-action remake of the 1992 animated feature. Read the review.
Roberto Pfeil / APBritish singer George Michael, who came to prominence in the 1980s with the group Wham!, died Dec. 25, 2016. He was 53. Read more.
Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago TribuneOn their new album, "Existentialism," the Mekons turn their audience and the recording space into accomplices for the band's high-wire act. Read the full review.
Mark Boster / Los Angeles TimesJan Crouch, who co-founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her late husband more than four decades ago, died on May 31, 2016. She was 78.
Jessica Kourkounis / APCapping the trilogy started with "Unbreakable" (2000) and the surprise hit "Split (2017), Shymalan's treatise on superhero origin stories brings James McAvoy, Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson together for a plodding psych-hospital escape. Read the review.
Judi Bottoni / APScotty Moore, the pioneering rock guitarist whose sharp, graceful style helped Elvis Presley shape his revolutionary sound and inspired a generation of musicians that included Keith Richards, Jimmy Page and Bruce Springsteen, died June 28, 2016. He was 84. Read more.
Rob Kim / Getty ImagesSinger and Hollywood voice double Marni Nixon died July 24, 2016 at age 86. Her singing was heard in place of the leading actresses in classic movie musicals as "West Side Story," ''The King and I" and "My Fair Lady."
Charles Sykes / APAngela Raiola, known as Big Ang, known for the reality TV series "Mob Wives" died Feb. 18, 2016, following a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. Read more.
APThe real stars of "Godzilla: King of the Monsters" are sound designers Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van Der Ryn. Their aural creature designs actually sound like something new — part machine, part prehistoric whatzit. Read the review.
Richard Drew / APBill Cunningham, a longtime fashion photographer for The New York Times known for taking pictures of everyday people on the streets of New York, died June 25, 2016. He was 87. Read more.
Bennett Raglin / Getty ImagesDavid Huddleston, a character actor who already had a vast list of credits to his name when — late in his career — he took what was to become his most famous role as the title character in "The Big Lebowski," died Aug. 2, 2016. He was 85. Read more.
Chris Pizzello / Chris Pizzello/Invision/APGrammy winning Latin Jazz saxophonist Leonardo "Gato" Barbieri died April 2, 2016. He was 83.
ABC Photo ArchivesJames Noble, a Broadway-seasoned actor who appeared on soap operas and films like "10" and "Being There," but perhaps was best known for playing the absent-minded governor to Robert Guillaume's patient head of household in the 1980s sitcom "Benson," died March 28, 2016. He was 94. Read more.
Rusty Kennedy / APCanadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film "Field of Dreams," died Sept. 16, 2016. He was 81. Read more.
Daniel McFadden / APIn "First Man," Ryan Gosling reteams with "La La Land" director Damien Chazelle to relay the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. Read the review.
Wilfredo Lee / APMexican superstar songwriter and singer Juan Gabriel died Aug. 28, 2016. He was 66. Read more.
Karen Bleier / AFP/Getty ImagesNancy Reagan, the helpmate, backstage adviser and fierce protector of Ronald Reagan in his journey from actor to president — and finally during his 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease — died March 6, 2016. She was 94. Read more.
Ross Gilmore / Redferns via Getty ImagesOn "Here" (Merge), the band's first album in six years and 10th overall, the front line of Norman Blake, Gerard Love and Raymond McGinley once again trades songs (four each) and lead vocals, over sturdily constructed pop-rock arrangements. But the band has taken some subtle evolutionary turns to where it's now a faint shadow of its "Bandwagonesque" incarnation. Read the review.
APWhen Aretha Franklin recorded her bestselling gospel album in early 1972, director Sydney Pollack's camera crew shot many hours of footage, unseen publicly until now. "Amazing Grace" is now in theaters. Read the review.
Kathy Willens / APBernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire and influenced performers of funk, rock, hip-hop and other genres, died June 24, 2016. He was 72. Read more.
Lennox McLendon / APLarry Drake, who won two Emmy Awards for best supporting actor in a drama series for his role as a mentally challenged character in "L.A. Law," died on March 17, 2016, at his Los Angeles home. He was 66. Read more.
NBCKanye West's "The Life of Pablo" (GOOD/Def Jam) sounds like a work in progress rather than a finished album. It's a mess, more a series of marketing opportunities in which West changed the album title and the track listing multiple times, to the point where the very thing that made West tolerable despite a penchant for tripping over his own ego — the music itself — became anti-climactic. Read the review.
APSix miles beneath the Pacific Ocean surface, a team of oceanographers and experts discover an entire hidden ecosystem laden with species "completely unknown to science." But Meg comes calling, attacking the submersible piloted by the ex-wife (Jessica McNamee) of rescue diver Jonas Taylor (Jason Statham). Read the review.
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Actors Jack Larson, right, and Noel Neill pose together at the film premiere of "Superman Returns" in the Westwood section of Los Angeles, on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.
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Noel Neill, the first actress to play Superman’s gal pal Lois Lane onscreen, died July 3 in Tucson, Ariz. after a long illness. She was 95.
Her manager and biographer Larry Ward shared a statement on Facebook, saying that she “maintained that bright, perky and engaging personality up until her death.”
Her first appearance as Lois Lane was in the 1948 movie serial “Superman,” which showed her talent for humor. She then appeared in the sequel “Atom Man vs Superman.” The 1950s television series “Adventures of Superman,” starring George Reeves, gave her a longtime role as the intrepid reporter, and she said later in interviews that she simply played herself.
She returned several times to appear in Superman films — playing Lois Lane’s mother in the 1978 Christopher Reeve “Superman,” appearing in the “Superboy” series and in the Brandon Routh-starrer 2006 “Superman Returns.”
Neill, who appeared in more than 40 films, retired after the “Adventures of Superman” TV series ended in 1958 but was a familiar face at conventions and signings and returned for small roles in later Superman films.
Born in Minneapolis, she originally thought of becoming a real journalist like her newspaper editor father before playing one onscreen. She modeled and sang while in her teens, then wrote for Women’s Wear Daily before moving into acting and singing.
Soon after moving to Los Angeles, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the racetrack in Del Mar, Calif. and then signed a contract with Paramount. She appeared in films including “Mad Youth” and “Are These Our Parents” and then appeared in “Music Man” and in a series of film and TV Westerns with directors including Vincent Minnelli, Cecil B. DeMille and Hal Roach.
Neill received a Golden Boot award for her contributions to Westerns. A statue of her as Lois Lane was dedicated in Metropolis, Ill. in 2010.
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