Tony Roma, whose casual rib joint became an international restaurant empire after it caught the attention of a Texas financier in the 1970s, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 78.
Tony Roma
Categories: Business
Categories: Business
Tony Roma, whose casual rib joint became an international restaurant empire after it caught the attention of a Texas financier in the 1970s, died Friday of lung cancer. He was 78.
Categories: Business
Selma Koch, a Manhattan store owner who earned a national reputation by helping women find the right bra size, mostly through a discerning glance and never with a tape measure, died Thursday at Mount Sinai Medical Center. She was 95 and a 34B.
Categories: Actors
Canadian-born stage and screen actor Hume Cronyn, who often played opposite his wife Jessica Tandy, has died. He was 91.
Known most recently for his roles in the 1980s “Cocoon” movies, the veteran actor died of prostate cancer Sunday at his home in Fairfield, Conn., according to a family spokeswoman.
Cronyn was married to Tandy for nearly 52 years. She died from ovarian cancer in September 1994.
Categories: Extraordinary People
DeVon Smith racked up 200,000 miles hitchhiking, traveling 41 times across the U.S., across Europe to Siberia, and all through South America. He died on May 30 from an apparent heart attack. He was 77.
Categories: Actors
Gregory Peck, the film actor who has died aged 87, appeared on the screen as the epitome of male virtue.
Tall, dark, handsome and romantic, he stood for goodness, decency, sobriety and sound sense — to an extent that risked appearing dull. It was true that Peck could seem wooden, while the cynical complained of his complacency, blandness and political correctness. “When I’m wrongly cast,” he himself admitted, “I sink with the ship.”
But a film had to be very bad indeed to undermine his appeal at the box office. From the 1940s to the 1980s he was the star of nearly every film he played in.