Remembering Prince, Musical and Cultural Icon

Prince, the musician who helped define the latter half of the 20th century with his eclectic blend of funk and transgressive sexuality, died Thursday at Paisley Park, his Minnesota property. He was 57.

Prince, the musician who helped define the latter half of the 20th century with his eclectic blend of funk and transgressive sexuality, died Thursday at Paisley Park, his Minnesota property. He was 57.

Cara Delevingne’s Modeling Career, which flourished in the mid-2010s and took the British actor Cara Delevnigne to runways and ad campaigns from Milan to Morocco, died Sunday in the Times of London. It was 6.
John Nash, the mathematician who inspired Sylvia Nasar’s book A Beautiful Mind and subsequent film adaptation, has died in a car accident. The 86-year-old Nash and his wife Alicia, 82, were traveling in a taxi on the New Jersey Turnpike. According to reports, the couple was ejected from the vehicle and they were both…
Ellen Albertini Dow, the only reason to watch The Wedding Singer more than 10 times a year has laid down her last sick rhyme. The actress, who appeared on every show you’ve ever seen —including The Golden Girls, Hannah Montana, and Scrubs — died yesterday at age 101. She leaves behind not only the best performance in…
Renowned documentarian Albert Maysles, whose works include Salesman and the Rolling Stones doc Gimme Shelter, passed away Thursday night at 88. This year marks the 40th anniversary of his most famous documentary Grey Gardens, a strange and intimate look inside the lives of famed eccentrics Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale…
Here's to crying when you want to. The AP reports that Lesley Gore died of cancer today at NYU Langone Medical Center at the age of 68, leaving behind her long-term partner Lois Sasson.
Bess Myerson, public servant, presidential advisor, and the first and only Jewish Miss America, died on December 14th at the age of 90. The New York Times released an obituary Monday, reigniting public interest in a woman who lived loudly despite the traps of disadvantage—economic, religious, gender—that sought to…
Sabah, the Lebanese legend whose prolific singing and acting career lasted over 70 years, passed away at home in Beirut Wednesday morning, aged 87. She was, according to Beirut's Daily Star, "the first Arab singer to perform at Olympia in Paris, Carnegie Hall in New York, Piccadilly Theater in London and Sydney…
Mike Nichols, the acclaimed director behind such iconic films as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Graduate, passed away late Wednesday night. Let's celebrate his legacy by reading The Cut's tribute to Mrs. Robinson, one of the most fascinatingly complicated characters to ever appear in a Nichols movie (or any…
Jane Byrne has died, Chicago's first—and to date, only—female mayor. She was 81. Byrne served from 1979 to 1983, and was a reformer in a number of other important ways, appointing the first black superintendent, proclaiming the city's first Gay Pride parade, and passing the first ordinance to ban the possession of…
In a statement, Robin Williams' wife Susan Schneider has revealed that Williams learned he had Parkinson's Disease shortly before his death. "Robin's sobriety was intact and he was brave as he struggled with his own battles of depression, anxiety as well as early stages of Parkinson's Disease, which he was not yet…