Producer Arthur Cohn was first mentioned in Variety on Feb. 20, 1962, when the documentary he produced, “Sky Above, Mud Beneath,” was nominated for an Oscar. The doc, “Le Ciel et la boue,” directed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, underwent a few title changes over the years, and ended up winning the prize for 1961. Read More...
Actress, public relations executive
Shirley O’Hara Krims, screen actress, public relations executive, mother to a showbizzer and wife to two showbiz notables, died Friday, Dec. 13 at the Motion Picture Hospital in Calabasas, Calif. Read More...
Last year, Waka Flocka Flame seemed to be more focused on bar-for-bar lyricism than bellowing on top of gargantuan trap beats, releasing the ironically-titled I Can't Rap Vol. 1 last summer as a culmination of a freestyle series. Since his infectious debut single, "O Let's Do It," dropped in 2009, Flock had been pigeonholed as a simplistic gangster who favored long sequences of "BOW!"s over intelligent 16s (leading to parodies as inflammatory as "Shawt Bus Shawty" Read More...
