Author Archives: Kit Hawkins

Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman Dies

Screenwriter David Zelag Goodman (1930-2011) was nominated for an Academy Award, and wrote Logan's Run and Eyes of Laura Mars... Read more [...]

Actress Frances Bay Dies

Character actress Frances Bay (1919-2011) had more than 150 appearances as doddering, sweet, elderly women, including more than a dozen sf/f/h roles... Read more [...]

63rd Annual Emmy Award Winners—the sf/f/h nominees

The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmys once again nearly snubbed sf/f/h programming, but we did pick up two primetime awards, and five creative arts awards... Read more [...]

Television director Charles S. Dubin dies

Television director Charles S. Dubin (1919-2011) directed Tales of Tomorrow and M*A*S*H, stood up to the House Committee on Un-American Activities... Read more [...]

Actor Cliff Robertson Dies

Actor Cliff Robertson (1923-2011) won an Oscar and Golden Globe as Charly, and appeared three times as Spider-Man's Uncle Ben... Read more [...]

Actress Eve Brent Dies

Actress Eve Brent (1929-2011), also known as Jean Lewis, is known for, and was typecast for, playing Jane in two 1958 Tarzan movies, but she later broke out of that shell... Read more [...]

Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster Dies

Screenwriter Jimmy Sangster (1927-2011) was best known for his horror films, which modified and made much of Hammer Films reputation... Read more [...]

Actor John Wood Dies

British stage and screen actor John Wood (1930-2011) won a Tony, was nominated for a Saturn, and co-starred in WarGames... Read more [...]

Football player and actor Bubba Smith dies

Football star and actor Bubba Smith (1945-2011) was a two-time Pro Bowl selectee and Moses Hightower in the Police Academy films... Read more [...]

63rd Annual Emmy Award Nominees—the sf/f/h nominees

The 63rd Annual Prime Time Emmy Award nominations include a much better showing by genre productions, including 13 nominations for Game of Thrones... Read more [...]

Television creator Sherwood Schwartz dies

Television creator Sherwood Schwartz (1916-2011) created Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch... Read more [...]

Fantastic Books republishes two early Michael Moorcock multiverse novels

Michael Moorcock's The Sundered Worlds (the first novel of the multiverse, sometimes known as The Blood Red Game) and The Winds of Limbo (aka The Fireclown) are now back in print, and ready for a new audience... Read more [...]

37th annual Saturn Film/Television/DVD Award Winners

The Saturn Awards, for sf/f/h film and television, were just handed out. Big winners were Inception and Fringe... Read more [...]

Actor Peter Falk Dies

Actor Peter Falk (1927-2011) was best known as the rumpled detective Columbo, but also appeared as the grandfather in The Princess Bride... Read more [...]

Film Producer Laura Ziskin Dies

Laura Ziskin (1950-2011) produced the recent Spider-Man movies and co-founded Stand Up to Cancer... Read more [...]