Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95
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Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Around 1980, the movie producer Robert Evans recruited Mr. Feiffer to write the screenplay for Robert Altman’s “Popeye.” Mr. Feiffer patterned his script after the Segar newspaper strip, not the animated adaptations made by the Fleischer brothers in the 1930s and ’40s. When…

Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85
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Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85

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#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own compositions embraced minimalism and mathematical clarity, died on Tuesday at his home in Paris. He was 85….