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Bob Rafelson, a giant in the American independent film movement as a writer, director and producer, and later a co-creator of TV’s The Monkees, died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Aspen, CO. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his ex-wife, Gabrielle. Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2021: A Photo…

In 1971, the Cannes Film Festival opened with a screening of Gimme Shelter by Albert and David Maysles, an immersive, vérité depiction of two weeks in the touring life of the Rolling Stones. If that was all it did, it might have been forgotten by now. But by a terrible freak of chance, the filmmakers followed the band…

Writer-director-actor Peter Fonda, who died Friday at age 79, had instant success with the 1969 film Easy Rider, about two freewheeling motorcyclists at the forefront of the American counterculture. The movie was the third highest-grossing that year and earned Fonda an Oscar nom for the screenplay he wrote with Dennis…

Peter Fonda, who died Friday at age 79, was a member of a Hollywood royal family that included father Henry Fonda, sister Jane Fonda and his daughter Bridget Fonda. He also might have, along with Dennis Hopper, launched an entire Hollywood industry with their 1969 film Easy Rider, considered by many to mark the birth…

Peter Fonda, a two-time Oscar nominee best known for his work in the groundbreaking Easy Rider, which he co-wrote, produced, and co-starred in, has died at age 79. The son of Hollywood legend Henry Fonda, brother of actress Jane Fonda, and father of actress Bridget Fonda, his death was confirmed by his publicist. “It…