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Tag Archives: Mama Cass
Meeting Mama Cass

Got out my pencils to sketch Cass Elliot on her birthday. Below, something I wrote when I was just out of graduate school, living in Brooklyn (before it was fashionable), and heard that Cass Elliot had died. I remember feeling as if one my friends Read more…
2Young2Die

I just saw Philip Seymour Hoffman’s posthumous last film, “A Most Wanted Man.” And maybe it’s too easy to say in retrospect but it was like watching a man on a suicide mission, chain-smoking, wheezing, overweight, rarely making eye contact with the camera as if Read more…
Posted in Essays
Tagged Amy Winehouse, Heath Ledger, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mama Cass, Marilyn Monroe, Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Marijuana Chronicles