The occasional indignity of being an Academy Award champ is that it gives obituaries an immediate short-cut through one’s career: a lifetime of distinguished work can be handily reduced to “culminated in an Oscar win for _________.” Such is the case in many pieces on the passing of Patricia Neal yesterday, albeit justifiably supplemented with […]
Patricia Neal (1926 – 2010)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 5:26 am · August 9th, 2010
Filed in: Daily