John Malkovich’s career began, as with many great TV and film actors, in the theater. During his early tenure with the Steppenwolf Theater Company, he starred in a murderer's row of 20th century classics of the American theater, including Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, and Sam Shepard’s True West. He made his name at the turn of the ‘90s...

Sometime in the mid-90s, Daniel Dumile became the villain. As part of the trio K.M.D., the precocious wordsmith spent the early part of that decade as Zev Love X, putting out records with his brother Subroc and a friend of theirs from Long Beach, New York, who called himself Onyx the Birthstone Kid. After Subroc’s sudden death in 1993, K.M.D was dropped from its label, and Dumile retreated from...

Scott Walker, the chameleonic singer-songwriter and avant-garde composer who came to prominence in the Walker Brothers, has died at the age of 76. His death was confirmed in a statement made by his label 4AD. No cause of death has yet been revealed The American-born Walker made his first recording under his birth name, Scott Engel, when he was 13. He worked as a session musician in Los Angeles and...