Anne Rice, the American writer whose Interview with the Vampire sold more than 150 million copies, has died. She was 80.
Her son Christopher Rice, also an author, announced the news via Anne Rice’s public Facebook page, writing that she had died following complications from a stroke.
“The immensity of our family’s grief cannot be overstated,” he wrote. “As my mother, her support for me was unconditional — she taught me to embrace my dreams, reject conformity and challenge the dark voices of fear and self-doubt.”
Born on October 4, 1941, in New Orleans, Rice initially struggled to find popularity, with her debut novel Interview with the Vampire receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 1976. The book, penned while she was grieving the loss of her daughter to leukemia, since has been reappraised as a key text in the modern vampire genre and spawned 11 sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles.
Rice penned...
Her son Christopher Rice, also an author, announced the news via Anne Rice’s public Facebook page, writing that she had died following complications from a stroke.
“The immensity of our family’s grief cannot be overstated,” he wrote. “As my mother, her support for me was unconditional — she taught me to embrace my dreams, reject conformity and challenge the dark voices of fear and self-doubt.”
Born on October 4, 1941, in New Orleans, Rice initially struggled to find popularity, with her debut novel Interview with the Vampire receiving mixed reviews upon its release in 1976. The book, penned while she was grieving the loss of her daughter to leukemia, since has been reappraised as a key text in the modern vampire genre and spawned 11 sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles.
Rice penned...
- 12/12/2021
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Anne Rice, influential author of “Interview with the Vampire,” died on Saturday due to complications resulting from a stroke. She was 80.
The author’s son Christopher revealed the news on Facebook and said that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a private ceremony.
Earlier tonight, my mother, Anne Rice, passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke. She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died. Below is a statement I posted to her Facebook page moments ago. pic.twitter.com/g2VAK2XZjc
— Christopher Rice (@chrisricewriter) December 12, 2021
Born in New Orleans in 1941, Rice became renowned the world over as a writer of gothic fiction, with her books selling more than 150 million copies globally. In the early 1970s, while grieving the death of her daughter Michelle, she began converting one of her stories into what became her first novel,...
The author’s son Christopher revealed the news on Facebook and said that she would be interred in the family mausoleum at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans in a private ceremony.
Earlier tonight, my mother, Anne Rice, passed away due to complications resulting from a stroke. She left us almost nineteen years to the day my father, her husband Stan, died. Below is a statement I posted to her Facebook page moments ago. pic.twitter.com/g2VAK2XZjc
— Christopher Rice (@chrisricewriter) December 12, 2021
Born in New Orleans in 1941, Rice became renowned the world over as a writer of gothic fiction, with her books selling more than 150 million copies globally. In the early 1970s, while grieving the death of her daughter Michelle, she began converting one of her stories into what became her first novel,...
- 12/12/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Marking another loss for the entertainment realm, 91-year-old Ruby Dee died in New Rochelle, New York on Wednesday (June 11).
Over the course of her long and impressive career, the Cleveland native who grew up in New York had a prolific impact on the movie industry as well as theater and the 20th century’s social justice movement.
Back in 2005, Ruby and her now-deceased husband Ossie Davis were given the National Civil Rights Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Freedom award for their work with various civil rights causes that included personal friendships with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Career-wise, Ms. Dee’s Broadway credits include “Take It From The Top!” and “Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy,” and she starred in films like “American Gangster” and Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever.”
Ruby also worked extensively in television on programs like “All God’s Children” and “Feast of All Saints.
Over the course of her long and impressive career, the Cleveland native who grew up in New York had a prolific impact on the movie industry as well as theater and the 20th century’s social justice movement.
Back in 2005, Ruby and her now-deceased husband Ossie Davis were given the National Civil Rights Museum’s Lifetime Achievement Freedom award for their work with various civil rights causes that included personal friendships with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Career-wise, Ms. Dee’s Broadway credits include “Take It From The Top!” and “Two Hah Hahs and a Homeboy,” and she starred in films like “American Gangster” and Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and “Jungle Fever.”
Ruby also worked extensively in television on programs like “All God’s Children” and “Feast of All Saints.
- 6/12/2014
- GossipCenter
CBS is hoping to turn the Anne Rice novel Angel Time into a possible series.
The network has ordered a drama script from Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto (Memphis Beat) that’s based on Rice’s 2009 novel. The book, which was the first in the author’s Songs of the Seraphim series, tells the story of an assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption. The story takes place at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, CA.
Rice will serve an executive producer on the project, as well as Sarah Timberman (Masters of Sex) and Carl Beverly.
The network has ordered a drama script from Liz Garcia and Joshua Harto (Memphis Beat) that’s based on Rice’s 2009 novel. The book, which was the first in the author’s Songs of the Seraphim series, tells the story of an assassin with a tragic past who finds himself on a road to redemption. The story takes place at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, CA.
Rice will serve an executive producer on the project, as well as Sarah Timberman (Masters of Sex) and Carl Beverly.
- 9/26/2013
- by Lynette Rice
- EW - Inside TV
While reading a Top 10 list of the "worst things" about The Vampire Diaries compiled by BuddyTV, I came across the #7 item on the list, which read as follows:
The Bad #7 - Is Witchcraft Racist?
Bonnie, Luka, Jonas, Lucy, Bree, Grams and Emily are the only major recurring African-American characters on the show, and they are all witches. Not only that, but they are the only witches we’ve seen. It’s not necessarily racist, but it’s a little off-putting that every black character is a witch.
Excuse me?
As an African-American, I couldn't help but feel a bit upset after reading that entry, because I personally don't see what is "off-putting" about casting African-Americans as witches on the show. With the exception of Bree and the Martins, the other witches on the show have all been related to Bonnie, who just happens to be "black." So it would make sense for the Bennett lineage,...
The Bad #7 - Is Witchcraft Racist?
Bonnie, Luka, Jonas, Lucy, Bree, Grams and Emily are the only major recurring African-American characters on the show, and they are all witches. Not only that, but they are the only witches we’ve seen. It’s not necessarily racist, but it’s a little off-putting that every black character is a witch.
Excuse me?
As an African-American, I couldn't help but feel a bit upset after reading that entry, because I personally don't see what is "off-putting" about casting African-Americans as witches on the show. With the exception of Bree and the Martins, the other witches on the show have all been related to Bonnie, who just happens to be "black." So it would make sense for the Bennett lineage,...
- 12/23/2010
- by Mark O. Estes
- TVovermind.com
The Feast of All Saints is an adaptation Ann Rice's novel of the same name. The movie was broadcast as a mini-series via ShowTime back in 2001 and covers an intriguing subject:
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression. The film stars James Earl Jones, Jennifer Beals, Gloria Reuben, Victoria Rowell, Jasmine Guy, Ruby Dee, Robert Richard, Nicole Lyn and Bianca Lawson. What's nice about this story is we get a rare look at biracial/mixed people in that period. The accents sound cheesy at times, but overall the movie is worth a watch. Beals, Lyn and Lawson have quality scenes together, perhaps some of the most poignant. I especially enjoyed the ballroom dance scenes and classical music soundtrack which aren't often accompanied in most black films.
Set in nineteenth-century New Orleans, the story depicts the gens de couleur libre, or the Free People of Colour, a dazzling yet damned class caught between the world of white privilege and black oppression. The film stars James Earl Jones, Jennifer Beals, Gloria Reuben, Victoria Rowell, Jasmine Guy, Ruby Dee, Robert Richard, Nicole Lyn and Bianca Lawson. What's nice about this story is we get a rare look at biracial/mixed people in that period. The accents sound cheesy at times, but overall the movie is worth a watch. Beals, Lyn and Lawson have quality scenes together, perhaps some of the most poignant. I especially enjoyed the ballroom dance scenes and classical music soundtrack which aren't often accompanied in most black films.
- 11/22/2010
- by karen@reelartsy.com (Karen)
- Reelartsy
With the new tv show Undercovers premiering next month, starring the already oft-mentioned Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who I know best at Freema Agyeman’s (#1 on my ‘Wifey List’) sister on Dr. Who, and pretty-boy extraordinaire Boris Kodjoe, I thought I’d focus on what seems to be, in a good way, a proliferation of Black men on tv shows lately. Although these guys are supporting characters, they’re playing some pretty intense roles and putting forth some great comedic and dramatic performances. Though none of these are network shows like Undercovers, they are often better (and sometimes better performing) than those.
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Coby Bell on Burn Notice
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- 8/26/2010
- by Curtis the Media Man
- ShadowAndAct
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