Date 30/04/2017 - News People
The film world is mourning the loss of director Jonathan Demme, who died this past week at the age of 73. He struck gold with "Melvin and Howard," a sympathetic meditation on the American dream of get-rich-quick, finding in Jason Robards' grizzled Howard Hughes a man whose longing for connection was mythic, and in Paul Le Mat's Melvin Dummar a dreamer worth believing. Many have spoken out in the Hollywood community of how Jonathan Demme positively affected their lives; he will be sorely missed.