Robert Downey Sr. News

Robert Kocourek, a feature film production accountant, died of liver failure Sept. 4 in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, his home for the past decade. He was 59. ... Full Article

Ahoy, squirts! Quint , the birthday boy, here. As you probably know last month I had to put a stop to my A Movie A Day column. ... Full Article

Before his son and namesake grew up to be the edgiest Hollywood actor of his generation, Robert Downey Sr. enjoyed a small measure of celebrity as the edgiest indie cine-satirist of his. ... Full Article

Taylor Mead appears in Robert Downey's 1973 film 'Babo 73.'The Anthology program functions as a showcase of Mr.Downey's (that is Mr. Downey Sr., if one is only familiar with his son's acting career) breathlessly anarchic, hyper-verbal, and visually... ... Full Article

With stints in jail, spells in rehab and an arrest for driving down Sunset Boulevard in the buff, it's not so long ago that Robert Downey Jr's career wasn't looking too good. ... Full Article

Gentrification panic, boho narcissism, and aging anxiety have always seemed like suspiciously confluent mental conditions, and the revival of Philip Hartman 's 1987 Alphabet City grime opera No Picnic illustrates that this peculiar urban syndrome existed long before the arrival... ... Full Article

Anarchically whimsical and countercultural with a capital C, the early underground comedies of Robert Downey Sr. ( Putney Swope ) will no longer be rarities now that Martin Scorsese 's Film Foundation has restored his Babo 73 (1964), Chafed Elbows... ... Full Article