Matt Schudel

Ann Hornaday, who helped Post readers understand the enduring magic and occasional disappointment of movies, died Sunday at her home in Baltimore. She was 66.

With his wife, Tammy Faye, he presided over the multimillion-dollar PTL empire before his fall in the 1980s after sex and fraud scandals.

He profiled John Updike and Norman Mailer, served as a foreign correspondent in Canada and France, and wrote a prizewinning book about the Vietnam War.

His work — filled with color-saturated stars and sun rays — adorned posters, coffee mugs and album covers during the Age of Aquarius and beyond.

With the publication of her 1974 book, she was hailed as a 20th-century Thoreau, a visionary whose shimmering prose offered glimpses of the eternal.

The lefty made four all-star teams while pitching for the White Sox, Dodgers and Yankees. An innovative procedure extended his career to 26 seasons.

She photographed everything from crime scenes to congressional hearings, winning journalism prizes while shattering a glass ceiling for women at the newspaper.

The tenor saxophonist was one of America’s most renowned jazz musicians, embracing tradition and innovation for six decades.

He built a dynasty in Atlanta while winning more than 2,500 games during a 29-year managerial career.

He helped guide Pulitzer Prize-winning projects, including coverage of Russian election interference in 2016 and the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Known for his clever quips and controversial political comments, he led the Fighting Irish to a national championship in 1989.

For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his classically conservative views.

Across 34 years at The Washington Post, he reported on the King assassination, covered antiwar protests in D.C. and prepared lively obits for major figures.

He provided on-the-scene updates for Westinghouse stations and witnessed Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidential swearing-in on Air Force One.

She sold more than 100 million records in her prime and had a viral TikTok moment near the end of her life.

He was a roving correspondent in Virginia and later wrote about outdoor life.

He led the trauma unit at George Washington University Hospital, where the president was treated in 1981 after an assassination attempt.

Her influential 1975 book transformed the social and legal understanding of rape as a tool of violence and power.

The Harvard professor was one of the foremost foreign policy intellectuals of his generation.