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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Robert Altman

Movie director Robert Altman died on 11/20/2006 at age 81, in an undisclosed hospital in the Los Angeles area. No cause of death was mentioned in early news releases, but spokespeople promised to release this information later on 11/21/2006. Arguably, Altman's two most famous films were M*A*S*H and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Bo Schembechler

Bo Schembechler, longtime coach of the Michigan Wolverines, died on 11/17/2006 at age 77. He had just finished taping a television show at a local station when his heart apparently gave out. Based on press reports, my impression is that he went into a state doctors call cardiac arrest (often... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Joseph Cardinal Bernardin

It's hard for me to believe, but Joseph Cardinal Bernardin has been dead for ten full years as of this writing. Cardinal Bernardin was the cardinal archbishop of Chicago from the early 1980s until his death in November of 1996. Like his successor, Francis Cardinal George, he was appointed to the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 11, 2006

Jack Palance

Jack Palance, 87, died on 11/10/2006, of natural causes, at his home in Montecito, California. Over the course of his considerable movie career, Palance got a reputation as a movie menace, but younger movie audiences know him best for his role in City Slickers. He is also well-known for the Oscar he... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 9, 2006

Ed Bradley

CBS reporter Ed Bradley, who worked for 26 years on 60 Minutes (among his other reporting assignments), died at age 65, of leukemia. Although he had an extensive news career and had earned widespread respect for his work with CBS, I do remember him best for his gig on 60 Minutes, where he impressed... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 2, 2006

William Styron

William Styron died on Wednesday (11/1/2006). He was 81, and died of pneumonia. He is perhaps most famous for the novels Sophie's Choice (his last novel, about the Holocaust, written in 1979) and The Confessions of Nat Turner (about a black slave). However, it is not widely known that he was haunted... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Red Auerbach

Red Auerbach, who played with and later coached the Boston Celtics to sixteen championships, died at age 89 of a heart attack. (Nine of those championships actually occurred when he was coach of the Celtics.) Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Gene Roddenberry

Today (10/24/2006) is the fifteenth anniversary of Gene Roddenberry's death. Roddenberry was most famous for creating Star Trek, a Utopian vision of the future cleverly disguised as a science-fiction series. The original series was set in the 23rd century; three later Star Trek series were set in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 23, 2006

Jane Wyatt

Most of us - Baby Boomers at least - remember Jane Wyatt from the television series Father Knows Best. In that series, she played Margaret Anderson, the matriarch of the Anderson family, who solved crises weekly during 207 episodes of that series. However, we Star Trek fans know her as Amanda... Sign in to see full entry.

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Christopher Glenn

Cristopher Glenn, age 68, died last week of liver cancer. He had two major claims to fame. During the 1970s and 1980s, he anchored the children's news program called In The News, a small feature which aired on CBS in between children's programs on Saturday mornings. Most readers of this blog will... Sign in to see full entry.

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Originally published on Epinions.com, this is my tribute to Fr. Mychal Judge of the Fire Department of New York. I have since added tributes to others who have gone on before.

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