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Life goes by pretty fastIf you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. -  Ferris Bueller From CNN: John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a … Read More

Yeah, I know it was last week.  And he was on my “death watch” for a couple months.  Still, it’s a bit of a shock and sad. I wonder how much a younger generation weened on the 24 hour cable news can appreciate the stature that Walter Cronkite had.  I was less than ten during the 1960’s, and even then, I … Read More

In case you haven't seen it, this is the CNN footage which accidentally caught the ghost of MJ (some say): It's a little hard to see, but someone was able to enhance the video:

I was a big fan.  Not that I agreed with him or his policies all the time, but I think his life story was fascinating. Go rent Errol Morris' "The Fog of War", a documentary/interview with Mac.

He was a good boy.

One of the best charactor actors.  He was 97.

Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson…. you know how it goes.  Always in threes. The problem is that it is sometimes hard to tell which deaths "count" for a morbid triad. Fortunately, someone as appointed himself the Death Trilogy Commissioner, so we won't have to wonder anymore. Also, in related news, someone else has appointed himself the world's leading internet … Read More

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No, Jeff Goldblum did not fall off a cliff in New Zealand. No, Harrison Ford did not die in his yacht off St. Tropez.

New Republic's John McWhorter: Michelangelo said that when he sculpted the David statue, David was already inside the block of marble and his job was just to take away what was not David. Jackson worked against nature’s endowment just as diligently, but surely the pale wraith he became was not something that had been waiting to see the light of … Read More

Unlike Farrah Fawcett, this was a total surprise. I'm not sure I can add to the testimonials and news coverage about his career.  I only note that when I came home from the performance this evening (the Michael Jackson kick choreographed weeks ago into the curtain call took on a special poignancy, however brief), I turned to MTV, a cable … Read More

We saw this coming.  Very sad.  She passed only moments ago, fighting her battle with cancer the best she could until the end. She was 62. The young model…. …turned iconic image of the 1970s…   …turned respected actress…   Even throughout her wildly successful Charlie's Angels phase (which only lasted one year with her), she was dismissed as an unserious blonde … Read More

Just the thought of it — the rumor of it, even — is depressing.

Tragic circumstances, obviously.  And I bristle at the phrase "talk-and-die syndrome". Anyway, here's Natasha performing "Maybe This Time" in Cabaret, for which she won a Tony.

Get the story straight, people: