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The New York Times has a nice obit.

How I will always think of her…

The New York Times is reporting that Buckley has died. Not unlike the brand of conservatism for which he stood.  (Buckley was an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration, and the whole neocon movement). Like him or hate him though, he was a giant. Ezra Klein: As a slightly more general point, in the last two or three years, a … Read More

Kind of a rough weekend show-wise.  The audiences enjoyed the show, but a fellow actor was having an off-day yesterday, and he kinda threw me a little.  Hey, it happens. Then the Patriots lost. And this morning, word is out about David Wright, a local community theatre actor in Greensboro who died Friday night.  A really nice guy, very congenial.  … Read More

I’m sure he was a nice guy, but… come on: Dena Michnowich of Glen Cove, New York I was walking in the lower east side of Manhattan one day and I noticed a really cute man holding his little daughter on his shoulders. She looked just like him. He told her that they had to make a right and asked … Read More

It’s always sad when they die young.  And always the cliche — young successful male actor, dead in his New York apartment [UPDATE: apparently is was Mary-Kay Olsen’s apartment], drugs likely to blame, yada yada yada.  Still, it’s no less of a shock.

How can you not feel at least a little sad about this? Suzanne Pleshette, the husky-voiced actress who redefined the television sitcom wife in the 1970s, playing the smart, sardonic Emily Hartley on “The Bob Newhart Show,” died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 70. Ms. Pleshette died of respiratory failure, her lawyer, Robert Finkelstein, told The … Read More

An odd man, rabid anti-Semite (even though he was most likely Jewish, despite his denials), but a hell of a chess player, is dead. Hen notoriously dropped off from the face of the earth around 1975, leading to much speculation in the chess world, and the foundation for the movie Searching for Bobby Fischer. A Bobby Fischer quote: "This is … Read More

I admit it — "Same Auld Lang Syne" always made me cry…. Actually, "Leader Of The Band", too… Come to think of it, you really should download "The Innocent Age" (it’s not an entire downer)…. UPDATE:  His website, announcing the news…..

There’s a joke or pun to be made. Can’t seem to get the bat off my shoulders though.

Dick Wilson, actor who played the iconic Charmin-Squeezing spokesman has died.

Adieu.

Not a good year for the top row of Match Game. Link: Her website Note:  For those keeping score, Gene Rayburn (above, left) died in 1999.  Richard Dawson (not pictured) is still alive.

Not a big opera buff myself, but when a giant in the arts passes, I would be remiss in not noting it: Luciano Pavarotti, opera’s biggest superstar of the late 20th century, died Thursday. He was 71. He was the son of a singing baker and became the king of the high C’s. Pavarotti, who had been diagnosed last year … Read More

…but I never liked her.  She stiffed two grandchildren…. (Actually, I’m not crazy about Damon knocking off the Red Sox either)