http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/opinion/24seinfeld.html?em&ex=1214452800&en=33d98b4f11507cbf&ei=5087%0A Jerry Seinfeld eulogizes the great George Carlin. I’ve been trying to figure out how best to honour him, but this beats any sorry tribute I could offer.
Tag Archives: obituaries
The Death of Heath Ledger – NYTimes.com
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/actor-heath-ledger-is-found-dead/index.html?hp I had started a post after Brad Renfro died, saying that I thought this might be the Year of the Dead Celebrity. I nixed the posting in case I was perceived to be starting off 2008 on the wrong foot (as did Brad Renfro – *ahem*). With Heath Ledger apparently topping himself today, though, […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080111/ap_on_re_au_an/obit_edmund_hillary_6 Sir Edmund Hillary has died; The world is one class act poorer. Unlike many climbers, Hillary said when he died he had no desire to have his remains left on a mountain. He wanted his ashes scattered on Waitemata Harbor in the northern city of Auckland where he lived his life. “To be washed […]
Norman Mailer, Towering Writer With Matching Ego, Dies at 84 – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/books/11mailer.html?pagewanted=all Another missed obit, this time for larger-than-life writer, Norman Mailer. I’ve read and re-read The Executioner’s Song, and have seen him in a fascinating interview with a French documentarian. For these, I’m willing to excuse his brashness, his anti-woman 60s pronouncements, and the fact that I haven’t read any of his other works. But […]
Tom Poston – Obituary – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/02/obituaries/02poston.html After 8 months away, with only haphazard access to The Internet ™, I’m catching up on the obits I’ve missed. Tom Poston (aka Mr. Bickley) was a fixture in most of the TV from my childhood, but my childish mind was clearly unattuned to straight man genius. Many of the anecdotes presented here are […]
Notable Deaths of 2007 – New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/obituaries/notable-obits-2007.html The New York Times has a list of the year’s most notable obituaries, with a brief description of the individual’s claim to fame. A thoughtful addition: Richard Jewell, 44, hero of Atlanta Olympic bombing.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071227/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_118;_ylt=Aiik6666bwNPjnBKKzHjiIoE1vAI Mixed messages from the Benazir Bhutto camp in successive statements. This is always a sign that the situation’s far worse than they want to admit: 1) “She had just crossed the gate when we heard a deafening sound. We could feel its impact but by the grace of God, she is safe,” he said. […]
Activist loses 2nd son to gunfire – thestar.com
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/288714 After Patricia Wynter’s first-born son was shot to death in 2001, she and 17 others who lost sons to violence formed an organization called UMOVE, which stands for United Mothers Opposing Violence Everywhere… But on Sunday, Wynter’s world was once again rocked by gun violence when her only surviving son, Karim Rashid Ata-Ayi, 29, […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071224/en_nm/peterson_dc_1;_ylt=AkJgVibXppSKQaVptgtQi1YE1vAI Oscar Peterson, who sat atop the world of jazz piano for decades with his driving two-handed swing, technical wizardry and rapid-fire solos, died on Sunday of kidney failure, CBC Television said. He was 82. In a year that saw the death of Ed Mirvish and the Sam the Record Man flagship, Canada loses another […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070820/ap_on_re_us/obit_helmsley_16;_ylt=Am9EER_1rVI0sUG.t34ZDu4E1vAI The rate with which Republican poster children are being smoten this year is almost enough to make me believe there is a God, and he was quite serious about that meek inheritance thing. Today, the world is a better place; crass, mean, miserly Leona Helmsley has learned that she can’t take it with her. […]