In Memoriam

[Kirkus]

Stop it.

RIP, Mr. Hemsley.

[Kirkus]

Chad Everett, star of the 70s drama, "Medical Center" has passed away.




http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,4308588.story

[Ti-Amie]

RIP Chad.

[Moose]

Author Maeve Binchy has passed after a brief illness. She was my mom's favorite writer.

[morct]

Author Maeve Binchy has passed after a brief illness. She was my mom's favorite writer.

Mine too. She was a real story teller, lovely to listen to when she was being interviewed.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...321157822.html

[mmmm8]

Author Gore Vidal has died

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/...ies/56631952/1

[Woody]

Author Gore Vidal has died

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/...ies/56631952/1

This always makes me smile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

[Ti-Amie]

Maeve Binchy followed by Gore Vidal. May they rest in peace.

[Moose]

Author Gore Vidal has died

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/...ies/56631952/1

This always makes me smile: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

The feud with Buckley was epic - but just as good, I thought, was the feud with Norman Mailer - and Vidal's quote after being knocked to the floor by a punch thrown by Mailer, after Vidal had writing a particularly scathing critique of one of Mailer's works...

"Words fail Norman Mailer yet again"

[atlpam]

Surprised that Marvin Hamlisch hadn't already made this thread. I had the great experience of seeing him at the Majestic Theater in San Antonio back in my college days. My parents had tickets and suggested I try to get a ticket through Will Call (turned in tickets) and I landed a seat in the second row on the side of the stage where the keyboard was and got to watch his hands fly over the keys (I'm sure dry can appreciate).

[Moose]

Surprised that Marvin Hamlisch hadn't already made this thread. I had the great experience of seeing him at the Majestic Theater in San Antonio back in my college days. My parents had tickets and suggested I try to get a ticket through Will Call (turned in tickets) and I landed a seat in the second row on the side of the stage where the keyboard was and got to watch his hands fly over the keys (I'm sure dry can appreciate).

My favorite version of my favorite song of his. And I say that out of love, not cynicism. This is incredibly special. I hope they got to meet in Heaven.

Gilda does Marvin

[JTContinental]

David Rakoff has died, after a long battle with cancer. I never thought his essays were all that funny in print form, but liked the work he did on This American Life.

http://news.yahoo.com/david-rakoff-a...173258506.html

[jadesa]

David Rakoff has died, after a long battle with cancer. I never thought his essays were all that funny in print form, but liked the work he did on This American Life.

http://news.yahoo.com/david-rakoff-a...173258506.html

I've never read his work, but I had heard a 2010 interview he had given on NPR. They were re-airing it today, and I found it very sad. He was talking about how he felt like 47 was his perfect age because he often felt in life that he had been born with the personality of someone aged 47-52. He died yesterday at 47.

[Moose]

Author, editor and sex revolutionary Helen Gurley Brown passed today.

[Ti-Amie]

Author, editor and sex revolutionary Helen Gurley Brown passed today.

May she rest in peace.