Thomas Lux, 1946-2017 [THE PARIS REVIEW]
Rest in Peace, Thomas Lux
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Tag Archives: Deaths
Rest in Peace, Richard Adams!
I would be totally negligent if I didn’t acknowledge the death of author Richard Adams. He died on Christmas Eve at the age of 96.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
[Book Nerd News] Elie Wiesel Has Died
Elie Wiesel, Auschwitz Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Dies at 87 [THE NEW YORK TIMES]
David Bowie Quote
“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”-David Bowie
Goodbye, Lauren Bacall!
This week keeps getting worse, celebrity-wise.
Lauren Bacall: 16 September, 1924-12 August 2014.
“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”-Lauren Bacall, By Myself and Then Some
[Book Nerd News] Peter Matthiessen is Dead
Peter Matthiessen, 1927-2014 [courtesy the Paris Review]
Off Topic Post: So Long, Mickey Rooney!
Mickey Rooney Dead at 93 [courtesy Variety]
“Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out you haven’t wasted a whole day.”-Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney and his first wife, Ava Gardner.
Off Topic Post: Goodbye, Shirley Temple!
In all of the years that I’ve written about old movies, I’ve never done an essay about Shirley Temple…but that doesn’t mean I don’t love her. She was, and will always be, a star.
Shirley Temple in the full bloom of her stardom. She died yesterday, at 85.
Off Topic Post: Forgetting Audrey…
…would be a shame!
Audrey Totter: December 20, 1917-December 12, 2013
Lady in the Lake (1947)
May Shakespeare Call You off the Stage
“All the world’s a stage/And all the men and women merely players/They have their exits and their entrances/And one man in his time plays many parts/His acts being seven ages.”-William Shakespeare
Peter O’Toole
Farewell, dear sir!
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