MOURNING ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
Links from around the Web: A Hurricane's Symbolism and In Memoriam
ARTS & MEDIA
ARTS & MEDIA
BEST
SENDOFFS
SENDOFFS
OBITS
RETROSPECTIVES
BOOKS
DIED ON THE
SAME DAY
SAME DAY
BEST
SENDOFFS
SENDOFFS
A LEGACY OF HAPPINESS
Jerry Garcia keeps winning over the crowd.
MISSING IN THE FLOOD
Will and Strength are mourned, but what of Faith, Hope and Charity?
GRIM READER, AUG. 27, 2010: WILLIAM SAXBE, OLE IVAR LOVAAS AND MICHAEL BEEN
It’s been another quiet week in the Obitosphere, befitting 2010’s status as the Summer of Deathlessness — a far cry from last year’s warm-weather celebrity carnage. Which is just fine by Grim Reader, who prefers the quieter obits anyway.
CARRIED AWAY
August 30, 2005. Rescue seems so close, so close, has to be close. It doesn’t matter. You slip through his hands. The water carries you away.
THE MURDER THAT CHANGED THE MOVIES
Fifty years ago, death on the silver screen was typically quite decorous. Then came Psycho and the murder that broke all the rules and changed American movies forever.
AMONGST THE GRANITE TOMBS
Rufus Wainwright’s Sunday in the Park with Death
LAURENT FIGNON, Gruff French Cyclist, 50
ALAIN CORNEAU, César-Winning Film Director, 67
FRANCISCO VARALLO, Played for Argentina at first World Cup, 100
LORD LYELL OF MARKYATE, Conservative MP, A.G. in Matrix Churchill case, 71
HENRY ADDIS, Started the United Federation of Teachers in NY, 92
JULES EDWARD LOH, Associated Press reporter , 79
ALAIN CORNEAU, César-Winning Film Director, 67
FRANCISCO VARALLO, Played for Argentina at first World Cup, 100
LORD LYELL OF MARKYATE, Conservative MP, A.G. in Matrix Churchill case, 71
HENRY ADDIS, Started the United Federation of Teachers in NY, 92
JULES EDWARD LOH, Associated Press reporter , 79
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