MOURNING ROUNDUP: SEPTEMBER 2, 2010
Links from around the Web: A Hurricane's Symbolism and In Memoriam
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.
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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