Well I’m not on the list so I guess I’ll get dressed and greet the day.
Buckley, Helms, Heston, Snow, and Solzhenitsyn: redoubtable men, all.
I also remember Isaac Hayes fondly from his role as Gandolph Fitch in The Rockford Files.
The American Republic, November 4, 2008
"And kings -- as peasants -- come to dust."
We can add Watergate’s “Deep Throat” to the list. Mark Felt, 95, died last night.
> (Sir) Edmund Hillary, 88, Jan. 11—New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953 became the first to scale the world’s tallest peak, the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.
New Zealand and Nepal mourned.
Sir Ed, as he was known here, was also a philanthropist of some note, building schools and hospitals and core infrastructure for the Sherpa people in Nepal.
His picture is on our $5 Note: our smallest note in circulation and thus the most widely circulated.
Left out were Anita Page, silent film and early 1930’s actress (I’ve got her autograph) and Beverly Garland, Queen of the 1950’s exploitation and monster B flicks.
They didn’t mention Van Johnson. Both Johnson and Cyd Charisse vanished into the Brigadoon mist this year.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 89, Aug. 3—Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, helped erase sympathy for the Soviet Union among leftist intellectuals, and inspired millions to stand strong in the face of repression; sheltered in America before returning to Russia, he also criticized Western culture for what he considered its weakness and decadence.
He tried to tell us. If only we will fight for freedom the way that he did.
I’m gonna miss Harvey Korman.
Also left out, Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.
And least we not forget Majel Roddenberry.
Miss him a lot.
...for whom the present Junior Senator from New York was named.
(Edward and Kristin overlooked a biggie.)
Forgot Bernie Mac
My very favorite singer.
I’m pretty sure “shave and a haircut” existed before Bo Diddley. :-)
Let’s also be sure to remember that we lost many good Freepers this year as well.
All of them make their contributions and enrich our lives, both the famous and the non-famous...
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Wow! I didn't realized that Cardinal Dulles had died! I so enjoyed his commentary with Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and Raymond Arroyo on EWTN when Josef Ratzinger was named Pope!
My priest b-i-l always called him A Very Dull SJ. ;o) He liked him, a lot, and considered him to be quite an outlier, when it came to the Jesuits in general.