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...will celebrate the new endowment by hosting a forum on gender issues Monday night with Gilligan, Gloria Steinem and other scholars...
Clearly, Stewart loved Gloria with the generosity and tenacity of his best screen characters. They were a famously compatible couple, entertaining friends and, after Stewart's informal retirement in the late '70s, traveling on safaris. The Stewarts also made an annual trip to Washington, where they paid tribute to Gloria's son Ronald, who was killed in Vietnam...
Artless, yes; the poem lacked the gift of making grief palpable, as Stewart had done with such searing poignancy in Vertigo. But the feelings were just as direct, honorable, crushing. Imagine his desolation when, in 1994, Gloria died, at 75, of lung cancer. With no hand to hold, no hair to stroke, no lovely, comforting figure to share his bed, Stewart was bereft and, for all his loving children and friends, alone. He stopped his ritual of going to the office to answer his fan mail. Says Lord Richard Attenborough, who appeared with Stewart in The Flight of the Phoenix...
...Army Archerd, a close friend, wrote in his Daily Variety column, "and only on some occasions." When Archerd suggested he stop by, Stewart replied, "I don't think you'd find me very interesting these days." He had always been meticulous in presenting himself to the world; now, with Gloria gone, the masque was over. He stopped playing Jimmy Stewart. In a recent news clip, painful to see, he was bald, gaunt, liver-spotted, nearly unrecognizable. Yet he waved, as airily as possible, to the camera--an act both reflexive and heroic...
...facing the darkness unafraid. That part I feel good about. He's free now, and he was really grateful that God took him. His body became a hindrance, and he wanted to be free to let his spirit go--go to where he could be back with Gloria...