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...that he wasn?t an imitation of the older man; he wasn?t the 40s Fred. He was the anti-Astaire. As Kelly himself said, in 1975: "Fred represents the aristocracy when he dances. And I represent the proletarian." As TIME?s Richard Schickel noted in his 1996 obit of Kelly: "Astaire put us in touch with our romantic ideals and with that perfection of manner the rest of us attain only in our more blissful daydreams. At his best, Kelly reminded us that, in reality, we are obliged to improvise our happiness with such rough materials as fall...
Joey Ramone is dead. There was a nice obit in the Times that ran for two days straight, another one in Newsday, and the Voice ran a Lenny Kaye memorial, but I wonder how folks outside of New York are taking the news. The Ramones never had a hit record, they never played "Saturday Night Live" (though there was a "Simpsons" episode) and their top-selling album, the Spector-produced "End of the Century," only made it to 44. Were they just another cult band?. I don't see America mourning, and it's too bad. Maybe I can supply...
...caused by a strange reaction to a prescription painkiller called Equagesic. At that point, he had starred in only three released movies, one of which was unwatchably bad, the other two of which were watchably bad. Although he was a popular movie star in Asia, his New York Times obit ran only eight sentences, one of which read "Vincent Canby, the film critic of the New York Times, said that movies like Fists of Fury make 'the worst Italian western look like the most solemn and noble achievements of the early Soviet Cinema...
...when it's not, honesty is frequently not the best policy, and people with choices almost always make the wrong one. The play opens with two characters in a hospital waiting room. Alice, who works in a strip club, has been hit by a cab, and Dan, a newspaper obit writer, has come to her rescue. The action never seems to leave the trauma ward as the two pair up with each other and, eventually, with Larry, a straitlaced doctor, and Anna, a stylish photographer...
...Times giving sports junkies a morning fix of his laugh-a-line musings. One of four sports writers to score a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, Murray greeted his award with characteristic humor: "This is going to make it a little easier on the guy who writes my obit...