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The Late, Great Ben Gazzara

Posted by Charles Reece, February 5, 2012 10:43pm | Post a Comment

Ben Gazzara perfects the cinematic asshole in The Strange One. He died last Friday at
age 81 of pancreatic cancer.

The Late, Great Etta James

Posted by Charles Reece, January 20, 2012 08:54am | Post a Comment
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Her voice makes jelly of my innards. Etta James dead at 73. Two of my favorites:


"I'd Rather Go Blind"


"The Wallflower (Roll with Me, Henry)"

The Late, Great Christopher Hitchens

Posted by Charles Reece, December 16, 2011 02:03am | Post a Comment

Part 1 of a wide-ranging C-SPAN interview from 2009, just before Hitchens was diagnosed with the
cancer that killed him yesterday. Parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

The Late, Great Conrad Schnitzler

Posted by Charles Reece, August 7, 2011 09:28pm | Post a Comment
"Fata Morgana" from Conrad Schnitzler and Wolf Sequenza's Consequenz (1981). Schnitzler died of stomach
cancer on August 4th. He spread his DNA around the world via hair strands sent to friends. He also left behind
a mindboggling amount of great recordings. Brief interviews from 1980 and 1998.

The Late, Great Sherwood Schwartz

Posted by Charles Reece, July 17, 2011 11:07pm | Post a Comment

I wasn't much of a fan of this other major creation, The Brady Bunch, but I wasted a whole lot of my summer
vacations watching Sherwood Schwartz's Gilligan's Island (for which he wrote the theme song's lyrics).
I just learned of his death. He was 94.
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