Post Mortem Archive: Matt Schudel
Correcting Miss Manners
Birth, marriage and death are the three great transitions of life, and there are large questions of etiquette concerning all of them. Judith Martin, in her syndicated Miss Manners column, recently addressed the question of obituaries. (It's the third question in the March 9 column.) The questioner wanted to know...
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| March 10, 2011; 10:56 AM ET |
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John Strauss, TV and film composer
John Strauss, an Emmy and Grammy award-winning composer and music editor, has died of Parkinson's disease at 90. He's probably best known as the composer of the bouncy theme song of "Car 54, Where Are You?," a police comedy series from 1961-63. He also wrote the theme for "The Phil...
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| February 18, 2011; 11:20 AM ET |
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Impressionist David Frye dies at 76
Not many young people remember David Frye these days, but in the late 1960s and early 1970s he was one of the country's top comedians -- and, without question, its finest political impressionist. He was particularly known for his dead-on impersonation of President Richard Nixon, whom he skewered mercilessly and...
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| January 29, 2011; 6:54 PM ET |
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Comedian Charlie Callas dies
Charlie Callas, a rubber-faced funnyman who often appeared on television in the 1960s and 1970s, has died at 86 -- or 83. (His family says he was 83, but all reference sources say he was born in 1924, which would make him 86. Callas had an old-fashioned kind of humor...
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| January 28, 2011; 1:04 PM ET |
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Author Reynolds Price dies at 77
Reynolds Price, a North Carolina novelist whose books about life in the South were revered by readers and critics alike, died Thursday, Jan. 20, in Durham, N.C. He was 77 and had a heart attack. Price was considered one of the great stylists of modern fiction, sometimes combining a mandarin...
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| January 20, 2011; 7:17 PM ET |
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Don Kirshner, rock-and-roll impresario
Don Kirshner, a tireless rock-and-roll publisher, promoter and all-around impresario, died Jan. 17 in Florida at age 76. Kirshner first came to prominence in the 1950s as a songwriting partner and, later, manager of the multi-talented Bobby Darin, a buddy from the Bronx. Kirshner and a business partner owned a...
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| January 19, 2011; 12:47 PM ET |
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