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Sunday, December 29, 2013
R.I.P. 2013
Among those we lost in 2013: Doris Lessing, Peter O'Toole, Julie Harris, Roger Ebert, Jonathan Winters, Joan Fontaine, Karen Black, Annette Funicello, Chinua Achebe, Elmore Leonard, Lou Reed, Dr. C. Everett Koop, Frederik Pohl, Deanna Durbin, Jean Stapleton, Ray Manzarek, Esther Williams, Eleanor Powell, Philip Slater, Nelson Mandella.
More on them and others we lost at Books in Heat, Stage Matters, Boomer Hall of Fame and Soul of Star Trek. May they rest in peace, as their work and example nourish and guide us into the future.
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