In Remembrance...2008

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Robert Giroux, who founded the publishing house Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, and supported dozens of great writers like T.S. Eliot, Jack Kerouac, and Susan Sontag, died yesterday. He was 94.

 

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Actress Anita Page, who appeared in films with Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, and Buster Keaton during the transition from silent to sound film, died last Saturday. She was 98.

She has a cameo in the upcoming horror film Frankenstein Rising. She also costarred in The Broadway Melody, the first sound film to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

 

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Former UFC Champion Evan Tanner was found dead in the desert wilderness near the California-Arizona border on Sept. 8, 2008. He had been camping.

 

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Gregory Mcdonald, author of the Fletch mystery novels (which were adapted into a hit movie), died Sunday. He was 71.

 

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David Foster Wallace, who wrote Infinite Jest, hung himself. He was 46.

 

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Musician Richard Wright, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd, died after a short battle with cancer. He was 65.

Pink Floyd member Richard Wright dies at age 65 - MSN Music News

 

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Frank Mundus, who was known for hunting down large sharks and who may have been the inspiration for Captain Quint in Jaws, died last Wednesday. He was 82.

 

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Norman Whitfield, a prolific songwriter and producer for Motown, died yesterday of complications from diabetes. He was 67.

Among his songs are "War", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", and "Ball of Confusion".

 

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AOL had a report that Joan Winston died. She was the number one (or two, or three, depending on who you talk to) Star Trek fan. Complications from Alzheimer's (sp), they said. She helped organize the first Trek con. She also wrote a book about Trek fandom.

She will be missed.

 

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Thomas Doerflein, the zookeeper who took care of Knut the polar bear, was found dead in his Berlin apartment. He was 44.