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Obits

October 28, 2020October 29, 2020

Even as we celebrated Roger Angell’s 100th birthday last month (if you love Maine or baseball or the New Yorker, click that) . . .

, , , and even as I got to attend a Zoom last week with sharp-as-a-teen Norman Lear (who turned 98 in July) . . .

. . . it’s undeniable:  Not all of us will live forever.

(Which may not be so bad, if you’ve read Harvard brain surgeon Eben Alexander’s Proof of Heaven, skeptic though I am.)

So this morning, while we await the fate of mankind, I offer two obits:



MARCEL MARCEAU

I’m 13 years late with this, but though like anyone my age I certainly knew who he was — I had no idea!

So, better late than never.

And just 90 seconds.

Wow.

(Thanks, Mel.)

https://andrewtobias.com/wp-content/uploads/Marcel-Marceau.mp4


THE AMAZING RANDI

He died last week at 92.

What an obit.

Randi visited me in 1973 after Uri Geller had driven me blind-folded through Central Park.

(What was remarkable was that it was Geller, not I, who was blindfolded.)

After Randi helped me expose Geller, we stayed a little in touch.

It was an honor to know him.



BONUS

An obit for Jared Kushner’s real estate.



MUST-READ BONUS

An obit for hundreds of thousands of South Americans lost to COVID.   It seems Trump had a lot to do with that, too.


 


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