In Memoriam

 I've fallen behind in keeping track of obituaries:

• Ryne Duren, pitcher;
• Margot Stevenson, stage actress;
• Frank Bonilla, scholar specializing in Puerto Rican and Latino Studies;
• Gerry Rafferty, singer and songwriter ("Baker Street" is playing in my head.  Again.);
• Jill Haworth, actress (the original Sally Bowles in Cabaret, on stage, as opposed to Liza Minelli in the movie version, the original Sally Bowles and the original Sally Bowles in I Am a Camera for those keeping score);
• Pete Postlethwaite, actor (I remember him in The Usual Suspects);
• Anne Francis, actress (Honey West and Forbidden Planet, of course);
• Hideko Takamine, actress ("classical Japanese cinema");
• Janine Pommy Vega, poet and traveler.

There seems to be a Thespian theme here; perhaps the afterlife is mounting a production of Stage Door.


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