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R.I.P. Chewbacca “Chewie” Hutchison, 2009-2013
Chewie’s final weekend convinced me that we were doing the right thing. It was a weekend where he slept when he wasn’t painfully coughing, and his only bright moments were when he got to eat snacks or chow down on some rotisserie chicken. I tried taking him for a walk, and we could only go […]
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R.I.P. John Hughes (Updated)
Here’s the first celebrity death in a long time that has truly hit me hard: John Hughes, writer, director, producer, is dead at 59 of a heart attack. The films he was involved in reads like a greatest hits of the 1980s list: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Home Alone, Trains, Planes and Automobiles, She’s Having […]
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Farewell, Mr. Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson has ended his 50-year childhood. Here is perhaps the best obituary I’ve seen on him. Mark Steyn, a great obituarist, talked with Hugh Hewitt about Michael Jackson showing us the price paid for our exploitation of child stars, noting how “Lindsay Lohan is about 22 now. She’s got etched into her face that […]