Post Mortem: January 25, 2009 - January 31, 2009
TV, Quips and the Day the Music Died
The director and co-executive producer of more than 50 episodes of the X Files has died. Only someone who never attended rock concerts in the 70s would lead with "Sweet Home Alabama" for a Lynyrd Skynyrd musician's obit. Consumer demand was always exemplified by the guy back in the crowd...
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January 29, 2009; 12:34 PM ET |
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John Updike Dies
John Updike, 76, a leading American writer of post-World War II suburbia, died of lung cancer Tuesday, Jan. 27. He lived in Beverly Farms, Mass. Audio of Updike in October 2008. In an autobiographical essay, Updike famously identified sex, art, and religion as "the three great secret things" in human...
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January 27, 2009; 1:27 PM ET |
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