Post Mortem Archive: Adam Bernstein
David Broder, Washington Post columnist, dies at 81
David Broder, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington Post and one of the most respected writers on national politics for four decades, died Wednesday in Arlington of complications from diabetes. He was 81. Mr. Broder was often called the dean of the Washington press corps -- a nickname he...
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T. Rees Shapiro
| March 9, 2011; 12:45 PM ET |
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George Shearing dies; pianist, composer was 91
George Shearing, 91, the virtuosic jazz pianist who wrote the standard "Lullaby of Birdland," died of cardiac arrest today in New York. Shearing, who was blind since birth, launched his career in his native England before moving to the U.S. after World War II and becoming one of the most...
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Adam Bernstein
| February 14, 2011; 12:23 PM ET |
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Obits on TV: 'Circling the Drain'
Prosecco and caviar? Or champagne and foie gras? The Bugatti or the Aston Martin? Do we keep our rendezvous with Anna Chapman at Abe Lincoln's nose on Mount Rushmore? Yes, the sex, romance and intrigue of life on the obit desk is about to get its due. Timothy Smith, a...
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Adam Bernstein
| December 10, 2010; 12:01 PM ET |
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A question of coverage
Some FOOs -- friends of obits -- have recently pointed out this article by journalist James Naughton. Perhaps it was an overzealous editor, but the headline laments the death of obituaries because Naughton could not persuade the Los Angeles Times or New York Times (his onetime employer) to write an...
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Adam Bernstein
| December 2, 2010; 11:09 AM ET |
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Tom Bosley, 'Happy Days' TV Dad
Tom Bosley, 83, a Tony Award-winning stage actor who enjoyed a long career on television, notably as the wry Cunningham patriarchon "Happy Days," a small-town sherriff on "Murder, She Wrote" and a crime-hunting priest on "The Father Dowling Mysteries," died Oct. 19 at a hospital near his home in Palm...
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Matt Schudel
| October 19, 2010; 2:23 PM ET |
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Roy Baker, Director of Understated Precision, Dies
Roy Baker, who died Oct. 5 at 93, was a superb but largely unheralded British director who specialized in crime stories and taut melodramas. He earned his greatest renown for directing "A Night to Remember" (1958), which remains the best film about the Titanic disaster. It's accent is on the...
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Adam Bernstein
| October 8, 2010; 11:01 AM ET |
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