Obits
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Carlos Cortez, Legend
Carlos Cortez was the real deal. One of those men who made everything around him seem small. Not because he tried to make anyone feel small– the opposite is true. In the handful of times I’d ever talked to him at a poetry event, he was a living legend to me. All hail Carlos Cortez.…
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Tough Month For Old-Timer NYT Types
Seems to be a rash of New York Times old-timers passing away in the new year.Max Lowenthal, 85, a Times Copy Editor, Is DeadLucy Freeman, Times Reporter and Prolific Author, Dies at 88Joseph Durso, 80, Former Sportswriter and Editor at The Times, Dies
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Jerry Orbach
Lower right picture/ headline with full obit in section one. Jerry Orbach was the real deal.
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An Appreciation of Susan Sontag
I just read the most amazing appreciation of Susan Sontag from William Drentel: For more than twenty-five years I was her son’s close friend, her occasional companion for dinner or a movie, and a fellow reader and book collector. I was never among her closest of friends. But I was her graphic designer. Read this.
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MARLENE SCHAMS, 45
Remarkable. Marlene Schams was born in an elevator in a hospital in Columbus, Ohio. “That’s why she had her ups and downs all these years,” quipped her father, Donald Schams. Ms. Schams, 45, a single mother and longtime Rogers Park resident who fought hard to give her son better opportunities, died Thursday, Dec. 23, at…