In Memoriam 2008

Yeah, techinically the year ended yesterday. Okay, not technically, it did end yesterday, but I'm taking the week, got it? Anyway, today is where I list those "notables" that we have lost throughout this past year. I know, how do you decide who to include? I take the top names, or ones that mean something to me, or I throw their names on the floor and wait until Bubba sits on one ... I just do, okay?

So here is my list, in no particular order - except maybe the order of the place I copied them from.

Eartha Kitt - Singer/actress - not as Santa Baby siren, but as I will always remember her - Catwoman.

Bernie Mac - actor

Michael DeBakey - Doctor - his innovations in medicine and science led to making open-heart surgeries a possibility. Without this procedure I would not have had my father, brother Howard or a few other members of my family with me for as long as I did.

Margaret Truman Daniel - author

Cyd Charisse - actress/dancer

Yves St. Laurent - designer

Paul Scofield - actor

Sydney Pollack - director/actor

Tim Russert - News host

Arthur C. Clarke - author

Heath Ledger - actor

Michael Crichton - author

Charlton Heston - actor
Estelle Getty - actress

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - author

Sir Edmund Hillary - explorer

George Carlin - comedian/actor

Bo Diddley - singer

Isaac Hayes - singer/actor

Paul Newman - actor

Larry Harmon - TV's first Bozo the clown

Roy Scheider - actor