{"id":14447,"date":"2016-03-30T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14447"},"modified":"2016-03-30T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:22:07","slug":"obit-watch-march-30-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=14447","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: March 30, 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

Lester C. Thurow<\/a>, noted economist.<\/p>\n

Mr. Thurow was often prone to sweeping declarations about the economy, using metaphors and easily digestible analyses to convey his point. That made him a target of criticism from other economists, notably Paul Krugman, who is now a New York Times columnist, who argued that much of what he said was overly simplistic.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, when Paul Krugman is attacking you, you’ve probably done something right…<\/p>\n

I was one year old when “The Patty Duke Show” went off the air. My mother says she can still sing the theme song (but won’t).<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the 1962 “Miracle Worker”: I want to say that we saw the 1979 version in school (with Half-Pint<\/a> as Hellen and Patty Duke as Anne Sullivan) but that could be a memory implanted by aliens. In any case, if I did see it, I don’t remember it well.<\/p>\n

The two things that I associate most with Patty Duke were her “Night Gallery” episode (which I’ve touched on before<\/a>) and “Thanks for the Honeymoon<\/a>” from the good “Hawaii 5-0”. (She was also in an episode of the bad “Hawaii 5-0”.) As I noted, I thought she was kind of strident and one note in both of those, but I also think those may have been directorial choices.<\/p>\n

Reading over the obits, there was a lot I never know, like the fact that she was married to John “Gomez” Astin. It sounds like she went through a great deal of hardship and pain, but emerged on the other side a stronger and better person, who found some relative peace late in life.<\/p>\n

NYT<\/a><\/strong>. LAT<\/a><\/strong>. WP<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And this is a nice essay from Kenneth Turan<\/a>, LAT<\/strong> film critic and co-author of Call Me Anna<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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