RIP, Uncle Walter. You were a voice of reason, sanity and honesty in times of unreason, insanity and dishonesty. Though you mostly retired in 1981, you are held up as an icon to newsmen and women everywhere even today, 28 years later.
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I don't know that that's shallow at all, perhaps more a measure of our growing maturity, that we begin to recognize not only that time is passing, but that our own mortality is a fact. As we note and grieve, to greater or lesser degree, the passing of the icons of the bygone days of our youth, we also come to face the reality that before too much longer (in the scheme of the universe), we too will pass on.Then I realized that some of these passings - Uncle Walter, Ted Kennedy, etc., made me so much more aware of the passing of time.... and so selfishly, I suppose, that recognition was a great part of my sorrow.
Shallow much, linds?
You know, the last few months I've seen picture after picture of Mr. Swayze on the covers of the gossip mags and tabloids as I'd go through checkout lines. Sadly, I have to say that when I think of him now, *those* pics are what I first see in my mind's eye rather than the vibrant young actor of so many movies I enjoyed. I thoroughly resent those mags and tabloids for that. I'd much rather remember him then than now.
I liked him in everything he did, but my very favorite movie of his was "Dirty Dancing". Although it was cheesy in spots, it followed a formula and was easy to know how it would end, where he and Jennifer Grey were dancing in the final scene...breath taking stuff.
