Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
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Broadway Legend Joined: 9/19/05
#1Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
Posted: 9/15/10 at 1:53pm
a great journalist and author @ 91
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/16/business/media/16newman.html?_r=1&hp
'Take me out tonight where's there's music and there's people and they're young and alive.'
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#2Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
Posted: 9/15/10 at 2:30pm
"A few years before that he had delivered the news, in front of a studio audience, on David Letterman’s NBC morning show."
I'm glad this was not forgotten- made a news junkie out of me!
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#2Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
Posted: 9/15/10 at 3:07pm
The flights of angels are getting workout this week.
RIP, Mr. Newman.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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#3Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
Posted: 9/15/10 at 5:34pm
And the world got just a little less classy.
RIP
"A coherent existance after so many years of muddle" - Desiree' Armfelt, A Little Night Music
"Life keeps happening everyday, Say Yes" - 70, Girls, 70
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die" - Zorba
#4Rest In Peace Edwin Newman
Posted: 9/16/10 at 12:26amHe moderated the first presidential debate between Ford and Carter in 1976, which remains one of the classiest and most substantive presidential debates ever.
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