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Edgar Froese.
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Jan 22, 2017 - 12:10 PM
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Eric Paddon
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None of them.
To me, an actor, composer, author, professional sports figure is someone I will only know from a distance based on admiration of their professional work. When they die, my relationship to them and their presence in my life will essentially continue as it always has in that I will still watch the same things they were in, read the same books they wrote and listen to the same music they wrote again and again. Will I regret the fact that more fresh work will not come from them? Perhaps, but most of these are people except for authors and composers belong to fields where the timed output of their work is more finite in nature and where they can only leave behind a core group of work that belongs to their prime period of life. Most of them were essentially retired from that work by the time they died. So again, how I relate to them in my life is not going to change much.
I'm probably more dry-eyed about this kind of subject because this past year was the first time I had to experience death of people I was close to on a regular daily basis. The emptiness of what happens when you lose family or a close friend is an experience that *never* leaves you. Even on days when you're mostly better and are moving on with life without that person you've been close to, I've found how impossible it is to get through a day without thinking of them just once and wishing they were still there. Maybe most days I won't dwell on that long beyond a few seconds and most days I won't get emotional about it, but the sense of loss is always there. With actors, composers, sports figures and authors? I'll be sad to know they're not here any longer but unless I knew them personally my relationship to them will stay the same through the simple enjoyment of their work and the discovery of work they didn I hadn't had time previous to sample. The advantage of the age we live in is having more of the legacy of these people at our disposal than a previous generation was capable of knowing.
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Off the top of my head...
John Barry
James Horner
Jerry Goldsmith
Joel Goldsmith
Shirley Walker
Basil Poledouris
Michael Kamen
Harvey R. Cohen
Actors and comedians:
Chris Farley
Phil Hartman
Robert Schimmel
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
Mitch Hedberg
Audrey Hepburn. And she wasn't too bad on the eyes either.
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