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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT By Bill Wyman Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/06/26/michael_jackson_crossover/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/06/26/michael_jackson_crossover/index.html?source=rss Born to stardom, he never knew what it was like to live or even behave normally By Mary Elizabeth Williams Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/27/ellie_greenwich/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/08/27/ellie_greenwich/index.html?source=rss One of rock's first great female songwriters could make even nonsense syllables like "da doo ron ron" sound dirty By Andrew O'Hehir Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/2009/07/01/malden/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/2009/07/01/malden/index.html?source=rss The tough-guy character actor leaves behind a memorable career in movies and TV -- and then there's "Sekulovich" By King Kaufman Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sports/kaufman/feature/2009/01/27/updike/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/kaufman/feature/2009/01/27/updike/index.html?source=rss It's not what he was known for -- outside diamond circles, anyway -- but the late author penned one of the game's literary gems. By Scott Rosenberg Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/12/08/kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/12/08/kirkpatrick/index.html?source=rss Former U.N. ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick died today -- but her big idea was discredited long ago. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/07/27/tuesday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/sports/col/kaufman/2004/07/27/tuesday/index.html?source=rss Numbers -- like politicians -- don't lie: Kerry can't win in November! Plus: Remembering Ruben Gomez, whoever he was. By Stephanie Zacharek Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/12/01/beatle_george/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/12/01/beatle_george/index.html?source=rss George Harrison could be surly and cantankerous, but without him the Beatles would never have been themselves. By Jennifer Foote Sweeney Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/10/12/obits/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/10/12/obits/index.html?source=rss The "Portraits of Grief" in the New York Times give us a chance to be loved ones to complete, and wrongfully dead, strangers. By Stephanie Zacharek Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/09/03/pauline_kael/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/feature/2001/09/03/pauline_kael/index.html?source=rss She was hard as nails. She was funny as hell. And she taught me everything I know about beauty. By Christen Clifford Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/05/16/boozoo/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/05/16/boozoo/index.html?source=rss Whenever I had Boozoo on my ass I felt good. By Bill Wyman Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/04/15/joey/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/music/feature/2001/04/15/joey/index.html?source=rss He had no voice, no looks, no chest, butt or knees. But he kicked a generation in the ass, hard. By Mike Albo Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/11/29/ball_jonnes/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/11/29/ball_jonnes/index.html?source=rss A lethally serious book tells who scores a New York Times obituary and why. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/05/02/fitzgerald/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/05/02/fitzgerald/index.html?source=rss The award-winning author of "The Blue Flower" published her first book in 1975. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/04/17/goreyobit/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/04/17/goreyobit/index.html?source=rss The artist-author and jocular creator of a poisonous and poetic world dies at 75. By John Perry Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/04/15/powell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/04/15/powell/index.html?source=rss In his 12-volume masterpiece, "A Dance to the Music of Time," he manipulated hundreds of characters through seven decades, creating a social history of the 20th century. By AUDREY WOODS Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/03/31/powell/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/03/31/powell/index.html?source=rss By Charles Taylor Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/03/06/vadim/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/03/06/vadim/index.html?source=rss At the heart of Roger Vadim's films was a guiltless celebration of the pleasures of sex, love, food, sea and sun. By Whitman McGowan Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/18/hawkins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/18/hawkins/index.html?source=rss The high priest of voodoo jive put a spell on us with his fiery brand of psychotic rock 'n' roll. By Mary Ann Lickteig Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/13/schulz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/13/schulz/index.html?source=rss "Peanuts" made its debut in 1950 and eventually ran in more than 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/10/ernest/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/10/ernest/index.html?source=rss Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/03/kleindienst/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/02/03/kleindienst/index.html?source=rss By MIKE SCHNEIDER Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/19/lamarr/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/19/lamarr/index.html?source=rss By Steve Burgess Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/15/martin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/15/martin/index.html?source=rss Remembering the Mad magazine cartoonist who created characters like Fester Bestertester and Karbuncle, yet still had the time to invent National Gorilla Suit Day. By Ian Williams Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/13/o_brian/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/13/o_brian/index.html?source=rss The author of the wildly popular 18th century seagoing saga created, out of his own life, a fiction nearly as elaborate. Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/07/martin/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/obit/2000/01/07/martin/index.html?source=rss The humor artist known for wacky words and sick jokes succumbs to cancer at age 68.