Bring out your dead! The corpses are piling up, and yet, somehow, Dick Cheney and Keith Richards keep on breathing. Is there no justice?
- R.I.P. Tom Snyder. (Terrific nighttime talk host)
- R.I.P. Bill Walsh. ("The Genius")
- R.I.P. Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. (Two of the greatest filmmakers)
- R.I.P. The Wall Street Journal. (A formerly great newspaper)
- R.I.P. Home Depot advertising on O'Reilly. (MoveOn gains strength)
- R.I.P. iPhone security flaws. (Apple releases their first security update for the Jesus phone)
- R.I.P. Ohio Election Law. (This is just insane)
- And on life support and having some trouble breathing: The music industry. According to ASCAP, a restaurant playing a song as background music "equates to performing copyrighted music without permission." That'll be 30 grand, please.
This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2007.