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In Memoriam

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Alan Arkin, Dead at 89

Alan Arkin was the Academy Award winning actor best known for his roles in The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Wait Until Dark, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Popi, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Grosse Point Blank, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, Little Miss
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Sue Johanson, Dead at 93

Over a decade ago, I wrote about the Sunday Night Sex Show with Sue Johanson. I'd tune in Q107 to hear Sue, and I'd follow her to Cable 10 for the show I always referred to as Sex With Sue. Throw in her appearances on Degrassi Junior High and you've
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Roger Craig, Dead at 93

Roger Craig pitched for three championship teams during his major league career and then managed the San Francisco Giants to the 1989 World Series. Craig was credited with teaching the split-finger fastball to Hall of Fame starter Jack Morris and 1986 NL Cy Young Award winner Mike Scott.
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Petr Klíma, Dead at 58

Petr Klima was the left winger who played in the NHL from 1981–2003, suiting up for the Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, Tampa Bay Lightning, Los Angeles Kings, and the Pittsburgh Penguins. His Oilers won the Stanley Cup in 1990, and he scored the game-winning goal in the longest
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Gordon Lightfoot, Dead at 84

Gordon Lightfoot was the singer-songwriter best known for "For Lovin' Me", "Early Morning Rain", "Steel Rail Blues", "Ribbon of Darkness", "Black Day in July", "(Remember Me) I'm the One", "If You Could Read My Mind", "Sundown"; "Carefree Highway", "Rainy Day People", and "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and so
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