Here I am again, reluctantly counting my losses. Beloved, hated or just plain “Who cares?”, more celebrated people died in 2007 than any year in my memory. I always forget somebody, but here is the nucleus of the ones who will light up the headlines no more.

I suffered a particularly rough blow when my dear friend June Allyson dimmed the lights of the MGM musical era to a final fadeout.  read more »

Deborah Kerr, who shared one of the most famous movie kisses with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity in 1953, died from complications of Parkinson's Disease, according to her agent.

From The Daily Telegraph's obituary:

Kerr was the unfadingly ladylike and prototypical English rose whose red-haired, angular beauty and self-possessed femininity distinguished more than 50 films in four decades of cinema.

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