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RIP Pete Hamill

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Aug 5, 2020.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  2. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Another legend of the business gone. Damn.
     
  3. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    If you haven't seen the documentary on Breslin and Hamill, do.
     
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  4. matt_garth

    matt_garth Well-Known Member

    Yes, he was 85, but this is a blow.

    He was a well-chosen contributor on Ric Burns' New York documentary. Here, he talks about his father and the immigrant experience:

     
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  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    Only print hack who could claim he dated Jackie Kennedy. Stud.
     
  6. Deskgrunt50

    Deskgrunt50 Well-Known Member

    A giant. RIP.
     
  7. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Was also great in Ken Burns' Prohibition documentary opining on Al Smith. RIP.
     
  8. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    A friend of mine in the biz was stunned that the Mowery twins are now in their 40s. I imagine those under 40 may have zero appreciation of Hamill. It's kind of like when that live version of Rent was on TV a few years back and you realized nobody in the cast (well almost no one) was alive when it premiered in 1996. Kind of like when your high school did Bye Bye Birdie in the '80s.
     
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  9. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    This line, and especially the ending: "Sheets of paper are scattered everywhere, orders for stocks, waybills, purchase orders, the pulverized confetti of capitalism."

    That stuck the landing.
     
  10. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Loopy.
     
  11. LanceyHoward

    LanceyHoward Well-Known Member

    What is the most memorable thing Hamill wrote?
     
  12. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    And this: "All around us, the fine powder of death is falling, put into the New York air by lunatics. Religious war, filled with the melodrama of martyrdom, had come to New York. Almost certainly, it was welded to visions of paradise. And in some ways, on the day of the worst single disaster in New York history, there was a feeling that the dying had only begun."
     
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