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No-holds-barred comedian Joan Rivers dies at age 81

Joan Rivers, the pioneering comedian known for her acerbic wit, classic put-downs and for asking \”Can we talk?,\” died on Thursday at the age of 81 in a New York hospital a week after her heart stopped during an outpatient medical procedure.

Robin Williams found dead in apparent suicide

Oscar-winning actor and comedian Robin Williams was found dead on Monday from an apparent suicide at his home in Northern California, Marin County Sheriff\’s Office said. He was 63.

Longtime Washington power broker Robert Strauss dies at 95

Robert Strauss, who once headed the Democratic National Committee, served as U.S. trade representative and ambassador to Moscow, and advised presidents from both parties, died in Washington on Wednesday at age 95.

Comic great Sid Caesar of ‘Your Show of Shows’ dies at 91

Comic showman Sid Caesar, a pioneer of American television sketch comedy as the star and creative force of \”Your Show of Shows\” during the 1950s, died on Wednesday at age 91, according to his friend and former collaborator Carl Reiner.

Walking on the wild side and returning to the sacred side: Or becoming a rabbi because of Lou Reed

Word of Lou Reed walking beyond the wild side, never to return, reached me as I was leaving campus, having just finished teaching a class on Modern Jewish Philosophy. As I recovered my copy of Take No Prisoners on my i-Phone and flicking to his 1978 strung-out rendition of “Sweet Jane”, I wondered why Lou Reed (né March 2, 1942, Brooklyn, as Lewis Allan Rabinowitz, later changed to Reed,) was not included on my syllabus for the study of Modern Jewish philosophers!

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