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It seems like all kinds of influential / significant people are dying these days. Surely part of it is just perception based on my own age - the people I know about are reaching the end of their years. For example, when I look at the top music albums/tracks on iTunes, I don't recognize any of their names; so it follows that if any of them died, and I somehow heard about it, it wouldn't resonate with me at all. But several people I do know about have reached the end of their days... John Hughes, Robert McNamara, Paul Newman, Ed McMahon, Michael Jackson. If a great movie director died say 20 or 30 years ago, would you ever know about it? No question that we're better informed these days - thanks to websites / emails / etc. - so we find out about other folks' passing instead of them just passing by unnoticed. Anyway, RIP John Hughes, thanks for the great films!
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