Some Belated RIP's

Lefty Rosenthal Without Lefty, Scorsese wouldn't have one of his masterpieces, Sharon Stone wouldn't have an Oscar nomination, and one of my old pals wouldn't have his anonymous blog ID for commenting on my posts.

Levi Stubbs No singer yearned quite like Levi. Go back and listen to "Bernadette" if you don't believe me. See, he's a guy who has Bernadette, but living in terror that he won't be able to keep her, that other men will steal her away. In the first part of the song, before the break, Levi doesn't even sing the melody -- he's just guttin' it out in one despairing shout. You have to love that.

Plus, who else could have played the Mean Green Mother from Outer Space?

Paul Newman Sigh. There's just nothing else to say.