One thing about being famous and dying -- you don't want to do it too late in the year.Early December, great; you'll be fresh when every media outlet puts together its "They Will Be Missed" list (We're looking at you, Van Johnson). Late December and you find yourself left off the lists that are put together early (Jerry Orbach and Susan Sontag, we hardly knew ye, since you both died December 28, 2004).With that in mind, and assuming Roger Clemens doesn't croak from an HGH overdose in the next co
Walter Cronkite, the baby-boomer's Voice of Authority, died Friday. He's remembered fondly in Houston, where he worked at the paper at what was then Lanier Junior High, attended San Jacinto High and worked at the Houston Press. (No, not the current Houston Press; the afternoon daily that brought a little tabloid flavor to town.)Here's a brief tour of Cronkite's Houston:He lived, according to legendary Lanier teacher Jim Henley, in the 1800 block of Marshall after his family moved from Kansas Cit
