One door closes. . .

The following folks have seen fit to leave us behind during 2007, and I'm wondering what all the fuss was about. In some cases, it was certainly warranted. In others, well, I'm not so sure. Anyway, you decide:

Lady Bird Johnson
Boris Yeltsin
Norman Mailer
David Halberstam
Kurt Vonnegut
Mstislav Rostropovich
Beverly Sills
Luciano Pavarotti
Jerry Falwell
Tammy Faye (Bakker) Messner
Art Buchwald
Molly Ivins
E, Howard Hunt
Rev. Robert Drinan
Thomas Eagleton
Ernest Gallo
Betty Hutton (not Betty Hutton!)
Jack Valenti
Michael Brecker
Wally Schirra
Ike Turner
Dan Fogelberg
Evel Knievel
Robert Goulet
Marcel Marceau
Jane Wyman
Grace Paley
Leona Helmsley
Brooke Astor
Merv Griffin
Tom Snyder
Liz Claiborne
Tige Andrews
Michelangelo Antonioni (I still don't understand his movies)
Ingmar Bergman (nope, I don't get his either)
Joey Bishop (not Joey Bishop!)
Janet Blair
Lorraine Day
Teresa Brewer
Roscoe Lee Browne
Porter Wagoner
Ron Carey
Yvonne de Carlo (Moses' girlfriend and Herman Munster's wife - whoa!)
Deborah Kerr (was she beautiful or what?)
Richard Jeni (one funny guy)
Don Ho
Mr. Wizard (Don Herbert)
Kitty Carlisle
George Grizzard
Laszlo Kovacs
Madeleine L'Engle
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
Charles Nelson Reilly
Tom Poston
Carlo Ponti
Oscar Peterson
Tommy Newsom
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
Sidney Sheldon
Joel Siegel

Whew, that's a lot of cultural history shuffling on this mortal coil, eh?

So, what door will open for you this brand-new year? We ask ourselves that each and every day.

Wish you the best and happiest of New Years!

Steve and Susie, living the sweet life in Providence.