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	<title><![CDATA[Irving Brecher Was a Mensch]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danny-miller/irving-brecher-was-a-mens_b_146480.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal">I attended a funeral the other day, in the very same
chapel where <a href="http://dannymiller.typepad.com/blog/2008/06/celebrity-deaths-connecting-the-dots.html">Cyd Charisse's service</a> was held last June. Cyd's was an odd
funeral for a Jewish cemetery but this one, for writer Irving Brecher who died
last week at the age of 94, was wildly appropriate. Many of Brecher's most
famous colleagues are buried nearby and I'm sure their spirits were in the
chapel welcoming him to the astral version of a table at the Carnegie Deli. Hillside
Memorial Park in Culver...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2008-12-26T05:12:00-05:00</date_published>
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