It's natural to conflate Cluny Brown and The Illusionist : Both arrive just in time to transport us -- during a holiday season fraught with troubling domestic and international affairs -- to days gone by.
Here's my own brief look at some of the more notable celebrity deaths of 2009. As always, they fall into two categories: "The Good Riddance List" and "The Folks We'll Miss List."
For anyone who serves their country for us, who risks death for us, they should be taken care of. Health care, money, education -- whatever they need, for the rest of their lives.