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"Hyfler/Rosner" <rel...@rcn.com> wrote in message
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I'm stunned that there's no mainstream obituary for Alpert
anywhere. He was a semi-big deal.
It's more than stunning. You'd think someone would have noticed this
after four days!
wd43
http://www.bonitanews.com/news/2007/nov/20/famed_local_author_hollis_alpert_dies/?local_news
Bonita (FL) Daily News
Anyone know if he was Jewish?
Alan Abbey
In My Heart.org - Jewish Obituaries, Tributes
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>> ALPERT--Hollis, Author and Film Critic, died
>> November 18, 2007 in Naples, FL. In 19501956, he was
>> fiction editor at The New Yorker, a film critic for
>> Saturday Review and Woman's Day, a book reviewer for The
>> New York Times, and contributor of short stories and
>> essays of famous film personalities to Playboy, Esquire
>> and Cosmopolitan. He then became managing editor of World
>> Magazine, and editor-in-chief of American Film Magazine.
>> In 1966, he founded the National Society of Film Critics
>> with Pauline Kael. He wrote nine novels and several
>> biographies of Hollywood personalities. A compilation of
>> his life's work resides at Lawrence and Lee Theater
>> Research Institute at Ohio State University. For further
>> details contact Lacey King at (239) 591-8470.
>> Published in the New York Times on 11/25/2007.
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> I'm stunned that there's no mainstream obituary for Alpert
> anywhere. He was a semi-big deal.
No obit in the NY Times nor the New Yorker, where he worked.
Jeez. He must have been a real pain in the ass.