Wearing badass shades in Romania:
Happy 63rd birthday, Christopher Hitchens.
Photograph from the collection of Christopher Hitchens.
Without a doubt, this is our favorite freewheeling photograph of the late, great Christopher Hitchens, whose passing we can barely comprehend. So we turn to the words of Graydon Carter, who writes of this image in his touching memoriam:
“I once sent him out on a mission to break the most niggling laws still on the books in New York City. One such decree forbade riding a bicycle with your feet off the pedals. The photograph that ran with the column, of Christopher sailing a small bike through Central Park with his legs in the air, looked like something out of the Moscow Circus.”
Photograph by Christian Witkin.
Bruce Handy discovers a long-secreted stash of Family Circus rejects, in which the late Bil Keane seems to have contemplated his own mortality.
How the Media Will Cover the Ohio Zoo-Animal Massacre
In memoriam, animals! How you’ll probably be eulogized:
“Ohio Slaughter a Metaphor … But for What? Several Possibilities Loom”
By Bill Keller
“OMFG So Sad!!!!!! R.I.P. Animals!!!”
By Perez Hilton“Terrorist Lion Traced to Obama’s Kenyan Village”
By the National Review Online“Where’s Ohio? Locating Animal Safari Some-Such on a Map”
By The Robb Report
“A Rare Miss from Animal Collective”
By Pitchfork
![In memoriam.
[Illustration by Jonathan Mak. Thanks @danielholter for letting us know about the talented author of this design—we’d seen it everywhere sans attribution, and we’re happy to call him out now.]](http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/pod0042-apple-logo-steve-jobs-silhouette.jpg){kind=logo}
In memoriam.
[Illustration by Jonathan Mak. Thanks @danielholter for letting us know about the talented author of this design—we’d seen it everywhere sans attribution, and we’re happy to call him out now.]
Taylor with Richard Burton (and her $1.1 million necklace) at the 1970 Academy Awards. She won her second Oscar three years earlier, in 1967, for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A survey of her most iconic movie roles is here.
Photograph from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn’t know her.”
