Albert's path is a strange and difficult one

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I was going to make a post about several different things and then derspatchel just told me that Miguel Ferrer died. He was younger than my father. He had throat cancer. I didn't even know. My mother has been watching NCIS: Los Angeles for the last five or six years because of him and Linda Hunt. I still have to finish the second season with rushthatspeaks, but in the list of favorite characters I have been keeping for the last sixteen years it says quite plainly "Albert Rosenfield, Twin Peaks" because, as with any sensible person, that speech about nonviolence imprinted me on him for life. I never thought of him in terms of his parents until the last time I caught The Caine Mutiny (1954) on TCM and suddenly I could see him in his father; maybe he'd have reminded me of his mother if I'd ever heard him sing. Hey, 2017, I thought we agreed that you were never going to match 2016 for devastating celebrity deaths and weren't even going to try? You couldn't have just held off for a month?

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[lauradi7.livejournal.com]

He was one of the people I think of when reminding myself that very famous people tend to have regular families, like not famous people. .George Clooney said something in an interview once about "my cousin Miguel," and I realized that having famous parents doesn't mean anything one way or another about hanging out with cousins. Sorry, babbling. My age resoonse in this case was "another dead person my age."

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George Clooney said something in an interview once about "my cousin Miguel," and I realized that having famous parents doesn't mean anything one way or another about hanging out with cousins.

I like the image of the two of them hanging out. Also that seems like a useful thing to be able to remember about famous people.

"another dead person my age."

I can see that being unsettling!