The Ultimate Anticlimax

When I heard the news today that Katherine Hepburn had died I had an all-too-familiar reaction: guilt. Guilt because I assumed that she was already dead. I had this same reaction with Gregory Peck's death two weeks ago and Dean Martin's passing a few years back. It's quite sad actually- we tend to ignore all of the lving screen legends of yesteryear because they're no longer young and hip. And when icons like Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Taylor (who are all still alive, by the way) are discussed it's only to speak glowingly about their storied pasts. In doing so we end up eulogizing them prematurely.