by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 31, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Roger Ebert was the Chicago Sun-Times film critic who joined the Chicago Tribune film critic, Gene Siskel, in hosting a nationally-acclaimed show on PBS television. He was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for reviewing movies and the first film critic...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 24, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
Erich Segal was on the track team with me at Harvard and ran the Boston Marathon with me several times. Both of us were mediocre runners trying to prove ourselves. A line in one of his novels, The Class, described both of us: “Fear of death is universal. But...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 17, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
David Bowie was a pop superstar singer who wrote and sang about science-fiction, space travel, and people who did not exist. He was an inspiration to people who did not fit in with society by turning himself into a chameleon who reinvented himself every few years to...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 10, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
How would your life have turned out if you: • were the daughter of music legend Nat King Cole and famous singer Maria Hawkins Ellington, • were raised in the affluent Hancock Park district of Los Angeles, • were surrounded by incredible wealth (in a family called...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jan 3, 2016 | Deaths of Famous People
I love stories about quacks who become prophets. Medical breakthroughs are often made by doctors who are first ridiculed by their peers. In 1890, Dr. William Coley, a bone surgeon in New York City, found the medical records of a patient who was dying from cancer that...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Dec 27, 2015 | Deaths of Famous People
The world lost one of its great orchestra conductors when Kurt Masur died this week at age 88. He helped to prevent a massacre in East Germany in 1989, and helped to sustain American spirits after the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001. On October...
