Art Buchwald - Still not dead.

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In fact, he's quite alive. This is no small feat, considering he unhooked his dialysis machines and said he was ready for Valhalla nearly a year ago.

Still Living It Up
Washington Hospice Benefit Features Famous Former Resident Art Buchwald

By Jose Antonio Vargas - Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 11, 2006; Page C01

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Ethel Kennedy, a longtime friend, was there. So was Jack Valenti, who's known his old buddy since 1964. "I told Art, 'The next time you go to a hospice, die for God's sake,' " he said.

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He had a few jokes up his sleeve, of course. To wit: "I felt like one of the pleasures of my dying was I wouldn't have to look at George Bush anymore."

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(His book even has) an epilogue. The latter is a collection of eulogies -- "In case of being memorialized after my death, I get to read what they were going to say now," he writes -- from Bradlee, Wallace, Tom Brokaw, George Stevens Jr., Ken Starr and Buchwald's doctor, Michael Newman.

"The individual in question is, plain and simple, a fraud, a publicity-seeking, lying, greedy fraud," wrote Wallace.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/11/AR2006111100013.html

I love this guy!!!:applause: