As the hardreading staff previously noted, Wednesday’s Boston Herald had the Inside Track killing off Lauren Bacall prematurely. We also noted that there was no correction in Thursday’s Herald.
But there is one today, at least in the print edition. (We couldn’t find it online.)
Respeck to Track Gal Gayle Fee. Good to see someone at the feisty local tabloid knows CPR.
P.S. Our original item got Two-Daily Town a nod from the redoubtable Jim Romenesko. Dear Diary . . .
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Splendid reader Bob Gardner sent this comment to Two-Daily Town yesterday in response to our post Lauren Bacall Killed by Boston Herald.
On the other hand, I haven’t been able to find any mention in the Globe today of the death of Doug Mohns. Mohns was one the great Bruins from the 1950′s and “60′s. Mohns was considered to be one of the best Bruin players at that time and (if I remember right) was one of the few players of that era who wore a helmet.
Mohn’s death was reported in the NY Times today but my search of Boston.com turned up nothing. That’s especially ironic, since not only did he play in Boston, but (according to the Times) was a resident of Bedford Mass at the time of his death.
New York Times obituary:
Doug Mohns, N.H.L. Player for 22 Seasons, Dies at 80
Doug Mohns, a durable and versatile skater who lasted 22 seasons in the National Hockey League, playing in seven All-Star Games,
died on Friday in Reading, Mass. He was 80.
The cause was myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood and bone marrow disorder, said his wife, Tabor Ansin Mohns.
For most of his career, which extended from 1953 to 1975, Mohns was a stalwart of the old, compact N.H.L. — when there were only six franchises, rivalries were especially intense, no one wore a helmet, and players were intimately acquainted with the strengths and weaknesses of players on every other club.
He played 11 seasons for the Boston Bruins . . .
As Gardner says, the Globe has essentially ignored the passing of Doug Mohns. Plug his name into the Globe’s search box and you get this (as of midnight Thursday):
The Boston Herald hasn’t done much better. There’s only this mention that was tagged onto the February 9th Bruins Notebook (no link because the Herald is the Bermuda Triangle of search engines).
Rest in peace, Doug Mohns.
Just not in the Boston dailies.
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(Tip o’ the pixel to the Missus)
Yesterday’s Inside Track in the feisty local tabloid featured an interesting, if out-of-nowhere, profile of local photographer Sid Limitz.
Photographer captures heyday of Theatre District
Forty years ago, when he was just 17, Sid Limitz began working as a ticket taker in Boston’s Theatre District. He was walking past
the old Music Hall one night when Bette Midler came waltzing out the front door.
“I happened to be in the right place at the right time and there she was,” Limitz said. “I thought to myself, ‘This is a moment where someone should have a camera.’”
And so Sid asked for — and got — a camera for Christmas and he’s been taking pictures in the Theatre District ever since.
Limitz estimates that he has more than 800,000 shots he snapped in the area around the intersection of Tremont and Stuart streets. In the district’s theaters, comedy clubs, gay bars, concert venues and movie houses, Limitz encountered and photographed legends including Liza Minnelli, Lauren Bacall, Elaine Stritch, David Bowie, Frank Zappa and more.
And then there was this:
Amazingly, in the online edition of Wednesday’s Herald, Bacall is no longer dead.
As a member of the theatrical employees union, Sid worked with Bacall in the Theatre District twice — in 1999 for “Waiting in the
Wings” at the Colonial and in the ’80s when she did “Love Letters” at The Wilbur with Richard Kiley. But his favorite pic of the great actress was snapped outside the Harvard Club in 1980, when Bacall came to celebrate the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy’s 50th birthday with the clan.
Tell you what – if Bogie were alive now, there’d be hell to pay for this.
P.S. Raise your hand if you thought today’s Herald would run a Correction.
Us neither.
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