The Year of the Obituary continues. This time, we've lost the always-acerbic literary giant Gore Vidal, who was 86. More on his life and times in the link below:
"I don't think of myself as a star. I didn't set out to become a star, I set out to become a singer. I would have sung no matter what. The star part is just something that they made up in Hollywood in 1930." - Linda Ronstadt