Remembering Ellie the Beagle, Harold Bloom, Dr. Bernard Fisher, Robert Forster

Ellie the Beagle, who died at age 18, was the most loving loyal beagle in the world. She had a hearty appetite and a gregarious nature, and she was loved by all who met her. Harold Bloom was a literary intellectual and critic at Yale for six decades. He was said to be able to recite all of Shakespeare by memory. Dr. Bernard Fisher was the Pittsburgh surgeon who revolutionized breast cancer treatment with his adherence to data and his organization of large studies that debunked aggressive surgery. Robert Forster was the dependable actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor opposite Pam Grier in the Quentin Tarantino/Elmore Leonard collaboration Jackie Brown (1997).