Tuesday Reads

The "left" also believes in magical thinking.
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The New York Times takes after yours truly and notes three years later the death of one-time producer Paul Gregory, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound back in 2015.  He was 95.

Gregory had once been married to silent film star Janet Gaynor.  She died in 1984.

Word leaked out slowly. Almost a year later, The Desert Sun, a daily newspaper serving Palm Springs, Calif., and the Coachella Valley area, published an article that took note of Mr. Gregory’s death, saying that “few people knew about it.”

“He wasn’t given a public memorial service and he didn’t receive the kind of appreciations showbiz luminaries usually get,” the newspaper said.

The New York Times learned of the death recently while seeking to update this obituary, most of which was written in advance, in 2012. A call to the Riverside County Coroner’s office on Monday confirmed the death and its circumstances.

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