Obituaries

Apple founder Steve Jobs, 53, didn't die, but that didn't stop the Bloomberg business wire from publishing his obituary by accident, with blanks for his age and cause of death included.

Jobs can read his obituary here.

The funniest obituary ever was the Bob Hope obituary by Vincent Canby--published several years after Canby died.
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Writer and activist Del Martin, 87, has died, just a couple of months after she and partner Phyllis Lyon became the first gay/lesbian couple in California to be married.

She was one of the early pioneers in GLBT rights.
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Miscellaneous News.

A Sparks, Nevada, couple is selling some behind-the-scenes footage of the 1961 film, The Misfits, filmed in northern Nevada.

It will be auctioned off Saturday at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
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Trouble won't get as much money as Leona Helmsley willed him, but he will still be set for the rest of his life.
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Del Martin, 87, and partner Phyllis Lyon, 84, became the first gay/lesbian couple to marry in San Francisco.

Both are well known in the lesbian rights movement, and Martin especially I remember from some her writings about battered women.

Martin was actually married to a man for four years and divorced him. Martin has one daughter. She kept his name. Her maiden name is Dorothy Taliaferro, and she was born in San Francisco. I wonder if she is related to KGO talk show host Ray Taliaferro.
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