A Remembrance
I’ve been too absorbed with the election lately to pay as much attention as I should to the extraordinary community of film bloggers that I only slowly grew to learn about months after I first started this blog in February of 2006, but I do want to draw your attention to a piece by Matt Zoeller Seitz at The House Next Door, the crucial site he created before retiring from print journalism to pursue filmmaking full time earlier this year.
It’s a piece about critic and frequent House contributor Andrew Johnston, who I knew only as the site’s perceptive “Mad Men” blogger but who was actually an important figure in the New York film scene. (I hadn’t even been reading the “Mad Men” pieces for Season II because I, coincidentally, only got around to watching Season II over the last two or three days).
Anyhow, Johnston died last week at the age of forty after years of living with cancer. It’s also a first for me learning about an enormous tragedy in in Matt’s life back in 2006, just a couple of months after I started posting. I can’t call myself a regular part of the “House” community, but the overall menschiness that permeates that place — and the overall pleasantness of the few dealings I have had, via e-mail and comments, with both Matt and his successor, Keith Uhlich, makes me feel compelled to say something.
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