A wonderful life: 50 eulogies to lift the spirit

Foreword / Larry Gelbart Introduction / Cyrus M. Copeland MOVIE STARS: Bette Davis / David Hartman Judy Garland / James Mason Marilyn Monroe / Donald Spoto Charlie Chaplin / Jerry Epstein Joan Crawford / George Cukor James Mason / Nicholas Meyer Gregory Peck / Larry Gelbart Tallulah Bankhead / Anita Loos Orson Welles / Charlton Heston PIONEERS: Princess Diana / Lord Edward John Spencer Rosa Parks / President Bill Clinton Martin Luther King, Jr. / Robert F. Kennedy Coretta Scott King / President Jimmy Carter Julia Child / Jacques Pepin Bill W. / Dr. Jack Norris Alfred Kinsey / Helen D'Amico Karen Silkwood / Michael Meadows Sigmund Freud / Stefan Zweig Mahatma Gandhi / Jawaharlal Nehru Albert Schweitzer / Walter Munz Elisabeth Kubler-Ross / David Kessler MEDIA TITANS: Edward R. Murrow / Charles Kuralt Katharine Graham / Ben Brandlee Malcolm Forbes / Steve Forbes David Brinkley / Joel Brinkley Henry Luce / Robert T. Elson

ENTERTAINERS: Fred Rogers / Teresa Heinz

Bob Hope / Larry Gelbart

John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd

Walt Disney / Roy Disney

Lenny Bruce / Rev. Howard Moody

Milton Berle / Larry Gelbart

TUNESMITHS & TROUBADORS: Leonard Bernstein / Ned Rorem

Dusty Springfield / Neil Tenant

Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Cy Coleman / Larry Gelbart

John Denver / Tom Crum

Nina Simone / Ossie Davis

9/11 HEROES: Father Mychal Judge (FDNY) / Father Michael Duffy

Capt. Robet Dolan (USN) / Mark Wallinger

Chief Peter Ganci (FDNY) / Chris Ganci

Capt. Francis Callahan (FDNY) / Capt. James Gormley (FDNY)

ATHLETES: Mickey Mantle / Bos Costas

Arthur Ashe / Governor L. Douglas Wilder

Charles Atlas / Jerry Cowle

Wilt Chamberlain / Barbara Chamberlain Lewis

Christy Mathewson / John McGraw

PARENTS: Col. Don Conroy / Pat Conroy

Hilda Stegner / Wallace Stegner

Edith Freundlich / Peter Freundlich.