Rex Reed's Wonderful Annual "So Long Dead Folks" Column Is Here!

It’s my favorite, favorite event of every new year: Rex Reed’s annual tribute to the dead! It is so magical. I want to curl up on a loveseat with this column and fondle it. I can’t even pick out a quote! How about: “Also taking a final curtain call: Olga San Juan, sparkling Brooklyn-born ‘Puerto Rican pepper pot’ who sang and danced with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire in Blue Skies (1946) before making a 1951 Broadway splash in the legendary Paint Your Wagon; and sterling soprano Susanna Foster, who was a sensation in several ’40s movie musicals, including the 1943 Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains and Nelson Eddy. But when her career hit the skids it never recovered. At one point, she was living in the back seat of an automobile in Hollywood.” NEXT YEAR what HAS TO HAPPEN is that they MAKE REX DO A VIDEO READING OF THIS, I WOULD PAY 99 CENTS A MINUTE FOR THAT.