Bringing out the dead.

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• Requiem for a Cop Jerry Orbach's wry, deadpan style came to define Law & Order.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 29, 2004
  
• Susan Sontag Remembering an intellectual heroine.
  Christopher Hitchens Dec. 29, 2004
  
• Desert Island DJ How John Peel helped shape American musical taste.
  Douglas Wolk Oct. 28, 2004
  
• Paul Nitze The man who brought us the Cold War.
  Fred Kaplan Oct. 21, 2004
  
• The Avedon Look How the grand old master of portraiture made his name.
  Jim Lewis Oct. 4, 2004
  
• I'm Rick James, B*tch The artist behind the Super Freak.
  Tony Green Aug. 11, 2004
  
• Marlon Brando The largest actor of them all.
  David Edelstein July 2, 2004
  
• It's a Shame About Ray The passing of an American musical icon.
  Stanley Crouch June 11, 2004
  
• Alistair Cooke America's pet Brit, Britain's favorite American.
  Alexander Chancellor March 31, 2004