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Article: Hope, Hepburn, Peck not the last of the legends.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 4, 2003
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Byline: Michael Wilmington
The recent deaths of Katharine Hepburn, Gregory Peck and Bob Hope should have reminded us again how perishable movie legends can be _ at least in the flesh.
They seemed to have been with us forever: Hepburn, the indomitable star actress from Bryn Mawr, Peck the handsome leading man from La Jolla, Calif., and the wise-cracking indefatigable Hope, a sharp-tongued comedian born in England but raised in Cleveland. Then, suddenly, within the span of several weeks, they were all gone,
They weren't snatched from us too soon, of course. Hepburn died at 96, Peck at 87 and Hope, like his old vaudeville pal George Burns, ...