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Article: Sir Alec's genuine, effortless faith.(Obituary)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 1, 2000
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Sir Alec Guinness' death in August, like sundown in a British colony, caused the cannons to boom in glorious farewell. He was commemorated in all the media that signal first-class mourning: on the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," that pantheon of the distinguished dead, and with a full page, graveyard acre of his own, in The New York Times. That means you are a truly famous person and that they have been expecting you to die for some time.
Subsequent tributes, such as one by Holy Cross professor Steve Vineberg in the Sunday New York Times, mentioned him with Redgrave, Richardson, Olivier, and Gielgud, noting that his "self-presentation ...
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