Honoring The Dead (2012)

Several months ago, Charlie Rose devoted an entire episode of his late-night public television show to video clips of past guests who died in 2012. The broadcast was riveting and memorable. After each clip, viewers were shown a still photo of the guest with the years of birth and date superimposed on the screen. Among the late luminaries interviewed by Rose and who were featured in the memorial telecast  were playwright/journalist Nora Ephron (b. 1941), film director Tony Scott (b. 1944), novelist Gore Vidal (b. 1925), jazz pianist Dave Brubeck (b. 1920), journalist Mike Wallace (b. 1918), scholar Jacques Barzun (b. 1907), novelist Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928), politician George McGovern (b. 1922), actor Andy Griffith (b. 1926), and art scholar/author Robert Hughes (b. 1938).