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Stu Bykofsky has been a columnist with the Philadelphia Daily News since 1987. Prior to the column, his assignments included theater critic, TV critic, copy editor, general assignment features reporter. A native of New York City, Stu has won numerous public service and journalism awards. His professional affiliations include the Society of Professional Journalists, the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and Philadelphia's Pen and Pencil Club. He supports civil-rights, human-rights and animal causes. He is married.
 
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Posted 07/08/2009
SOME LIKENED his passing to Elvis, but the worldwide PDEs (Public Displays of Emotion) were more like those poured out for John Lennon, who died 10 years younger than Michael Jackson, and also too soon.
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CONSIDERING THE recent headlines, I went looking for an Iranian, and found one, but the interview didn't really pan out.
EVEN a public life has private secrets, and, following Irv Homer's death, one of his wanted to be heard. "I want to claim my birthright," I was told by Jeff Pergament, the 58-year-old son of long-time talk-show host Homer. Pergament was pained to not be named in obituaries as a survivor, when even Gary, an estranged son, was mentioned.
TOMMI AVICOLLI MECCA was gay before it was fashionable, before "Will & Grace" and Adam Lambert. The 57-year-old South Philadelphian-turned-San Franciscan was out there before most of us knew what out meant. If Tommi were any more gay, he'd burst into flames.
IT'S HARD FOR me as a journalist, and as an American, to write this, but if Laura Ling and Euna Lee deliberately crossed into forbidden North Korea to grab some video and perhaps an interview, the U.S. shouldn't do much, overtly, to help them.
THE MAN WITH the Golden Lungs, Ed McMahon, never "went Hollywood." Born in Detroit, reared all over the East Coast, when he hit Philadelphia he sank roots, adopted our down-to-earth addytudes and, despite his fame, never got too high on himself.
MIGHT THE appointment of Sue Cosby to run the Pennsylvania SPCA end the two-year civil war between PSPCA supporters and those of the defunct Philadelphia Animal Care and Control Association (PACCA)?
DAVE LETTERMAN's Monday-night apology for a late-night rotten joke seemed sincere, but part of his explanation is questionable and how he came to his epiphany is memorable.
THE RECENT Kensington Beatdown added a new chapter to Philadelphia folkore, already an encyclopedia of dysfunction from cannibalism to wilding to flash mobs.
IF THEY turned what's happening to America into a science-fiction movie, it would be called "The Incredible Shrinking Country." Check the size of GM, now called Government Motors. Check the size of your 401(k). My God, even Howard Eskin's ego has gone down a few sizes! (I apologize for that gratuitous, cheap shot at Mr. Eskin, done solely for the purpose of comedy.)
ON ITS FACE, it sounded both terrifying and deeply wrong. A couple of New Black Panthers - militia-attired, beret-wearing, jackbooted jackasses - one of them carrying a nightstick, stood in front of a polling place at 1212 Fairmount Ave. last November intimidating voters and blocking the entrance.
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