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In Memoriam
Jim Bellows, RIP
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"I know you didn't like my hero, Richard Nixon, but some words he said when he left office in 1974 still ring in my ears and they apply to you and all of us who loved you so much, who still love you so much. 'This isn't good-bye. The French have a word for it. "Au revoir." We'll see you again.'
"Au revoir, Jim."
The service was the best prayer service I have ever been to, including an electrifying speech by Jim's dear friend and successor, Mary Anne Dolan, a really smart and eloquent woman. My wife and I stood outside talking about Jim with our pal, John Mankiewicz, a brilliant writer, whom I got a job at the Herald as a rock critic long, long ago. Then we went to a small reception at the Bel-Air Country Club, a club Jim was always trying to get me to join. Keven Bellows sat at the table with us, still beautiful despite her torment and torture and grief. My head ached so much from crying that I asked Alex if we could leave.
I kissed Keven good-bye and headed out into the Los Angeles traffic. Good-bye, Jim. You remind me so very much of my pal, Peter Flanigan, another fearless, fiercely loyal Navy carrier pilot from World War II. What will we do when your generation is gone? What will we do now? Where is my dog?
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Michael| 3.16.09 @ 4:34PM
A great obit piece from Ben Stein. I also was not a fan of Richard Nixon, however Ben's 1994 obit in "American Spectator" on President Nixon was the best one I ever read
SD| 3.16.09 @ 4:37PM
Ben,
I sat behind you at the memorial. And so my thoughts, appreciation, regrets parallel yours. Jim will be missed. I will miss him.
Thanks for writing.
PS: I think you mean Entertainment Tonight rather than Entertainment Weekly.
Jose Jones| 3.17.09 @ 2:50AM
PS SD : In your grief you can be forgiven that douche bag correction. Not really. Jesus.
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Tim| 3.18.09 @ 11:09AM
"Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of Hell."
-Emily Dickinson.
SD| 3.21.09 @ 4:37PM
Jose,
Chill out. See http://tinyurl.com/ddglgn or if you'd prefer Jim Bellow's own words, see http://tinyurl.com/c5l2dh
Denis| 4.5.09 @ 6:28PM
How lovely a piece. Good job by you.
I tried my own,
http://denishorgan.com/2009/03/07/james-g-bellows/
denis horgan
Danny Bloom| 8.12.09 @ 7:39AM
Ben, I worked for Jim when I was a freelance cartoonist at the Star in DC back in 1976 and later I worked for Mary Anne Dolan at the Her Ex in LA for a summer doing editorial page work as letters editor. He was a great man. He and Ben Bradlee are the best of the best in journalism. Nice memory, sir.
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