R.I.P. Norman Corwin at 101

[CrankyYankee]

This link takes you to Leonard Maltin's writeup on the late Mr. Corwin's contributions to radio drama and other forms of what would come to be know as "Classic Radio."
http://blogs.indiewire.com/leonardmaltin/archives/farewell_to_a_giant_norman_corwin/
(A tip of the earphones to Mark Evanier for pointing out this article.)
Here also is a obit from "The Washington Post."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...-dies-at-101/2010/09/21/gIQAz246wL_story.html

 

[ercjncpr]

A GIANT HAS LEFT US :'(

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

Thank you for posting this. Only learned of Norman Corwin passing away on a radio show yesterday. He was a genius and deserves continued honors for his work.

 

[drt]

Thank you for posting this. Only learned of Norman Corwin passing away on a radio show yesterday. He was a genius and deserves continued honors for his work.

I had not even heard of Norman Corwin until about 2 years ago. (I doubt that most people born in the early 1950's aren't familiar with him either).......... nonetheless; Greg Bell on Sirius XM has talked about him a lot these last few years and interviewed him last year just before his 100th birthday.

Norman was a giant among men and a great patriot.
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for those with Sirius/XM there will be some on the air tributes to Norman Corwin this week:
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Oct 23rd to Oct 29th Radio Classics (channel 82)

We lead off the week with a special tribute for Norman Corwin, who passed away on Tuesday October 18th at age 101. I will play his May 16th, 1944 Columbia Presents Corwin production; “New York: A Tapestry For Radio” followed by two from The Columbia Workshop; “Untitled” from May 30th, 1944 and “Cromer” from December 1st, 1942. The two-hour tribute also includes portions of my visit with him conducted in his Hollywood area home prior to his Centennial birthday. Debuts on Sunday (10/23) at 6pm ET with encores on Wednesday at 8am ET and again at 10pm ET Wednesday night.

drt,
st. petersburg,fl