NY Times Posts O-bitch-uary On Horner
My friend Tom Steele and I are eager to catalog “obitchuaries” — you know, articles published after someone’s death which aren’t content with the facts of a biography but which have to stick in the shiv while the body’s still warm. Latest example: the New York Times’s write-up of James Horner, the “Titanic” composer who died this week in a plane crash. Here’s just a taste of the bitchiness: ‘Mr. Horner’s refrains were soaring, though some called them soupy; he was credited with elevating movie orchestration to new heights, though a few critics complained that he would sometimes recycle his own works (or other composers’).’
