Why I celebrate Lena Horne | David Thomson

She didn't have much of a career at the movies, but that's because she was too good for themI refuse to write an obituary on Lena Horne – I refuse to accept that she is not here still. And, to the extent that I never met her, what have I been deprived of just because the cessation of physical existence is reported in the papers? I learned a long time ago that there was no need, and very little reason, for believing the things printed in the papers. (In truth, isn't it the papers that are dying...

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