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Live, from the ISS and Terra, it's a flute duet!

( Astronaut Cady Coleman plays with Ian Anderson to honor Yuri Gagarin. How cool can it get? )

RIP Sidney Lumet

Amazingly, I haven't seen even one RIP for this man since the news of his death yesterday.

Consider the list of his classic films:

Twelve Angry Men
Serpico
Dog Day Afternoon
Network

and on, and on, and on.

Sidney Lumet was one of two (along with Woody Allen) great directors who essentially used New York City as a character in his films, and his love of the city shows. He made films about good guys, and bad guys, and justice, and the injustice of people frustrated that the bad guys were winning. He made films that will live for a very long time, because the people were real (especially when they were based on real incidents) and the themes are eternal.

Requiescat, sir. I wish there were more like you, and there may never again be.