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They beguiled us, touched us, stirred us. They remade their worlds and taught us to see our own afresh. As part of our series on the 100 most influential people of the century, here are 20 peerless creators...
RETIRED. MARCUS ALLEN, 38, nimble NFL running back whose career records--123 rushing touchdowns and 587 receptions--were as peerless as his professionalism; to be a commentator for CBS; in Kansas City...
DIED. JUDITH MERRIL, 74, science-fiction dame of peerless anthologies and foreboding novels such as Shadow on the Hearth; of heart failure; in Toronto. One of the first female S-F writers, Merril voiced new--but still bleak--concerns, writing, for example, about a mother's love for her severely deformed baby...
...dirty and bad as in awful. But in the '90s bad has been raised to an aesthetic, almost a theology, certainly an industry; and these long-neglected movies are cult artifacts, promoted in revival houses, "special edition" videos and learned books (like Michael J. Weldon's cogent, peerless The Psychotronic Video Guide). Russ Meyer's bosomacious melodramas are taught in colleges. Oscar Micheaux's primeval black parables play in museums. And Ed Wood, who couldn't get arrested when he was alive--all right, as an alcoholic transvestite, he could get arrested, but nobody in Hollywood paid attention...
DIED. CHUCK GREEN, 78, peerless tap dancer; in Oakland, California. Since the 1940s, the tall, genial Green spoke eloquently with his flashing footwork. Starting out in vaudeville as a child, he kept on performing well into the '90s, appearing on Broadway. Within the closely knit tap world, he was cherished as one of the greatest of the old-time hoofers...