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Martin Short and Personal Tragedy

original Canadian cast: It also the story of a man whose life has been bracketed by personal tragedy: he lost his parents and an older brother before he was out of his teens, and his wife of 30 years recently passed away, according to The Chronicle Herald. So expect some moments of emotional turbulence among the lighter, funnier episodes. I Must Say takes us through Short career: his stint in the original Canadian cast of Godspell, his prolific television and film work, his appearances on the Broadway stage . But the book isn’t just about Martin Short, the entertainer. We’ve always known Short is a brilliant performer; who knew he was such a compelling writer, too If you’re a fan of fictional treatments of the Jack the Ripper mystery, and there have already been quite a lot of those, you’ll want to pick up Stephen Hunter I, Ripper . Like Hunter 2013 novel The Third Bullet, about the JFK assassination, it a clever and plausible mixture of fact and historical fiction. A young and eager newspaperman, Jeb, is writing about the killings, mostly to boost sales of his paper. Several women have been murdered in the Whitechapel district of London. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.