Tag: Friend
How to Support a Sick Friend
Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.
This week she talks with two friends who were both diagnosed with the same cancer—acute myeloid leukemia—one right after the other. They discuss how this unhappy coincidence shaped their friendship and their faith, and what they’ve learned about the right and wrong ways to support a sick friend.
The Friends:
Biz Markie, Hip-Hop-Clown-Prinz “Just a Friend”, stirbt im Alter von 57 Jahren
Biz Markie, der innovative und dennoch stolz alberne Rapper, DJ und Produzent, dessen selbstironische Texte und schräges Jammern bei Songs wie „Just a Friend“ ihm den Spitznamen Clown Prince of Hip-Hop einbrachten, starb am Freitag. Er war 57.
Sein Tod wurde von seiner Managerin Jenni Izumi bestätigt, die keine Ursache nannte.
In seinen späten 40ern wurde bei ihm Typ-2-Diabetes diagnostiziert und er sagte, dass er in den folgenden Jahren 140 Pfund abgenommen habe. „Ich wollte leben“, sagte er 2014 gegenüber
Brigid Berlin, Andy Warhol’s Most Enduring Friend
In 2001, soon after he moved into the small prewar doorman building on East 28th Street where he still lives, Rob Vaczy met a 60-year-old Brigid Berlin as he was waiting for the elevator. His new neighbors had warned the multimedia producer about the nutty lady on the ninth floor — every building has one, they joked — with her querulous duo of pug dogs toted in a baby carriage, and nonstop pronouncements issued in an archaic highbrow accent straight