I can't say, one of entertainment's great voices has been silenced, because ... well because Marcel Marceau took silence to a whole new level of artistic brilliance ...Today the final curtain has fallen on the great Pantomime artist Marcel Marceau at the age of 84.
I remember seeing him in performance one night at Hamilton Place many years ago ... he was remarkable ...
Thankfully his legacy will not simply fade away ... like Bip walking against the wind, he struggled and succeeded in reviving what was once an almost lost art ... he tended a flickering flame and through skill and ability left as his strongest memorial an art form he almost single-handedly brought back into being ...
Not bad for a man who survived the Holocaust, lost his father to the flames of Auschwitz, and who worked tirelessly in silence.
Rest in Peace Marceau ... you WILL be missed.
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