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“Hi, I’m Art Buchwald and I just died,” the late columnist says in a video posted on the New York Times website. Tim Weiner, who conducted the obit interview, tells Joe Strupp: “He really was hurting, he was not healthy. But when the time came to talk, he was just himself.” At least 10 other nytimes.com video obits have been completed and edited. || Read Buchwald’s farewell column. || Ben Bradlee talks about Buchwald in an online chat.
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