Though Williams died in 1994, his widow is, happily, still alive to enjoy the worldwide royalties.
Bergman, happily, is alive today, although viewers hoping that he might spring a surprise appearance, bounding onstage after the screening, should prepare to be disappointed.
Rituals, happily, live on.
Now I see them as vibrant and alive, happily looking back on their youths, while still enjoying their present.
Duncan delivers with intelligent humanity a monster we want to track and befriend, even knowing she would happily eat us alive.
A 5-CD set from Riverside ("Sonny Rollins, The Freelance Years": 5RCD-4427-2) characteristicaracteristic breadth of his invention, tackling old chestnuts and venturesome originals with the same protean intelligence.Mr Rollins, happily, is still alive, but much of the current state of jazz is being shaped by a 39-year-old Young Turk trumpeter and composer, Wynton Marsalis.
Today he's still in L.A., happily keeping the dream alive.
I have found a great deal of wisdom, and a kindred spirit, in the life and writing of a more recent -- and happily, still very much alive -- gay man who, for me, seems to channel his great hero Walt Whitman.
Just as they believe today that the second in command of Al Qaeda has been killed or captured at least a dozen times -- AND they've conveniently forgotten that Osama Bin Laden is not only still alive, but happily and calmly planning future attacks against our country.
"So Vince McMahon is dead but Chris Benoit is alive," says Joel, happily.
