Bruce Weber

Weber is very much alive, as far as I know; this is not an obituary, but a question and answer session Mr. Weber conducted in 2008. It is informative, entertaining, and fun to read. This passage will have to suffice as a taste of the whole.

Q. You spent a number of years covering theater and the arts. It would seem that such a beat required you to be out and about, meeting people, attending performances and the like. It would seem that obit writing is a much more solitary affair, with little, if any, "social life" attached to the job. Are there any other major differences in terms of the life style associated with the two jobs, and, without compromising your current position, is there one that you prefer over the other?

A. You're absolutely correct about the lack of any social life attached to the job of writing obituaries. I do miss being out and about at night, and I miss the regular doses of good theater I had the opportunity to see. But while I was a theater reporter and critic I missed the World Series every year. And as any theater critic can tell you, if you've spent three evenings in a row at crummy shows, you'd almost rather write your own obituary than go to the theater again on night number four.