{"id":117764,"date":"2016-06-04T13:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=117764"},"modified":"2016-06-04T15:37:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T19:37:58","slug":"r-i-p-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=117764","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Muhammad Ali"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cI\u2019ve wrestled with alligators. I\u2019ve tussled with a whale.
\nI done handcuffed lightning and thrown thunder in jail.
\nYou know I\u2019m bad. Just last week, I murdered a rock,
\ninjured a stone, hospitalized a brick.
\nI\u2019m so mean, I make medicine sick.\u201d
\n— Muhammad Ali<\/i> <\/p>\n

I wrote a longer piece about this legend, this hero, this kind and brilliant and generous man, and it’ll go up later today on Rogerebert.com. I’ll post a link when it’s live. Update<\/b>: Here it is: Always The Greatest: Remembering Muhammad Ali<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the meantime: Kindred spirits. Good friends. They had a lot in common.<\/p>\n

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\nElvis and Ali<\/i><\/p>\n

\nI found this article<\/a>, about the tributes paid to Muhammad Ali in Ennis, Ireland, his ancestral town, extremely moving. <\/p>\n

And this clip, which I have linked to again and again, and watched it even more, because I can’t get enough of it. It’s sheer electric happiness and affection, palpable, an energy field … it rubs off on me every time I watch.<\/p>\n

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