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Morbid Diversions (Friday's video diversions)

        As with more an more these days the opening topic's something I know I've brought up before. Age and social isolation turn so many of us into creatures of repetition.       I know from several conversations I've had, including various online interactions, that I'm not the only one who finds himself disappearing down the rabbit holes of "whatever happened to?"upon being reminded of someone in a show or movie. In an age of so many screens, so much access, it's more than a major pastime, for many it's a reflex. It's part of the reason so many people don't seem to go five, conscious minutes without poking at their phone's screen. With more and more of our entertainments on-demand affairs, that we can not only summon, but pause at will while we indulge these curiosities, it's something more and more of us are doing more often.       As a much younger person I was little interested in celebrities, much less...