Omitted from list

In your listing of entertainment figures who died in 2004 [“Remembering, With Respect,” by Susan King, Dec. 31], you left out an actor who had a Hollywood career spanning almost 30 years, eventually becoming the president of the Screen Actors’ Guild. He also went on to a second career that included numerous movies, TV shows, documentaries and award shows, usually listed as “Himself” in the credits.

Probably no actor had the influence, for better or worse, than Ronald Reagan.

David Goodwin

Los Angeles

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I can’t believe you omitted one of the greatest: soprano Renata Tebaldi, who died in mid-December.

She embodied the overused word “legend” and was universally considered one of the greatest opera singers of all time, with probably the most beautiful female voice that ever existed. The great conductor Arturo Toscanini said that Tebaldi had “the voice of an angel.”

Amy Albani

Oceanside