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Evelyn Spiegler, 94

Evelyn Spiegler made a career as a fund-raiser in the nonprofit sector in international relations and the health care field, and after her retirement from New York University Medical Center in 1995 divided her time between Montauk and Forest Hills, Queens, where she died on Saturday.

John R. DiPace, 88

John R. DiPace, retired from the New York City Department of Sanitation and the trucking company he owned in the Bronx, went on to become a masseur at Gurney's Inn in Montauk. He died of metastasized bone cancer at home in East Hampton on March 3.

John Allan Diamond

John Allan Diamond, who ran his father’s business, Diamond’s furniture store on Main Street in East Hampton, until 1995, died on March 2 at home in East Hampton. He was 70 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

The Showman

Mel Brooks delivers what his title promises, exclamation point and all — an unedited account of a life that must have been fun to live, but can be a chore to read about.