Tears mixed with a lot of laughs — and a call for a memorial poker game — as friends, family and stars bid farewell on Tuesday to David Carr, the media columnist of the New York Times.
Carr, 58, died suddenly in the newsroom on Feb. 12.
"He didn't leave anything undone," his widow, Jill Rooney Carr, told Media Ink after the official two-hour wake had ended at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home Monday night.
Friends and relatives had convened at McKeown's on Third Avenue for the Irish wake later that night.
At Campbell's, celebrities ranging from actor Tom Arnold to "Girls" star Lena Dunham recalled their fallen friend. But so did non-bold name types, like the friend who simply identified himself only as, "Michael, and I'm an alcoholic."
Michael told how he and Carr had bonded at AA as they battled their mutual addictions.
But it fell to one of his daughters, Erin, to deliver one of the most succinct eulogies of the night: "I loved my dad, I loved him so much. I am so sad that he's not here but good Lord, he would have loved this."
There were few dry eyes in the packed room.
Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the Times, called Carr, the "Scotty Reston of our generation" recalling James "Scotty" Reston who won two Pulitzer Prizes in the '50s and '60s.
Carr started on an alternative weekly in his native Minneapolis before moving to Washington D.C., but rose to prominence covering media and its intersection with technology, politics and culture after he started at the Times in 2002.
Carr's dark past and addiction to crack cocaine was chronicled in a 2008 best-selling memoir, "The Night of the Gun," which is being rushed back to press by Simon & Schuster.
Carr eventually kicked his drug demons, got married, raised three daughters and emerged as one of the paper's best known columnists.
The New Yorker Editor David Remnick, told Media Ink after the funeral at St. Ignatius Loyola Church, "The stupidest thing ever said by a smart man was F. Scott Fitzgerald when he said there are no second acts. David Carr had the greatest second act of anyone I ever knew.
"Thanks to his friends and his family and his own guts, he turned himself into something completely new and healthy. And I'll always respect him for that. Even when we were arguing, there was always a relish and a respect."
John Carr, his eldest brother, along with his two other daughters, Meagan and Maddie, also delivered fond recollections.
"I am sure everyone here thinks they were the best friend of David Carr, just as all of us think we were the best brother or sister of David Carr," said John. "We never expected him to go quietly in his 90s," he said. "We just never expected him to go so very young."
As worshippers finished their farewells, a lone bagpiper played on the church steps.
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