This web site is dedicated to our friend Gary Brickman, who passed away on June 26, 2000. News.com’s Rumor Mill Skinny DuBaud, 28 June 2000 Excerpt from News.com (see the original) We close this week with a tribute to a dear and departed colleague, Gary Brickman, who died in his sleep Sunday at the age of 38. Familiar to Net media types and tech event-goers alike as the gregarious, pertinacious guy in the wheelchair, Brickman charmed and razzed colleagues in old and new media alike, including those at Snap/NBCi, CMP Media and CBS. Brickman, who suffered from a crippling bone disease, endeared himself especially to co-workers--often by hollering at them. "He was difficult," recalled IDC analyst Malcolm Maclachlan, who reported for Brickman at CMP. "He was stubborn and opinionated, and we would yell at each other, but a lot of the time he was right. And there were never any hard feelings with Gary." Maclachlan recalled fouling something up early in his tenure under Brickman. The boss in turn described making a similar mistake while working for Dan Rather at CBS. Rather had responded by giving Brickman a pep talk, which Brickman--who was cast as a drug dealer in the film "Dream with the Fishes"--proceeded to deliver to Maclachlan with a perfect Dan Rather imitation. "He was a great actor and mimic," Maclachlan said. "He had such a huge personality." Gary Brickman, 1997   »home