Last Dance

(An epitaphany shared with Monty)

Or

No Longer Looking for Some Hot Stuff… Unless She Wanted to Be Cremated

Or

Dim All the Lights

Donna Summer, whose hit Last Dance did as much to indicate when it was time to settle for the one you were with as the ugly lights, has died of lung cancer at the age of 63. The disco diva and former back-up singer with Three Dog Night won 5 Grammys and hit it big with Love to Love You Baby, Hot Stuff, On the Radio and Bad Girls and her attempt to turn the classically morose MacArthur Park into an up-tempo number. Summer is also known by TGIF fans as Urkel’s Aunt Oona on Family Matters. In keeping with the surreality of President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, Summers was the featured performer, backed by the Norwegian Radio Orchestra.