France Mourns Loss of Master of Mime, Marcel Marceau
His secret for remaining agile into old age: "If you stop at all when you are 70 or 80, you cannot go on. You have to keep working."
(Paris, France)—France is mourning the loss of one of their most beloved icons, master of mime, Marcel Marceau. Marceau, a French Jew whose father died in Auschwitz during WWII, died at the age of 84. Of the loss of life in the Holocaust, Marceau is said to have lamented: "Among those kids was maybe an Einstein, a Mozart, somebody who (would have) found a cancer drug. That is why we have a great responsibility. Let us love one another." (Photo: AP)
Few people realize the importance of Marceau's art (he single-handedly revived mime) and the impact he had on the world. According to an AP report, Michael Jackson "borrowed his famous 'moonwalk' from a Marcel sketch, Walking Against the Wind.'"
Regarding the power of mime, Marceau was quoted as saying, "Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?"
Marceau reportedly remained agile into his old age. "If you stop at all when you are 70 or 80, you cannot go on," he told the AP in a 2003 interview. "You have to keep working."
