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Sad news.  The legendary film director Blake Edwards has died.  He was 88.  Edwards had a huge impact on popular culture, for roughly two decades, between 1961 and 1981, starting with his classic, best-beloved  Breakfast At Tiffany's , and ending his run of hits with Victor Victoria .  Between them came the hilarious quasi-racist The Party , and other Sellers hits, featuring the Pink Panther Theme, as well as infamous sex romp, 10 .  His last works were mediocre.  In fact, much of his work was, and often a little of its time (one thinks of the Chinese caricature of Mickey Rooney ), but at his best, he was a sort of emblem of the hedonistic zeitgeist.  For his Capote adaptation, and the Sellers farces alone, he will last.