Mary Schmich

Mary Schmich is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She is also the current author of the long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr and has worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player. She is a graduate of Pomona College.

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Columnist - Chicago Tribune - Comic strip - Brenda Starr - Barrelhouse - Ragtime - Piano player - Pomona College

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She is perhaps best known as the author of an amusing and discursive column that included an injunction to wear sunscreen. An Internet rumor erroneously stated that this column was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two years after the column was written in 1997, Baz Luhrmann released a song called Everybody's free (to wear sunscreen) in which this column is read word by word as written by Schmich. This song was a number one hit in several countries in 1999.

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Sunscreen - Internet - Rumor - Kurt Vonnegut - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 1997 - Baz Luhrmann - 1999

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