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The kind of wonderful obit writing one finds only in the NY Times: “Mr. Davis never lost the quirky, original tone that helped shape the show, and in his last months he referred to death as ‘deanimation.’ He deanimated on Thursday at his home in Hudson, N.Y., at age 59. The cause was throat and neck cancer, his wife, Mimi Raleigh, said.