The former White Sox outfielder Minnie Minoso was hospitalized in Chicago after falling from his boat.
The White Sox spokesman Scott Reifert told WMAQ-TV that Minoso, 88, was pulled from the water Friday and taken to St. Joseph Hospital for tests. Team representatives on Saturday spoke with Minoso, who reportedly said he was “feeling fine.” Reifert said Minoso, a nine-time All-Star who made his debut at Comiskey Park in 1951, was expected to be released Sunday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/sports/baseball/white-sox-great-is-hospitalized.html?_r=0
Ed Nelson died.
Monday, August 18, 2014
http://tinyurl.com/nst7lka
March 1, 1942 - July 30, 2014 Dennis was born Andrew Dennis Lipscomb to Marion and Andy Lipscomb, an Army General. He attended Westbury High School in N.Y., attained an engineering degree from Clarkson University and went to the Iowa Workshop to study writing but fell in love with acting. After training as a Shakespearean actor in London at LAMDA, he moved to New York to pursue theatre, his true love always. He acted in 33 productions of Shakespeare and starred as Hamlet¿ twice. He moved to Los Angeles in 1983 and booked his first audition, a guest-starring role on "CHiPs," and never looked back. He appeared in both television and film, most notably "A Soldiers Story," and became one of the most sought-after character actors of the 1980s and 1990s. He adored bluegrass music and specifically anything featuring the banjo. He played a bit himself, but delighted in a raucous banjo solo or really anything he called "the Happy Music." Dennis was also an animal lover and donated monthly to animal charities like the Humane Society and ASPCA. His basset hound Katie and his cat Banjo miss him terribly. He is survived by his loving wife Pat, his sisters Jeannie and Lori, his brother Bob and his Aunt Ardith, along with many nieces and nephews, and countless friends. "Good Night, Sweet Prince."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-suspected-suicide-724724
http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/12/lauren-bacall-dead-dies/
The actress guest-starred on dozens of other TV shows, including 'Twilight Zone,' 'Bewitched' and 'Hogan's Heroes,' and had a romance with James Dean
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arlene-martel-dead-spock-s-725371
Actress Arlene Martel, an exotic beauty who played the prospective bride of Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock in the only episode of NBC’s Star Trek set on the planet Vulcan, has died. She was 78.
Martel died Tuesday from complications of a heart attack at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, her son, Jod Kaftan, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In the episode “Amok Time,” which opened Star Trek’s second season on Sept. 15, 1967, a feverish Spock is compelled to return to his home planet, where he must “mate or die.” Martel’s character, T’Pring, was betrothed to him as a child, and the outcome of a fight between Spock and Captain Kirk (William Shatner) will decide whether she marries the logical first officer on the Starship Enterprise.
“I was just so happy to be working and playing a part that was so challenging in terms of what I had done before,” Martel said in Tom Lisanti’s 2003 book, Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties. “I had no idea it would continue to this day. Fans purchase my Star Trek photos at conventions, where I sign autographs. I had no idea that T’Pring would be so memorable to people.”
Said Nimoy on Twitter: “Saying goodbye to T’Pring, Arlene Martel. A lovely talent.”
A native of the Bronx who was frequently billed as Arline Sax, her birth name, Martel also appeared on two episodes of The Twilight Zone, on five Hogan’s Heroes installments as French underground contact Tiger and two on Bewitched as the scary witch Malvina.
Playing women of various nationalities and ethnicities, she guest-starred on such shows as Death Valley Days, The Detectives, Route 66, The Untouchables, Cheyenne, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., My Favorite Martian, The Monkees, The Outer Limits, The Young and the Restless, Columbo, Battlestar Galactica and Brothers & Sisters.
In the 1957 Warner Bros. documentary The James Dean Story, directed by Robert Altman, Martel said she was romantically involved with the actor for years. “Once I told him I loved him, but he pretended he didn’t hear,” she says in the film. “Then he said, ‘You can’t love me. I don’t think anyone can yet.’ ”
As a teenager, Martel was accepted into the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City (where her classmates included future Bob Newhart Show actress Suzanne Pleshette) and appeared on Broadway in the 1956-57 comedy Uncle Willie opposite Norman Fell.
On the big screen, Martel appeared with Rod Taylor in Hong Kong (1961), had the lead in The Glass Cage (1964) and played a biker chick in Angels From Hell (1968). More recently, she had a small role in Adam Shankman’s A Walk to Remember (2002).
Martel was married three times, including to actors Boyd Holister and Jerry Douglas, a longtime player on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.
In addition to Jod, survivors include daughter Avra Douglas, a former assistant of Marlon Brando’s and an executor of the actor’s estate; son Adam Palmer; and grandchildren Molly Rose and Dashiell.
March 1, 1942 - July 30, 2014 Dennis was born Andrew Dennis Lipscomb to Marion and Andy Lipscomb, an Army General. He attended Westbury High School in N.Y., attained an engineering degree from Clarkson University and went to the Iowa Workshop to study writing but fell in love with acting. After training as a Shakespearean actor in London at LAMDA, he moved to New York to pursue theatre, his true love always. He acted in 33 productions of Shakespeare and starred as Hamlet¿ twice. He moved to Los Angeles in 1983 and booked his first audition, a guest-starring role on "CHiPs," and never looked back. He appeared in both television and film, most notably "A Soldiers Story," and became one of the most sought-after character actors of the 1980s and 1990s. He adored bluegrass music and specifically anything featuring the banjo. He played a bit himself, but delighted in a raucous banjo solo or really anything he called "the Happy Music." Dennis was also an animal lover and donated monthly to animal charities like the Humane Society and ASPCA. His basset hound Katie and his cat Banjo miss him terribly. He is survived by his loving wife Pat, his sisters Jeannie and Lori, his brother Bob and his Aunt Ardith, along with many nieces and nephews, and countless friends. "Good Night, Sweet Prince."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robin-williams-dies-suspected-suicide-724724
http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/12/lauren-bacall-dead-dies/
The actress guest-starred on dozens of other TV shows, including 'Twilight Zone,' 'Bewitched' and 'Hogan's Heroes,' and had a romance with James Dean
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/arlene-martel-dead-spock-s-725371
Actress Arlene Martel, an exotic beauty who played the prospective bride of Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock in the only episode of NBC’s Star Trek set on the planet Vulcan, has died. She was 78.
Martel died Tuesday from complications of a heart attack at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, her son, Jod Kaftan, told The Hollywood Reporter.
In the episode “Amok Time,” which opened Star Trek’s second season on Sept. 15, 1967, a feverish Spock is compelled to return to his home planet, where he must “mate or die.” Martel’s character, T’Pring, was betrothed to him as a child, and the outcome of a fight between Spock and Captain Kirk (William Shatner) will decide whether she marries the logical first officer on the Starship Enterprise.
“I was just so happy to be working and playing a part that was so challenging in terms of what I had done before,” Martel said in Tom Lisanti’s 2003 book, Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties. “I had no idea it would continue to this day. Fans purchase my Star Trek photos at conventions, where I sign autographs. I had no idea that T’Pring would be so memorable to people.”
Said Nimoy on Twitter: “Saying goodbye to T’Pring, Arlene Martel. A lovely talent.”
A native of the Bronx who was frequently billed as Arline Sax, her birth name, Martel also appeared on two episodes of The Twilight Zone, on five Hogan’s Heroes installments as French underground contact Tiger and two on Bewitched as the scary witch Malvina.
Playing women of various nationalities and ethnicities, she guest-starred on such shows as Death Valley Days, The Detectives, Route 66, The Untouchables, Cheyenne, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., My Favorite Martian, The Monkees, The Outer Limits, The Young and the Restless, Columbo, Battlestar Galactica and Brothers & Sisters.
In the 1957 Warner Bros. documentary The James Dean Story, directed by Robert Altman, Martel said she was romantically involved with the actor for years. “Once I told him I loved him, but he pretended he didn’t hear,” she says in the film. “Then he said, ‘You can’t love me. I don’t think anyone can yet.’ ”
As a teenager, Martel was accepted into the High School for the Performing Arts in New York City (where her classmates included future Bob Newhart Show actress Suzanne Pleshette) and appeared on Broadway in the 1956-57 comedy Uncle Willie opposite Norman Fell.
On the big screen, Martel appeared with Rod Taylor in Hong Kong (1961), had the lead in The Glass Cage (1964) and played a biker chick in Angels From Hell (1968). More recently, she had a small role in Adam Shankman’s A Walk to Remember (2002).
Martel was married three times, including to actors Boyd Holister and Jerry Douglas, a longtime player on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless.
In addition to Jod, survivors include daughter Avra Douglas, a former assistant of Marlon Brando’s and an executor of the actor’s estate; son Adam Palmer; and grandchildren Molly Rose and Dashiell.
If true, I had a chance to see him with Son Seals once .... just wow. He had been in poor health for some time - and just last month he wrote, “I just hope I’m remembered as a good blues musician.”
Blues legend Johnny Winter has died at the age of 70. The news was first reported by American Blues Scene and Jenda Derringer, wife of Winter's former bandmate Rick Derringer. Jenda wrote on Facebook: "[Johnny] passed early this morning in Zurich, Switzerland." She added: "He was not in good health and was very frail and weak."
Links
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http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/blues-legend-johnny-winter-dead-at-70/#k5o2lvtC68K4LfWP.99
https://www.facebook.com/jenda.derringer/posts/806861402657902
http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2014/07/johnny-winter-dead/
http://journalstar.com/entertainment/music/johnny-winter-i-hope-i-m-remembered-as-a-good/article_66c90ed5-6c48-5f31-8ecd-8214642e869d.html
http://tinyurl.com/leanl89
Dick Smith, who transformed the art of creating special makeup effects, has died aged 92.
The pioneer worked on dozens of films including The Godfather, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver and Amadeus.
His protege Rick Baker revealed the death on Twitter and said: "The master is gone. My friend and mentor Dick Smith is no longer with us. The world will not be the same."
Smith started his career in television and became head of makeup at NBC in 1945 where he remained until 1959.
Working with Marlon Brando on The Godfather, Smith spent an hour and half before each scene adding jowls, age spots and grey hair to create the character Vito Corleone.
Brando won a best actor Oscar for the role but refused to accept it.
In 1973's horror The Exorcist Smith created the demonic makeup for possessed child Regan, played by Linda Blair, and fitted the vomit device for one of the film's most famous scenes.
His use of latex and other techniques meant he was able to artfully age F Murray Abraham from his forties to his eighties in Amadeus in 1984.
Smith discovered his talent while studying at Yale University. He happened to pick up a textbook detailing makeup tricks used in Hollywood.
He began doing makeup for the university's theatre group and reportedly roamed the campus at night in comic monster makeup.
In 2009 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured Smith with a special tribute to mark his huge contribution to the makeup profession and entertainment industry.
Smith is the only makeup artist in history to receive a Governors Award, the very highest and most prestigious type of Oscar.
Speaking at the ceremony in 2011 he said: "I have loved being a makeup artist so much, but this kind of puts a crown on all of that ... I am so grateful."
Smith mentored and trained dozens of makeup artists who are now huge successes in the industry themselves.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/05/texas-chainsaw-massacre-marilyn-burns-dead-dies-houston/
Blues legend Johnny Winter has died at the age of 70. The news was first reported by American Blues Scene and Jenda Derringer, wife of Winter's former bandmate Rick Derringer. Jenda wrote on Facebook: "[Johnny] passed early this morning in Zurich, Switzerland." She added: "He was not in good health and was very frail and weak."
Links
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http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/blues-legend-johnny-winter-dead-at-70/#k5o2lvtC68K4LfWP.99
https://www.facebook.com/jenda.derringer/posts/806861402657902
http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2014/07/johnny-winter-dead/
http://journalstar.com/entertainment/music/johnny-winter-i-hope-i-m-remembered-as-a-good/article_66c90ed5-6c48-5f31-8ecd-8214642e869d.html
http://tinyurl.com/leanl89
Dick Smith, who transformed the art of creating special makeup effects, has died aged 92.
The pioneer worked on dozens of films including The Godfather, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver and Amadeus.
His protege Rick Baker revealed the death on Twitter and said: "The master is gone. My friend and mentor Dick Smith is no longer with us. The world will not be the same."
Smith started his career in television and became head of makeup at NBC in 1945 where he remained until 1959.
Working with Marlon Brando on The Godfather, Smith spent an hour and half before each scene adding jowls, age spots and grey hair to create the character Vito Corleone.
Brando won a best actor Oscar for the role but refused to accept it.
In 1973's horror The Exorcist Smith created the demonic makeup for possessed child Regan, played by Linda Blair, and fitted the vomit device for one of the film's most famous scenes.
His use of latex and other techniques meant he was able to artfully age F Murray Abraham from his forties to his eighties in Amadeus in 1984.
Smith discovered his talent while studying at Yale University. He happened to pick up a textbook detailing makeup tricks used in Hollywood.
He began doing makeup for the university's theatre group and reportedly roamed the campus at night in comic monster makeup.
In 2009 the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honoured Smith with a special tribute to mark his huge contribution to the makeup profession and entertainment industry.
Smith is the only makeup artist in history to receive a Governors Award, the very highest and most prestigious type of Oscar.
Speaking at the ceremony in 2011 he said: "I have loved being a makeup artist so much, but this kind of puts a crown on all of that ... I am so grateful."
Smith mentored and trained dozens of makeup artists who are now huge successes in the industry themselves.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/08/05/texas-chainsaw-massacre-marilyn-burns-dead-dies-houston/
Thursday, July 24, 2014
http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/19/james-garner-dead-dies-maverick-rockford-files/
http://tinyurl.com/l3eml4l
Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim’s wryly acrid musings on aging, died on Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.
Her death was confirmed by a friend, Julie Keyes. Before Ms. Stritch moved to Birmingham last year, she lived, famously, for many years at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan.
Ms. Stritch’s career began in the 1940s and included her fair share of appearances in movies, including Woody Allen’s “September” (1987) and “Small Time Crooks” (2000), and on television; well into her 80s, she played a recurring role on the NBC comedy “30 Rock” as the domineering mother of the television executive played by Alec Baldwin. But the stage was her true professional home, where, whether in musicals, nonmusical dramas or solo cabaret shows, she drew audiences to her with her whiskey voice, her seen-it-all manner and the blunt charisma of a star.
Plainspoken, egalitarian, impatient with fools and foolishness, and admittedly fond of cigarettes, alcohol and late nights — she finally gave up smoking and drinking in her 60s — though she took it up again — Ms. Stritch might be the only actor to work as a bartender after starring on Broadway, and she was completely unabashed about her good-time-girl attitude.
“I’m not a bit opposed to your mentioning in this article that Frieda Fun here has had a reputation in the theater, for the past five or six years, for drinking,” she said to a reporter for The New York Times in 1968. “I drink and I love to drink, and it’s part of my life.”
Most of the time she was equally unabashed onstage, rarely if ever leaving the sensually astringent elements of her personality behind when she performed. A highlight of her early stage career was the 1952 revival of “Pal Joey,” the Rodgers and Hart/John O’Hara musical, in which she played a shrewd, ambitious reporter recalling, in song, an interview with Gypsy Rose Lee; she drew bravas for her rendition of the striptease parody “Zip.”
In a nonsinging role in William Inge’s 1955 drama, “Bus Stop,” she received a Tony nomination as the lonely but tough-talking owner of a Kansas roadside diner where travelers take refuge during a snowstorm. Three years later, in her first starring role on Broadway, “Goldilocks,” a musical comedy by Jean and Walter Kerr and the composer Leroy Anderson that also starred Don Ameche, she played a silent-film star and impressed The Times’s critic Brooks Atkinson with the acid capability of her delivery.
“Miss Stritch can destroy life throughout the country with the twist she gives to the dialogue,” Atkinson wrote. “She takes a wicked stance, purses her mouth thoughtfully and waits long enough to devastate the landscape.”
Noël Coward, one of Ms. Stritch’s devoted fans, built the 1961 musical “Sail Away” around her role as Mimi Paragon, the relentlessly effervescent hostess of a cruise ship. She repaid his trust not only by giving what Howard Taubman of The Times said “must be the performance of her career” (including a delicious rendition of Coward’s hilariously snooty “Why Do the Wrong People Travel?”) but also by successfully ad-libbing, on opening night, when a poodle in the cast betrayed its training onstage. The show was not a hit, but Ms. Stritch came away with her third Tony nomination. Her next Broadway role was in the replacement cast of Edward Albee’s scabrous portrait of a marriage, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” as Martha, the bitter, boozy wife.
One of Ms. Stritch’s most memorable appearances was in the Sondheim musical “Company” (1970), in which, as a cynical society woman, she saluted her peers with the vodka-soaked anthem “The Ladies Who Lunch.” It not only brought her another Tony nomination but became her signature tune — at least until, in her 70s, she became equally known for Sondheim’s paean to showbiz longevity and survival, “I’m Still Here.” It was the centerpiece of her 2001 one-woman show, “Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” and she sang it in 2010 at Mr. Sondheim’s 80th-birthday concert at Lincoln Center (Patti LuPone took on “The Ladies Who Lunch”) and at the White House for President Obama.
Essentially a spoken-and-sung theater memoir, “Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” created with the critic John Lahr of The New Yorker, began performances at the Public Theater in Manhattan (when Ms. Stritch was 76) and then moved to Broadway, where it was a smash.
Alone onstage except for a single chair, clad only in tights and a white silk shirt, Ms. Stritch wove together music (including “Zip,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “I’m Still Here” and two additional Sondheim songs: “The Little Things You Do Together,” a mordant salute to marriage from “Company,” and the aging showgirl’s lament, “Broadway Baby,” from “Follies”) and showbiz memories into a nightly tour de force that won a Tony Award for the year’s best special theatrical event.
http://tinyurl.com/l3eml4l
Elaine Stritch, the brassy, tart-tongued Broadway actress and singer who became a living emblem of show business durability and perhaps the leading interpreter of Stephen Sondheim’s wryly acrid musings on aging, died on Thursday at her home in Birmingham, Mich. She was 89.
Her death was confirmed by a friend, Julie Keyes. Before Ms. Stritch moved to Birmingham last year, she lived, famously, for many years at the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan.
Ms. Stritch’s career began in the 1940s and included her fair share of appearances in movies, including Woody Allen’s “September” (1987) and “Small Time Crooks” (2000), and on television; well into her 80s, she played a recurring role on the NBC comedy “30 Rock” as the domineering mother of the television executive played by Alec Baldwin. But the stage was her true professional home, where, whether in musicals, nonmusical dramas or solo cabaret shows, she drew audiences to her with her whiskey voice, her seen-it-all manner and the blunt charisma of a star.
Plainspoken, egalitarian, impatient with fools and foolishness, and admittedly fond of cigarettes, alcohol and late nights — she finally gave up smoking and drinking in her 60s — though she took it up again — Ms. Stritch might be the only actor to work as a bartender after starring on Broadway, and she was completely unabashed about her good-time-girl attitude.
“I’m not a bit opposed to your mentioning in this article that Frieda Fun here has had a reputation in the theater, for the past five or six years, for drinking,” she said to a reporter for The New York Times in 1968. “I drink and I love to drink, and it’s part of my life.”
Most of the time she was equally unabashed onstage, rarely if ever leaving the sensually astringent elements of her personality behind when she performed. A highlight of her early stage career was the 1952 revival of “Pal Joey,” the Rodgers and Hart/John O’Hara musical, in which she played a shrewd, ambitious reporter recalling, in song, an interview with Gypsy Rose Lee; she drew bravas for her rendition of the striptease parody “Zip.”
In a nonsinging role in William Inge’s 1955 drama, “Bus Stop,” she received a Tony nomination as the lonely but tough-talking owner of a Kansas roadside diner where travelers take refuge during a snowstorm. Three years later, in her first starring role on Broadway, “Goldilocks,” a musical comedy by Jean and Walter Kerr and the composer Leroy Anderson that also starred Don Ameche, she played a silent-film star and impressed The Times’s critic Brooks Atkinson with the acid capability of her delivery.
“Miss Stritch can destroy life throughout the country with the twist she gives to the dialogue,” Atkinson wrote. “She takes a wicked stance, purses her mouth thoughtfully and waits long enough to devastate the landscape.”
Noël Coward, one of Ms. Stritch’s devoted fans, built the 1961 musical “Sail Away” around her role as Mimi Paragon, the relentlessly effervescent hostess of a cruise ship. She repaid his trust not only by giving what Howard Taubman of The Times said “must be the performance of her career” (including a delicious rendition of Coward’s hilariously snooty “Why Do the Wrong People Travel?”) but also by successfully ad-libbing, on opening night, when a poodle in the cast betrayed its training onstage. The show was not a hit, but Ms. Stritch came away with her third Tony nomination. Her next Broadway role was in the replacement cast of Edward Albee’s scabrous portrait of a marriage, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” as Martha, the bitter, boozy wife.
One of Ms. Stritch’s most memorable appearances was in the Sondheim musical “Company” (1970), in which, as a cynical society woman, she saluted her peers with the vodka-soaked anthem “The Ladies Who Lunch.” It not only brought her another Tony nomination but became her signature tune — at least until, in her 70s, she became equally known for Sondheim’s paean to showbiz longevity and survival, “I’m Still Here.” It was the centerpiece of her 2001 one-woman show, “Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” and she sang it in 2010 at Mr. Sondheim’s 80th-birthday concert at Lincoln Center (Patti LuPone took on “The Ladies Who Lunch”) and at the White House for President Obama.
Essentially a spoken-and-sung theater memoir, “Elaine Stritch at Liberty,” created with the critic John Lahr of The New Yorker, began performances at the Public Theater in Manhattan (when Ms. Stritch was 76) and then moved to Broadway, where it was a smash.
Alone onstage except for a single chair, clad only in tights and a white silk shirt, Ms. Stritch wove together music (including “Zip,” “The Ladies Who Lunch,” “I’m Still Here” and two additional Sondheim songs: “The Little Things You Do Together,” a mordant salute to marriage from “Company,” and the aging showgirl’s lament, “Broadway Baby,” from “Follies”) and showbiz memories into a nightly tour de force that won a Tony Award for the year’s best special theatrical event.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/07/08/pinocchio-actor-richard-percy-jones-dead-at-87-disney-voice-silenced/
Bassist and composer Charlie Haden, whose resonant playing and penetrating melodic craft influenced generations of jazz musicians, died this morning in Los Angeles, after a prolonged illness. He was 76.
Born and raised in the rural Midwestern United States, Haden grew up singing on his family's country and western radio program from the age of two. As a teenager, he took up the bass, and in 1957, he moved to Los Angeles. There, he integrated quickly into the jazz community, including joining the band of the Ornette Coleman. His recordings and performances with Coleman's bands over decades not only anchored the saxophonist's innovative approaches to harmony and melody, but put his own instrument in the spotlight.
Haden's death was announced by his record label, ECM Records.
It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Charlie Haden, born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, passed away today at 10:11 Pacific time in Los Angeles after a prolonged illness. Ruth Cameron, his wife of 30 years, and his children Josh Haden, Tanya Haden, Rachel Haden and Petra Haden were all by his side.
We will have more on Haden's life and music in this space.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/07/11/330772721/remembering-jazz-legend-charlie-haden-who-crafted-his-voice-in-bass
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Bob Hastings Dead at 89
Actor Bob Hastings died on June 30. He was 89.
Hastings got his show business start in radio after WWII as the voice of Archie Andrews in the show of the same name (a spin-off of the Archie Comics series) on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Hastings made the transition to television smoothly in 1949 in early galactic-action series like Captain Video and His Video Rangers and Atom Squad. His first recurring role was as a lieutenant on The Phil Silvers Show.
Most of his career has been spent in television, and he's notable for roles such as Captain Binghamton's yes-man Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, one of the two Tommy Kelsey's on All in the Family, and Captain Burt Ramsey on General Hospital (1979-1986).
Among his other television roles was Barney in The Edge of Night and Ed Foyle in Kitty Foyle.
Hastings has also done much voice work, including playing The Raven on The Munsters, Superboy on the The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure cartoons in the 1960s and, in recent years, the voice of Commissioner Gordon on the animated Batman: The Animated Series cartoons.
Bob Hastings was the older brother of longtime As the World Turns star Don Hastings.
He is also survived by his wife, Joan, and four children.
http://www.serialscoop.com/2014/07/bob-hastings-dead-at-89.html
Posted on the band's Facebook page this morning:
It is with great sadness to inform you that John passed away at 09.55 on Wednesday 9th July 2014. He was 60 years old. As many of you know, he had been suffering from liver cancer for many years and bravely fought the disease until the very end. We are relieved that his passing was peaceful and painless. John was a loving husband, inspirational father, doting grandfather and gifted songwriter. His musical career started from a very young age and he wanted more than anything for people to listen and enjoy his music. He passed away knowing he achieved his ambition. If it were possible, we know John would have liked to have thanked each and every fan of The Outfield personally. He admired and respected the emails from thousands of loyal followers who commented on his music and enquired about his health. This alone, gave him motivation to battle through the sometimes dark days.
We would like to thank you for 'Your Love' and the continued support you have given John throughout his career. He loved making music and playing his guitar. He found pleasure knowing that his music made people happy and bought them fond memories. He worked hard with many days in pain to finish the Replay album. There were times when he could barely pick up his guitar, but he refused to give up knowing he would disappoint fans. The hardest day for John was when he put his guitar in its case announcing his hands could no longer play.
During the last months of his life, John, Tony and Alan wrote new material. What the future holds for this is unclear at the time of this writing.
There is so much more we could say, but for now, we would like to grieve the loss of John.
God bless you all.
Bassist and composer Charlie Haden, whose resonant playing and penetrating melodic craft influenced generations of jazz musicians, died this morning in Los Angeles, after a prolonged illness. He was 76.
Born and raised in the rural Midwestern United States, Haden grew up singing on his family's country and western radio program from the age of two. As a teenager, he took up the bass, and in 1957, he moved to Los Angeles. There, he integrated quickly into the jazz community, including joining the band of the Ornette Coleman. His recordings and performances with Coleman's bands over decades not only anchored the saxophonist's innovative approaches to harmony and melody, but put his own instrument in the spotlight.
Haden's death was announced by his record label, ECM Records.
It is with deep sorrow that we announce that Charlie Haden, born August 6, 1937 in Shenandoah, Iowa, passed away today at 10:11 Pacific time in Los Angeles after a prolonged illness. Ruth Cameron, his wife of 30 years, and his children Josh Haden, Tanya Haden, Rachel Haden and Petra Haden were all by his side.
We will have more on Haden's life and music in this space.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2014/07/11/330772721/remembering-jazz-legend-charlie-haden-who-crafted-his-voice-in-bass
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Bob Hastings Dead at 89
Actor Bob Hastings died on June 30. He was 89.
Hastings got his show business start in radio after WWII as the voice of Archie Andrews in the show of the same name (a spin-off of the Archie Comics series) on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Hastings made the transition to television smoothly in 1949 in early galactic-action series like Captain Video and His Video Rangers and Atom Squad. His first recurring role was as a lieutenant on The Phil Silvers Show.
Most of his career has been spent in television, and he's notable for roles such as Captain Binghamton's yes-man Lieutenant Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, one of the two Tommy Kelsey's on All in the Family, and Captain Burt Ramsey on General Hospital (1979-1986).
Among his other television roles was Barney in The Edge of Night and Ed Foyle in Kitty Foyle.
Hastings has also done much voice work, including playing The Raven on The Munsters, Superboy on the The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure cartoons in the 1960s and, in recent years, the voice of Commissioner Gordon on the animated Batman: The Animated Series cartoons.
Bob Hastings was the older brother of longtime As the World Turns star Don Hastings.
He is also survived by his wife, Joan, and four children.
http://www.serialscoop.com/2014/07/bob-hastings-dead-at-89.html
Posted on the band's Facebook page this morning:
It is with great sadness to inform you that John passed away at 09.55 on Wednesday 9th July 2014. He was 60 years old. As many of you know, he had been suffering from liver cancer for many years and bravely fought the disease until the very end. We are relieved that his passing was peaceful and painless. John was a loving husband, inspirational father, doting grandfather and gifted songwriter. His musical career started from a very young age and he wanted more than anything for people to listen and enjoy his music. He passed away knowing he achieved his ambition. If it were possible, we know John would have liked to have thanked each and every fan of The Outfield personally. He admired and respected the emails from thousands of loyal followers who commented on his music and enquired about his health. This alone, gave him motivation to battle through the sometimes dark days.
We would like to thank you for 'Your Love' and the continued support you have given John throughout his career. He loved making music and playing his guitar. He found pleasure knowing that his music made people happy and bought them fond memories. He worked hard with many days in pain to finish the Replay album. There were times when he could barely pick up his guitar, but he refused to give up knowing he would disappoint fans. The hardest day for John was when he put his guitar in its case announcing his hands could no longer play.
During the last months of his life, John, Tony and Alan wrote new material. What the future holds for this is unclear at the time of this writing.
There is so much more we could say, but for now, we would like to grieve the loss of John.
God bless you all.
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-paul-mazursky-20140701-story.html
Paul Mazursky, a five-time Oscar nominee who wrote and directed humorously compassionate films about male-female relationships, including “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” “Blume in Love” and “An Unmarried Woman,” has died. He was 84.
Mazursky died of pulmonary cardiac arrest Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to family spokeswoman Nancy Willen.
Mazursky earned a place in the top ranks of Hollywood writer-directors for his gently satiric examinations of infidelity, wife-swapping, drug experimentation and other social trends of the late 1960s and the 1970s.
He wrote and directed most of his 17 films, including “Harry and Tonto” (1974), which brought Art Carney a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of a dejected retiree.
“I seem to have a natural bent toward humor and I seem to make people laugh,” Mazursky once told the Chicago Tribune, “but I think there is in me a duality. I like to make people cry also. … I like to deal with relationships. The perfect picture for me does all that.”
The filmmaker, who has been compared to Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.
A full obituary will follow.
http://tinyurl.com/nl25pcq
Grammy-winning jazz flutist and New Age music pioneer Paul Horn has died. He was 84.
Horn's son, Marlen, says his father died Sunday in Vancouver, British Columbia, after a brief illness. He declined to provide further details.
Horn's career spanned five decades, 50 albums and five Grammy nominations. He performed in concert tours and recording sessions with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
His album "Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts" won Grammys in 1966 for best original jazz composition and photographic cover album.
Horn's albums "Inside the Taj Mahal" and "Inside the Great Pyramid" laid the groundwork for the New Age music genre and earned him the nickname "Father of New Age Music."
http://tinyurl.com/qxlhv7c
Deanna Lund just sent word about the passing of a friend, one who before he became an actor was a hero in the military. Don Matheson.
Prior to entering acting, Don served in the military. While serving in Korea, he was awarded the Bronze Star for valorous leadership and a Purple Heart for injuries suffered in an explosion. After serving six years, he joined the Detroit Police Department.
He then left law enforcement to begin a career in acting. In 1965 Matheson appeared in the Lost in Space episode, The Sky Is Falling in the non-speaking role of the alien Retho and then in 1968 as Idak Alpha 12 in the episode Revolt of the Androids. In 1967 he appeared as a guest star in the episode "Deadly Amphibians" on the sci-fi TV show's 4th season Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
After working in a number of plays, television episodes and commercials, Matheson was signed to join the cast of the Land of the Giants. There he met and married co-star Deanna Lund in 1970. Years later they divorced, however they remained devoted to each other. When we visited Deanna we often saw him and he was always doing chores for her. They had one daughter, Michele who was a child star on TV, became an author and is now a mother of two.
In 1976, Don played the role of wealthy industrialist, Cameron Faulker, who married Lesley Williams (Denise Alexander) on General Hospital. His mistress, Peggy Lowell, was played by Lund. Cameron was later murdered.
In 1984, Matheson had a regular role in the primetime series Falcon Crest. He played Richard Channing's henchman for a season. He also appeared briefly in another primetime soap, Dynasty. He made appearances on a number of popular shows including a few on The Waltons. In regard to the latter the Walton's director was Harry Harris. Harris was also the director of land of the Giants and became the godfather for Michele Matheson.
In addition to visiting Don in California he was here for two conventions that we ran. A dry sense of humor, he was fun to be around. His last days were painful, however Michele had him move in her home so he could spend time with his grandchildren. We know this was a delight for him.
Prayers are requested for the whole family.
Paul Mazursky, a five-time Oscar nominee who wrote and directed humorously compassionate films about male-female relationships, including “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” “Blume in Love” and “An Unmarried Woman,” has died. He was 84.
Mazursky died of pulmonary cardiac arrest Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to family spokeswoman Nancy Willen.
Mazursky earned a place in the top ranks of Hollywood writer-directors for his gently satiric examinations of infidelity, wife-swapping, drug experimentation and other social trends of the late 1960s and the 1970s.
He wrote and directed most of his 17 films, including “Harry and Tonto” (1974), which brought Art Carney a best actor Oscar for his portrayal of a dejected retiree.
“I seem to have a natural bent toward humor and I seem to make people laugh,” Mazursky once told the Chicago Tribune, “but I think there is in me a duality. I like to make people cry also. … I like to deal with relationships. The perfect picture for me does all that.”
The filmmaker, who has been compared to Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013.
A full obituary will follow.
http://tinyurl.com/nl25pcq
Grammy-winning jazz flutist and New Age music pioneer Paul Horn has died. He was 84.
Horn's son, Marlen, says his father died Sunday in Vancouver, British Columbia, after a brief illness. He declined to provide further details.
Horn's career spanned five decades, 50 albums and five Grammy nominations. He performed in concert tours and recording sessions with such artists as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
His album "Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts" won Grammys in 1966 for best original jazz composition and photographic cover album.
Horn's albums "Inside the Taj Mahal" and "Inside the Great Pyramid" laid the groundwork for the New Age music genre and earned him the nickname "Father of New Age Music."
http://tinyurl.com/qxlhv7c
Deanna Lund just sent word about the passing of a friend, one who before he became an actor was a hero in the military. Don Matheson.
Prior to entering acting, Don served in the military. While serving in Korea, he was awarded the Bronze Star for valorous leadership and a Purple Heart for injuries suffered in an explosion. After serving six years, he joined the Detroit Police Department.
He then left law enforcement to begin a career in acting. In 1965 Matheson appeared in the Lost in Space episode, The Sky Is Falling in the non-speaking role of the alien Retho and then in 1968 as Idak Alpha 12 in the episode Revolt of the Androids. In 1967 he appeared as a guest star in the episode "Deadly Amphibians" on the sci-fi TV show's 4th season Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
After working in a number of plays, television episodes and commercials, Matheson was signed to join the cast of the Land of the Giants. There he met and married co-star Deanna Lund in 1970. Years later they divorced, however they remained devoted to each other. When we visited Deanna we often saw him and he was always doing chores for her. They had one daughter, Michele who was a child star on TV, became an author and is now a mother of two.
In 1976, Don played the role of wealthy industrialist, Cameron Faulker, who married Lesley Williams (Denise Alexander) on General Hospital. His mistress, Peggy Lowell, was played by Lund. Cameron was later murdered.
In 1984, Matheson had a regular role in the primetime series Falcon Crest. He played Richard Channing's henchman for a season. He also appeared briefly in another primetime soap, Dynasty. He made appearances on a number of popular shows including a few on The Waltons. In regard to the latter the Walton's director was Harry Harris. Harris was also the director of land of the Giants and became the godfather for Michele Matheson.
In addition to visiting Don in California he was here for two conventions that we ran. A dry sense of humor, he was fun to be around. His last days were painful, however Michele had him move in her home so he could spend time with his grandchildren. We know this was a delight for him.
Prayers are requested for the whole family.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-womack-dead-at-70-20140627
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/29/showbiz/actor-meschach-taylor-death/index.html
Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014)
— posted Monday 30 June 2014 @ 10:32 am PDT
Author, editor, and pulp magazine scholar Frank M. Robinson, 87, died June 30, 2014. Robinson lived in San Francisco and had suffered from health problems in recent years.
Frank Malcolm Robinson was born August 9, 1926, in Chicago IL. After graduating from high school in 1943, he worked as a copy boy at the Chicago Herald-American, then as an office boy at Ziff-Davis and Amazing, until he was drafted into the Navy (where he served as a radar technician in WWII, 1944-45, returning for the Korean War in 1950-51). He worked at a number of magazines, serving as assistant editor at Family Weekly (1955-56), then at Science Digest (1956-59). He was managing editor at Rogue (1959-65) and Cavalier (1965-66), had a brief stint as editor of Censorship Today (1967), and was a staff writer for Playboy from 1969 to 1973, after which he became a freelance writer.
Robinson’s early SF sales began with “The Maze” (Astounding 1950) and “The Hunting Season” (Astounding 1951). His first novel, The Power (1956, filmed in 1967), was an extremely successful SF thriller — one of the first of that genre. In the ’70s and ’80s, he co-wrote a number of technothrillers (most with SFnal elements) with Thomas N. Scortia: The Glass Inferno (1974, filmed as The Towering Inferno), The Prometheus Crisis (1975), The Nightmare Factor (1978), The Gold Crew (1980), and Blowout! (1987). He also co-wrote political novel The Great Divide (1982) with John Levin and spy thriller Death of a Marionette (1995) with Paul Hull.
Robinson returned to SF, and solo writing, in The Dark Beyond the Stars (1991), SF thriller Waiting (1999), and medical thriller The Donor (2004). His short fiction has been collected in A Life in the Day of … and Other Short Stories (1981), Through My Glasses Darkly (2002), and The Worlds of Joe Shannon (2010).
Robinson was one of the foremost collectors of, and experts on, pulp magazines. His books on pulp magazines include illustrated histories Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines (1998), Hugo Award winner Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History (1999), British Fantasy Award finalist Art of Imagination (2002, with Randy Broeker and Robert Weinberg), and The Incredible Pulps: A Gallery of Fiction Magazine Art (2006).
Robinson was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2001, and received a Moskowitz Archive Award in 2008. He won an Emperor Norton Award in 2004. Earlier this year, Robinson was named the recipient of the Special Honoree Award by SFWA.
- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/frank-m-robinson-1926-2014-2/#sthash.bR0T89jV.dpuf
http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/29/showbiz/actor-meschach-taylor-death/index.html
Frank M. Robinson (1926-2014)
— posted Monday 30 June 2014 @ 10:32 am PDT
Author, editor, and pulp magazine scholar Frank M. Robinson, 87, died June 30, 2014. Robinson lived in San Francisco and had suffered from health problems in recent years.
Frank Malcolm Robinson was born August 9, 1926, in Chicago IL. After graduating from high school in 1943, he worked as a copy boy at the Chicago Herald-American, then as an office boy at Ziff-Davis and Amazing, until he was drafted into the Navy (where he served as a radar technician in WWII, 1944-45, returning for the Korean War in 1950-51). He worked at a number of magazines, serving as assistant editor at Family Weekly (1955-56), then at Science Digest (1956-59). He was managing editor at Rogue (1959-65) and Cavalier (1965-66), had a brief stint as editor of Censorship Today (1967), and was a staff writer for Playboy from 1969 to 1973, after which he became a freelance writer.
Robinson’s early SF sales began with “The Maze” (Astounding 1950) and “The Hunting Season” (Astounding 1951). His first novel, The Power (1956, filmed in 1967), was an extremely successful SF thriller — one of the first of that genre. In the ’70s and ’80s, he co-wrote a number of technothrillers (most with SFnal elements) with Thomas N. Scortia: The Glass Inferno (1974, filmed as The Towering Inferno), The Prometheus Crisis (1975), The Nightmare Factor (1978), The Gold Crew (1980), and Blowout! (1987). He also co-wrote political novel The Great Divide (1982) with John Levin and spy thriller Death of a Marionette (1995) with Paul Hull.
Robinson returned to SF, and solo writing, in The Dark Beyond the Stars (1991), SF thriller Waiting (1999), and medical thriller The Donor (2004). His short fiction has been collected in A Life in the Day of … and Other Short Stories (1981), Through My Glasses Darkly (2002), and The Worlds of Joe Shannon (2010).
Robinson was one of the foremost collectors of, and experts on, pulp magazines. His books on pulp magazines include illustrated histories Pulp Culture: The Art of Fiction Magazines (1998), Hugo Award winner Science Fiction of the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated History (1999), British Fantasy Award finalist Art of Imagination (2002, with Randy Broeker and Robert Weinberg), and The Incredible Pulps: A Gallery of Fiction Magazine Art (2006).
Robinson was inducted into the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2001, and received a Moskowitz Archive Award in 2008. He won an Emperor Norton Award in 2004. Earlier this year, Robinson was named the recipient of the Special Honoree Award by SFWA.
- See more at: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/frank-m-robinson-1926-2014-2/#sthash.bR0T89jV.dpuf
http://tinyurl.com/kll8h3o
The husband of actresses Ginger Rogers and Dorothy Malone appeared in such films as "Les Girls," "Gigi" and "The Hypnotic Eye."
Jacques Bergerac, a dashing French actor who appeared in Les Girls with Gene Kelly and Gigi with Leslie Caron and made a habit of marrying Oscar-winning actresses, has died. He was 87.
Bergerac died June 15 at his home in Anglet in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques region of southwest France, according to French media reports.
Bergerac was married to Oscar-winning actresses Ginger Rogers (as the fourth of her five husbands, he was 26 years old, 16 years her junior, when they were wed) and Dorothy Malone (as the first of her three husbands).
Bergerac also starred in the horror cult classic The Hypnotic Eye (1960) as a mysterious hypnotist who entrances women to gruesomely disfigure themselves.
The film introduced “HypnoMagic,” billed as an “amazing new audience thrill that makes YOU part of the show!” The effect had Bergerac’s character, Desmond, looking directly into the camera and performing hypnotic suggestibility tests with the audience.
Bergerac also played French Freddy/Freddie the Fence on episodes of TV’s Batman that featured guest villainesses Catwoman (Julie Newmar) and Minerva (Zsa Zsa Gabor).
Bergerac was a law student when he met a vacationing Rogers in France, and she got him a screen test at MGM that led to them appearing together in Twist of Fate (1954). In the drama, he plays a pottery artist who gets involved with an American actress (Rogers) on the French Riviera.
They were married from February 1953 until their divorce in July 1957.
Bergerac married Malone in June 1959 in Hong Kong, where she was shooting The Last Voyage (1960). They divorced in December 1964 in acrimonious proceedings that played out in the press.
In addition to George Cukor’s Les Girls and Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi, Bergerac was seen in such films as Thunder in the Sun (1959) with Susan Hayward, Fear No More (1961), Always on Sunday (1962), Fury of Achilles (1962), A Global Affair (1964) and Unkissed Bride (1966) with Henny Youngman.
On television, he appeared on The Millionaire, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Dick Van Dyke Show, 77 Sunset Strip, Perry Mason, The Beverly Hillbillies, Daniel Boone, Get Smart and The Doris Day Show.
After leaving the film business in the late 1960s, Bergerac, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1963, became an executive with the Revlon Cosmetics company, where his older brother, Michel, was president and chairman. He later ran the Biarritz Olympique rugby club in the early 1980s.
He had two daughters, Mimi and Diane, with Malone.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/usa/content/current/story/750517.html
Cliff Severn, a former USA national team player and pioneer in Southern California cricket, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Severn was a longtime member of the Los Angeles cricket community and many players and supporters have taken to social media to mourn his passing.
"A US Cricket legend, true lover and devotee of cricket," wrote Madhukar "Mark" Sood, a member of the Southern California Cricket Association board of directors. "God bless and RIP. There will be cricket in heaven now."
Clifford EB Severn was born in London on September 21, 1925, and was the second-oldest of eight children to Dr Clifford B Severn, of South Africa, and mother Rachel, an Afrikaner. Dr Severn moved the family back to South Africa and then Los Angeles in 1933, where all eight of the children went on to have varying degrees of success in the Hollywood film industry. Clifford EB Severn is listed on IMDB for having roles in 18 movies including 1938's A Christmas Carol, a starring role in 1940's Gaucho Serenade alongside famous American cowboy movie star Gene Autry, and a small part in legendary director John Ford's 1941 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, How Green Was My Valley.
Severn played cricket for Hollywood CC in his youth alongside former England Test cricketer and actor Sir Aubrey Smith. At age 18, he quit his acting career to join the British Army in South Africa during World War II. Upon his return to Los Angeles, he became increasingly active in the local cricket community. His father left Hollywood CC and, together with Cliff, created Britamer Cricket Club in 1947, one of the oldest clubs in the SCCA. Severn remained loyal to Britamer CC as a player and administrator for 50 years. Along with Cliff, two other brothers also wound up playing for the USA - Winston and Raymond.
"He was colourblind in the sense that he really wanted to bring anyone and all people to this game of cricket," Severn's son Cliff told ESPNcricinfo. "When he went on a trip, he would always bring a cricket bat and would always try to take one on a plane with him. If he ran into someone from a cricket country, whether it was India, Australia, Bangladesh, he would approach them and start talking cricket. If they lived in California, he would try to get them to join because a lot of people come to this country not realising cricket is played here. He brought a lot of people into Southern California cricket."
Severn made his USA debut as a 39-year-old alongside 22-year-old brother Winston in 1965, against Canada, at Calgary's Riley Park as part of the longest running international rivalry in international cricket now known as the Auty Cup. He batted at six making 26 and 4 in the drawn two-day match. A year later in the return contest at The Sir C Aubrey Smith Field in Los Angeles, Severn opened the batting for USA while making 24 and 8 in USA's 54-run win.
The Sir C Aubrey Smith Field had opened in 1933 and was part of Griffith Park in Los Angeles where cricket was played from 1898 until 1978 when the property was seized and turned into an equestrian facility for the 1984 Summer Olympics. The SCCA acquired three grounds at Woodley Park in the nearby suburb of Van Nuys as a substitute for the space lost at Griffith Park. The fourth and final ground at Woodley's Leo Magnus Cricket Complex was acquired in the mid 1990s and is named the Severn Ground after the patriarch of the family, "Doc" Severn.
Aside from his involvement with Britamer CC and Hollywood CC, Severn also helped establish University Cricket Club initially as a vehicle for students at UCLA, where he went to college, before membership opened up to the broader cricket community. Outside of Los Angeles, he also co-founded Stanford Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association and remained an active player in social cricket matches around the Los Angeles area until he suffered a stroke at the age of 85 in October 2010. Severn also battled through a series of smaller strokes to keep playing for another year into 2011. Despite the complications, he continued to turn out at Woodley to watch and stay involved in the camaraderie of the game.
"One of the nicest gentlemen I have ever met my entire life," wrote USA offspinner Abhimanyu Rajp. "He did more for cricket in USA, SCCA, than one could ever know. 'I wish I had your spin,' he claimed to me once. That was an honour in itself. There is a field named after his family here at the Leo Magnus Cricket Complex. But I bet a lot of people don't know why. It's a great loss to the cricket community. His legacy will live on long after him."
Severn is survived by his wife of 46 years, Percy, his brothers Winston and Christopher, as well as son Clifford and daughter Catherine.
Cliff Severn, a former USA national team player and pioneer in Southern California cricket, died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Severn was a longtime member of the Los Angeles cricket community and many players and supporters have taken to social media to mourn his passing.
"A US Cricket legend, true lover and devotee of cricket," wrote Madhukar "Mark" Sood, a member of the Southern California Cricket Association board of directors. "God bless and RIP. There will be cricket in heaven now."
Clifford EB Severn was born in London on September 21, 1925, and was the second-oldest of eight children to Dr Clifford B Severn, of South Africa, and mother Rachel, an Afrikaner. Dr Severn moved the family back to South Africa and then Los Angeles in 1933, where all eight of the children went on to have varying degrees of success in the Hollywood film industry. Clifford EB Severn is listed on IMDB for having roles in 18 movies including 1938's A Christmas Carol, a starring role in 1940's Gaucho Serenade alongside famous American cowboy movie star Gene Autry, and a small part in legendary director John Ford's 1941 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, How Green Was My Valley.
Severn played cricket for Hollywood CC in his youth alongside former England Test cricketer and actor Sir Aubrey Smith. At age 18, he quit his acting career to join the British Army in South Africa during World War II. Upon his return to Los Angeles, he became increasingly active in the local cricket community. His father left Hollywood CC and, together with Cliff, created Britamer Cricket Club in 1947, one of the oldest clubs in the SCCA. Severn remained loyal to Britamer CC as a player and administrator for 50 years. Along with Cliff, two other brothers also wound up playing for the USA - Winston and Raymond.
"He was colourblind in the sense that he really wanted to bring anyone and all people to this game of cricket," Severn's son Cliff told ESPNcricinfo. "When he went on a trip, he would always bring a cricket bat and would always try to take one on a plane with him. If he ran into someone from a cricket country, whether it was India, Australia, Bangladesh, he would approach them and start talking cricket. If they lived in California, he would try to get them to join because a lot of people come to this country not realising cricket is played here. He brought a lot of people into Southern California cricket."
Severn made his USA debut as a 39-year-old alongside 22-year-old brother Winston in 1965, against Canada, at Calgary's Riley Park as part of the longest running international rivalry in international cricket now known as the Auty Cup. He batted at six making 26 and 4 in the drawn two-day match. A year later in the return contest at The Sir C Aubrey Smith Field in Los Angeles, Severn opened the batting for USA while making 24 and 8 in USA's 54-run win.
The Sir C Aubrey Smith Field had opened in 1933 and was part of Griffith Park in Los Angeles where cricket was played from 1898 until 1978 when the property was seized and turned into an equestrian facility for the 1984 Summer Olympics. The SCCA acquired three grounds at Woodley Park in the nearby suburb of Van Nuys as a substitute for the space lost at Griffith Park. The fourth and final ground at Woodley's Leo Magnus Cricket Complex was acquired in the mid 1990s and is named the Severn Ground after the patriarch of the family, "Doc" Severn.
Aside from his involvement with Britamer CC and Hollywood CC, Severn also helped establish University Cricket Club initially as a vehicle for students at UCLA, where he went to college, before membership opened up to the broader cricket community. Outside of Los Angeles, he also co-founded Stanford Cricket Club in the Northern California Cricket Association and remained an active player in social cricket matches around the Los Angeles area until he suffered a stroke at the age of 85 in October 2010. Severn also battled through a series of smaller strokes to keep playing for another year into 2011. Despite the complications, he continued to turn out at Woodley to watch and stay involved in the camaraderie of the game.
"One of the nicest gentlemen I have ever met my entire life," wrote USA offspinner Abhimanyu Rajp. "He did more for cricket in USA, SCCA, than one could ever know. 'I wish I had your spin,' he claimed to me once. That was an honour in itself. There is a field named after his family here at the Leo Magnus Cricket Complex. But I bet a lot of people don't know why. It's a great loss to the cricket community. His legacy will live on long after him."
Severn is survived by his wife of 46 years, Percy, his brothers Winston and Christopher, as well as son Clifford and daughter Catherine.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/gerry-goffin-carole-kings-husband-dies-75-24219568
Lyricist Gerry Goffin, who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," ''(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," ''Halfway to Paradise" and "The Loco-Motion," died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75.
His wife, Michelle Goffin, confirmed his death.
Goffin, who married King in 1959 while they were in their teens, penned more than 50 top 40 hits, including "Pleasant Valley Sunday" for the Monkees, "Crying in the Rain" by the Everly Brothers, "Some Kind of Wonderful" for the Drifters and "Take Good Care of My Baby" by Bobby Vee. The couple divorced in 1968, but Goffin kept writing hits, including "Savin' All My Love for You" for Whitney Houston.
King said in a statement that Goffin was her "first love" and had a profound impact on her life.
"Gerry was a good man with a dynamic force, whose words and creative influence will resonate for generations to come," King said. "His legacy to me is our two daughters, four grandchildren, and our songs that have touched millions and millions of people, as well as a lifelong friendship."
The Goffin-King love affair is the subject of the Tony Award-nominated musical "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" on Broadway. King, while backing the project, had avoided seeing it for months because it dredged up sad memories. She finally sat through it in April.
The musical shows the two composing their songs at Aldon Music, the Brill Building publishing company in Manhattan that also employed Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Carole Bayer Sager. The show ends just as King is enjoying fame for her groundbreaking solo album "Tapestry." It also alleges Goffin's womanizing and depression were causes of the breakup.
After their divorce, Goffin garnered an Academy Award nomination with Michael Masser for the theme to the 1975 film "Mahogany" for Diana Ross. He also earned a Golden Globe nomination for "So Sad the Song" in 1977 from the film "Pipe Dreams."
Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three years later.
Goffin was born in Brooklyn in 1939 and was a chemist who loved music when he met King at Queens College. A whirlwind romance led to a marriage and their first hit, when she was only 17, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" for the Shirelles.
Both quit their day jobs to focus on music, and other songs followed, including "Up on the Roof" for the Drifters, "One Fine Day" for the Chiffons and "Chains," which was later covered by the Beatles. Goffin also collaborated with another Aldon composer, Barry Mann, on the hit "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp)."
Goffin continued co-writing songs, including "I've Got to Use My Imagination" recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and "It's Not the Spotlight," recorded by Rod Stewart. In the 1980s and '90s, he co-wrote "Tonight I Celebrate My Love," a duet recorded by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack, and the Whitney Houston mega-hit "Savin' All My Love for You."
He is survived by his five children and his wife.
Lyricist Gerry Goffin, who with his then-wife and songwriting partner Carole King wrote such hits as "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," ''(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman," ''Halfway to Paradise" and "The Loco-Motion," died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 75.
His wife, Michelle Goffin, confirmed his death.
Goffin, who married King in 1959 while they were in their teens, penned more than 50 top 40 hits, including "Pleasant Valley Sunday" for the Monkees, "Crying in the Rain" by the Everly Brothers, "Some Kind of Wonderful" for the Drifters and "Take Good Care of My Baby" by Bobby Vee. The couple divorced in 1968, but Goffin kept writing hits, including "Savin' All My Love for You" for Whitney Houston.
King said in a statement that Goffin was her "first love" and had a profound impact on her life.
"Gerry was a good man with a dynamic force, whose words and creative influence will resonate for generations to come," King said. "His legacy to me is our two daughters, four grandchildren, and our songs that have touched millions and millions of people, as well as a lifelong friendship."
The Goffin-King love affair is the subject of the Tony Award-nominated musical "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" on Broadway. King, while backing the project, had avoided seeing it for months because it dredged up sad memories. She finally sat through it in April.
The musical shows the two composing their songs at Aldon Music, the Brill Building publishing company in Manhattan that also employed Neil Sedaka, Howard Greenfield and Carole Bayer Sager. The show ends just as King is enjoying fame for her groundbreaking solo album "Tapestry." It also alleges Goffin's womanizing and depression were causes of the breakup.
After their divorce, Goffin garnered an Academy Award nomination with Michael Masser for the theme to the 1975 film "Mahogany" for Diana Ross. He also earned a Golden Globe nomination for "So Sad the Song" in 1977 from the film "Pipe Dreams."
Goffin and King were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1987 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three years later.
Goffin was born in Brooklyn in 1939 and was a chemist who loved music when he met King at Queens College. A whirlwind romance led to a marriage and their first hit, when she was only 17, "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" for the Shirelles.
Both quit their day jobs to focus on music, and other songs followed, including "Up on the Roof" for the Drifters, "One Fine Day" for the Chiffons and "Chains," which was later covered by the Beatles. Goffin also collaborated with another Aldon composer, Barry Mann, on the hit "Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp Bomp Bomp Bomp)."
Goffin continued co-writing songs, including "I've Got to Use My Imagination" recorded by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and "It's Not the Spotlight," recorded by Rod Stewart. In the 1980s and '90s, he co-wrote "Tonight I Celebrate My Love," a duet recorded by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack, and the Whitney Houston mega-hit "Savin' All My Love for You."
He is survived by his five children and his wife.
http://www.wyff4.com/news/conductor-composer-johnny-mann-dies-in-anderson/26566626#ixzz355lzqWhm
ANDERSON, S.C. —Johnny Mann, the Hollywood composer who worked with the likes of Nat King Cole, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, died late Wednesday night in Anderson, according to sources close to the family.
They say Mann died at his home. He was 85 years old.
Johnny Mann is best known for the forty-two albums he arranged and conducted for his Johnny Mann Singers resulting in five Grammy Award nominations and two Grammy Awards, according to his website.
The site goes on to say:
Johnny got his start in Hollywood arranging scores for seven full-length motion pictures for Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Studios. He then became the choral director of the "NBC Comedy Hour," which led to the formation of The Johnny Mann Singers and a record contract. Along with being musical director of the original "Alvin and The Chipmunks" TV series, he sang the voice of "Theodore".
Mann moved to Anderson, with his wife Betty, several years ago to be closer to family, according to friends.
The McDougald Funeral Home is handling the arrangements for Mann's services, but the exact date has not been decided.
ANDERSON, S.C. —Johnny Mann, the Hollywood composer who worked with the likes of Nat King Cole, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, died late Wednesday night in Anderson, according to sources close to the family.
They say Mann died at his home. He was 85 years old.
Johnny Mann is best known for the forty-two albums he arranged and conducted for his Johnny Mann Singers resulting in five Grammy Award nominations and two Grammy Awards, according to his website.
The site goes on to say:
Johnny got his start in Hollywood arranging scores for seven full-length motion pictures for Warner Brothers, Twentieth Century Fox and Columbia Studios. He then became the choral director of the "NBC Comedy Hour," which led to the formation of The Johnny Mann Singers and a record contract. Along with being musical director of the original "Alvin and The Chipmunks" TV series, he sang the voice of "Theodore".
Mann moved to Anderson, with his wife Betty, several years ago to be closer to family, according to friends.
The McDougald Funeral Home is handling the arrangements for Mann's services, but the exact date has not been decided.
No internet link - but here is the obit for "Classic Images"
MICKEY DEEMS, 89 - April 14, 2014
Comedian and actor Mickey Deems died of cancer at his home in Sherman Oaks, California, on April 14, 2014. Deems was born in Englewood, New Jersey, on April 22, 1925. He began his career in show business as a drummer and musical arranger, but soon turned to comedy. He made his Broadway debut in the 1950 revue in "Alive and Kicking". He was featured in several roles in Sid Caesar's Broadway comedy "Little Me" in 1962, and was Caesar's understudy. He also starred in the 1963 Off-Broadway production of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes". He appeared on television in the recurring role of Officer Charlie Fleischer in "Car 54, Where Are You?" from 1961 to 1963. He starred with Joey Faye as a pair of bumbling handymen in the syndicated short comedy series "Mack & Myer for Hire" from 1963 to 1964, also writing and directing most of the 202 episodes. He was also seen in episodes of such series as "Cavalcade of Stars", "The Blue Angel", "The Ed Sullivan Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Phil Silvers Show", "The Patty Duke Show", "Mister Roberts", "The Hollywood Palace", "The Don Knotts Show", "The Hero", "Get Smart", "Bewitched", "The Jeffersons", "Fernwood 2 Night", "Operation Petticoat", "Laverne & Shirley", "Hizzoner" in the recurring role of Nails, "House Calls", "The Ropers", "The Stockard Channing Show", "Three's Company", and "Trapper John, M.D.". His other television credits include the 1969 tele-film "Three's a Crowd" and 1981's "The Munsters' Revenge". Deems was featured in several films during his career including "Diary of a Bachelor" (1964), "Hold On!" (1966), "The Busy Body" (1967), "A Guide for the Married Man" (1967), "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967), "The Spirit Is Willing" (1967), "Who's Minding the Mint?" (1967), and "With Six You Get Eggroll" (1968).
MICKEY DEEMS, 89 - April 14, 2014
Comedian and actor Mickey Deems died of cancer at his home in Sherman Oaks, California, on April 14, 2014. Deems was born in Englewood, New Jersey, on April 22, 1925. He began his career in show business as a drummer and musical arranger, but soon turned to comedy. He made his Broadway debut in the 1950 revue in "Alive and Kicking". He was featured in several roles in Sid Caesar's Broadway comedy "Little Me" in 1962, and was Caesar's understudy. He also starred in the 1963 Off-Broadway production of Cole Porter's "Anything Goes". He appeared on television in the recurring role of Officer Charlie Fleischer in "Car 54, Where Are You?" from 1961 to 1963. He starred with Joey Faye as a pair of bumbling handymen in the syndicated short comedy series "Mack & Myer for Hire" from 1963 to 1964, also writing and directing most of the 202 episodes. He was also seen in episodes of such series as "Cavalcade of Stars", "The Blue Angel", "The Ed Sullivan Show", "The Jackie Gleason Show", "The Phil Silvers Show", "The Patty Duke Show", "Mister Roberts", "The Hollywood Palace", "The Don Knotts Show", "The Hero", "Get Smart", "Bewitched", "The Jeffersons", "Fernwood 2 Night", "Operation Petticoat", "Laverne & Shirley", "Hizzoner" in the recurring role of Nails, "House Calls", "The Ropers", "The Stockard Channing Show", "Three's Company", and "Trapper John, M.D.". His other television credits include the 1969 tele-film "Three's a Crowd" and 1981's "The Munsters' Revenge". Deems was featured in several films during his career including "Diary of a Bachelor" (1964), "Hold On!" (1966), "The Busy Body" (1967), "A Guide for the Married Man" (1967), "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre" (1967), "The Spirit Is Willing" (1967), "Who's Minding the Mint?" (1967), and "With Six You Get Eggroll" (1968).
Her 15 Minutes at an End: Ultra Violet dead at 78
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, known as Ultra Violet, died this morning after a battle with cancer. She was 78.
Dufresne was perhaps the most famous Mormon artist that most Mormons haven’t heard of. But at the height of the Pop Art movement and Andy Warhol’s Factory, Ultra Violet was well known in the New York art scene, and she is still well remembered for her memoir of that time, Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol.
Born in France in 1935, she met Salvador Dalí in 1954, becoming his muse and student. Then in the early 1960s Dufresne became interested in the Pop Art movement, and after Dalí introduced her to Andy Warhol in 1963, she became one of the participants in Warhol’s unorthodox studio, The Factory, and acted in more than a dozen films between 1965 and 1974. In 1969 she was replaced as Warhol’s primary “muse” and by the 1980s she left Warhol’s group.
After a 1973 near-death experience, Dufresne began a spiritual quest that eventually led to joining the LDS Church in 1981. She has been a participant in the New York City-based Mormon Artists Group in recent years, and has been well known among many members in her stake.
She is the author of three books and appeared in 19 films, including a small part in the academy award winning film Midnight Cowboy (1969).
http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2014/06/her-15-minutes-at-an-end-ultra-violet-dead-at-78/
Baseball great and "Mr. Padre" Tony Gwynn has died, according to Major League Baseball and NBC Sports.
The word came via Twitter with this post: "We mourn the passing of Hall of Famer and @Padres icon Tony Gwynn, who died today at the age of 54."
The Hall of Fame outfielder had battled cancer, undergoing a second surgery in February 2012 that removed a tumor inside his right cheek.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/Tony-Gwynn-Dies-San-Diego-Padres-Baseball-Great--263296261.html
Surgeons grafted a nerve from his shoulder to replaces the nerve damaged by the tumor.
The former San Diego Padres, now San Diego State University's baseball coach spoke with NBC 7 after that surgery about the prognosis.
He had undergone a previous surgery in 2010 but it was the most recent surgery that noticeably changed his appearance and speech.
Isabelle Collin Dufresne, known as Ultra Violet, died this morning after a battle with cancer. She was 78.
Dufresne was perhaps the most famous Mormon artist that most Mormons haven’t heard of. But at the height of the Pop Art movement and Andy Warhol’s Factory, Ultra Violet was well known in the New York art scene, and she is still well remembered for her memoir of that time, Famous For 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol.
Born in France in 1935, she met Salvador Dalí in 1954, becoming his muse and student. Then in the early 1960s Dufresne became interested in the Pop Art movement, and after Dalí introduced her to Andy Warhol in 1963, she became one of the participants in Warhol’s unorthodox studio, The Factory, and acted in more than a dozen films between 1965 and 1974. In 1969 she was replaced as Warhol’s primary “muse” and by the 1980s she left Warhol’s group.
After a 1973 near-death experience, Dufresne began a spiritual quest that eventually led to joining the LDS Church in 1981. She has been a participant in the New York City-based Mormon Artists Group in recent years, and has been well known among many members in her stake.
She is the author of three books and appeared in 19 films, including a small part in the academy award winning film Midnight Cowboy (1969).
http://www.timesandseasons.org/index.php/2014/06/her-15-minutes-at-an-end-ultra-violet-dead-at-78/
Baseball great and "Mr. Padre" Tony Gwynn has died, according to Major League Baseball and NBC Sports.
The word came via Twitter with this post: "We mourn the passing of Hall of Famer and @Padres icon Tony Gwynn, who died today at the age of 54."
The Hall of Fame outfielder had battled cancer, undergoing a second surgery in February 2012 that removed a tumor inside his right cheek.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/sports/Tony-Gwynn-Dies-San-Diego-Padres-Baseball-Great--263296261.html
Surgeons grafted a nerve from his shoulder to replaces the nerve damaged by the tumor.
The former San Diego Padres, now San Diego State University's baseball coach spoke with NBC 7 after that surgery about the prognosis.
He had undergone a previous surgery in 2010 but it was the most recent surgery that noticeably changed his appearance and speech.
http://www.locusmag.com/News/2014/06/daniel-keyes-1927-2014/
Author Daniel Keyes, 86, died June 15, 2014.
Keyes is best known for his Hugo Award winning classic SF story “Flowers for Algernon” (F&SF, 1959), the Nebula Award winning and bestselling 1966 novel expansion, and the film version Charly (1968).
Keyes was born August 9, 1927 in New York. He worked variously as an editor, comics writer, fashion photographer, and teacher before joining the faculty of Ohio University in 1966, where he taught as a professor of English and creative writing, becoming professor emeritus in 2000. He married Aurea Georgina Vaquez in 1952, who predeceased him in 2013; they had two daughters.
Keyes began working in SF as an associate editor at Marvel Science Fiction in 1951, and his first SF story was “Precedent” there in 1952. Other novels include The Touch (1968; as The Contaminated Man, 1977), The Fifth Sally (1980), and The Asylum Prophecies (2009). He had other books published in Japan, including novel Until Death Do Us Part: The Sleeping Princess (1998), and wrote true crime volumes including Edgar Award winner The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), sequel The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994 in Japan, forthcoming in the US), and Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder (1986). His memoir Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer’s Journey (2000) discusses the experience of writing the story and its impact on his life. Keyes was honored as a SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000.
Keyes lived in south Florida, and is survived by his daughters.
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Author Daniel Keyes, 86, died June 15, 2014.
Keyes is best known for his Hugo Award winning classic SF story “Flowers for Algernon” (F&SF, 1959), the Nebula Award winning and bestselling 1966 novel expansion, and the film version Charly (1968).
Keyes was born August 9, 1927 in New York. He worked variously as an editor, comics writer, fashion photographer, and teacher before joining the faculty of Ohio University in 1966, where he taught as a professor of English and creative writing, becoming professor emeritus in 2000. He married Aurea Georgina Vaquez in 1952, who predeceased him in 2013; they had two daughters.
Keyes began working in SF as an associate editor at Marvel Science Fiction in 1951, and his first SF story was “Precedent” there in 1952. Other novels include The Touch (1968; as The Contaminated Man, 1977), The Fifth Sally (1980), and The Asylum Prophecies (2009). He had other books published in Japan, including novel Until Death Do Us Part: The Sleeping Princess (1998), and wrote true crime volumes including Edgar Award winner The Minds of Billy Milligan (1982), sequel The Milligan Wars: A True-Story Sequel (1994 in Japan, forthcoming in the US), and Unveiling Claudia: A True Story of Serial Murder (1986). His memoir Algernon, Charlie and I: A Writer’s Journey (2000) discusses the experience of writing the story and its impact on his life. Keyes was honored as a SFWA Author Emeritus in 2000.
Keyes lived in south Florida, and is survived by his daughters.
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http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_25935512/former-cy-young-award-winner-bob-welch-dies
OAKLAND -- Bob Welch, a former Cy Young Award winner and the last Major League pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season, has passed away at the age of 57, the Oakland Athletics announced Tuesday.
Welch, a two-time All-Star who posted a 27-6 record as the Cy Young Award winner on the Athletics' 1990 American League championship team, passed away in Seal Beach, Monday night. Cause of death was unavailable.
"We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Bob Welch," said A's President Michael Crowley. "He was a legendary pitcher who enjoyed many of his best seasons with the Oakland A's. He will always be a significant part of our franchise's history, and we mourn his loss. We send our greatest sympathies to his family and friends."
"This is a sad day for the entire A's organization," said Billy Beane, the A's vice president and general manager. "Those of us who knew Bob as a teammate and a friend will miss him greatly. My condolences go out to his family."
In 17 seasons in the majors, Welch compiled a 211-146 record (.591) and 3.47 ERA with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1978-87) and Athletics (1988-94). He was a prominent member of Oakland teams that won three straight American League pennants in 1988-90, including the 1989 club that swept the San Francisco Giants in a World Series that was interrupted by an earthquake. It has been 24 years since he became the last pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season.
Welch also was the pitching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks when they won the 2001 World Series, and has served as a special instructor for the A's in recent years, working on the minor league level as well as visiting Major League camp during spring training. His son Riley was selected by the A's in the 34th round of the 2008 MLB First-Year Players Draft.
He is survived by his sons Dylan (25) and Riley (23), daughter Kelly (18) and former wife Mary Ellen. Memorial services are pending.
http://newsok.com/legendary-actress-activist-ruby-dee-dies/article/4902999
Ruby Dee, one of the legendary actresses in Hollywood and on Broadway, died Wednesday night, according to TMZ.
Ruby was at home in New Rochelle, NY surrounded by family when she passed away, according to sources connected to the family. A rep confirmed the death.
She was a pioneer for African-American women in Hollywood and is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1960s film "A Raisin in the Sun," TMZ reports.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/voice-captain-scarlet-francis-matthews-3698733
Francis Matthews, the veteran stage and screen actor who was most famous as the voice of Captain Scarlet, has died aged 86.
He starred in the classic 1960s sci-fi puppet show, produced by Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson, about a virtually indestructible secret agent, pitted against the vengeful Mysterons of Mars.
As well as providing the voice of the smooth talking Spectrum agent, Matthews appeared in several acclaimed Hammer Horror films, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and The Revenge of Frankenstein.
He also starred as a mystery solving crime novelist in 1969 TV series Paul Temple.
Among Matthews' many talents was his ability to mimic Hollywood icon Cary Grant, upon whom aspects of Captain Scarlet were based.
So impressive was Matthews' impression, he was called upon to provide the voice of Grant in Cary Comes Home, a 2004 film about the actor's life and career.
A statement from Anderson Entertainment, who manage the estate of Captain Scarlet's creator, read: "We are very sorry to report that Francis Matthews, best known to Gerry Anderson fans as the voice of the indestuctible puppet hero Captain Scarlet, has died aged 86.
Having previously had a policy of using American accents in their shows to aid sales to America, Gerry and [wife] Sylvia relaxed their casting requirements for Captain Scarlet as it was felt that British accents were now more acceptable Stateside than had previously been the case.
"After hearing Matthews’ uncanny impression of Cary Grant, a voice that would have been familiar to all on both sides of the Atlantic, he was cast in 1966."
Matthews played Captain Scarlet in all 35 episodes of its original run, and returned to voice the character in a 2000 CGI short film, entitled Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons.
He also regularly appeared with Morecambe and Wise, both as a guest on their TV shows and starring opposite them in their movies The Intelligence Men and That Riviera Touch.
Matthews was born in York in 1927 and was married to TV actress Angela Browne, whom he met on the set of 1962 spy series The Dark Island. Browne died in 2001, aged 63.
OAKLAND -- Bob Welch, a former Cy Young Award winner and the last Major League pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season, has passed away at the age of 57, the Oakland Athletics announced Tuesday.
Welch, a two-time All-Star who posted a 27-6 record as the Cy Young Award winner on the Athletics' 1990 American League championship team, passed away in Seal Beach, Monday night. Cause of death was unavailable.
"We are deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Bob Welch," said A's President Michael Crowley. "He was a legendary pitcher who enjoyed many of his best seasons with the Oakland A's. He will always be a significant part of our franchise's history, and we mourn his loss. We send our greatest sympathies to his family and friends."
"This is a sad day for the entire A's organization," said Billy Beane, the A's vice president and general manager. "Those of us who knew Bob as a teammate and a friend will miss him greatly. My condolences go out to his family."
In 17 seasons in the majors, Welch compiled a 211-146 record (.591) and 3.47 ERA with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1978-87) and Athletics (1988-94). He was a prominent member of Oakland teams that won three straight American League pennants in 1988-90, including the 1989 club that swept the San Francisco Giants in a World Series that was interrupted by an earthquake. It has been 24 years since he became the last pitcher to win at least 25 games in a season.
Welch also was the pitching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks when they won the 2001 World Series, and has served as a special instructor for the A's in recent years, working on the minor league level as well as visiting Major League camp during spring training. His son Riley was selected by the A's in the 34th round of the 2008 MLB First-Year Players Draft.
He is survived by his sons Dylan (25) and Riley (23), daughter Kelly (18) and former wife Mary Ellen. Memorial services are pending.
http://newsok.com/legendary-actress-activist-ruby-dee-dies/article/4902999
Ruby Dee, one of the legendary actresses in Hollywood and on Broadway, died Wednesday night, according to TMZ.
Ruby was at home in New Rochelle, NY surrounded by family when she passed away, according to sources connected to the family. A rep confirmed the death.
She was a pioneer for African-American women in Hollywood and is perhaps best known for her starring role in the 1960s film "A Raisin in the Sun," TMZ reports.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/voice-captain-scarlet-francis-matthews-3698733
Francis Matthews, the veteran stage and screen actor who was most famous as the voice of Captain Scarlet, has died aged 86.
He starred in the classic 1960s sci-fi puppet show, produced by Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson, about a virtually indestructible secret agent, pitted against the vengeful Mysterons of Mars.
As well as providing the voice of the smooth talking Spectrum agent, Matthews appeared in several acclaimed Hammer Horror films, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and The Revenge of Frankenstein.
He also starred as a mystery solving crime novelist in 1969 TV series Paul Temple.
Among Matthews' many talents was his ability to mimic Hollywood icon Cary Grant, upon whom aspects of Captain Scarlet were based.
So impressive was Matthews' impression, he was called upon to provide the voice of Grant in Cary Comes Home, a 2004 film about the actor's life and career.
A statement from Anderson Entertainment, who manage the estate of Captain Scarlet's creator, read: "We are very sorry to report that Francis Matthews, best known to Gerry Anderson fans as the voice of the indestuctible puppet hero Captain Scarlet, has died aged 86.
Having previously had a policy of using American accents in their shows to aid sales to America, Gerry and [wife] Sylvia relaxed their casting requirements for Captain Scarlet as it was felt that British accents were now more acceptable Stateside than had previously been the case.
"After hearing Matthews’ uncanny impression of Cary Grant, a voice that would have been familiar to all on both sides of the Atlantic, he was cast in 1966."
Matthews played Captain Scarlet in all 35 episodes of its original run, and returned to voice the character in a 2000 CGI short film, entitled Captain Scarlet and the Return of the Mysterons.
He also regularly appeared with Morecambe and Wise, both as a guest on their TV shows and starring opposite them in their movies The Intelligence Men and That Riviera Touch.
Matthews was born in York in 1927 and was married to TV actress Angela Browne, whom he met on the set of 1962 spy series The Dark Island. Browne died in 2001, aged 63.
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/academy-award-nominated-actress-martha-hyer-dies/article_5410fdae-1987-5544-989f-0efdbffe60df.html
Academy Award-nominated actress Martha Hyer, 89, dies
Posted: Monday, June 9, 2014 5:00 pm | Updated: 5:48 pm, Mon Jun 9,
2014.
By Robert Nott
The New Mexican | 0 comments
Martha Hyer, one of the last studio glamour girls of the Golden Age
of Hollywood, died May 31 at her Santa Fe home. She was 89 and had
lived in Santa Fe since the mid-1980s.
A representative from Rivera Funeral Home confirmed the death and
said there was no funeral service or memorial planned.
A striking blonde who once turned down a date request from the young
Sen. John F. Kennedy, Hyer was nominated for an Academy Award as best
supporting actress for her work in 1958’s Some Came Running, an MGM
film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. She
lost to Wendy Hiller, for her role in Separate Tables. Although she
put on a good face during the remainder of the Oscars show, Hyer
later recalled that she went home and cried all night.
The Oscar nod did not help Hyer’s career, which started with a
three-year contract at RKO in the early 1940s and ended with a series
of forgettable cheap films made in both America and Europe.
Martha Hyer was born Aug. 10, 1924, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Julien
C. Hyer (a Texas legislator) and Agnes Barnhart. In her 1990
autobiography, Finding My Way, she described her childhood desire to
be an actress and her love of film. “Movies were magic, our passport
to outside,” she wrote.
She enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse in California, where she was
spotted by a Hollywood talent agent — despite the fact that she was
playing a bearded elder in a Greek tragedy. Soon, she was under
contract to RKO during the war years, appearing in several B-
Westerns. “I was Little Nell in lots of those,” she wrote.
For several years, Hyer was unable to secure a secure toehold in
Hollywood, although she worked in everything from Abbott and Costello
Go To Mars to the B-adventure Yukon Gold and the African safari film
The Scarlet Spear. She married the latter’s director, C. Ray Stahl,
but the marriage quickly ended in divorce.
Hyer’s first big break came when she was cast as William Holden’s
fiancée in Billy Wilder’s 1954 romantic comedy Sabrina, which starred
Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. In her autobiography, she
recalled Bogart as being helpful and selfless in his scenes with her.
But ensuing roles in pictures like Red Sundown, opposite Rory
Calhoun, and Francis in The Navy, opposite Donald O’Connor and a
talking mule, again stalled Hyer’s career. She worked with Rock
Hudson — whom she said was shallow and self-centered — in 1956’s
Battle Hymn. In quick succession, she found herself playing straight
woman to the likes of David Niven, Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis in films
that spotlighted their characters, not hers. She liked Niven and
Hope, but not Lewis.
Some Came Running, based on the James Joyce novel, briefly rescued
Hyer and brought her critical acclaim. She wrote fondly of the
experience, noting that MacLaine was “brilliant,” Sinatra “never
better” and Martin “marvelous.” MacLaine received a best actress
nomination for her work on the film.
But most of Hyer’s 1960s films were weak, including Bikini Beach,
House of 1,000 Dolls and Picture Mommy Dead — “all ones I’d rather
forget,” she wrote. She did secure a supporting role in Hal Wallis’
1965 production The Sons of Katie Elder, but she again played second
— or in this case, fifth — fiddle to a cast topped by John Wayne and
Dean Martin.
She married Wallis in December 1966. In her autobiography, she
reflected on both his strong points and his weaknesses, including his
tight-fisted approach to spending that left her to finance the
couple’s lifestyle.
By her own admission, Hyer became caught up in the high-living
culture of the Hollywood lifestyle and began overspending. Shortly
after she penned a first-person account of her lifestyle in a 1959
Life magazine article, she came home to find her Hollywood home
robbed of all its goods. She later managed to pay ransom money to get
some of her paintings back.
Worse was to come. By the early 1980s, Hyer was in debt to loan
sharks, to the tune of several million dollars. With her career
behind her — her last film roles were in the early 1970s — she turned
to God for help and found immediate solace and peace. In her memoir,
she wrote: “God poured through me.”
Shortly thereafter, Wallis, as well as some lawyers and the FBI,
helped Hyer work her way out of her financial mess.
Hyer first visited New Mexico when Wallis was here filming Red Sky at
Morning, the 1971 movie version of Richard Bradford’s 1968 novel.
“The Indians say Santa Fe is sacred ground. I believe it,” she wrote.
Wallis died in 1986, and Hyer moved to Santa Fe shortly thereafter.
“This country casts a spell and it never lets go,” she wrote.
Hyer became somewhat of a recluse in her later days, preferring to
paint, hike and spend time with close friends.
“When you live with fame as a day-to-day reality, the allure of
privacy and anonymity is as strong as the desire for fame for those
who never had it,” she said.
Rik Mayall, the comedian and star of The Young Ones, has died aged 56.
A spokesman for Mayall’s management company told The Press Association that he died this morning.
The comedian appeared in television comedies The Young Ones, Blackadder, The New Statesman and Bottom, and had a long-running partnership with Ade Edmondson.
In 1998, he survived a near-fatal quad bike accident at his home in Devon.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and three children.
Academy Award-nominated actress Martha Hyer, 89, dies
Posted: Monday, June 9, 2014 5:00 pm | Updated: 5:48 pm, Mon Jun 9,
2014.
By Robert Nott
The New Mexican | 0 comments
Martha Hyer, one of the last studio glamour girls of the Golden Age
of Hollywood, died May 31 at her Santa Fe home. She was 89 and had
lived in Santa Fe since the mid-1980s.
A representative from Rivera Funeral Home confirmed the death and
said there was no funeral service or memorial planned.
A striking blonde who once turned down a date request from the young
Sen. John F. Kennedy, Hyer was nominated for an Academy Award as best
supporting actress for her work in 1958’s Some Came Running, an MGM
film starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine. She
lost to Wendy Hiller, for her role in Separate Tables. Although she
put on a good face during the remainder of the Oscars show, Hyer
later recalled that she went home and cried all night.
The Oscar nod did not help Hyer’s career, which started with a
three-year contract at RKO in the early 1940s and ended with a series
of forgettable cheap films made in both America and Europe.
Martha Hyer was born Aug. 10, 1924, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Julien
C. Hyer (a Texas legislator) and Agnes Barnhart. In her 1990
autobiography, Finding My Way, she described her childhood desire to
be an actress and her love of film. “Movies were magic, our passport
to outside,” she wrote.
She enrolled in the Pasadena Playhouse in California, where she was
spotted by a Hollywood talent agent — despite the fact that she was
playing a bearded elder in a Greek tragedy. Soon, she was under
contract to RKO during the war years, appearing in several B-
Westerns. “I was Little Nell in lots of those,” she wrote.
For several years, Hyer was unable to secure a secure toehold in
Hollywood, although she worked in everything from Abbott and Costello
Go To Mars to the B-adventure Yukon Gold and the African safari film
The Scarlet Spear. She married the latter’s director, C. Ray Stahl,
but the marriage quickly ended in divorce.
Hyer’s first big break came when she was cast as William Holden’s
fiancée in Billy Wilder’s 1954 romantic comedy Sabrina, which starred
Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. In her autobiography, she
recalled Bogart as being helpful and selfless in his scenes with her.
But ensuing roles in pictures like Red Sundown, opposite Rory
Calhoun, and Francis in The Navy, opposite Donald O’Connor and a
talking mule, again stalled Hyer’s career. She worked with Rock
Hudson — whom she said was shallow and self-centered — in 1956’s
Battle Hymn. In quick succession, she found herself playing straight
woman to the likes of David Niven, Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis in films
that spotlighted their characters, not hers. She liked Niven and
Hope, but not Lewis.
Some Came Running, based on the James Joyce novel, briefly rescued
Hyer and brought her critical acclaim. She wrote fondly of the
experience, noting that MacLaine was “brilliant,” Sinatra “never
better” and Martin “marvelous.” MacLaine received a best actress
nomination for her work on the film.
But most of Hyer’s 1960s films were weak, including Bikini Beach,
House of 1,000 Dolls and Picture Mommy Dead — “all ones I’d rather
forget,” she wrote. She did secure a supporting role in Hal Wallis’
1965 production The Sons of Katie Elder, but she again played second
— or in this case, fifth — fiddle to a cast topped by John Wayne and
Dean Martin.
She married Wallis in December 1966. In her autobiography, she
reflected on both his strong points and his weaknesses, including his
tight-fisted approach to spending that left her to finance the
couple’s lifestyle.
By her own admission, Hyer became caught up in the high-living
culture of the Hollywood lifestyle and began overspending. Shortly
after she penned a first-person account of her lifestyle in a 1959
Life magazine article, she came home to find her Hollywood home
robbed of all its goods. She later managed to pay ransom money to get
some of her paintings back.
Worse was to come. By the early 1980s, Hyer was in debt to loan
sharks, to the tune of several million dollars. With her career
behind her — her last film roles were in the early 1970s — she turned
to God for help and found immediate solace and peace. In her memoir,
she wrote: “God poured through me.”
Shortly thereafter, Wallis, as well as some lawyers and the FBI,
helped Hyer work her way out of her financial mess.
Hyer first visited New Mexico when Wallis was here filming Red Sky at
Morning, the 1971 movie version of Richard Bradford’s 1968 novel.
“The Indians say Santa Fe is sacred ground. I believe it,” she wrote.
Wallis died in 1986, and Hyer moved to Santa Fe shortly thereafter.
“This country casts a spell and it never lets go,” she wrote.
Hyer became somewhat of a recluse in her later days, preferring to
paint, hike and spend time with close friends.
“When you live with fame as a day-to-day reality, the allure of
privacy and anonymity is as strong as the desire for fame for those
who never had it,” she said.
Rik Mayall, the comedian and star of The Young Ones, has died aged 56.
A spokesman for Mayall’s management company told The Press Association that he died this morning.
The comedian appeared in television comedies The Young Ones, Blackadder, The New Statesman and Bottom, and had a long-running partnership with Ade Edmondson.
In 1998, he survived a near-fatal quad bike accident at his home in Devon.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, and three children.
Karlheinz Böhm (16 March 1928 – 29 May 2014), sometimes referred to as Carl Boehm or Karl Boehm, was an Austrian actor and the only child of soprano Thea Linhard and conductor Karl Böhm. Böhm took part in 45 films and became well known in Austria and Germany for his role as Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in the Sissi trilogy and internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell.
He was the founder of the trust Menschen für Menschen (“Humans for Humans”), which helps people in need in Ethiopia. He also received Ethiopian honorary citizenship in 2003.
Having two citizenships, he saw himself as a world citizen: His father was born in Graz, his mother in Munich and until his death he lived in Grödig near Salzburg. He spent his youth in Darmstadt, Hamburg and Dresden. In Hamburg he attended elementary school and the Kepler-Gymnasium (a grammar school). A faked medical certificate[citation needed] enabled him to emigrate to Switzerland in 1939, where he attended the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, a boarding school. In 1946, he moved to Graz with his parents, where he graduated from high school the same year. He originally intended to become a pianist but received poor feedback when he auditioned. His father urged him to study English and German language and literary studies, followed by studies of history of arts for one semester in Rome after which he quit and returned to Vienna to take acting lessons with Prof. Helmut Krauss. From 1948 to 1976 he worked as a successful actor in about 45 films and also in theatre. With Romy Schneider, he starred in the Sissi trilogy as the Emperor Franz Joseph which limited him to one specific genre as an actor.
He made three American films in 1962. He played Jakob Grimm in the 1962 MGM-Cinerama spectacular The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig van Beethoven in the Walt Disney film The Magnificent Rebel. (The latter film was made especially for the Disney anthology television series, but was released theatrically in Europe.) He appeared in a villainous role as the Nazi-sympathizing son of Paul Lukas in the MGM film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a Technicolor, widescreen remake of the 1921 silent Rudolph Valentino film.
During 1974 and 1975, Böhm appeared prominently in four consecutive films from prolific New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Martha, Effi Briest, Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends), and Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven).
Bohm's voice acting work included narrating his father's 1975 recording of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev and in 2009 as the German voice for Charles Muntz, villain in Pixar's tenth animated feature Up.
Since 1981, when he founded Menschen für Menschen ("Humans for Humans"), Böhm was actively involved in charitable work in Ethiopia, for which in 2007 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples.
Karlheinz Böhm was married to Almaz Böhm, a native of Ethiopia, since 1991. They have two children, Nicolas (born 1990) and Aida (born 1993). Böhm had five more children from previous marriages, among them, the actress Katharina Böhm (born 1964). In 2011 Almaz and Karlheinz Böhm were awarded the Essl Social Prize for the project Menschen für Menschen.
Obit-
http://kurier.at/kultur/film/schauspieler-karlheinz-boehm-gestorben/68.045.168
ttp://www.westfordfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Betty-Turnage/#!/Obituary
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TV legend Ann B. Davis who played Alice on "The Brady Bunch" has died ... TMZ has learned.
According to the couple she lived with ... Ann fell in her bathroom early this morning and hit her head causing grave damage. We're told she never regained consciousness.
Her roommate says Davis had been pretty healthy for an 88-year old woman -- and her death was a total shock. In fact, she even walked downstairs to say goodnight before going to bed.
We're told the members of the church she was close with are currently planning funeral arrangements.
He was the founder of the trust Menschen für Menschen (“Humans for Humans”), which helps people in need in Ethiopia. He also received Ethiopian honorary citizenship in 2003.
Having two citizenships, he saw himself as a world citizen: His father was born in Graz, his mother in Munich and until his death he lived in Grödig near Salzburg. He spent his youth in Darmstadt, Hamburg and Dresden. In Hamburg he attended elementary school and the Kepler-Gymnasium (a grammar school). A faked medical certificate[citation needed] enabled him to emigrate to Switzerland in 1939, where he attended the Lyceum Alpinum Zuoz, a boarding school. In 1946, he moved to Graz with his parents, where he graduated from high school the same year. He originally intended to become a pianist but received poor feedback when he auditioned. His father urged him to study English and German language and literary studies, followed by studies of history of arts for one semester in Rome after which he quit and returned to Vienna to take acting lessons with Prof. Helmut Krauss. From 1948 to 1976 he worked as a successful actor in about 45 films and also in theatre. With Romy Schneider, he starred in the Sissi trilogy as the Emperor Franz Joseph which limited him to one specific genre as an actor.
He made three American films in 1962. He played Jakob Grimm in the 1962 MGM-Cinerama spectacular The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig van Beethoven in the Walt Disney film The Magnificent Rebel. (The latter film was made especially for the Disney anthology television series, but was released theatrically in Europe.) He appeared in a villainous role as the Nazi-sympathizing son of Paul Lukas in the MGM film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a Technicolor, widescreen remake of the 1921 silent Rudolph Valentino film.
During 1974 and 1975, Böhm appeared prominently in four consecutive films from prolific New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Martha, Effi Briest, Faustrecht der Freiheit (Fox and His Friends), and Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven).
Bohm's voice acting work included narrating his father's 1975 recording of Peter and the Wolf by Prokofiev and in 2009 as the German voice for Charles Muntz, villain in Pixar's tenth animated feature Up.
Since 1981, when he founded Menschen für Menschen ("Humans for Humans"), Böhm was actively involved in charitable work in Ethiopia, for which in 2007 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples.
Karlheinz Böhm was married to Almaz Böhm, a native of Ethiopia, since 1991. They have two children, Nicolas (born 1990) and Aida (born 1993). Böhm had five more children from previous marriages, among them, the actress Katharina Böhm (born 1964). In 2011 Almaz and Karlheinz Böhm were awarded the Essl Social Prize for the project Menschen für Menschen.
Obit-
http://kurier.at/kultur/film/schauspieler-karlheinz-boehm-gestorben/68.045.168
ttp://www.westfordfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Betty-Turnage/#!/Obituary
ttp://tinyurl.com/oss2k75
TV legend Ann B. Davis who played Alice on "The Brady Bunch" has died ... TMZ has learned.
According to the couple she lived with ... Ann fell in her bathroom early this morning and hit her head causing grave damage. We're told she never regained consciousness.
Her roommate says Davis had been pretty healthy for an 88-year old woman -- and her death was a total shock. In fact, she even walked downstairs to say goodnight before going to bed.
We're told the members of the church she was close with are currently planning funeral arrangements.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/efrem-zimbalist-jr-dead-star-700983
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Nancy Malone, a ground-breaking and Emmy-winning director-producer, Emmy-nominated actress and the first woman VP at a major studio, died May 8 at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif., as the result of pneumonia that arose from complications of leukemia. She was 78.
Shortly after producing her first TV movie, “Winner Take All,” starring Shirley Jones, for NBC, Malone joined 20th Century Fox’s TV department as director of TV development. Soon she was named vice president of television, becoming the first woman VP at a major studio. During her time at Fox, Malone co-founded Women in Film.
Malone was an actress for decades, appearing extensively on TV and on stage, before moving behind the camera and into the executive suite and continued acting even after doing so, including a supporting role in the 1973 Burt Reynolds starrer “The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.”
She joined Tomorrow Entertainment as a story analyst in 1971 and established Lilac Productions in 1975 to produce TV films.
Her producing credits include “Sherlock Holmes in New York,” with Roger Moore and John Huston; “Like Mom,” “Like Me,” with Linda Lavin; “The Great Pretender,” with Billy Dee Williams; “I Married a Monster”; and The Violation of Sarah McDavid,” with Patty Duke. She developed and produced a one-hour comedy for CBS, “Husbands, Wives and Lovers.” “The Nurses” pilot followed, as well as a season of “The Bionic Woman.”
Malone won an Emmy for co-producing “Bob Hope: The First 90 Years.”
During the 1980s Malone completed the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women and began her directing career. Her first full-length film, “There Were Times, Dear,” starring Shirley Jones and Len Cariou, appeared on PBS and was among the first films to center on Alzheimer’s disease.
It was accompanied by a NIMH outreach program. This film was used as a fundraiser by various Alzheimer’s support chapters around the country.
Malone’s first assignment as a director of episodic television was episode 100 of “Dynasty,” after which she became a staff director at Aaron Spelling Productions. She directed multiple episodes of “Hotel,” “Melrose Place,” “Dynasty,” and “Beverly Hills, 90210″ and went on to direct “Knots Landing,” “Sisters,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Star Trek Voyager,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Judging Amy,” “Starman,” “The Guardian,” “Resurrection Blvd.” and a “Bob Hope Christmas Special.”
She recently co-produced and directed a live event at Ellis Island honoring Bob Hope and starring Michael Feinstein, and Malone co-produced and directed 2011′s “The NY Pops Tribute to Bob Hope at Carnegie Hall.”
Malone also directed for the theater, including “All the Way Home,” “Howie the Rookie” and “Big Maggie,” starring Tyne Daly. For L..A Theatre Works she directed “Agnes of God,” “Prelude to a Kiss” and “The Country Girl”; for the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles she directed “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
Malone also taught acting and directing, and she conducted master classes at: UCLA, Piscator Institute of New York, Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, National University of Ireland, Galway; the Stella Adler Academy; Women in Film; and the American Film Institute, among other places. In the spring of 2013, Nancy taught a master class at the Steinhardt School at NYU.
In 2010, at the request of the Performing Arts Section of the UCLA Library: Special Collections, she organized and presented her papers and memorabilia to that facility for permanent research and record keeping.
She served as chair of the WIF Foundation and established the Crystal Award, the Dorothy Arzner Award, the Norma Zarky Award and the Founders Award. The Nancy Malone Directors Award was named after her for her contributions to the Film Finishing Fund.
Born in Queens Village, Long Island, N.Y., Malone began her career at age 7 as a model for ads ranging from Kellogg’s Cereal to Ford cars and Macy’s. At 10 she was chosen for the cover of Life magazine’s 10th anniversary issue, “The Typical American Girl.”
She was signed by William Morris and began her acting career in a show broadcast live on the DuMont TV Network and appeared in one of TV’s first soap operas, “The First Hundred Years.”
Malone joined the Actors Studio and studied with Stella Adler as well as David Craig and Milton Katselas and studied ballet with Nora Kaye.
At 15 she made her Broadway debut as the title character in “Time Out for Ginger,” co-starring Melvyn Douglas. After the Broadway run, she toured the U.S. in the play for a year. When she returned to New York, Charles Laughton chose her to play Jenny Hill in a production of Shaw’s “Major Barbara,” followed by “The Seven Year Itch,” “A Place for Polly” (a pre-Broadway tryout); “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” “The Chalk Garden” with Judith Anderson, “A Touch of the Poet” with Helen Hayes, and “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.”
Along with her work in theater, she also starred in the television series “Naked City,” for which she received an Emmy nomination for best actress; played Clara Varner in TV series “The Long Hot Summer”; and appeared in “The Killing of Randy Webster “and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” She guested on “Bonanza,” “The Fugitive,” “The Partridge Family,” “Big Valley,” “The Rockford Files,” “Outer Limits,” “Run for Your Life,” “Dr. Kildare,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Lou Grant,” among other shows.
Malone is survived by her colleague and longtime friend, Linda Hope.
Services are to be announced. Donations may be made to Directing Workshop For Women at AFI (http://www.afi.com/dww/), City of Hope or the Performing Animals Welfare Society (http://www.pawsweb.org/).
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-herb-jeffries-20140526-story.html#page=1
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Nancy Malone, a ground-breaking and Emmy-winning director-producer, Emmy-nominated actress and the first woman VP at a major studio, died May 8 at City of Hope in Duarte, Calif., as the result of pneumonia that arose from complications of leukemia. She was 78.
Shortly after producing her first TV movie, “Winner Take All,” starring Shirley Jones, for NBC, Malone joined 20th Century Fox’s TV department as director of TV development. Soon she was named vice president of television, becoming the first woman VP at a major studio. During her time at Fox, Malone co-founded Women in Film.
Malone was an actress for decades, appearing extensively on TV and on stage, before moving behind the camera and into the executive suite and continued acting even after doing so, including a supporting role in the 1973 Burt Reynolds starrer “The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing.”
She joined Tomorrow Entertainment as a story analyst in 1971 and established Lilac Productions in 1975 to produce TV films.
Her producing credits include “Sherlock Holmes in New York,” with Roger Moore and John Huston; “Like Mom,” “Like Me,” with Linda Lavin; “The Great Pretender,” with Billy Dee Williams; “I Married a Monster”; and The Violation of Sarah McDavid,” with Patty Duke. She developed and produced a one-hour comedy for CBS, “Husbands, Wives and Lovers.” “The Nurses” pilot followed, as well as a season of “The Bionic Woman.”
Malone won an Emmy for co-producing “Bob Hope: The First 90 Years.”
During the 1980s Malone completed the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women and began her directing career. Her first full-length film, “There Were Times, Dear,” starring Shirley Jones and Len Cariou, appeared on PBS and was among the first films to center on Alzheimer’s disease.
It was accompanied by a NIMH outreach program. This film was used as a fundraiser by various Alzheimer’s support chapters around the country.
Malone’s first assignment as a director of episodic television was episode 100 of “Dynasty,” after which she became a staff director at Aaron Spelling Productions. She directed multiple episodes of “Hotel,” “Melrose Place,” “Dynasty,” and “Beverly Hills, 90210″ and went on to direct “Knots Landing,” “Sisters,” “Cagney & Lacey,” “Star Trek Voyager,” “Touched by an Angel,” “Dawson’s Creek,” “Judging Amy,” “Starman,” “The Guardian,” “Resurrection Blvd.” and a “Bob Hope Christmas Special.”
She recently co-produced and directed a live event at Ellis Island honoring Bob Hope and starring Michael Feinstein, and Malone co-produced and directed 2011′s “The NY Pops Tribute to Bob Hope at Carnegie Hall.”
Malone also directed for the theater, including “All the Way Home,” “Howie the Rookie” and “Big Maggie,” starring Tyne Daly. For L..A Theatre Works she directed “Agnes of God,” “Prelude to a Kiss” and “The Country Girl”; for the Ford Theatre in Los Angeles she directed “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
Malone also taught acting and directing, and she conducted master classes at: UCLA, Piscator Institute of New York, Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design, National University of Ireland, Galway; the Stella Adler Academy; Women in Film; and the American Film Institute, among other places. In the spring of 2013, Nancy taught a master class at the Steinhardt School at NYU.
In 2010, at the request of the Performing Arts Section of the UCLA Library: Special Collections, she organized and presented her papers and memorabilia to that facility for permanent research and record keeping.
She served as chair of the WIF Foundation and established the Crystal Award, the Dorothy Arzner Award, the Norma Zarky Award and the Founders Award. The Nancy Malone Directors Award was named after her for her contributions to the Film Finishing Fund.
Born in Queens Village, Long Island, N.Y., Malone began her career at age 7 as a model for ads ranging from Kellogg’s Cereal to Ford cars and Macy’s. At 10 she was chosen for the cover of Life magazine’s 10th anniversary issue, “The Typical American Girl.”
She was signed by William Morris and began her acting career in a show broadcast live on the DuMont TV Network and appeared in one of TV’s first soap operas, “The First Hundred Years.”
Malone joined the Actors Studio and studied with Stella Adler as well as David Craig and Milton Katselas and studied ballet with Nora Kaye.
At 15 she made her Broadway debut as the title character in “Time Out for Ginger,” co-starring Melvyn Douglas. After the Broadway run, she toured the U.S. in the play for a year. When she returned to New York, Charles Laughton chose her to play Jenny Hill in a production of Shaw’s “Major Barbara,” followed by “The Seven Year Itch,” “A Place for Polly” (a pre-Broadway tryout); “Requiem for a Heavyweight,” “The Chalk Garden” with Judith Anderson, “A Touch of the Poet” with Helen Hayes, and “The Trial of the Catonsville Nine.”
Along with her work in theater, she also starred in the television series “Naked City,” for which she received an Emmy nomination for best actress; played Clara Varner in TV series “The Long Hot Summer”; and appeared in “The Killing of Randy Webster “and “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.” She guested on “Bonanza,” “The Fugitive,” “The Partridge Family,” “Big Valley,” “The Rockford Files,” “Outer Limits,” “Run for Your Life,” “Dr. Kildare,” “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Hawaii Five-O,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Lou Grant,” among other shows.
Malone is survived by her colleague and longtime friend, Linda Hope.
Services are to be announced. Donations may be made to Directing Workshop For Women at AFI (http://www.afi.com/dww/), City of Hope or the Performing Animals Welfare Society (http://www.pawsweb.org/).
http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-herb-jeffries-20140526-story.html#page=1
Monday, June 9, 2014
He passed away at age 81 may 3 2014
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=170965563
will be most known for A Christmas Story as the tree man who haggles with Darren McGavin.
Horror fans will remember him from Black Christmas, Deranged and he was great as the villain in Videodrome
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Influential cinematographer Gordon Willis, whose photography for “The Godfather” series and Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan” helped define the look of 1970s cinema, has died, according to his close associate Doug Hart’s Facebook page. He was 82.
Willis was known as the Prince of Darkness for his artful use of shadows, and was DP on seminal 1970s films including “Klute,” “The Paper Chase,” “The Parallax View” and “All the President’s Men.”
He received an honorary Academy award in 2009 at the first Governor’s Awards ceremony.
Among the other Woody Allen films he shot were “Interiors,” “Stardust Memories,” “Broadway Danny Rose,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo” and “Zelig,” for which he was Oscar-nommed. His other Oscar nomination was for “The Godfather III.”
Regarding his work on “The Godfather,” Variety wrote in 1997, “Among “The Godfather’s” many astonishments, the photography by Gordon Willis — a rich play with light and shadow — confirmed Willis’ genius but was especially striking as an extension of Francis Ford Coppola’s creative intelligence. “
Born in New York City, his father worked as a make-up artist at Warner Brothers, and though Willis was originally interested in lighting and stage design, he later turned to photography. While serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, he worked in the motion picture unit and then worked in advertising and documentaries. His first feature was “End of the Road” in 1970, and his last, Alan Pakula’s “The Devil’s Own” in 1997.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=170965563
will be most known for A Christmas Story as the tree man who haggles with Darren McGavin.
Horror fans will remember him from Black Christmas, Deranged and he was great as the villain in Videodrome
http://tinyurl.com/l7cuhzp
Influential cinematographer Gordon Willis, whose photography for “The Godfather” series and Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” and “Manhattan” helped define the look of 1970s cinema, has died, according to his close associate Doug Hart’s Facebook page. He was 82.
Willis was known as the Prince of Darkness for his artful use of shadows, and was DP on seminal 1970s films including “Klute,” “The Paper Chase,” “The Parallax View” and “All the President’s Men.”
He received an honorary Academy award in 2009 at the first Governor’s Awards ceremony.
Among the other Woody Allen films he shot were “Interiors,” “Stardust Memories,” “Broadway Danny Rose,” “The Purple Rose of Cairo” and “Zelig,” for which he was Oscar-nommed. His other Oscar nomination was for “The Godfather III.”
Regarding his work on “The Godfather,” Variety wrote in 1997, “Among “The Godfather’s” many astonishments, the photography by Gordon Willis — a rich play with light and shadow — confirmed Willis’ genius but was especially striking as an extension of Francis Ford Coppola’s creative intelligence. “
Born in New York City, his father worked as a make-up artist at Warner Brothers, and though Willis was originally interested in lighting and stage design, he later turned to photography. While serving in the Air Force during the Korean War, he worked in the motion picture unit and then worked in advertising and documentaries. His first feature was “End of the Road” in 1970, and his last, Alan Pakula’s “The Devil’s Own” in 1997.
http://www.kesq.com/news/singer-jerry-vale-dies/26045480
THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. -
KESQ and CBS Local 2 learned singer Jerry Vale passed away Sunday morning in hospice care with family by his side.
At the age of 15, he started singing professionally in supper clubs. Known for singing primarily love songs, Vale went on to record more than 50 albums.
Vale received a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on December 5th, 1998. His star is at 255 S. Palm Canyon Drive.
Vale and Rita, his wife of over 40 years, resided in Palm Desert.
Vale was 81 years old.
THOUSAND PALMS, Calif. -
KESQ and CBS Local 2 learned singer Jerry Vale passed away Sunday morning in hospice care with family by his side.
At the age of 15, he started singing professionally in supper clubs. Known for singing primarily love songs, Vale went on to record more than 50 albums.
Vale received a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on December 5th, 1998. His star is at 255 S. Palm Canyon Drive.
Vale and Rita, his wife of over 40 years, resided in Palm Desert.
Vale was 81 years old.
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LIVINGSTON - Albert B. Feldstein was editor of MAD magazine for nearly 30 years.
He oversaw much of its wacky content including the development of Alfred E. Neuman, the magazine's cover boy and mascot.
He lived a low-key existence in the Paradise Valley for more than two decades, his wife, Michelle, said Wednesday.
He painted fine Western art, revisited his early comic-book work, and rescued animals on his Paradise Valley ranch.
Born in Brooklyn in 1925, Feldstein worked in comic books in the 1950s before joining MAD Magazine, where he worked as editor for nearly 30 years before retiring in 1984.
The period included the development of MAD's signature wackiness, sharp social commentary and recurring features such as its television and movie spoofs, the "Spy vs. Spy" comic and the wildly stylized human characters of Don Martin.
He died Tuesday at 88.
No services are being held.
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Dick Ayers, one of the last of the major artists of the early "Marvel Age of Comics," has died. It happened yesterday, only days following his 90th birthday. The cause is being reported as complications from Parkinson's Disease, a condition he had battled for some time.
Ayers was born April 28, 1924 in Ossining, New York. He did his first comic art while in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After his discharge, he sought work from comic book publishers but was told his work wasn't quite good enough. He studied with at the Cartoonists and Illustrators School in New York, later known as the School of Visual Arts. The co-creator of Superman, Joe Shuster, visited the class and this led to Ayers assisting Shuster, who by then needed a lot of help due to failing eyesight. Ayers then worked for an any number of publishers throughout the fifties but he was best known for a western hero he designed named The Ghost Rider.
Eventually, he did most of this work for Stan Lee at the company now known as Marvel. When the company had to downsize, Ayers found himself out of work and wound up getting a job, which he hated, at the post office. He continuously pestered Stan Lee to help him out of that situation and eventually, Stan brought him back to ink much of what Jack Kirby was doing for the film and also to pencil some comics.
He was pretty good at inking Kirby's work and not bad at taking over the penciling of a strip that Kirby had launched. He drew Giant-Man, The Human Torch and others but super-heroes were not his strength. He did better at westerns and war books including a long run on Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos. At one point, Marvel even decided to revive The Ghost Rider, reportedly without permission, and Ayers wound up drawing a new version of that old character.
In the seventies, Dick had some trouble giving editors at Marvel what they wanted and he eventually found himself without sufficient work. Neal Adams intervened at DC to get them to take him on and for years, Dick worked mainly as a layout artist for them. He did many issues of Kamandi, The Unknown Soldier, Jonah Hex and other DC titles. Fans began to approach him about doing re-creations of his past work, particularly covers he'd done with Kirby, and he did a lot of that. That put him on the convention circuit where I got to spend a lot of time interviewing him on panels and talking with him when we weren't on stage. He was a charming gent with an amazing lifetime output of popular comics. They don't make 'em like that anymore.
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Former heavyweight boxing champion Jimmy Ellis, who trained with fellow Louisville fighter Muhammad Ali and squared off against some of his era's best fighters, has died in his hometown. He was 74.
Ellis' brother, Jerry, said the ex-champion died at a Louisville hospital Tuesday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease in recent years.
Ellis defeated Jerry Quarry to win the WBA crown in 1968. Ellis defended the title by defeating Floyd Patterson, but was stopped by Joe Frazier in a fight to unify the world heavyweight championship in 1970.
He was stopped by Ali in the 12th round of their bout in 1971.
Ellis, the son of a preacher, retired from boxing in 1975. He spent years training fighters and later worked for the Louisville parks department.
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/boxing-champion-jimmy-ellis-dies-23611069
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