SoHo Pioneer Tony Goldman Dies at 68

Tony Goldman, an eye for an investor to identify areas of rejuvenation spoiled first brought to life in Manhattan SoHo in 1970 and South Beach in Florida in 80 years, died Tuesday in Manhattan.

The cause was heart failure, his wife, Janet Goldman, said.

Goldman does not like to be called a developer. "Developers are hitting 'em down, rebuild guys," he told the New York Times in 2000. "That's not me." Instead, they saw it as a long-term investor in the revitalization of historic neighborhoods.

In 1976, while walking through the ruins producing district south of Houston Street, once known as Hell 100 acres, was attracted by the imposing architecture of cast iron and noticed that the factory spacious loft that can be an attractive place to live.

"I saw the architecture of the neighborhood aura," said Goldman Preservation, the magazine of the National Historic Trust in 2010. "The district cast express a strong sense of place that does not exist, does not exist in many places around the world. Tissue It was the historic first that caught my attention and interest."

He bought and renovated 18 buildings, including Palau Greene Street SoHo, making it a larger area and higher mixed-use office building. In a neighborhood taverns scruffy artists' open restaurants to attract a young and chic: the first Greene Street Cafe, a jazz supper club, then the Soho Kitchen and Bar, an ancestor of the wine bar.

Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of several books on urban lifestyles and former member of the New York City Historical Preservation Commission, said Goldman's genius was to recognize not only the value of the old buildings, but also the importance of context.

"He understands what makes a neighborhood is the diversity of uses," he said. "The restaurants put people on the streets and add vitality. Persons wishing to remain in the city wanted to walk and not drive to services."

During a trip to a developer conference in Miami in 1985, Mr. Goldman was with local conservationists to see the Art Deco hotels in ruins along a stretch of turquoise sea in Miami Beach. Seeing the potential of the area began to buy - a building per month for 18 months.

With a talent for self-promotion, even said that he had "discovered" South Beach, but that was ten years in the making, when he began to put on them. Never mind, said Michael D. Kinerk, president emeritus of the Miami Design Preservation League, the keeper of the historic Miami Beach. "It was not the first, but it was time, and he was the greatest and most visionary."

Mr. Kinerk said that unlike other developers, Mr. Goldman was estimated conservation savings Interior Art Deco gems, as well as your outdoor furniture with antiques and old photographs framed.

Although some of his bets were disappointing, particularly a joint development effort with Archon Group in Boston, has been a success, as well as South Beach and SoHo. He helped revive the Rittenhouse Square area of ??Philadelphia and Wall Street after sunset in 1990 with the opening of the Wall Street Kitchen & Bar in building and notes Stone Street Tavern and loft . In his last years, has concentrated on the development of Wynwood, an industrial arts in Miami.

Goldman won the Louise du Pont Crowninshield by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2010 for his career.

Anthony Richard Goldman, who was born in Wilmington, Delaware, December 6, 1943, was adopted by Charles Goldman and Tillie, a couple who lived prosperous Upper East Side of Manhattan. He worked in a coat factory from his father for 15 years to learn the trade.

Goldman went to Emerson College in Boston, where, on the first day of orientation, he met Janet Ehrlich. They married in 1966, the same year he graduated with a degree in drama.

After returning to New York, Mr. Goldman learned real estate from an uncle. "He would stay up late and brought his Scottish uncle," recalled Ms. Goldman, "and talked about real estate, and this is where he got his foundation in business."

In 1968, he hit on his own and founded the Society of Goldman Properties, who has worked primarily in the Upper West Side. He lived in SoHo.

He and his wife had two children, but in early 1970, deciding to marry very young, divorced, said Goldman. In retrospect, he said, "was a good thing -. Has allowed us to expand and try new things"

Goldman just opened the Greene Street Cafe, an investment company that gave him a place to go and sing without being kicked off the stage, the lady said Goldman. "Tony was a crooner," he said.

She and Mr. Goldman was remarried in 1977, and finally, two children, Jessica and Joey Goldman Goldman Srebnick, joined the company. Ms. Goldman Srebnick become the CEO of Goldman Properties.

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Author & Feminist Eva Figes Dies at 80

Eva Figes, a refugee from Nazi Germany who became an acclaimed writer and critic best known memoirs by treaty influential feminist "patriarchal attitudes," published in 1970, died August 28 at home in London.

The cause was heart failure, his son said Orlando.

Ms. FIGE (pronounced Jez-FIE) was 38 years old, divorced and raising two children, she felt compelled to write when an accusation blisters on the feet of women in society and what they saw as the inequality of marriage.

He was a novelist, at this point, but the experience of discrimination in the workplace and in other children (he was forced, for example, to get her husband to guarantee the lease home, but not pay for food), inspired by his anger.

"The much vaunted male logic is not logical, because the bias - against half the human race - are considered prejudices according to a dictionary definition," wrote Ms. FIGE.

His book was published two months of controversial feminist Germaine Greer "female eunuch" (1970) and "Sexual Politics" in the Kate Millett (1969), and together feminist ideas injected into the national debate. Newspapers and television FIGE lady tried for his point of view.

But Mrs. FIGE was too immature to be independent and any movement for a long time. It could also be dismissive of their brothers in arms. "I've never read 'The woman eunuch,'" he told the British newspaper The Guardian in 1993. "It was all out of my book and said:" Do not worry ", so I did. Germaine is crazy and I think a lot of what he says is romantic hot air."

Instead, he returned to writing novels. He has written more than a dozen and became less closely associated with a movement led by British experimental BS Johnson. "Kafka and Virginia Woolf were major influences looked back," Orlando FIGE, historian and writer, he said.

Much of the narrative FIGE lady was concerned with the passage of time. "Awakening" (1981) tells the story of a woman through her waking sleep in seven days for life. "Light" (1983) is a day in the life of Monet.

It also incorporates passages often teaching about oppression of women that critics did not like, and he praised books. "It's the insistence of Mrs. FIGE to hammer home a message that undermines a work the other ambitious, innovative and incredibly poetic," Angeline Goreau wrote in a review in The New York Times "The Seven Ages "(1987), a novel in which seven elements fit into the solitary life of a midwife.

In the last decade, Ms. FIGE focused on writing his memoirs, seems determined to come to terms with his childhood trauma.

Eva Unger was born in Berlin April 13, 1932, Peter Unger and Irma. He recalled his childhood as the golden age, protected at first by the growing Nazi threat of a wealthy Jewish family. He remembered learning to cook and sew after school to Grandma. This Eden is shattered when his father, a wholesale hinge, was arrested along with thousands of people during the violence of Kristallnacht in 1938 and sent to the concentration camp at Dachau.

Peter Unger escaped Dachau, and the family fled to England in 1939, but seven years, Eva did not want to safety. E 'was teased at school. Their grandparents and the servant of the family stayed behind and realized that his destiny only when her mother sent her to the movies alone at the end of the war saw the news of the concentration camps. Never recovered from the shock of the moment alone in the dark, he said.

Ms. FIGE sense of herself as an outsider while faded dominated English and began to excel as a writer. He has a degree in English at Queen Mary College, London, in 1953. Two years later - to move away from their parents, she said - she married John FIGE, who ran an employment agency recruiting. The marriage ended seven years later.

He returned to the war - or, rather, has returned to her - when she became a grandmother and she was thinking about those years in Germany and the pain of being uprooted, a theme taken up in "Tales of Innocence and Experience reports: Exploring "In a time of revision in 2003, Barbara Ehrenreich described the book as" a story of the Holocaust in relation to this, the poetic delicacy that no summary can do justice "..

Although Ms. FIGE had many relationships after divorce, with one writer Günter Grass, the work is based in England and went to live with his family after one of his own marriage dissolved, for the most lived sun.

In addition to his son, who survived a daughter, Kate, a brother, Ernesto, and four grandchildren.

"My mother was an isolated and intellectually," said Orlando FIGE. "I was put in writing, which was pretty limiting. Lived alone, so everything I wrote came from within. Last year, while he was thinking of death was, as material for writing. "

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Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz dies at 92

Dr. Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist at New York Don Quixote-like attacks on the psychiatric profession in 1960 and 1970, led him to a position of prominence and influence with their radical ideas fell into disrepute and disappeared.

Szasz died Sept. 8 at his home in Manlius, New York, his family announced. He suffered a spinal compression fracture resulting from a fall.

He rose to fame with his 1961 book, "The Myth of Mental Illness", which argued that mental illness is not a disease, but simply "life problems." In this and a series of successive volumes, he said not to use drugs to treat mental disorders with insanity as a defense against criminal acts and people committed to mental institutions against their will. He called the act "a crime against humanity."

In 1992, Szasz - pronounced "ZOZ" - said with courage Syracuse Post-Standard: "I am probably the only psychiatrist in the world who do not have clean hands I commit to I never gave him electric shocks which have never , ... never gave drugs to a mental patient. "

Perhaps his most controversial act was allied with the Church of Scientology founded the Citizens Commission for Human Rights, a group that is clearly opposed to psychiatry and its methods of treatment. Although he was not a Scientologist Szasz, has lent his collaboration patina of credibility to an organization inspired not by science but by a science fiction writer, according to his critics.

He later distanced himself from the church, but his association with the Commission and other views led New York authorities to block mental health teaching hospital in a state where residents with University New York State format.

The Crusader has emerged at a time when many critics have questioned some of the principles of psychiatry, including activities such as the diagnosis of women as "hysterical" when they refused to submit to the domination of men or request that homosexuality is a mental illness. Some critics also agreed that too "mentally ill" people were locked in an illegal way.

But Szasz, has actually thrown the baby with the bathwater, on the grounds that the majority of psychiatric diagnoses were poorly designed and without scientific basis.

However, their arguments introduced some new ideas, Dr. Robert W. Daly, a psychiatrist at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse Post-Standard awarded to "The discussion on the use of coercion and forced treatment and all that, I had a real impact on the discussion of these items within the profession and within the law. has helped increase awareness of what in fact they were doing. "

In a 2006 profile in The New Atlantis, Szasz virtually admitted that there were windmills. "I really do not think I'm doing when I say that I was hoping not to have much impact on psychiatry. Psychiatry've seen all the time as more of the Catholic Church. Voltaire What impact do about it? If you think about what has happened since then, no, no, I did not expect any difference. "

Thomas Stephen Szasz is, April 15, 1920 in Budapest, Hungary. After his family emigrated to the United States in 1938, obtained a degree in physics from the University of Cincinnati in 1941. When he graduated in medicine from the University was the first of its kind in 1944.

He studied psychoanalysis at the University of Chicago and, except for two years in the Naval Reserve, he worked at the University in 1955 before joining what is now the SUNY Upstate. He remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1990, but continued writing and research until his death.

Two years after his retirement, he was sued for negligence by the widow of a man who committed suicide after six months Szasz told him to stop taking lithium for depression. The case was settled out of court, and finally gave up private practice Szasz.

More than half a century, Szasz has published 35 books and hundreds of articles.

His wife, Rosine, who died in 1971. He left two daughters, Dr. Szasz Margot Peters and Suzy Szasz Palmer, a brother, George, and grandson.

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Snowboard pioneer Tom Sims dies at 61

Tom Sims, a new skate and snowboard pioneer and former world champion who helped snowboarding to the masses that push the ski resorts to embrace the emerging sport in 1980, has died. I 'was 61.

The founder of skateboard and snowboard Sims Sims died Wednesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after suffering a heart attack, said his sister, Margie Sims Klinger.

"It was the godfather of all sports facilities," said Michael Brooke, publisher of specific wavelength, Friday.

"He has literally helped build the skate professionally, and was one of the giants in the history of snowboarding."

Pat Bridges, editor of Snowboarder, Sims said, "is not only a pioneer of snowboarding, but also popularized what came to be known as the lifestyle of action sports. Had a different modus for a good while standing sideways, depending on the season. "

As Brooke said, "I was an only child of a company that sells these things. Seen you."

"It was the first true pioneer of what is called the longboard - a skateboard over 4 feet long," said Brooke. "I ride longboard great for cruising and hills. Was doing this way before anyone else. Would like to take this type of waves and feel put there to skate."

A transplant from New Jersey, who was also a surfer and wakeboarding, Sims moved to Santa Barbara in 1971 and began participating and winning skateboarding competitions, including the World skateboard.

"It's become someone who all the kids looked up to and wanted to emulate wanted his paintings," Sister Sims' he said. "Then I realized I had such a demand, he founded a company and started producing products. Skateboard His specialty was 4 meters long, it has begun to do the same."

A few years after the release of The Sims skateboards in the mid 70's, Sims Snowboards was founded.

Sims, who became world champion of snowboarding in 1983, was responsible for the creation of early snowboarding halfpipe in the snow and used in competition, Lake Tahoe, and the first snow permanent halfpipe at a ski resort, Snow Summit in Big Bear Lake.

"Not only will support this activity," said Bridges, "has changed the perception of people born in this sport, a complex time."

He was also the main trick snowboard Roger Moore in the James Bond movie 1985 "A View to a Kill".

In an interview in 1995 Snowboarder Magazine, Sims said: "The world has woken up and realized that the best and the most pleasant way a mountain is a table of snowboard Before 1985, I have requested the owner of a ski out. precious the chairlifts. himself kind that started on the hill for 10 years, now ask me a card for her grandson. "

Born in Los Angeles on Dec. 6, 1950, Sims moved to the East Coast when he was 2 years old, and his family settled in Haddonfield, New Jersey when he was 6 years old.

While visiting his grandparents in Los Angeles during the summer of 1960, saw his first skate Sims when he saw half a dozen guys rolling on the sidewalk.

"I was absolutely in transit," said Ola concrete in November. He begged his father to buy him a skateboard in Sears and "from that day I experienced my skate. Loved beyond imagination. Before the end of the second day was as good as any of the boys out there on the sidewalk. I just found something I really loved to do. "

In 1963, Sims built his first surfboard thin snow in his school shop class half-notch. Called a "skiboards".

"I was trying to solve a dilemma that I had," he told National Public Radio in 1998. "I could not skate on roads covered with snow in winter in southern New Jersey. And the easiest solution was to make a skateboard for snow."

In addition to his sister, Sims is survived by his wife, Hillary, their children, Sarah, Tommy and Shane, and their daughters, Alexa and Kylie Wagner.

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Professor Gabriel Vahanian Dies at 85

Gabriel Vahanian, theologian, social criticism, 1961, "The Death of God: The culture of our post-Christian," gave a name to a movement apparently atheist but widely misunderstood theological, died August 30 at home Strasbourg, France.

His daughter Noelle Vahanian, confirmed his death.

Mr. Vahanian, a Presbyterian church attendance for all his life, he taught at Syracuse University, when a small literary publisher published "The Death of God," a scientific leaders who took the church to task for what is considered the trivialization of the Christian doctrine in secular era.

It has not been approved by Friedrich Nietzsche 1880-was the announcement of the death of God has received little attention outside of university departments of religion and newspapers like the Journal of Bible and Religion. (Guest reviews The Journal has established a dense read, but worth it. "Books like this should be written and read if the solutions are Christians," he said.)

But in 1966, Mr. Vahanian has reached a wider audience when Time magazine named the book as the forerunner of numerous works written in this period by scholars who belong to the world to call for the death of theology movement God. All have been struggling with some of the great questions of religion in world war II, said the center would have if people stopped believing? What religious values ??survive in a world postfaith?

Mr. Vahanian knew and corresponded with some of the others in the movement, including Harvey Cox of Harvard University, Thomas JJ Altizer at Emory University and William Hamilton, who was forced to leave his post to a faculty State of New York, after the Time article Rage seminar and later taught at Portland State University in Oregon. He died in March.

They were not atheists. Some felt uncomfortable with the name of their movement, as it is considered more of a rescue team in an attack team. They see their work as a continuation of research initiated by some of the greatest theologians of the twentieth century and the media, such as Paul Tillich, Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Mr. Vahanian, but distanced himself from the group and its aura Nietzsche, however, does not deserve.

"I had a completely different theological sensibilities of most of them," said Jeffrey Robbins, Mr. Vahanian son-in-law, who is chairman of the department of religion and philosophy at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pa. "It was an iconoclast and radical. But he is described as a permanent practice, disgusted Protestant Christian. "

Mr. Cox, professor emeritus of Harvard Divinity School and author of the bestselling 1965 book "The Secular City" - considered one of the fundamental texts of the death of God movement - Mr. Vahanian described as a "visionary" with a traditionalist vein.

"I do not like the idea about the claim that he could not know," Cox said in a telephone interview Wednesday. "He had too much respect for religious tradition."

In his book, Mr. Vahanian criticized efforts to modernize Christianity implicitly criticizes the Reverend Norman Vincent Peale, author of the 1950 self-help best-seller "The Power of Positive Thinking." Mr. Vahanian condemned the "positive thinking" and other doctrines that have reduced Christianity to what he described as "a tool for success."

Faith had higher goals, he said. And 'face was suffering, hydraulics awareness, addressing questions about God.

"God is not necessary, but inevitable," Vahanian, wrote in 1964 in "Wait Without Idols," sometimes displays a genomic test the patience of auditors (and leaving aside capital letters when referring to the deity). "It's totally different and totally present." S faith in him, the transformation of our human, cultural and existentially, is the question that is still upon us. '

Antoine Gabriel Vahanian was born January 24, 1927 in Marseille, France, one in four children Mestrop Vahanian Perouse. His parents settled there in the 1920's after fleeing ethnic cleansing campaign that has spread to areas Armenians in Turkey after World War I.

After completing his studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology Paris in 1949, he received his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary.

In 1958 he became professor of religion at Syracuse University, where he taught for 26 years and helped found the university's degree in religion.

He moved in 1984 to the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg, a place considered most important theological chair of Protestantism in France.

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UCLA historian Alexander Saxton Dies at 93

When Alexander Saxton left Harvard in 1939, his academic advisor invites you to consult a psychiatrist. His parents were shocked. But Saxton desire to establish the conditions of his life would take him away from the ivy-covered halls are suffocating.

To appease his parents, he finished his university studies at the University of Chicago. Then the son of two professional has become a factory worker and union, worked on the railroad roundhouses, steel, shipbuilding and construction. He joined the Communist Party and wrote well-regarded 1940 the proletarian literature.

In 1950, his literary aspirations were annulled by Saxton McCarthyism and he changed course again, he earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley and became a full professor at UCLA, shaken on Ethnic Studies and gained importance as the author of "The Indispensable Enemy," considered a classic in the study of race in America.

He continued to write well about retirement, the publication of two important books on their 70 and 80 years, including "The Rise and Fall of the White Republic" (1990), a historical study of white racism.

In declining health made it impossible Saxton write, walk and live independently, scholar and activist in a decision to end life altering: August 20, died of a self-inflicted wound of firearm home in Lone Pine, Calif., said his daughter, Catherine Steele. I 'was 93.

Steele said he regretted the decision of his father, but understand his reasons. "He spent his life in a way that supports their belief that as human beings we make decisions, choices and we are responsible for the consequences," he said.

At UCLA, where he taught from 1968-1990 Saxton, options include conducting heated battles for racial and ethnic diversity in the faculty and helped to create the nation's first Asian American studies program. He also contributed to provocative scholarship, one of the most cited journal in 1975 that his "blackface minstrelsy and the ideology of Jackson," which connects the minstrel shows of 1800, with the last racist ideology.

"Very few historians of this generation have combined a deep embrace of American literature, history, popular culture and politics," Gary B. Nash, a friend and professor emeritus of history, said the unusual trajectory of Saxton.

Born July 16, 1919, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Saxton grew up in New York, the second of two children of Eugene Saxton, editor in chief of Harper & Brothers, and his wife, Martha, a professor of literature at the private school. They grew up in what historian Robert W. Rydell is described in a biographical essay as a house "of the middle class, a little" Bohemian ", where authors known as Aldous Huxley and Thornton Wilder were frequent guests.

As a child during the Depression, never hungry, but Saxton has seen many who did. Seeing the suffering sparked the desire to "know what life was like in the other America - the real America, as I thought, the U.S. industry - and write about their lives," he said in an essay published in Amerasia Journal in 2000.

When he came to Chicago in 1940 to work six days a week at 25 cents an hour repairing locomotives. During World War II he served in the Merchant Navy ammunition carried across the Pacific and North Atlantic.

He married Gertrude Wright, a classmate at the University of Chicago in 1941. After the war, he moved her and her two daughters in Northern California, where he worked as a carpenter building during their participation in leftist causes and writing novels, including the semi- autobiographical "Grand Crossing" (1943) and "The Great Midland" (1948).

His wife died about 10 years ago, and her daughter Christine died in 1990. In addition to Steele, a grandson survive him and a granddaughter.

In 1951, Saxton was called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which has cost him to teach and write scripts. His third novel, "Bright Web in the Darkness" was published in 1958, but had no money. In 1959 he left the Communist Party, but he was nasty about it.

After obtaining his doctorate in 1967 he directed his thesis on "The Indispensable Enemy," a historical examination of ancient Chinese Century 19 in California, which showed how racism is essential for industrialization of the United States

In his later years Saxton participated regularly in Manzanar Pilgrimage, an annual ritual at the Manzanar National Historic Site near Lone Pine to commemorate the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.

"He was just an academic," said Chairman of the Manzanar Committee Bruce Embrey. "There was a tension between politics for him the real world and write about it. Was committed for life."

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Jovial British Entertainer Max Bygraves Dies at 89

Max Bygraves, the setciències humor, charm and myriad interpretations Cockney easy listening hits made him a British show business institution, died August 31 in Queensland, Australia.

His son Antonio announced the death of his father on the web.

Mr. Bygraves everything done, including theater, film and play the movie for a ventriloquist doll - on the radio. He introduced the Beatles in their famous Royal Command Performance in 1963 and has sold 6.5 million discs.

It says it has a real performances - to 20 - that Queen Elizabeth II has attended.

Mr. Bygraves made love songs like "You're a pink toothbrush", "What noise annoys an oyster" and his own composition "You Need Hands". Judy Garland chose to open for her on tour in the United States from 1950 to 1952.

His series of singalong albums in the 1960's and 70's have been ridiculed for their "bland and sticky nature", according to The Daily Telegraph, but they produced platinum and gold like clockwork.

Mr. Bygraves trademark phrases "I want to tell a story" and "a good idea, son," were incorporated into the collective consciousness of England, as well as his comic style arrogant. "I was the first out of the barge D-Day invasion," he told a group of veterans, a favorite of the audience. "I yelled," Come on, guys, follow me There is absolutely nothing to fear! '

The son of a longshoreman, Mr. Bygraves called himself "just an ordinary Londoner who made it." Over the years, he also owned 53 Rolls-Royce.

Walter William Bygraves was born in London on 16 October 1922. That day, his father, a fly weight boxer named part-time military was fighting Tommy Smith faced two fights in six rounds, one before and after child birth. The father won two bags about 7 pounds - a lot of money for a family of seven shared a two bedroom apartment.

When he was 10, Mr. Bygraves got a job as an assistant milkman. He learned to entertain people doing impressions of celebrities.

At age 12, he won a talent contest singing "It's now my mother's birthday." Years later, he said: "It's hard to win when you're a soprano singing a sentimental song in torn clothing, a half-starved dog."

He left school at age 14. During World War II he joined the Royal Air Force and was destined to entertain the troops when he was not keeping Spitfires. His interpretation of Max Miller, English comedian known as the "cheeky chappie" earned him the nickname Max.

While in the service, he married Gladys Murray, known as Blossom, who has been married for 67 years until his death last year. In addition to his son Antonio will survive the marriage of his daughters, Christine and Maxine, and many grandchildren. Also surviving him three sons had relationships with three women: John Rice, Stephen Rose and Sass Beverly.

After the war, the BBC has hired Mr. Bygraves and other veterans such as Spike Milligan, to star in a variety show. Shortly after, Mr. Bygraves played with rave Palladium in a show with Abbott and Costello.

He then became part of a Royal Command Performance in there with Dinah Shore and Jack Benny, followed by four weeks of walking with Judy Garland. Then she asked him to tour the United States with her.

He has performed in front of the BBC radio ventriloquist dummy "Educating Archie", and in 1952 he made his first album, "The Cowpuncher Cantata", the title track, which was in the charts.

He also began to appear in films, notably as the title character, a farm boy who became a star of the stage, "Charley Moon" (1956).

Mr. Bygraves published several autobiographies and a novel, "The milkman is on the way" (1977). She moved to Australia several years ago.

He continued playing until Alzheimer's disease for several years. His fame, otherwise the legend faded, as has been recognized in 1998, in an interview with The Evening Chronicle, a newspaper in Newcastle, England. He said he had entered a contest for the best representation of Max Bygraves, with a coupon of 100 first prize and made his comedy routine brand.

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Jake Eberts dies at 71

Jake Ebert, the Canadian producer and founder of The Independent Films UK Reiet simple, revived the British film industry in 1980 with a series of films Oscar winners like "Gandhi" and "Chariots of Fire" died Thursday in Montreal. I 'was 71.

I 'was diagnosed in late 2010 with uveal melanoma, a rare cancer of the eye, who recently released his liver, said his wife, Fiona.

Over four decades in the world of film, Ebert financed or produced more than 50 films, including four who won the Oscar for Best Picture: "Chariots of Fire" (1981), "Gandhi" (1982), "A Walking Miss Daisy" (1989) and "Dances with Wolves" (1990).

He also produced "The Killing Fields" (1984), "The City of Joy" (1992), "The Legend of Bagger Vance" (2000) and the environmental documentary "Oceans" (2009).

Ebert was known for its focus on finance experts and creating films by supporting projects that appealed to him on an emotional level and deliver compelling stories free free sex, car chases and violence.

"It was really the master of Hollywood," said Jim Berk, Participant Media president, who has worked with Ebert on "Oceans" and other projects.

"Jake purpose in life was to try to create content that not only tell stories, but brings awareness and inspired people to do things that are beyond the norm. Way would be to have that touch this. especially to find stories. "

Ebert was a struggle, 33, an investment banker in 1974, when he was approached to arrange financing for a film animation harassed by a group of rabbits. "Watership Down" (1978), based on the novel by Richard Adams, became a box office and critical success and Ebert stuck to the film world.

Goldcrest Films was formed in 1976 with the support of the British publishing giant Pearson. Goldcrest first big hit was "Chariots of Fire", the drama of two runners in the Olympic Games of 1924, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four.

Goldcrest products in quick succession "Gandhi," the epic of K. charismatic of India Mohandas Gandhi, political and spiritual figure who led a campaign of nonviolent resistance Historical against British colonial rule, and "The Killing Fields," a compelling story about Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge regime told from the terms of two journalists.

"The film had touched his heart," said her husband Ebert Fiona Friday. "He 's gone by instinct many of them," Gandhi "," director Richard Attenborough had tried to do for 20 years to finally find his angel Ebert. The film won eight Academy Awards and launched the career of actor Ben Kingsley, who played Gandhi.

When Goldcrest came on the scene, the two British EMI and Rank, were in decline. "Jake has been in the business of making great films popular," said Terry Illott, an English writer who covered the media industry for the Financial Times and co-authored a book in 1990 on high with Regulus and Ebert Fall called "My indecision is final."

"Goldcrest was ambitious, confident of this and that failure entrepreneur who launched the business and creative range and EMI relief," said Illott. "People in the industry in the UK has begun to look at Goldcrest model, as they have done since."

Goldcrest Ebert left in 1984 to work at the Embassy of photos, but was drawn back a few years later.

The company was on the brink of collapse, having sunk millions to some problems, tormented films like "Revolution," a sweeping 1985 drama about the American Revolution starring Al Pacino. Ebert could not avoid disaster and the company was sold in 1987.

After leaving Goldcrest, Ebert founded Allied Filmmakers, an independent film development and production company based in London and Paris.

In late 1980, he was approached by producers Richard and Lili Fini Zanuck, designing a grumpy old maid in Atlanta and her black chauffeur had been rejected by every major U.S. studios. But Ebert liked the story and put in $ 3.25 million, which attracted an additional 4.5 million Warner Bros. "Driving Miss Daisy" was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four.

"No Jake Ebert," said Richard Zanuck the New York Times in 1990, "'Miss Daisy' should never be done."

The son of a director of Alcan Aluminum, Ebert was born in Montreal July 7, 1941.

He trained as a chemical engineer at McGill University, but discovered it was not very good at it. In 1966 he received an MBA from Harvard University and worked on Wall Street for three years before joining an investment house in London in 1971.

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Former NFL owner Art Modell Dies at 87

In Cleveland. Monday night. For employment contracts of the past.

Along with his colleagues named Rozelle, Halas, Brown and Rooney - all pillars of a nascent league - Modell helped transform the NFL preeminent sport in the United States.

The Ravens first owner died early on Thursday, leaving behind a legacy that was safe uncontaminated by a decision that had dogged him for the rest of his life: his mobile team from Cleveland to Baltimore.

David Modell, said he and his brother, John, was with his father when he died peacefully of natural causes.'''' E 'was 87.

'' Football has lost one of its all time'', Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford Sr. said. '' The contributions of the Art in the NFL during his five decades in the game are immeasurable. I think that art has done as much as any owner to help the NFL what it is today. Art was a pioneer, a visionary and a loving owner who always saw the picture and did the right thing.

'' Our game would not be what it is today if not for Art Modell.''

Modell spent 43 years as an NFL owner, overseeing the Browns from 1961 until the team moved to Baltimore in 1996. Hel he served as president of the League from 1967 to '69, he helped develop the first collective bargaining agreement with the players in 1968 and was the key man for lucrative contracts in the NFL with chains television.

Long before his Ravens won the Vince Lombardi Trophy in 2001, teamed up with Modell Lombardi, the commissioner Pete Rozelle and others to lay the foundation for the success of the league.

'' Art Modell was an influential member of the Commissioner Rozelle `kitchen cabinet 'for many years, along with Dan Rooney and the late Tex Schramm,'' said Joe Browne, the largest player in the role of the office of the alloy. '' Ironically, art is the only member of this group is not enshrined in Canton. Hopefully the Hall of Fame selectors media rectify that oversight in the near future -. Not as an emotional reaction to the death of art, but as a legitimate reflection of his long contribution to the NFL''

Commissioner Roger Goodell NFL praised the work of Modell in the league, gaining momentum as it was half a century ago.

'' Art Modell leadership has been an important part of the success of the NFL during the explosive growth of the league during the 1960's and beyond,'' Goodell said in a statement. '' Art was a visionary who understood the vital role vision massive NFL games on broadcast television could have on the growth of the NFL.''

But Modell's reputation has taken a blow from which it could not recover when he retired from the Cleveland Browns as a result of a series of secret talks with officials from the city of Baltimore. The move was not made because of the low turnout in Cleveland, Baltimore, but because it gave the opportunity for a better deal.

It is widely believed that the movement is the main reason Modell died without admission to the Hall of Fame. It's been a pariah in Cleveland and a hero in Baltimore.

When was the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis in 1984, Baltimore has 12 years pining for another team. After the Cleveland Browns left an expansion team, a new stadium and kept their colors and team history, thanks in large part to Modell.

Some NFL owners have other sources of income. Modell had his football team. Period. And even if the move to Baltimore helped keep afloat during a 'even though the end was a deal that made Steve Bisciotti a minority owner. Part of the deal was that Bisciotti would take a majority stake, and that's what happened in April 2004.

Bisciotti has since invested millions in equipment, funding the construction of a wasteful practice in Owings Mills, Maryland As a tribute, Bisciotti insisted that a huge oil painting hanging over the fireplace Modell in the entrance to the complex.

Modell had an open invitation to come to camp, and though his health was declining in recent years, from time to time to watch practice, flip the field on a golf cart.

Lewis never failed to come and say hello, and their relationship was so close that happened a few emotional moments together in the hospital Wednesday.

'' The things I share in my ear, I will keep that between me and him because he is like a son and a father,'' said Lewis. '' I loved the man dearly.''

Born June 23, 1925, in Brooklyn, New York, Modell left school at 15 and worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard clean the hulls of ships to help her family in financial difficulties after the death of his father.

Night completed high school class, he joined the Air Force in 1943, and then enrolled in a school of television after World War II. He used that education to produce one of the first television programs scheduled during the day before moving to the advertising industry in 1954.

A group of friends led by Modell bought the Browns in 1961 for $ 4 million - a figure that he called'''' totally excessive.

'' You get like this sometimes,'' he said at the time. '' To take advantage of this opportunity, you must have money and friends.''

Modell work as a civic leader, including service on the board of directors of several companies, including the Ohio Bell Telephone Co., Higbee Co. and 20th Century-Fox Film Corp.

Modell and his wife, Patricia, have continued their charity work in Baltimore, giving millions of dollars in seed Maryland School, a boarding school for disadvantaged youth, Johns Hopkins Hospital and Kennedy Krieger Institute. The couple also gave $ 3,500,000 to the lyrics, which he named Patricia & Art Modell Performing Arts Center at The Lyric.

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Queen of Cocaine killed in Colombia at 69

A woman who was known as Colombia "queen of cocaine," was killed in the northwestern city of Medellin, police reported Tuesday.

Griselda Blanco, 69, was killed by two shots at close range - not unlike a violent end to say that the authorities ordered its first year in 1970 and 1980.

Witnesses heard the roar of a motorcycle and two gunshot wounds Monday afternoon, Medellin police spokesman Joe Chavarria said.

When authorities arrived on the scene in Bethlehem, a suburb of Medellin, White was found lying on the floor in a pool of blood.

White, known as the "godmother" and "mother mafia" has gained notoriety in the 1970's and 80's, when, according to authorities, was responsible for sending shipments of several tons of cocaine from Colombia to Miami. It was also the mind, the researchers say, the countless murders. This is also linked to the drug Pablo Escobar.

In 1975, White was charged with conspiracy to Miami for the production, distribution and trafficking of cocaine to the United States.

Over the next ten years, lived in Colombia, using false names and documents to hide from the authorities. The Drug Enforcement Administration arrested White in Irvine, California in 1985.

He was sentenced to six years in prison.

But prosecutors had not finished with her. White was convicted in 1994 of ordering three murders in the Miami area. - The murders, including three years Johnny Castro, who was killed while riding in a car with his father's sight - it happened in 1982.

Speaking of his case when he was accused Singleton's, a sergeant with the Metro Dade Police Department, said police believed that White was responsible for dozens of murders in the Miami area.

"If I had been one of the most prolific traffickers in the Miami area, who clearly was one of the most violent. Already have, cautiously, his estimate of participating in at least 40 murders between Miami, Broward and Queens", which said at the time.

After fulfilling his sentence, Blanco was deported to his native Colombia in 2004, where he lived a quiet life apparently. Local media reported that he was killed as he left a butcher with a pregnant daughter-in-law, who was not injured.

According to a report on CNN affiliate Caracol TV, White was the mother of four children. One of them is still serving a sentence for drug trafficking in the United States, and two died. The fourth life in Colombia.

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Michael Clarke Duncan Dies at 54

Michael Clarke Duncan, made high and great actor with a shaved head and a deep voice who received an Oscar nomination for her role in the movement of a prisoner on death row in the sweet 1999 prison drama "The Green Mile, "died Monday. I 'was 54.

Duncan died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to a statement from his publicist, Joy Fehily. He had suffered a heart attack in July and will not recover.

A former digging ditches for a natural gas company in his native Chicago, Duncan began his saga of Hollywood celebrity bodyguard in the mid 1990's.

He received his first major action playing a member of the rig sent into space to blow up an asteroid to Earth in the big-budget 1998 film "Armageddon," starring Bruce Willis.

But it was "The Green Mile" starring Tom Hanks as a prison guard in Hall's death in a Louisiana prison during the depression, which pushed the 6-foot-5, 300 pounds more than the Duncan fore. He portrayed John Coffey, a gentle giant with supernatural powers, who was sentenced to death for the murder of two young white girls.

"There's something about him that I could not ignore," the writer-director Frank Darabont, Duncan said in an interview with Daily Variety, 2000. "After the first reading, followed torment. Given that this was a fairly inexperienced actor then, of course, was not a concern 'Wow, like this guy?'

"But when you put it in the movie, it was found that corresponded to the task."

Duncan acting teacher Larry Moss attributed to teach "how to dig into my" crying scenes by strong emotional film.

"I am an emotional person, a very emotional," Duncan told the Chicago Tribune in 2000. "All these tears you see in the film were mine."

In 2002, two years after the Oscars ceremony, Duncan told the Orange County Register:. "Actually, I did not think he would win the Oscar, but the appointment was a personal validation for me has shown me that I was a good actor. More importantly, it showed other people that I was a serious actor ".

Duncan then appeared in films such as "The Whole Nine Yards" (2000), "Planet of the Apes" (2001), "The Scorpion King" (2002) and "The Island" (2005). He also performed voice work in film and television, including "Brother Bear" (2003) and "Kung Fu Panda" (2008).

E 'was born December 10, 1957, and grew up on the South Side of Chicago. His father left the family when he was 6 years old, and he and his sister, Judith, was raised by his mother, who directed the bands of light, drugs and alcohol.

Growing up, harbored dreams of becoming an actor.

"Sure, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. Could not see.' Re Ugly, '"he recalled in a 2003 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times.

What helped, he said, was that her mother "always told me to think 'YCDA. This is an acronym for' Anything you can do."

Duncan attended Alcorn State University in Mississippi, but it was before graduating to help her sick mother. Back in Chicago, he began working for the gas company.

At work, we talk a lot about his dream of going to Hollywood and become an actor to his colleagues the nickname "Hollywood Mike." Finally he quit his job and became a security guard for a traveling show. Once the exhibition has come to Los Angeles, he decided to stay.

Working first as a bodyguard of Martin Lawrence, Will Smith and other stars, began to land small roles in films and television. In 1998, he played a gorilla in "Bulworth" and "A Night at the Roxbury" and a bodyguard in "The Players Club."

Doing "Armageddon," Duncan is a friend of Willis, who was instrumental in making him the role in the adaptation of the novel series Darabont Stephen King "The Green Mile."

"Bruce said, 'Michael, I just read the script and it was this type John Coffey. Just know,'" Duncan recalled in an interview in 2001 Ottawa Citizen. Willis said he called Darabont - and so he did, saying he had found the man to play the role.

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Hip hop manager Chris Lighty Dies at 44

Hip Hop Chris Lighty died Thursday after a heated argument with his ex-wife in the Bronx, police sources told the Daily News.

Lighty - a veteran manager who has worked with artists such as 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Diddy, Ja Rule and Mariah Carey - Dismissed after declaring "I'm tired of this," before sticking a bullet in the head behind the South Riverdale home at around 11:30 pm, the sources said.

The police found Lighty, 44, founder and CEO of Violator Management, lying face up in the courtyard of the basement in a pool of blood with a 9 mm. pistol at his side, the sources said.

Suicide surprising after a savage fight between Lighty and his 36 year old wife, Veronica, who asked for a divorce last year.

Moving truck was at home, as the veteran music director ready to leave the residence of three floors, the sources said.

Judicial sources said Lighty is the wife of seven years, told police that he was facing financial problems, including $ 5,000,000 debt with the IRS. However, The Associated Press reported that Lighty had paid more than the sale of an apartment in Manhattan for U.S. $ 5.6 million in October.

Lighty who still owed more than $ 330,000 in federal and state taxes to the PA. And in April, was sued by City National Bank does not pay after he had discovered in his account to $ 53,584.

His 17-year-old daughter and a son 5 years old, were in the house 232 W. St. and left when the argument broke out. They were in a park near Lighty, H has three children, went out and pulled the trigger, the sources said.

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Steve Franken dies at 80

Steve Franken, a veteran character actor's long career includes playing the pampered young millionaire Chatsworth Osborne Jr. on the popular sitcom "The many loves of Dobie Gillis" in early 1960, has died.

Franken has died of cancer Friday at a treatment and rehabilitation center in Canoga Park, said his wife, Jean.

In a career spanning over 50 years that began in New York, Franken appeared in dozens of television shows and films, including "The Party", "The Americanization of Emily," "The Missouri Breaks" and Comedy Jerry Lewis "What is the deal?" and "Almost like work."

But for fans of television a lot, Franken may be best remembered as Chatsworth Osborne Jr. in "The Many Loves Dobie Gillis."

The series, which aired on CBS from 1959 to 1963, starring Dwayne Hickman as the son of food crazy girl, the beatnik friend, Maynard G. Krebs was played by Bob Denver.

Franken joined the series in 1960, replacing the young actor who played Milton Armitage, rich kid from the original series: Warren Beatty.

"Warren Beatty has four or five series and movies I want to go," Hickman told The Times on Thursday. "When he did not return and 'Dobie Gillis." But as he was gone, we have Steve, and he was wonderful. '

As the Chatsworth snob ", wore clothes that were expensive clothes and a cane pole fishing and all that," said Hickman. "He was a great character. Was the only person to tell me 'Dobie state." Chatsworth Osborne Jr. -. And what a great name, of course, everything was great and so was Steve Rich played well "..

When Hickman appeared in an exhibition of autographs Franken few years ago, said: "Steve told me that people kept coming toward him on the street and asking for an autograph Chatsworth vocation."

But Hickman said Franken has done many things in his career and was a "serious actor."

Jean Franken said that her husband was very proud of his performance in the film director Blake Edwards' The Party, "the 1968 comedy starring Peter Sellers, in which Franken played a drunk who never says a waiter word.

"He and Peter Sellers has worked most of these improvisations for it," he said. "Blake let go."

Franken was a versatile actor who studied at the Actors Studio in New York and later did a great job of theater in Los Angeles, largely dramatic.

Born in Queens, New York, 27 May 1932, Franken is a graduate of Cornell University and launched his career as an actor against the wishes of their parents.

"They wanted to go to medical school, but went directly to New York," said his wife. "He was obsessed with the idea of ??becoming an actor."

As chemotherapy was given eight months to live, he said, was to audition for film and television roles to play until a month before his death.

In addition to Jean, his wife of 25 years, Frank is survived by her daughter, Anna, two daughters from a previous marriage that ended in divorce, Emily and Abigail Franken glass, and two grandchildren.

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Feminist Writer Shulamith Firestone Dies at 67

Shulamith Firestone, a widely quoted feminist writer, who published his first book stop, "The Dialectic of Sex," at 25, only to retire from public life shortly afterwards was found dead Tuesday at his apartment in the East Village Manhattan.

Ms. Firestone apparently died of natural causes, his sister Laia Seghi Firestone said.

Subtitled "The Case for Feminist Revolution," "The Dialectic of Sex" was published by William Morrow & Company in 1970. In it, Ms. Firestone extended Marxist theories of class oppression to provide radical analysis of the oppression of women claiming sexual guilt that comes the burden of motherhood, which is for women of random pure organic.

"As the ultimate goal of socialist revolution was not only the removal of privileges economic class, but economic class distinction itself," wrote Mrs. Firestone, "so that the ultimate goal of the feminist revolution must ... not just the elimination of male privilege but of the sex distinction itself:. genital differences between human beings would no longer be as important culturally "

In the future utopian imagining Mrs. Firestone, reproduction would be completely separate from the idea of ??sex can be achieved through artificial insemination, the pregnancy occurs outside the body in an artificial womb. While some critics found his visionary ideas, others felt that his quixotic at best.

Check "The Dialectic of Sex" The New York Times, John Leonard wrote: "A bright and sharp mind is often at work here." However, he added, "Miss Firestone is absurd, stating that" man can not love. '

The book, which was translated into several languages, rushed Firestone lady in the front row of the second wave of feminism, alongside women like Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer and Kate Millett. The rest is taught in universities Woman studies courses.

A painter by profession, Mrs. Firestone did not envisage a career high profile as a writer, he had come to write through posters prepared by various feminist organizations that had helped to found.

The agglomeration of attention, both positive and negative, that his book has generated soon proved unsustainable, said his sister. In the years that followed, Ms. Firestone retired to a quiet and lonely life in most of the painting and writing, but published little.

His only other book, "The airless spaces," was published in 1998 by the publishing experimental Semiotext (e). A memory-in-use forms of fantasy stories that explain facts, that describes the admission of Mrs. Firestone with schizophrenia since 1980 had passed.

The second of six children of Orthodox Jews, Shulamith bathroom Shmuel Ben Ari Feuerstein was born in Ottawa on Jan. 7, 1945, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and St. Louis.

The family Americanized his name Shulamith Firestone, as a child, Ms. Firestone gave his first name shoo-LAH-myth, but he was known familiarly as Shuley or Shulie.

After attending Washington University in St. Louis, Ms. Firestone has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967. During this time he helped found the group Westside, a feminist organization in Chicago before moving to New York.

Yes, it was one of the founders of the three feminist organizations - women in New York, New York Redstockings radicals and radical feminists - What began as an alternative to traditional groups like the National Organization for Women.

Ms. Firestone drew renewed attention in 1997 with the release of "Shulie," an independent film by Elisabeth Elisabeth Subra Subra. Ms. Subra of 37-minute film is a shot-for-shot remake of a previous little seen documentary, also titled "Shulie," made in 1967 by four male graduate students at Northwestern University.

The film 1967, part of a documentary series about the younger generation, Ms. Firestone profiles, then an unknown art student, such as paints, talks about his life of a young woman suffering from an audit his strenuous work of a group of men teachers.

In the 1997 remake, conceived as a look back at a social landscape that seemed to have changed very little in 30 years, Ms. Firestone is played by an actress, Kim Sosso. His dialogue is spoken verbatim from the original document.

Film Subra lady, who appeared at the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Biennial and elsewhere, has been well received by critics. But the damsel in distress Firestone, who said he was upset because she had not been consulted in the course of its creation, the sister said this week.

In an interview Thursday, Ms. Subra said she had sent to Mrs. Firestone first cut of the film through an intermediary. The intermediary told him after he said that Mrs. Firestone "could be seen as an act of love, but she hated the original movie and see how my film was different."

In addition to his sister, Laia, Ms. Firestone will survive their mother, Kate Firestone Shiftan, two brothers, Ezra and Nehemiah, and another sister, Miriam Firestone shots.

A "no air spaces," Ms. Firestone writes about life after hospitalization for psychiatric therapy. The account is in the third person, but the story is:

"I had been reading Dante's" Inferno "the first time I went to the hospital, he recalled, and at a pretty good pace, but when it turned out that I could not even download anything fashion .... This let the empty days as comfortable as possible, trying not to fall under boredom and loss of hope. "

The story continues. "He was lucid, yes, at what price sometimes recognize joy in the faces of others and greed, and other emotions she could remember he had once, long ago But his life. Has ruined, and she was not a bailout. "

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Architect John Kelsey Dies at 86

During the design of what is now the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena in late 1960, the architects Thornton Ladd and John Kelsey express a conviction. "It can be part of this event and experience" The space that houses art

When it opened in 1969 as the Pasadena Art Museum, observers saw the original design art crow, which was covered with stained tiles that seemed to change color with the sun, and the curved interior walls designed to introduce modern art.

An early review in the Times gives the structure "attractive" and "undoubtedly superior to single-local competition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art."

After forming the company in 1958, Ladd & Kelsey, both graduates of USC built a number of large projects in the next quarter century, including the main buildings at CalArts in Valencia and Busch Gardens theme park in Van Nuys .

Kelsey, 86, died on August 04 of complications related to age at home in Santa Barbara, said his family.

The "Guide to Architecture in Los Angeles" (2003), an architectural historian Robert Winter wrote that the museum has attracted the Streamline Moderne style in 1930, and reflects "a classic formal quality."

After the museum opened its doors to great fanfare, quickly sank into debt and took charge of industrial Norton Simon in 1974. Architect Frank Gehry has made a major reconfiguration of the space of the gallery in late 1990 to better show extensive collection of masterpieces by Simone, according to the museum.

By CalArts, Ladd and Kelsey designed the parts called "mega-construction" with a unit capacity of 150 people including eight theaters, galleries and other systems. Sometimes talks about plans for the giant "virtually unprecedented" Kelsey and promotes flexibility of design.

"There is a traditional classroom in the building," said Kelsey provided the classroom, which could be easily reconfigured "to meet the needs of the teacher."

His inspiration for CalArts - originally developed by Walt Disney - had come from Athens, Rome and the Renaissance, as architects.

Also designed plans for another Disney project, Mineral King Ski Resort, which has been proposed by the Sierra Nevada, but stopped after the country became part of Sequoia National Park in 1978.

Anheuser-Busch's Busch Gardens opened in 1966 on 17 acres adjacent to the brewery. 4 million project was both the theme park and tropical oasis including a monorail that snaked around the structure to allow passengers a look at the process of fermentation. The park was closed in 1979, so it could expand the brewery.

A low profile design, modern First Methodist Church in La Verne, was introduced in the 1967 movie "The Graduate," when Dustin Hoffman character is delivered to you to stop the wedding at the end of the film Picture.

Other projects include Ladd & Kelsey Herrick Memorial Chapel Occidental College, USC Student Activities Complex, two eight-story towers of living in what is now Claremont McKenna College, and a number of May Co. department stores.

In Pasadena, the partners designed a three-bedroom home for the family that Kelsey was built in 1962 and wrapped around a swimming pool. The family sold the house to the north of Annandale Country Club in 1978. It was sold in 2003 for $ 1.85 million.

"The house of the architect is a well articulated ..." wrote the guide in the winter. "This building low as pretty as modern when it was built."

John Field Kelsey was born Dec. 7, 1925, in Los Angeles, the youngest of three children. After his father died shortly before the Depression, Kelsey lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles with her mother.

Towards the end of World War II, he was a cadet in the Army Air Force before attending the School of Architecture at USC.

His collaboration with Ladd lasted until 1982, when he moved to Santa Barbara Kelsey and focuses on the design of contemporary homes. Ladd died in 2010 on his birthday 86.

Kelsey was "always interested in good shape," taken in 1970 sculpture, and painting in an abstract style, said his son, Brent, who is also an architect.

"It's been a lot of fun and had a great personality and was not shy to express their opinion," said the son. "But it used to be right."

The twice divorced Catherine Kelsey survive him, his wife of 30 years, three children from his first marriage, Brent, Jennifer and Elizabeth, two grandchildren, and a brother, Richard.

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Busy Diplomat Reginald Bartholomew Dies at 76

Reginald Bartholomew, a diplomat and ambassador who has served four presidents, negotiated nuclear disarmament with the Soviet Union and for the protection of U.S. military bases in Europe and survived an assassination attempt when he was ambassador to Lebanon in 1984, died Sunday in Manhattan.

The cause was cancer, said his wife, Rose Anne.

Mr. Bartholomew had spent 15 years advising presidents and secretaries of state, and parachuting in places like Moscow and Cyprus to extinguish fires diplomatic when he received his first assignment as ambassador in 1983, in Lebanon.

It was a refined political detachment. The day after arriving this October, the Marine barracks was bombed by terrorists, killing 241 people. Mr. Bartholomew was shot the scene the next day, his job complete.

The violence increased pressure from the U.S. to withdraw its troops. Mr. Bartholomew argued strongly against the idea. President Reagan delay the deportation order until February 1984.

In the same year, terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in East Beirut about new construction that was built to replace a bombed last year. Nine people were killed. Mr. Bartholomew was removed from the rubble, but not seriously injured, needed stitches and a cast on his arm.

Mr. Bartholomew has been in Lebanon for two years and was often forced to leave for security reasons. His followers often met firearm during a trip to the country with their personal safety "militia" as he and the name of his wife, leaning over the car windows with automatic weapons to return fire.

George P. Shultz, secretary of state at the time, of which Mr. Bartholomew as "the best" in the diplomatic corps.

In 1986, Mr. Bartholomew was appointed ambassador to Spain, where he led negotiations to maintain a military presence greatly reduced. He had worked in similar negotiations before and after would, in its final place, Italy, where he served as ambassador in 1993 and 1997.

"It's been very difficult," said Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times reporter, who also worked with Mr. Bartholomew Departments of Defense and State. "We wanted the basics, and foreign leaders wanted to prove that they were tough. They do not want their people to believe in the United States of its property."

He added, referring to Mr. Bartholomew:. "It would have been impolite, and a lot of diplomats are not so clumsy said:" I know you have your political problems, but try to find ways to keep the bases and deal with their political problems. '"

In 1964 took positions in government and in European education at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Mr. Gelb was teaching there at the time, and they became friends.

Mr. Gelb went to work as a political consultant for the Pentagon in 1967, and convinced Mr. Bartholomew to join them next year. Both then moved to and from different departments in different roles, with Mr. Bartholomew works at the National Security Council during the Carter administration and was succeeded by Mr. Gelb as director of political-military affairs at the Department of State.

Mr. Bartholomew has played a key role in the SALT II arms limitation with the Soviet Union in 1979. After his stay in Spain, he returned to Washington to serve as Secretary of Security Affairs with Secretary of State James A. Baker III.

Years before, Mr. Bartholomew was an assistant secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. A senior military official said Mr. Kissinger requested Mr. Bartholomew meetings in European politics.

"I realized quickly," the official said in an email to Mr. Gelb, "was an indispensable man."

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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter Malcolm W. Browne Dies at 81

Malcolm W. Browne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for four decades of his career, which included covering the Vietnam War - and make one of the most memorable images of the conflict - and a lively second act, as a science that explains chemical weapons and describing the increase in the synthesis of body parts, died Monday in Hanover, NH

The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease, said his wife, Le Lieu Browne.

Mr. Browne, who lived in Thetford Center, Vermont, Manhattan and has spent most of his career writing for the New York Times, which sent him to Argentina, Vietnam, Bosnia, Pakistan, where his curiosity the name has become a science writer at the end of 1970.

"My life is exceptional," Browne said in an interview in 1993. "It provides the widest variety of experiences. This, after all, why I became a journalist."

However, his career was somewhat of an accident.

Mr. Browne had worked as a chemist in New York in 1950 (one of his tasks: finding a substitute for gum, the main ingredient in chewing gum), when he was recruited to go to Korea in 1956. He drove a tank for a while, but the army has assigned later to write for The Stars and Stripes, a decision he said it was his idea, not hers.

After being discharged, Mr. Browne found a job in Baltimore with The Associated Press. Less than a year later, in 1961, the AP Saigon made its head office.

Mr. Browne was one of the journalists who have become more skeptical of American efforts to support the government of Saigon.

Neil Sheehan, who joined The Times, after serving as Saigon bureau chief of United Press International, said Tuesday that Mr. Browne was a "fierce competitor", but also a friend. Mr. Browne often wore a belt buckle of gold, and wearing a money belt so you should have cash "to get out of a difficult situation."

"But," said Mr. Sheehan: "I do not think I've ever had to use."

While journalists in Vietnam often clashed with U.S. officials, Mr. Browne later identified Henry Cabot Lodge, who arrived in 1963 as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam as "more honest than most U.S. officials I had known. "

E 'was that Mr. Lodge said Browne, who had played an important role in raising awareness of the problems in Vietnam at the highest levels at the White House through a photograph taken in 1963.

When a Buddhist Monaco was set on fire in public in the same year in protest at the government of South Vietnam, Mr. Browne was the only journalist there, and captured the stunning moment in a photograph.

Several studies, including The Times, decided not to run the disturbing image, but Mr. Lodge said he had seen a copy on the desk of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1964, while working for the AP, Mr. Browne shared the Pulitzer Prize for international reports David Halberstam, who covered the war for The Times.

Mr. Browne returned to the U.S. and then joined the Times, which eventually sent to Vietnam. Then go find the sources that had developed in the forefront refuted optimistic accounts of the government of Saigon.

"A spokesman for the South Vietnamese Army, said in an afternoon press conference in Saigon that the elements formed by the soldiers in the air, supported by tanks, entered Quangtri city early yesterday morning," he wrote in a report in 1972. "However, authoritative sources in the reception said that was not true."

Browne also worked for a time in South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere before he began writing about science. He studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College.

Their tasks vary widely: the dangers posed by toxic waste drop the space shuttle Challenger, an effort to build a robot flying pterosaur, an effort to rid the trash Antarctica accumulate there.

He left the Times in 1980 to work for Discover magazine, but returned a few years later and continued to write science.

In 2000, after retiring to Vermont, Mr. Browne wrote an essay for The Times the dual nature of his journalistic career.

"After 'time, a news writer may begin to feel a sort of monotony in most of the events that pass as news," he wrote. "When this happens the lucky few of us to discover that in science, almost unique among human activities, there is always something new under the sun."

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Pioneer of Artificial Heart David Lederman Dies at 68

David M. Lederman, who led the team of scientists who developed the first artificial heart implanted at all - which, although they have had limited success, we must advance in the treatment of advanced heart disease - died on August 15 home in Marblehead, Mass.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his son, Jonathan said.

Dr. Lederman, an aerospace engineer, founded a small company called Abiomed in 1981, hoping to prolong life by providing a greater degree of independence for the severely weakened heart patients waiting for a transplant.

Working with Dr. Robert Kung, chief scientific officer of the company, brought together a research team (including aerospace engineers by the way) who designed the AbioCor.

A grapefruit-sized device that replaces a sick heart, the AbioCor has no wires or pipes that pass through the skin. When implemented, a coil transfers power from the charging device and the skin from the outside. An internal battery and a controller that controls and regulates the heart implanted in the abdomen.

The AbioCor is very different from the first Total Artificial Heart, the Jarvik-7, designed by Dr. Robert Jarvik, who asked the tubes that carry the patient to a small compressor fridge which was implanted in Dr. Barney Clark in "University of Utah, December 1982.

Even this is the distinction between the AbioCor artificial heart and other plant, SynCardia, which is also powered by an air compressor outside the body.

Only 14 of the devices were implanted AbioCor, during clinical trials, 2001-2004, the longest surviving recipient 512 days. In comparison, the SynCardia with its out-of-body halter, has been implemented in more than 1,000 patients, with the longest surviving 1374 days.

One problem with the AbioCor is too big to be in many patients. Abiomed AbioCor II is developed, which is a third smaller than the original and designed to last up to five years.

However, the original device had a significant impact on cardiology. "Despite the fact that the AbioCor has not been used in a large number of patients, has paved the way for further development of fully autonomous artificial heart technology," Dr. Kathy point, a spokeswoman for the American Association Heart and director of cardiology services for women in St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, said.

Dr. A. Lame Gray Jr., professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Louisville with Dr. Robert D. Dowling made the first AbioCor system in 2002, agreed. "The importance is that it was totally implantable and gave people a better quality of life," he said, adding that among the most recent is a left ventricular device, "which is widely used today as bridge to transplant. "

According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages the national transplant system, 3254 patients waiting for a new heart, and that the year 1045 was donated hearts. It was not possible to determine how many of those patients waiting for a transplant are compatible with devices that have been developed from the AbioCor.

When it was invented by Dr. Gray said: "Never's been a more sophisticated device implanted in a human being."

Dr. Lederman had a great vision for your business. In a 2003 interview with CBS News, said: "There is no reason that a person has died when his heart stops If the brain of the person and the body is in good shape, because people has died.? "

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A Shaper of Channel 13 Robert Kotlowitz Dies at 87

Robert Kotlowitz, author and publisher, who reluctantly became manager of public television in 1971 and has continued to develop the line of homegrown and imported shows - including "The Report MacNeil / Lehrer," "Live at the Met" "Dance in America" ??and "Brideshead Revisited" - which represent a high point of American television, died Saturday at home in Manhattan.

The cause was prostate cancer, his son Alex said.

Mr. Kotlowitz had just resigned as editor of Harper, in a battle with the new owners for editorial control, when John Jay Iselin, the new president's main public television stations in the country, Channel 13 in New York, offered job.

"Like what?" I've never been in a TV studio, "said Kotlowitz asked in an interview with Channel 13. Mr. Iselin said, he replied:" You will be the editor. "

"Why?" Mr. Kotlowitz hesitant to ask.

"We'll see," said Iselin.

Mr. Kotlowitz, who was senior vice president of programming and distribution, and has remained on channel 13 until his retirement in 1990, was known as a kind of minister of Culture and home to some of the most ardent advocate Mr. Iselin's most ambitious decisions.

Ist proposed an evening news half an hour with Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil in 1973, after the couple had anchored public television coverage of Senate Watergate hearings.

The agreement has been difficult, but largely thanks to the tenacity of Mr. Kotlowitz met two years later as "The Report MacNeil / Lehrer." The program, which was seen across the country since December 1975, now known as "PBS NewsHour."

In 1981, when Channel 13 had financial problems, Mr. Kotlowitz convinced Mr. Iselin invest $ 500,000 in a series produced by Granada Television in England. The series "Brideshead Revisited," based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, has become one of the most successful television audiences.

Mr. Kotlowitz played a similar role in introducing the audience to "Monty Python Flying Circus", a live performance at New York City Ballet and the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, "Bill Moyers Journal" and "Nature".

Mr. MacNeil, who became a friend, said Mr. Kotlowitz aesthetic sensibility deeply influenced PBS programming. "He had innate good taste, and a deep familiarity with literature and art in all its forms," ??said MacNeil said in an interview.

Before the advent of cable, when public television was one of the only alternatives to the speed of the network in many small towns, he added, "Bob was what brought people to opera, ballet The New York Philharmonic. "

In a review in the Washington Post Book World "Somewhere Else," Michele Murray that Mr. Kotlowitz by Isaac Bashevis Singer. "He made the best singer in 'The Manor' and 'The Farm', he wrote," to explain what is essentially the same story of the breakdown of the traditional life of communities isolated Jewish shtetl in Poland. "

In addition to his son, Alex, Mr. Kotlowitz survivors include another son, Dan, a sister, Elaine Magarill, and four grandchildren. His wife, Billie Kotlowitz Leibowitz, who died in 1994.

Mr. Kotlowitz told interviewers that while he was not looking for a job in public television, glad that he was ahead. The work, he said in the interview with Channel 13, took him to the arena of the great pleasures of life: music, art, books, nature, history, current events.

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Liberal Party Power Broker Raymond Harding Dies at 77

Raymond B. Harding, former leader of the Liberal Party of New York, which has advanced the careers of mayors and governors, but fell into disfavor in the corruption scandal that toppled the state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, died Thursday in the Bronx.

The cause was cancer, said his son Robert.

Mr. Smith came to the Balkans, as a child, a Jewish refugee during the war, the father was beaten by the Nazis. His family survived the camps and a dangerous journey across the Atlantic with a gauntlet of attack submarines.

As a teenager, he got his new American name of a favorite radio program, "said David Smith, CounterSpy." He is a lawyer and became a protégé of Alex Rose, the legendary founder of the Liberal Party.

And from his rise to power in 1977 to his political death, when the Liberals lost their ballot line in 2002, Mr. Smith was one of the corridors of power entrepreneurs of the state, with his party small, but influential in helping to elect Mario M. Cuomo as governor, Rudolph W. Giuliani as mayor, Mr. Hevesi as the city and the state controller, and many other public officials.

Instead, Mr. Smith, a brave, smoking a cigarette behind the scenes tactics approval remained alive long after his party critics called irrelevant, has gained power and patronage. Taking advantage of his influence in City Hall and in Albany, said a high profile, government jobs to his allies, including his two sons, and builds extraordinary profits for themselves.

In 2009, however, pleaded guilty to charges of receiving $ 800,000 for favors to Mr. Hevesi - a fictitious agent for members of the driver to get lucrative contracts to manage $ 141 billion state pension fund and intrigues for a seat in the Assembly of State for the son of Mr. Hevesi.

Mr. Smith has worked with the state investigation that led to the arrest of Mr. Hevesi and others. The criminal charges against Mr. Smith fell, and his own conviction in 2011 in a unique crime number was saved from prison and allowed to remain with the money he had taken. But it was a stunning humiliation for one of the last political leader of New York days old.

Like his predecessor, Mr. Rose, Mr. Smith helped the Republicans and Democrats elected, taking advantage of the small liberal party members - only 1 percent of the electoral lists - something more important: a second place to vote for candidates who thus acquired an undeserved approval times as progressives. It also gave voters a disgruntled liberal Democrat and Republican, to appease their consciences.

Since New York is one of the few states that allow a candidate the votes are added as a candidate, the parties have little influence beyond all measure, because supporting candidates or get support.

In turn, are guaranteed a line to the next statewide ballot, if they receive at least 50,000 votes. Playing both ends against the middle, Mr. Smith might be a maker of kings and the orchestration of the survival of his party.

For students of politics, watching the maneuver Harding was a rite of the season in New York elections. He took the crown of tin capo political flavor: an overweight chin, with heavy eyelids, fingers stained yellow from unfiltered Camel, a booming voice, the eyes with sunglasses that many are intimidating. He was suddenly, and often spoke as if the writing aloud titles Tabloids - "LP" for the game, "libs" for the faithful.

Harding was a collaborator of L. Governor Hugh Carey 1975-1977. He became the leader of the Liberal Party after the 1976 death of Mr. Rose, who founded the party in 1944 with a program to keep Republicans and liberal Democrats honest.

The party helped the election of Democrat Robert F. Wagner and Republican John V. Lindsay, as mayors, Republican Jacob K. Javits as senator, Democrat Edward I. Koch as a young congressman, and Mr. Carey and Mr. Cuomo, both Democrats, as governors.

Mr. Smith has never been elected to any office and has had little use for ideology. An old joke was that the Liberal Party was neither liberal nor a party. He carried out without primary or convention and its candidates had a few.

Harding has decided that the Democrats or Republicans, to support in order to earn your patronage and rewards. His title was also a fiction: the vice president with absolute power, the president of being a figurehead.

His smartest decision that was said to have been his first embrace of Mr. Giuliani, a Republican, Democrat, David N. Dinkins for mayor in 1989. Mr. Dinkins won that election, but after Mayor Giuliani won in 1993.

Mr. Smith took advantage of a pressure group and employment guarantees for their children, Robert, as director of budget and the deputy mayor, and Russell, as Head of Housing and Development Corporation, although he was a deserter from the university with no experience in housing. But in 2005, Russell Smith was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $ 400,000 from the agency.

Asked about criticism from Democrats for backing Giuliani, Mr. Smith said: "Political parties serve a purpose The purpose of the Liberal Party at that time was to save and restore this great city, and has done so. Ask the leadership of Giuliani. "

The leader of the Liberal Party, was born Helen Marie Branko Hochwald Hochwald and January 31, 1935, in Herzegovina. While World War II he moved through the Balkans, the father was attacked by the Nazis and the family fled to Italy in 1941, taking refuge in a refugee camp in Calabria.

Jewish immigration in times of war the U.S. has been virtually banned in 1944 but were among the 1,000 Jewish refugees Hochwald granted safe haven by President Franklin D. Roosevelt - the only large group of Jews admitted during the war - as told in the book "Haven", a press photographer Ruth Gruber.

Raymond graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1953 and City College in 1957 with a degree in political science. After his military service as an infantry officer, he earned a degree in law at the University of New York in 1961.

Besides his sons, Mr. Smith is survived by his wife of 55 years, the former Elisabeth Einhorn, and two grandchildren.

He practiced law for five years between 1966 and 1969 was the city attorney, research inspectors damaged buildings. In 1975, he joined the staff of Governor Carey as disaster coordinator, military adviser and legislative liaison.

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