Marvin Hamlisch dies at 68

The film and the Broadway community has lost one of its most successful composer Marvin Hamlisch as strongly on Tuesday has died at 68 after a short unspecified illness.

Perhaps best known for his work in the beloved movie musical A Chorus Line and The Way We Were he and Sting, Hamlisch has also written scores for famous films such as the common people, and Sophie's decision to take the money and run and contribute to the James Bond hit the spy who loved me, co-authored Nobody Does It Better by Carole Bayer Sager.

For his efforts, Hamlisch has won entry into the elite club of artists who have received Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Academy Awards. He has won four Emmy Awards and three Academy Awards, the third for his adaptation of Scott Joplin ragtime music is at the time.

His credits on Broadway, most of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning A Chorus Line, They're playing our song including, The Goodbye Girl and the sweet taste of success. The final show, although not a critical hit, it was cool to the musical star Kelli O'Hara in her first Broadway role.

Hamlisch was also a prolific arranger and conductor, symphony orchestras across the country. The youngest student accepted to the prestigious Juilliard School in New York, began studies there at the age of 7 years he started his career on Broadway as a pianist and vocal arranger assistant test for Funny Girl , starring Barbra Streisand, as would later write in The Way We Were.

His work on Broadway includes arrangements and orchestrations for Liza Liza Minnelli's triumphant return to the palace in 2008 and previous commitments Minnelli on Minnelli (1999) and Liza (1974). He also provided music for the 1984 Shirley MacLaine on Broadway special.

Hamlisch's adaptation of the new movie musical The crazy professor has made its world premiere in July at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. The composer had been scheduled to fly to Nashville this week to see the Broadway production of wheels.

He was working on another musical, well, Gotta Dance, and wrote the soundtrack behind theCandleabra the forthcoming HBO film Liberace. And Hamlisch was to target New York Philharmonic concert on the eve of his next New Year.

While sweeping Hamlisch, shamelessly sentimental style does not always earn rave reviews, seemed satisfied with the popular appeal that much of his music remained for decades.

"I do not think there is nothing wrong in doing very wonderful, wonderful business, entertainment," he said in an interview Broadwayworld.com 2010. "There is nothing wrong with the" business "of the word."

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TV producer Joan Stein dies at 59

Joan Stein, a Tony award winning theater and television producer who helped launch some long-term in Los Angeles theater productions, including "Love Letters", "Forever" Plaid Steve Martin and "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" is dead. He was 59 years.

Stein died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles. A resident of Hollywood, was diagnosed four weeks ago with a rare type of cancer that affects the appendix, said her husband, Ted Weiant.

In 1999, Stein won a Tony Award as a producer of "Side Man" Broadway play, a drama set in the jazz world after the war. His other recent credits include producing the Broadway musical "Catch Me If You Can" and "9 to 5" and the 2002 revival of "The Elephant Man".

Stein and his producer partner, Susan Dietz, directed the Canon Theatre in Beverly Hills for 10 years. His first success was A.R. Gurney "Love Letters", which opened in 1990, and a rotating cast of celebrities. While Canon, Stein Laird has also produced "Forever Plaid" and Joel Paley and Marvin Stuart Ross musical parody of "ruthless!"

Stein left the Canon in 2000 to pursue a career in television and the theater closed in 2004.

"The enjoyment and we did a good job. She was a sister to me these 10 years," said Dietz.

Stein was also producer of "Picasso at the Lapin Agile," which opened in 1994 at the Westwood Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse now. Martin's work, which establishes a link between the artist and Albert Einstein at a bar in Paris, became a hit and ran over 300 performances.

"People say, 'You can not earn a living theater in Los Angeles,'" Stein told the Times in 1995 amid the success, "Picasso." 'Good', all dressed up in my office, driving a car, pay the rent. They are making a living in theater. "

After leaving the Canon Theatre, Stein created a television production company with Martin have collaborated on several projects.

Stein recent theater projects such as "Motherhood Out Loud", which took place in the primary stages of New York and the Geffen Playhouse in 2011 with the title "In the words of the Mother." He also produced "standing for the ceremony," a series of works on gay marriage, which took place in Largo Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles.

Her stage career includes a stint as the CEO of Berkshire Theatre Festival in Massachusetts.

Stein was born June 7, 1953 in New York. He graduated from State University of New York at Albany, after majoring in English.

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Character Actor Norman Alden Dies at 87

Norman Alden, a character actor who played a roll in soda "Back to the Future", a camera of Tim Burton's "Ed Wood" and the title role in the first film directed by cult of Richard C. Sarafian, the "Andy," died Friday in Los Angeles. He was 87 years.

His death was confirmed by Thieben Linda, his partner of 30 years.

Mr. Alden acted in television and film for 50 years, appearing regularly on programs such as "The Legend of Wyatt Earp," "The Untouchables" and "My Three Sons".

His career in television has led to parts in films like "Tora, Tora, Tora!" E "I never promised you a rose garden." He also voiced many cartoon characters, including the brother of the aging King Arthur, Sir Kay, Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" and Kranix, a robot that is able to escape destruction by Unicron, the voice of Orson Welles in the 1986 animated film "Transformers."

In turn Mr. Alden star came in 1965, rogue "Andy." Andy, 40, a mentally disabled son of Greek immigrants in New York, was exhibited for the last night of seedy adventures before their parents participate in a kindergarten.

"Norman Alden as the hero, gropes his clumsy way, giving a feeling of great power button and the childish and gross failure of the unfortunate man," wrote Bosley Crowther in The New York Times.

Adelberg Norman was born in Fort Worth, Texas, September 13, 1924. He attended Texas Christian University and served in Europe during World War II, before he began acting on radio and performing stand-up comedy. He also appeared in commercials, in particular, as the mechanic Lou advertising AC Delco.

Besides his wife, Mrs. Thieben, Mr. Alden will survive one son, Brent, and daughter, Ashley, from a previous marriage, two stepchildren, Randy and Kevin Thieben, a stepdaughter, Sherri Thieben, a granddaughter and a step grandson.

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Singer-Actor Tony Martin dies at 98

Tony Martin, one of the great names of singers, actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98.

Martin, who toured for years with his wife Charisse, dancer and actress CyD, who died of natural causes Friday at home in Los Angeles, his former manager, Stan Schneider, told the Times.

It appeared in over 30 films, most memorable, like a thief in contrast with Commissioner Peter Lorre, in 1948, the elegant "Casbah", a movie musical that Martin helped transform into a star.

Twice, songs sung on screen by Martin received Oscar nominations: "To every man there is a woman" of the "Casbah" and "E" A blue world "from the 1940 film" The music my heart. "

Suffered as a singer of romantic ballads, continuing to play with them on stage in his 90 years.

With his powerful voice and captivating style, Martin was enormously popular in late 1930 to 1950 as a singer who has contributed to the norms of songs like "Stranger in Paradise", "La Vie en Rose," "fools fall in love A "," I see you in my dreams "and many others.

Although dozens of singers recorded Cole Porter's "Begin the Beguine," Martin was so identified with that sometimes the jazz critic Leonard Feather old, once described the song as Martin in "virtual mirror".

"Martin recalls the time when the hearts used in the sleeves," wrote the pen in an analysis by The Times in 1970, a local of local actions. "Let the emotions all the time, reaching a crescendo of triplet, supported by a once in a lifetime" and singing "I Am in Love," as if it returns to Rita Hayworth in a tight close-ups, "in reference The star in the glamorous with whom he shared the big screen - and regularly escorted by the city.

His tenor voice earned him roles in films like the 1936 musical "Parade of the Boar," with Judy Garland and Betty Grable and the saga of "Banjo on My Knee" with Barbara Stanwyck river. Also co-starred in 1941 is extravagantly choreographed "Ziegfeld Girl," a serenade Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner in "You walk in a dream."

In early 1960, the musical and film career as a singer was singing, and began traveling with Charisse in a cabaret act. He pulled a treasure of songs like "I Get Ideas" and "E" magic ", and his wife danced.

"For him, walking in a local ground is simple and natural as going to the kitchen for a glass of water," said Charisse in "The Two of Us", the joint autobiography with Martin wrote in 1976.

The couple marked 60 years of marriage in 2008, when he died at 86 years. A free-Martin, then 94, to pain, while playing live, and then said.

Although no longer a Belter, the rich timbre of his voice was "strikingly similar to what was in 1940 and '50," according to a 2009 New York Times review of a commitment for five nights in a club Night in New York.

Triggered by his pianist, 95 years, Martin sang versions of "fully contained" the songs associated with contemporaries such as Bing Crosby ("I Surrender, Dear") and "there is no tomorrow," said Martin, who be given to him by Perry Como, in its revised version.

Martin saw his style of performance as the heart, telling the Times 1960. "I think I look like a guy who always make a call through his music a sort of declaration of sincerity."

Alvin Morris was taken December 25, 1913, in San Francisco, according to birth records. His parents, Edward and Hattie Morris, were Jewish immigrants from Poland, who divorced when he was young, and he regarded his stepfather, a tailor, Myer Myers, his father.

He grew up in Oakland, took the saxophone after his grandmother gave him one when he was 10. The instrument - and later her singing - were "my passport out of poverty," he said.

In high school, he formed his first band, and after graduation he spent two years at Santa Maria College in Moraga, California, but he left to devote himself to music.

For several years he played and sang with bands in San Francisco, including the Orchestra of Girona Tom. When the legendary head of MGM studios, Louis B. Mayer listened to the radio, has led Martin to Hollywood in 1934 for a hearing.

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French filmmaker Chris Marker dies at 91

Chris Marker, an enigmatic figure in French cinema, has avoided publicity and was reluctant to project their films, but is often ranked with his fellow Alain Resnais and Jean-Luc Godardas a teacher of art , died Sunday at home in Paris, on his birthday 91.

His death was reported by Agence France-Presse, but the cause did not occur.

Marker, who has worked well in the 80's, made over two dozen films over a period of six to ten year career. Known as a pioneer of film test, was most admired for "La Jetée" (1962) and "Sans Soleil" (1983), who explored the time, memory and history in a fascinating style and unconventional.

"La Jetée" ("El Embarcadero") was 28 minutes of film made almost entirely of still images that focuses on a man who travels between past and future to see a photo of his disturbing childhood.

The most surprising moment of the film is when, for a few seconds a few years, the stills to make way for moving images of a woman who sleeps with his eyes open, staring at the camera and flash.

Janet Harbord British film scholar, who wrote the 2009 book "Chris Marker: La Jetée," the movement causes a "shock near the erotic or religious experience, or perhaps both," and sends a while the magic and mystery of the half.

The critic Pauline Kael called "La Jetée", "quite possibly the film of science fiction, however, made larger." The critic and film historian David Thomson went further, declaring in a 2002 article in British newspaper the Guardian that "La Jetée" could be "the only film ever made is essential."

The topic may seem known by contemporary audiences as it has inspired a new version of Hollywood, "12 Monkeys". Directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Bruce Willis and Brad Pitt, in 1995 the film was generally considered by critics as less fundamental than the original.

Another masterpiece of marker, "Sans Soleil" ("no one"), is narrated by a woman who reads aloud the letters he receives from a camera in their nomadic travels in Japan, Iceland, Africa and other distant destinations. The letters describe beautiful places, like a blinding white desert, a musical scale and a temple dedicated to cats.

The cats appear throughout the film, and bearing the name of the marker in two: the documentary "A smile without a cat" (1977) and "The Case of the Smiling Cat" (2004). The first film that examines the movement of the New Left from the Vietnam war and the expulsion of Chilean President Salvador Allende in 1973. This film documents the political mood in France after the attacks of September 11 and includes images of smiling cat graffiti began appearing in Paris and then. Unpublished photographs of the director general, show a slight man, bald behind the camera with her cat, Guillaume.

Policy markers were clear in other studies as well as "Cuba Yes" (1961), on Castro's Cuba, "Le Joli Mai" (1963), produced by 55 hours of interviews with French nationals on their attitude towards the Franco-Algerian war, and "The Last Bolshevik" (1993), conceived as a series of letters to the Soviet director Aleksandr Medvedkine.

He also produced "Far from Vietnam", a documentary made in 1967 in collaboration with Godard and Resnais, who opposed the U.S. intervention in Vietnam.

A marker of recent works, in late 1990, was an interactive CD-ROM called "Immemory", consisting of more than 20 hours of images, movies, music, text and sounds divided into several sections, including poetry, film, travel and photography.

Little is known about the life of the marker, which apparently was the same director, who called himself "the unknown author best known films," he wanted.

Most biographies say she was born Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve, in Neuilly sur Seine, France, 29 July 1921, and studied philosophy withJean-Paul Sartre at the end of 1930. It may be apocryphal, but some sources say that his love for the Magic Marker pen inspired him to change his name.

Doubts also surrounded his hometown. Marker said the film historian Thomson during a meeting in Berkeley in 1980 that Thomson "Biographical Dictionary of Film" was a mistake and in fact was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.

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Star of TV's 'The Jeffersons' Sherman Hemsley dies at 74

Sherman Hemsley, who was rooted in the minds of millions of viewers as the next boom black Archie Bunker, George Jefferson in "All in the Family" and then as the star of the comedy LP "The Jefferson" has died. He was 74.

The actor, who owned a house in El Paso, was found dead Tuesday by the Sheriff's Department Pas, his agent, Frank Todd, told the Times. No cause of death was given.

Hemsley time in relative obscurity as an actor in New York for the first time celebrity in 1973 when producer Norman Lear chose to "All in the Family", the controversial comedy starring Carroll O'Connor as the patriarch fan a working class family in Queens.


Like George Jefferson, Hemsley was a burr in the side of Archie, who loved to annoy your neighbors of their prejudices. It appeared in the hit program from 1973 until 1975, when he left to star in the spin-off of The Jefferson Lear Sanford "Elizabeth, who played his wife, Louise.

"The Jefferson" ran for 11 seasons on CBS, so Hemsley one of the most viewed black actors of the environment.

"Sherman was one of the most generous co-stars I've worked," said Marla Gibbs, who played the smart-mouth cleaning Jefferson ", Florence Johnston." He made me so happy that I to win, and I did the same for him. I miss him deeply. "

In 1970, Lear was looking for talents to Broadway when he saw Hemsley, who was playing the role of Gitlow in "Purlie," a musical set in the segregated South. Hemsley audition for the producer the next day, but was not hired.

George Jefferson, quoted in "All in the Family" as Edith Bunker's husband, friend, Louise Jefferson (played by Sanford), but does not appear until 1973, when Lear finally brought the show Hemsley.

"The energy of the man believed he was totally in sync with the image we have created behind the scenes of George," said Lear Albany Times Union in 1999.

When George Jefferson returned a small dry cleaning in a string of successes, moved from Queens to the Manhattan luxury skyscraper to another. His entry into the ranks of the nouveau riche, provided the starting point for "The Jefferson".

"I loved the character, because he knew that people like," Hemsley said in an interview with George Jefferson in 2003 for the Archive of American Television.

Hemsley was born February 1, 1938, in Philadelphia and grew up along the drive south of the city. He was raised by a single mother who worked long hours in a factory.

In his teens he joined a gang and became a "High School begins." After leaving school he worked for four years, the Air Force in Japan and Korea, before returning to his hometown, where he worked as a mail sorter in a post office.

His day job has allowed him to pursue a childhood dream of acting, which was caused by her portrayal of a fire in a school of design for fire prevention week.

"I was at home on stage immediately clear that he brings up and threw water on the floor and rolled said..! Frustrated again," he told the Associated Press 1986.

In Philadelphia, he joined a theater company where he gained experience in a variety of roles, including the son of Willy Loman, Happy in "Death of a Salesman" Archibald and Jean Genet "blacks".

In 1967, he moved to a post office in New York, trying to act to work in their spare time. He joined the Advanced performance workshops Negro Ensemble Company and studied with Lloyd Richards, who directed Lorraine Hansberry "A Raisin in the Sun" on Broadway.

His career in television through four decades, with appearances on "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and "Family Matters".

In late 1990, he began dividing his time between Los Angeles and El Paso. Information about survivors was not immediately available.

After "The Jefferson" was canceled in 1985, he played Ernest Frye, a deacon of the church Saint-that-you and a lawyer in the sitcom "Amen", which worked on NBC 1986-1991.

He expressed the character B.P. Richfield in "Dinosaurs," a comedy about a family of puppet animals domesticated by prehistoric aired on ABC from 1991 to 1994. From 1996 to 1997 he starred in the short-lived UPN series "Goode Behavior", the former fascinating game with Willie Goode.

None of these characters had the appeal of George Jefferson. Years after the program ended, fans Hemsley often asked him to rebuild the famous George amount of the opening credits of the show. Hemsley, said he was inspired Slopes Philadelphia, a dance that he learned as a child in Philadelphia.

But he insisted that in most other ways, he and his character was very different. "I do not close the doors in the faces of people, and I'm not a fanatic," he told USA Today in 1999. "I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love."

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TV actor Chad Everett Dies at 75

Chad Everett, an actor who played Dr. Joe Gannon sturdy and handsome young man in the television drama "Medical Center", has died. He was 75.

Everett died Tuesday at his home in Los Angeles after fighting lung cancer, his daughter Katherine Thorp told AP. Everett's wife of 45 years, actress Shelby Grant, died of an aneurysm in June 2011 to 74.

Although Everett has had a number of roles in television and films in a career that began in 1960, early, he left a lasting impression as Dr. Gannon on "Medical Center".

The drama series broadcast by CBS from 1969-1976 and followed the personal and professional lives in a university hospital in Los Angeles.

"Underestimation is apparently a very salable to TV", a reporter for the Washington Post wrote in an article published in 1975 by the famous man. "Chad Everett, a type of big city in China rarely lethargy histrionics while their rounds in" Medical Center "."

Everett came to Hollywood from the Midwest. It 's born Raymond Lee Cramton in South Bend, Indiana, June 11, 1937, and grew up in Dearborn, Michigan, where his father was a racing driver and racing mechanic. He studied acting at Wayne State University in Detroit.

"I went to acting, so get bored easily," Everett told The Times in 1966, several years after he had changed his name for professional reasons. "I tried - when I was young - music, football, my father's business all his actions seem bores me to vent a lot of different feelings ..".

She landed jobs in episodic television programs from 1961 and then won a role in the TV western "The Dakota" in 1963.

He signed with MGM in 1964 and appeared in "Made in Paris" with Ann-Margret, and "The Singing Nun" with Debbie Reynolds in 1966.

Everett has worked steadily on television before and after "Medical Center", which appears as a regular "Hagen", "The Rousters", "McKenna," "Melrose Place," "Manhattan, AZ" and recently as "Last year in the" Chemistry ", a drama of the USA Network.

His film roles include parts in "Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982), the 1998 remake of "Psycho" and "Mulholland Dr." (2001).

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Actress Ginny Tyler dies at 86

As the episodes of "The Mickey Mouse Club" have repackaged for syndication, a court of any new Mouseketeer holding the Main Street Opera House at Disneyland in 1963.

For a year, Ginny Tyler has hosted segments of the new TV series that are woven around the former. As we took viewers behind the scenes of the theme park, plus a note of its resemblance to the original Mouseketeer Annette Funicello.

As one of the "storytellers of Disneyland," said Tyler had these records as "Bambi" and "Babes in Toyland" and would become known to express the characters of animals.

In a role known, has given voice to Polynesia the Parrot, who helps teach Rex Harrison talks to the animals in the 1967 film "Dr. Dolittle".

Tyler died July 13 of natural causes in a nursing home in Issaquah, Washington, said his son, Ty Fenton. He was 86 years.

From a very young age, Tyler "could change my voice at a click of a finger," said the Issaquah Press in 2010.

In the official accounts of Disney, his passion for storytelling and the ability to imitate the sounds of animals has been traced back to his Native American roots.

An ancestor who was a leader of the Snoqualmie Tribe, exchanged their two daughters with a white woman by a piece of property after his wife left him, according to his son. One of the girls was her great-grandmother.

Tyler's talent for the sounds of animals was given probably under his mother, Harriet, an artist who has studied bird song at a school in Los Angeles and joined the organization and play and sing, he Fenton said.

Born Erlandson Merrie Virginia on August 8, 1925 in Berkeley, raised in Seattle. After his parents divorced, she was adopted by his stepfather, Theodore Eggers. He had used very "Ginny", as its name, when he added the name of art "Tyler" in 1950.

A graduate of the University of Washington School of Theatre, Tyler started on the radio before receiving television program for children in Seattle. In late 1950, he moved to Los Angeles soon and saying Disney albums.

In the Disney movie, she played two amorous female squirrels in "The Sword in the Stone" (1963) and sang the parts of different animals to corral "Jolly Holiday" sequence of "Mary Poppins" (1964) .

Among other functions, has expressed its "Casper the friendly ghost" in 1963. "Davey and Goliath" Jan, the damsel in distress in "Space Ghost" cartoons in 1966, and many female characters in the first episodes of the television series 1960

Similarly, a study was established, rare works, in Burbank in 1970 to share their art.

His first marriage ended in divorce. She married Albert Jacobsen in 1980 and moved to Seattle with him in 1994. He died the following year.

In addition to her son, her two surviving brothers, Don and Terry Eggers, two grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

At Disneyland, organized daily 15-minute segments of "The Mickey Mouse Club", which requires a demanding production schedule. Often told stories through the air, he signed autographs in the park and consider the work of the highlights of his career.

His voice was described in the heart of the Tiki Room birds outside the park.

One day I was raving about how wonderful Disneyland was Walt Disney when he replied. "The same with my narrator Disneyland too" That was me. I never felt more proud, "said Tyler in the 2006 book" The footprints of the mouse, "the story of Walt Disney Records.

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Director of sex comedy 'The Telephone Book' Nelson Lyon dies at 73

Decades later, the writer and director Nelson Lyon launched the X-rated sex comedy "The phone book" in 1971, the film has been acclaimed as a work of art overlooked. Since then, Lyons was a former "Saturday Night Live" writer long for a darker connection: It was in a drug fueled excess with John Belushi in the last days of comics in 1982.

"He was blamed for the death of Belushi, and ruin his career," said Dennis Perrin, author of "Mr. Mike," a 1999 biography of the former "Saturday Night Live" head writer Michael O'Donoghue, who Lyons was a partner was to write.

Lyon, 73 years old, died Tuesday of liver cancer at home in Los Angeles, said Mark Mothersbaugh, lead singer of Devo and a close friend.

When the Los Angeles County jury investigating the death of Belushi overdosed, Lyon said in early 1983 with a grant of immunity from prosecutors. He presented a sordid picture of life in the late Belushi.

Three days before his death, he began a Belushi "by Boys Night Out" at home in Lyon, when the comedian came up with Cathy Evelyn Smith. A former backup singer, who later admitted giving Belushi the mixture of heroin and cocaine that killed him and then serve 15 months in prison.

"I have a surprise for you," says Belushi Lyon said. "Remángate".

Smith injects Belushi and times of several days and Lyon 4 March 1982, the day before the body of Belushi was found at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood, according to the testimony of Lyon.

In a private club, Lyon Belushi and mingled with celebrities before the two men who inject Smith with a "Speedball", a mixture of heroin and cocaine. It "made me a walking zombie," said Lyons.

Belushi was ill on the way back to his hut, where the actor Robert De Niro and comedian Robin Williams was stopped, according to Lyon. He stated that Belushi was left exhausted with Smith about 3:30 on March 5. The Belushi 33 years old, was found dead later that morning.

In his testimony, Lyons said he had taken drugs to please Belushi.

Lyon back in place as a director was thin, but "the telephone" has experienced a renaissance after nearly 40 years when it was screened at international level.

Initially rejected by mainstream critics pornographic and obscene, is now considered a "lost gem" said Mothersbaugh.

In its 1971 review of the Times critic Kevin Thomas praised the farce rises to about a woman who falls for an obscene phone call. The satire of pornography was "so bright that people are desperately searching for risks sexploitation always fun to attend," he wrote.

The film "was made with a degree of freedom to insult and attack and the assault on the audience and try to entertain the audience," Lyons said the Wall Street Journal in January. "It was an era of sexual obsession, and the film has focused on the biggest problem in life. Sex"

Through the film, Lyon met O'Donoghue and was soon writing for "Saturday Night Live" in the 80's. The burly and imposing Lyon became the basis of an O'Donoghue recurring characters in the series - the dark lord Mike.

"When he met Nelson, have you seen the pace of entretallats Mr. Mike," said Perrin, "and certainly the black humor."

Taken February 28, 1939, at Troy Hills, New Jersey, he attended Columbia University Lyon.

He was a writer and designer for an advertising agency in New York when she met Andy Warhol in 1966, and later worked for the artist's studio, the Factory.

When Warhol was struggling with a concept for the cover of the 1971 Rolling Stones album "Sticky Fingers" said Lyon to join a work rack in a picture on top of jeans, according to an unpublished report Lyon. After Warhol was the idea, gave five Lyons Marilyn Monroe print to pay for it, the writer later recalled.

Photographs Lyon co spoken word record for the writers William Burroughs and Terry Southern, and took Lyon Burroughs were presented in the galleries.

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Al Franken's 'SNL' Partner Tom Davis dies at 59

Tom Davis, a playwright who collaborated with Al Franken to write memorable songs in "Saturday Night Live," which begins with the opening night of the show in 1975, has died. He was 59 years.

Davis died Thursday at his home in Hudson, New York, his wife, Mimi Raleigh, told AP. His throat and neck.

As a performer, Davis was a quiet, darkened by time of Franken, who is now a Democratic senator from Minnesota.

Davis told the AP in 2009: "If we were Sonny and Cher, Cher would be." The two had a fight in 1990, but later reconciled.

Davis was left with "Saturday Night Live" since the first season until 1980, then returned for another period of 1985-1994 and again in 2002-03.

He was one of "SNL" writers who shared Emmy Awards in 1976, '77 and '89. He won another Emmy in 1978 for writing for a variety show of Paul Simon.

Born August 13, 1952, in Minneapolis, Davis recalls a childhood spent in seeing "The Mickey Mouse Club" on television with the Musketeers ears.

He was the eldest of two brothers. His father worked for 3M and his mother was the queen of the lakes in the Minneapolis Aquatennial 1950, an annual summer festival.

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Bollywood Star Rajesh Khanna Dies at 69

Rajesh Khanna's success as a romantic hero in dozens of films in India in the 1960's and 70 made him one of the first superstars of Bollywood, died Wednesday in Mumbai. He was 69.

His death was said to have followed a long illness, was confirmed by a son-in-law, actor Akshay Kumar.

Mr. Khanna, a handsome actor and aerodynamics of a well-to-Punjabi family, played a leading role in many films that the interception of the greatest social tensions that arise in Indian society during the second generation after independence.

In "Namak haram" (1973), has played a leading trade union struggle against the rich factory owners in Mumbai. In "Love Hit" (1972), he played a man who falls for a prostitute.

He achieved fame in the 1969 film "Aradhana", playing a dashing pilot who dies in an accident, leaving behind the woman who married in secret to live as an outcast, the orphan son.

Mr. Khanna plays a role rather romance, that by convention Bollywood often necessary to perform its most passionate scenes, while the synchronization of lips long passages of opera songs in Hindi, all sung by another person actually .

But among the leaders of his time, was considered hard to choose a number of functions as a bad guy, or at least problems.

He played a drunk truck driver who accidentally runs over and kills a man in "Dushman" (1971), a jealous husband who abandons his pregnant wife in "Kasama AAP Ki" (1974) and a serial killer in "Rose Red" (1980 ).

Mr. Khanna was a star at the top for nearly a decade, until the birth of the action hero of Bollywood genre of late 1970. Between 1969 and 1972, he appeared in 15 consecutive shots. "Khanna witnessed great popularity, so that no one had seen or imagined," Javed Akhtar, a writer and poet, told The Times of India. "In fact, from 1969 to 1973, was a race horse." For their fans has always been known as "Kaka", a nickname meaning "uncle", "brother" or "baby" in some parts of India.

In its glory days as a hero after Mr. Khanna fans around the world, mobbing his public appearances. The women planted kisses on the limousines have ridden in. He said he had received marriage proposals written in blood.

After his film fame diminished, Mr. Khanna was a Member of Parliament for the Congress Party from 1991 to 1996. He remained active in politics until the disease has started to slow last year.

In the television interview in 1990, Mr. Khanna said he was prepared for the celebrities. "I never thought I would be so successful," he said. "At some point I was a superstar." The sudden end of his celebrity disorient him, he said. However, he added: "Of course, the show must go on trends are changing people are looking for something new ..."

Jatin Khanna, who later took the name of Rajesh, was born in Amritsar, Punjab, December 29, 1942, and was adopted by a wealthy couple. He made his film debut with "Aakhri khat" ("The last letter"), the entry in India for best foreign language film Oscar in 1967.

In 1973 he married 16 years, actress, Dimple Kapadia. Although they separated in 1984, the couple never divorced. She survives him with their two daughters, Twinkle Khanna and Rinke.

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Composer & Producer Ilhan Mimaroglu Dies at 86

Ilhan Mimaroglu, a composer best known for its music and electronic music producer best known for his work with Charles Mingus, died Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 86 years.

The cause was pneumonia, said Mehmet Dede, a spokesman for the family.

During his career, Mr. Mimaroglu (pronounced mee-ma-loo-ROE) was both a researcher and advocate of musical experiments of others.

As a composer, he was involved in electronic music in 1950 when the genre was in its infancy and the recorder was still his main instrument. He remained one of his most important professional synthesizer era.

As a producer of Atlantic Records, has worked with Mingus, jazz bassist and composer idiosyncratic, recently concluded after a long pause the execution and recording in the early 1970 until shortly before his death in 1979. And as the president of his label, Finnadar, has recorded the music of composers like John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen iconoclast.

Although music was his first love, Mr. Mimaroglu was also an expert photographer and author of several books in Turkish, his mother tongue, more recently, a book of film criticism published in 2010.

He once said his main achievement was that he wrote "Utopia Project", a philosophical guide.

Mimaroglu Ilhan was born in Istanbul March 11, 1926, son of a prominent architect, Mimar Kemaleddin Bey, who died shortly after his son was born.

After establishing himself as a music critic and radio producer in Turkey, Mr. Mimaroglu has received a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to study composition and musicology at Columbia University. Later he returned to Turkey, but in 1959 moved to New York.

He studied with the composer Vladimir Ussachevsky Center of Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music and privately with the composer Edgard Varèse and Stefan Wolpe.

It has also produced programs for electronic music and social commentary for non-commercial WBAI radio in New York. In mid 1960, he began working for his fellow migrants and Turkish Ahmet Ertegun Nesuhi, two executives of Atlantic Records.

Mr. Mimaroglu was involved mainly in the compilation of jazz for reprints to the Atlantic 70's, when he became a staff producer. Its main task was to work with Mingus, who took some of his most important recordings for the Atlantic label and returned after over a decade.

Mr. Mimaroglu oversaw all but one of the album Mingus made for Atlantic in recent years, an artistically fertile period, which ended with two albums, "Something Like a Bird" and "I, myself an eye "where Mingus took a great set, but did not play due to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, which had lent him almost motionless.

Mr. Mimaroglu also composed the music of 1971, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard album "Cántame Songmy a song," an unusual blend of jazz, electronic music and more traditional writing for voices and strings.

In 1969, he was one of four composers music was used in the score of the films of Federico Fellini's "Satyricon."

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Bewitched director William Asher Dies at 90

William Asher, director of the Emmy Award-winning television, perhaps best known for the direction of 100 episodes of the classic 1950 comedy "I Love Lucy," died Monday in Palm Desert. He was 90 years.

He had Alzheimer's disease, his wife Meredith told AP.

Asher was also the producer and director of the classic 60's comedy entanglements "Haunted," with his then wife, Elizabeth Montgomery. The hit series also earned him an Emmy as director in 1966.

Among many other credits, the program has developed television pilot "Gidget," starring Sally Field - and ran a series of films from 1960, including the beach "Beach Blanket Bingo" and "Beach Party" with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

Later in his career, he has directed episodes of television series such as "Alice," "Private Benjamin" and "bears".

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Country music trailblazer Kitty Wells dies at 92

The country singer Kitty Wells had been recording, touring, and transmission, without much success for over a decade when he accepted the offer in 1952 to record a song, before he intended to direct attention to stay home and raise a family.

Most of them were interested in the salary scale of the Union had to get to $ 125 per session, in which he recorded "It was God who made Honky Tonk Angels," a song that not only returned to his career, but also helped to reverse the stereotypical thinking of the way men and women that were were going to.

"I decided I was not going to work harder," Wells told a reporter in 2001, shortly after completing a six-decade career through which he often referred to as the "queen of country music." "When I started making a shot, it was not long before returning to work."

Wells, who died on Monday in Madison, Tennessee, at age 92 from complications of a stroke, soon became the most successful and influential female singer of the 1950's and early 60's, one of the few women who have a significant impact at a time when music was overwhelmingly dominated by men.

"The history of country music can not be written without attention to its great success," said John Rumble, the historian's main Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, The Times on Monday. "She really has left an indelible mark in the history of American music."

Singer Marty Stuart, Monday called for "the undisputed queen of country music. There is more to be a queen if you were calling a queen is a title that was a life of service and influence.

Control of the races [Nashville], and you will not find anyone with more immaculate career of Kitty Wells. "

Wells served as a model for country music singers that started a change in traditional gender roles in rural America with "Honky Tonk Angels." Its always a recording massive response surprisingly strong 1952 Hank Thompson hit "The Wild Side of Life", in which a man whose all the blame on a woman he met in a honky tonk to break their marriage and then leave it go ", where the wine flows and marketing of alcoholic beverages, where he hopes to be the son of nobody."

Wells, singing a song written by JD Miller, replied: "It was God who made Honky Tonk Angels / As you said in the words of your song / Too many times married men think they are still single / caused Besides a good girl to go wrong. "

This recording was number 1 for six weeks in 1952 and began a series of hits that lasted until 1979.

The resolution of the breast with his voice would echo in the later recordings of Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Shania Twain and the Dixie Chicks and even assertive ripples in the songs of Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood.

"Kitty Wells was my hero," Lynn said in a statement Monday. "If I had never heard of Kitty Wells to sing, I do not think I would be singing."

Wells was able to challenge conventional wisdom, in country music during the first half of the century, said that the public does not buy the discs female singers and not pay for tickets to see them play live.

Consequently, women were relegated to supporting roles in Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, the touring car and several recording contracts rarely fell.

After "It was God who made Honky Tonk Angels" has sold over 1 million copies, records managers began to rethink attitudes and began signing artists such as Cline, Connie Smith, Lynn, Wynette , Parton, among others.

Wells was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1976 and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement in 1991, the same year was presented to Bob Dylan, John Lennon and Marian Anderson.

It was only the third country artist and the first woman to achieve recognition as a result of the previous Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Country Hank Williams and Roy Acuff.

Wells has continued to play an active role in the country of the Grand Ole Opry long after the radio stopped playing his music. He set 81 records in the Billboard charts from 1952 to 1979 in 35 countries to reach the Top 10. He created the vast majority as a solo artist, but also scored hit duets with her husband, singer Johnny Wright, her daughter, Carol Sue, and several singers with Red Foley and Webb Pierce. Wright died last year at 97.

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Actress Celeste Holm dies at 95

Celeste Holm, the versatile actress, who shot to fame on Broadway in Rodgers and Hammerstein production of original musical "Oklahoma!" in 1943 and five years later won an Oscar for Best Actress in the historical film drama "Knight," died Sunday. He was 95 years.

Holm, who over 70 years in the acting career performing in nightclubs, including, died in his apartment on Central Park West in New York, said her husband, Frank Basile.

I had just spent two weeks in a hospital where he was found to be dehydrated and ended up suffering a heart attack. He asked to bring home on Friday, said Basile.

Before admission Holm, briefly a couple had been living away from home because of smoke damage from a fire in a flat actor Robert De Niro in the same building.

"My wife was an extraordinary woman," said Basile. "He lived his life with such grace and dignity."

Holm has had great success on Broadway, 10 productions in the back when he was elected in the starring role of the man making crazy Ado Annie in "Oklahoma!", In which he sang "I Say No Cain 't "

"Every good actress playing a butch crazy, but Celeste Holm played Ado Annie with a mischievous wink in the eye that made her irresistible character," Miles Krueger, president of the Institute based in Los Angeles of the American musical, he was a child when he saw Holm in the role, told The Times in 2007. "It was so beautiful."

Holm's work on Broadway, including the lead in a successful 1944 musical "Bloomer Girl," has led to a long term contract with 20th Century Fox, where his first two films were musical comedy "Three girls in blue" and "Carnival in Costa Rica."

Then came his "gentleman's agreement", his third film, the groundbreaking 1947 drama directed by Elia Kazan and starring Gregory Peck as a journalist that adopting a Jewish identity to explain their first-hand experience in dealing with anti-Semitism.

Kazan fought to melt Holm in the role of the brilliant and sophisticated fashion magazine editor Anne Dettrey. The studio head Darryl F. Zanuck, Holm told the Times in 1998, considered only as a musical comedy actor.

"So that made me make the big emotional scene for the first time such a test," he said. "I knew it was not a test."

Critics see the representation of Dettrey Holm.

"In fact the Academy in the class to win the support is Celeste Holm, who brings joy and happiness, as well as common sense, the screen is completely captivating in its interpretation of its role as a friend to all," wrote the Los Angeles Times film critic Edwin Schallert in his review of the film, which also won the Oscar for Best Film and Best Director.

Holm has received two other Best Actress Oscar nomination, while under contract with Fox - for playing a nun in the 1949 drama "Speak bells" and play the best friend old star Bette Davis' Margo Channing in the Broadway classic 1950 backstage drama "All About Eve."

But he returned to Hollywood in the mid 1950's to play support roles in two MGM musicals: "The single and love," starring Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds, and "High Society" with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

He played Aunt Polly in the film version of the 1973 musical "Tom Sawyer" and has appeared in such films as "Three Men and a Baby."

A 1992 inductee into the Hall of Fame American Theatre, Holm has appeared frequently on Broadway, including taking the lead role in the original production of "Mame" in 1967.

On television, he starred in the short-lived 1954 comedy "Honestly Celeste" and played a minor role in the 1970-1971 sitcom "Nancy."

He also made frequent appearances and played the fairy Madrina the 1965 TV musical production of "Cinderella" starring Lesley Ann Warren in the title role.

Holm has received three Emmy nominations, including a 1979 nomination for her supporting role in the miniseries "Backstairs at the White House."

He spent one season in the primetime soap opera "Falcon Crest" in mid 1980 and a year later, in the soap opera "The Heart" in 90 years. I played Patty Greene, compassionate and wise grandmother "Promised Land", the dramatic adventure series 1996-1999 of the family.

An only child, Holm was born in New York April 29, 1917. The Norwegian was born on his father, Theodor Holm, has worked with the American branch of Lloyd's of London and his mother, Jean (Parke) Holm, was a painter of portraits and American writer.

"I think if you do what you like, you go through everything," he told the Asbury Park Press newspaper in 2007. "I knew I wanted to work at 6."

Holm, who has studied singing, dancing and acting like a child, she studied acting at the University of Chicago.

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Isuzu Yamada Dies at 95

Isuzu Yamada, a prominent star of screen and stage, Japan's most recognized in the West for his chilling portrayal of the role of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's "Throne of Blood", died on 9 July in Tokyo. He was 95 years.

His death was widely distributed by the Japanese media that his office cited as the source.

Ms. Yamada has worked with many great directors from the golden age of Japanese cinema as Kurosawa and Kenji Mizoguchi, the two more clearly modeled her character on the screen. He maintained a lifetime commitment to the theater and in his later years was also a staple of Japanese television.

A versatile actress, classically trained, Mrs. Yamada played a wide range of characters. But if it is a victim or villain, a rebellious young woman or a "woman fall", as many of his early papers came to be called, has brought a balance to support the signature and tenacity.

Mitsu Yamada was born in Osaka, 05 February 1917. His father was a theater actor onnagata, a male actor specializing in female roles. He studied traditional dance and music since childhood and at 13 joined the Nikkatsu studio, especially when they appeared in period dramas.

While still a teenager, Mrs. Yamada began his association with Mizoguchi, the films have been devoted largely to the condition of women, most often the geisha and prostitutes, a company created by the operation. Many of her heroines are models of self-sacrifice, but Ms. Yamada was his muse when he began to introduce women to cut and bent over in his work.

Ms. Yamada had the starring role in the film by Mizoguchi 1935 "Oyuki the Virgin" and "The Fall of Osen" in both films playing oppressed young women forced into prostitution.

In the next year, "Osaka Elegy", his character, a receptionist, suffered a similar downward spiral, becoming master of his head while striving to maintain his family. But there is a unique challenge in making closure, in which Mrs. Yamada walking directly towards the camera, taking the audience a look that seems to put it in doubt. That same year, "Sisters of Gion", played the most opportunistic of the two geisha sisters affected men determined to exploit this advantage.

After World War II, joined Mrs. Yamada stakeholders in conducting a strike against the studios Toho, your employer during the war. He was placed as a result and has appeared on screen only sporadically in late 1940, but remained active in the scene and helped theater companies are in the 40 and 50.

He has seen a resurgence in the mid 1950's, in collaboration with Kurosawa, as his international reputation is cresting. He played a stingy hostess in "Call any door" (1957) and an intriguing woman in "Yojimbo" (1961). The Lady Washizu is in "Throne of Blood" (1957), a film inspired by the minimalist style of Noh theater, a show was widely praised for his control and technique.

Ms. Yamada has also excelled in more subtle and natural logs, in films such as "Tokyo Twilight" Yasujiro Ozu (1957), as a woman who returns to the family left, Mikio Naruse and the "Current "(1956), as the beleaguered lady a traditional geisha house, a previous version and not the happiest of his characters in the films of Mizoguchi 30 years.

In the 60 years Ms. Yamada diverted his attention from cinema to theater and television. His most famous role was delayed a long time in the television series "Hissatsu". In 2000 he became the first actress to receive the Imperial Order of Culture, the highest honor the country's cultural.

Ms. Yamada has been married six times, most recently with actor Tsutomu Shimomoto, who died in 2000. He was a son of the actress Michiko Saga, with her first husband, actor Ichiro Tsukida. Ms. Saga died in 1992.

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Wrestler & Bollywood Action Hero Dara Singh Dies at 83

Dara Singh, a famous professional wrestler who has used his fame, and without fear of physical image of a thriving film career in Bollywood as an action hero before in India, died Thursday at his home in Mumbai. He was 83 years.

The cause was a heart attack, said his doctor, RK Agarwal.

His death sparked a wave of national mourning. Miles below the body in a procession to the cremation on Thursday afternoon.

Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh, called Dara Singh, a "self-taught son of the earth" that was "an inspiration and an icon for many generations in our country." In a Twitter message, the Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan has asked Mr Singh "our very own Superman."

Mr. Singh, a household name in India, has led to a reputation for winning a seat in the upper house of Indian Parliament, Rajya Sabha's, 2003-2009, serving as a member of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party.

Many of the comparison with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor bodybuilder turned actor turned in California.

Even if you've never seen an actor more than average, Mr. Singh, however, ordered a mass following in the Hindi film Black and White was a hero, while the defense that is right and good with undulating muscles, was also every inch the gentleman. He has sworn to have no temper.

Dara Singh Randhawa was born into a Sikh family of farmers from 19 November 1928 in a village in northern Punjab province, near the border with Pakistan.

Muscle as a child, she decided to pursue wrestling in the traditional Indian style and did a spectacular success, winning tournaments all over India and gaining a reputation for opponents of flats with ridiculous ease .

In 1950 and '60, the British historian Charles Mascall struggle Singh ranked as the tenth best heavyweight boxer of all time.

E 'became Commonwealth champion in 1959 and 1968, world champion when he defeated American wrestler Lou Thesz.

Mr. Singh was at the height of his talent and his fame fighter when he began working in film in 1950.

His body mass and noble image has become ideal for people who personificarà to force men and pride and heroism of the virtues.

Among his successful film in Hindi was "King Kong", "Samson" and "Tarzan arrives in New Delhi." The famous actress of Bollywood Mumtaz appeared in 16 films with him.

Mr. Singh, who has appeared in nearly 150 films, later went on to character roles. E 'was also involved in the Punjabi film actor, director and producer.

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Documentary Filmmaker George C. Stoney Dies at 96

George C. Stoney, dean of the documentary film American and a leader of the movement of every American citizen has the right to a public access television program of his own, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 96 years.

Mr. Stoney, who has taught film at New York University from 1970 until the last years of his life, was equally acclaimed for his role as director, teacher and prophet of social change in a barrel camera.

In addition to mentoring two generations of students, many of whom have spread in the film industry, Mr. Stoney is dedicated to the training of community activists in the use of film as a tool for people who do not have a voice.

Their role in creating public access television was based on the hope that it would be an outlet for this type of documentary film to create communities.

His 50 documentaries as "occupation" of Canadian students who have taken over the building of McGill University in 1970, "The rebellion of '34" (1995), the brutal legacy of a strike, the textile workers crushed by the owners of factories, and "All My Babies" (1953), a film originally commissioned by the Georgia Department of Public Health to educate midwives who work in poor rural areas. It became a classic.

In the filming of "All my babies," met Mr. Stoney, son of a preacher in North Carolina, all safety practices required by the Ministry of Health requirements.

However, with the hope of a better distribution of information to a largely illiterate public, has hired a midwife of 51 years of age named Mary Coley to play the lead role in a series of dramatic reconstructions.

The film, which includes a sequence of 15 minutes showing a live birth, was widely considered a masterpiece of propaganda, in the best sense.

It became a staple of the curriculum of medical school, and was published by UNESCO and the World Health Organization.

In 2002 the film was introduced at the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, a list that basically defined the canon of American cinema.

Listed in alphabetical order, including "All About Eve" and "All Quiet on the Western Front."

Mr. Stoney had just entered the faculty of the film school at NYU in 1971 when he co-founded the Alternate Media Center, a university project for the education of students and community members to use video cameras, a technology that was new at that time.

This project led him to become interested in another cable and emerging media at significantly expanded its spectrum presents the basis for the film.

With other media savvy activists, including its Media Center co-founder of Red Burns, Mr. Stoney has helped create the National Federation of Local Cable Programmers, who began lobbying industry and government regulatory agencies .

If cable companies are going to put their wires under or over public roads, according to them, should be obliged to give the public a part of the broadcast spectrum for new public access cable. This requirement was introduced in the federal Communications Act in 1984.

"There will be no public access, except for George Stoney," said Rika Welsh, another member of the first cable programmers and lobbying member of the Association Board of Cambridge Community Television, the public access to the operator of Boston. "He understands what could be, and believe in its potential to unite communities."

In an interview some years ago (in a public access program), Mr Stoney said the public access television is not only a question of public access. "We do not see the cable as a way to encourage public action, not just access," he said. "I" as people can get information to your neighbors and your neighbors can take to the streets to organize. "

In another interview, said that public access was not meant to aim, in fact, was a bit "otherwise" anyone famous. "" To celebrate the ordinary people doing things to help each of the "something else".

Cashel George Stoney was born on July 1, 1916, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and made his way through the University of North Carolina, majoring in English and history.

He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, and received certification in film education at the University of London.

He worked as an assistant field of research groups in the South for civil rights in 1940, was a Secret Service agent photo during World War II and later worked as a journalist. He has made films for state governmental agencies before starting her film company.

His survivors include a son, James, a daughter, Louise, a sister, Elizabeth Segal, a grandson and a nephew.

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Oscar-winning producer Richard Zanuck dies at 77

Richard D. Zanuck, son, once spurned the legendary Hollywood producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who has built his career as a producer often honor, running over $ 2 million in cash and, for the production of "Walking Miss Daisy" in 1989, becoming the only child of duplicate a best-picture Oscar father, died Friday at home in Beverly Hills, California for 77 years.

The cause was a heart attack, Jeff Sanderson, said his publicist.

Richard Zanuck competed with the achievements of his father, who co-founded 20th Century Fox, has won three Academy Awards for best film and then shot his son in a study of reorganization.

The young Zanuck produced or helped produce such films as Steven Spielberg's first feature film, "The Sugarland Express" in 1974 and first director of the blockbuster, "Jaws," next year.

In a statement, Mr. Spielberg says Zanuck, "taught me everything I know to produce."

David Brown, an urban New Yorker who Zanuck has produced two films of Spielberg also worked with him in the production of "The Sting" in 1973. To meet Paul Newman, Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill after the 1969 blockbuster "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting" won the Oscar for Best Picture, although Zanuck and Brown (husband of the editor Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmopolitan magazine) have not been designated as its producers.

Zanuck produced six films directed by Tim Burton, including "Dark Shadows" this year starring Johnny Depp as a vampire broken. He also collaborated on "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" (2005), Mr. Burton is a reinvention of "Planet of the Apes" (2001), and "Alice in Wonderland" (2010). "Alice" has grossed more than $ 1 billion worldwide.

When I was younger Zanuck had the race in 20th Century Fox, where his father reigned as one of Hollywood's most powerful tycoons. Richard attended his first Oscar at age 7.

In high school and college, he worked in another department at the Fox summer. In 1962, when Mr. Zanuck was still in his 20 years, his father challenged the allegations of nepotism and production of Fox did. According to Richard, the company has earned 159 Oscar nominations, three films - "The Sound of Music", "Patton" and "The French Connection" - were nominated for best film.

Darryl Zanuck, a cigar-chomping central region that was in high school and waved a wad of Pole to reinforce a point of conversation, the son fired in 1970 after a study of reorganization. The father was trying to save his job, without success. Resentment Richard Zanuck lasted almost until the death of his father in 1979.

"It was different from the usual parent-child relationship," Zanuck told the New York Times in 2003. "But I was able to fix everything before my father died."

Richard - quiet, elegant and educated at Stanford in a California beach - has continued his productive collaboration with Mr. Brown, after a brief stay at Warner Brothers.

Richard Darryl Zanuck, was born in Los Angeles December 13, 1934. His mother was the silent film star Virginia Fox when I was young, Richard was made to sell copies of The Saturday Evening Post, who taught him the value of hard work. "Sure," he told the Los Angeles Times in 2010: "My father had a driver take me to get the papers."

To prove that cared for his son, Darryl Zanuck transported in buses executives of the study, Richard ball games, so they can encourage your child, like extras in a film of sports. The size of Orson Welles were regular visitors to the house Zanuck.

Richard, who excelled in sports in high school and continued running five miles a day in its 70 years, served as a lieutenant in the Army after graduating from Stanford University. His father, meanwhile, was fired by Fox in 1956 and moved to Paris to become an independent producer. The most Zanuck, who had a reputation for womanizing, had romances with three French actresses in succession, but could not advance your career, as he had suggested it might do so.

Son of Darryl Zanuck's ready to produce his first film, a murder mystery "instinct" (1959), at the age of 24 years. He won the award for best actor at Cannes for the joint work of Welles, Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman.

In 1962, Fox, still struggling, Darryl Zanuck summarized as president. As we do not abandon their romantic interest in Paris, he asked his son to give you a list of possible candidates to run the study of the West Coast. Richard Zanuck gave him a piece of paper with one word on it, "I".

His father was for him. "I have always believed that one of the most daring moves," Zanuck said the decision of his father. The boy's father keep up transatlantic telegram.

Zanuck moved to Warner Brothers to become executive vice president and has worked with Mr. Brown in blockbusters like "The Exorcist" and "South and half of fire." In 1971, the two men formed the company Zanuck / Brown.

After their separation in 1988, the Company began Zanuck Zanuck. This year was "Walking Miss Daisy," which was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won four, including best film. It 'will cost $ 5 million to make and grossed over $ 100 million.

Zanuck first two marriages ended in divorce. Leaves his wife, Lili Fini Zanuck, which produced the 2000 Oscar ceremony, her children and Dean Harrison, who produced the film, and nine grandchildren.

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Singer was widow of Nat King Maria Cole dies at 89

Maria Cole, widow of the legendary musician Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole on her own singing career includes a stint as a vocalist for Duke Ellington Orchestra in mid 1940, has died. He was 89 years.

Col. died on Tuesday at a hospice in Boca Raton, Florida, after a brief battle with cancer, his family said.

"Our mother was in a class by itself," his daughters said in a joint statement. "He synthesized class, elegance, and truly defines what it means to be a real lady."

Born in Boston, she performed as opening act of the Mills Brothers Club Zanzibar in New York when he met the singer and pianist Nat Cole. They married in 1948 in Harlem.

"I was very involved in his life," he told the Boston Globe in 1989. "I'm busy with his agent. I kept the books. I was there for all the wonderful moments of your life, the awards. The shared everything. I joined his life."

The Coles, the purchase of a building in an exclusive, all white neighborhood of Hancock Park in Los Angeles in 1948, stimulated by owners protest, has traveled across Europe together in 1950 a time when Mary, resumed a singing career and recorded several songs with her husband for Capitol Records.

Nat Cole, successes include "Unforgettable" and "Mona Lisa" and the 1956-57 television series wide musical "'King Col Nat The Show" was the first television network presented by an African-American died of lung cancer in 1965.

After his death, Mary Col Col establish the Cancer Foundation and returned to his singing career, beginning with an essay in the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas in late 1966 and followed by an appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show. "

He also began to co-host an evening of live interviews with Stan Bohrman and varieties of KHJ-TV (Channel 9) in Los Angeles in 1967. Two years later, he married the writer and television producer Gary I devour. The couple divorced in 1978.

In 1990, Natalie Cole and her daughter accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for her late husband.

"I miss the closeness of my marriage to Nat," said Cole in a 1989 Boston Globe. "I liked to hear the key in the door. I loved the preparation of their meals. I liked being married to him."

The daughter of a postal employee, Mary Hawkins was born on 1 August 1922. He was 2 when her mother died in childbirth and his father stayed to care for her three daughters.

Cole, who took voice and piano lessons during his childhood, he studied at the Palmer Memorial Institute, a prestigious American prep school founded by her aunt to African Sedalia, North Carolina

After graduating in 1938, attended college in the Boston office and began singing with a jazz band at night. He soon moved to New York and began singing with Benny Carter's band jazz.

In 1943, he married Spurgeon Ellington, one of the Tuskegee airmen, who was killed during a routine training flight shortly after the end of World War II.

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