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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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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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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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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Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci Dies at 94

Ruggiero Ricci, a violin virtuoso who first shocked audiences at the age of 10 years with his mastery of Mendelssohn and was later transformed into a mature musician, the scope has reached the 19 Caprices of acrobatics century Paganini premieres of contemporary works, died Sunday at home in Palm Springs, California

His death was confirmed by his son, Gian-Franco.

Mr. Ricci has grown up in San Francisco, the son of an Italian immigrant and amateur trombonist, who insisted that their seven children to learn to play instruments. Mr. Ricci prefers the piano, but her parents had other plans.

"I was bribed with violins," he told The New York Times in 1976. "I woke in the morning and there would be another. I once had five violins under my bed."

At 6, Ruggiero went to classes with Louis Persinger, who also taught another district prodigy, Yehudi Menuhin.

"If not for Menuhin, I would not be here," said Ricci. "It's four years older than me, and everyone should think about miracles. But believe me, when you're a miracle, a parent is ambitious in the background."

She made her debut in San Francisco in 1928, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, and very soon on tour in New York and Europe. The critics were enthusiastic when Mendelssohn played in Manhattan in 1929.

"More of a young gentleman, who has played with speed and accuracy through these steps, and have been inflated by the press and soon disappeared forever," wrote Olin Downes in The Times. "But there are valid reasons to believe that heard the previous night and had the talent to mature in terms of physical force and poetic expression, taste, feeling and an admirable sense of proportion are the distinctive qualities the performance of last night. "

The article described Ruggiero 9 years. It was actually 11, but its promoters was shaving two years old to make it look even more precocious. It was not the only way that his identity had been manipulated.

His parents originally named Woodrow Wilson Rico, but then gave his name sounds Italian, because it seemed a better choice for a musical prodigy. During his lifetime he was called Roger.

"Until the year 1950 or 1960, his passport, he said 'Rich Wilson, also known as Ruggiero Ricci,'" said Gian-Franco Ricci.

In 1930, after Roger had moved to New York with Mr. Persinger and began to gain substantial salary for the operation, has become the center of a custody dispute highly advertising. Years before, his father, Peter Ricci, had custody of Roger and his brother George to an assistant of Mr. Persinger, Beth Lackey.

(George, called the birth of George Washington, he continued his studies to become a cellist.) At some point the boys ran away from Mrs. Lackey, Peter Ricci and later successfully fought to regain custody of Children. But his son did not trust his motives, and often said his father was trying to exploit.

As Ruggiero later in his teens, some critics have suggested that their technical skills was exceeding its capacity to interpret. However, it was precisely at this time that Mr. Ricci began to dominate the music that would later help him revive his career: the 24 Caprices of Paganini's works for solo violin and fire of daunting.

He played the pieces frequently during World War II, alone on stage in front of the soldiers, while he served as an "entertainment specialist" in the Army Air Force. After the war he became the first to register works only in 1947.

"I am forced in this direction, because no one had taken this path," said the Times. "I had to make a comeback."

He turned and almost always taught in the next five years, working at Indiana University, Juilliard and elsewhere, and performing a wide repertoire that included Paganini, as well as works by Bach and other composers .

In 1963, he performed the premiere of Alberto Ginastera Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, which commissioned the work for the opening of Lincoln Center this year. He made over 500 recordings. His last public performance was at the Smithsonian Institution in 2003.

Mr. Ricci was born on July 24, 1918, in San Francisco. His father had emigrated to Italy and worked as a miner in Colorado. His mother was born in the United States.

Mr. Ricci first two marriages ended in divorce.

In addition to Gian-Franco, the son of his second marriage, survivors include his wife, Julia, a sister, Emma Ricci, a first violinist of the Metropolitan Opera, two sons from his first marriage, Riana Muller and Roger, a His second daughter married, Paul Hopp, and several grandchildren.

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Singer Tony Sly Dies at 41

Tony Sly, the frontman of the punk rock band, based in Northern California, died for reasons not yet revealed. He was 41 years.
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"We received a call the day of his death, I am devastated and have lost an incredible talent, friend and father, one of the truly great [Producer] Fat Mike said the following: .." One of my closest friends and favorite is songwriters gone too soon. Tony, you are sorely missed. "

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No Use for a number of past members, as they became less hard and more in tune with the years, Sly and the group was the longest service of veterans at the time of his death.

"We covered Chasing Rainbows No Use For A Name in our set today as a tribute," wrote guitarist Ryan Mendez of Yellowcard. "RIP Tony Sly, which were a big influence on us all."

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Bad Religion Twitter: "Goodbye to a good friend, Tony Sly."

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"It is very sad to hear of the passing of Tony Sly. One of the best players in history. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. It will make out very mancanza.-N," Noodles of The Offspring Twitter.

His last studio album of Fat Wreck Chords label was 2008's record year of good feeling, and Sly had said in 2010 that he was writing songs for a new release.

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Artist Walter Pichler Dies at 75

Walter Pichler, an architect who became a prominent artist in the postwar avant-garde movement in Austria, with time away from creating art to move to a farm and construction work above himself Please, died July 16 at home in Burgenland, Austria. He was 75.

The cause was cancer, said his assistant, Alois Hörtl.

Mr. Pichler was a sculptor and illustrator works include a white, torpedo-shaped hull with a TV inside ("Portable Living Room"), a rusty bed frame supporting a humanoid form, divided by irregular sheets of glass, and many fantastic designs of underground facilities, including the cities and floating palaces.

His architectural drawings were not only the plans, there were also works of art in itself. More pictures - pictures of "dream" as he said - were dark and psychologically loaded. His figures are often skeletal, or robotics.

"In the 1960's was a small group of Austrian architects who have taken a visionary approach and made images of architecture that completely defied the status quo," said Barry Bergdoll, chief curator architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, which owns 16 of the drawings of Mr. Pichler. The group also included the architects Hans Hollein and Raimund Abraham, who won international fame.

The group designs challenge the modernist architecture, which stressed the role and often produced crude buildings without ornaments and dominated by concrete and metal.

"They have begun to explore the emotional resonance of architecture," Bergdoll said. "A building can tell a story rather than a feature." Mr. Pichler liked the design of the buildings being built.

In an essay he wrote, "this is what you resume architectural functionalism that no longer works." He proclaimed. "What you ask is an architecture that fascinates"

Walter Pichler was born October 1, 1936, in New West, northern Italy. He studied art at the Hochschule für Architektur in Vienna and began working as an architect in 1950.

Mr. Pichler converted farm building to house the figure and then began altering the half-dozen other buildings, or for that property, the installation of one of his sculptures in each them.

One consists of two cylindrical containers of cement with a system of channels that collect water and wells. The sculptures and buildings that sheltered them has become his life's work.

The works were "very bright, dark, menacing, mechanical," said Gladstone, a comparison of a number of Darth Vader, the villain of Star Wars movies.

"He really built these statues to himself," said Mrs. Gladstone. "I did not want to jeopardize anything, and if he worked for himself, was not necessary."

Mr. Pichler is survived by his wife, Elves, and their daughter, Anna Tripamer.

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Writer Suzy Gershman Dies at 64

"My heart is repeatedly every time I go into the closet-size shop, I've never seen so many bags that could not live without", Suzy Gershman has written one of the hidden gems that are in your search for "Born Buy in Hong Kong. "" These grants are not copies, just to see something happen ", as the bags in fashion magazines. "

In another finding, revealed in "Born to Shop New York", wrote: "This is the kind of small boutique on Madison Avenue, you could go without knowing that the site is 'a' the ladies of the Upper East Side who love the look euro-asian-art-Boho-hippie ".

Ms. Gershman was the author of 16 "shopping" Born guidelines, published more than 26 years and compiled over hundreds of kilometers to roam around the world and, often, the meanders of the new street .

You have become the standards that have been reviewed every two years - in New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, France and Italy. In total, over four million copies of "Born to Shop" books, first published by Bantam and later this week, have been sold.

Ms. Gershman has died of cancer last Wednesday in San Antonio for 64 years, Sarah Lahey said in the past eight years has helped Ms. Gershman researching and writing books.

Buyers guide attention to local markets, boutiques and specialty shops outside the tracks with goods from the artisans. We recommend hotels at affordable prices and offer shopping tips. Ms. Gershman between the Ten Commandments for international purchases:

¶ "Buy local groceries, gifts not only for low cost, but for the objects of local manufacture and bring home a taste of the destination, mustard, ie, France, Texas BBQ sauce ".

¶ "Do not buy products cheaper abroad, especially if it is something that can not go back."

¶ "Do not buy the mania of the moment, that is, the national flag of a country transformed into a headscarf. I mean, really ...."

"The basic idea of ??the book," Ms. Gershman once said, "is that you must read, as we were eating breakfast and I said to my shopping day."

In fact, only this type of event has inspired the series. "He lived in Beverly Hills, where he worked as editor of the West Coast style of People magazine," Ms Lahey said. "She was having lunch with friends, and decided to write a guide to shopping in Beverly Hills. It was what he did the deed."

Suzy Kalter was born April 13, 1948, in San Antonio. She was "not a guy who had a merit scholarship," said Lahey, "but when he traveled with his family would explore local markets and buy sweets -. He always uses the word" was one of three children Gloria and SS Kalter, known as Sy.

His father was a research scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the World Health Organization.

Ms. Kalter graduated from the University of Texas in 1969 with a degree in journalism, then moved to New York to work in advertising and public relations.

There he met Michael Gershman, who married in 1975. He died in 2000. Ms. Gershman survive him a son, Aaron, his brother, Steven, and a granddaughter.

The Gershmans moved to Los Angeles, where, while working for the people, Ms. Kalter (while continuing to be known) has become a regular guest on television programs. In 1986, when "Born to Shop" series began, he changed his name to Gershman.

For Ms. Gershman, much had something to share. In France, purchased by CIL Demasq case, around $ 5 per bottle. "It's a French eye makeup remover - CILS is French for eyelashes - called the product more beautiful than ever invented," said Ms. Lahey. "You are the uses and gave all his friends."

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Painter Karl Benjamin dies at 86

Karl Benjamin, a painter of geometric abstractions beam that has established a national reputation in 1959 as one of four in Los Angeles, abstract classical and create a recognized body of work that celebrates the glories of color in all its variants, has died. He was 86 years.

Benjamin died Thursday of congestive heart failure at home in Claremont, said his daughter, Beth Marie Benjamin.

His work was exhibited last year in "Benjamin Karl and the evolution of abstraction, 1950-1980" at Galerie Louis Stern Fine Arts in West Hollywood, as part

Benjamin was a former resident of Claremont and a vital part of the university city of the arts community. After retiring from 20 years of teaching career in elementary and secondary public schools, he was professor and artist in residence at Pomona College 1979-1994 and has taught at Claremont Graduate University. For most of these years, he also pursued a lifelong interest in the orchestration of complex arrangements of color on the canvas.

Working with a full palette and vocabulary of stripes, squares, triangles, circles, rings and irregular shapes are created well balanced compositions that seem to glow, vibrate or explode in space.

His work became fashionable in the 1970 and '80, but made a comeback in recent years his pictures, when suddenly seemed fresh young artists and intelligent critics and curators.

"I can not think of any other artist's paintings radiate the joy and pleasure of being an artist with more intensity than Karl Benjamin, or any other artist's long teaching career is not out of any failure of cynicism in their practice," critical Dave Hickey wrote in the catalog of a 2007 survey of paintings by Benjamin Louis Stern Fine Arts. "It was always the kid in a candy store, the man with the rock in his pocket to draw, showing and exclaimed: 'Hey, check it out." "

Times art critic Christopher Knight, has praised the Claremont Museum of Art for "the right choice for its inaugural exhibition" in its review of a study of 42 years of work by the artist, the 2007. "Benjamin emerges as a colorist of great intelligence and ingenuity," he wrote.

Born December 29, 1925, in Chicago, Benjamin began his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University in 1943, but left that year to enlist in theU.S. Navy.

At the end of his military service in 1946, moved to California and resumed his studies in what is now the University of Redlands.

Three years later, he graduated, he married Beverly Jean Paschke and taught at an elementary school in San Bernardino County city of Bloomington. After two years he moved to a place of teaching Chinese in public schools. He and his young family moved to Claremont in 1952.

Benjamin's career began in 1951 when he was asked to add a component of the curriculum of his art students. Initially working with cakes, was fascinated with the color options and understand the effect of putting one color next to one. Color, in itself, soon became their object.

At home, he began experimenting with oils and eventually took classes at the Claremont Graduate School (now Claremont Graduate University), obtaining a master's degree in 1960. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1983 and 1989.

In a 1986 essay, Benjamin writes: "I am an intuitive painter, everything looks clean and my paintings, and are fascinated by the infinite range of expression inherent in the relationships of color." Although often create a structure based on levels of numerical progressions, sequences or modular buildings at random, came up with surprising results.

He has shown his work in 1954 at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1958 and the Long Beach Museum of Art, but shot to fame in 1959-60 with the "Four abstract classicists." The reference sample, even with the work values ??Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin - giving fresh LA artists, hard-edge abstractions as an alternative to abstract emotional relationship of the east coast. After appearing in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the show in London and Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Benjamin then showed his work and has been widely displayed in museums as important as "geometric abstractions in the United States" in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York in 1962, issues 30 and 35 of the "Biennial of Painting American "in the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, in 1967 and 1977, and" Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era "at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, DC in 1976.

Cal State Northridge has organized an exhibition of his work in 1989, and Pomona College, presents a retrospective in 1994, when he became professor emeritus. Benjamin has played a leading role in "Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture in the middle of the century," a traveling exhibition organized by the 2007-09 National Art Museum of Orange County

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Oscar-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson dies at 87

A writer by the time she could remember, Frank Pierson wrote his most famous phrase, "What we have here is a lack of communication," for decades for the script of 1967 "Cool Hand Luke."

At the moment, I thought there was any way a refined line she may be decided by the team captain of the south, just to teach Luke Paul Newman is a brutal lesson.

To ensure the state line, Pierson wrote a biography at all to the captain, who has never used, because no one has ever questioned the quote that has become one of the most iconic in the history of film.

This commitment and dedication to the history of the language Pierson helped establish one of the best writers of his generation, and ended up three Oscar nominations and one win for his 1975 screenplay for "Afternoon of dogs." It is one of many honors awarded to the director about six to ten years of his career in Hollywood.

Pierson died Sunday night atCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after fighting a brief illness, said his manager, Susan Landau. He was 87 years.

The son of a businessman father and screenwriter mother, Pierson began his career as an entertainment correspondent for Time magazine, before they broke into television as a writer of the history of the Western Balkans "Have Gun. In San Francisco "has worked on numerous television shows and settled in the film world with his first film script," The explosive naive. " The comic western starring Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin won him his first Oscar nomination.

Two years later, he collaborated with the novelist Donn Pearce in the adaptation of "Cool Hand Luke" on a chain gang prisoner played by Newman and challenge other inmates and prison guards.

In 1975, Pierson won the Oscar for his screenplay "Dog Afternoon", not difficult to write a script the man who had known the true life story of the movie is based.

"It was confusing, had these contradictory statements about him and that was for everyone who knew him," Pierson said in an interview with the contemporary. "It took me several months before I was able to conceive of it, because until you have a character motivations are understood, there is no way that you write consistently."

Pierson still mainly identified with being a writer, sitting almost every morning at 10 and head writer until he got into the lunch hour, the leadership transition in the 1970 film "The War the Looking Glass. " He also directed the 1976 remake of "King of the Gypsies", "A Star Is Born" with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, and 1978.

Pierson has spent most of his career in Hollywood service organizations that help make it a success. "He was the president of the Writers Guild of America for two separate periods, has been teaching at the Sundance Institute, has been an adjunct professor at the USC film school and was the artistic director of the American Film Institute.

It He served as president 31 º Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 2001-2005, and was a governor of the branch of the writers of 17 years.

"Young rock 'n' rollers are always the old blues musicians as models of how to keep their art more years strong and rebels. For screenwriters, Frank was our master, the old blues for a long time "Phil Alden Robinson Academy governor said in a statement. "It was a great and good man. I miss ya, and I feel very, very fortunate to have known him."

Pierson, born May 12, 1925, in Chappaqua, New York, served in the Army during World War II and earned a degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University before launching his career.

More recently, Pierson was working as a production consultant and writer on the television series "Mad Men" and "The Good Wife."

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L. Scott Bailey Dies at 87

There were a lot of magazines like Road & Track Hot Rodding and newsstands, when a quarterly magazine called automobile introduced in 1962 with a serious neo-Edwardian.

"A publication that meets the needs of our enthusiasm," wrote the editor, a declared fan of extreme cars ", and found a place in the field of literature the car."

The rigid daily at the hands of the player, he said, could fill this vacuum four times a year in over 100 pages in full color and free of advertising that contains articles richly illustrated encyclopaedic in length, and literary quality, everyone to reflect "the grandeur, majesty, an adventure that is the automobile."

L. Scott Bailey, the real "you" behind this commitment and the founder of Automobile Quarterly, died June 26 at the age of 87 at his home in English Cotswolds, this promise was kept by most accounts .

The magazine has created is known to collectors and thinkers of the garage as the gold standard "literature of the car" in the phrase of Mr. Bailey is a cross between The New Yorker and the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the world Automania, and one of the few magazines always come with a subtitle: The Connoisseur Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow.

In the 24 years before retiring current car Quarterly in 1986, Mr. Bailey has published an unbroken string of quarterly reports of gold in relief, which was a virtual archive of the known universe of the car: long biographical essays of professional pilots, engineers and inventors forgot to innovative technologies for motor vehicles; historical dissertations on classics like Duesenberg, unusual yarns, as the definitive history of the two-wheeled vehicles giroscópicamente balanced, designed in 1914 by Count Peter of Schilovsky Russia, and a scoop.

In 1980, Mr. Bailey was the first to post back-to-a-napkin sketches is said that Hitler did in 1934 to show the car's designer, Ferdinand Porsche, his idea of ??a Volkswagen bug.

Karl Ludvigsen, an historic Mercedes-Benz and quarterly former collaborator of the car, a magazine called Mr. Bailey is an indispensable part of the library of any serious lover of cars. "Every car enthusiast or historian who does not have a collection of indexed Quarterly Motor is operating in a desert," he said in an email Wednesday.

Kit Foster, director of the Journal of the history of the automobile, the journal of the Society of Automotive Historians, Mr. Bailey described as "a genius" good pieces in a row, and find the best writers. Its stability is considered the most illustrious of the field, including Ken Purdy, Griffith Borgeson and Beverly Rae Kimes, who began as secretary to the car and Quarterly has won numerous awards for automotive journalism.

WO Bentley and Ferrari Enzo, founders of dynasties of cars bearing their names, each under his memoirs published in the newspaper Mr. Bailey.

Mr. Bailey said the decision not to accept advertising was partly an aesthetic choice.

Display ads, he wrote, would "get into the editorial pages, cut into pieces, and break stories that challenge the reader to determine the editorial and advertising.

"I was convinced that the magazine would be successful as a result of the" reader acceptance, because of advertising revenue. "

The circulation of the magazine, which has remained in the publication, under different owners since 1986 has never exceeded 35,000 subscribers.

In part to help finance, Mr. Bailey and his wife, Margaret, magazine editor, he founded a company specializing in the history of the automobile, Princeton Publishing, which published more than 50 works by independent historians and as stories of the companies responsible for General Motors, Porsche, Cadillac and Ferrari.

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Icon of American cooking Marion Cunningham dies at 90

Marion Cunningham's crusade to preserve the time dinner came the night of his concern that without it, children never learn table manners, or the give and take of conversation at dinner. Not only was concerned that the traditional American dishes such as grilled chicken, lettuce and strawberry cake, became endangered.

His devotion to the American standard rate was a revered figure in the world of food, the revised edition of "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook," a basic text for home cooks since 1896, has led the philosophy back into the mainstream.

Published in 1979 and revised in 1990, "Fannie Farmer" regained its place as a classic, selling nearly 1 million copies and led the timid, hair silvery wonder Cunningham as a cookbook writer, columnist and speaker with his own television show.

"Marion Cunningham exemplifies fine cuisine" Judith Jones, his editor at Knopf for a long time, said in a statement on Wednesday. "He was someone who had an ability to make a dish, drink in the mouth and give it new life. In a time when Americans were taking all kinds of foreign cuisine, love Marion Cunningham and respect for the American food helped 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook, once again earned a place in kitchens around the country. "

Cunningham, who had Alzheimer's disease, died Wednesday at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, said Clark Wolf, a food consultant and old friend. He was 90 years.

He succeeded his late start in life as a protégé of James Beard, the chef and writer revered for defending the American culinary tradition.

"If the beard was the father of the kitchen, Cunningham became her mother," wrote the former Gourmet magazine editor Ruth Reichl of The Times in 1992, when he was editor of the food.

Despite his attachment to family foods and simple recipes, Cunningham won the affection of dozens of young people, the most famous chefs tastes leaned smoked pheasant salad and exotic way. The considered a mentor.

"Marion was a traditionalist, but an enlightened traditionalist," said Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse in Berkeley. "You could see every food imaginable, and can connect with every person imaginable."

Waters was first met Cunningham in 1974, when Beard has been a dinner at Chez Panisse. Soon after, the water and Cunningham took a Chinese cooking class in San Francisco and then traveled to France and China in shipments of food tasting. When Chez Panisse was taking off, Cunningham launched in search of new talent, hard as a cook, ran out of the kitchen.

His professional life, Cunningham was relatively quiet. Working in the compact kitchen of his ranch in Walnut Creek, with an electric stove and refrigerator add a Sears has examined thousands of recipes for his cookbooks and columns, has taught introductory courses for adults and prepare simple meals for visitors, many food critics and chefs of the restaurant.

His team fashioned kitchen including a blender, an electric mixer and two high strength plates for waffles. He had his cherry deshuesadoras, measuring spoons and other new appliances in the garage, because what mattered was "not what I do, but to cook in the kitchen and the food put together with others."

Marion Enwright born February 7, 1922, grew up in Glendale. In 1942 she married Robert Cunningham, who had known since kindergarten. He was a lawyer with a taste for pork and beans, canned red meat well done. When he resumed his culinary offerings in this way: "He does not like the homemade bread and vegetables not only loves the green says he likes the money" ..

During the first years of marriage, Cunningham lived in a small house near the sea in Laguna Beach. He served in the Navy, that the gas pump to earn extra money and then worked at a service station.

"I used to think it would be the master of my own station," he said in 1991 interview with The New York Times. "I know more than most women around the cars."

His modest income approach encourages brides Cunningham family style menus. "During the five years that we live in the lagoon," he wrote in an article in the house of entertainment for the Times in 1990, "came all the friends who knew of our school days to visit (and frequently maintain). order to supply this constant flow, made me casseroles, stews, soups and salad buffet with large creamy dressings thick. All good food and cheap to do. "

The prepared foods and frozen foods had already begun to appear in stores in 1940, "but were not for me," he wrote. "They do could afford."

After the war, Cunningham built a house in the suburb of San Francisco Bay Area in Walnut Creek, where they raised their two children and lived together until Robert died in 1988 after years of ill health. Her survivors are two sons, Mark and Catherine.

The eyes, the blue form of invitation that has defined the public image of Marion Cunningham in recent years almost suggested that the difficulties encountered in his young wife and mother. Through its 30 years, has struggled with alcoholism and phobias that made it impossible to ride in elevators, airplanes, and almost any other form of transport.

"I do not even have children until I could find a hospital with a maternity ward on the ground floor," he once said.

His friends say he was a witness to his determination that Cunningham stopped drinking completely overcome their fears to the point that he traveled the world to satisfy their curiosity about the regional food.

His indomitable will be seen in very small ways. When Cunningham and traveled to Paris Waters, Waters saw him burst into a restaurant in Paris.

"Marion has insisted to order a cup of coffee before dinner," said Waters. "I whispered, 'Marion, do not like the French, is coffee after dinner." But she wanted to hear. "He insisted on speaking English. There was no attempt at" real "crossed his lips." I told him, 'Marion, just to be friendly. "However, for it was,' thank you ' . "

Even close friends, rarely spoke with Cunningham about his personal struggles. "For their fears, Marion received professional help," said Waters. "But with his alcoholism, was more a matter of deciding who had had enough. He was not willing to live this way."

In 1972, at the age of 45 years, Cunningham went to Seaside, Oregon, to take a cooking class with a beard. For the rest of his life is considered a moral victory: had overcome his fear of travel.

"" It was my first trip outside of California and was a big problem, "he later recalled Cunningham. His love for food to take off." James Beard was my favorite cookbook author " said.

The two Westerners, both supporters of the kitchen, he struck up a friendship. Several years after Cunningham's beard was asked to be his assistant. She worked with him in his cookbooks and toured the country with him.

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Sunil Janah Dies at 94

Sunil Janah, an Indian photographer who won international fame with his images of the famine that struck Bengal in 1943 and 1944, died June 21 at home in Berkeley, California, was 94.

His death was confirmed by his son, Arjun.

Mr. Janah documented ethnic and religious diversity of India, as well as important events in modern history of the country, both before and immediately after its independence in 1947.

At a time when many photographers to technical problems, started with a Kodak Brownie box, or use a Nikon until 1980.

His photographs of the famine, published in the People's War, the newspaper of the Communist Party of India, revealed the horrors that had just been informed by the press, which was banned by British authorities.

As the critic Vicki Goldberg wrote in The New York Times in 1998, reviewing an exhibition of work by Mr. Janah the 678 Gallery in Manhattan, the images showed "withered lines of people waiting for food groups of skeletons, the dogs gnawing human bones hungry. " Postcards of these photos were sent worldwide to raise funds.

"Unlike other photographers," said Ram Rahman, the curator of this exhibition, "was an active political worker Janah policy work for the picture of events."

The famine, which was attributed to hoarding and losses in the food distribution system, instead of bad harvests, said that 3.5 million lives and caused international outrage directed at wartime British colonial authorities, who are accused of walking off the much more massive famine.

Mr. Janah later became known for his explicit pictures of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the writer and philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti and other personalities of India.

One of them showed Gandhi sitting in a pensive attitude before a large crowd in Bombay, now known as Mumbai.

Sunil Janah was born April 17, 1918, in Dibrugarh, Assam. His father, Sarat Chandra was a prominent lawyer in the High Court of Calcutta.

Mr. Janah grew up in Calcutta, now known as Calcutta, and became interested in photography as a child, had no formal training but learned to work with photographers who set their darkrooms.

He became involved in leftist politics while studying at St. Xavier College and the University of Calcutta to the presidency. PC Joshi, general secretary of the Communist Party of India, persuaded him to abandon his studies and traveled with him to document the artist Chittoprasad Bhattacharya Bengal famine.

The images brought him fame in India, which was requested by Margaret Bourke-White, the celebrated photographer for Life magazine.

Became friends and worked as a team, after photographing the widespread famine in Rayalaseema and Mysore in southern India, in 1945.

They also document the chaos before and after the assassination of Gandhi in 1948, especially the images of people fill the streets of Calcutta after his death.

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Costume Designer Martin Pakledinaz Dies at 58

Martin Pakledinaz, a costume designer, who has been nominated for 10 Tony awards in the past 15 years and has won twice, and work in opera, dance and regional theater, has made him one of the craftsmen the most prolific phase of his generation, died Sunday at home in Manhattan. Age of 58.

The cause was brain cancer, his agent, Patrick Herold said.

Mr. Pakledinaz (pronounced Leh-pack-Din EHZ) received 1999 Tony Awards for the revival of "Kiss Me, Kate", with Marin Mazzie and Brian Stokes Mitchell, "Millie," a musical based on the film 2002, 1967, Julie Andrews.

Sutton Foster, who won a Tony Award for her performance in the title role of "Millie," said Mr. Pakledinaz costume designs were part of his characterization of Millie, a village girl who comes to New York in early 1920, hoping to marry a rich man.

Their ways of explaining its history, from Kansas City on Sunday in New York neck-girl-Friday clothing and equipment after a series of increasingly scarce designed for the free spirit of a more modern dance Millie from the trap.

"My characters have been defined by the fabric, stitching, the details of his work, his eye," Ms. Foster said in a statement on Monday.

Mr. Pakledinaz Mrs. Foster also designed the costumes in the last shot of "Anything Goes", which won a Tony Award. He was nominated for a Tony for producing and seven people, including "Lend Me a Tenor," "Gypsy," "The Pajama Game", "Golden Boy" and the 2009 revival of "A mocking spirit" .

He received his first nomination for "The Life", a 1997 musical about prostitutes times square, and the last for this season, "Good work if you can get it," starring Matthew Broderick.

Mr. Pakledinaz also designed costumes for the San Francisco Ballet, Mark Morris Dance Group, a Metropolitan Opera production of "Iphigenie en Tauride", 2011, Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular and the "My Week with Marilyn" the sumptuous 2011 film Marilyn Monroe film maker living in Britain in 1956, but won Michelle Williams as Monroe, an Oscar nomination.

Joel Grey, who starred in "Anything Goes," he said in an interview Monday that Mr. Pakledinaz aesthetic decisions had reflected his deep knowledge of the history of American theater.

It was obvious, he said, in his own clothes in the game, as Moonface Martin, a role that was originally played by Bert Lahr and Ed Wynn, then.

"I wanted my character to remember a time when the great comedians inhabited the role," said Grey, "and Martin knew it would be, and how to evoke. This was his particular genius."

Philip Martin Pakledinaz was born in Sterling Heights, Michigan, September 1, 1953, one of eight children of James and Dorothy Pakledinaz.

After graduating from Wayne State University and received his master's degree in drama from the University of Michigan, moved to New York in 1977. His survivors are his sister and brothers.

Mr. Pakledinaz had a long professional relationship with director Peter Sellars, with whom he worked at the Santa Fe Opera and performance venues in Paris, Spain and Salzburg, Austria.

He recently worked with director Stephen Wadsworth in his production of "The Bartered Bride", a joint effort of the Juilliard School and the Metropolitan Opera.

In 2002 Tony accepted the award for best costume for her work in "Millie," who drowned while Pakledinaz thanked "the three miles in my life" - from his mother and two mentors custom design, Theon V. Aldredge and Barbara Matera. Speaking of his profession, he said, "the suits have to say in a moment that the person is feeling, what was -. What changes are taking place"

Patti LuPone, who worked with Mr. Pakledinaz many times, most recently in the 2008 revival of "Gypsy", said the loss was profound theater. "Broadway is less talented," he said.

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Visual Artist & Dancer Frances Alenikoff Dies at 91

Frances Alenikoff, a dancer, choreographer and visual artist, this benefit is often closely linked with the movement of the slides, films, talking, singing and recordings, died on June 23 in Southampton, New York for 91 years.

His daughter, Francesca Rheannon, confirmed the death.

Ms. Alenikoff, during his professional heyday, he worked mainly in New York City, has been an active participant in the artistic ferment and around the loft in Soho, and after mid-century.

Since 1950 his work began to take on aspects of what is now called multimedia performances, using slides and to add color and music for dancing feet.

He founded and directed two dance companies. First, the Theatre Dance and Song Aviv, began in 1959. Specializing in dance Israeli jasídico, Russia and Africa, the Carib, has been made in the black schools segregated south, 92 Street Y in New York, Broadway, musical revue Josephine Baker in 1964.

Ms. Alenikoff second company, Frances Alenikoff Dance Theater, founded in mid 1970. Focused on dance as a means of changing forms of theater, which increases the work of the dancers on stage with a series of images and sounds.

His interest in creating these multimedia works, Ms. Alenikoff often said, was rooted in his fascination with the imperative form - including body movement, the appearance of the images, counterpoint and rhythm the spoken dialogue of the texture by hand.

Among his best known works are two solo pieces as a choreographer danced: "In no way," conducted under the direction of the avant-garde poet Armand Schwerner, and "Re-remembering", created the Mrs. Alenikoff of 70 years after recovering from a potentially fatal attack of babesiosis, a tick disease.

In recent years, working from home in East Hampton, Long Island, Mrs. Alenikoff was also a visual artist, producing paintings and collages, which was full of color and form.

The daughter of Jack Clement Lipman and the former Ruth Alper, Frances Lipman was born in Queens August 20, 1920, and grew up in Manhattan. His mother was a dancer who later helped to introduce yoga in Hollywood.

Frances has a degree in art and psychology at the University of Brooklyn. Later he studied African dance and Haiti, the drums and singing with Katherine Dunham, one of only a handful of white students to be accepted into the predominantly black school, Mrs. Dunham in New York.

First marriage of Mrs. Alenikoff, Jules Alenikoff, ended in divorce, as did his second, with Martin Freedman. He is survived by his daughter, Francesca, his relationship with Guido Teunissen, a grandson and a nephew.

His work has been the topic of "things that make up a choreography Journal," a documentary by Robert Machover.

Ms. Alenikoff continued dancing in public, until she was about 80 years. Reviews of their performances at the end of life sometimes noticed, was willing to pay, after a particularly high calcium, to inform the public exactly how old it was.

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Pop Art Dealer Ivan Karp Dies at 86

Ivan Karp, the owner of the gallery in New York that Newsweek called "the assistant chief of the pop art movement," died of natural causes in his bed in Charlotteville, New York, on June 28. He was 86 years.

From 1959 to 1969, Karp is assistant director of the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York, where he participated in the early careers of some of the biggest names of the time, as John Chamberlain, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol.

Karp, once said in an interview that while working as a distributor for the Martha Jackson Gallery in late 1950, sold a sculpture before Chamberlain in the basement of the gallery for $ 275, "based on my enthusiasm and my faith ... that was really something interesting.

"He said that the venda convinced Jackson to keep Chamberlain after evaluating the work of the artist" very strange and very difficult. "

Karp has worked as an art critic for The Village Voice 1954-55. "Somebody said that writers need to be working for nothing," he said after joining the paper.

After ten years of Leo Castelli, Karp branched own business in 1969 and founded the avant-garde art gallery OK Harris in Soho, which regularly promotes the movement of photo-realistic and was one of the first gallery showing Artist Robert Bechtle.

The gallery is open even after 43 years, now at 383 West Broadway. A memorial service will be held this fall, according to the magazine OK Harris.

Ivan Karp was born June 4, 1926, the Bronx. His father, a hat salesman, soon moved with his family in Brooklyn. Mr. Karp Erasmus Hall left school to join the Army Air Forces in 1944. He remembered taking the middle name of Conrad, when he was in line to enlist.

He pointed out that men without names were marked as "not me", for the sixth grade and I thought it was a terrible aspect. Wearing "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad at the time.

Mr. Karp attended the New School for Social Research and the GI Bill was an early art critic for The Village Voice in mid 1950. He has also published short stories. At one point sold Humor ice cream and tried to organize a union for employees of the company.

In another, he was hired by the New York theater companies to change the romantic scenes in movies from the west, believing that fans just liked guns and galloping.

As president of the Society of Arts Recovery Anonymous, Mr. Karp shooting in New York in a jeep atrotinat looking gargoyles, capitals and cornices of the buildings had been cleared. It is a particular pleasure, was to find portraits carved stone Italian craftsmen who were immigrants from one another, warts, missing teeth and all.

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