Former Rams lineman John Williams dies at 66

John Williams, one of his assistants Angeles Rams in 1970, he went to school with the teeth out of season and started a dental practice in Minneapolis after his retirement from football, has died.

He was 66 years.

Williams, who had recently undergone a kidney transplant, died Sunday while on a walk near home, the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The office of the Hennepin County coroner confirmed his death.

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, 27 October 1945, John McKay, Williams was a football star in high school in Toledo, Ohio. Three-year letterman at the University of Minnesota, was an All-American and All-Big Ten offensive assistants in 1967, when the ground squirrels went 8-2 and won the title role in the conference .

In the 1968 NFL draft, the Baltimore Colts selected him in the first round, 23 overall. He played four seasons with the Colts and went to two Super Bowls, winning a ring with the team's 16-13 victory over Dallas after the 1970 season.

Williams was traded to the Rams to a No. 1 pick in 1972 and started at right offensive tackle for six years. He played as a guard in 1979, when the Rams advanced to the Super Bowl, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-19, in January 1980.

At this time, Williams had a plan for his life after football. He earned a degree in education from Minnesota, but really wanted to be a dentist, so he began taking classes at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

"I knew I was doing the right thing, when I could not get a decent off-season work in 1970 after playing in the Super Bowl team in Baltimore," he told The Times in 1978.

It took five years as part-time student, before he received his doctorate in dentistry. He retired from the NFL after tearing a calf muscle during the 1979 season and returned to Minneapolis to open his dental clinic.

The 6 feet 3 inches and 256 pounds described his work with patients outside the field in the interview with the Times.

"There is curiosity and a little" normal fan-athlete identification, "he said." But most important is a good value. Rapport is all in dentistry. The ability to inspire confidence. "

In Minneapolis, Williams has worked to revitalize the city neighborhood where he established his business and was named Volunteer of the Year in the city in 1992.

Trained in Forensic Dentistry, Williams joined a team of public health professionals who helped identify the remains of the victims after the attacks of 9/11 terrorists.

"A terrible," said Williams in Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2002.

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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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Oscar Award Winner Ernest Borgnine dies at 95

Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fats" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who brutally beat to death a private in the 1953 film "From Here to Eternity. "

However, two years later came the starring role in "Marty," Borgnine on the stocky, toothless challenged the encasellament and has been recognized as a versatile actor who inhabit the one butcher in the Bronx the search for love.

After a long career spent in seven to ten years in film and television, including the easy villains and representations in a serious role in the comedy television series of 1960 "McHale's Navy" and a lot of pieces his grandfather.

Borgnine, who won an Oscar for her performance in "Marty," died Sunday of apparent renal failure in hospital Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, said his publicist for a long time, Harry Flynn. He was 95 years.

The role alongside Frank Sinatra in "From Here to Eternity," based on the bestselling novel of military life that represents James Jones in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Borgnine moved to the top of the bad of the film in movies like "True Cross" and "Bad Day at Black Rock."

He left behind expectations in "Marty," the 1955 film version of the original game series on a Paddy Chayefsky television butcher sensitive Italian American bachelor who yearns for something more than hanging out with friends Saturday night.

"Well, I waddaya do tonight?" Marty's best friend, Angie, played by Joe Mantell, asks in return is often quoted in the film.

"I do not know, Ang, Wadden you want to do?" Marty replies.

Borgnine sensitive portrait of the self-described as "bad fat", not only earned him an Oscar for best actor, but the film also won Oscars for Chayefsky and director Delbert Mann, the Oscar for Best film.

In a film career began in 1951, Borgnine has appeared in over 115 films, including "Johnny Guitar," "Demetrius and the Gladiators," "The Flight of the Phoenix", "The Oscar", "The Dirty Dozen "" The Wild Bunch "," Willard "," The Adventure of Poseidon "and" The Emperor of the North ".

Between 1962 and 1966, played the leading role in the ABC comedy "McHale's Navy." Since the breakup of a captain regulation torpedo boat in the South Pacific during WWII, Borgnine was constantly frustrated pitted against Captain Binghamton (played by Joe Flynn). Tim Conway McHale played bumbling companion, the lieutenant Charles Parker.

Born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut, January 24, 1917, Borgnine was the son of Italian immigrants.

His parents separated when he was two years old, and his mother took him to live in Italy, returning after several years.

Borgnine graduated from New Haven High School in 1935, then worked a couple of weeks as a vegetable truck driver before enlisting in the Navy as an apprentice seaman.

He was discharged two months before the Pearl Harbor attack, and quickly returned to soldier. He spent the war as a gunner mate on a destroyer.

After his discharge, Borgnine returned home, not knowing what was going to do.

Finally, the mother suggested she give it a good shot. After all, he said, "You're always making a fool in front of people."

After six months of study at the Randall School of Dramatic Art in Hartford, Connecticut, the GI Bill, Borgnine got a job in the theater exchange in Abingdon, Virginia, working backstage before finally landing a $ 30 a week acting in place of street theater company.

"We conducted 14 exhibitions in our heads all the time," said columnist Hedda Hopper of Hollywood in 1956. "We have gone from 'John Loves Mary" in "Much Ado About Nothing" -. What kind of theater training school is fine, but the road is where you learn "

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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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