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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Historian John Keegan Dies at 78

John Keegan, an Englishman widely considered the eminent military historian of his time and author of over 20 books, including the masterpiece "The Face of Battle," died Thursday at his home, Kilmington, England. He was 78 years.

His death was announced in The Telegraph, where he served as director of military affairs. No cause of death was given, although Coughlin, executive director of the foreign newspaper, said in an email that Mr Keegan had died after a long illness.

Keegan has never served in the army. At 13, he contracted tuberculosis and spent the next nine years received surgical treatment for this, five of them in a hospital, where he used the time to learn Latin and Greek by a priest.

As recognized in the introduction of "The Face of Battle", which "was not a battle, or about one, or a sense of distance, or have seen the consequences."

But he said that he learned in 1984 ", and battlefields are physically repulsive" and "how it feels to be scared" when the Telegraph was sent to Beirut, Lebanon, to write about the Civil War.

The body of Mr. Keegan working distance through the centuries and continents, and, overall, has followed the evolution of war and its destructive technology, while recognizing their constant: the terrors of combat and cargo psychological soldiers immediately.

He had a strong interest in the United States, receiving a grant to visit Princeton, writing meditations on war in North America and briefing on President Bill Clinton in preparation for the 50 anniversary of the invasion of Normandy in 1994.

Keegan was particularly concerned with the cultural roots of the war, asking, "Why do men fight" in his classic 1993 study of "A History of the war," said the military conflict was a ritual in which the cultural modern concept of total war, as in the First World War was an aberration.

His subjects include Henry V of England, Napoleon and Hitler's military machine, but also deal with the war in the nuclear age, which ends in "The Face of Battle" that war is almost unthinkable. "The suspicion grows that the battle has already abolished," he wrote.

In "The war in Iraq," published in 2004, followed by the technological revolution in warfare with the introduction of computer-guided "smart weapons". He also made a political judgment, to conclude - even with the recent war and not yet transformed by sectarian conflict and the increase in U.S. troops - that the invasion of Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein was justified.

Probably none of his books was the most admired "The Face of Battle," which was published in 1976. The Cambridge historian JH Plumb called "very creative, original, so" and "the most brilliant." A successful publisher, who launched his career as a popular historian Keegan.

He examined the book in three battles: Agincourt in 1415, Waterloo in 1815 and the Somme in 1916, all relating to the British. His story is dark and compelling tale of what happens in the heat of battle, including the execution of prisoners.

He was not above a personal note. In describing the horrors of the Somme, where his father was gasejat seems to grow melancholy, pausing to reflect on how the shadow of war was even 70 years later.

He speaks of "the military historian, who, as has been said by the extinction of this courageous effort, or what, falls a terrible state of lethargy, the keys of his typewriter, touch leadenly guidelines of the card printing, as waves of a battalion of Kitchener does not make their goal, more and more slowly toward the bottom of the page. "

John Desmond Patrick Keegan was born May 15, 1934, in London. During the German bombing in 1940, was evacuated with other children in Taunton, England, far from the targets of the bombers of the Luftwaffe. "I had a good war," he wrote, "a boy in London, closed the first cry of the sirens."

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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.
"E" with great sadness that we say goodbye to Sly of No Use For A Name Tony, "read a statement on the website of his label.
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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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"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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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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Pioneer in Cognitive Psychology George A. Miller Dies at 92

The psychological investigation was in a sort of slot in 1955 when George A. Miller, a Harvard professor, presented a report entitled "The magical number seven, plus or minus two", which helped to trigger an explosion of new ideas and thinking about opening a new field of research known as cognitive psychology .

The dominant form of psychological study, while behaviorism, had rejected Freud's theories of "mind" as too intangible, vaguely mystical and verifiable. Its researchers have studied the behavior in the laboratory, observation and recording of the test subjects' responses to stimuli administered with care. Mainly, we studied mice.

Dr. Miller, who died July 22 at his home in Plainsboro, New Jersey, for 92 years, has revolutionized the world of psychology, which shows in his article that the human mind, although invisible, can also be observed and tested in the laboratory.

"George Miller, more than anyone, deserves credit for the existence of the modern science of mind", the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, and the author said in an interview. "He certainly was one of the most influential psychologists of the XXI century experimental 20".

Dr. Miller borrowed a test pattern of the emerging science of computer programming in early 1950 to demonstrate that the short-term memory in humans, when faced with the unknown, could absorb around seven new things at once.

When asked to repeat a random selection of letters, words or numbers, he wrote, people are stuck "somewhere in the neighborhood of seven years."

Some may remember the new list items, some less than seven years. But part of what they remember, words color words, foods, numbers with decimal numbers, no decimals, the consonants, vowels, seven was the average statistics for the short-term storage. (Long-term memory, cognitive formula that has followed another, was almost unlimited.)

Dr. Miller could not say why he was seven. He suggested that survival may have helped early humans could keep "some information about a lot of things" rather than "a lot of information about a small segment of the environment."

But this, he concluded, was the point. He had expressed an idea that became a touchstone for cognitive science: that whatever the brain, was an information processor, to systems that obey mathematical rules, which could be studied .

Dr. Miller, who was trained in behaviorism, was the first of many researchers and theorists to question the scientific principles in 1950. He and a colleague, Jerome S. Bruner, has named the new field of research, when he established a laboratory of his own psychology, the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard in 1960. Only the word "cognitive", considered a taboo among the behaviorists, that marked a break with the old school.

"Using" cognitive "was an act of defiance," Dr. Miller wrote in 2006. "For someone raised in respect of reductionist science," cognitive psychology "has made an accurate statement. This meant that I was interested in the mind."

This new approach to psychological research has come to be known as the cognitive revolution.

The first and most long-term interest as a scientist, Dr. Miller was the language. His first book "Language and Communication" (1951), is widely considered a key work in psycholinguistics, the study of how people learn, invent and use language.

He has worked with the linguist Noam Chomsky's revolutionary papers on mathematical language and computer problems involved in interpreting the syntax.

He conducted some early experiments on how people understand words and phrases, the speech of the information technology-based recognition. "Plans and the structure of behavior" (1960), written with Eugene Galanter and Karl H. Pribram was an attempt to synthesize the research of Amnesty International with psychological research on how humans act - essentially, a book on how to build better robots.

Since 1986, he oversaw the development of WordNet, an electronic database of reference designed to help computers understand human language.

His colleagues said they had a role in many of his boldest thoughts of the time on the human mind and artificial, in general, then moved to other projects.

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