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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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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Robert de La Rochefoucauld Dies at 88

Robert de La Rochefoucauld belonged to one of the oldest noble families in France. He was a descendant of Francois de La Rochefoucauld, author of a book-century classic of 17 maximum.

For 30 years he was mayor of Trézée-sur-Ouzou, an idyllic village on the canal of the Loire Valley, and use the noble title of Count.

But is particularly remembered as a brave and famous saboteur who fought for the honor of France in World War II as a secret agent with the British.

His exploits are legendary, involving a very eclectic collection of resources and tools to service sabotage and escape, including loaves of bread, a stolen limousine, not the leg of a table, a bike and a nun's habit, to mention the most successful spy devices such as parachuting, explosives and a submarine.

And perhaps corresponds to a man's adventures in wartime were carried out through the eyes of the public, the news of his death on May 8, Trézée-sur-Ouzou, emerged gradually, announced first by his family to Le Figaro newspaper in France and then returned in late June, the British press. He was 88.

Robert Jean-Marie de La Rochefoucauld (pronounced foo-to-Roash Council of Europe), was born September 16, 1923, in Paris, one of 10 children of a family living in a fashionable area of ??the Eiffel Tower. He attended private schools in Switzerland and Austria, and, at the age of 15 years, has received a slap on the cheek by Hitler in his class to visit the Alpine retreat of Berchtesgaden, the British newspaper The Telegraph.

Two years later, Hitler's army invaded France, and the father of M. the Rochefoucauld was taken prisoner. M. the Rochefoucauld became a follower of Charles de Gaulle, who was the editor Free French forces in England, and one day an employee of the emails warned that a letter had been denounced to the Gestapo.

With the help of the French resistance, he took a pen and fled to Spain in 1942 with two British airmen who were also being slaughtered by metro. I was hoping to go to England and link up with the movement of De Gaulle.

The Spanish authorities were interned three men, but the British secured their freedom and were so impressed with the enterprising M. de La Rochefoucauld who asked him to join the Directorate of Special Operations, the unit secret known as SOE, the Prime Minister Winston Churchill created in 1940, in his words, "put Europe in flames," in collaboration with the resistance groups on the continent occupied by the Germans.

M. the Rochefoucauld was an advantage for the British in another way. As its ambassador in Spain, said, according to the Telegraph: "The courage and skills of British agents is unmatched 's just that his French accent is terrible. ".

The British flew Mr. de la Rochefoucauld in England to train to jump from airplanes, to blow up the explosives and kill a man faster using only their hands.

He parachuted to France in June 1943. There, he destroyed an electrical substation and railroad tracks were flown at Avallon, but was captured and sentenced to death by the Nazis.

While being taken to execution, he jumped from the back of the truck of his captors, dodged bullets, and then ran through the streets near the edge of the settlement of a headquarters Germany, where he realized a limousine flying the flag with the swastika, its driver Near there, the keys in the ignition.

He entered the car and then took a train to Paris, hidden in one of their bathrooms.

"When we arrived in Paris, I felt drunk with freedom," the Telegraph quoted the saying.

The S.O.E. he later evacuated to England with a submarine, but in May 1944 was parachuted in France. Dressed as a workman, he was smuggling explosives in a huge German munitions factory near Bordeaux, hidden in hollowed bread loaves.

It was launched on 20 May explosives and fled on a bicycle, but was captured by the Germans once again.

In his cell, he pretended an attack of epilepsy, and when a guard opened the door of M. de La Rochefoucauld hit him in the head with a table leg and then broke his neck.

He took the guard's uniform and gun, fired two more guards, and escaped and contacted an employee of the French Resistance, the sister was a nun. He wore the dress and went quietly to the house of a senior official, who was hiding.

The S.O.E. disbanded in 1946. As a military officer in the war with France, Mr. de la Rochefoucauld troops trained in the French war in Indochina, the Suez campaign, when France joined Britain and Israel against Egypt for control of the Suez Canal. Later, followed by international business companies.

M. the Rochefoucauld is survived by his wife, Bernadette, his son, Jean, and their daughters, Astrid, Constance and Hortensia, according to The Independent in Britain.

M. Rochefoucauld was the mayor-sur-Ouzou Trézée 1966-1996. His memoirs, "La Liberté C'est Mon Plaisir, 1940-1946" was published in 2002.

In 1997 he pleaded on behalf of Maurice Papon, French exfuncionari wartime collaborationist Vichy government, which had been tried on the charge of the deportation of Jews from France were sent to Nazi death camps. M. the Rochefoucauld told the court that Mr. Papon had risked their lives to help the resistance and the allies.

Mr. Papon was convicted of complicity in Nazi crimes against humanity but fled to Switzerland while appealing. It was arrested at a hotel in Gstaad, where he was registered as Robert Rochefoucauld. One of Mr. Papon's lawyers later said that Mr. de La Rochefoucauld gave his passport to Mr. Papon.

Mr. Papon was returned to France and has less than three years of his sentence before being released. He died in 2007.

M. Rochefoucauld was a knight of the French Legion of Honour and a recipient of the Medal of the French Resistance, and was decorated for his bravery by the British. At his death, is believed to have been one of the last French life SOE Churchill

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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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Inventor of Electric Football Norman Sas dies at 87

Long before "Madden NFL" video games, there was a table called eccentric toy electric football.

Surely you remember the metal tone. Two teams of 11 soccer players plastic standing on a rectangular base with spikes on the bottom side and a knob.

At the beginning of each game, man "coach" sets players in the desired position and placed the ball in the hands of a. A change occurs, the football field vibrates and moves to the players, often violently in all directions. Sometimes, the player with the ball "turns" in the light of day.

Norman Sas invented the electric football in 1948 and introduced a year later. But it was not until 1967, when he signed a contract with NFL Properties, the licensing division soccer championship for the product, plastic men represented current NFL teams and football really took off electric .

Sas, of 87 years, died June 28 at his home in Vero Beach, Florida, after a stroke, was "one of the true innovators of the land of the toy," said Chris Byrne, content director of timetoplaymag.com, a toy review site.

"Who would have thought that a vibrating metal plate that awakens the imagination of so many children?" Byrne said, adding that the "chaos and unpredictability" of the movements of soccer players gave their electrical magic.

Born in New York in 1925, Anders Norman Sas received a degree in mechanical engineering and business economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before and after serving in the Navy during World War II. He became president of the company from his father, Elmer Metallic Products, New York, Tudor, in 1948.

Among its products were of toy musical instruments and an element of frugality was born of depression: a "budget of the Bank" for the classification of coins and banknotes.

The Norman 23 years old, lost no time leaving their mark. Inspired by a toy horse racing that was vibrant, electric football he came and quickly hit the market.

"The current enthusiasm for football chair strategists!" He said 1949 show in New York while promoting the game, available for $ 5.95 in a department store of A & S on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.

The title was screaming,'' men actually moved to New Electric Football Game! "

Electric football success was such that the Tudor Metal Products changed its name to the Tudor games. Other providers launched their version, but it was a game Sas', which received the approval NFL and landed in the Sears catalog.

In December 1971 Sports Illustrated story identified with grid electricity Soccer - then retail $ 9.95 to $ 14.95 - as the "best seller" among all NFL licensed products.

"For the first 10 years, we have generated more money for the Heritage of the NFL than anyone else," SAS said in a Washington Post article from 1999 in football electrical phenomenon. "Then the [video] games left, and this was the beginning of the end."

Sas retired in 1988 after the sale of Tudor Miggle Toys Toys and Games. He moved to Alpine, New Jersey, in Vero Beach, Florida, 15 years ago. Survivors are his wife of 62 years, Irene, two daughters and seven grandchildren.

About electric football, still smoking and vibrant in this era of video and electronic toys, and there are national competitions sponsored by soccer coaches miniature Assn., A group of fans.

Toys Miggle Electric Football was doing it in February Miggle was bought by a toy manufacturer in Seattle Ballpark Ballpark Classics Inc. restore the name of the company SAS, Tudor Games - a reference to the importance Electric Football agree.

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