Jessica Ghawi Died In Colorado Shooting

The mother of a young woman who was killed while attending the Aurora, Colorado, the midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," said his daughter was "very easy to fall in love."

"It was like a shock of light. Tease her when she came home for a visit that had kept the door, was in chaos automatically by the energy level that has led to a room," beach Phillips, mother of Jessica Ghawar, said this afternoon "20/20."

Ghawar had escaped with the exception of a shooting at a mall in Toronto last month.

"He was very interested to see who has taken the victims of the recovery [Toronto], and realizing that many were close to their age and realized that life was very fragile and had a revelation at this time that could happen to any of us any time and instead of being afraid of it, he embraced a fuller life, "said Phillips.

Ghawar, an aspiring sports journalist, was killed when 24 years, James Holmes, stormed the home of the movie this morning, police said, and began shooting customers, presumably, killing at least 12 people and injuring 70.

Ghawar, which had moved recently to San Antonio, Texas, to Denver, had escaped a firefight on June 2 in a food court in Toronto that killed one person.

Ghawar attended the screening of the film with his friend, Brent Lowak, and had been on Twitter minutes before the movie started.

Lowak said that he and Jessica were sitting in the middle of the theater was full of smoke when a device that was released to the public, according to a report published by her brother filming Ghawar, Ghawar Jordan, on his blog.

Friends dropped in the prone position to escape the hail of bullets.

"Brent was heard yelling and then I realized that Jessica was struck by a bullet in the leg. Brent began to keep the pressure on the wound and tried to calm Jessica. It was during this time that Brent took a walk their lower extremities. While administering first aid but, Brent realized that Jessica was no longer called "wrote Jordan Ghawar.

Lowak "took what could have been his only chance to escape the firing line" and left the theater. Once secured, he contacted the mother of Ghawar.

For six weeks, when the young sports journalist had lost only to get caught up food court in Toronto shooting, reflected on what was lucky, and the fragile life is a blog about the attack.

"I found out after seeing a sitemap minutes after a man was standing on the site just to eat, and opened fire on the crowded food court would be in the same place where a victim was find, "wrote Ghawar.

After graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio, Ghawar was looking for a job in broadcasting. After the completion of internships with Mike Taylor, a sports commentator on Ticket 760 San Antonio, got a new job in Denver, first covering hockey.

"I really thought I had dodged a bullet, literally, that day and I was so grateful that it was good and the possibilities of their experience as something that never was impossible," said Phillips.

Ghawar brother, a firefighter in San Antonio, came to Denver this morning. Ghawar wrote on her blog that she was "hysterical call and almost incomprehensible," his mother told him that Jessica had been shot, while the midnight show of "The increased dark night."

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Sylvia Woods dies at 86

Sylvia Woods, 86 years, founder of the famous Harlem soul food restaurant that bears his name and is a must for residents, tourists, celebrities and politicians, died Thursday at his home in Mount Vernon, New York; his family has said. He had Alzheimer's disease.

Woods and her husband, Herbert, natives of South Carolina who met as children, Sylvia restaurant started in 1962.

Royal Harlem, the restaurant has politicians during the election campaign and for tourists and locals eager to corn bread, cabbage, ribs, fried chicken and other staples of southern cuisine.

The Reverend Al Sharpton, said Sylvia was "more of a restaurant was a meeting of black America."

He said we had dinner there with many celebrities, including President Obama and Caroline Kennedy.

Since its creation 50 years ago as a restaurant on Lenox Avenue near 127 Street, Sylvia has become a company that includes cookbooks, and a line of food products nationwide.

Woods, resigned to run the restaurant when he was 80 years, leaving in the hands of his sons and forests grandchildren.Herbert died in 2001.

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William D. Pawley Jr. dies at 92

William D. Pawley Jr., 92, a decorated pilot in World War II is often called the first true love, actress Elizabeth Taylor, died July 10 in Florida, his family announced. The cause was not determined.

Pawley, a resident of Pembroke Pines, Florida, was the son of the U.S. ambassador to Brazil and Peru, Mr. William Pawley

He was born June 21, 1920, in Atlanta, Georgia, but grew up in a mansion in Miami Beach from their rich parents. This is where the then 28-year-old veteran of the Army Air Forces began an affair with the actress, then 17 years old.

They met during a visit to Miami for Taylor and his mother in early 1949.

Even if Taylor had been linked with the former football star Glenn Davis in a love story, designed by his mother and his studio, his relation with Pawley was true. But not for long.

The couple announced their engagement in June 1949, but the fall had become the diamond ring given him.

Friends said Taylor is expected to reduce Pawley his career as an actress, once married. The following year she married Nicky Hilton in the first of his eight trips to the altar.

The novel is detailed in more than 60 love letters Taylor wrote Pawley, who has maintained for decades. They were auctioned after his death last year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Former Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman dies at 76

Omar Suleiman, head of Egypt's former spy and confidant of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak, has died in the United States, months after his failed presidential attempt to restore the old guard to power after a revolution in national television, the state reported Thursday.

"He was fine. It came suddenly when he was in medical examinations in Cleveland," Hussein Kamal, a subsidiary of Suleiman, who did not give a cause of death, told Reuters.

Suleiman, 76, summed up the state police who suppressed Egypt for three decades. He was an ally of Washington in the fight against terrorism and a key negotiator with the Palestinians and Israelis.

Quickly appointed vice president in recent days the government of Mubarak, Suleiman was overwhelmed, unable to understand the ideals of the uprising that forced the military to seize power in February 2011.

Aftert that Suleiman disappeared from public view for months, the reconstruction as a presidential candidate in the race remains polarized by the Islamists and the Mubarak regime.

His campaign ended in April, when the National Electoral Commission has determined that it had enough authorized signatures on their registration form.

Much of his campaign focused on warning that the Islamists wanted to turn Egypt into a religious state. Mohamed Morsi, a Muslim Brotherhood candidate, was elected president in June.

A good way of spying that has been credited with saving his life in an assassination attempt against Mubarak in Ethiopia in 1995, Suleiman has been criticized by human rights groups for allowing his vast intelligence network Intelligence of torturing suspected Islamic militants. He had close ties with the CIA, especially after the attacks of 9/11 United States.

"When we asked other nations to assist in intelligence operations, Suleiman mukhabarat [intelligence agency] has been willing to take custody of people and the question of Egypt Egypt, and these interrogations have included torture, "said John Sifton, a former researcher at Human Rights Watch who has specialized in issues related arrests and renditions to Egypt, told The Times last year.

"He is directly involved in [the torture], both as a member of the regime and led mukhabarat."

Suleiman was born poor in the Egyptian city of Qena. He attended a military academy and distinguished himself in the Arab-Israeli wars in 1967 and 1973. Appointed head of military intelligence in 1991, when Egypt has cooperated with U.S. forces to expel the Iraqi army of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. He became head of security of Egypt in 1993 and was essential for Mubarak, who trusted him with the negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians and other international diplomacy and sensitivity.

It was frequently mentioned as a possible successor to Mubarak. This discourse faded in recent years as Mubarak's son, Gamal, now on trial on charges of financial corruption has often been called the heir apparent.

Some analysts suggest that Suleiman, despite their years in the armed forces, can be removed from the military and its commander in chief, Mohammad Hussein Tantawi quarterback.

"Suleiman was always a bridge between the military wing of the regime and the civil wing. It was the military that was more accepted among the civilian elite," said Ziad AKL, senior analyst at Al-Ahram Center for Studies Political and Strategic Cairo.

But sometime during the 18 days of the revolution, he said, there was a point of conflict between Suleiman and Tantawi and the predominance of the military finally took over.

"The acceptance of Suleiman as president was highly unlikely for the military. The military may have felt betrayed that Suleiman, somehow comparing Gamal Mubarak, the business," said AKL.

In his brief tenure as vice president, Hosni Mubarak, only, Suleiman appeared often uncomfortable, a spy forced to the forefront of a revolution could not stop.

And "when he appeared pale and trembling before a microphone 11 February 2011, Mubarak announced that he had resigned. He offered to become interim president, but was rejected, and the army has taken control.

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Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv dies at 102

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, considered one of the most influential religious officials of his generation, died Wednesday Shaa Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. Was 102 and had been in declining health.

Decisions Elyashiv left a deep mark on many Jews who follow their interpretation of religious writings of contemporary problems, for example, whether to keep the patient alive.

Other decisions have influenced Israeli policy, the rabbi was the authority responsible for the Torah of Judaism, a small political party, but powerful.

"The people of Israel has lost a great rabbi, a ruler and a strong man of extraordinary wisdom," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement. "We mourn his death."

Born in Lithuania in 1910 to a line of scholars rabínicos, Elyashiv settled district of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem ultraorthodox after he had moved to Palestine with his family in 1924.

He was mainly self-taught scholar. After taking a seat at the High Rabbinic Court for over two decades, he plunged into the study and who became the ruling most famous rabbi in matters of religious practices.

Respect to its decisions has grown and gained a rare consensus among the orthodox in splinters, the herald of the light as many of the pillars of the Jewish people in modern times.

Elyashiv is considered a literal interpreter of lyrics and a conservative judge. He has challenged colleges for students and scholars of the Torah is opposed to disconnect patients from life support in brain death, saying it was a murder.

Despite the increasing importance, the reputed leader of Lithuanian stream ultraorthodoxy joined his modest lifestyle in the same apartment where he raised his large family and followers received the blessings and seeking answers to religious issues. As was fragile, a small synagogue was erected close to home so you can follow his teachings.

Described as a humble man, Elyashiv not to celebrate a public stand. However, it became a key figure in Israeli politics with the formation of Torah Judaism, an ultra-Orthodox political party, which some governments often key members.

As the supreme authority of the party, Elyashiv ruled government and lawmakers to act on your instructions.

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