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Red Bull co-founder and owner - pbrower2a - 10-23-2022
Dietrich Mateschitz Croatian: Matešić[2] (20 May 1944 – 22 October 2022[3]) was an Austrian billionaire businessman. He was the co-founder and 49% owner of Red Bull GmbH.[4] As of October 2021, Mateschitz's net worth was estimated at US$25.4 billion.[5]
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Mateschitz was born 20 May 1944, in Sankt Marein im Mürztal, Styria, Austria to a family of Croatian ancestry. Some sources state that he has relatives in the Zadar area of Croatia.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12] His mother's side is from Styria, his fathers' side is from Maribor.[13][14] His parents were both primary school teachers and separated when he was a young child.[citation needed]
After taking ten years to graduate from the Hochschule für Welthandel (now Vienna University of Economics and Business) with a marketing degree in 1972,[13][15] Mateschitz's first employer was Unilever, where he worked marketing detergents. He subsequently moved to Blendax, the German cosmetics company since bought by Procter & Gamble, where he worked on, among other things, the marketing of Blendax toothpaste.[16] It was as part of his travels for Blendax that he discovered Krating Daeng, the drink that would later become Red Bull.[13] In 1984, he founded Red Bull GmbH[17] with Chaleo Yoovidhya, launching the brand in Austria in 1987.[16] Subsequently, he turned the Red Bull drink into a world market leader among energy drinks.[18]
He was co-founder of the Wings for Life foundation that supports spinal cord research together with Heinz Kinigadner. Since 2014, the foundation has organised the Wings for Life World Run to raise funds.[19]
Mateschitz's brands are consistently marketed as associated with the physical and mental attributes needed for various types of extreme sports through commercial sponsorship.[20] Red Bull formerly owned more than 60 percent of the Sauber Formula One motor racing team, and was the team's main sponsor. However, Red Bull ended its relationship with Sauber at the end of 2001 after the team opted to sign Kimi Räikkönen as one of their drivers for the 2001 season instead of Red Bull protege Enrique Bernoldi.[21] In November 2004, Mateschitz bought the Jaguar Racing Formula One team from its previous owners, Ford, and renamed it Red Bull Racing. In September 2005, Mateschitz joined forces with his close friend and former Formula One driver, Gerhard Berger, to purchase the Italian-registered Minardi team from its Australian owner Paul Stoddart. The team was renamed Scuderia Toro Rosso, Toro Rosso meaning Red Bull in Italian. Toro Rosso was meant to serve as a Junior team to Red Bull Racing. Ironically in 2008, Sebastian Vettel won the Italian GP for Toro Rosso. In 2009, he would win Red Bull Racing’s first race in F1. In 2010, Red Bull Racing won the Formula One World Constructors' Championship and Drivers' Championship with Sebastian Vettel. They then went on to win both titles for the next three years running in 2011, 2012, and 2013, making Vettel and Red Bull Racing four-time world champions. 8 years later they won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship again with Max Verstappen in the 2021 season and came as runners up in the Formula One World Constructors' Championship which was won by Mercedes.
From 2006 to 2011, Mateschitz also owned Team Red Bull who competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the K&N Pro Series East.
In late 2004, he bought the A1-Ring racing circuit, which had formerly hosted the Formula One Austrian Grand Prix, and renamed it the Red Bull Ring. The circuit re-opened in May 2011 and hosted a round of the 2011 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season. Although Mateschitz had stated that there were no plans for it to return to the Formula One calendar, in December 2012 Red Bull notified the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile they would be open to hosting a Grand Prix.[22] In July 2013, Red Bull announced the return of the Austrian Grand Prix to the Formula One World Championship in 2014. The race took place on 22 June 2014 and was won by Nico Rosberg, driving for Mercedes.[23]
Mateschitz had his own hangar with a collection of old planes, including the last Douglas DC-6B to be produced, and which once belonged to Yugoslav Marshal Josip Broz Tito.[24] He also sponsored the World Stunt Awards, an annual fundraiser to benefit his Taurus Foundation, which helps injured stunt professionals.
In April 2005, he bought the Austrian football club SV Austria Salzburg and in March 2006, he bought the American club MetroStars; both clubs were subsequently renamed after his famous drink, as Red Bull Salzburg and New York Red Bulls, respectively. In 2007, Red Bull founded Red Bull Brasil, a football team based in Campinas, Brazil. The team was promoted to the 1st division of the São Paulo championship in 2014, the most competitive state championship of the country.[citation needed] In 2008, Red Bull founded Red Bull Ghana. In May 2009, he initiated a German football club called RB Leipzig after he bought the playing license of SSV Markranstädt. Since 2012, he was also the owner of the German ice hockey club EHC München, which also changed its name into Red Bull München.
Mateschitz also owned Seitenblicke, Austria's top society magazine, but avoided the celebrity circuit and watched most Formula One races on TV despite owning two teams.[25]
Mateschitz never married, but had a son.[25] He held a pilot's licence and enjoyed flying a Falcon 900 and a Piper Super Cub.[25]
He lived in Fuschl am See, Austria but also owned Laucala Island, off Fiji, which he bought from the Forbes family for £7 million.[25]
Mateschitz and his Bundesliga club RB Leipzig faced backlash in 2017 over comments made in a Kleine Zeitung interview[26] in which he suggested that Austria should close its borders to refugees and expressed support for Donald Trump and other populist positions.[27]
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Any American who admires Donald Quisling Trump is suspect.
Any non-American who admires Donald Quisling Trump is even more suspect.
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 10-24-2022
Libor Pešek KBE (22 June 1933 – 23 October 2022) was a Czech conductor.[1] He was among the most famous conductors of his time, working regularly across Europe from Prague to Liverpool. His career spanned more than 70 years during which he won awards from Great Britain and performing well into the 21st century.
Pešek was born in Prague and studied conducting, piano, cello and trombone at the Academy of Musical Arts there, with Václav Smetáček and Karel Ančerl among his teachers. He worked at the Plzeň and Prague Operas, and from 1958 to 1964 was the founder and director of Prague Chamber Harmony.
He was chief conductor of the Slovak Philharmonic from 1981 to 1982, and from 1982 to 1990 was conductor-in-residence of the Czech Philharmonic. Beginning in 2007 Pešek was the chief conductor of the Czech National Symphony Orchestra. He was stood down from this position at the close of the 2018-2019 season.[2]
In the UK, Pešek was music director of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (RLPO) from 1987 to 1998, and held the title of conductor laureate. His work with the RLPO included leading the premiere of Anthony Powers' Horn Concerto (Michael Thompson, soloist).[3] His career also reached Norway, France, Germany, Israel, the United States, Latvia, Australia, Croatia, the Netherlands and Poland.
Pešek is best known for his interpretations of Czech music. He was a champion of lesser known Czech composers, particularly Josef Suk and Vítězslav Novák. His recordings include music of Pavel Josef Vejvanovský.[4]
Pešek was awarded KBE in 1996 and the First Grade of Czech Medal of Merit in 1997.
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RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 10-26-2022
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John Jay Osborn Jr. (August 5, 1945 – October 19, 2022) was an American author, lawyer and legal academic. He is best known for his bestselling novel, The Paper Chase, published in 1971.
Osborn was born in Boston on August 5, 1945.[1] His father, John Jay Sr., was a doctor at Stanford University School of Medicine; his mother was Anne (née Kidder). He was a descendant of both John Jay,[1][2] the first Chief Justice of the United States, and of railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.[1][3] His family relocated to the Bay Area when Osborn was nine.[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts in American History from Harvard University in 1967 and graduated with a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1970.[4] He also did graduate work at Yale Law School.[5]
After graduating from law school, Osborn clerked for Judge Max Rosenn of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970 to 1972.[6] He was later an associate attorney with the firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.[7] Osborn taught law at the University of Miami, the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, the UC Berkeley School of Law,[5] and the University of San Francisco School of Law, from which he retired in 2018.[3]
For his third-year writing project at Harvard Law, Osborn wrote The Paper Chase, a fictional account of one Harvard Law School student's battles with the imperious Professor Charles Kingsfield. Osborn found a publisher with the assistance of William Alfred and the book was released in 1971.[1] It was made into a film two years later, starring John Houseman and Timothy Bottoms.[8] Houseman won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as contracts professor Kingsfield.[1][9] The Paper Chase also became a television series, and Osborn wrote several of the scripts.[1][10]
Osborn's third novel, The Associates, was adapted into a short-lived television series starring Martin Short and Wilfrid Hyde-White.[5] He was also one of the writers (along with Thomas A. Cohen) of the screenplay for the 2010 film version of the 1983 novel The River Why by David James Duncan.[11] His final book, Listen to the Marriage, was published in 2018.[1][12]
Osborn married Emilie Heffron Sisson in 1968.[1][3] She was a Radcliffe College graduate who worked as a physician with the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and they remained married until his death.[1] Together, they had three children, Sam, Meredith (who also attended Harvard College and Harvard Law School) and Shef.[13]
Osborn died on October 19, 2022, at his home in San Francisco. He was 77 years old and suffered from squamous cell cancer prior to his death.[1]
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 10-28-2022
Goodness! Gracious! Great Balls of Fire!
Jerry Lee Lewis (September 29, 1935 – October 28, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed the Killer, he has been described as "rock n' roll's first great wild man and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century."[8] A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis. "Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with the major hits "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential". However, his rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin.
His popularity quickly eroded following the scandal and with few exceptions such as a cover of Ray Charles's "What'd I Say", he did not have much chart success in the early 1960s. His live performances at this time were increasingly wild and energetic. His 1964 live album Live at the Star Club, Hamburg is regarded by music journalists and fans as one of the wildest and greatest live rock albums ever.[9][10][11][12][13] In 1968, Lewis made a transition into country music and had hits with songs such as "Another Place, Another Time". This reignited his career, and throughout the late 1960s and 1970s he regularly topped the country-western charts; throughout his seven-decade career, Lewis had 30 songs reach the Top 10 on the Billboard Country and Western Chart.[14] His No. 1 country hits included "To Make Love Sweeter for You", "There Must Be More to Love Than This", "Would You Take Another Chance on Me" and "Me and Bobby McGee".
Lewis's successes continued throughout the decades and he embraced his rock and roll past with songs such as a cover of The Big Bopper's "Chantilly Lace" and Mack Vickery's "Rockin' My Life Away". In the 21st century, Lewis continued to tour around the world and released new albums. His 2006 album Last Man Stranding is his bestselling release to date, with over a million copies sold worldwide. This was followed by Mean Old Man in 2010, which received some of the best sales of Lewis's career.
Lewis has a dozen gold records in both rock and country. He won four Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and two Grammy Hall of Fame Awards.[15] Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and his pioneering contribution to the genre was recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the inaugural class inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.[16] He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2022.[17] In 1989, his life was chronicled in the movie Great Balls of Fire, starring Dennis Quaid. In 2003, Rolling Stone listed his box set All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology number 242 on their list of "500 Greatest Albums of All Time".[18] In 2004, they ranked him No. 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.[19] Lewis was the last surviving member of Sun Records' Million Dollar Quartet and the album Class of '55, which also included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Elvis Presley.
Music critic Robert Christgau said of Lewis: "His drive, his timing, his offhand vocal power, his unmistakable boogie-plus piano, and his absolute confidence in the face of the void make Jerry Lee the quintessential rock and roller."[20]
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 10-30-2022
Vincent Joseph Dooley (September 4, 1932 – October 28, 2022) was an American college football coach. He was the head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs from 1964 to 1988, as well as the University of Georgia's (UGA) athletic director from 1979 to 2004. During his 25-year head coaching career, Dooley compiled a 201–77–10 record. His teams won six Southeastern Conference titles and the 1980 national championship. After the 1980 season, Dooley was recognized as college football's "Coach of the Year" by several organizations.
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RE: Obituaries - sbarrera - 11-01-2022
Julie Powell (April 20, 1973 – October 26, 2022) was an American author known for her 2005 book Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen which was based on her blog, the Julie/Julia Project. A film adaptation based on her book called Julie & Julia was released in 2009.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/dining/julie-powell-dead.html
Julie Powell, Food Writer Known for ‘Julie & Julia,’ Dies at 49
She documented her attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
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Julie Powell in 2009, the year Nora Ephron's movie “Julie & Julia,” based on Ms. Powell’s book, was released.
Julie Powell, the writer whose decision to spend a year cooking every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” led to the popular food blog, the Julie/Julia Project, a movie starring Meryl Streep and a new following for Mrs. Child in the final years of her life, died on Oct. 26 at her home in Olivebridge, in upstate New York. She was 49.
Her husband, Eric Powell, said the cause was cardiac arrest.
Ms. Powell narrated her struggles in the kitchen in a funny, lacerating voice that struck a nerve with a rising generation of disaffected contemporaries.
The Julie/Julia Project became a popular model for other blogs, replicated by fans of the cooks Ina Garten, Thomas Keller and Dorie Greenspan, and helped build the vast modern audience for home cooking on social media.
In 2002, Ms. Powell was an aspiring writer working at a low-level administrative job in Lower Manhattan. She was about to turn 30 and had no real career prospects. It was, she said in an interview with The New York Times, “one of those panicked, backed-into-a-corner kind of moments.”
To lend structure to her days, she set out to cook all 524 recipes from her mother’s well-worn copy of Mrs. Child’s 1961 classic “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1.” But as an untrained cook who lived in a small Long Island City loft, she found the road to be long, sweaty and bumpy.
In a blog for Salon.com that she called the Julie/Julia Project, she wrote long updates, punctuated by vodka gimlets and filled with entertaining, profane tirades about the difficulties of finding ingredients, the minor disappointments of adult life and the bigger challenges of finding purpose as a member of Generation X.
Before the year was up, Salon reported that the blog had about 400,000 total page views, as well as several thousand regular readers who hung on the drama of whether Ms. Powell would actually finish in time.
Blogging made it possible for Ms. Powell to reach readers on a relatively new platform and in a new kind of direct language. “We have a medium where we can type in the snarky comments we used to just say out loud to our friends,” she said in a 2009 interview.
Those comments were posted just as popular interest in food, cooking and chefs was rising. Ms. Powell’s self-deprecating style became a bridge from the authority of food writers like Mrs. Child, James Beard and M.F.K. Fisher to the accessibility of Rachael Ray, Bobby Flay and Nigella Lawson.
Just weeks before Ms. Powell’s self-imposed deadline was up, Amanda Hesser, a founder of the website Food52 who was then a reporter for The Times, wrote about her project, and interest exploded.
The Julie/Julia Project upended food writing, Ms. Hesser said in an email. “I’d never read anyone like her,” she wrote. “Her writing was so fresh, spirited — sometimes crude! — and so gloriously unmoored to any tradition.”
Ms. Powell inspired other amateur food writers to begin cooking their way through cookbooks and made professional food writers realize “they’d been stuck in the mud of conformity,” Ms. Hesser said. “The internet democratized food writing, and Julie was the new school’s first distinctive voice.”
The writer Deb Perelman, who started her food blog (now called Smitten Kitchen) in 2003, said: “She wrote about food in a really human voice that sounded like people I knew. She communicated that you could write about food even without going to culinary school, without much experience, and in a real-life kitchen.”
Little, Brown & Company turned the blog into a book, “Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen.” Although some critics wrote that it lacked literary heft, it went on to sell more than a million copies, mostly under the title given to the paperback: “Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously.”
Sales spiked after the popular 2009 movie “Julie & Julia,” Nora Ephron’s last work as a writer and director, which starred Ms. Streep as Mrs. Child; Stanley Tucci as her husband, Paul; and Amy Adams as Ms. Powell.
Ms. Powell “was happy for the story to be Nora Ephron’s story,” said Mr. Powell, a deputy editor at Archaeology magazine. “It did kind of sand down the quirky and the spiky and a lot of the things everyone knew her for and loved her for. And she was OK with that.”
The film’s success also lifted Mrs. Child’s book to the best-seller list for the first time.
Mrs. Child never saw the film — she died in 2004 — but she was familiar with Ms. Powell’s project.
Russ Parsons, a former Los Angeles Times food editor who was among the first to report on the blog, sent Mrs. Child, then in her 90s, some excerpts. She took the project as an affront, not the self-deprecating romp that Ms. Powell intended, and told Mr. Parsons that she and others had tested and retested the recipes so they would be accessible to cooks of all skill levels.
“I don’t understand how she could have problems with them,” he recalled her telling him. “She just must not be much of a cook.”
Julie Foster was born on April 20, 1973, in Austin, Texas, to John and Kay Foster. Her father was a lawyer. Her mother stayed home to care for her and her brother, Jordon, and then went back to college for a master’s degree in design from the University of Texas.
Ms. Powell graduated from Amherst College in 1995 with a bachelor’s degree in theater and fiction writing.
As a child, her brother said, Ms. Powell was both bookish and dramatic.
“She loved to be onstage, and loved just being over the top and having everyone watch her,” he said. And, he added, she was “the most experimental and sophisticated cook among us, and we were all people who cooked.”
She met the man who would become her husband when they were playing the romantic leads in a high school production of the Arthur Miller play “All My Sons.” They married in 1998.
Ms. Powell’s second book, “Cleaving: A Story of Marriage, Meat and Obsession,” published in 2009, dived deeply into their relationship, which sometimes flourished and sometimes faltered. She described in detail her struggle with an extramarital affair she had and, later, one her husband had. This time, the food connection was darker: She juxtaposed her apprenticeship as a butcher with a dissection of her moods and the marriage.
Without the sauciness and celebrity connection of her first book, “Cleaving” was not as well received, and although Ms. Powell continued writing, it was her last book.
“She had so much talent and emotional intelligence,” said Judy Clain, editor in chief of Little, Brown, who was Ms. Powell’s editor. “I only wish she could have found the next thing.”
After years splitting time between Long Island City and a cozy house in the Catskill Mountains that she purchased in 2008, the couple moved upstate permanently in 2018. In addition to her husband and her brother, Ms. Powell is survived by her parents.
Ms. Powell, who was politically candid and a staunch advocate for animals, maintained her lively voice on social media, a natural extension for the quirky and direct voice she honed as an early blogger. On Twitter, she posted pointed commentary, mixed in with mundane bits of daily life. As ever, she made her feelings public, whether she was depressed, frustrated or excited.
Mr. Powell, her husband, once said to her: “You hate everyone and you love everyone. That is your gift!” She turned it into her Twitter bio.
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 11-08-2022
Sir Evelyn Robert Adrian de Rothschild FKC (August 29, 1931 – November 8, 2022)[1] was a British financier and a member of the Rothschild family.
Son of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild (1887–1961) and Yvonne Lydia Louise Cahen d'Anvers (1899–1977), he was named after his uncle Evelyn Achille de Rothschild who was killed in action in World War I. Evelyn de Rothschild spent several of his boyhood years in the United States during World War II. He was a pupil at Harrow School[2] and then studied history at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, but dropped out before gaining a degree.
Born into great wealth, Evelyn de Rothschild became one of England's most eligible bachelors, spending his youth travelling, socialising, driving exotic sports cars, enjoying thoroughbred horse racing and playing polo. It was not until age 26 that he decided to join N M Rothschild & Sons banking house to be trained in the family's business. In 1955, a couple years prior to Sir Evelyn's entry into the family's business, his father had to retire from the position of chairman due to illness and his cousin Victor Rothschild took over as chairman.[citation needed]
Evelyn de Rothschild was appointed a director of Paris-based de Rothschild Frères in 1968 while Guy de Rothschild from the French branch of the family became a partner at N M Rothschild & Sons. In 1976 he took over as bank chairman from Victor Rothschild and in 1982 became chairman of Rothschilds Continuation Holdings AG, the co-ordinating company for the merchant banking group. He became co-chairman of Rothschild Bank A.G., Zurich in 1994, serving until 2003 when he oversaw the merger of the family's French and UK houses. David René de Rothschild of the French branch took over as executive chairman of Rothschild International after the different branches had been merged and Sir Evelyn continued as non-executive chairman of N M Rothschild & Sons. In 2003, he founded with his wife, Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a holding company, E.L. Rothschild, to manage their investments in The Economist and various enterprises in India.[3]
Throughout his career, Evelyn de Rothschild has been actively involved in a number of other organisations in both the private and public sectors and has held the following business positions:
- Chairman - The Economist (1972–1989)
- Chairman - British Merchant Banking & Securities House Association (1985–1989)
- Deputy Chairman - Milton Keynes Development Corporation (1971–1984)
- Chairman - United Racecourses (1977–1994)
- Director - De Beers Consolidated Mines (1977–1994)
- Director - IBM United Kingdom Holdings Limited (1972–1995)
In 1967 Sir Evelyn created the Eranda Foundation[4] to support social welfare, promote the arts and to encourage research into medicine and education.
Sir Evelyn served as Queen Elizabeth II's financial adviser.[5] He has been a Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as an active patron of the arts and supporter of a number of charities. He served as Chairman of the Delegacy of St Mary's Hospital Medical School from 1977 to 1988. He has been a Member of the Council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a trustee of the Shakespeare Globe Trust, and in 1998 was appointed Chairman of The Princess Royal Trust for Carers. Sir Evelyn was the founding chairman in 1990 of The European Association for Banking and Financial History in Frankfurt, Germany, a position he held until retiring in 2004. He is a board member of the Snowdon Trust, founded by the Earl of Snowdon, which provides grants and scholarships for students with disabilities.[6]
In 1966, Evelyn de Rothschild married Jeannette Bishop, a niece of Sir Stanley Hooker, the jet-engine engineer. The marriage ended in divorce in 1971. Jeanette Bishop died around the end of 1980 at the age of 41 along with former family cook and interpreter Gabriella Guerin allegedly killed. The case of black chronicle is known as the "Giallo dei Sibillini".[7]
He married a second time in 1973 to Victoria Lou Schott (1949 - 18 January 2021), the daughter of Florida property developer Lewis Schott[8] and his wife Marcia W. Schott (née Whitney).[9] The marriage, which ended in divorce in 2000,[2] produced three children:
- Jessica de Rothschild (5 June 1974) - British-based theatre director. Married British-American film director Sacha Gervasi in 2010
- Anthony James de Rothschild (30 January 1977) - married Danish model and UK TV presenter Tania Strecker in 2006.[10]
- David Mayer de Rothschild (25 August 1978).
Sir Evelyn's family homes include Ascott House, a country estate owned by the National Trust in Buckinghamshire about 46 miles north of London.
Sir Evelyn was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 1989 New Year Honours.[12]
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RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 11-08-2022
William Ray Guy (December 22, 1949 – November 3, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a punter for the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).[1] Guy was a first-team All-American selection in 1972 as a senior for the Southern Miss Golden Eagles, and was the first pure punter ever to be drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft, when the Oakland Raiders selected him with the 23rd overall pick in 1973.[2] He won three Super Bowls with the Raiders. Guy was elected to both the College Football Hall of Fame and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2014. An eight-time All-Pro, Guy is widely considered to be the greatest punter of all time.[3]
With his induction to the Hall of Fame on August 2, 2014, he became the first pure punter to be so honored.[4]
Guy attended Thomson High School in Thomson, Georgia, where he was a four-sport star. Playing quarterback, safety, linebacker, and tailback, aside from kicking and punting duties, Guy led Thomson to the Georgia Class A state football championships in 1967 and 1968. Guy averaged 49.7 yards per punt in 1968. Playing basketball, Guy scored 39 points in a Thomson basketball game the day after the 1968 state championship football game, with no practice. In baseball, Guy pitched a 15-inning scoreless game for Thomson in the state playoff semifinals in 1969. He was also a member of the track team.[5][6]
College career[edit]
Guy was both a punter and a placekicker at the University of Southern Mississippi, once kicking a then-NCAA record 61-yard field goal in a snowstorm during a game in Utah.[7] In 1972, he kicked a 93-yard punt in a game against the University of Mississippi.[8] He led the nation with an average of 46.2 yards per punt, earning him first-team All-American honors from the Football Writers Association of America.[6][9] After his senior season, Guy was named most valuable player of the 1972 Chicago College All-Star Game, in which an all-star team of college seniors played the current Super Bowl champion.[10] His career average of 44.7 yards per punt is still a school record.[11][7] He was also a starting safety at Southern Miss; during his senior season, he set a single-season school record with eight interceptions and was named an All-American defensive back by the Walter Camp Football Foundation.[8][10][12]
Guy continued playing baseball at Southern Miss, striking out 266 in 200 innings and pitching a no-hitter.[13]
Guy was the first punter ever to be selected in the first round in the NFL Draft, when the Oakland Raiders selected him with the 23rd overall pick of the 1973 draft.[14]
In his career as a punter, Guy played his entire career with the Raiders and was selected to seven Pro Bowl teams, including six in a row from 1973 to 1978.[15] He was named as the punter on the NFL's 75th and 100th anniversary teams.[16] His trademark was kicking punts that stayed in the air for long periods of time.[17] Pro Football Hall of Fame historian Joe Horrigan once said of Guy, "He's the first punter you could look at and say: 'He won games.'"[18]
In Super Bowl XVIII, Guy punted seven times for 299 yards (42.7 average), with 244 net yards (34.8 average). Five of his punts pinned the Washington Redskins inside their own 20. Due in part to his effective punting, the Los Angeles Raiders easily won the game, 38–9.[19]
After a 1977 game against Houston, Oilers coach Bum Phillips accused Guy of using footballs illegally inflated with helium. Houston returner Billy Johnson stated that he had "never seen anyone hang kickoffs like Guy did", and that the ball was "hanging up there too long". Additionally, the Raiders had used a new ball for every punt, adding to the Oilers' suspicions. Phillips said after the game that he would send the ball to Rice University for testing.[20] Guy punted three times for 107 yards in the game.[21]
During his career, Guy was also the Raiders' emergency quarterback.[22][23] He also handled kickoffs in the first five years of his career.[23][24]
In his 14-year career, Guy:
- Played in 207 consecutive games[25]
- Punted 1,049 times for 44,493 yards, averaging 42.4 yards per punt, with a 33.8 net yards average[26]
- Had 210 punts inside the 20-yard line (not counting his first 3 seasons, when the NFL did not keep track of this stat), with just 128 touchbacks[27]
- Led the NFL in gross yards per punt three times[27]
- Had a streak of 619 consecutive punts before having one blocked[17]
- Has a record of 111 career punts in postseason games[28]
Guy was inducted into both the Mississippi[33] and Georgia[34] Sports Halls of Fame, the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame,[35] the National High School Sports Hall of Fame,[36] and the College Football Hall of Fame.[37]
RE: Obituaries - beechnut79 - 11-09-2022
Jeff Cook, a founding member of country-rock supergroup Alabama, left us on November 7 at the age of 73. For many years this group was unstoppable. Nearly everything they recorded turned to gold. Among their greatest hits were "My Home's in Alabama", "Mountain Music", "Love in the First Degree", and "Lady Down On Love". The latter of these was released as a single after being deemed a favorite by many country music DJs. Following the success of "My Home's in Alabama" it was then off to the races, as 30 of the next 32 singles went to Number One. They were one of the most successful bands in county music history. The level of success they had could be considered reminiscent of what the likes of Elvis Presley and The Beatles had accomplished. Yet they obviously were no flash in the pan, as they scored mega-hits for the better part of two decades. Mr. Cook was the frontline fiddle player for the band, which scored 43 Number One hits with over 80 million albums sold.
RE: Obituaries - sbarrera - 11-12-2022
Nicholas Robert Turner (26 August 1940 – 10 November 2022) was an English musician, best known as a member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. [An old rocker from a band I loved growing up- SB].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nik_Turner
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/nik-turner-hawkwind-saxophonist-dead-obituary-1234629822/
Nik Turner, Hawkwind Saxophonist and Pioneer of British Space Rock, Dead at 82
"He has moved onto the next phase of his Cosmic Journey," a statement read
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Saxophonist Nik Turner performing with English space rock group, Hawkwind at Cardiff Castle, Wales, 24th July 1976.
NIK TURNER, THE multi-instrumentalist of the British space-rock band Hawkwind, has died. His death was confirmed on his Facebook on Nov. 11. “We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Nik Turner – The Mighty Thunder Rider, who passed away peacefully at home on Thursday evening,” the statement on Turner’s Facebook reads. “He has moved onto the next phase of his Cosmic Journey, guided by the love of his family, friends and fans.” He was 82.
Born Nicholas Robert Turner on August 26, 1940 in Oxford, Turner’s family later relocated to the Kent seaside resort of Margate when he was 13. There he was exposed to rock music and the films of James Dean. Turner studied saxophone in his early twenties and while he started out as a roadie for Hawkwind in 1969, he soon joined the band as their saxophonist, flutist and vocalist.
As one of the earliest psychedelic space-rock groups, Hawkwind was also Lemmy Kilmister’s band for four years, before winding up in Motörhead. When recalling auditioning for Hawkwind at an open-air concert in 1971 at Powis Square in Notting Hill Gatein, Kilmister remembered hoping to land a slot as Hawkwind’s second guitarist. Instead, the band’s bassist didn’t show up and Kilmister was thrown on stage with Turner. Never having played bass in his life, the sax player told him, “Make some noises in E. This is called ‘You Shouldn’t Do That.'”
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Earlier today, the Motörhead account tweeted, “We lost Lemmy’s old bandmate Nik Turner today. Play some Hawkwind nice and loud! Brainstorm here we go!”
Turner remained with Hawkwind until 1976, rejoining between 1982 and 1984. He would go on to form his own band Nik Turner’s Sphynx, followed by Inner City Unit, then Nik Turner’s Fantastic All Stars in the late 1980s. He went on to create the Hawkwind offshoot band Space Ritual in the 2000s and then Nik Turner’s Hawkwind.
RE: Obituaries - sbarrera - 11-12-2022
Kevin Conroy (November 30, 1955 – November 10, 2022) was an American actor. He is best known as the voice behind the DC Comics superhero Batman in various media, beginning on the 1990s Warner Bros. television series Batman: The Animated Series as well as other TV series and feature films in the DC Animated Universe. Due to the popularity of his performance as Batman, Conroy went on to voice the character for multiple films under the DC Universe Animated Original Movies banner and the critically acclaimed Batman: Arkham and Injustice video games.
[this death is affecting Batman fandom deeply, as Conroy was widely esteemed, and at 66 years old should have had many years to come continuing in his iconic role. -SB]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Conroy
https://www.theverge.com/23453374/kevin-conroy-batman-died
Kevin Conroy, the iconic voice of Batman, has died
‘I am vengeance. I am the night. I am Batman.’
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Kevin Conroy at 2021 Los Angeles Comic Con
Kevin Conroy, the voice actor who was the Batman for a generation, passed away at the age of 66, The Verge has confirmed. In an email seen by The Verge, DC public relations wrote, “It is with profound sadness that I send this to you today. Kevin Conroy, the quintessential voice of Batman, a dear friend to so many of us, has passed away.”
Conroy enjoyed a prolific acting career across stage and screen, but he is best known for voicing Batman, one of the most popular and captivating superheroes ever, starting with Batman: The Animated Series in 1992. He would go on to voice the Caped Crusader in many other animated series and video games, including Justice League, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Batman Beyond, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, and Batman: Arkham Asylum, and even play a live-action (and villainous) version of Batman during The CW’s Crisis on Infinite Earths special event.
In 2022, Conroy contributed to DC Comic’s Pride anthology, chronicling how he was able to develop his now-iconic performance in Batman: The Animated Series by channeling his struggles living as a closeted gay man.
“My heart pulsed, I felt my face flush, my breath grew deeper, I began to speak and a voice I didn’t recognize came out. It was a throaty, husky, rumbling sound that shook my body,” he wrote.
“Kevin was perfection,” said Mark Hamill, voice of the equally iconic Joker, in the press release announcing Conroy’s death. “He was one of my favorite people on the planet, and I loved him like a brother. He truly cared for the people around him – his decency shone through everything he did. Every time I saw him or spoke with him, my spirits were elevated.”
I am a child of the ’90s, and like many of my cohorts, I have distinct memories of waking up on Saturday morning to watch cartoons. No matter who you were, Black or white, girl or boy, we all watched Batman: The Animated Series. And as a burgeoning fanfiction writer, Batman and Catwoman were one of my most favorite ships, one I carry with me today. Conroy’s voice was like a ’90s baby security blanket. One of those sounds anybody aged 29–40 could point out, like, “That’s Kevin Conroy.” No matter what you were watching, if you heard that voice, you just felt good.
The way American culture thinks of Christopher Reeve as the singular and best Superman, that’s how a lot of us feel about Kevin Conroy’s Batman. He was 66 years old.
RE: Obituaries - sbarrera - 11-12-2022
Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr. (July 24, 1946 – November 11, 2022), known mononymously as Gallagher, was an American comedian who became one of the most recognizable comedic performers of the 1980s for his prop and observational routine that included the signature act of smashing a watermelon on stage with a sledgehammer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallagher_(comedian)
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/gallagher-dead-comedian-smashing-watermelons-1235430439/
Gallagher, Comedian Known for Smashing Watermelons, Dies at 76
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[/color][/color]Gallagher, the inventive prop comedian known for smashing watermelons as part of his act, died Friday of organ failure, his former manager Craig Marquardo confirmed to Variety. He was 76.
Gallagher had been in hospice care in California after suffering multiple heart attacks in recent years.
Born Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., the mononymous comedian became a household name in 1980 with “An Uncensored Evening,” the first standup comedy special to ever air on Showtime. Gallagher would go on to create 12 more hourlong specials for the network, as well as several popular programs for HBO.
Gallagher’s signature bit involved a handmade sledgehammer he called the “Sledge-O-Matic,” which he would use to smash food onstage and spray it onto the audience. His hammer’s trademark victim was the watermelon. Gallagher also became famous for his witty wordplay and sharp observational comedy.
While his contemporaries went on to host talk shows or star in sitcoms or movies, Gallagher remained on the road in America for nearly four decades, touring steadily up until the COVID-19 pandemic and playing over 3,500 live shows throughout his career. In his later years, Gallagher led a long-running Geico commercial and appeared in his first movie, “The Book of Daniel.” In 2019, he embarked on a farewell tour dubbed the “Last Smash.”
In the early 1990s, Gallagher gave his brother, Ron Gallagher, permission to do shows using the “Sledge-O-Matic” routine, on the contingency that promotional materials would clearly state that it was Ron, not Leo, who was performing. After several years, Ron started marketing his act as Gallagher Too or Gallagher Two, and in some instances it was not made clear that he was not, in fact, the original Gallagher. Leo requested that Ron stop performing the “Sledge-O-Matic” sketch, but his brother continued to do the routine. In 2000, Leo sued his brother for trademark violations and false advertising, and the courts issues an injunction preventing Ron from performing any act that impersonated Leo, as well as intentionally bearing likeness to him.
Gallagher was embroiled in another lawsuit in the early ’90s when a woman named Robin Vann sued him for injuries that occurred at his show. Seeking $100,000 in damages, Vann claimed she suffered head injuries that caused her to miss six months of work after Gallagher smashed a prop that subsequently hit her. The court sided once again with Gallagher.
Later on in his career, Gallagher faced accusations of racism and homophobia in his act, with some venues even cancelling his shows. In a now infamous episode of his “WTF” podcast, Marc Maron clashed with Gallagher over the conception that his act is derogatory. On the podcast, Gallagher doubles down on his offensive material and eventually storms out of the interview.
In a statement provided to Variety, Marquardo wrote of his former client, “While Gallagher had his detractors, he was an undeniable talent and an American success story.”
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RE: Obituaries - sbarrera - 11-13-2022
Sheesh- they're dropping like flies.
Julian Keith Levene (18 July 1957 – 11 November 2022) was an English musician, who was a founding member of both The Clash and Public Image Ltd (PiL).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Levene
https://variety.com/2022/music/news/keith-levene-dead-public-image-clash-1235431164/
Keith Levene, Public Image Ltd.’s Pioneering Guitarist and Clash Co-Founder, Dies at 65
Keith Levene, the pioneering guitarist who was a co-founder of the Clash and the deeply influential original member of Public Image Ltd., has died in Norfolk, U.K. His death was announced by former bandmates Martin Atkins and Jah Wobble on social media. The Guardian reported that he died of liver cancer; he was 65.
While his career was sidetracked by substance abuse beginning in the early 1980s, Levene’s work with Public Image — the band Sex Pistols singer John Lydon formed after that group broke up early in 1978 — cast a long shadow on the musical landscape of the post-punk era: Both melodic and discordant, sonorous and violent, his jagged, lurching chords and chiming arpeggios set a template that echoed across countless bands over the years, far beyond PiL’s postpunk milieu; this writer can recall hearing the Red Hot Chili Peppers spontaneously break into the riff from PiL’s classic 1979 song “Poptones” during a 1991 concert, and his sound can be heard in the decades-later work of everyone from Franz Ferdinand to LCD Soundsystem.
Born and raised in London, Levene was a true O.G. of the British punk-rock movement, although he was a fan of progressive rock bands in his teens and was even such a dedicated Yes follower that he briefly roadied for the group in the early 1970s. While he admired the virtuosity of guitarists like Yes’ Steve Howe, as he told Furious.com in 2001, “Once I got good enough to know the rules, I didn’t want to be like any other guitarist. I didn’t go out of my way to be different. I just had an ear for what was wrong. So if I did something that was wrong, i.e. made a mistake or did something that wasn’t in key, I was open-minded enough to listen to it again.”
He met fellow Clash co-founder Mick Jones in the mid-1970s and formed an early version of that band; he and manager Bernard Rhodes were actually the ones who convinced singer Joe Strummer to join. But Levene was unimpressed with the then-embryonic band’s musical skills and left, after co-writing the song “What’s My Name,” from the group’s galvanizing 1977 debut album. He briefly formed a band with Sid Vicious (who left to join the Sex Pistols) before uniting with Lydon, drummer Jim Walker and bassist Jah Wobble (a.k.a. John Wardle) in Public Image when the Pistols imploded.
While many may have expected PiL to be a Pistols Mark II — and their debut single, also called “Public Image,” is an exhilarating blast of punky energy — they proved to be a much more challenging prospect. Deeply influenced by the experimental early ‘70s “Kraut-rock” of groups like Can and Neu, the group’s sound combined Levene’s brittle guitar work with Wobble’s booming, reggae-influenced bass while Lydon ranted over the top. While their self-titled 1978 album was a deliberately provocative missive, the 1979 follow-up “Metal Box” (titled “Second Edition” in the U.S.) was a sprawling tour de force of challenging sounds and styles. Packaged in the U.K. in a metal tin box resembling a film canister, the album was pressed onto three 12” singles, making for such a loud bass sound that it could causes turntable styluses to jump from the vibrations. With songs like “Poptones,” “Careering,” “The Suit” and “Graveyard” (a song that, in characteristically contrarian fashion, the group included as an instrumental on the album while releasing the version with Lydon’s vocals as a B-side titled “Another”), the album set a new standard for where post-punk could go.
Although the group’s sound could not be pigeonholed as punk, their confrontational attitude most certainly was: Their concerts were famously shambolic, as captured on the 1980 live album “Paris au Printempts,” and the group didn’t even pretend to mime on a surreal performance on the U.S. pop-music TV show “American Bandstand,” with Lydon leading the baffled audience onto the floor with the group, where they danced awkwardly while the bandmembers lurched around the stage.
However, the story largely ended there. The band’s lineup was always fluid and Wobble had left by the time the group released its third LP, the even more challenging “Flowers of Romance,” which consisted largely of vocals with percussion, synthesizers and exotic instruments; Levene played guitar on just one song. The group rallied to record a fourth album but Levene left during the sessions; the resulting album, 1983’s “This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get,” features many songs co-written by him but none of his playing, although a quasi-legal album of early recordings of the songs that do feature him called “Commercial Zone” has long been available. Lydon has continued PiL as a fairly straightforward rock act over the years, but the innovation had already been done.
Levene kept a low profile in the following period, largely due to a battle with heroin, but relocated to Los Angeles and fell in with the music community there. He re-emerged in 1987 with the “Violent Opposition” EP — featuring members of the Chili Peppers and other young L.A. bands like Fishbone and Thelonious Monster — and produced demos for the Chili Peppers’ second album, “The Uplift Mofo Party Plan” (ironically, that group’s debut album was produced by Gang of Four’s Andy Gill, who played in a style very similar to Levene’s).
Levene continued to work and release a series of solo albums over the following years, including a reunion with Wobble during the 2010s. He issued an autobiography called “I Was a Teen Guitarist for the Clash” in 2015 that was apparently also a documentary film; the Guardian reported that he in recent years he had been working on a history of Public Image Ltd. with writer Adam Hammond.
“He’s gone and I can’t stop crying. Now I’m a widow,” said his wife Shelly Da Cunha.
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 11-16-2022
Pál Révész (6 June 1934 – 14 November 2022)[1], anglicized as Pal Revesz, was a Hungarian mathematician known for his research in probability and mathematical statistics, including the mathematical foundations of the law of large numbers, theory of density estimation, and random walks.[2]
Révész was born in Budapest. He studied in the applied mathematics program at the Faculty of Science, Eötvös Loránd University and graduated there in 1957. Afterwards, he got a job at the Eötvös Loránd University's probability department, where he worked as an assistant professor. In 1964, he transferred to the Mathematical Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, where he started working as a scientific associate. In 1963, he defended his candidate's thesis in mathematics, and in 1969 he defended his academic doctoral thesis. He became a member of the Mathematical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He did a significant part of his scientific work here. He was elected a corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1982, and a full member in 1987. In 1985, he received a second position as a university professor at the Vienna University of Technology.[3] He left the research institute in 1987, when he was appointed professor at the Institute of Mathematics of the Budapest University of Technology. In Vienna, he also headed the Department of Statistics and Probability, from where he retired in 1998.[2] Between 1999 and 2005, he was the deputy chairman of the Mathematics Department. Meanwhile, he also worked in the Committee on International Relations.
Révész became a member of the Academia Europaea in London in 1991.[2] In addition to his academic duties, he also contributed to the management of several scientific societies: from 1983 to 1985 he was the president of the Bernoulli Society of the International Statistical Institute. Between 1995 and 1997, he held the position of acting president of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society.
Révész's main research areas were probability and mathematical statistics. His results related to the so-called strong approximation of stochastic processes and the estimation of the probability density function are significant. He also dealt with statistical applications of the stochastic approximation method. He was the first to provide a method for estimating the regression function that is suitable for simultaneous estimation of all points of the function. He was a close collaborator of Paul Erdős.[4]
Révész received the State Award of the People's Republic of Hungary in 1978 for his achievements in probability, especially in the theory of stochastic processes and their practical application.[citation needed] He was an honorary professor at Carleton University and the University of Szeged.[5]
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 11-16-2022
Virginia McLaurin (March 12, 1909 – November 14, 2022) was an American community volunteer and supercentenarian. A resident of Washington, D.C., she gained national attention after a video of her dancing with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama went viral, recorded during an invited visit to the White House to be awarded a service medal on February 18, 2016 during annual Black History Month.
Biography[edit]
McLaurin was born in Cheraw, South Carolina[1] on March 12, 1909.[4] According to McLaurin, she "was birthed by a midwife and the birthday put in a Bible somewhere."[5] In her childhood, she worked in the fields with her parents, shucking corn and picking cotton.[3]
She grew up during the Jim Crow era when racial segregation was rampant throughout the Southern United States.[6]
Never receiving an education past third grade, McLaurin got married at 13 and later moved to New Jersey as part of the Great Migration.[3] Widowed when her husband was killed in a bar fight, she moved to Washington D.C. to be closer to her sister in 1939.[3] Around this time she took responsibility for a three-year-old boy after his father had remarried and the new wife did not want to take on the child. McLaurin formally adopted the boy when he was aged 14.[7]
She worked as a seamstress,[4] as a domestic helper for families in Silver Spring, Maryland, and managed a laundry shop.[3]
Through AmeriCorps Seniors, McLaurin has volunteered forty hours per week at Roots Public Charter School since the early 1980s.[6][8] She joined the United Planning Organization Foster Grandparent Program in October 1994.[7]
In 2013, she received a volunteer community service award from Mayor Vincent C. Gray.[9] After a TV crew publicized the fact that her apartment was infested with bed bugs in 2014, a local pest control company got rid of the infestation and gave her a free bed.[10]
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Towards the end of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama]Obama administration, friends of McLaurin recommended to members of the Obama administration that she meet with the President due to her extensive history of volunteering.[6] In February 2016, the White House hosted McLaurin in celebration of Black History Month.[6][11] Upon meeting the President and First Lady Michelle Obama, McLaurin gave them both hugs and started dancing with them.[2] She would later say in interviews that she never felt that she would ever live to visit the White House,[2] and she never thought there would ever be a day she would get to meet a Black President with his Black wife while celebrating Black history.[6][2]
Shortly after her meeting with the Obamas, the video of her dancing with the two went viral online.[3] According to the local press, she has since been referred to as D.C.'s favorite centenarian and Grandma Virginia.[2]
On March 11, 2016, McLaurin received the President's Volunteer Service Award for her two decades of service to schoolchildren.[8] On May 27, 2016, she attended a Washington Nationals baseball game and was presented with a custom jersey on the field.[12]
Personal life and longevity[edit]
According to The Independent in 2016, she has two children with her late husband: a daughter and a son. While the daughter was alive at 87 years old, her son had since died.[3] Despite this, she estimated she had about 50 living descendants. At least one of her grandchildren had a great grandchild, making her a great-great-great-grandmother.[3]
In 2016, The Washington Post reported McLaurin was having trouble receiving a replacement photo ID from the Department of Motor Vehicles due to her advanced age.[5]
On March 12, 2019, McLaurin turned 110 years old, becoming a supercentenarian.[2] She celebrated her previous birthdays from ages 106 to 109 with her favorite basketball team, the Harlem Globetrotters.[13][14]
McLaurin died at her home in Olney, Maryland, on November 14, 2022, at the age of 113
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_McLaurin
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 11-16-2022
A serial life-saver:
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Frida (12 April 2009 – 15 November 2022)[1] was a Golden Labrador Retriever who worked as a search and rescue dog for the Mexican Navy (SEMAR). She was deployed to help the rescue efforts in the aftermath of natural disasters. Frida helped save the lives of people buried under the rubble of buildings that collapsed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, victims of a landslide in Guatemala in 2012, after the explosion of the Torre Ejecutiva Pemex (Pemex Tower) in Mexico City in 2013, the 2016 Ecuador earthquake, and the 2017 Puebla earthquake in Mexico.[2] Reports have suggested that she located more than 52 people.[2]
Her trainer and handler was Petty Officer 2nd Class Israel Arauz Salinas (as of October 2018).[3] Equipped with protective goggles, harness, and boots she was trained to bark if she detected someone in need of help.
On 19 July 2018, Frida and her handler were honoured with a statue in the city of Puebla, where she attended the unveiling ceremony.[4][5] A second statue of Frida was unveiled by Secretary of the Navy José Rafael Ojeda Durán at the naval compound in Coyoacán, Mexico City, on 6 October 2022.[6] The statues are not the only artworks that celebrate Frida's heroic actions and achievements: as a social media star and national icon,[7] Frida was featured in fan art,[8] on t-shirts, in comic books, and in a large colourful mural in Mexico City's Roma neighbourhood painted by artist Celeste Byers.[9]
Frida retired from rescue work on 25 June 2019 but remained in service helping to train other dogs until she died on 15 November 2022, at the age of 13.[10][11][12] Following a ceremony in homage to her, Frida's ashes will be interred at the base of her statue in Coyoacán later in the month.[13]
RE: Obituaries - pbrower2a - 11-17-2022
Robert Clary, one of "Hogan's Heroes" (born Robert Max Widerman; March 1, 1926 – November 16, 2022) was a French-born American actor. He is best known for his role in the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes as Corporal Louis LeBeau (1965 to 1971). He also had recurring roles in the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1972 to 1987), and The Bold and the Beautiful (1990 to 1992).
Born in 1926 in Paris, France, Clary was the youngest of 14 children, 10 of whom would die in the Holocaust.[1] At the age of twelve, he began a career singing professionally on a French radio station and also studied art in Paris.[2] In 1942, because he was Jewish, he was deported to the Nazi concentration camp at Ottmuth, in Upper Silesia (now Otmęt, Poland). He was tattooed with the identification "A5714" on his left forearm. He was later sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.[citation needed]
At Buchenwald, Clary sang to an audience of SS soldiers every other Sunday, accompanied by an accordionist. He said, "Singing, entertaining, and being in kind of good health at my age, that's why I survived. I was very immature and young and not really fully realizing what situation I was involved with ... I don't know if I would have survived if I really knew that."[3]
Writing about his experience, Clary said:
Quote:We were not even human beings. When we got to Buchenwald, the SS shoved us into a shower room to spend the night. I had heard the rumours about the dummy shower heads that were gas jets. I thought, 'This is it.' But no, it was just a place to sleep. The first eight days there, the Germans kept us without a crumb to eat. We were hanging on to life by pure guts, sleeping on top of each other, every morning waking up to find a new corpse next to you. ... The whole experience was a complete nightmare — the way they treated us, what we had to do to survive. We were less than animals. Sometimes I dream about those days. I wake up in a sweat terrified for fear I'm about to be sent away to a concentration camp, but I don't hold a grudge because that's a great waste of time. Yes, there's something dark in the human soul. For the most part, human beings are not very nice. That's why when you find those who are, you cherish them.[4]
Clary was liberated from Buchenwald on April 11, 1945. Twelve other members of his immediate family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; Clary was the only survivor.[5] When he returned to Paris after World War II, he learned that three of his 13 siblings had not been taken away and had survived the Nazi occupation of France.[3]
Career[edit]
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Clary c. 1950, as a Capitol recording artist
Clary c. 1950, as a Capitol recording artist
Clary returned to the entertainment business and began singing songs that not only became popular in France, but in the United States as well.[1] Clary made his first recordings in 1948; they were brought to the United States on wire and were issued on disk by Capitol Records.[2] He went to the U.S. in October 1949. One of Clary's first American appearances was a French-language comedy skit on The Ed Wynn Show in 1950. Clary later met Merv Griffin and Eddie Cantor. This eventually led to Clary meeting Cantor's daughter, Natalie Cantor Metzger, whom he married in 1965, after being "the closest of friends" for 15 years.[1] Cantor later got Clary a spot on The Colgate Comedy Hour.[1] In the mid-1950s, Clary appeared on NBC's early sitcom The Martha Raye Show and on CBS's drama anthology series Appointment with Adventure.[citation needed]
Clary's comedic skills were quickly recognized by Broadway, where he appeared in several popular musicals, including New Faces of 1952, which was produced as a film in 1954.[citation needed]
In 1952, he appeared in the film Thief of Damascus which also starred Paul Henreid and Lon Chaney Jr. In 1958, he guest-starred on The Gisele MacKenzie Show (NBC). He guest-starred on The Munsters Today (1989) as Louis Schecter, Lily's acting coach, in the episode "Green Eyed Munsters".[citation needed]
In 1959, he was cast in the title role of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec in a British production of an Edward Chodorov play, Monsieur Lautrec.[6] [7] The play ran for two weeks at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry.[8] Although The Stage panned the play, it praised Clary for portraying Lautrec "with a delicacy and yet moving intenseness."[9]
LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes[edit]
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As LeBeau in Hogan's Heroes with Fräulein Helga ([url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Lynn]Cynthia Lynn)
In 1965, the diminutive 155 cm (5 ft 1 in) Clary was offered the role of Corporal Louis LeBeau on a new television sitcom called Hogan's Heroes, and he accepted the role when the pilot sold. The series was set in a German prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II, and Clary played a French POW who was a member of an Allied sabotage unit operating from inside the camp.[citation needed]
Asked about parallels between LeBeau's incarceration and his own, Clary said, "Stalag 13 is not a concentration camp. It's a POW camp, and that's a world of difference. You never heard of a prisoner of war being gassed or hanged. When the show went on the air, people asked me if I had any qualms about doing a comedy series dealing with Nazis and concentration camps. I had to explain that it was about prisoners of war in a Stalag, not a concentration camp, and although I did not want to diminish what soldiers went through during their internments, it was like night and day from what people endured in concentration camps."[4]
Clary became one of the last two surviving principal cast members of Hogan's Heroes, with Kenneth Washington (Sergeant Richard Baker, final season), when Cynthia Lynn (Helga, first season, 1965–1966) died on March 10, 2014. He was the last surviving original principal cast member.[citation needed]
After Hogan's Heroes was cancelled in 1971, Clary maintained close ties to fellow Hogan's Heroes cast members Werner Klemperer, John Banner, and Leon Askin, whose lives were also affected by the Holocaust. Following the show's cancellation, he appeared in a handful of feature films with World War II themes, including the made-for-television film Remembrance of Love, about the Holocaust. Clary also appeared on the soap operas Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, and The Bold and the Beautiful.[citation needed]
Clary appeared in the 1975 film The Hindenburg, which portrayed a fictional plot to blow up the German airship after it arrived at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. He played Joseph Späh, a real-life passenger on the airship's final voyage.[citation needed]
Clary spent years touring Canada and the United States, speaking about the Holocaust. He was a painter, painting from photographs he took on his travels.[1]
Clary published a memoir, From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes: The Autobiography of Robert Clary, in 2001.[10]
Clary died at his Los Angeles home on November 16, 2022, at the age of 96.[11]
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Jason David Frank (September 4, 1973 – November 19, 2022) was an American actor and mixed martial artist. As an actor, he was known for his role as Tommy Oliver in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and other shows.
Frank was cast in the role of Tommy Oliver, the Green Ranger. The role was set for 14 episodes. Due to the popularity of the character, he was brought back as the White Ranger and the new leader of the team.
Frank was supposed to be the lead character Adam Steele in VR Troopers (originally called "Cybertron") and shot a pilot episode before being called back to Power Rangers. According to both Frank and Brad Hawkins, Hawkins' character was to replace Tommy Oliver originally as the White Ranger on Power Rangers.[3][4] However, due to Tommy Oliver's popularity with Ranger fans, Frank was brought back, with Tommy Oliver becoming the White Ranger.[5] Hawkins would take over on VR Troopers. The character Adam Steele was renamed Ryan Steele. After three seasons, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers transitioned into Power Rangers Zeo. The transition is part of the annual Ranger suit change to match the annual change of the Super Sentai series. Frank's character became the Red Zeo Ranger (also called Zeo Ranger V).
The following year in Power Rangers Turbo, his character became the first Red Turbo Ranger. During mid-season, Frank and fellow cast members Johnny Yong Bosch, Nakia Burrise and Catherine Sutherland agreed to leave and were replaced.
After he left the series in 1997, Frank came back to Power Rangers as the Red Zeo Ranger in 2002 for the special 10th-anniversary episode, entitled "Forever Red", in Power Rangers Wild Force, which brought back ten former Red Rangers, and reunited him with Austin St. John.
He then reprised his role in 2004 in Power Rangers Dino Thunder, as the Black Dino Ranger. During his time as the Black Dino Ranger, Frank was always shown in long-sleeved shirts to cover the tattoos on his arms.
This was also the case during "Forever Red" of Wild Force. Being the Black Dino Ranger was a favor to Douglas Sloan.[6] He joked that Saban and Disney are "both the same, they're cheap" but that he was impressed with the production crew for Dino Thunder.[7]
Frank reprised his role as Tommy Oliver (who in turn was the Green Ranger for the episode) in the season finale of Power Rangers Super Megaforce.[8] Frank expressed interest in developing a Green Ranger solo series or feature film after an encounter with Stan Lee at a comic book convention.[9]
Frank had a cameo role in the 2017 film Power Rangers, as a citizen of Angel Grove, alongside fellow Power Rangers actress, Amy Jo Johnson. In 2018, he reprised his role as Tommy in episode 10 of Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel for the 25th anniversary of Power Rangers. In 2022, Frank revealed that he retired from the franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_David_Frank
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Participant in one of the most memorable plays in college football:
Dwight Eugene Garner (October 25, 1964 – November 18, 2022) was an American professional football player who was a running back. He played college football for the California Golden Bears and had a brief stint as a kick returner for the Washington Redskins (today renamed the Washington Commanders) of the National Football League during the 1986 season.
Garner was best known for his participation in The Play during the Big Game on November 20, 1982, while he was at the University of California, Berkeley, in which he made the third of five Cal lateral passes on a kickoff return to score a game-winning touchdown over Stanford. Garner's pass, as well as the final lateral pass of The Play, have been heavily scrutinized over whether they were legal; Garner made his pass while being tackled by several Stanford players, who maintain that Garner's knee touched the ground before he passed the ball, thereby ending the play at that point. Garner thereafter maintained,"I was not down."[1] The closest official to Garner at that moment was head linesman Jack Langley. He later declared that Garner's forward progress had not been stopped.[1]
Garner died from prostate cancer on November 18, 2022, at the age of 58.[2]
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Last living actor with a credited role in Gone With the Wind
Theodore Matthew Michael Kuhn Jr. (September 21, 1932 – November 20, 2022) was an American actor. He started his career as a child actor, active on-screen during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is most noted for having played Beau Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939).[1]
Kuhn also appeared in Juarez (1939), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), Red River (1948), and Broken Arrow (1950). He left the film industry in 1956, making his final acting appearance on the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents that year.
Born in Waukegan, Illinois of German descent to Mickey Snr. and Pearl Hicks, he gained fame as a child actor in the 1930s and appeared opposite such stars as Conrad Nagel and Leslie Howard, amongst others.[2] His first fame came when he won the role auditioned for by 100 other child actors in playing Beau Wilkes (the son of Leslie Howard and Olivia de Havilland's characters Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton), in Gone with the Wind in 1939.
Kuhn went on to appear in Juarez (1939) opposite Bette Davis, as the adoptive son of John Wayne in Red River, and then in Broken Arrow starring James Stewart.
Featuring in the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), this role would reunite him with Vivien Leigh twelve years after they first worked together in Gone with the Wind. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Kuhn played a sailor who directs Leigh's character Blanche to the correct streetcar which will take her to her sister's neighborhood at the beginning of the film. He was therefore acheived the distinction of being the only actor to share screen time with Vivien Leigh in each of her Academy Award winning performances, and was the last credited surviving actor in both films.[3]
Kuhn served in the U.S. Navy from 1951 until 1955 and worked as an aircraft electrician there.[1]
Kuhn left the film business in 1956 and worked for American Airlines from 1965 to 1995[1] and the Boston airport in administrative positions until his retirement. He regularly visited film festivals dealing with his films.
Following Dame Olivia de Havilland's death on July 26, 2020, Kuhn became the last surviving credited cast member[4] from Gone with the Wind.[5]
Kuhn and his wife, Barbara Kuhn, married in 1985 and had two children.[6][7] As of 2017, Kuhn was living in Naples, Florida, and volunteered four hours per week at a local hospital.[8] Kuhn died in Naples on November 20, 2022, at the age of 90.[7]
In 2005, Kuhn received a Golden Boot Award, an award given to acknowledge significant contributions to the Western genre.[9]
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