Obituaries

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Tom Wolfe, author:

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)[1] was an American author and journalist, best known for his association with and influence in stimulating the New Journalism, in which literary techniques are used extensively.

He began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, but achieved national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters), and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.

His first fiction novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim, and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name, directed by Brian De Palma.

From Wikipedia.

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Actor Joseph Campbell has died.

[Tim Randal Walker]

I have noticed lately that Woodstock Wave Boomers have begun to enter their seventies. (Note-its been almost half a century since the vibrant late '60s). In about a decade they will reach the age 80 fragility barrier, and their ranks will start to thin rapidly.

Late wave Boomers will have reached old age.

[beechnut79]

(05-17-2018, 09:35 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I have noticed lately that Woodstock Wave Boomers have begun to enter their seventies.  (Note-its been almost half a century since the vibrant late '60s).  In about a decade they will reach the age 80 fragility barrier, and their ranks will start to thin rapidly.  

Late wave Boomers will have reached old age.

I have long envisioned a 50th anniversary reunion of Woodstock in August 2019. Might it be something such as a senior citizens' picnic?

[beechnut79]

(05-15-2018, 01:51 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Tom Wolfe, author:

Thomas Kennerly Wolfe Jr. (March 2, 1930 – May 14, 2018)[1] was an American author and journalist, best known for his association with and influence in stimulating the New Journalism, in which literary techniques are used extensively.

He began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, but achieved national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters), and two collections of articles and essays, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers and The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. In 1979, he published the influential book The Right Stuff about the Mercury Seven astronauts, which was made into a 1983 film of the same name directed by Philip Kaufman.

His first fiction novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities, published in 1987, was met with critical acclaim, and also became a commercial success. It was adapted as a major motion picture of the same name, directed by Brian De Palma.

From Wikipedia.

Another of Mr. Wolfe's accomplishments was labeling the decade of the 1970s as "The Me Decade". From that evolved the phrase "Me Generation" which quite accurately describe the prevailing philosophy of the Boomers after graduation from their "free love" stage. In that stage they focused outward and the "Me Generation" heralded their turning inward. In a fairly recent book titled "Generation Me" author Jean Twenge describes the Millennial Generation as launching the Me First philosophy into overdrive. Is the jury still out on this one?

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Two controversial historians:

Bernard Lewis, FBA (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specializing in oriental studies.[1] He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Lewis' expertise was in the history of Islam and the interaction between Islam and the West. He was also noted in academic circles for his works on the history of the Ottoman Empire.[2]

Lewis served as a soldier in the British Army in the Royal Armoured Corps and Intelligence Corps during the Second World War before being seconded to the Foreign Office. After the war, he returned to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and was appointed to the new chair in Near and Middle Eastern History.

In 2007 and 1999, respectively, Lewis was called "the West's leading interpreter of the Middle East"[3] and "the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East."[2] His advice was frequently sought by neoconservative policymakers, including the Bush administration.[4] Lewis, therefore, is generally regarded as the dean of Middle East scholars.[5] However, his support of the Iraq War and neoconservative ideals have since come under scrutiny.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

Lewis was also notable for his public debates with Edward Said, who accused Lewis and other orientalists of misrepresenting Islam and serving the purposes of imperialist domination,[12] to which Lewis responded by defending Orientalism as a facet of humanism and accusing Said of politicizing the subject.[2][13] Lewis argued that the deaths of the Armenian Genocide resulted from a struggle between two nationalistic movements[14] and that there is no proof of intent by the Ottoman government to exterminate the Armenian nation.[15] These views prompted a number of scholars to accuse Lewis of genocide denial and resulted in a successful civil lawsuit against him in a French court.[16]

More at Wikipedia


Richard Edgar Pipes (Polish: Ryszard Pipes; July 11, 1923 – May 17, 2018) was a Polish American academic who specialized in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union, who espoused a strong anti-communist point of view throughout his career. In 1976 he headed Team B, a team of analysts organized by the Central Intelligence Agency who analyzed the strategic capacities and goals of the Soviet military and political leadership. Pipes was the father of American historian and expert on American foreign policy and the Middle East, Daniel Pipes.


Pipes wrote many books on Russian history, including Russia under the Old Regime (1974), The Russian Revolution (1990), and Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime (1994), and was a frequent interviewee in the press on the matters of Soviet history and foreign affairs. His writings also appear in Commentary, The New York Times, and The Times Literary Supplement. At Harvard, he taught large courses on Imperial Russia as well as the Russian Revolution and guided over 80 graduate students to their PhDs.

Pipes is known for arguing that the origins of the Soviet Union can be traced to the separate path taken by 15th-century Muscovy, in a Russian version of the Sonderweg thesis. In Pipes' opinion, Muscovy differed from every State in Europe in that it had no concept of private property, and that everything was regarded as the property of the Grand Duke/Tsar. In Pipes' view, this separate path undertaken by Russia (possibly under Mongol influence) ensured that Russia would be an autocratic state with values fundamentally dissimilar from those of Western civilization. Pipes argued that this "patrimonialism" of Imperial Russia started to break down when Russian leaders attempted to modernize in the 19th century, without seeking to change the basic "patrimonial" structure of Russian society. In Pipes's opinion, this separate course undertaken by Russia over the centuries made Russia uniquely open to revolution in 1917. Pipes strongly criticized the values of the radical intelligentsia of late Imperial Russia for what he sees as their fanaticism and inability to accept reality. The Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn denounced Pipes' work as "the Polish version of Russian history". Pipes, in turn, accused Solzhenitsyn of being an anti-Semitic Russian ultra-nationalist, who sought to blame the ills of Communism on the Jews rather than to admit to the Russian roots of the Soviet Union. Writing of Solzhenitsyn's novel, August 1914 in the New York Times on November 13, 1985, Pipes commented: "Every culture has its own brand of anti-Semitism. In Solzhenitsyn's case, it's not racial. It has nothing to do with blood. He's certainly not a racist; the question is fundamentally religious and cultural. He bears some resemblance to Dostoevsky, who was a fervent Christian and patriot and a rabid anti-Semite. Solzhenitsyn is unquestionably in the grip of the Russian extreme right's view of the Revolution, which is that it was the doing of the Jews".[19] Pipes explained Solzhenitsyn's view of Soviet communism: "[Solzhenitsyn] said it was because Marxism was a Western idea imported into Russia. Whereas my argument is that it has deep roots in Russian history."[20]
Pipes stressed that the Soviet Union was an expansionist, totalitarian state bent on world conquest. He is also notable for the thesis that, contrary to many traditional histories of the USSR at the time, the October Revolution was, rather than a popular general uprising, a coup foisted upon the majority of the Russian population by a tiny segment of the population driven by a select group of intellectuals who subsequently established a one-party dictatorship which was intolerant and repressive from the start, rather than having deviated from an initially benign course. In Pipes's view, the Revolution was a total disaster, as it allowed a small section of the fanatical intelligentsia to carry out policies that were completely unrealistic.[citation needed]

In what was meant to be an "off-the-record" interview, Pipes told Reuters in March 1981 that "Soviet leaders would have to choose between peacefully changing their Communist system in the direction followed by the West or going to war. There is no other alternative and it could go either way – Détente is dead." Pipes also stated in the interview that Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of West Germany was susceptible to pressure from the Soviets. It was learned independently that Pipes was the official who spoke to Reuters. This potentially jeopardized Pipes's job. The White House and the "incensed" State Department issued statements repudiating Pipes's statements.[21]

In 1992, Pipes served as an expert witness in the Constitutional Court of Russia's trial of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.[22]

The writings of Richard Pipes have provoked criticism in the scholarly community, for example in The Russian Review.[23][24][25][26][27][28]

Criticism of Pipes's interpretation of the events of 1917 has come mostly from "revisionist" Soviet historians, who under the influence of the French Annales school, have tended since the 1970s to center their interpretation of the Russian Revolution on social movements from below in preference to parties and their leaders and interpreted political movements as responding to pressures from below rather than directing them.[29] Among members of this school, Lynne Viola and Sheila Fitzpatrick claim that Pipes focused too narrowly on intellectuals as causal agents. Peter Kenez (a one-time PhD student of Pipes') argued that Pipes approached Soviet History as a prosecutor, intent solely on proving the criminal intent of the "defendant", to the exclusion of anything else.[30] Pipes' critics argued that his historical writings perpetuated the Soviet Union as "evil empire" narrative in an attempt "to put the clock back a few decades to the times when Cold War demonology was the norm".[31][32]

Other critics have written that Pipes wrote at length about what Pipes described as Lenin's "unspoken" assumptions and conclusions, while neglecting what Lenin actually said.[33] Alexander Rabinowitch writes that whenever a document can serve Pipes' long-standing crusade to demonize Lenin, Pipes commented on it at length; if the document allows Lenin to be seen in a less negative light, Pipes passed over it without comment.[26]

Pipes, in his turn – following the demise of the USSR – charged the revisionists with skewing their research, by means of statistics, to support their preconceived ideological interpretation of events, which made the results of their research "as unreadable as they were irrelevant for the understanding of the subject"[34] to provide intellectual cover for Soviet terror and acting as simpletons and/or Communist dupes.[35] He also stated that their attempt at "history from below" only obfuscated the fact that "Soviet citizens were the helpless victims of a totalitarian regime driven primarily by a lust for power".[36]

Again, more at Wikipedia

[Eric the Green]

(05-17-2018, 02:34 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:

(05-17-2018, 09:35 AM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: I have noticed lately that Woodstock Wave Boomers have begun to enter their seventies.  (Note-its been almost half a century since the vibrant late '60s).  In about a decade they will reach the age 80 fragility barrier, and their ranks will start to thin rapidly.  

Late wave Boomers will have reached old age.

I have long envisioned a 50th anniversary reunion of Woodstock in August 2019. Might it be something such as a senior citizens' picnic?

Can woodstock boomers ever reach old age? Maybe in body, but maybe not in spirit. Some of us believe in reincarnation too, so we'll be back, young as ever. I don't know if peace and love and music are age dependent anyway. Maybe, but what does the 1979 generation have to look forward to celebrate in 2049 or 2059? Thrash rock and head bumping? Xtreme-sports exploits? That indeed will be too hard for 80-year old Xers to do.

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Centenarian stage and screen artist and singer

Eileen Patricia Augusta Fraser Morison (March 19, 1915[1] – May 20, 2018) was an American stage and film actress and mezzo-soprano singer.[2] She made her feature film debut in 1939 after several years on the stage. She was lauded as a beauty with large eyes and extremely long, dark hair. During this period of her career, she was often cast as the femme fatale or "other woman". It was only when she returned to the Broadway stage that she achieved her greatest success as the lead in the original production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Morison

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You have surely seen some of his film posters, the latest one for J. Edgar...

William Gold (January 3, 1921 – May 20, 2018)[1] was an American graphic designer best known for thousands of film poster designs.[2]

His first film poster was for Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and his most recent work was for J. Edgar (2011).
During his 70-year career he worked with some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers, including Laurence Olivier, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Ridley Scott, and many more. Among his most famous film posters are those for Casablanca and A Clockwork Orange.

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Philip Milton Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) was an American novelist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Roth

Roth's fiction, regularly set in his birthplace of Newark, New Jersey, is known for its intensely autobiographical character, for philosophically and formally blurring the distinction between reality and fiction, for its "supple, ingenious style" and for its provocative explorations of American identity.[1]

Roth first gained attention with the 1959 novella Goodbye, Columbus, for which he received the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[2][3] He became one of the most awarded American writers of his generation. His books twice received the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle award, and three times the PEN/Faulkner Award. He received a Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral, which featured one of his best-known characters, Nathan Zuckerman, a character in many of Roth's novels. The Human Stain (2000), another Zuckerman novel, was awarded the United Kingdom's WH Smith Literary Award for the best book of the year. In 2001, in Prague, Roth received the inaugural Franz Kafka Prize.

More on his writing:

Roth's work first appeared in print in Chicago Review when he was studying, and later teaching, at the University of Chicago.[8][9][10] His first book, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories, won the National Book Award in 1960, and afterwards he published two novels, Letting Go and When She Was Good. The publication in 1969 of his fourth and most controversial novel, Portnoy's Complaint, gave Roth widespread commercial and critical success, leading his profile to rise significantly.[3][11] During the 1970s Roth experimented in various modes, from the political satire Our Gang to the Kafkaesque The Breast. By the end of the decade Roth had created his alter ego Nathan Zuckerman. In a series of highly self-referential novels and novellas that followed between 1979 and 1986, Zuckerman appeared as either the main character or an interlocutor.

Sabbath's Theater (1995) may have Roth's most lecherous protagonist, Mickey Sabbath, a disgraced former puppeteer; it won his second National Book Award.[12] In complete contrast, American Pastoral (1997), the first volume of his so-called second Zuckerman trilogy, focuses on the life of virtuous Newark star athlete Swede Levov, and the tragedy that befalls him when Levov's teenage daughter becomes a domestic terrorist during the late 1960s; it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.[13] I Married a Communist (1998) focuses on the McCarthy era. The Human Stain examines identity politics in 1990s America. The Dying Animal (2001) is a short novel about eros and death that revisits literary professor David Kepesh, protagonist of two 1970s works, The Breast and The Professor of Desire. In The Plot Against America (2004), Roth imagines an alternative American history in which Charles Lindbergh, aviator hero and isolationist, is elected U.S. president in 1940, and the U.S. negotiates an understanding with Hitler's Nazi Germany and embarks on its own program of anti-Semitism.

Roth's novel Everyman, a meditation on illness, aging, desire, and death, was published in May 2006. For Everyman Roth won his third PEN/Faulkner Award, making him the only person so honored. Exit Ghost, which again features Nathan Zuckerman, was released in October 2007. It was the last Zuckerman novel.[14] Indignation, Roth's 29th book, was published on September 16, 2008. Set in 1951, during the Korean War, it follows Marcus Messner's departure from Newark to Ohio's Winesburg College, where he begins his sophomore year. In 2009, Roth's 30th book, The Humbling, was published. It tells the story of the last performances of Simon Axler, a celebrated stage actor. Roth's 31st book, Nemesis, was published on October 5, 2010. According to the book's notes, Nemesis is the last in a series of four "short novels," after Everyman, Indignation and The Humbling.

In October 2009, during an interview with Tina Brown of The Daily Beast to promote The Humbling, Roth considered the future of literature and its place in society, stating his belief that within 25 years the reading of novels will be regarded as a "cultic" activity....

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Astronaut Alan Bean, one of the few men to have walked on the Moon:

Quote:Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut; he was the fourth person to walk on the Moon. He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3.

He made his first flight into space aboard Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, at age 37 in November 1969. He made his second and final flight into space on the Skylab 3 mission in 1973, the second manned mission to the Skylab space station. After retiring from the United States Navy in 1975 and NASA in 1981, he pursued his interest in painting, depicting various space-related scenes and documenting his own experiences in space as well as that of his fellow Apollo program astronauts. He was the last living crew member of Apollo 12.

Much more at Wikipedia.

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Any organists?

Quote:Born in Zaandam, Netherlands, Kee studied organ, piano and composition at the Amsterdam Conservatory, obtaining the Prix d'Excellence, and won first prize at the annual Haarlem International Improvisation Competition three times in succession (1953 to 1955).[3] This was the start of a worldwide career as a concert organist. [4]
Kee taught at the Music Lyceum and Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam from 1954 until 1988, and at the Haarlem International Summer Academy for Organists. He was organist of the Hagerbeer-Schnitger organ in St. Laurens church in Alkmaar from 1952 to 1987, and city organist of the world-famous Müller organ at St. Bavo church in Haarlem from 1956 until 1989.[3][4]

Kee's improvisation skills are renowned. His compositions include the "Haarlem Concerto", which received its first performance by Thomas Trotter in March 2006. His numerous recordings, several of which received awards, include a series of CDs on the Chandos label, covering the repertoire from Sweelinck to Messiaen, recorded on important European historical instruments.[citation needed]

In 1988, with Olivier Messiaen, Kee received an Honorary Fellowship from the Royal College of Organists.[3][4]
In February 2014, several of Kee's compositions were performed in a "Composer's Portrait" concert at the Orgelpark in Amsterdam. This included a version of The Organ for five pipe organs.[5] here].
Kee died in Haarlem 90 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Kee

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One of the founding figures of video gaming, inventor of Pong and a founder of Atari.

Quote:Samuel F. "Ted" Dabney (May 15, 1937 – May 26, 2018) was an American electronic engineer, the co-founder of Atari, Inc. alongside Nolan Bushnell, and one of the creators of the first successful arcade game, Pong.

Dabney was born in San Francisco, California. One of several schools that he attended was John A. O'Connell High School of Technology, where he studied trade drafting, which led to him getting a job with the California Department of Transportation while still a teenager.[1] He eventually got his high school diploma from San Mateo High School; Dabney credited a math teacher named Walker there that got him interested in the electronics and computing areas.[1] He then had a summer position with a local surveyor company, but when the work dried up by the winter, he was let go, and he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps.[1] Within his three years of the Corps he took courses on electronics, giving him an interest in the area.[2] He was able to leave the Corps as he had been accepted for San Francisco State University, but as he did not have the funds to support his education, he instead took a job with Bank of America based on his electronics experience, where he kept the Electronic Recording Machine, Accounting operational.[1]


Dabney left Bank of America after a year, and on recommendation of John Herbert, a colleague he worked with, was hired by Hewlett-Packard.[3] Within a few weeks, Herbert had moved onto Ampex and convinced Dabney to interview there. Dabney joined Ampex in 1961, working in their military products section. This work led to him becoming involved in early video imagery products within Ampex, including vidicon systems.[1] By around 1969 Ampex had also hired Nolan Bushnell, who worked alongside Dabney and where they became friends.[3] Bushnell, prior to joining Ampex, had came up with the idea of making a carnival-like pizza place with animatonics and games, and discussed this idea with Dabney.[4] After seeing a computer system at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the two came up with the concept of using a smaller computer or video systems, adding coin slots, and allowing people to pay to play games on this.[1]

Dabney and Bushell jointly created a partnership called Syzygy (named after astronomy term representing an alignment of celestial bodies) in 1971. When they decided to incorporate, they discovered another company had that name and therefore established their corporation under the name Atari, Inc., based on the Go term equivalent to chess's "check", as both had been avid fans of the game.[3][5] Their first product was Computer Space, inspired by having seen Spacewar! running at Stanford. Dabney created a motion system using a video circuit made up of cheap analog and digital components of a standard television set rather than acquire an expensive computer, while Bushnell designed its cabinet and worked with Nutting Associates to manufacture the game at scale.[5] Bushnell used this to convince Al Alcorn, another Ampex employee, to leave and join Atari to help program more of these games.[6] Under Bushnell's direction, Alcorn used Dabney's video circuit concept to create the programming for Atari's next game, Pong. Dabney constructed the coin slot mechanism portion of the cabinet. Once their one-off version proved successful, they ramped up production for scale, with Dabney overseeing the manufacturing process. Pong became the first successful arcade game.[5]

As Pong became successful, Dabney felt overshadowed by both Bushnell and Alcorn. He learned that Bushnell had patented his video circuit idea without including Dabney on the patent.[5][2][7] Bushnell also had assigned Dabney a lower-level position in Atari and did not include him in high-level meetings.[5] Around March 1973, Dabney left the company over this falling out.[5][8] Dabney did continue to help Bushnell with starting his Pizza Time Theater (the predecessor of Chuck E. Cheese's) and Catalyst Technologies as an employee, being wary of Bushnell's previous treatment of him.[9][1] Alongside these, he worked for several companies, including Raytheon and Fujitsu, and at other times working on his own projects for his own video game company Syzygy Game Company, where he made games that Bushnell used for his Pizza Time Theaters, including an arcade quiz game based on science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.[2] Dabney also helped with the automated ticket number system used by the restaurants.[2] When Pizza Time Theater went under, and Bushnell could not pay Dabney what he owed him, Dabney opted to close down Syzygy, and ended his friendship with Bushnell.[2] Dabney went to work at Teledyne for about ten years before deciding to leave the industry.[1]

After leaving the computer industry, Dabney and his wife Carolyn managed a grocery store and later a deli.[1] Around 2006, they moved from California to a property he owned near Okanogan National Forest in Washington.[2]

After his departure from Atari, Dabney did not receive much publicity, and until 2009, his contributions towards Atari and the early days of video games were generally forgotten.[5] Dabney reappeared in 2009, following an announcement made by Paramount Pictures the previous year that they were going to make a biographical film based on Nolan Bushnell, but had never approached Dabney for any input.[2] Dabney gave an interview with video game historian Leonard Herman in Edge that described his contributions towards Atari, and acknowledged that "I'm sure [Bushnell] had no desire to even acknowledged that I ever existed" and "He wouldn't give me any credit even while I was still there".[2]

Dabney was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in late 2017, and opted against treatment. He died on May 26, 2018.[9]

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Dabney

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I remember Bushnell; hadn't heard of Dabney.

[Bob Butler 54]

(05-27-2018, 10:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: I remember Bushnell; hadn't heard of Dabney.

Or claimed not to.  Some people strive not to share credit.

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Ella Brennan (November 27, 1925 – May 31, 2018) was an American restaurateur and part of a family of restaurateurs specializing in haute Louisiana Creole cuisine in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 2009 she received the James Beard Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.[1] In 2002 she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Southern Foodways Alliance.[2]

Brennan was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 27, 1925. She worked for her brother Owen E. Brennan at a restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans, and studied restaurant service in Europe and New York where she worked at the 21 Club. At Commander's Palace she worked with Paul Prudhomme, beginning in 1975, and Emeril Lagasse from 1983.[2]


She died on May 31, 2018, at the age of 92.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Brennan

Greatest regional cuisine in America.

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You have surely seen his work:

Michael Dickins Ford (1928 – 31 May 2018) was an English film art director and set decorator.

Born in southern England, Ford trained as an illustrator at Goldsmiths College, London. He worked as a scenic artist before "drifting into" the film industry via commercial television. His first film credit was Man in the Moon (1960); among his first major projects were The Anniversary (1968), with Bette Davis, and Kelly's Heroes (1970).

In 1982, Ford was a co-recipient of the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for his contributions as set decorator to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). This was preceded by a nomination for The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and followed by nominations for Return of the Jedi (1983) and Empire of the Sun (1987). He won his second Academy Award in 1998 for his work on Titanic (1997). Ford also served in a design capacity on the James Bond films The Living Daylights (1987), Licence to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995). He died in 2018 at the age of 90.[1]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Ford

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retired NFL wide receiver Dwight Clark:



Dwight Edward Clark (January 8, 1957 – June 4, 2018) was an American football wide receiver and executive. He played for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1979 to 1987. With the 49ers, Clark played on two Super Bowl championship teams. He caught the winning touchdown pass thrown by quarterback Joe Montana in the NFC Championship Game in January 1982 against the Dallas Cowboys.[1][2] The play, immortalized as "The Catch" propelled the 49ers to their first Super Bowl championship. Clark played college football at Clemson University before being drafted by the 49ers in the 10th round of the 1979 NFL Draft.[3] He served as the general manager of the 49ers in 1998 and in the same capacity with the Cleveland Browns from 1998 to 2002.

Born in Kinston, North Carolina, Clark graduated from Garinger High School in Charlotte, where he played quarterback.[4] He played college football at Clemson University;[5][6] in his senior season in 1978, the Tigers were 11–1, won the Gator Bowl over Ohio State, and finished sixth in the final AP poll.


In the 1981 NFC Playoffs, on January 10, 1982, against the Dallas Cowboys, the 49ers trailed 27–21 in the final minute of play. Clark leaped and caught a 6-yard pass from quarterback Joe Montana in the back of the end zone to give the 49ers a 28–27 victory and advance to Super Bowl XVI.[1][2] That play, one of the most famous in the history of the NFL, has been immortalized as "The Catch".[10] Clark finished the game with eight receptions for 120 yards and two touchdowns. During the 1981 season, Walsh had Montana and Clark routinely practice the 20-yard end-zone throw after regular practice.[citation needed]

After nine seasons with the 49ers, Clark retired following the 1987 season. He was a member of two Super Bowl-winning teams (XVI and XIX). To honor his contribution to 49ers, the club retired his number 87 in 1988.[11] He served as a team executive for the 49ers and was the General Manager and Director of Football Operations for the Cleveland Browns from 1999–2002.[12] On May 14, 2002, he resigned from his position with the Browns after new head coach Butch Davis requested the right to make personnel decisions.[13]

Clark was the lead role in the 1994 direct-to-video comedy Kindergarten Ninja. He also appeared in the video game All-Pro Football 2K8. He joined Comcast SportsNet Bay Area in 2011 as an analyst for 49ers Postgame Live. In retirement, Clark expressed remorse about the end of Candlestick Park, saying that “It was a dump [but] it was our dump, so we could talk bad about it, but we didn’t want anybody else to talk bad about it.”[14]

On March 19, 2017, Clark announced that he had been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.[15] He died from the disease on June 4, 2018.[16][17]

At the time of his death, Clark lived in Montana, with his wife, Kelly. He also had three children, a daughter and two sons, from a previous marriage.[8][18] Clark was the father-in-law of former NHL defenseman Peter Harrold.[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Clark

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Cardinals' Red Schoendienst dies at 95, oldest living member of Baseball Hall of Fame

Quote:St. Louis Cardinal great Red Schoendienst passed away Wednesday at the age of 95.

The news was broken to Cardinal Nation by former Cardinals and KMOX Cardinals announcer Mike Shannon.

Schoendienst was born in Germantown, Illinois, just 40 miles from downtown St. Louis. He was one of seven children.
Early on he showed promise as a baseball player. But in 1939 he suffered an injury to his left eye and was forced to become a switch-hitter batting left-handed.

He was signed by the Cardinals in 1942 after a tryout for $75 a month.

Schoendienst played minor league baseball during World War II and was drafted. However, he was given a medical discharged due to the injury to his left eye. In 1945 he moved to the big league playing for the Cardinals as left fielder and second baseman. He played with the Cardinals until he was traded in 1956 to the New York Giant and Milwaukee Braves.

He returned to the Cardinals in 1961 playing till 1963.

After Cardinals World Series win against the New York Yankees in 1964, Schoendienst was elevated to manager. He managed the Cardinals for over 12 seasons. He was part of 5 World Series wins for the Cardinals.
In 1989 he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and was inducted into the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum in 2014.

Schoendienst was the oldest living Baseball Hall of Famer at the time of his death.

http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2018/06/06...-fame.html

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The oldest living former MLB baseball player is Fred Caliguri, born October 22, 1918.

The oldest member of the Baseball Hall of Fame is now Tony Lasorda, born September 22, 1927.

The oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame recognized for his playing or pitching is Whitey Ford, born October 21, 1928.

The next oldest living persons in the MLB Hall of Fame are

Willie Mays (1931)
Whitey Herzog (1931)
Hank Aaron (1934)
Luis Aparicio (1934)
Bud Selig (1934)
Al Kaline (1934)
Frank Robinson (1935)
Bob Gibson (1935)
Sandy Koufax (1935)

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