Obituaries

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Larry King has passed away.

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radio/TV host Larry King, brainy curmudgeon

Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021)[2] was an American television host, radio host, and paid spokesman, whose work was recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards.[3][4][5]

King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s, and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System.[6] From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN. From 2012 to 2020, he hosted Larry King Now aired on Hulu, Ora TV, and RT America. He continued to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which aired weekly on the same two channels from 2013 until his death in 2021. King received many awards during his life, including several Cable ACE Awards, Peabody Awards and lifetime achievement awards. [3][7]

A CBS staff announcer, whom King met by chance, suggested he go to Florida which was a growing media market with openings for inexperienced broadcasters. King went to Miami, and after initial setbacks, he gained his first job in radio. The manager of a small station, WAHR[22] (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks.[23] When one of the station's announcers abruptly quit, King was put on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, working as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. to noon.[24] He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast. He was paid $50 a week.

He acquired the name Larry King when the general manager claimed that Zeiger was too difficult to remember, so minutes before airtime, Larry chose the surname King, which he got from an advertisement in the Miami Herald for King's Wholesale Liquor.[25] Within two years, he legally changed his name to Larry King.[9]



He began to conduct interviews on a mid-morning show for WIOD, at Pumpernik's Restaurant in Miami Beach.[26] He would interview whoever walked in. His first interview was with a waiter at the restaurant.[27] Two days later, singer Bobby Darin, in Miami for a concert that evening, walked into Pumpernik's[28][29] having heard King's radio show; Darin became King's first celebrity interview guest.[30][31]



King's Miami radio show brought him local attention. A few years later, in May 1960, he hosted Miami Undercover, airing Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. on WPST-TV Channel 10 (now WPLG).[32] On the show, he moderated debates on important local issues of the day.



King credits his success on local television to the assistance of comedian Jackie Gleason, whose national television variety show was being taped in Miami Beach beginning in 1964. "That show really took off because Gleason came to Miami," King said in a 1996 interview he gave when inducted into the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. "He did that show and stayed all night with me. We stayed till five in the morning. He didn't like the set, so we broke into the general manager's office and changed the set. Gleason changed the set, he changed the lighting, and he became like a mentor of mine."[33]

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King's mugshot from his 1971 arrest in Miami

During this period, WIOD gave King further exposure as a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, during their 1970 season and most of their 1971 season.[34] However, he was dismissed by both WIOD and television station WTVJ as a late-night radio host and sports commentator as of December 20, 1971, when he was arrested after being accused of grand larceny by a former business partner, Louis Wolfson.[35][36] Other staffers covered the Dolphins' games into their 24–3 loss to Dallas in Super Bowl VI. King also lost his weekly column at the Miami Beach Sun newspaper. The charges were dropped.[36] Eventually, King was rehired by WIOD.[36] For several years during the 1970s, he hosted a sports talk-show called "Sports-a-la-King" that featured guests and callers.[30]



The Larry King Show[edit]

King interviewing Vladimir Putin in 2000

King interviewing President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush in 2006

On January 30, 1978, King went national on a nightly Mutual Broadcasting System coast-to-coast broadcast,[37] inheriting the talk show slot that had begun with Herb Jepko in 1975, then followed by "Long John" Nebel in 1977, until his illness and death the following year.[38] King's Mutual show rapidly developed a devoted audience.[39]

The Larry King Show was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time. King would interview a guest for the first 90 minutes, with callers asking questions that continued the interview for another 90 minutes. At 3 a.m., the Open Phone America segment began, where he allowed callers to discuss any topic they pleased with him,[39] until the end of the program, when he expressed his own political opinions. Many stations in the western time zones carried the Open Phone America portion of the show live, followed by the guest interview on tape delay.[40]

Some of King's regular callers used pseudonyms or were given nicknames by King, such as "The Numbers Guy",[41] "The Chair", "The Portland Laugher",[39] "The Miami Derelict", and "The Scandal Scooper".[42] The show was successful, starting with relatively few affiliates and eventually growing to more than 500. King hosted the show until stepping down in 1994.[43] King occasionally entertained the audience by telling amusing stories from his youth or early broadcasting career.[44][45]

For its final year, the show was moved to afternoons. After King stepped down, Mutual gave the afternoon slot to David Brenner[46] and Mutual's affiliates were given the option of carrying the audio of King's new CNN evening television program. After Westwood One dissolved Mutual in 1999, the radio simulcast of the CNN show continued until December 31, 2009.[47]



Larry King Live[edit]

King while hosting Larry King Live in 2006

Larry King Live began on CNN in June 1985 in which King hosted a broad range of guests from controversial figures of UFO conspiracy theories and alleged psychics,[48] to prominent politicians and leading figures in the entertainment industry, often doing their first or only interview on breaking news stories on his show. After doing his CNN show from 9 to 10 p.m., King then travelled to the studios of the Mutual Broadcasting System to do his radio show,[49] when both shows still aired.



Two of his more famous interviews involved political figures. In 1992, billionaire Ross Perot announced his presidential bid on the show. In 1993, a debate between Al Gore and Perot became CNN’s most-watched segment until 2015.[3]

Unlike many interviewers, King had a direct, non-confrontational approach. His reputation for asking easy, open-ended questions made him attractive to important figures who wanted to state their position while avoiding being challenged on contentious topics.[50] King said that when interviewing authors, he did not read their books in advance, so that he would not know more than his audience.[6][49] Throughout his career, King interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. According to CNN, King conducted more than 30,000 interviews in his career.[10]

King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that first national newspaper's debut in Baltimore-Washington in 1982 until September 2001.[51] The column consisted of short "plugs, superlatives and dropped names" but was dropped when the newspaper redesigned its "Life" section.[52] The column was resurrected in blog form in November 2008[53] and on Twitter in April 2009.[54]







On June 29, 2010, King announced that after 25 years, he would be stepping down as the show's host. However, he stated that he would remain with CNN to host occasional specials.[55] The announcement came in the wake of speculation that CNN had approached Piers Morgan, the British television personality and journalist, as King's primetime replacement,[56] which was confirmed that September.[57][58]

The final edition of Larry King Live aired on December 16, 2010.[59] The show concluded with his last thoughts and a thank you to his audience for watching and supporting him over the years. The concluding words of Larry King on the show were, "I... I, I don't know what to say except to you, my audience, thank you. And instead of goodbye, how about so long."[60]



On February 17, 2012, CNN announced that he would no longer host specials.[61]








In March 2012, King co-founded Ora TV, a production company, with Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim. On January 16, 2013, Ora TV celebrated their 100th episode of Larry King Now. In September 2017, King stated that he had no intention of ever retiring and expected to host his programs until he died.[62]

Ora TV signed a multi-year deal with Hulu to exclusively carry King's new talk-oriented web series, Larry King Now, beginning July 17.[63] On October 23, 2012, King hosted the third-party presidential debate on Ora TV, featuring Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, and Gary Johnson.[64]

In May 2013, the Russian-owned RT America network announced that they struck a deal with Ora TV to host the Larry King Now show on its network. King said in an advertisement on RT America: "I would rather ask questions to people in positions of power, instead of speaking on their behalf." The show continued to be available on Hulu.com and Ora.tv.[65][66] The following month, RT America began airing Larry King's new Thursday evening political talk show Politicking with Larry King, beginning with a discussion between Representative Aaron Schock (R, Illinois), Democratic Political Strategist Peter Fenn and Politico's Deputy Managing Editor Rachel Smolkin about Edward Snowden's leak scandal that revealed secret NSA surveillance programs.[67]

When criticized for doing business with a Russian-owned TV network in 2014, King responded, "I don't work for RT", commenting that his podcasts, Larry King Now and Politicking, are licensed for a fee to RT America by New York-based Ora TV. "It’s a deal made between the companies ... They just license our shows. If they took something out, I would never do it. It would be bad if they tried to edit out things. I wouldn’t put up with it."[68]



Other ventures[edit]

King attending a ceremony for Bill Maher to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in September 2010

Larry King remained active as a writer and television personality.

King guest starred in episodes of Arthur, 30 Rock and Gravity Falls, had cameos in Ghostbusters and Bee Movie, and voiced Doris the Ugly Stepsister in Shrek 2 and its sequels.[5] He also played himself in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story and appeared as himself in an episode of Law and Order: Trial by Jury.

King hosted the educational television series In View with Larry King from 2013 to 2015, which was carried on cable television networks including Fox Business Network and Discovery[69] and produced by The Profiles Series production company.[70]

King and his wife Shawn appeared on WWE Raw in October 2012, participating in a storyline involving professional wrestlers The Miz and Kofi Kingston.[71]

King became a very active user on the social-networking site Twitter, where he posted thoughts and commented on a wide variety of subjects. King stated, "I love tweeting, I think it's a different world we've entered. When people were calling in, they were calling in to the show and now on Twitter I'm giving out thoughts, opinions. The whole concept has changed."[72]
After 2011, he also made various TV infomercials, often appearing as a "host" discussing products like Omega-3 fatty acid dietary supplement OmegaXL with guests, in an interview style reminiscent of his past TV programs.[73][74][75][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King#cite_note-75]

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George Edward "Chief" Armstrong (July 6, 1930 – January 24, 2021)[1] was a former Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He played 1,188 NHL games between 1950 and 1971, all with Toronto and a franchise record, and was the team's captain for 13 seasons. Armstrong was a member of four Stanley Cup championship teams and played in seven NHL All-Star Games. He scored the final goal of the NHL's "Original Six" era as Toronto won the 1967 Stanley Cup.

Armstrong played both junior and senior hockey in the Toronto Marlboros organization and was a member of the 1950 Allan Cup winning team as senior champions of Canada. He returned to the Marlboros following his playing career and coached the junior team to two Memorial Cup championships. He served as a scout for the Quebec Nordiques, as an assistant general manager of the Maple Leafs and for part of the 1988–89 NHL season as Toronto's head coach. Armstrong was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1975 and the Maple Leafs honoured his uniform number 10 in 1998, and later officially retired the number, along with ten others, during a pre-game ceremony on October 15, 2016.

Upon turning professional in 1950–51, Armstrong was assigned to Toronto's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Pittsburgh Hornets.[11] In 71 games for Pittsburgh, he recorded 15 goals and 48 points.[9] Despite being hampered by hand and wrist injuries suffered in fights, Armstrong was the AHL's leading goal scorer and stood second in points by mid-season in 1951–52.[12] He was recalled to Toronto during the season and scored his first NHL goal, against goaltender Gerry McNeil of the Montreal Canadiens. It was the first goal ever scored by a player with Native heritage.[13] He finished the season with three goals and three assists in 20 games with Toronto.[9]

Though he missed the start of the 1952–53 season due to a separated shoulder, Armstrong earned a permanent spot on the Maple Leafs' roster.[3] He quietly established himself as an important contributor for Toronto by recording 25 points that season, then scoring 32 points the following season and 28 in 1954–55.[14] A 48-point season in 1955–56 was second on the team to Tod Sloan's 66. Armstrong then led the Maple Leafs in scoring with 44 points in 1956–57 despite missing 14 of his team's games.[15] He was named to play in the NHL All-Star Game in both seasons. They were the first two of seven he ultimately played.[7]

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Armstrong was named captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs during the 1957–58 season.

The Maple Leafs named Armstrong the team's captain in 1957–58 as he succeeded Ted Kennedy and Jim Thomson who served as co-captains the season before.[16] He finished fourth in team scoring with 42 points, then played his third All-Star Game during the 1958–59 season.[7] He recorded four assists in the playoffs as the Maple Leafs reached the 1959 Stanley Cup Final, but lost to the Montreal Canadiens.[9][17] With 51 points in 1959–60, Armstrong finished one behind Bob Pulford for the team lead.[18] Toronto again reached the Stanley Cup Final where they were again eliminated by Montreal.[19]
The Maple Leafs finally reached the NHL's peak two seasons later.[3] Armstrong set a career high with 53 points in the 1961–62 regular season, then added 12 points in 12 playoff games for Toronto.[9] He started the play that resulted in the Stanley Cup clinching goal, rushing the puck up ice before passing to Tim Horton, who then passed to goal-scorer Dick Duff that capped off a 2–1 victory in the sixth and deciding game of the series against the Chicago Black Hawks.[20] As Maple Leafs captain, Armstrong was presented the trophy by league president Clarence Campbell.[3] It was the first of three consecutive championships for Toronto as the Maple Leafs of 1962–1964 became the fourth dynasty in NHL history.[21] Individually, Armstrong scored 21, 19 and 20 goals over the three seasons and by virtue of the NHL's All-Star Game format of the time that had the defending champion play the all-stars of the remaining teams, appeared in his fourth, fifth and sixth All-Star Games.[7] Early in the 1963–64 season, on December 1, 1963, Armstrong scored his 200th career NHL goal.[22]
A 37-point season followed in 1964–65, then 51 points the 1965–66 season.[9] By 1966–67, Armstrong led an aging Maple Leafs team that entered the playoffs as an underdog against a dominant Chicago team. The Maple leafs nonetheless eliminated the Black Hawks in six games to set up the 1967 Stanley Cup Final against Montreal. The Canadiens were so confident of victory that a display area for the Stanley Cup had been set up at the Quebec pavilion at Expo 67 prior to the series' start.[23] The Maple Leafs dashed Montreal's hopes by winning the championship in six games. Armstrong scored the final goal of the series in a 3–1 victory in the deciding contest.[24] It was also the last goal scored in the NHL's "Original Six" era as the league was set to double in size to 12 teams for the 1967–68 season.[7]

Armstrong with the Maple Leafs during the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_NHL_season]1970–71 season. He retired at the end of that season.

Armstrong announced his intention to retire as a player following the championship but changed his mind and returned for another season.[25] The Maple Leafs placed him on their protected list for the 1967 Expansion Draft, and he remained with Toronto.[26] He played in his seventh All-Star Game in 1968 and finished the season with 34 points.[7] Retiring following the season before changing his mind became an annual event for Armstrong as he announced his intention to leave the game in five straight years.[27] He remained a consistent scorer for Toronto, recording 27, 28 and 25 points in his following three seasons.[9] He finally ended his playing career after the 1970–71 season to take an office position in the Maple Leafs.,[27] and also he finished his career with two hundred and ninety-six goals, four goals away from obtaining three  hundred.[28]

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(01-20-2021, 02:45 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: pitcher Don Sutton

Donald Howard Sutton (April 2, 1945 – January 18, 2021) was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for 23 seasons as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, and California Angels.[1] Sutton won a total of 324 games, 58 of them shutouts with five of them one-hitters and 10 two-hitters, seven of which were shutouts, and he is seventh on baseball's all-time strikeout list with 3,574.


Sutton was born in Clio, Alabama. He attended high school and community college in Florida before entering professional baseball. After a year in the minor leagues, Sutton joined the Dodgers. Beginning in 1966, he was in the team's starting pitching rotation with Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, and Claude Osteen. Sixteen of Sutton's 23 MLB seasons were spent with the Dodgers. He registered only one 20-win season, but earned 10 or more wins in every season except 1983 and 1988.

Sutton became a television sports broadcaster after his retirement as a player. He worked in this capacity for several teams, the majority being with the Atlanta Braves. Sutton was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1998.[2]

After playing for the Sioux Falls Packers in South Dakota, Sutton entered the major leagues at the age of 21. Sutton's major league debut came with the Dodgers on April 14, 1966, the same day that future 300-game winner Greg Maddux was born.[13] On the 1966 Dodgers, Sutton was the fourth starting pitcher in a rotation that included Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale and Claude Osteen.[14] He struck out 209 batters that season, which was the highest strikeout total for a rookie since 1911.[2]

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Don Sutton circa 1971

Sutton was selected to the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_All-Star_Game]Major League Baseball All-Star Game four times in the 1970s.[15] The 1974 Dodgers made the postseason after winning 102 games during the regular season. They beat the Pittsburgh Pirates in the playoffs and Sutton accounted for two of the team's three wins.[16] They lost the 1974 World Series four games to one, with Sutton earning the only win for the team.[17] In 1976, Sutton had his best major league season, finishing the year with a 21–10 win-loss record.[18] He was the National League's starting pitcher and MVP of the 1977 All-Star game at Yankee Stadium. He earned a complete game win in the 1977 playoffs, followed by a 1–0 record in two appearances in that year's World Series, which the team lost to the Yankees.[1]

In August 1978, Sutton captured media attention after a physical altercation with teammate Steve Garvey. Sutton had criticized what he thought was excessive media attention paid to Garvey, saying that Reggie Smith was really the team's best player. When Garvey confronted Sutton about the comments before a game against the Mets, the men came to blows and had to be separated by teammates and team officials.[19] The team returned to the postseason that year. Sutton had a 15–11 record during the regular season, but he struggled in the postseason as the Dodgers lost the World Series to New York again. In 17 postseason innings that year, Sutton gave up 14 earned runs.[1]

Los Angeles made Sutton a free agent after the 1980 season. During his time in Los Angeles, he set a team record for career wins.[18] Sutton joined the Houston Astros in 1981. After the baseball strike interrupted the season, Sutton returned with seven wins and one loss. In an October 2 loss to the Dodgers, Sutton left the game with a patellar fracture, ending his season just as the Astros were about to clinch a berth in the NL postseason.[20]

Late in the 1982 season, the Astros sent Sutton to the Milwaukee Brewers for Kevin Bass, Frank DiPino and Mike Madden.[21] Astros player Ray Knight was critical of the trade, saying, "My first reaction to this trade is disbelief. I don't know who are the prospects we are getting, but I would think Don Sutton would bring a big name, a real big name. Here's a guy who is going to win you 15–20 games every year, and he never misses a start... He should really help the Brewers."[22] Sutton earned a win in a 1982 playoff game against the Angels, then started two games in the 1982 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. He pitched 10 innings in the series, gave up nine earned runs and was charged with one loss.[1]

In 1985, Sutton was traded to the Oakland Athletics in exchange for Ray Burris. He was reluctant to report to the team, as he was hoping to play for a team in Southern California so that he could live at home with his family. Sutton ultimately reported to Oakland 12 days late for spring training. He said that he had his family's approval in the decision and he mentioned his win total – he was 20 wins shy of 300 career wins – as a factor in the decision.[23] After starting the season with a 13–8 record, Sutton was traded to the California Angels in September. In return, the Angels would send two minor league players to be named later to Oakland.[18]


Don Sutton's number 20 was retired by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1998.



Coming into the 1986 season, Sutton had 295 career victories. He struggled early in the season, but earned his 300th career win on June 18 that year, pitching a complete game against the Texas Rangers in which he allowed only three hits and one run while striking out Gary Ward for the final out of the game.[24] He appeared in two games in the 1986 ALCS against the Red Sox, earning a 1.86 ERA but registering two no-decisions.[1]



Sutton finished his career where he'd started it, signing with the Dodgers again in 1988. After spending 15 straight years with Los Angeles from 1966 to 1980, Sutton had pitched for five different teams in his last eight seasons. Before the 1988 season began, Angels pitcher John Candelaria criticized him for tipping off police that Candelaria was drinking the previous year, leading to one of Candelaria's two 1987 drunk driving arrests. Sutton said that he made the report out of concern for Candelaria's safety; Candelaria said that Sutton was practicing "self-preservation" and attempting to have Candelaria removed from the Angels' starting rotation since Sutton was not pitching well.[25]



In August 1988, Sutton spoke with Astros team leadership about a vacant assistant general manager position with the team. Dodgers executive vice president Fred Claire said that Sutton violated league rules by discussing such a position while under contract with a team, but Sutton said that he ran into Astros general manager Bill Wood at a game and simply mentioned his willingness to discuss the position later.[26] The team released him on August 10. Claire said that Sutton's stamina was a major consideration in the move, as the team was looking for pitchers who could last more than five or six innings per start.[27]



Sutton has the record for most at-bats without a home run (1,354). Sutton holds another record: seven times in his career, he pitched nine scoreless innings but got a no-decision. He also holds the major league record for most consecutive losses to one team, having lost 13 straight games to the Chicago Cubs.[28] At the time of his death, he held the franchise record for most wins (233) and strikeouts (2,696) as a Dodger.[29]

He became a celebrity in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s, making several appearances as a panelist on Match Game on CBS-TV.

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No relation. Sounds interesting, though.

Arik Brauer (Hebrew: אריק בראואר‎; 4 January 1929 – 24 January 2021) was an Austrian painter, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer, and stage designer. He resided in Vienna and Ein Hod, Israel. Brauer was a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, together with Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Fritz Janschka, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden.

Born in Vienna, Austria, Erich "Arik" Brauer was the child of Lithuanian Jewish emigrants. His post-war artistic training was in Vienna, under the supervision of Albert Paris von Gütersloh. Gütersloh promoted Brauer's work within the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism circle of artists, which had formed in the mid-1950s from a post-1946 Viennese surrealist group that had included Brauer along with Edgar Jené, Ernst Fuchs, Wolfgang Hutter, Rudolf Hausner, Anton Lehmden, and Fritz Janschka. Despite the prevailing art-world taste for abstraction in the 1950s and early 1960s, Brauer's work successfully blended high craftsmanship and surrealism in ways that gained him international attention. In 1982, he had breakthrough solo shows in the United States.

Brauer also designed architectural projects in Austria and Israel. The façades and interiors of his buildings are covered with fantastical mosaics, murals and painted tiles. He also designed the first United Buddy Bear for Austria in 2002.

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Arik-Brauer-Haus in Vienna

Among his works are:

• Brauerhaus in Gumpendorferstraße, Vienna
  
  
• Pfarre am Tabor, Vienna
  
  
• Rathaus Voitsberg
  
  
• Kastra shopping mall, Haifa – facade of Kastra features Brauer's "Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden" is the largest mural of its kind in the world.
  
  
  

His daughter is jazz singer Timna Brauer.

Arik Brauer in 2009

• City of Vienna Prize for Visual Arts (1979)
  
  
• [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Cross_of_Honour_for_Science_and_Art]Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, (1st class) (2002)[1]
  
  
• Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the City of Vienna (2011)
  

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

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re Larry King: had I been in his activity I would have modeled myself upon him.

[Eric the Green]

(01-26-2021, 03:29 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: re Larry King: had I been in his activity I would have modeled myself upon him.

I was in his activity, and he was an inspiring model, among others, for me.

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Cloris Leachman (April 30, 1926 – January 26, 2021) was an American actress and comedian, whose career spanned over seven decades. She won various accolades, including eight Primetime Emmy Awards from 22 nominations, making her the most nominated and, along with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, most awarded actress in Emmy history. In addition, she has won an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Daytime Emmy Award.


Born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa, Leachman attended Northwestern University and began appearing in local plays as a teenager. After competing in the 1946 Miss America pageant, she secured a scholarship to study under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City, making her professional debut in 1948. Her breakthrough role was the nosy and cunning landlady Phyllis Lindstrom in the landmark CBS sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–75), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1974 and 1975; its spin-off, Phyllis (1975–77), earned her the Golden Globe Award for Best TV Actress – Musical or Comedy.

In film, she appeared in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971) as the jaded wife of a closeted schoolteacher in the 1950s; she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance, and the film is widely considered to be one of the greatest of all time. Additionally, she was part of Mel Brooks's ensemble cast, appearing in roles such as Frau Blücher in Young Frankenstein (1974) and Madame Defarge in History of the World, Part I (1981).

Leachman won additional Emmys for the television film A Brand New Life (1973); the variety sketch show Cher (1975); the ABC serial The Woman Who Willed a Miracle (1983); and the television shows Promised Land (1998) and Malcolm in the Middle (2001–06). Her other notable film and television credits include The Twilight Zone (1961; 2003), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), WUSA (1970), Yesterday (1981), the English-language dub of the Studio Ghibli's Castle in the Sky (1998), Spanglish (2004), and Mrs. Harris (2005). Leachman released her autobiography in 2009, and continued to act in occasional roles.

Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three daughters. She attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Her parents were Cloris (née Wallace) and Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman. Her father worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company.[1][2][3][4]

Her youngest sister, Mary, was not in show business. Middle sister Claiborne Cary was an actress and singer.[5] Their maternal grandmother was of Bohemian (Czech) descent.[6]

As a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines.[7] After graduating from high school, she enrolled at Northwestern University in the School of Education.[8] At Northwestern, she became a member of Gamma Phi Beta and was a classmate of future comic actors Paul Lynde and Charlotte Rae. She began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946.

After winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, placing in the top 16, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City. She had been cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. A few years later, she appeared in the Broadway-bound production of William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, but left the show before it reached Broadway when Katharine Hepburn asked her to co-star in a production of William Shakespeare's As You Like It.[9] Leachman was slated to play the role of Abigail Williams in the original Broadway cast of Arthur Miller's seminal drama The Crucible. The production played four preview performances at the Playhouse Theatre in Wilmington, DE from January 15 – 17, 1953, prior to opening on Broadway on January 22. However, Leachman left the production the day before opening night in Wilmington, with Madeleine Sherwood assuming the role. Leachman's name was heavily publicized prior to the production's opening, and her name still appeared in the printed program; a sign appeared at the box office in Wilmington noting the change.[10]

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[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Shepodd]Jon Shepodd, Jon Provost, and Cloris Leachman in Lassie (1957)

Leachman appeared in many live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense and Studio One. She made her feature-film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall (1947), but had her first real role in Robert Aldrich's film noir classic Kiss Me Deadly,[11] released in 1955. Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat. A year later, she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in The Rack (1956). She appeared with Newman again in a brief role in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

She continued to work mainly in television, with appearances in Rawhide and in The Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life", as well as the sequel "It's Still a Good Life" in the 2002–2003 UPN series revival. During this period, Leachman appeared opposite John Forsythe on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled "Premonition". She later appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy Martin's adoptive mother, in the last half of season four (1957) of Lassie. Jon Provost, who played Timmy, said, "Cloris did not feel particularly challenged by the role. Basically, when she realized that all she'd be doing was baking cookies, she wanted out."[12] She was replaced by June Lockhart in 1958.

That same year, she appeared in an episode of One Step Beyond titled "The Dark Room", in which she portrayed an American photographer living in Paris. In 1960, she played Marilyn Parker, the roommate of Janice Rule's character, Elena Nardos, in the Checkmate episode "The Mask of Vengeance". In 1966, she guest-starred on Perry Mason as Gloria Shine in "The Case of the Crafty Kidnapper". In late 1970, Leachman starred in one episode of That Girl as Don Hollinger's sister, Sandy.

Much more at Wikipedia.

[Eric the Green]

Cloris did a "real good" performance in "It's A Good Life," an excellent portrayal of how we have to defer to the every whim of bosses who hold the power, whether in companies, non-profits, or in countries like the USA under Trump, or Russia under Putin, etc.

[pbrower2a]

I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.

[Marypoza]

RlP Cecily Tyson an awesome actress & 1 more GI gone

[Eric the Green]

(01-27-2021, 11:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.

The point was that Anthony's "very bad man", was really very good, and it was Anthony, the dictator and boss whose every whim and thought had to be to his liking and pronounced "very good," that was the real "monster." And Trump was an archetypal example of the Anthony Fremont character. So was Stalin. We have met Anthony, and we have entered The Twilight Zone. So have we when we have to work for similar kinds of bosses, whom I have met in profit-making and non-profit organizations alike. Anthonys are all around us. Serling based this episode on an earlier story. Many of his episodes are allegories that teach us about the lives we lead; this one especially so. Cloris (as Mrs. Fremont) was quite aware of the monster she had given birth to, as we can tell.

[David Horn]

(01-29-2021, 09:38 PM)Marypoza Wrote: RlP Cecily Tyson an awesome actress & 1 more GI gone

She lived to 96 and inspired two generations of black actors.  Certainly a giant.

[Einzige]

(01-30-2021, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-27-2021, 11:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.

The point was that Anthony's "very bad man", was really very good, and it was Anthony, the dictator and boss whose every whim and thought had to be to his liking and pronounced "very good," that was the real "monster." And Trump was an archetypal example of the Anthony Fremont character. So was Stalin. We have met Anthony, and we have entered The Twilight Zone. So have we when we have to work for similar kinds of bosses, whom I have met in profit-making and non-profit organizations alike. Anthonys are all around us. Serling based this episode on an earlier story. Many of his episodes are allegories that teach us about the lives we lead; this one especially so. Cloris (as Mrs. Fremont) was quite aware of the monster she had given birth to, as we can tell.

Why do liberals always draw analogies to fiction in lieu of material analysis of anything? Trump is Voldemort Saruman Anthony Palpatine, but never the representative of a certain subset of a select class with specific interests, however divergent.

[pbrower2a]

(02-01-2021, 03:32 AM)Einzige Wrote:

(01-30-2021, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-27-2021, 11:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.

The point was that Anthony's "very bad man", was really very good, and it was Anthony, the dictator and boss whose every whim and thought had to be to his liking and pronounced "very good," that was the real "monster." And Trump was an archetypal example of the Anthony Fremont character. So was Stalin. We have met Anthony, and we have entered The Twilight Zone. So have we when we have to work for similar kinds of bosses, whom I have met in profit-making and non-profit organizations alike. Anthonys are all around us. Serling based this episode on an earlier story. Many of his episodes are allegories that teach us about the lives we lead; this one especially so. Cloris (as Mrs. Fremont) was quite aware of the monster she had given birth to, as we can tell.

Why do liberals always draw analogies to fiction in lieu of material analysis of anything? Trump is Voldemort Saruman Anthony Palpatine, but never the representative of a certain subset of a select class with specific interests, however divergent.

1. Man is not a machine. 

2. Capitalists are not a monolith. 

3. Donald Trump is a sick joke to many capitalists. 

4. Communism has a problem with a death count. 

5. Communists have as a whole a bad record with human rights, war, academic freedom, and the environment.

Can capitalists be horrible people? Sure. But not all of them. 

...Stalin was a bad man... a very bad man.

[Einzige]

Quote:1. Man is not a machine.

Man is a producing machine. He literally produces the world around him.

Quote:2. Capitalists are not a monolith.

I agree. Marx described them as a "band of warring brothers". Understanding their factionalism and how their internecine struggles determine events is the beginning of wisdom.

Quote:3. Donald Trump is a sick joke to many capitalists.

Sure.

Quote:4. Communism has a problem with a death count.

State capitalism does, sure. So does liberal capitalism.

Quote:5. Communists have as a whole a bad record with human rights, war, academic freedom, and the environment.

Yes, the Soviets do.

Quote:Can capitalists be horrible people? Sure. But not all of them.

I agree. Marx does not condemn the capitalists on a moral basis. It is entirely possible to be a fundamentally decent and philanthropic person and also a capitalist. Although it is true that most capitalist charity is for tax write offs and, on a higher level, control over social policy.

Quote:...Stalin was a bad man... a very bad man.

I agree. My favorite act of defiance against stalin is when Amadeo Bordiga told him off for not subordinating control of the Soviet Union to the worldwide parties of the Comintern, in keeping with Communist doctrine. And for perpetuating commodity production for exchange and wage labor, i.e. capitalism.

[pbrower2a]

Allan Burns (May 18, 1935 – January 30, 2021) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was best known for creating and writing for the television sitcom The Munsters as well as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, both of which he created and wrote for alongside James L. Brooks.

Before breaking into television and film, he started in animation, working for Jay Ward and collaborating and animating The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Dudley Do-Right, and George of the Jungle.[1] Burns also created the Cap'n Crunch character for Quaker Oats.[2]


After his stint writing for Jay Ward, Burns formed a partnership with Chris Hayward. They created the series The Munsters (1964) and My Mother the Car (1965), and were later hired by producer Leonard Stern as story editors for the CBS series He & She, for which they won an Emmy award for comedy writing.[1] The last project between Hayward and Burns would be as story editors for the sitcom Get Smart.[1] During this time, Burns also co-wrote the unaired version of the 1965 pilot episode of The Smothers Brothers Show.[1]

Burns began a partnership with James L. Brooks in 1969 after being impressed with the television pilot for Brooks's show Room 222. Burns joined the Room 222 writing staff and later produced the series.[1]

After Room 222, television executive Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns to develop a television series for CBS starring Mary Tyler Moore.[1] In 1970, The Mary Tyler Moore Show premiered and became a critically acclaimed series, spawning spin-off series such as Lou Grant and Rhoda.[2] Brooks and Burns also created the 1974 situation comedy Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers.[4] Burns also worked as a writer and producer on the shows FM,[2] The Duck Factory,[5][6] Eisenhower and Lutz, and Cutters.[2]

Burns also worked in film, co-writing the film A Little Romance (1979), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.[7] He also wrote the screenplays Butch and Sundance: The Early Days, Just the Way You Are and wrote and directed Just Between Friends.[8]

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

[Eric the Green]

(02-01-2021, 03:32 AM)Einzige Wrote:

(01-30-2021, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-27-2021, 11:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.

The point was that Anthony's "very bad man", was really very good, and it was Anthony, the dictator and boss whose every whim and thought had to be to his liking and pronounced "very good," that was the real "monster." And Trump was an archetypal example of the Anthony Fremont character. So was Stalin. We have met Anthony, and we have entered The Twilight Zone. So have we when we have to work for similar kinds of bosses, whom I have met in profit-making and non-profit organizations alike. Anthonys are all around us. Serling based this episode on an earlier story. Many of his episodes are allegories that teach us about the lives we lead; this one especially so. Cloris (as Mrs. Fremont) was quite aware of the monster she had given birth to, as we can tell.

Why do liberals always draw analogies to fiction in lieu of material analysis of anything? Trump is Voldemort Saruman Anthony Palpatine, but never the representative of a certain subset of a select class with specific interests, however divergent.

The arts reveal more of human nature and behavior than material analysis does.

[pbrower2a]

“Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond died Monday after a three-week fight with cancer, according to his representative. He was 44.

“Dustin did not suffer. He did not have to lie submerged in pain. For that, we are grateful,” the actor’s spokesman, Roger Paul, said in a statement.

Diamond, best known for playing the quirky, nerdy Screech on the hit ’90s sitcom, was hospitalized last month in Florida and his team disclosed later that he had cancer. Diamond had carcinoma.

Former co-star Mario Lopez took to Twitter to say farewell: “Dustin, you will be missed, my man. The fragility of this life is something never to be taken for granted.” Another co-star, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, called Diamond “a true comedic genius,” adding “I will miss those raw, brilliant sparks that only he was able to produce.”

“Saved by the Bell” aired from 1989 to 1993, and its related shows included “Saved by the Bell: The College Years,” “Good Morning, Miss Bliss” and “Saved by the Bell: The New Class,” which Diamond starred in. A sequel was launched on Peacock last fall featuring many from the original cast, including Gosselaar, Lopez, Elizabeth Berkley and Tiffani Thiessen. Diamond was not included.

“God speed, Dustin,” Thiessen wrote on Instagram. Josh Gad on Twitter said Diamond was “a defining part of our collective pop cultural touchstones.”

He starred in a handful of reality television series including the 5th season of “Celebrity Fit Club,” “The Weakest Link” and “Celebrity Boxing 2.” In December 2013, Diamond appeared on an episode of OWN’s “Where Are They Now?” and became a house member in the 12th season of “Celebrity Big Brother.”

https://apnews.com/article/dustin-diamon...93f18bbd4d

[Einzige]

(02-02-2021, 12:17 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(02-01-2021, 03:32 AM)Einzige Wrote:

(01-30-2021, 04:00 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-27-2021, 11:15 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I was thinking of Josef Stalin, except with no more remarkable magic than a bullet to the back of the head of the 'very bad man' that he wanted to disappear into the cornfield. Maybe so was Rod Serling.

The point was that Anthony's "very bad man", was really very good, and it was Anthony, the dictator and boss whose every whim and thought had to be to his liking and pronounced "very good," that was the real "monster." And Trump was an archetypal example of the Anthony Fremont character. So was Stalin. We have met Anthony, and we have entered The Twilight Zone. So have we when we have to work for similar kinds of bosses, whom I have met in profit-making and non-profit organizations alike. Anthonys are all around us. Serling based this episode on an earlier story. Many of his episodes are allegories that teach us about the lives we lead; this one especially so. Cloris (as Mrs. Fremont) was quite aware of the monster she had given birth to, as we can tell.

Why do liberals always draw analogies to fiction in lieu of material analysis of anything? Trump is Voldemort Saruman Anthony Palpatine, but never the representative of a certain subset of a select class with specific interests, however divergent.

The arts reveal more of human nature and behavior than material analysis does.

Lol. The arts are produced by material institutions.