Obituaries

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Maria Louise Ewing (March 27, 1950 – January 9, 2022) was an American opera singer who sang both soprano and mezzo-soprano roles. She was noted as much for her acting as her singing.[1]


Ewing made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976 as Cherubino in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.[10] Her first European performance was at La Scala, Milan, as Mélisande in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Her repertoire included Bizet's Carmen, Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte, the title roles of Salome by Richard Strauss, Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea and Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, and Marie in Alban Berg's Wozzeck. She was particularly well known for her portrayal of Salome. Oscar Wilde's stage directions for the play from which the opera's libretto was adapted specify that, at the end of the Dance of the Seven Veils, Salome lies naked at Herod's feet: Ewing appeared nude at the end of this sequence, in contrast to other singers who have used body stockings.[11][12] She also sang and appeared in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.[13]


Ewing's discography includes video versions of Salome, L'incoronazione di Poppea, and Carmen and audio versions of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk and Pelléas et Mélisande. She also recorded concert music by Ravel, Berlioz and Debussy and programs of popular American song. She played Rosina in a Glyndebourne production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia (1982). Her starring performance in the Metropolitan Opera's 1987 production of Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites was also recorded and made available as a stream.[14]
Ewing also sang jazz in live performance, including with the band Kymaera at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London.[15]

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

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Nino Cerruti (25 September 1930 – 15 January 2022[1]) was an Italian businessman and stylist. He founded his own haute couture house, Cerruti, in 1967 in Paris. He managed the Italian family business Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, which was founded in 1881 by his grandfather.

The head of the family woollen business after his father's untimely death. Nino's grandfather had founded a textile mill in Biella, Italy in 1881 (Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti). Drawing from his experience in producing excellent fabrics, Cerruti ventured into the production of clothing in the late 1950s. His first men's collection, Hitman, was shown in 1957 and was considered a revolution in men's wear at the time. Eventually, in 1967, the Cerruti menswear line was launched which was to be followed by a womenswear collection a year later.
The first Cerruti boutique opened in 1967 in Place de la Madeleine in Paris, where Cerruti moved the company's headquarters in order to be closer to the international fashion capital. The fabric production under the name of Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti and the Hitman label remained in Italy. Cerruti, Lanificio Cerruti of Biella and Hitman, based out of Corsico, together formed Fratelli Cerruti, the Cerruti Brothers group.
Over the years, Cerruti offered womenswear and menswear, the Cerruti 1881 diffusion line, a luxury ready-to-wear collection named Cerruti Arte, Cerruti Jeans, the Cerruti Brothers business collection for men, and Cerruti 1881 Shapes for the Asian market, as well as fragrances and accessories. Later the clothing lines were regrouped under the 'Cerruti 1881' name. Cerruti is known for its classic wool suits and for always having tried to match the everyday challenges its owner faced.

In 1978, the Cerruti house made an entry into the world of fine fragrance with Nino Cerruti pour Homme which was soon to be followed by Cerruti 1881 pour Homme in 1990 and Cerruti Image in 1998, among other fragrances.
In the 1980s, Cerruti began a collaboration with cinema. From Bonnie and Clyde, Pretty Woman to Basic Instinct, the brand Cerruti designed clothes for actors such as Michael Douglas, Jack Nicholson, Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Sharon Stone, Julia Roberts, Robert Redford, Harrison Ford, Al Pacino, and Jean Paul Belmondo.
According to imdb.com, Mr. Cerruti makes cameo appearances in the following Hollywood movies: Holy Man (1998), Catwalk (1996), and Cannes Man (1996).

In 1994 Cerruti was the official designer of Scuderia Ferrari.

From 1964 to 1970, Giorgio Armani - who later founded his own eponymous fashion empire in 1974 worked for Cerruti at Hitman, under the direction of Mr. Cerruti.

In 1996 Nino Cerruti named Narciso Rodriguez, a former Anne Klein, Calvin Klein, and TSE designer, to be creative director of Cerruti. In 1997 Cerruti replaced Rodriguez with Peter Speliopoulos, a DKNY designer.
In October 2000 Nino Cerruti sold 51% of his company to Fin.Part, an Italian industrial group. Less than a year later the group bought the rest of the company and forced 71 year old Nino Cerruti out of it claiming irreconcilable differences. "There was a perpetual conflict of interest",[2] Cerruti said later. Hence, the Spring Summer 2002 collection marked the end of Cerruti fashion being designed by Nino Cerruti.

In autumn 2001, Fin.Part installed Roberto Menichetti, who previously was responsible for the creative revival of Burberry as a creative director. Menichetti left the house of fashion after only one season and was replaced by Istvan Francer, a former DKNY designer. Francer stayed on for two seasons.

In spring 2003, David Cardona, who had worked for Richard Tyler and Chrome Hearts, replaced Istvan Francer as a creative director at Cerruti. Scotsman Adrian Smith was appointed head of the menswear collections.
By 2004, Fin.part was in a deep financial crisis and declared bankruptcy in 2005. In the same year the Cerruti brand survived unsuccessful takeover attempt by another Italian menswear manufacturer - Manifattura Paolini.
In August 2006 Cerruti was finally sold to American private equity firm MatlinPatterson. MatlinPatterson intended to revitalize the Cerruti brand by taking on Nicolas Andreas Taralis, a former designer with Dior who also owned his signature fashion label Homme, was appointed creative director in the summer of the same year.
In October 2007, Taralis was replaced by Belgian Jean Paul Knott, a former Krizia, Yves Saint Laurent, and Louis Féraud designer who also owned an eponymous fashion label.[3][4] Knott had originally been hired by Taralis to oversee the label's diffusion line Cerruti 1881 in March 2007.[5]

Following his departure in 2000 Mr. Cerruti concentrated on the family-owned textile mill business called Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti, which is located in Biella. He did not cut all ties with the fashion house and always attended the Cerruti fashion shows seated in the front row.

In 2004, Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti company bought the Italian furniture design company Baleri.

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

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Walter Ralph Emery (March 10, 1933 – January 15, 2022[1]) was an American country music disc jockey and television host from Nashville, Tennessee. He gained national fame hosting the syndicated television music series, Pop! Goes the Country, from 1974 to 1980 and the nightly Nashville Network television program, Nashville Now, from 1983 to 1993.[2] From 2007 to 2015, Emery hosted the weekly program, Ralph Emery Live, on RFD-TV, a satellite and cable television channel devoted to rural American culture.

Emery first earned fame as the late-night disc jockey on Nashville's WSM. Due to the clear-channel broadcasting range of the station at night, Emery's country music show could be heard over most of the Eastern and Central U.S. – and by many overnight long-haul truck drivers, who were often fans of country music. The all-night show was a mecca for country music stars of all kinds, many of whom were personal friends of Emery. One in particular was singer and movie star, and Nashville resident, Tex Ritter. Ritter actually co-hosted the show with Emery for a while. Many well-known stars, most notably Marty Robbins, would often drop in unannounced.

Emery also gave national exposure to many up-and-coming and previously unknown country music singers, for which these singers often owed their careers. Emery later wrote several best-selling books chronicling his memories of the many Nashville singers and musicians that appeared on his various radio and TV shows. The second of Emery's three wives was Opry star Skeeter Davis.

He is credited with developing the broadcasting style of NASCAR driver (and Kentucky native) Darrell Waltrip, who was a frequent guest on his late-night radio show during his early days racing in Nashville. That eventually led to substitute gigs on WSM and Nashville Now. In both his biography (2002) and retirement press conference (2019), Waltrip specifically singled out Emery for developing his broadcast style, including working a sports broadcast similar to doing the talk show.

Emery attained his greatest popularity on Nashville Now, with his rich voice and easy affability with guests making the show a national phenomenon. He would converse with a wide range of country music stars from all eras, and also used a Muppet-like 'co-host,' "Shotgun Red," during several seasons.

From the mid-1960s until the early 1990s (except for several years in the 1960s when hosted by country singer Bobby Lord and a two-year period between 1970 and 1972), Emery also hosted a weekday morning show, "Opry Almanac," (later dubbed "The Ralph Emery Show") on WSM television (now WSMV), which, until the early 1980s, was a sister property of WSM radio. The program, which featured an in-studio band of local session musicians and aspiring singers (among them a teenaged Lorrie Morgan, daughter of Emery's longtime friend, Grand Ole Opry star George Morgan) along with news and weather updates and in-studio live commercials, became the highest-rated local morning television program in the U.S. for some years in the 1970s and 1980s. His eye and ear for talent was inclusive in breaking color barriers and started the careers of younger African-American singers such as J.P.Netters; she was included as a part of his studio band in the early 1980s. Emery also hosted a late-afternoon program on WSM-TV in the late 1960s, Sixteenth Avenue South (named for one of the streets on Nashville's famed Music Row of recording studios), with the same format. Because of the morning show's popularity and demands on his time, Emery ended his long run on the overnight shift on WSM radio in 1972; Hairl Hensley replaced him and went on to a thirty-year career with the station. Beginning in 1971, Emery hosted The Ralph Emery Show on radio. It was a weekly, syndicated show that aired daily on country stations in five parts Mondays through Fridays. Each week Emery would profile a guest star, while playing the hot country hits of the week. It was distributed by "Show Biz Inc." and lasted until sometime in the 1980s.

The song Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man details a moderately unpleasant on-air exchange between Emery, Roger McGuinn and Gram Parsons of the 1960s rock group The Byrds, concerning their 1968 appearance at The Grand Ole Opry. In that performance, the Byrds attempted unsuccessfully to convince traditional country music fans that their developing country rock sound was a legitimate part of the tradition. They were met with jeers and catcalls, in what may be interpreted as a sign of the increasing animosity at the time between rural or working-class (mostly Southern) whites (represented by Opry attendees and Emery's listeners) and young devotees of the counterculture (represented by the Byrds, with their long hair and "hippie" attire). Years later, though, there would be some reconciliation and even convergence of the opposing lifestyles in the "Outlaw" movement, popularized by the likes of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings.

Songwriter Mickey Newbury remembered Ralph Emery on his 1979 album, The Sailor, in the song The Night You Wrote That Song.

In 2001, Emery attempted a television comeback on Nashville Fox affiliate WZTV, with a show called Mornings with Ralph Emery, but only spent seven days on the air before being sidelined first by continuing coverage of the September 11 attacks and then an illness. The show continued with replacement host Charlie Chase, using the title Tennessee Mornings. In October 2005, Emery launched The Nashville Show, a free weekly webcast with Shotgun Red as co-host.

He then returned to television on the RFD-TV cable network in mid-2007, conducting interviews on the show Ralph Emery Live. The show aired live every Monday evening at 7:00 PM Eastern.[3] The show ran for eight years, at some point changing its name to Ralph Emery's Memories, ending its run in October 2015.
Emery was among the 2007 inductees to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and in 2010 he was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.

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

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Only video can do justice in announcing her death (Ronnie Spector, nee Bennett), lead singer of the Ronettes. 

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(01-16-2022, 04:05 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Only video can do justice in announcing her death (Ronnie Spector, nee Bennett), lead singer of the Ronettes. 

One of the girl groups which were such a big part of rock'n'roll in the early and mid-60s. The Ronettes, the Shirelles, the Chiffons, the Angels, the Dixie Cups; how many others can you name? Then the Motown girl groups: The Supremes, Martha & Vandellas, the Marvellets, the Velveletts.... https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/b...rl-groups/

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It's hard to believe that the early rock stars, including the "girl groups" are that old. But remember well that the Awakening Era that so many of us remember intimately happened so long ago that many middle-aged adults have no memory of it..

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Ralph Emery was an excellent announcer. as a TV host. He would be a good one to imitate irrespective of the genre so long as the program is family-friendly..

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General Charles Edward McGee (December 7, 1919 − January 16, 2022) was an American fighter pilot who was one of the first African-American pilots in the United States Military. McGee first began his career in World War II flying with the Tuskegee Airmen, an all African-American military pilot group at a time of segregation in the military. His military career lasted 30 years in which McGee flew 409 combat missions in World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War.

For his service, McGee received the Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters and the Bronze Star Medal, along with many other military honors. In 2007, as a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, McGee received the Congressional Gold Medal. In 2011, he was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame and in February 2020, was promoted from colonel to brigadier general.[1][2]


Much more at Wikipedia.

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(01-16-2022, 07:20 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It's hard to believe that the early rock stars, including the "girl groups" are that old. But remember well that the Awakening Era that so many of us remember intimately happened so long ago that many middle-aged adults have no memory of it..

I know. However, many of us such as you and I also know a great deal of music from the Big Band era, and in classical music, even though we have no memory of these eras. I always think it's no excuse if younger generations only know the rap and the screeching noise of today's so-called music, but don't know the great music that preceded it in the Awakening era.

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Well, the music from earlier eras are available for all.

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(01-17-2022, 02:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(01-16-2022, 07:20 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It's hard to believe that the early rock stars, including the "girl groups" are that old. But remember well that the Awakening Era that so many of us remember intimately happened so long ago that many middle-aged adults have no memory of it..

I know. However, many of us such as you and I also know a great deal of music from the Big Band era, and in classical music, even though we have no memory of these eras. I always think it's no excuse if younger generations only know the rap and the screeching noise of today's so-called music, but don't know the great music that preceded it in the Awakening era.

Such is the glory of musical recording -- and efforts to recover "lost" music. Does it really matter to most of us that Bach's Brqandenburg concertos are three hundred years old?

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(01-17-2022, 06:58 PM)Tim Randal Walker Wrote: Well, the music from earlier eras are available for all.  

Interesting factum: the current vinyl craze is a big factor for introducing the young to old analog music.  Most of the newer stuff doesn't translate well to that medium, and vinyl is selling like crazy.

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actress Yvette Mimieux



Mimieux was born in Los Angeles[2] on January 8, 1942,[3] to René Mimieux, who was French, and Maria Montemayor, who was Mexican.[4] According to her mother's obituary,[5] Mimieux had at least two siblings, a sister, Gloria, and a brother Edouardo.[4]

Talent manager Jim Byron suggested she become an actress.[6]
Mimieux's first acting appearances were in episodes of the television shows Yancy Derringer and One Step Beyond in 1959.[2]

Mimieux's appeared in George Pal's film version of H. G. Wells's 1895 novel The Time Machine (1960) starring Rod Taylor, in which she played the character Weena. It was made for MGM, which put her under long-term contract. Her first film, however, Platinum High School (1960), produced by Albert Zugsmith for MGM, which was released two months before The Time Machine.[2][7]
Mimieux guest-starred in an episode of Mr Lucky, then was one of several leads in the highly popular teen comedy Where the Boys Are (1960), which became less humorous in the sequence where Mimieux’s character is sexually assaulted at one of the party houses and she is found wandering the streets afterward, traumatized, in a moving and serious aside from the rest of the film.[8][9][10]
MGM put Mimieux in the ingenue role in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1961), an expensive flop.[11] Arthur Freed wanted to team her and George Hamilton in a remake of The Clock, but it was not made.[12]
Mimieux had a central role in Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de Havilland and George Hamilton, playing a mentally disabled girl. The film lost money but was well regarded critically. She later said:

Quote:"I suppose I have a soulful quality. I was often cast as a wounded person, the 'sensitive' role."[13]

Mimieux was slated for a role in A Summer Affair at MGM, but it was not made.[14]
Mimieux had a small part in Pal's The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963), another commercial disappointment. Also later that year, she appeared in Diamond Head (1963) with Charlton Heston.[2]
Mimieux went to United Artists for Toys in the Attic, based on the play by Lillian Hellman and co-starring Geraldine Page and Dean Martin.[2]
While at MGM, Mimieux guest-starred on two episodes of Dr. Kildare alongside Richard Chamberlain. She played a surfer suffering from epilepsy, a performance that was much acclaimed.[15] In her appearance she was the first person on American television to show her navel.[2]
Mimieux made a cameo as herself in Looking for Love (1964) starring Connie Francis and played Richard Chamberlain's love interest in Joy in the Morning (1965), a melodrama.[citation needed]


Mimieux was in a Western with Max von Sydow for 20th Century Fox, The Reward (1965); the Disney comedy Monkeys, Go Home! (1967); and a heist film The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967).[16]
Mimieux did The Desperate Hours (1967) for TV and was reunited with Rod Taylor in the MGM action movie Dark of the Sun (1968). In 1968, she narrated a classical music concert at the Hollywood Bowl.[17][18]
In 1969, Mimieux was top-billed in Three in the Attic a hit for AIP,[19] and appeared in the critically acclaimed 1969 movie The Picasso Summer alongside Albert Finney. The following year, she was the female lead in The Delta Factor , an action film.[citation needed]

Mimieux had one of the leads in The Most Deadly Game (1970–1971), a short-lived TV series from Aaron Spelling. She replaced Inger Stevens, who had been slated to star, but committed suicide one month before production began.[20] Around this time Mimieux had a business selling Haitian products and studied archeology; she would travel several months of each year.[21]
In 1971, after making the TV movies Death Takes a Holiday (1971) and Black Noon (1971), Mimieux sued her agent for not providing her with movie work despite having taken her money.[22]
Mimieux was an air hostess in MGM's Skyjacked (1972), starring Charlton.Heston[23] and was in the Fox science-fiction film The Neptune Factor (1973).[24]
By the early 1970s, Mimieux was unhappy with the roles offered to actresses:

Quote:"The women they [male screenwriters] write are all one dimensional. They have no complexity in their lives. It's all surface. There's nothing to play. They're either sex objects or vanilla pudding."[25]

Mimieux had been writing for several years prior to this film, mostly journalism and short stories. She had the idea for a story about a Pirandello-like theme:

Quote:"...the study of a woman, the difference between what she appears to be and what she is: appearance vs reality...[the more I thought about the character] the more I wanted to play her. Here was the kind of nifty, multifaceted part I'd been looking for. So instead of a short story, I wrote it as a film."[25]

Mimieux wrote a thriller, which she took to producers Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, who then produced it for ABC as a television film. It aired as Hit Lady (1974).[25]
In 1975, Mimieux starred in The Legend of Valentino, in which she played Rudolph Valentino's second wife, Natacha Rambova, and she the Canadian thriller Journey into Fear.[citation needed] In 1976, Mimieux made a pilot for a TV sitcom based on Bell, Book and Candle, but it was not picked up.[citation needed]
Later movies[edit]
Mimieux played a falsely imprisoned woman victimized by a sadistic guard in the film Jackson County Jail (1976) with Tommy Lee Jones for New World Pictures, which was a box-office hit.[citation needed]
Mimieux appeared in some horror-oriented TV movies, Snowbeast (1977), Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978), and Disaster on the Coastliner (1979). She also did the TV movies Ransom for Alice! (1977) and Outside Chance (1978).[citation needed]
Later, Mimieux co-starred in the first PG-rated Walt Disney Productions feature, The Black Hole (1979). She had the lead in Circle of Power (1981).[26]
Mimieux was in the TV movie Forbidden Love (1982) and Night Partners (1983) and guest-starred on The Love Boat and Lime Street.[citation needed]
Mimieux made Obsessive Love (1984), a television film about a female stalker which she co-wrote and co-produced:

Quote:"There are few enough films going these days, and there are three or four women who are offered all the good parts. Of course I could play a lot of awful parts that are too depressing to contemplate.... [Television] is not the love affair I have with film, but television can be a playground for interesting ideas. I love wild, baroque, slightly excessive theatrical ideas, and because television needs so much material, there's a chance to get some of those odd ideas done."[27][28]

Mimieux had the lead in Berrenger's (1985), a short-lived TV series and had a supporting role in the TV movie The Fifth Missile (1986).[citation needed]
Mimieux guest-starred in a TV movie Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990). Her last film was Lady Boss (1992).

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

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She did.

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a German actor heavily involved in American cinema.

Hardy Krüger (German: [haːɐ̯.di ˈkʁyː.ɡɐ] (listen); born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger;[1] 12 April 1928 – 19 January 2022) was a German actor and author, who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards. After becoming a film star in Germany in the 1950s,[2] Krüger increasingly turned to roles in international films such as Hatari!, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Wild Geese, Sundays and Cybele, A Bridge Too Far, The Battle of Neretva, The Secret of Santa Vittoria, The Red Tent, The One That Got Away, and Barry Lyndon.

Hardy Krüger was born in Wedding, Berlin, in 1928.[3] Krüger's parents were ardent Nazis and he stated in a 2016 interview that he was "raised to love Hitler".[4] From 1941, he attended an elite Adolf Hitler School at the Ordensburg Sonthofen. At the age of 15, Hardy made his film début in Alfred Weidenmann's The Young Eagles, but his acting career was interrupted when he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht in 1944.


In March 1945, Krüger was assigned to the 38th SS Division Nibelungen and was drawn into heavy combat.[5] The 16-year-old Krüger was ordered to shoot at an American squad.[6] When he refused, he was sentenced to death for cowardice, but another SS officer countermanded the order.[7] Krüger described this experience as his break with Nazism. He afterwards served as a messenger for the SS, but later escaped and hid out in Tyrol until the end of the war.[8] He was a member of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and frequently spoke publicly against extremism and for democracy, citing his own experiences.[9]
Life and work

Krüger continued his acting career after the Second World War with small stage roles. He could not afford to attend an acting school. He established himself as a German film star during the 1950s, appearing in Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach (1953), the German version of The Moon is Blue, directed by Otto Preminger. Krüger sought international roles because he found the German Heimatfilm cinema of the 1950s rather shallow.[10] He first came to the attention of English language audiences in the 1957 British war film The One That Got Away, the story of Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war to successfully escape from Allied custody and return to Germany.[11]

In 1960, Krüger bought Ngorongoro, a farm in the Tanganyika Territory (now part of Tanzania), which he owned for 13 years. Ngorongoro and the area around it served as the setting for the film Hatari! (1962), directed by Howard Hawks, in which Krüger appeared with John Wayne.[12]

Fluent in German, English and French, Kruger worked in numerous European and American films. He had the leading role in the Oscar-winning Sundays and Cybele (1962), and a key role as the German engineer in the original version of The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). Other films include the comedy-drama The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969), in which he played a German officer during the Second World War trying to find hidden wine in a small Italian town; Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon with Ryan O'Neal (1975); Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far, sharing a scene with Laurence Olivier, 1977; and The Wild Geese with Richard Burton (1978). Because of his stereotypical "Teutonic" look (blond hair and blue eyes), Krüger often played German soldiers.[13]

In the late 1980s, Krüger largely retired from acting and became a writer. He published 16 books from 1970 onwards. Four of them have been translated into English.[14] He also directed a number of European television documentaries[13] showing his travels around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Kr%C3%BCger

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Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday; September 27, 1947 – January 20, 2022), better known as Meat Loaf, was an American singer and actor. He was noted for his powerful, wide-ranging voice and theatrical live shows. His Bat Out of Hell trilogy—Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell, and Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose—has sold more than 65 million albums worldwide. More than four decades after its release, the first album still sells an estimated 200,000 copies annually and stayed on the charts for over nine years, making it one of the best-selling albums in history.

After the commercial success of Bat Out of Hell and Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell, and earning a Grammy Award for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance for the song "I'd Do Anything for Love", Meat Loaf nevertheless experienced some difficulty establishing a steady career within the United States. This did not stop him from becoming one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with worldwide sales of more than 80 million records. The key to this success was his retention of iconic status and popularity in Europe, especially the United Kingdom, where he received the 1994 Brit Award for best-selling album and single, appeared in the 1997 film Spice World, and ranks 23rd for the number of weeks spent on the UK charts, as of 2006. He ranks 96th on VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock".

Aday appeared in over 50 movies and television shows, sometimes as himself or as characters resembling his stage persona. His film roles include Eddie in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), and Bob Paulson in Fight Club (1999). His early stage work included dual roles in the original Broadway cast of The Rocky Horror Show, and he also appeared in the musical Hair, both on- and off-Broadway.



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

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Winner of the Masters Tournament in 1968 in the most freakish way known:


Robert George Goalby (March 14, 1929 – January 20, 2022) was an American professional golfer. He won the Masters Tournament in 1968, after Roberto De Vicenzo notably made an error on his scorecard. It was Goalby's lone major championship among 11 Tour wins achieved between 1958 and 1971.[1][font=sans-serif]

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Great statistician.


Sir David Roxbee Cox FRS FBA FRSE (15 July 1924 – 18 January 2022) was a British statistician and educator. His wide-ranging contributions to the field of statistics included introducing logistic regression, the proportional hazards model and the Cox process, a point process named after him.

He was a professor of statistics at Birkbeck College, London, Imperial College London and the University of Oxford, and served as Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford. The first recipient of the International Prize in Statistics, he also received the Guy, George Box and Copley medals, as well as a knighthood.

Cox was born in Birmingham on 15 July 1924.[1][2] His father was a die sinker and part-owner of a jewellery shop, and they lived near the Jewellery Quarter.[3] The aeronautical engineer Harold Roxbee Cox was a distant cousin.[4] He attended Handsworth Grammar School, Birmingham.[3][5] He received a Master of Arts in mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge,[1][3][6] and obtained his PhD from the University of Leeds in 1949, advised by Henry Daniels and Bernard Welch. His dissertation was entitled Theory of Fibre Motion.[7]
Life and career[edit]
Cox was employed from 1944 to 1946 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, from 1946 to 1950 at the Wool Industries Research Association in Leeds,[8] and from 1950 to 1955 worked at the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. From 1956 to 1966 he was Reader and then Professor of Statistics at Birkbeck College, London. In 1966, he took up the Chair position in Statistics at Imperial College London where he later became head of the mathematics department. In 1988 he became Warden of Nuffield College and a member of the Department of Statistics at Oxford University. He formally retired from these positions in 1994, but continued to work at Oxford.[8][9]

Cox supervised, collaborated with, and encouraged many notable researchers prominent in statistics. He was the doctoral advisor of David Hinkley, Peter McCullagh, Basilio de Bragança Pereira, Wally Smith, Gauss Moutinho Cordeiro, Valerie Isham, Henry Wynn and Jane Hutton.[7] He served as President of the Bernoulli Society from 1979 to 1981[10], of the Royal Statistical Society from 1980 to 1982[11], and of the International Statistical Institute from 1995 to 1997.[12] He was an Honorary Fellow of Nuffield College and St John's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford.[1]

In 1947, Cox married Joyce Drummond. They had four children.[13]
He died on 18 January 2022, at the age of 97.[14][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cox_(statistician)#cite_note-14][/url]

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