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Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese guru and activist.
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Thích Nhất Hạnh (/ˈtɪk ˈnjʌt ˈhʌn/; Vietnamese: [tʰǐk̟ ɲə̌t hâjŋ̟ˀ] (audio speaker iconlisten); born as Nguyễn Đình Lang and later known by the name Nguyễn Xuân Bảo;[2] October 11, 1926 – January 22, 2022) was a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk, peace activist, prolific author, poet, teacher,[3] and founder of the Plum Village Tradition, historically recognized as the main inspiration for engaged Buddhism.[4] Known as the "father of mindfulness",[5] Nhất Hạnh was a major influence on Western practices of Buddhism.[3]
Nhất Hạnh was exiled from Vietnam in the 1960’s after expressing opposition to the war.[3] He established dozens of monasteries and practice centers[3]and spent most of his later life at the Plum Village Monastery in southwest France near Thénac,[6] travelling internationally to give retreats and talks. He coined the term "Engaged Buddhism" in his book Vietnam: Lotus in a Sea of Fire.[7] After a 39-year exile, he was permitted to visit Vietnam in 2005.[8] In November 2018, he returned to Vietnam to his "root temple", Từ Hiếu Temple, near Huế,[9] where he died on January 22, 2022, at the age of 95.[10]
Nhất Hạnh was active in the peace and deep ecology movements, promoting nonviolent solutions to conflict and raising awareness of the interconnectedness of all elements in nature.[11] He was the founder of the largest monastic order in the West. He also refrained from consuming animal products, as a means of nonviolence toward animals
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This is a sad one, considering that Charlie Brown the character was like the Boomer kid suffering from low self-esteem and struggling to find himself.
Peter Robbins (August 10, 1956 – c. 18 January 2022)
Robbins was an American child actor. Robbins gained national fame in the 1960s as being the first actor to voice Charlie Brown in the Peanuts animated specials.
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Peter Robbins, voice of Charlie Brown, dies by suicide aged 65
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Howard Lex Hesseman (February 27, 1940 – January 29, 2022) was an American actor known for his television roles as malcontent disc jockey "Dr. Johnny Fever" on WKRP in Cincinnati, and the lead role of history teacher Charlie Moore on Head of the Class. He appeared regularly on television and in film from the 1970s to 2010s, with other noteworthy roles including Sam Royer (the husband of lead character Ann Romano) in the last two seasons of One Day at a Time, and a supporting role as Captain Pete Lassard in the film Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment.
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This just doesn't make sense. She seemed to have it all.
Cheslie Corrinne Kryst (April 28, 1991 – January 30, 2022) was an American television presenter, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 2019.[1] As Miss USA, she represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2019 competition and finished in the top ten. Outside of pageantry, Kryst was a licensed attorney and had served as a correspondent for Extra from October 2019 until her death.[2][3] For her work on Extra, she was nominated for two Daytime Emmy Awards.
After graduating from high school, Kryst moved to Columbia, South Carolina to attend the Honors College at the University of South Carolina. She graduated cum laude from the Darla Moore School of Business with a degree in marketing and human resource management in 2013, where she was also a member of the Alpha Lambda Delta honor society, Gamecocks women's track and field team, and mock trial.[11]
After finishing her undergraduate degree, Kryst enrolled in Wake Forest University School of Law in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, graduating with a Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration in 2017.[12][11][13]
Law career[edit]
Following her graduation, Kryst became licensed to practice law in both North Carolina and South Carolina and began working as an attorney at Poyner Spruill LLP, practicing complex civil litigation.[11][14] She also worked pro bono for clients who were low-level drug offenders, including her work with Brittany K. Barnett of the Buried Alive Project, to free a client sentenced to life imprisonment.[15][16] She was the founder of the fashion blog White Collar Glam, dedicated to helping women dress professionally in white-collar jobs.[17][18]
Kryst began her pageantry career as a teenager, winning Miss Freshman at Northwestern High School in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and later Miss Fort Mill High School in Fort Mill, South Carolina.[10] After taking several years off from pageantry, Kryst made two attempts to win the Miss North Carolina title, placing in the top ten her first attempt and first runner-up on her second attempt.[10]
In 2016, Kryst competed in Miss North Carolina USA 2017, where she placed as the fourth runner-up. She returned the following year and placed in the top ten, before returning again for Miss North Carolina USA 2019, where she won the title, representing Metrolina. She was crowned by Kaaviya Sambasivam, Miss North Carolina Teen USA 2018, as the outgoing titleholder Caelynn Miller-Keyes was unable to attend the crowning due to the filming of season 23 of The Bachelor.[19][20]
As Miss North Carolina USA, Kryst was given the right to represent North Carolina at the Miss USA 2019 competition, held at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada. She went on to win the competition and became the third woman from North Carolina to win the title, following Chelsea Cooley and Kristen Dalton, who were crowned Miss USA 2005 and Miss USA 2009, respectively. At 28 years and 4 days, Kryst became the oldest woman to be crowned Miss USA, breaking the previous record held by Nana Meriwether, who was 27 years, 6 months, and 26 days old upon assuming the title.[a][21][22][23][24] After winning Miss USA, Kryst crowned Laura Little as her successor for the Miss North Carolina USA title.[25]
With her win, 2019 became the first year that all four major United States-based pageants were won by women with African ancestry; other titleholders were Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa (as Miss Universe 2019), Nia Franklin (as Miss America 2019), and Kaliegh Garris (as Miss Teen USA 2019).[26][27][28][29] Previously, she had been crowned Miss North Carolina USA 2019.[30]
As Miss USA, Kryst took a one-year leave of absence from her law career to fulfill her pageantry duties. She represented the United States at the Miss Universe 2019 competition on December 8, 2019 and finished in the top ten. Her national costume was inspired by four American female icons: Rosie the Riveter, the Statue of Liberty, Maya Angelou, and Lady Justice. Kryst's reign was originally scheduled to end on spring 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, she became the longest reigning Miss USA titleholder on June 5, 2020, surpassing Nia Sanchez's previous record of 399 days. Her reign ended with a total of 557 days on November 9, 2020 and she crowned Asya Branch of Mississippi as her successor at the Miss USA 2020 pageant.[18][14][7]
In October 2019, Kryst became a New York correspondent for Extra, after serving as a special correspondent in September 2019.[31] Her interview with actor Terrence Howard was the first to break the news that the actor planned to retire from acting following the final season of the television series Empire.[32]
In 2020, Kryst received a nomination for Outstanding Entertainment News Program at the 47th Daytime Emmy Awards due to her position as a New York correspondent for Extra.[33] She was nominated again for the same award the following year at the 48th Daytime Emmy Awards.[34]
Kryst died on January 30, 2022, in New York City, after leaping to her death from her apartment on the 29th floor at The Orion, a 60-story high-rise apartment building in Midtown Manhattan.[35] She reportedly left a suicide note leaving her belongings to her mother.[36][37][38]
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He never will be missed:
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Good riddance, and he can roast in Hell!
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi[4][a] (Arabic: أبو إبراهيم الهاشمي القرشي;[7] born Amir Muhammad Sa’id Abdal-Rahman al-Mawla;[2][b] 1 or 5 October 1976 – 3 February 2022) was an Iraqi Salafist and the second leader[note 1][11] of the Islamic State. His appointment by a shura council was announced by the Islamic State media on 31 October 2019, less than a week after the death of previous leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.[12]
The U.S. Rewards for Justice Program was offering up to $10 million in exchange for information leading to al-Qurashi's apprehension.[13] On 3 February 2022, it was reported by a US official that al-Hashimi killed himself and members of his family by triggering an explosive device during a counter-terrorism raid by the US Joint Special Operations Command.[14][15]
Less than a week after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al-Hashimi was elected by a shura council as the new caliph of the Islamic State,[31] indicating that the group still considers itself a caliphate despite having lost all of its territory in Iraq and Syria.[32] Al-Hashimi's appointment was supposedly done in accordance with the advice of Baghdadi, meaning the new emir was named as a successor by Baghdadi himself.[33] Further evidence that al-Hashimi may have been appointed as successor by Baghdadi may be inferred from the relatively quick succession of Baghdadi.[5] Al-Hashimi's coming to power followed several days of speculation and denial surrounding Baghdadi's death among the Islamic State supporters.[34]
The general expectation was that al-Hashimi would become "the leader of a frayed organisation that has been reduced to scattered sleeper cells"[35] and the ruler of a "caliphate of ashes".[5] Some analysts believed that Baghdadi's death would likely cause the Islamic State to splinter, "leaving whoever emerges as its new leader with the task of pulling the group back together as a fighting force".[31] However, other analysts believed that Baghdadi's death would not have much of an impact on the Islamic State "in terms of operational capacity" and that it was likely "not to result in the group’s demise, or really even bring about a decline".[36]
On 2–3 November 2019, al-Hashimi's caliphacy was criticized as illegitimate by the al-Wafa' Media Agency, an online media outlet previously aligned with the Islamic State before turning against it in March 2019. It was argued that "the Prophet decreed obedience to leaders who exist and who are known … not obedience to a nonentity or an unknown". Further, it was argued that the council which elected al-Hashimi did not qualify as legitimate since it lacked three qualifications for the caliph's electors: justice, knowledge, and wisdom – which the council lacked, since it had sent Baghdadi to Idlib, which had earlier been deemed by them a "land of unbelief", when he "would have been much safer hiding in the desert". Further disqualifying the council was the fact that the council had "shed innocent Muslim blood and embraced extremism in the practice of excommunication" (takfir). As a final note, the al-Wafa' Media Agency stated that nothing was left for a would-be caliph to preside over – "You do not recognize that God has destroyed your state on account of your oppression."[9]
In 2019, al-Hashimi received pledges of allegiance from the Islamic State's Sinai province and Bangladeshi affiliates (2 November), Somali province (3 November), Pakistani province and Yemen province (4 November), Hauran province and Khorasan Province (5 November), Tunisia province (6 November), West Africa province, Levant Province – Homs, Levant Province – al-Khayr, Levant Province – Raqqa, East Asia Province and Central Africa Province (7 November), West Asia Province (8 November), West Africa Province – Mali and Burkina Faso and Levant Province - al-Barakah (9 November), Levant Province – Halab (12 November), Iraq Province – Baghdad (14 November), Libya Province (15 November), Iraq Province – Dijlah (16 November), Iraq Province – Diyala (17 November), Iraq Province – Salah al-Din (18 November), Iraq Province – Kirkuk (19 November), East Asia Province – Indonesia (22 November), Azerbaijani affiliates (29 November),[37] and in 2020 from the Islamic State's Malian affiliates (31 January).[38] These pledges of allegiance appeared to be intended to illustrate the legitimacy and unanimous acceptance of al-Hashimi, to counter criticism that he was unknown and illegitimate.[9]
Following an attack on the Tajikistan–Uzbekistan border that killed 17 people on 7 November, the attackers declared allegiance to al-Hashimi prior to the attack, according to journalist Rukmini Callimachi.[39]
On 23 December 2019, Voice of America commented that al-Hashimi had "not provided visible leadership".[23] In contrast, the United Nations Security Council judged in January 2020 that the Islamic State had undergone a resurgence in Iraq and Syria. Though these successes were partially attributed to al-Qurashi's leadership, he still remained a shadowy figure. The UN Security Council suggested that the Islamic State feared that al-Hashimi lacked some credentials that were usually necessary for a caliph, and kept him out of the spotlight so as to not endanger his position.[29]
On 24 March 2020, the United States Department of State designated al-Hashimi as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) under Executive Order 13224.[40][41]
On 20 May 2020, the Iraqi Intelligence Service identified a captured militant as al-Hashimi; however, the military clarified that this was actually Abdul Nasser Qardash, a potential successor to al-Baghdadi. Al-Hashimi, the leader of the Islamic State, was still outside Iraqi custody at the time.[42]
On 3 February 2022, United States President Joe Biden announced that U.S. military forces successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation in northwest Syria, resulting in the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.[14] A senior White House official stated to Reuters that al-Qurashi exploded a bomb which killed himself and 12 more people, including members of his family, during the Joint Special Operations Command operation.[15]
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Trude Feldman (August 13, 1924 – January 2022) was an American reporter, columnist, and member of the White House Press Corps and State Department Press Corps. She regularly wrote for McCall's magazine and for The New York Times Syndicate, The Washington Post, as well as numerous other media, especially publications for the Jewish community. Feldman interviewed every U.S. president from Lyndon B. Johnson until George W. Bush; and every U.S. vice president from Hubert Humphrey to Al Gore. She was a contributing editor for World Tribune.com.[1]
Feldman was born to a Jewish rabbi on August 13, 1924, and grew up in Hollywood, California.[2] Feldman began her career in journalism with the coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann 1961–62. She lived in Washington DC up until her death in 2022.
Feldman interviewed every American president from Lyndon B. Johnson to George W. Bush (including Harry Truman, in his post presidential years (1968, 1971, 1972).
President Jimmy Carter, in a 1977 interview with Feldman, hinted that efforts to promote an Arab-Israeli settlement might have to be suspended.[3] Carter elaborated on this new approach in another interview with her that startled the Arabs. It was a generous face-saving offer to the Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin by Carter, giving Israel the opportunity to accept the notions of withdrawal from the West Bank and of participation by the Palestinians in a gradual, limited process of self-determination.[4]
As his 75th birthday approached, Ronald Reagan scheduled an interview with Feldman on the afternoon of Jan. 28, 1986. At 11:38 that morning, however, the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated after liftoff, killing its crew of seven. While the president postponed his State of the Union speech, which had been scheduled for that evening, he didn't postpone the interview.[5]
Feldman covered George H. W. Bush from when he became a congressman from Texas in 1967. She interviewed him as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as vice president, and as president. Her 3-part series — "George Bush at 75" — was published in The Wall Street Journal beginning on Feb. 5, 1996, was internationally syndicated, and was inserted in the Congressional Record by Senators Richard Lugar and Joseph I. Lieberman.[6]
She interviewed President George H. W. Bush January 19, 1993, and again after a 10-day mission to the Middle East.[7]
President Bill Clinton granted his first post-apology interview to Feldman, who did not ask him about the scandal, but about the Yom Kippur tradition of the Day of Atonement.[8]
On August 1, 1996, the Wall Street Journal Opinion Page published a Feldman interview with President Clinton in which he said:
Quote:But the truth is, no one knows what the optimum rate of growth without inflation is. The only thing I've tried to do in dealing with the Federal Reserve was to show that I would be responsible in getting the deficit down, but I didn't want to get in the way of economic growth.[9]
In her October 2004, interview with President George W. Bush, he said:
Quote:The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.[10]
Feldman interviewed every U.S. Secretary of State, from Dean Rusk to Colin L. Powell. (Her interview with Condoleezza Rice was conducted in the White House when she was U.S. National Security Advisor, soon to become the 66th Secretary of State.)
Feldman wrote from, and about, the Middle East since she covered the 122 sessions of the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. There, and in Haifa, and in Cyprus, she was an 'extra' in the film Exodus. Later, she accompanied former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her five-day Middle East trip – her last before her death in 1962.
On Mideast issues, Feldman interviewed every Israeli prime minister, including the first, David Ben-Gurion, to Ariel Sharon, with the expectation of Ehud Olmert.
Four months after Anwar Sadat's historical 1977 peace mission to Jerusalem, he and his wife Jehan visited Washington, DC, where both were interviewed by Feldman at Blair House.[11]
Feldmen's writings were generally positive, upbeat, and friendly to her interview subjects. However, they occasionally ventured into controversial territory. In a December 1985 article for the Dallas Morning News, "McFarlane casualty of power", she reported on the resignation of National Security Adviser Robert C. "Bud" McFarlane, attributing the departure to
Quote:...subordinates whose efforts to protect their bosses with excessive zeal often hinder constructive advice and input.
Too often, staff members, rather than working for a high official, act as if they "own" him. Such possessiveness results in abuse of authority, creates obstacles and leads to misconceptions. ...
McFarlane did not volunteer the real reasons — persistent malevolence and belligerancy within the administration which resulted in the undermining of policies.
Her interview articles on the Middle East were not just friendly to Israeli leaders, but to Arab leaders as well, and she gently argued for open dialogue and an even-handed approach to a just and lasting peace in the region.[12]
In March 2001, Feldman had her press pass suspended for 90 days for having looked through a press aide's desk late at night.[13][14]
Feldman died in January 2022, at the age of 97.[15]
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Rubén Fuentes (15 February 1926 – 5 February 2022[1]) was a Mexican classical violinist and composer, who was best known for his contributions to mariachi music.
In 1944, Fuentes joined Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán as a violinist and later as a music arranger. In 1955 he stopped performing in the group, but he has maintained his position as producer, musical arranger and musical director. As such, he had a profound influence on Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán and mariachi music in general. He is best known for his work on Linda Ronstadt's classic, Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum Canciones de Mi Padre album. With domestic sales of two-and-a-half million copies, Canciones de Mi Padre stands as the biggest-selling non-English language record in US history.
Fuentes wrote dozens of Mexican standards, including "La Culebra", "Cien Años", "Las Alazanas", "Como Si Nada", "La Bikina", "Que Bonita Es Mi Tierra", "Flor Sin Retoño", "Ni Princesa Ni Esclava" and "Camino Real de Colima" (many composed with Silvestre Vargas). Fuentes also produced several of Linda Ronstadt's traditional Latin albums. His songs have been performed by Pedro Infante, Miguel Aceves Mejía, Flor Silvestre, Amalia Mendoza, Marco Antonio Muñiz, Javier Solís, and Vikki Carr, among others.
Fuentes was the musical director of RCA Records in Mexico during the late 1950s to the late 1960s. For that reason, he was the arranger and musical producer of many records of major ranchero singers. Most of them were accompanied by Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán. Fuentes was also the musical arranger for most of José Alfredo Jiménez's songs, a prolific Mexican-born composer whose compositions, like Fuentes, elevated traditional Mariachi music to international heights and acclaim. Rubén Fuentes died on 5 February 2022.[2]
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George Henry Crumb[1][2] or George Henry Jr. Crumb[3] (October 24, 1929 – February 6, 2022[4]) was an American composer of modern classical, and avant-garde music.[5] He was known as an explorer of unusual timbres, alternative forms of notation, and extended instrumental and vocal techniques, which obtain vivid sonorities.[1] Examples include seagull effect for the cello (e.g. Vox Balaenae), metallic vibrato for the piano (e.g. Five Pieces for Piano), and using a mallet to play the strings of a double bass (e.g. Madrigals, Book I), among numerous others. Crumb's most renowned works include Ancient Voices of Children (1970), Black Angels (1971), and Makrokosmos III (1974).
Crumb was born in Charleston, West Virginia, and began to compose at an early age. In 1947 he studied at the National Music Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. He majored in music at the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts (subsequently subsumed into the University of Charleston), where he received his bachelor's degree in 1950. He obtained his M.Mus. at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1952 and then briefly studied as a Fulbright fellow at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin before returning to the United States to study at the University of Michigan, from which he received a D.M.A. in 1959.
Crumb earned his living primarily from teaching. His first teaching job was at a college in Virginia, before he became professor of piano and composition at the University of Colorado in 1958. In 1965 he began a long association with the University of Pennsylvania, becoming Annenberg Professor of the Humanities in 1983.[6]
In 1995, Crumb was awarded the Edward MacDowell Medal.[7]
Crumb retired from teaching in 1997, though in early 2002 he was appointed with David Burge to a joint residency at Arizona State University.[8] He has continued to compose.
Crumb was the recipient of a number of awards, including a 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his orchestral work Echoes of Time and the River and a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for his work Star-Child.[9]
Crumb's son, David Crumb, is also a composer and, since 1997, assistant professor at the University of Oregon. George Crumb's daughter, Ann Crumb, was an actress and singer. She recorded his Three Early Songs for the CD George Crumb 70th Birthday Album (1999), and had also performed his Unto the Hills (2001). She died at her parents' home on October 31, 2019.[10]
Crumb died in his home in Media, Pennsylvania, on February 6, 2022, aged 92.[11]
After initially being influenced by Anton Webern, Crumb became interested in exploring unusual timbres. He often asks for instruments to be played in unusual ways and several of his pieces, although written for standard chamber music ensembles, such as Black Angels (string quartet) or Ancient Voices of Children (mixed ensemble), call for electronic amplification.[12] Crumb defines music as "a system of proportions in the service of spiritual impulse."[13]
In the 1960s and 1970s, Crumb's music filled a niche for more sophisticated though still conservative concertgoers. His music fell between neoclassicism, which was perceived as outmoded, and the more radical music of the avant garde. Although his music from this period exhibits some novel features, it owes more to traditional techniques than to the more experimental areas of the avant-garde.[14] In this period, Crumb shared with a number of other young composers regarded as being under the umbrella of "new accessibility" a desire to reach out to alienated audiences. In works like Ancient Voices of Children (1970), Crumb employed theatrical ritual, using evocative masks, costumes, and sonorities.[15] In other pieces he asks players to leave and enter the stage during the piece, and has also used unusual layouts of musical notation in a number of his scores. In several pieces, the music is symbolically laid out in a circular or spiral fashion.[16]
Several of Crumb's works, including the four books of madrigals he wrote in the late 1960s and Ancient Voices of Children, a song cycle of 1970 for two singers and small instrumental ensemble (which includes a toy piano), are settings of texts by Federico García Lorca. Many of his vocal works were written for the virtuoso mezzo-soprano singer Jan DeGaetani.[citation needed]
Black Angels (1970) is another piece which displays Crumb's interest in exploring a wide range of timbres. The piece is written for electric string quartet and its players are required to play various percussion instruments and to bow small goblets as well as to play their instruments in both conventional and unconventional ways. It is one of Crumb's best known pieces, and has been recorded by several groups, including the Kronos Quartet.[17]
Crumb's most ambitious work, and among his more famous, is the 24-piece collection Makrokosmos, published in four books.[18][19] The first two books (1972, 1973), for solo piano, make extensive use of string piano techniques and require amplification, as dynamics range from pppp to ffff; the third, known as Music for a Summer Evening (1974), is for two pianos and percussion; the fourth, Celestial Mechanics (1979), is for piano four-hands. The title Makrokosmos alludes to Mikrokosmos, the six books of piano pieces by Béla Bartók; like Bartók's work, Makrokosmos is a series of short character pieces. Apart from Bartók, Claude Debussy is another composer Crumb acknowledged as an influence here; Debussy's Préludes comprise 2 books of 12 character pieces. Crumb's first two books of Makrokosmos for solo piano contain 12 pieces, each bearing a dedication (a friend's initials, however he also wittily dedicates a piece to himself) at the end. On several occasions, the pianist is required to sing, shout, whistle, whisper, and moan, as well as play the instrument unconventionally. Makrokosmos was premiered by David Burge, who later recorded the work.[20]
During the 1990s, Crumb's musical output was less prolific, but since 2000 Crumb has written several works subtitled American Songbook. Each of these works is a set of arrangements of American hymns, spirituals, and popular tunes: Crumb originally planned to produce four such volumes,[21] but in fact he continued to produce additional sets after the fourth (The Winds of Destiny) was written, with the seventh volume of the series (Voices from the Heartland) being completed in 2010. Typically these settings preserve the familiar tunes more-or-less intact,[22] but the accompaniments for amplified piano and percussionists use a very wide range of musical techniques and exotic sounds. In his most recent compositions, which have the subtitle Spanish Songbook, Crumb returns to settings of Lorca.
Crumb's works are published by the C. F. Peters Corporation. Recordings of Crumb's music have appeared on many labels, including several LPs issued by Nonesuch Records in the 1970s. More recently, Bridge Records, Inc. has issued a series of CDs, the "Complete Crumb Edition".
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Jeremy Dean Giambi (/dʒiˈɑːmbi/; September 30, 1974 – February 9, 2022) was an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals, Oakland Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies, and Boston Red Sox, from 1998 through 2003. Giambi also played in Minor League Baseball (MiLB) in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox organizations. He was the younger brother of former MLB player Jason Giambi.
The Kansas City Royals selected Giambi in the sixth round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft.[4] Giambi made his major league debut as a September call-up for the Royals in 1998.[5] The Athletics acquired Giambi from the Royals in exchange for Brett Laxton prior to the 2000 season.[6] Jason and Jeremy played together during the 2000 and 2001 seasons. Jeremy batted .283 with 12 home runs and 57 runs batted in (RBIs) in 2001. During Game 3 of the 2001 American League Division Series, Giambi was tagged out at home plate on the "flip play" by Derek Jeter.[7]
During the 2002 season, the Athletics traded Giambi to the Philadelphia Phillies for John Mabry.[8] Giambi finished the 2002 season with 20 home runs between the Athletics and Phillies.[7] After the 2002 season, the Phillies traded Giambi to the Boston Red Sox for Josh Hancock.[9] He last played in the majors in 2003 for the Red Sox.[10] After being released by the Red Sox, Giambi signed minor league deals with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2004[11] and the Chicago White Sox in 2005.[12]
In his MLB career, Giambi batted .263 with 52 home runs and 209 RBIs.[7]
On December 10, 2001, Giambi was caught with marijuana at a checkpoint at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas. He was cited for misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance and released.[13]
On March 13, 2005, The Kansas City Star reported that Giambi had admitted to having used anabolic steroids.[14] His brother Jason has also admitted to using steroids according to grand jury testimony that has been leaked to the press. On December 13, 2007, Giambi was named in the Mitchell Report on steroid usage in baseball.[15]
Giambi was mentioned in Michael Lewis's book Moneyball as one of the players acquired to replace his brother, and became a character in the film that starred Brad Pitt, with Giambi portrayed by Nick Porrazzo.[16][17]
Giambi was found dead at his parents' home in Claremont, California, at 11:40 am on February 9, 2022, according to a spokesperson for the Claremont Police Department. He was 47.[1][7]
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P. J. O'Rourke (November 14, 1947 – February 15, 2022), political satirist and journalist.
I will always think of him as a "cool conservative." Back in the late 20th century when such a concept made sense.
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P.J. O’Rourke Dies: Satirist, Author & NPR Panelist Was 74
P. J. O’Rourke, the political satirist, NPR panelist and bestselling author whose early work with National Lampoon included contributions to the influential Lemmings show, died today of lung cancer. He was 74.
His death was confirmed by his publisher Grove Atlantic, United Talent Agency and by Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me program. O’Rourke served as a regular panelist on the NPR program.
O’Rourke, who began his journalism career as a left-leaning Gonzo journalist before moving toward conservative libertarianism during the 1980s, wrote for such publications as Playboy, Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone, where he served for a time as foreign-affairs desk chief. In 1996, he was the conservative commentator in the point-counterpoint segment of 60 Minutes.
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Gail Seymour Halvorsen (October 10, 1920 – February 16, 2022) was a senior officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force.[1] He is best known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber" or "Uncle Wiggly Wings" and gained fame for dropping candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift from 1948 to 1949.
Halvorsen grew up in rural Utah and always had a desire to fly. He earned his private pilot's license in 1941 and then joined the Civil Air Patrol.[2] He joined the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 and was assigned to Germany on July 10, 1948, to be a pilot for the Berlin Airlift.[3] Halvorsen piloted C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift ("Operation Vittles"). During that time he founded "Operation Little Vittles", an effort to raise morale in Berlin by dropping candy via miniature parachute to the city's residents. Halvorsen began "Little Vittles" with no authorization from his superiors but over the next year became a national hero with support from all over the United States.[4] Halvorsen's operation dropped over 23 tons of candy to the residents of Berlin.[5] He became known as the "Berlin Candy Bomber", "Uncle Wiggly Wings", and "The Chocolate Flier".[6]
Halvorsen received numerous awards for his role in "Operation Little Vittles", including the Congressional Gold Medal.[7] However, "Little Vittles" was not the end of Halvorsen's military and humanitarian career. Over the next 25 years, Halvorsen advocated for and performed candy drops in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Japan, Guam, and Iraq.[8] Halvorsen's professional career included various notable positions. He helped to develop reusable manned spacecraft at the Directorate of Space and Technology and served as commander of Berlin Tempelhof Airport.[9] He retired in August 1974 after logging over 8,000 flying hours.[9] From 1976 until 1986 Halvorsen served as the Assistant Dean of Student Life at Brigham Young University.
Gail Seymour Halvorsen was born in Salt Lake City on October 10, 1920, to Basil K. and Luella Spencer Halvorsen.[10] He grew up on small farms first in Rigby, Idaho, and then in Garland, Utah.[6] He graduated from Bear River High School in 1939 and then briefly attended Utah State University.[3] He earned his private pilot license under the non-college Civilian Pilot Training Program in September 1941, and at about the same time joined the Civil Air Patrol as a pilot.[11] Halvorsen joined the United States Army Air Forces in May 1942[3] and was 22 when he arrived in Miami, Oklahoma, to train with 25 other USAAF Aviation cadets, and 77 Royal Air Force cadets, in Course 19, at the No. 3 British Flying Training School, operated by the Spartan School of Aeronautics.[3] After completing pilot training, he returned to the Army Air Forces and was assigned flight duties in foreign transport operations in the South Atlantic Theater.[3] He was ordered to Germany on July 10, 1948, to be a pilot for "Operation Vittles", now known as the Berlin Airlift.[3]
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Jean-Luc Brunel (1946 – 19 February 2022) was a French model scout and modeling agency manager. He gained prominence by leading the modelling agency Karin Models, and founded MC2 Model Management, with financing by Jeffrey Epstein, and which had offices in New York, Miami, and Tel Aviv. [1] The subject of a 60 Minutes investigation in 1988, Brunel faced allegations of sexual assault spanning three decades. [2]
Brunel came under scrutiny for his ties to Epstein with whom he worked from the early 2000s to 2015. [3] Brunel was accused of recruiting young females and of partaking in the alleged sex trafficking ring run by Epstein. [4] In 2019, French National Police launched an investigation on Brunel after he went into hiding following Epstein's death. [4] He was arrested on 16 December 2020, and charged with the rape of minors by French prosecutors. [5]
Jean-Luc Brunel was born in 1946 in Paris. His father was a real estate executive. [6] He has one brother, Arnaud. [7]
Brunel began his career in the late 1970s, working as a modeling scout for Karin Mossberg's agency, Karin Models in Paris. [3][8] In 1978, he became the head of Karin Models. [6]
In 1988, Brunel and his brother Arnaud founded the Next Management Corporation. [9] In 1989, the Brunel brothers and Faith Kates formed the global modeling agency Next Management Company. [7] Kates owned a majority stake in the company with the Brunel brother's Next Management Corp. owning a minority stake at 25 percent. [7] American Photo reported that Brunel split off from Next Management Company in April 1996 with the Miami models. [10] Next Management Company sued the Brunel brothers in 1996. [7]
Brunel was considered to be a talented scout who had discovered a number of models who rose to prominence, including Christy Turlington, Sharon Stone, and Milla Jovovich. [11] He founded Karin Models of America in 1995. [12] After Brunel was included in a BBC MacIntyre Undercover report on abuse within the fashion industry in November 1999, he was banned from his modeling agency in Europe. [11]
In the early 2000s, Brunel moved to the United States. [13] The Daily Beast reported that he relied on funding from his brother Arnaud and their business partner, Etienne des Roys. [7] In 2003, both financiers pulled out and after the "Paris office filed to revoke Brunel’s claim to the Karin trademark in 2004," he changed the name of the agency to MC2. [7]
Brunel had met Ghislaine Maxwell in the 1980s, and she later introduced him to the financier Jeffrey Epstein. [11] Brunel received funds from Epstein of "up to a million dollars" in 2004 to help launch a new modeling agency: MC2 Model Management. [1] Brunel transformed Karin Models U.S. division into MC2 Model Management, by opening offices in New York City and Miami in 2005. The agency name evokes Epstein through a reference to Einstein's equation for mass energy equivalency or E=mc2. [6][11] Clients of MC2 reportedly included Nordstrom, Macy's Inc., Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, J.C. Penney Co., Kohl's Corporation, Target Corporation, Sears, and Belk. [14]
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, an Epstein accuser, alleged in a 2014 court filing that the system was a cover for sex trafficking. [3] In court documents released in August 2019, Giuffre named Brunel as one of the men Maxwell had directed her as a teenager to have sex with. [15]
In 2019, it was reported that Brunel helped create The Identity Models in New York City and 1Mother Agency in Kyiv, Ukraine. [16] MC2 was dissolved on 27 September 2019. [6]
Rape accusations
Brunel was the subject of a seven-month investigation by CBS producer Craig Pyes and reporter Diane Sawyer for 60 Minutes. The investigative segment "American Models in Paris," which aired on 23 December 1988, covered the conduct of Brunel and fellow Parisian modeling agent Claude Haddad. [17] Several American models who worked with Brunel were interviewed by 60 Minutes and described their experiences of the culture Brunel fostered where the models were routinely drugged and sexually abused. [18] Eileen Ford (of the New York-based Ford Modeling Agency) had sent her models to Brunel for Paris assignments and was interviewed for the program where she claimed no prior knowledge of the multiple complaints from models of sexual exploitation and drug abuse by Brunel. [17] He denied the claims, but Ford ultimately severed ties with him following the broadcast. [17] Michael Gross reported in Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women that Brunel had admitted to using cocaine for years. [17] Brunel defended his use by stating that he did not have a drug problem since he refrained from using cocaine during the day. [17]
In 2002, Brunel was again associated with abuse after Elite supermodel Karen Mulder described to the French press the culture of sexual misconduct and manipulation prevalent in the modeling industry. [6]
Virginia Giuffre accused Brunel of having sexually trafficked girls for Epstein. Giuffre claimed in a 2015 affidavit that Epstein bragged to her that he had “slept with over 1,000 of Brunel’s girls.” [4] Brunel responded by denying involvement in any illegal activities with Epstein, saying, "I strongly deny having committed any illicit act or any wrongdoing in the course of my work as a scouter or model agencies manager." From 1998 to 2005, Brunel was listed as a passenger in flight logs for Epstein's private plane on 25 trips. [6] He was also a regular visitor to the jail where Epstein was held in 2008, with at least 70 recorded visits. [7]
Brunel sued Epstein in 2015, claiming that he and MC2 had "lost multiple contacts and business in the modelling business as a result of Epstein’s illegal actions." [3][19] He also alleged that Epstein had obstructed justice by directing Brunel to avoid having his deposition taken in the criminal case against Epstein by the Palm Beach Police Department. [19] The lawsuit was later dismissed. [6]
In 2019, it was revealed that Brunel was among those named in court documents from a civil suit by Virginia Roberts Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell. The documents were unsealed on August 9, 2019, a day before Epstein's death. [20][21] Giuffre alleges that she was sexually trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell to several high-profile individuals, including Brunel, while she was underage in the early 2000s. [22]
Brunel was last seen in public at the Paris Country Club on 5 July 2019. [23] Following Epstein's death in August 2019, Brunel went into hiding; shortly thereafter, the French National Police launched an investigation into him. [4] In September 2019, his Paris home and offices were searched by French investigators as part of a probe into sex trafficking by Epstein. [24]
On 16 December 2020, Brunel was intercepted by police at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, as he was about to board a flight to Dakar, Senegal. He was then placed under 'garde à vue' custody for questioning in relation to rape, sexual assault, criminal conspiracy, and human trafficking, with all of the allegations involving minors. [25][5]
Having spent several months remanded in custody for the aforementioned charges, Brunel was formally indicted in September 2021 on a single count of rape. The indictment stemmed from an allegation that Brunel drugged a 17-year-old model at a nightclub and raped her in the 1990s. [26] Brunel said he was innocent. [27] His victims had been waiting a long time for his arrest. [6]
Brunel was married to Helen Hogberg, a Swedish model. Hogberg divorced Brunel in 1979. [18] In 1988, he married his girlfriend of two years, the American model Roberta Chirko. [18] Brunel and Chirko later divorced. [6]
On 19 February 2022, Brunel was found dead in his jail cell in La Santé, after he allegedly committed suicide by hanging. [28][29][30]
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Gary Brooker (29 May 1945 – 19 February 2022)
Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76
The singer-songwriter and pianist co-wrote and sang the band’s 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale”
Procol Harum frontman Gary Brooker, who led the band throughout their 55-year history and co-wrote and sang their 1967 classic “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” died at his home from cancer on Saturday, Feb. 19. He was 76.
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Mark William Lanegan (November 25, 1964 – February 22, 2022) was an American singer-songwriter, author, and musician. First becoming prominent as the lead singer for the early grunge band Screaming Trees, he was also known as a member of Queens of the Stone Age and The Gutter Twins. He released twelve solo studio albums, as well as three collaboration albums with Isobel Campbell and two with Duke Garwood. Lanegan was known for his baritone voice, which was described as being "as scratchy as a three-day beard yet as supple and pliable as moccasin leather."
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Carlos Barbosa-Lima
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Carlos Barbosa-Lima
Born on 17 December 1944 in São Paulo, Brazil, Barbosa-Lima grew up in the Brooklyn district of the city. He stated that he began playing guitar when he was seven. [1]
Barbosa-Lima recalled that his father, Manuel Carlos, hired an instructor to teach him how to play guitar. [2] The lessons were then transferred from the father to the son, and the child became known in the neighborhood as a prodigy. After two years of lessons with Benedito Moreira, the young man was introduced to Brazilian guitarist composer Luiz Bonfá. [3] Under the recommendation of Bonfa, Barbosa-Lima was directed to Isaias Savio, the father of the classical guitar school of Brasil. [4] At the behest of family, friends, and acquaintances, he made his concert debut in Sao Paulo in November 1957 when he was twelve years old. [5] During the next year, he performed on a television variety show that introduced young musicians and gave a solo concert in Rio de Janeiro. [6] He signed a contract with Chantecler, which was part of RCA Brazil, and in June 1958 he released his first album, Dez Dedos Magicos Num Violão De Ouro. [7]
In 1960 Barbosa-Lima began the life of a traveling musician, touring in Montevideo, Uruguay, and eastern Brazil. [8] He made his American debut in Washington, D.C, in 1967. [9] He toured through the U.S. and Central and South America. [10] Barbosa-Lima was now making his own arrangements for guitar. In 1964 he released an album of arrangements by the popular Brazilian songwriter, Catullo. Friends of Barbosa-Lima heard these arrangements and encouraged him to continue arranging for guitar. [11]
In 1967 Barbosa-Lima gave his New York debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (then known as Carnegie Recital Hall). [12] This concert was met once again with excellent reviews and moved his career onto the global concert stage. [13] In 1968 he went to Madrid to play for Andrés Segovia. [14] After returning two years later, he gave a concert in New York's Town Hall. At the conclusion of this concert he was approached by Harold Shaw and Shaw Concerts who offered him a steady stream of concert dates within the United States. [15] With the heavy concert schedule and Master classes now available to him through Shaw Concerts Barbosa-Lima took a teaching position at Carnegie Mellon University (1974–1978). It was during this time that Barbosa-Lima's reputation as a world class guitarist began to blossom and composers began writing works for him. One very important composer of this time was Alberto Ginastera who composed the Sonata for guitar, op. 47 for Barbosa-Lima. [16] The later end of the decade (1977) saw Barbosa-Lima perform Francisco Mignone's Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. [17]
As the 1980s began Barbosa-Lima moved to New York City (1981) and took a teaching post at the Manhattan School of Music. Once in New York Barbosa-Lima began to perform with Jazz guitarist Charlie Byrd. [18] Upon hearing Barbosa-Lima's arrangements Mr. Byrd immediately arranged for Barbosa-Lima to meet and perform for Carl Jefferson (the owner of Concord records). Carl Jefferson signed Barbosa-Lima and eleven recordings were to follow on the Concord Jazz label. [19] In 1982 Barbosa-Lima made frequent contact with fellow Brazilian, Antônio Carlos Jobim, one of the world's most popular composers of all time. Barbosa-Lima would often meet him at Jobim's upper east side apartment in New York City for impromptu jam sessions. It was out of these sessions that came the recording Carlos Barbosa-Lima plays Music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and George Gershwin a crossover CD before the word was popular. [20] Jobim was immediately impressed with Barbosa-Lima's arranging technique for guitar which Barbosa-Lima describes as "multi-linear" basically meaning several voices moving at once like classical guitar technique. At the time of their meetings Jobim was more familiar with the Brazilian guitar technique which utilized a "block chord" technique as Jobim himself used. [21] "...Barbosa-Lima brings an ear attuned to counterpoint and technique that gives each independent line its own voice. His transcriptions find and define every moving part, in bossa novas and countermelodies together as he does in Gershwin, he sounds like a team of guitarists". [22] And in keeping with Barbosa-Lima's multi-linear technique the Cuban composer Leo Brouwer, who has long been a personal friend of his, has said; "...when unknowingly I [Brouwer] walked by a hotel room and heard guitar music I thought I was listening to a guitar duo and then suddenly recognized the music and realized it was Barbosa-Lima playing solo. If I weren't a guitar player and guitar composer who noticed a mistake by one of the violinists during a rehearsal of a seventy-member orchestra my confusion could be justified. I believe that Carlos Barbosa-Lima is a genius of transcriptions of Latin American music for guitar." [23]
Barbosa-Lima later recorded for the Zoho music record label and released five recordings under this label and the direction of Barbosa-Lima's recordings as well as his concert programing have a definite Latin American concept. [24] In April, 2010 Barbosa-Lima celebrated the release of his fiftieth recording release, Merengue (Zoho Music, CD 200911) at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
Personal life and death
Barbosa-Lima died on 23 February 2022, at the age of 77. [25]
Carlos Barbosa-Lima's style integrates classical, Latin, and jazz. His discography extends over forty releases and over fifty years. [26]
Due to his first recording (age 13) having been made in 1958, [27] when the recording industry had not yet gone digital, the initial recordings were all on analog media, primarily 45rpm, 78 rpm, and LP disks, along with cassette tapes. A long-term relationship with Concord Records developed in 1982, [28] and it began on analog media, taking the recording process into the digital age with CDs.
When Concord changed its focus, Barbosa-Lima developed a new partnership with the New York-based Zoho label in 2001 beginning with his recording Frenesi (Zoho 200408). [29]
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Sally Clare Kellerman (June 2, 1937 – February 24, 2022) was an American actress, singer, and author.
Kellerman's acting career spanned over 60 years. Her role as Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in Robert Altman's film M*A*S*H (1970) earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. After M*A*S*H, she appeared in a number of the director's projects: the films Brewster McCloud (1970), Welcome to L.A. (1976) (produced by Altman, directed by his protegé, Alan Rudolph), The Player (1992), and Prêt-à-Porter (1994), and the short-lived anthology TV series Gun (1997). In addition to her work with Altman, Kellerman appeared in films such as Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), Back to School (1986), plus many television series such as The Twilight Zone (1963), The Outer Limits (1965), Star Trek (1966), Bonanza (1966, 1970) The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman (2006), 90210 (2008), Chemistry (2011), and Maron (2013). She also voiced Miss Finch in Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985).
At age 18, Kellerman signed a recording contract with Verve Records, but her first album ( Roll with the Feelin', on the Decca label) was not recorded until 1972. A second album, Sally, was released in 2009. [1] Kellerman also contributed songs to the soundtracks for Brewster McCloud (1970), Lost Horizon (1973), Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975), and Boris and Natasha: The Movie (1992).
She did commercial voiceover work for Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing, Mercedes-Benz, and Revlon. [2] Kellerman's animation work included The Mouse and His Child (1977), Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird (1985), Happily Ever After (1990), Dinosaurs (1992), Unsupervised (2012), and The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange (2013). In April 2013, she released her memoir Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life, describing her trials and tribulations in the entertainment business.
Sally Clare Kellerman [3] was born in Long Beach, California, on June 2, 1937, [4] to Edith Baine (née Vaughn), a piano teacher from Portland, Arkansas, [5]: 15 and John "Jack" Helm Kellerman, a Shell Oil executive from St. Louis, Missouri. [5]: 16 [3] Sally has an older sister, Diana Dean Kellerman; her younger sister, Victoria Vaughn (Vicky) Kellerman, died in infancy. [5]: 18 Edith was a Christian Scientist and raised her daughters in this faith. [5]: 17–21
When Kellerman was in fifth grade, the family moved from Long Beach to the San Fernando Valley. [5]: 29 She spent her early life in then-rural Granada Hills in a largely unpopulated area surrounded by orange and eucalyptus groves. [6] During her sophomore year of high school, the Kellermans moved from San Fernando to Park La Brea, Los Angeles, where she attended Hollywood High School. Due to her shyness, Kellerman made few friends and received poor grades (except choir and physical education); however, she acted in a school production of Meet Me in St. Louis. [5]: 4–5 With the help of a high-school friend, Kellerman submitted a recording demo to Verve Records founder and head Norman Granz. After signing a contract with Verve, however, she was daunted by the task of becoming a recording artist and walked away. [7][5]: 14
Kellerman attended Los Angeles City College, [8] and also enrolled in Jeff Corey's acting class. [5]: 8 Within a year, she appeared in a production of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger staged by Corey and featuring classmates Shirley Knight, Jack Nicholson, Dean Stockwell and Robert Blake. [9] Towards the end of the 1950s, Kellerman joined the newly opened Actors Studio West[10][11] and debuted before the camera in the film, Reform School Girl (1957). [12] To pay her tuition, Kellerman worked as a waitress at Chez Paulette. [5]: 35
The decade found Kellerman making a number of television-series appearances. She was in an episode of the western Cheyenne as well as a role as a waitress in the John Forsythe sitcom Bachelor Father. Struggling for parts in television and films, Kellerman acted on stage. She debuted in Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People, [5]: 55 followed by parts in a Pasadena Playhouse production of Leslie Stevens's The Marriage-Go-Round and Michael Shurtleff's Call Me by My Rightful Name (1962). [5]: 63
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Kellerman and William Shatner in the Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (1966)
In 1964, Kellerman played Judith Bellero, the manipulative and ruthless wife of Richard Bellero (played by Martin Landau), in an episode of The Outer Limits titled " The Bellero Shield". A role as Holly Mitchell, perverted mistress of George Peppard's character in the film The Third Day (1965), followed. She played leading lady to David Niven in his television series The Rogues in 1965 for an episode titled "God Bless You, G. Carter Huntington" which revolved around her striking beauty to a large degree, and appeared in a 1965 Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode titled "Thou Still Unravished Bride."[ citation needed]
A year later, she played psychiatrist Elizabeth Dehner (who studied the long-term effects of space on a crew) in " Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second pilot for Star Trek. Three months after that, Kellerman played Mag Wildwood in the original Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany's, directed by Joseph Anthony and produced by David Merrick, which closed after four preview performances. Before the closing the musical numbers were recorded live, and she recorded three songs which appeared on the original cast recording. [13]
Near the end of the decade, Kellerman guest-starred in The Invaders in the episode "Labyrinth" (1968), she also played the severely beaten (and only surviving) victim of Albert DeSalvo in the Boston Strangler (1968), and Phyllis Brubaker ( Jack Lemmon's materialistic wife) in The April Fools (1969). [14] She turned down a role in Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). [5]: 87 She played Eleanor in the Hawaii Five-O episode "The Big Kahuna" (1969). In a 1971 Life magazine interview, Kellerman remembered her television years: "It took me eight years to get into TV—and six years to get out. Frigid women, alcoholics they gave me. I got beat up, raped, and never played comedy." [15]
Kellerman received her breakthrough role (Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H) in 1970. Her performance earned Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations, winning the Kansas City Film Critics Circle (KCFCC) Award for Best Supporting Actress, the Golden Laurel for Best Comedy Performance (Female) and a second-place National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) Award for Best Supporting Actress. [16] Kellerman was featured in Life magazine. [17] She again collaborated with Altman in Brewster McCloud as Louise, guardian angel to Bud Cort, and recorded " Rock-a-Bye Baby" for the film's soundtrack. [18]
The actress's next role was a hostile, chain-smoking, sex-addicted woman who was trying to have an afternoon affair with Alan Arkin's character in Gene Saks's film adaptation of Neil Simon's comedy Last of the Red Hot Lovers. In Manhattan after the film, Kellerman declined an offer for a ten-page spread in Vogue by former editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella. [5]: 118 When she turned down the part of Linda Rogo in The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Stella Stevens got the role. [5]: 146 Shortly afterwards she recorded her first demo with Lou Adler, and Roll with the Feelin for Decca Records with producer-arranger Gene Paige. [5]: 144 After filming Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Kellerman passed up a role in another Altman film:
Quote:I had just finished filming Last of the Red Hot Lovers when Bob called me one day at home. "Sally, do you want to be in my picture after next?" he asked. "Only if it's a good part," I said. He hung up on me. Bob was as stubborn and arrogant as I was at the time, but the sad thing is that I cheated myself out of working with someone I loved so much, someone who made acting both fun and easy and who trusted his actors. Stars would line up to work for nothing for Bob Altman. Oh, the Altman film I turned down? Nashville. In that part I would have been able to sing. Bad choice.[5]: 146
Her next roles included a woman involved in a deadly plot in the slasher film A Reflection of Fear; an eccentric woman in the road movie Slither opposite James Caan, and a tormented journalist in Charles Jarrott's musical remake of Frank Capra's Lost Horizon (also contributing to the latter's soundtrack). Two years later, she played Mackinley Beachwood in Dick Richards' Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins, one of two women who kidnap driving instructor—and former United States Marine Corps gunnery sergeant—Rafferty ( Alan Arkin), also singing " Honky Tonk Angels". [19]
In October 1975, Kellerman sang at Reno Sweeney, [20] and performed two shows nightly at the Rainbow Grill from November 25 to December 14. [21] Her next appearance was as Sybil Crane (a woman in the midst of a divorce) in The Big Bus, a parody of disaster films, followed by a role as a lonely real estate agent in the Alan Rudolph-directed and Altman-produced Welcome to L.A. (both 1976). The next year, Kellerman appeared in a week-long run of cabaret concerts beginning at the Grand Finale club on May 2. Songs that evening included versions of Leon Russell and Betty Everett hits. [22]
Later roles included Maureen, a veteran vaudevillian, in Verna: USO Girl (1978); Veronica Sterling, a party-addicted socialite, in the made-for-television film She'll Be Sweet (1978); and Lise Bockweiss—one of several wives of Pasquinel ( Robert Conrad) and daughter of Herman Bockweiss ( Raymond Burr)—in the 12-episode miniseries Centennial (1978–1979). Kellerman played Kay King, the pretentious and kooky mother of a lovelorn daughter ( Diane Lane), in George Roy Hill's A Little Romance (1979).[ citation needed]
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Kellerman at the 1979 premiere of The Rose
Kellerman began the decade as Mary, a divorced middle-aged suburban mother struggling to raise her rebellious daughter ( Jodie Foster) in Adrian Lyne's Foxes (1980); Martha, a six-times-married eccentric, in Bill Persky's Serial, and the silly-but-sophisticated Mrs. Liggett in Jack Smight's Loving Couples. Later roles included Mary, a child psychiatrist in a sadomasochistic relationship with a psychology professor (Stephen Lackman) after they meet by accident (literally) in Michael Grant's Head On, and a 1920s socialite in Kirk Browning's made-for-television film adaptation of Dorothy Parker's 1929 short story Big Blonde (both 1980). From October 3 to November 15, 1980, Kellerman starred as Julia Seton in an Ahmanson Theatre production of Philip Barry's Holiday (directed by Robert Allan Ackerman) with Kevin Kline, Maurice Evans and Marisa Berenson. [23]
On February 7, 1981 the actress hosted Saturday Night Live, appearing in four sketches ("Monologue", "The Audition", "Was I Ever Red" and "Lean Acres") and closing the show with Donna Summer's " Starting Over Again". [24] Kellerman's next performances were in made-for-television films. She played the title character's first wife, Maxine Cates, in Dempsey and a honky-tonk dance-hall proprietress in September Gun. That year she also appeared in a stage production, Tom Eyen's R-rated spoof of 1940s women's prison films Women Behind Bars. Kellerman played Gloria, a tough inmate who controls the other prisoners. [25]
Her next roles were a KGB-training-school warden in the made-for-television film, Secret Weapons (1985); the sadomasochistic Judge Nedra Henderson in Moving Violations (1985); Rodney Dangerfield's love interest in Alan Metter's comedy Back to School (1986); Julie Andrews' and Jack Lemmon's eccentric neighbor in Blake Edwards' That's Life (1986); a porn star trying to get into heaven in Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986); Kerri Green's mother in Three for the Road (1987), and an actress in Henry Jaglom's Someone to Love. Late in the decade, Kellerman planned to release her second album, which would have included "It's Good to Be Bad, It's Bad to Be Good" from 1992's Boris and Natasha: The Movie (which she produced and starred in as Natasha Fatale); however, the album never was released. [26]
In 1992, there was a fourth collaboration between Kellerman and Altman in The Player, in which she appeared as herself. Supporting roles followed in Percy Adlon's Younger and Younger (1993), Murder She Wrote (1993) and Mirror, Mirror II: Raven Dance (1994), the sequel of the Yvonne De Carlo and Karen Black horror film Mirror, Mirror. The actress appeared in another Altman film, Prêt-à-Porter, as Sissy Wanamaker, editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar, with Tracey Ullman and Linda Hunt. During filming, Altman flew Kellerman and co-star Lauren Bacall from Paris for his tribute at Lincoln Center. [27] From April 18 to May 21, 1995, Kellerman played the title role in the Maltz Jupiter Theatre production of Mame. [28] Around this time, Kellerman appeared in back-to-back plays in Boston and Edmonton. In Boston, she played Martha in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and starred as Mary Jane Dankworth in a two-month, two-character production of Lay of the Land with Michael Hogan in Edmonton. [5]: 217 That year Kellerman planned to release her second album, Something Kool, featuring songs from the 1950s. [28]
In 1996, Kellerman played a calculating sister in an episode of The Naked Truth, "Sister in Sex Triangle with Gazillionaire!" A year later, she collaborated with Altman for the last time in "All the President's Women", an episode of the director's TV series Gun. The actress then co-produced and reprised her Canadian stage role in a film version of The Lay of the Land.[ citation needed]
In 1997, Kellerman was scheduled to play the title role in Mrs. Scrooge: A Slightly Different Christmas Carol, a made-for-TV film version of Charles Dickens' novella. In the film, Mrs. Scrooge is a homophobic widow whose late partner ( Jacob Marley) and three other spirits awaken her to the reality of AIDS. Although it was never released, the actress told a reporter for The Advocate why the project was more personal than professional: "My sister’s gay—and was gay before it was popular... My sister is a very loving person. So is her girlfriend. And my daughter is an amazing woman. They’re all heroic in my book." [29]
Kellerman appeared in the 1998 Columbo episode " Ashes to Ashes". On June 10, 1999, Kellerman joined actresses Kathleen Turner and Beverly Peele in a Planned Parenthood press conference supporting a proposed law introduced to the U.S. Congress. [30]
At the beginning of the century, Kellerman appeared in Canon Theatre's production of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues with Teri Hatcher and Regina Taylor. [31] This was followed by a cabaret show at Feinstein's at the Regency, which opened with Helen Reddy's " I Am Woman". Other songs ranged from Barbra Streisand's " The Way We Were" to " We Shall Overcome" and " America the Beautiful". [32] In March 2002, Kellerman performed in Los Angeles' What a Pair, a benefit for breast-cancer research, [33] joining singer-songwriter Julia Fordham for "Why Can't I". That year, the actress also played protagonist Judge Marcia Blackwell in the made-for-television film Verdict in Blood. This was followed by another cabaret show, produced by Hal David, at the Palmdale Playhouse. Songs included Etta James' " Sunday Kind of Love" and "Long Way From St. Louis". An album ( Body Parts) was planned, but never released. [34]
In the summer of 2004, Kellerman played host Madame ZinZanni in Teatro ZinZanni. [35][36] That year she also received the Susan B. Anthony "Failure is Impossible" Award, honoring women in the film industry who have overcome adversity, at the High Falls Film Festival. [37] Kellerman returned to the stage for a second What a Pair concert, joining actress Lauren Frost for "I'm Past My Prime". [38] The next year, she played Dolores Montoya in Blank Theatre Company's Los Angeles revival of The Wild Party, [39] followed by the sexually-provocative Sandy in Susan Seidelman's Boynton Beach Club. Kellerman sang Cole Porter's " My Heart Belongs to Daddy" with actress, singer and songwriter Kathleen "Bird" York at her third (and final) What a Pair concert. [40] In 2006 the actress appeared as herself in the first episode of the IFC's The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, "A Cult Classic".[ citation needed]
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Kellerman at Robert Altman: Celebration of an American Icon in January 2010
In September 2008, Kellerman recorded a duet with Ray Brown Jr. (son of Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Brown), " I Thought About You", for Brown's duet CD Friends and Family. [41] In 2009, Kellerman released a jazz and blues album, Sally, her first since Roll with the Feelin'. Sally featured interpretations of songs by Linda Ronstadt, Kim Carnes, Aerosmith, Nina Simone, the Motels, Neil Diamond, Jackson Browne, Marvin Gaye, Dolly Parton, Jennifer Warnes and James Taylor. [1] That year she also played Donette, owner of a small-town diner, in the made-for-television film The Wishing Well.
Kellerman starred with Ernest Borgnine and Mickey Rooney in Night Club (2011). Her performance as a woman with Alzheimer's disease living in a retirement home won an Accolade Competition Award for Best Supporting Actress. [42] That year she played a recurring role as Lola (an eccentric artist) in Cinemax's sexually explicit comedy-drama series Chemistry, followed by a guest appearances on the CW teen drama series 90210 as Marla, an aging Hollywood actress with dementia who considers assisted suicide. On July 7, 2012, Kellerman appeared with Tito Ortiz, Cary Elwes and Drake Bell in an episode of the Biography Channel's Celebrity Ghost Stories.
On April 30, 2013, the actress released her memoir, Read My Lips: Stories of a Hollywood Life, published by Weinstein Books. In the book, she remembers a close-knit, family-oriented past Hollywood and her triumphs and tribulations as an actress during the 1960s. [43] Kellerman made promotional book-signing appearances in Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Manhattan and Jersey City. [44][45] Shortly afterward, she appeared as Marc Maron's bohemian mother in the "Dead Possum" episode of his comedy series.
Kellerman later received a Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) Lifetime Achievement Award at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The ceremony, which included a montage of her work and an audience question-and-answer session, was moderated by film historian Foster Hirsch. [46] In September 2013 filmmaker Ellen Houlihan released a short film Joan's Day Out, in which Kellerman played a grandmother who escapes from her assisted-living facility to bail her teenage granddaughter out of prison. The actress joined the Love Can Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of low income families and their children, in February 2014. [47] Kellerman would return in the second season Maron episode "Mom Situation", [48] and as part of an Epix Network documentary celebrating the life of Robert Altman on August 6, 2014. [49]
In October 2014, TVLine announced that Kellerman had been cast in the mysterious role of Constance Bingham on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless[50] and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy as Best Actress in a Guest Role. In 2016, she continued her recurring role on Maron and played in five episodes of the new series Decker.
Personal life
In 1961, Kellerman underwent a botched home abortion, and went to a hospital for the first time (due to her Christian Science upbringing). [51] The relationship that had caused her terminated pregnancy was with actor William Duffy. [5]: 58
After the release of MASH, on December 17, 1970, Kellerman married Starsky & Hutch producer Rick Edelstein. [52] Anjanette Comer, Morgan Ames, Lisabeth Hush, Joanne Linville and Luana Anders were among her bridesmaids. [5]: 194 On March 6, 1972, Kellerman divorced Edelstein, citing irreconcilable differences. [53]
In 1967, Kellerman's sister, Diana, came out as a lesbian and separated from her husband, Ian Charles Cargill Graham, who took full custody of the couple's daughter, Claire. After Diana Kellerman moved to France with her partner, she didn't communicate with her daughter for eight years. [29] Sally Kellerman adopted Claire on January 30, 1976. On April 10, 1976, Ian Graham died in Edinburgh, Scotland. For a time in the mid-1970s, Kellerman was involved with Mark Farner of the rock group Grand Funk Railroad. He wrote the song "Sally", from the 1976 album Born to Die, as an ode to their relationship. She also dated screenwriters Lawrence Hauben, David Rayfiel and Charles Shyer, as well as journalist Warren Hoge, producer Jon Peters and actor Edd Byrnes. In her autobiography, Kellerman claimed her relationship with Byrnes was never consummated.[ citation needed]
On May 11, 1980, Kellerman married Jonathan D. Krane in a private ceremony at Jennifer Jones's Malibu home. [54] Claire Anderson Graham, 16, Kellerman's niece/adoptive daughter, was her maid of honor. In May 1987, Krane adopted Claire, and in 1989, Kellerman and Krane adopted newborn twins, Jack Donald and Hannah Vaughan, who were born on June 24 of that year. [55] Jonathan Krane died of a heart attack on August 1, 2016, at the age of 64. [56] Hannah Krane died on October 22, 2016, at the age of 27 from a heroin and methamphetamine overdose. Kellerman and Krane separated twice during their 36-year marriage, first for a few months in 1994, then again during 1997–98 over Krane's public affair with Nastassja Kinski. [57] As Kellerman had dated married men in the past, she forgave her husband for the affair. [5]: 216
Kellerman died from heart failure at a care facility in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, on February 24, 2022, at the age of 84. [58] At the time of her death, she also had dementia. [59]
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Abuzed Omar Dorda ( Arabic: أبو زيد عمر دوردة; 4 April 1944 – 28 February 2022) was a Libyan politician who was the General Secretary of the People's Committee (Prime Minister) of Libya from 7 October 1990 to 29 January 1994, and Libya's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1997 to 2003. Reports of his fleeing to Tunisia in 2011 were rumours confirmed by his interview on national Libyan TV evident by his imprisonment later that year in September.
Dorda entered politics as Governor of Misrata District in 1970, serving in that capacity until 1972. Next, he served as Minister of Information and Culture until 1974, and as Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, until 1976. In 1990, he became Prime Minister and in 1997 he became Libya's Permanent Representative at the UN.
On 12 April 2009, it was reported that Dorda had been appointed to head the Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya (national intelligence agency), replacing Moussa Koussa. [1]
On 31 March 2011, it was reported that he had been in Tunisia, awaiting a flight out of there, in an attempt to defect from Gaddafi's government, [2] and on the background of the Libyan civil war. He was a part of Gaddafi's inner circle. [3] He was arrested by NTC forces on 11 September 2011. [4] During his detention, Dorda was severely injured (both legs broken) after falling from the window of the second floor of the prison. While his family believed he survived an assassination attempt, prison officials claimed he tried to commit suicide. [5] He was released in February 2019 for health reasons and immediately left for Tunisia. [6][7]
In June 2021, Dorda allegedly met with Khalifa Haftar in Cairo. [8]
Dorda died in Cairo on 28 February 2022, at the age of 77. [9]
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David Reeves Boggs (June 17, 1950 – February 19, 2022) was an American electrical and radio engineer who developed early prototypes of Internet protocols, file servers, gateways, network interface cards[1] and, along with Robert Metcalfe and others, co-invented Ethernet, the most popular family of technologies for local area computer networks. [2]
David Boggs was born in Washington, D.C. to James Boggs and Jane (McCallum) Boggs on June 17, 1950. [3] He graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C. in 1968 and subsequently attended Princeton University, from where he graduated with a B.S.E. in electrical engineering in 1972. He then joined the Xerox PARC research staff, where he met Robert Metcalfe while the latter was debugging an Interface Message Processor interface for the PARC systems group. [4][5] Since Boggs had considerable experience as an amateur radio operator WA3DBJ, he recognized similarities between Metcalfe's theories and radio broadcasting technologies and joined his project. According to The Economist, "the two would co-invent Ethernet, with Mr Metcalfe generating the ideas and Mr Boggs figuring out how to build the system." [2]
Throughout 1973, they built several Ethernet interfaces for the Xerox Alto pioneering personal computer. Xerox filed a patent application on March 31, 1975, naming Metcalfe, Boggs, Chuck Thacker, and Butler Lampson as inventors. [6] They published "Ethernet: Distributed Packet Switching for Local Computer Networks," Ethernet's seminal paper, in 1976, following 18 months of work. [4][7] It was reprinted in the Communications of the ACM in a special 25th anniversary issue. [8] He produced a slide from a Metcalfe sketch of Ethernet terminology for a session at the National Computer Conference in June 1976, which was widely reprinted. [9] The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History presently has the original prototype circuit. [10]
Boggs went to Stanford University for graduate study while working at Xerox, earning a master's degree in 1973 and a Ph.D. in 1982 in electrical engineering. [11] He wrote his dissertation on "Internet Broadcasting", [12] a concept which Steve Deering, also at Stanford, later expanded upon to IP multicasting. [13]
He was a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and received the IEEE Computer Society technical achievement award in 1988. [14][1] He was also one of the developers of the PARC Universal Packet protocol architecture. [15]
Boggs worked on the "Titan" project at the Digital Equipment Corporation Western Research Laboratory (DECWRL) after leaving Xerox. [16] He worked as a consultant in Silicon Valley and co-founded LAN Media Corporation (LMC) with Ron Crane. [17] In July 2000, LMC was acquired by SBE Incorporated and then SBE was acquired by Neonode in 2007. [18][19]
Boggs died of heart failure at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, on February 19, 2022, at the age of 71. [3]
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Judith Lynn Pipher ( née Bancroft, June 18, 1940 – February 21, 2022) was a Canadian-born American astrophysicist and observational astronomer. She was Professor Emerita of Astronomy at the University of Rochester and directed the C. E. K. Mees Observatory from 1979 to 1994. She made important contributions to the development of infrared detector arrays in space telescopes.
Judith Lynn Bancroft was born on June 18, 1940 in Toronto, Ontario to Earl Lester Alexander Bancroft and Agnes May Kathleen McGowan Bancroft. [1] She was named Junior Miss Homemaker of Ontario when she was sixteen years old. [1] She graduated from Leaside High School in 1958 and earned a B.A. in astronomy from the University of Toronto in 1962. [2] Following her graduation, she moved to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York where she taught science and attended Cornell University. In the late 1960s, she worked as a graduate student of Martin Harwit on a cryogenic rocket telescope experiment. [3] She received her Ph.D from Cornell in 1971. Her dissertation, Rocket Submillimeter Observations of the Galaxy and Background, [4] led her into research in the nascent fields of submillimeter and infrared astronomy. [5]
Pipher joined the faculty of the University of Rochester's Physics and Astronomy Department in 1971 as an Instructor. [6] From 1979 to 1994 Pipher was director of University of Rochester's C. E. K. Mees Observatory. In the 1970s and 1980s, she made observations from the Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Pipher and William J. Forrest achieved promising results with a 32×32-pixel array of indium antimonide (InSb) detectors at a NASA Ames workshop. They reported their results in 1983. [7] That year Pipher and her colleagues were among the first to use an infrared array camera to capture starburst galaxies. [5]
For the next two decades, Pipher developed ultra-sensitive infrared InSb arrays with the help of colleague William J. Forrest. The Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) for the Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in August 2003. [8] She has also worked with Dan Watson and on the development of mercury cadmium telluride (HgCdTe) arrays. Pipher's observational research has concentrated on star formation studies and the arrays she designed have been used to observe astronomical phenomena such as planetary nebulae, brown dwarfs, and the Galactic Center. [2] She has authored over 200 papers and scientific articles. [5]
Pipher was a member of a team at the University of Rochester that developed the NEOCam sensor, a HgCdTe infrared-light sensor intended for the proposed Near-Earth Object Camera. The sensor improves the ability to detect potentially hazardous objects such as asteroids. [9]
Honors and awards
Pipher received the Susan B. Anthony Lifetime Achievement Award from the University of Rochester in 2002. [10] She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2007 and became involved with its administration. [11] A 2009 article in Discover magazine indicated that Pipher was "considered by many to be the mother of infrared astronomy." [8] Asteroid 306128 Pipher was named in her honor. [12] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on January 31, 2018 ( M.P.C. 108698). [13]
She was elected a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. [14]
While at Cornell, Judith met Robert E. Pipher (1934–2007), [15] who brought her four stepchildren when they became married in 1965. [1] The Piphers lived at Cayuga Lake[1] in Seneca Falls, New York, where she was vice president of the Seneca Museum board of directors. [11] On the occasion of her 80th birthday, June 18, 2020, was proclaimed to be "Dr. Judy Pipher Day" in the Town of Seneca Falls. [1] She died on February 21, 2022, at the age of 81. [16][17]
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