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Sunday, January 2, 2011

Nachi Nozawa, Japanese voice actor, died from lung cancer he was , 72

Nachi+Nozawa%252CNachi Nozawa (野沢 那智 Nozawa Nachi?)  was a Japanese seiyū, actor, and theatre director from Tokyo. He was affiliated with Office PAC at the time of his death. His real name was Yasutomo Nozawa (野沢 那智 Nozawa Yasutomo?). Nozawa was best known for dubbing over Bruce Willis and Alain Delon, as well as his roles in Space Adventure Cobra (as Cobra), Dororo (as Hyakkimaru), Gokū no Daibōken (as Sanzo), and the Sakura Wars series (as Kazuma Shinguji/Oni-Oh) Nozawa died at a Tokyo hospital of lung cancer.[1] He was 72 years old at the time of his death.

(January 13, 1938 - October 30, 2010[1])

 He has been a prolific anime voice actor, and has also directed theater. Nozawa was affiliated with Office PAC.
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 Nachi+Nozawa1Nozawa’s earliest anime voice acting credits come from 1963, when he provided voices for Astro Boy and Ookami Shonen Ken. In the 1960’s, he also provided voices for Goku no Daiboken, Kyojin no Hoshi, Dororo, and Under Sea Marine Boy. In the 1970’s, Nozawa provided voice for Osamu Tezuka’s Cleopatra film, Gatchaman, Animation Kikou Marco Polo no Boken, The Rose of Versailles, and the film Undersea Super Train: Marine Express.
Nozawa was very busy providing anime voices during the 1980’s. He contributed his talents to Be Forever Yamato (a Space Battleship Yamato film), Dracula: Sovereign of the Damned, Tsurikichi Sampei, the film Bremen 4: Angels in Hell, Dr. Slump, Queen Millennia, Queen Millennia Movie, Andromeda Stories, Space Adventure Cobra (as the main character, Cobra), Galactic Patrol Lensman, Glass no Kamen, the film Lensman, Wata no Kuni Hoshi, the film Ai City, Tobira o Akete, Dragon Ball Movie 2: Sleeping Princess in Devil’s Castle, the film Murasaki Shikibu Genji Monogatari, Ace wo Nerae! 2, Ace wo Nerae! Final Stage, Bride of Deimos, Kasei Yakyoku, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, and Lupin III: Secret Files.

While Nozawa could still be heard in anime in the 1990’s, the overall amount of anime voice work he did in that decade is noticeably less than it had been in the 1980’s. During this decade, his voice could be heard in the film Crayon Shin-chan: Action Kamen vs. Haigure Mao, Lupin III: Voyage to Danger, Mobile Fighter G Gundam, Ijiwaru Baasan, the film Lupin III: Dead or Alive, the film Lupin III: The Secret of Twilight Gemini, the film Hermes – Winds of Love, the Sakura Wars OAV, Vampire Princess Miyu, Reign: The Conqueror, and Sakura Wars 2.

Nozawa’s anime voice acting work went back up in the 2000’s. During the decade, his voice could be heard in Alexander: The Movie, Ghost Stories, One Piece: The Movie, Sakura Wars, Hellsing, Salaryman Kintaro, Asobotto Senki Goku, Demon Lord Dante, Hanada Shonen-shi, Lupin III: Return of Pycal, Macross Zero, Pokemon Advance, Space Pirate Captain Herlock The Endless Odyssey, The Galaxy Railways, Black Jack, Monster, Ragnarok The Animation, the film Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness, Last Order Final Fantasy VII, Naruto the Movie: Legend of the Stone of Gelel, Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densetsu Sanada Jyuu Yuushi The Animation, Kekkaishi, Claymore, Devil May Cry, MapleStory, Mokke, Cobra the Animation: The Psychogun, Real Drive, To Love-Ru, Cobra the Animation: Time Drive, and Soten Koro.

In addition to anime, Nozawa has provided voices for Japanese dub versions of English films and television series. He has provided voices for C3P0 in the original Star Wars trilogy, a character in The Man from U.N.K.L.E., Doc and Grunge in the live-action Fraggle Rock series, a character in The Beverly Hillbillies, a scientist Skeksis in The Dark Crystal, and for John McClane in the various Die Hard films. Nozawa has also provided voices in the Japanese video games for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII, Dirge of Cereberus-Final Fantasy VII, Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, and Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories.

Sadly, Nachi Nozawa passed away from lung cancer on Saturday, October 30, 2010. He was 72 years old at the time of his death.

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Howard Van Hyning, American percussionist (New York City Opera), died from myocardial infarction he was , 74

Howard Martin Van Hyning was an American percussionist who was best known for his work with the New York City Opera  died from myocardial infarction he was , 74.  He built a collection of more than 1,000 percussion instruments that he would make available to orchestras for performances and which included an array of gongs that were specifically constructed for use in performances of Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. Van Hyning taught at Mannes College The New School for Music.

(January 9, 1936 – October 30, 2010) 

Biography

Van Hyning was born on January 9, 1936 in Umatilla, Florida.[1] He earned his undergraduate degree and a master's from the Juilliard School, which he attended on a scholarship, studying percussion under the instruction of Morris Goldenberg and Saul Goodman.[2] He spent two years with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.[2]
Having been hired by the New York City Opera in 1966, he became the orchestra's principal percussionist, serving for 40 years before he was forced to retire from the company in 2006 due to Parkinson's disease. During his career he amassed a collection of rare and unusual percussion instruments, including a unique set of 13 gongs constructed by the Tronci family specifically for Puccini.[1] Van Hyning had been searching for a proper set of gongs and obtained the original set from the Stivanello Costume Company, which had acquired the gongs as the result of winning a bet.[1] In 1987 he bought the gongs for his collection, paying thousands of dollars for the set, which he described as having "colorful, intense, centered and perfumed" sound qualities.[1] He founded Van Percussion as a company that would rent out his rare and unusual instruments to orchestras around the world.[2]

Death 
 
A resident of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, Van Hyning died at the age of 74 on October 30, 2010, at his home there due to a heart attack. He was survived by his wife, Marlene Piturro, as well as by a daughter and a son.[1]

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Geoffrey Crawley, British photographer and editor, debunked Cottingley Fairies mystery died he was , 83

Geoffrey Crawley was a photographic expert and journalist, and was the editor in chief of British Journal of Photography for two decades. He was noted for exposing the photographs of the Cottingley Fairies taken in the early 20th century as a hoax  died he was , 83.[1]

(10 December 1926 – 29 October 2010)



Crawley was born in 1926 in Bow in London, and moved with his parents to Southend-on-Sea when he was four years old, later moving to Leigh-on-Sea. He was educated at Westcliff High School for Boys, and during World War II he was evacuated to Derbyshire where he was placed with a miner and his family. Already skilled at the piano, Crawley convinced his hosts to purchase a piano to allow him to continue practising.[2] As a child he learned photography from his father.[1] He showed early talent at the piano, and pursued a performance career. He also studied French and German at Selwyn College at the University of Cambridge. Ill health forced him to abandon both his plans to become a professional musician and his studies.[3]

Crawley enjoyed a long career with BJP, joining in the 1960s as a contributor. He became the technical editor, and was promoted to editor in 1967, a position he held for 21 years. Following the sale of the magazine, he reassumed the position of technical editor, continuing until 2000, when he was in his seventies.[4] In 2000 he moved to the Amateur Photographer, where he was a contributor until shortly before his death.[2]

In the 1980s, he published a series of articles debunking the Cottingley Fairies hoax, a series of photographs that had been taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths starting in 1917 that purported to show the girls together with actual fairies and were used by Arthur Conan Doyle and others as evidence of the existence of supernatural entities.[5] While there were longstanding claims that the photographs were hoaxes, Crawley undertook "a scientific and analytical approach" to analyzing the images starting in the 1970s. After studying the capabilities of some of the cameras that had been used to take the photos, Crawley concluded that they would have been unable to capture images as sharp as the ones in the purported unaltered photographs. In a series of articles published in the British Journal of Photography in the early 1980s, Crawley concluded that the images had been manipulated and that the fairies were a hoax. The cousins would later admit that one of the girls had copied images of fairies from a book onto cardboard cutouts that were then photographed. Frances insisted that the final photo in the series was genuine, though Elsie acknowledged that they were all fakes.[1]

Death 
 
Crawley died at the age of 83 on 29 October 2010 at his home in Westcliff-on-Sea. He was survived by his wife, Carolyn, as well as by a son.[1]

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George Hickenlooper, American documentary filmmaker, died of an heart attack he was , 47

George Hickenlooper Director , who won an Emmy Award for the documentary "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," has died. He was 47.


(May 25, 1963 – October 29, 2010)

Hickenlooper was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended high school at St. Louis University High, where he was part of a group of teenage filmmakers he informally called the "Splicers".[1]
After graduating from Yale University with a B.A. in History and Film Studies in 1986, Hickenlooper interned for the producer Roger Corman, and launched his directing career with Art, Acting, and the Suicide Chair: Dennis Hopper in 1988.

His first feature-length documentary, Hearts of Darkness, explored the making of Apocalypse Now. It won several awards, including the National Board of Review award for "Best Documentary", an American Cinema Editors award for "Best Edited Documentary", two Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards for "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Directing" and "Outstanding Individual Achievement – Informational Programming – Picture Editing", and the International Documentary Association award. Hickenlooper himself won an Emmy for direction.
George Hickenlooper's cousin, John Hickenlooper, who is the mayor of Denver, Colorado and Governor-elect of Colorado, made a cameo appearance as a fictional senator in Hickenlooper's 2010 film Casino Jack.[2]

In addition to his films, Hickenlooper authored a 1991 book, Reel Conversations.
Hickenlooper died in his sleep on October 29, 2010.[3][4] Despite initial reports that Hickenlooper had suffered a heart attack, the coroner ruled that his death was the result of accidental painkiller overdose, combining oxymorphone with alcohol. Sleep apnea and a "moderately enlarged heart" were contributing factors.[5] He is survived by his wife Suzanne, son Charles, a younger brother, and his mother and father.[3]

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    Bärbel Mohr, German author lost her battle with cancer, she was 46.

    Bärbel Mohr  was a German author. Since 1998 she published 20 German books (self-help books, children books, stories) – including the best-selling Bestellungen beim Universum (The Cosmic Ordering Service), translated into 14 languages so far and a German audio edition – which combined have more than 1.5 million copies in print ost her battle with cancer, she was 46.. The foundation for Cosmic Ordering shows a great similarity to the 1937 work of Napoleon Hill, and later to the ideas expressed by Reverend Ike, Kenneth Copeland, Bob Tilton and Jim Bakker.


    (July 5, 1964 - October 29, 2010)

     

    Career

    In 1995 she wrote The Cosmic Ordering Service for a small group of people and distributed it as a Xerox copy. Since then, she has become a household name in Germany.
    In 2006, Noel Edmonds (UK TV-presenter) credited her book with turning his career around. Bärbel regularly gave lectures and workshops on joyful living and how to realise your dreams.

    Personal life

    With her family (husband and twins) she lived close to Munich in the country in Germany.

    Works

    Death
    Barbel suffered a burn-out and fell ill a year ago from cancer .  She lost her battle with cancer, she was 46.




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      Jack Brokensha, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger. died from complications from congestive heart failure he was , 84

      John Joseph "Jack" Brokensha [1] was a jazz vibraphonist. Brokensha was born in Nailsworth, Adelaide, Australia died from complications from congestive heart failure he was , 84.

       (5 January 1926 - 28 October 2010)

      He initially studied percussion under his father, and played xylophone in vaudeville shows and on radio. He played with the Australian Symphony Orchestra during 1942-44, and played in a band in the Air Force in 1944-46. Forming his own group, he played in Melbourne in 1947-48, Sydney in 1949-50, Brisbane later in 1950, and Adelaide in 1951. In 1953 he moved to Windsor, Ontario, Canada with pianist Bryce Rohde; they formed the Australian Jazz Quartet the following year with Errol Buddle and Dick Healey. This ensemble (sometimes recording as a quintet or sextet) toured together until 1958 after a tour of Australia.




      Brokensha then moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA, where he was hired by Berry Gordy of Motown Records as a percussionist, becoming one of the few white members of Motown's Hitsville U.S.A. recording studio's house band, The Funk Brothers. He was given the nickname "White Jack", to distinguish him from Jack Ashford, an African American percussionist nicknamed "Black Jack". Following further tours Down Under with Sammy Davis, Jr. and Stan Freberg, Brokensha founded his own music production company. He did a session with Art Mardigan in 1963, and after this became more active in disc jockeying and writing music for television. He recorded as a leader again in 1980 and continued to lead his own group well into the 1990s. The Australian Jazz Quartet also reunited for tours and recording in 1994.

      Jack died in Sarasota, Florida, of complications from congestive heart failure at the age of 84.[2]

      Discography

      As leader
      • And Then I Said (Savoy Records, 1963)
      • Holiday Inventions (US Steel, 1968)
      • Boutique (AEM Record Group, 1993)
      • X-Mazz (AEM Record Group, 1994)
      With the Australian Jazz Quartet
      • The Australian Jazz Quintet at the Varsity Drag (Bethlehem, 1957)
      • Australian Jazz Quintet Plus One (Bethlehem, 1957)
      • Rodgers & Hammerstein (Bethlehem, 1957)
      • Free Style (Bethlehem, 1958)
      • Three Penny Opera (Bethlehem, 1958)
      • Reunion! Recorded Live - Adelaide Town Hall (AEM, 1994)

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      Robert Ellenstein, American character actor died he was , 87

       Robert Ellenstein  was an American film, television and theatre actor  and director with a varied career, including a long list of Los Angeles theater productions over several decades, died Oct. 28 of natural causes at a nursing home in West Los Angeles he was , 87. As an L.A. theater director, one of Ellenstein's most notable productions was his staging of 'Hamlet' using only six actors and no props. He appeared in more than 20 films and many television shows.

      (18 June 1923 – 28 October 2010)


      The son of Meyer Ellenstein, a Newark dentist, Robert Ellenstein grew up in that New Jersey city and saw his father go on to become its two-term mayor. He served in the Air Corps during World War II: earning a Purple Heart during his service. He attended NYU and graduated with honors from the University of Iowa.

      He began acting, directing and teaching in Cleveland, Ohio. A veteran of the "Golden Age" of live TV (he played Quasimodo in a live Robert Montgomery Presents (1950) version of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"), for the same show played the lead in "A Case of Identity", later turned into the film "The Wrong Man", he was the first actor to play Albert Einstein on TV. Ellenstein made his first film in 1954 (MGM's Rogue Cop), he was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's "North by Northwest".

      In 1961, he played the mobster Legs Diamond in an episode of NBC's 1920s crime drama The Lawless Years with James Gregory.

      He also directed television with an episode of the 1960s sitcom, Love on a Rooftop with Judy Carne and many live TV episodes. Ellenstein had over 200 television appearances. He performed hundreds of stage roles as an actor. He directed dozens theatre productions in New York, Los Angeles and in regional theater. He was artistic director of The Company of Angels and Founding Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Repertory Company. He received a lifetime achievement in theatre award from the LA Weekly in 1988. He is best known for having played the villain in the pilot episode of Moonlighting (1985), and then the Federation President in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). Ellenstein taught theatre professionally and academically for over 50 years, founding the Academy of Stage and Cinema Arts in Los Angeles.
       Death
      He died on 28 October, 2010.[1] He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Lois, daughter Jan and his two sons, David and Peter, both of whom are artistic directors of theatres.

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      Gerard Kelly, British actor (City Lights), died from a brain aneurysm he was , 51

       Gerard Kelly  was a Scottish actor, who appeared in many comedies, most notably in City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt and Scotch and Wry.[2] He also had more serious roles, including the villainous Callum Finnegan in the soap opera Brookside. He remains best known, however, for his starring role in City Lights as the hapless would-be author Willie Melvin. He had a small part in the 1987 critically-acclaimed film Comic Strip Presents... Mr Jolly Lives Next Door.

      (27 May 1959 – 28 October 2010)

      In 1983, he featured in "Killer", the pilot episode of crime drama series Taggart.[3]
      In 1994 he played Felix Ungar in a Scottish touring production of The Odd Couple, relocated to modern-day Glasgow, alongside Craig Ferguson and his best friend Kate Anthony as Oscar Madison. He reprised the role at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe, opposite his former City Lights co-star Andy Gray.

      In between 2005 and 2007 he appeared in three episodes of Ricky Gervais' comedy Extras as Ian "Bunny" Bunton.
      In 2006 and 2007 he starred in, and directed, a Scottish play called Rikki and Me celebrating the life of Rikki Fulton, in which he played the role of Jack Milroy.
      From 2007 he appeared regularly as Father Henderson, a camp priest in the BBC Radio 4 comedy Fags, Mags and Bags.
      Gerard played The Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show in Edinburgh and Aberdeen from June 21, 2010 to July 3, 2010. He was due to revive this performance for one week at the King's Theatre, Glasgow from November 8 till November 13, 2010.[4]
      Kelly was well known for his appearances in pantomime at the King's Theatre. In 2008, he appeared in Cinderella[5] and, in 2009, featured in Aladdin.[6] He had been due to appear in the 2010 production of Snow White.
      Kelly died on 28 October 2010 after collapsing with a brain aneurysm.[7]

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      Saturday, January 1, 2011

      Denise Borino-Quinn, American actress (The Sopranos), died from liver cancer she was , 46

      Denise Borino-Quinn  was an American television actress who had a recurring role as Ginny Sacramoni, the overweight wife of New York mob boss Johnny Sack in the television series The Sopranos died from liver cancer she was , 46.[1][2]

      (January 6, 1964 – October 27, 2010)

      She was born in Roseland, New Jersey. She attended West Essex High School, the same school as Sopranos creator David Chase although nearly 20 years apart.[1][2]
      To obtain the part of Ginny Sacramoni, she attended the casting call in Harrison, New Jersey to support a friend and because she thought it would be fun to watch the crowds. She was picked from 14,000 actresses. Previously, she had been a legal assistant in New Brunswick, New Jersey firm of Hoagland-Longo.[1][2]
      She later lost 175 pounds via stomach stapling.[3]

      She married Luke Quinn, Jr., in 2005 and they lived in Bordentown, New Jersey. He died in March 2010. They had no children. She died only seven months later from liver cancer on October 27, 2010 at the age of 46.[1][
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      James Wall, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, died after short illness he was , 92

       James Earl "Jimmy" Wall  was an American stage manager and actor died after short illness he was , 92.

      (December 12, 1917 – October 27, 2010[1])

      Having performed on radio, theater, and in the Army during World War II, Wall worked as a stage manager on Broadway before being hired as the stage manager for the children's television series Captain Kangaroo by CBS in 1962. In a interview clip that aired on the October 28, 2010, CBS Evening News, Wall recalled how he made the case to Kangaroo's producers for an African-American character. However, he still had to audition for the role which became Mr. Baxter, a teacher and Captain Kangaroo's neighbor.[2] Wall joined the cast in 1968, remaining with the show until 1979; he made a guest appearance in 1981. He was also the stage manager for 41 consecutive years on the US Open Tennis Championships telecasts.[2]
      Wall was presented with the Directors Guild of America's Franklin J. Schaffner Achievement Award in 1994. He continued to work for CBS in semi-retirement until 2009.





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      Glen Little, American circus performer (Frosty the Clown) died he was , 84

       Glen "Frosty" Little [1] was a circus clown who served with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus for over 20 years. He was one of only four clowns ever to have been given the title "Master Clown" by the Ringling organization.[2][3]

      (December 5, 1925 – October 26, 2010)


      Early life

      Born in 1925 in Genoa, Nebraska to parents Glen and Elsie,[1] Little saw his first circus at the age of seven, which instilled a life-long love of the circus in him.[2][4] His nickname "Frosty" was given to him as a boy by his grandfather, who compared him to Jack Frost due to his love of playing in the snow.[2][4] Little used the pseudonym extensively, even singing his checks "Frosty Little".[5]
      Little served in the US Navy during World War II, and was wounded. He learned juggling from a fellow patient while convalescing, a skill that would later help him land his first clowning jobs.[2]
      In 1971, he married his wife, Patricia, a photographer and former schoolteacher, with whom he had two daughters.[2][4] He had an additional daughter by a prior marriage.[1]

      Early career

      Prior to joining the Ringling outfit, Little worked as a postal employee and land surveyor in Colorado. From 1954 to 1956, he performed as a clown at a local amusement park on weekends, wearing a rented costume.[2] In 1956, he went into clowning full-time after he was hired by the Joe King Circus, with which he toured the Rocky Mountain States for half of the year.[4][2][6] The rest of the year, he freelanced as a clown at birthday parties and special events.[4] He continued working for the Joe King circus for seven years until its closure in 1962.[2]

      With Ringling Brothers

      Little also worked for other small outfits like the Tom Mix Show and Sells Floto Circus, but he had long had his eye on "The Greatest Show on Earth" – Ringling Bros.[2] In 1968, he finally got his chance when Ringling Bros. created the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College; Little was in its first graduating class, and at the age of 44, he landed a job with Ringling's newly split-off second touring unit.[7][2][8]
      In 1970 Little was promoted to "Boss Clown" of his unit, and from 1980 until his retirement in 1991, he was the circus' "Executive Clown Director", overseeing clowns in both units, and writing new gags for the clowns to perform. In his lifetime, he wrote over 300 gag routines.[3][9] In his later career, Little also served as an advance man for the circus.[4][2]
      From 1980 until its closure in 1997, Little also taught at his alma mater, the Ringling Brothers clown college.[2][10] In 1988, Little also helped establish the Ringling circus' first overseas touring unit (based in Japan), choreographing gags and training members of their clown staff.[2]
      Among the dignitaries he entertained were US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and US President Richard Nixon.[4][11] He also appeared on 12 Ringling Bros. TV specials.[3]
      Little sustained several injuries over the course of his career, including seven broken ribs, ruined knees, and numerous other injuries that left him with "crooked fingers". After one accident, he was rushed to the hospital (after completing his performance) still wearing his clown suit.[5][2]

      Honors

      In 1983, Little was named "Master Clown" by the Ringling organization, only the fourth clown ever to be so named (after Otto Griebling, Bobby Kaye, and Lou Jacobs – Little's mentor).[7][11] Little was the last person ever to have been awarded the title, and was the last surviving Master Clown at the time of his death.[12]
      Little was inducted into the Clown Hall of Fame in 1991.[13]

      Post-career

      After his retirement, Little lived in Burley, Idaho, where he ran a circus museum.[5] In 1996, Little wrote a book on his experiences as a clown, titled Circus Stories: Boss Clown on the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus for More than 20 Years.[14]
      In 1977 Little was asked by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune what he would do after he retired from the circus. Little replied, "Leave here? Are you out of your mind? I'm never going to leave here. I'll always be a clown."[15]
      On October 26, 2010, Little died in Kimberly, Idaho.[1] He was survived by his wife Patricia.[16]

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      Lisa Blount, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Academy Award-winning film producer (The Accountant). died she was , 53


      Lisa S. Blount  was an American film and television actress and Oscar-winning producer  died after battling a rare blood disorder she was  , 53.


      (July 1, 1957, Fayetteville, Arkansas  – c. October 25, 2010[1])



      Blount was raised in Jacksonville, Arkansas. She started working in show business with her debut in Sam's Song (1969). After graduating from Jacksonville High School in 1975, she landed several small television roles.

      Career

      She is likely best-remembered for her film role as Lynette Pomeroy in An Officer and a Gentleman.

       Another memorable role was that of Jim Profit's outrageous stepmother Bobbi Stakowski in the short-lived but critically-acclaimed Fox TV series Profit. She starred in Prince of Darkness as the love interest to Jameson Parker, who would play a more important role in the story as it progressed. She appeared in season two (1986) of Moonlighting in the episode, "Sleep Talkin' Guy".
      Blount later became a producer and, along with her husband Ray McKinnon, won the Academy Award for best live action short film for the 2001 film, The Accountant. That film also credits her as wardrobe mistress.[2] Blount produced and acted in the film Chrystal, starring Billy Bob Thornton.

      Death

      Blount was found dead in her Little Rock, Arkansas, home by her mother on October 27, 2010. The coroner told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that Blount appeared to have died two days earlier. No foul play is suspected, according to the Pulaski County Coroner.[3][4]
      Her mother told RadarOnline.com her daughter had suffered from idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP), in which low levels of platelets keep blood from clotting and lead to bleeding and bruising. "I think that might have been part of the problem when she passed away because when I found her she had a purple look on her neck that looked like blood on the surface", Louise Blount said.[5]

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      Jeff Carter, Australian photographer and author.died he was , 82


      Jeff Carter  was an Australian photographer and author died he was , 82.

      (August 1928 – 25 October 2010)

      Early life

      Carter was born in August 1928 in Victoria and attended Melbourne Boys’ School. He began taking photographs while still at high school. His first photos were taken with a [Box Brownie], given to him as a 13th birthday present.[1]

      Career

      In 1946, Carter set off to travel around Australia with his camera and typewriter and made a living selling his stories and photographs to a wide range of Australian and international newspapers and magazines including Paris Match, People, Pix, Walkabout and Australian Women's Weekly. He was later also commissioned by National Geographic.
      From 1949-54, Carter was editor of Outdoors and Fishing magazine; he then resigned to travel in rural and outback Australia as a freelance photo-journalist. He wrote and illustrated 17 books based on his experiences.[2] His most widely held book outside Australia is People of the Inland. [Adelaide]: Rigby, 1966. OCLC 901968. Carter's other books include: The Life and Land of Central Australia (1967); Outback in Focus (1968); Stout Hearts and Leathery Hands (1968); Surf Beaches of Australia’s East Coast (1968); Four-Wheel Drive Swagman (1969); Wild Country (1974); Jeff Carter's Great Book Of The Australian Outdoors (1976); All Things Wild (1977); and Jeff Carter's Guided Tours Of The Outback (1979).
      Carter is quoted as saying that he was influenced by writers such as Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck and Edgar Snow.[3]

      Television

      From 1972–74, together with his wife Mare Carter and eldest son Thor Carter, he filmed, wrote and produced the television series Wild Country for the Seven Network, which was shown internationally, including the annual television festival MIP in Cannes, France. An episode won awards for Best Documentary, Best Director and Best Editing at the 1974 Australian Film Institute Awards, and an episode won several awards at the annual television festival MIP in Cannes, France.
      From 1981–85, he was head teacher of photography at the Wollongong campus of the National Art School.

      Collections and exhibitions

      His photographs are in the collections of the Art Gallery of NSW, the National Gallery of Victoria, The National Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia (over 450 photographs), the Art Gallery of South Australia, the Australian National Museum, and the Powerhouse Museum. They have been exhibited at the National Library of Australia, the National Art Gallery of Australia, the National Museum of Australia, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Art Gallery of South Australia and overseas galleries in Osaka, Japan, Lisbon, Portugal, New York and Paris.
      The Monash Gallery of Art in Melbourne, held a major retrospective exhibition of his images in May-June 2003, which was seen by a record number of over 9,000 visitors. Part of this exhibition was then shown at the Christine Abrahams Gallery, and the National Trust Gallery in Melbourne.
      Carter received the Australia Council’s Visual Arts/Craft Board 2004 Emeritus award. Senator Rod Kemp, then Minister for the Arts and Sport, commented:
      The annual Visual Arts/Craft Emeritus Award and Medal honour the achievements of artists and advocates who have made outstanding and lifelong contributions to the arts in Australia. The career of itinerant, self-taught photographer Jeff Carter spans half a century. It has been estimated that he has produced some 55,000 negatives since he took to the road in 1946 as a young man inspired by his heroes Steinbeck and Hemingway. Armed with a typewriter and a 1A folding Kodak camera, he set about on a journey across the country that would see him document the people, places and life of a changing Australia. In doing so, he has produced one of this country's most remarkable and historically significant photographic archives. As his self-titled calling as photographer to the 'poor and unknown' suggests, Carter is a humanist whose early articles and iconic black and white images, like Tobacco Road and The Drover's Wife, exposed an appreciation of the difficulties Australians outside major cities faced everyday.
      The National Library compendium of its image collection uses the iconic image Tobacco Road for the cover illustration. A collection of his black and white studies was published as Jeff Carter: Retrospective Sydney: New Holland, 2005, ISBN 9781741102130

      Themes

      As a photographer, Carter concentrated on the unglamorous and unprivileged aspects of Australia, with a focus on the working lives and conditions of ordinary Australians. During his early travels, his experiences as an itinerant bush worker, fruit picker, side show "urger" for a travelling boxing troupe, drover, road worker, and mill hand, brought him in contact with the people who would be the subjects of his photographs. These early years of his career filled him with admiration for those making their livings in some of the toughest environments in Australia.
      Throughout his career, Carter has produced series that show the progression of events over time. Concentrating on rituals and process, they comprise evocative images.

      Personal life

      With Mare Carter (born USA, arr. Australia 1950, author) he settled in 1962 on a 45-hectare farm at Foxground, near the south coast town of Berry, NSW, where their two sons Goth and Vandal were born. He has two older children, Thor and Karen.

      Obituary

      Jeff Carter's obituary, written by Robert McFarlane, appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald on 6 November 2010.

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