Jill Clayburgh, American actress (An Unmarried Woman, Ally McBeal, Dirty Sexy Money), died from chronic leukemia she was , 66

 Jill Clayburgh  was an American actress. She receivedAcademy Award nominations for her roles in An Unmarried Woman and Starting Over died from chronic leukemia she was , 66..

(April 30, 1944 – November 5, 2010)

Clayburgh was born in New York City, the daughter of Julia Louise (née Dorr), a theatrical production secretary for David Merrick, and Albert Henry "Bill" Clayburgh, a manufacturing executive.^[2][3][4] Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh.^[5]

Clayburgh's father's family was Jewish and wealthy.^[6][7] She was raised in a "fashionable" neighborhood on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where she attended the prestigious Brearley School.^[6] She then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress.

Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979. They had one son, Michael Rabe and one daughter, actress Lily Rabe. She dated Al Pacino for five years (and briefly appeared with him in a November 1968 N.Y.P.D. episode, "Deadly Circle Of Violence").

Clayburgh joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston. She appeared in numerous Broadway productions in the 1960s and 1970s, including The Rothschilds and Pippin. Clayburgh made her screen debut in The Wedding Party, filmed in 1963 but not released until six years later, and gained attention with roles such as the love interest of Gene Wilder in the 1976 comedy-mystery Silver Streak, co-starringRichard Pryor.

She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for 1978's An Unmarried Woman, for which she won the "Best Actress Award" at the Cannes Film Festival, and for 1979's Starting Over, a comedy with Burt Reynolds. She also received strong notices for a dramatic performance in I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can.

Her other films include Portnoy's Complaint, Gable and Lombard (in which she portrayed screen legend Carole Lombard), as a pro football team owner's daughter in Semi-Tough, as a mathematician in It's My Turn (in which she teaches the proof of the snake lemma), as a conservative Supreme Court justice in First Monday in October and in Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial La Luna, a role in which her character masturbates her son in an attempt to ease his withdrawal from heroin.

Television audiences know Clayburgh from numerous roles in series and movies including Law & Order, The Practice and as Ally McBeal's mother. She received Emmy Award nominations for her work in the made-for-television movie Hustling in 1975 and for guest appearances in the series Nip/Tuck in 2005.

In 2006, she appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park with Patrick Wilson and Amanda Peet; she played Peet's mother, a role originated by Mildred Natwick. She also returned to the screen as a therapist's eccentric wife in the all-star ensemble dramedy Running With Scissors, an autobiographical tale of teenage angst and dysfunction based on the book by Augusten Burroughs. During 2007, Clayburgh appeared in the ABC television series Dirty Sexy Money, playing Letitia Darling.

Clayburgh lived with chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than two decades before succumbing to the disease. She died at her home inLakeville, Connecticut, on November 5, 2010.^[1] The movie Love and Other Drugs, was dedicated to her memory.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1969	The Wedding Party	Josephine
1971	The Telephone Book	Bit Part	(uncredited)[8]
1972	Portnoy's Complaint	Naomi
1973	The Thief Who Came to Dinner	Jackie
1974	The Terminal Man	Angela Black
1976	Gable and Lombard	Carole Lombard
	Griffin & Phoenix
	Silver Streak	Hilly Burns
1977	Semi-Tough	Barbara Jane Bookman
1978	An Unmarried Woman	Erica	Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
1979	La Luna	Caterina Silveri	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama
	Starting Over	Marilyn Holmberg	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated — American Movie Award for Best Actress Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1980	It's My Turn	Kate Gunzinger
1981	First Monday in October	Ruth Loomis	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
1982	I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can	Barbara Gordon
1983	Hanna K.	Hanna Kaufman
1986
	Miles To Go	Moira Browning
	Where Are The Children?	Nancy Holder Eldridge
1987	Shy People	Diana Sullivan
1990	Oltre l'oceano	Ellen	aka Beyond the Ocean (USA)
1991	Pretty Hattie's Baby
1992	Whispers in the Dark	Sarah Green
	Le grand pardon II	Sally White	aka Day of Atonement
1993	Naked in New York	Shirley, Jake's Mother
	Rich in Love	Helen Odom
1997	Going All the Way	Alma Burns
	Fools Rush In	Nan Whitman
2001	Never Again	Grace
	Vallen	Ruth	aka Falling
2006	Running with Scissors	Agnes Finch
2007–2009	Dirty Sexy Money	Letitia Darling	Television
2010	Love and Other Drugs	Mrs. Randall
2011	Bridesmaids		Completed, and Clayburgh's last film.

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Charles McDowell American journalist and syndicated columnist, died from complications from a stroke he was , 84,

Charles "Charley" McDowell, Jr.  was a long-time political writer and nationally syndicated columnist for the Richmond Times-Dispatch and panelist on PBS-TV's Washington Week in Review died from complications from a stroke he was , 84,. McDowell appeared in an interview in Ken Burns'documentary The Congress;^[1] provided the character voice for Sam R. Watkins in Burns' documentary The Civil War;^[2][3] and provided character voice as well as consultation for Burns' documentary Baseball.^[4] McDowell was a Washington and Lee University alumnus and a member of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.^[5]

(24 June 1926 – 5 November 2010)

Charles Rice McDowell, Jr. was born in Danville, Kentucky on June 24, 1926. He was the son of Charles Rice McDowell, Sr. (1895–1968) and Catherine Frazier Feland (1904–1986). When he was young, the family moved to Lexington, Virginia, where the elder McDowell was a professor of law at Washington and Lee University. (His mother was the long-time secretary to the law dean; eventually, she was said to wield so much power that she effectively "was the dean of law."^[6]) The younger McDowell became an undergraduate there, majoring in English and graduating in 1948. He then attended the Columbia University School of Journalism, and graduated the following year.

McDowell then moved to Richmond, Virginia, and joined the staff of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where he would remain his entire career, retiring in 1998. He covered local news and was then assigned to the State Capitol, where he reported on the General Assembly and state politics. In 1954, McDowell began to write a syndicated column that appeared three or four times per week and would span the remainder of his career. He was assigned to Washington, D.C., in 1965, and relocated to Alexandria. McDowell wrote three books: "Campaign Fever," a journal of the 1964 presidential election; and two collections of humor columns titled "One Thing After Another" (1960) and "What Did You Have in Mind?" (1963). He was also a panelist on PBS' "Washington Week in Review" for 18 years, beginning in 1978, and was a writer, narrator and host for other PBS programs, including "Summer of Judgment: The Watergate Hearings," "Richmond Memories" and "For the Record." McDowell also provided voiceovers for the productions "The Civil War" and "Baseball" by Ken Burns.

McDowell was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 1988, and awarded the Fourth Estate Award by the National Press Club in 1996. He married Ann G. Webb of Ashland, Virginia. McDowell lived with his wife in Alexandria, Virginia until they moved to Virginia Beach after his retirement. He died on November 5, 2010, due to complications of a stroke.^[7][8][9]

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Randy Miller, American drummer (The Myriad), died from bone cancer he was ,39

Randall "Randy" J. Miller  was an American musician and drummer for the Seattle-based band, The Myriad died from bone cancer he was ,39.


(February 9, 1971 - November 5, 2010)

Miller was born in Long Beach, California, on February 9, 1971, to parents, Jack and Jayne Miller.^[1] He moved to Redding, California, in 1985 with his family.^[1] Miller graduated from Central Valley High School in Redding in 1989.^[1] He initially owned and operated Metolius Construction, a concrete business, with business partner, Tommy Carlson, before leaving to join The Myriad in 2006.^[1][2]

The Myriad, which included Miller as drummer and lead vocalist Jeremy Edwardson, who was also a 1997 alumae of Central Valley High School, rose to success after winning MTV’s Dew Circuit Breakout Band of the Year in December 2007.^[1] Their 2008 sophomore album,With Arrows, With Poise, was released shortly afterward after being mastered at Abbey Road Studios.^[1]

Miller was diagnosed with chondrosarcoma, form of bone cancer, in 2008, the same year that With Arrows, With Poise was released.^[1] He underwent treatments, including chemotherapy.^[1] His condition improved enough that he was able to tour with The Myriad during the Fall of 2009.^[1]

Randy Miller died at his home in Redding, California, on November 5, 2010, at the age of 39.^[1] He was survived by his wife, Kristyn Miller; their two children - Conor and Gillian.^[1]

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Adrian Păunescu, Romanian author, poet and politician , died of renal, liver and heart failure.he was 67

Adrian Păunescu  was a Romanian poet, journalist, and politician died of renal, liver and heart failure.he was 67. Though criticised for praising dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu,^[1] Păunescu was called "Romania's most famous poet"^[1] in a Associated Press story, quoted by the New York Times.

(20 July 1943 – 5 November 2010)

Born in Copăceni, Bălţi County, in what is now the Republic of Moldova, Păunescu spent his childhood in Bârca, Dolj County. He did his secondary studies at Carol I High School inCraiova.

Păunescu studied philology at the University of Bucharest and became a writer and journalist. He was an influential public figure for Romanian youth throughout the 1970s and early 1980s^[2]. Though he was criticised for writing flattering poems about dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu,^[1]Păunescu remained popular in Romania,^[1] where he appeared on television several times a week.^{[1]
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As posthumously summarized by newspaper România Liberă, Păunescu "is still viewed as a hero by the man in the street"^[2] although "intellectuals continue to question his integrity and the literary value of his work"^[2].

A member of the Union of Communist Youth between 1966 and 1968, and, between 1968–1989, of the Romanian Communist Party, Păunescu gained control over a major weekly publication, Flacăra and became the producer and host of the only itinerant folk and pop show in the country, Cenaclul Flacăra, founded in 1973. He was a member of the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee and "court poet"^[2] of the dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu.

After 1989 Păunescu pursued a political career, aligning himself with socialist and then social-democratic political parties.

In 1996, he ran in the Romanian presidential election but received only 87,163 votes (0.69%). He was a senator from 1992 to 2008, representing Dolj County (1992–2004) and then Hunedoara County (2004–2008), first of the Socialist Labour Party, and later of the Social Democratic Party of Romania. He received the most votes in his district at the 2008 election, but failed to win a seat after the votes were redistributed pursuant to the MMP system used.

Aged 67, Păunescu was hospitalized on 26 October 2010 in the intensive care unit of the Floreasca Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, with problems of more vital organs caused by pulmonary edema. Păunescu had subsequent renal, liver and heart failure. He was declared dead at 7.15 AM, on 5 November 2010.^[3]. Survived by his wife and three children, Păunescu was posthumously thanked by Romania's presidentTraian Băsescu who in saluting him mentioned only his contributions to art.^[1]

Books

• Ultrasentimente (1965)
• Mieii primi (1966)
• Fântâna somnambulă (1968)
• Cărțile poștale ale morții (1970)
• Aventurile extraordinare ale lui Hap și Pap (1970)
• Viata de exceptii (1971)
• Sub semnul întrebării (1971)
• Istoria unei secunde (1971)
• Lumea ca lume (1973)
• Repetabila povară (1974)
• Pământul deocamdată (1976)
• Poezii de până azi (1978)
• Sub semnul întrebării (1979)
• Manifest pentru sănătatea pământului (1980)
• Iubiți-vă pe tunuri (1981)
• De la Bârca la Viena și înapoi (1981)
• Rezervația de zimbri (1982)
• Totuși iubirea (1983)
• Manifest pentru mileniul trei (1984)
• Manifest pentru mileniul trei (1986)
• Locuri comune (1986)
• Viața mea e un roman(1987)
• Într-adevăr (1988)
• Sunt un om liber (1989)
• Poezii cenzurate (1990)
• Romaniada (1993–1994)
• Bieți lampagii (1993–1994)
• Noaptea marii beții (1993–1994)
• Front fără învingători (1995)
• Infracțiunea de a fi (1996)
• Tragedia națională (1997)
• Deromânizarea României (1998)
• Cartea Cărților de Poezie (1999)
• Meserie mizarabilă, sufletul (2000)
• Măștile însîngerate (2001)
• Nemuritor la zidul morții (2001)
• Până la capăt (2002)
• Liber să sufăr (2003)
• Din doi în doi (2003)
• Eminamente (2003)
• Cartea Cărților de Poezie (2003)
• Logica avalanșei (2005)
• Antiprimăvara (2005)
• Ninsoarea de adio (2005)
• Un om pe niște scări (2006)
• De mamă și de foaie verde (2006)
• Copaci fără pădure (2006)
• Vagabonzi pe plaiul mioritic (2007)
• Rugă pentru părinți (2007)
• Încă viu (2008)
• Libertatea de unică folosință (2009)

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Martin Starkie, British actor and writer died he was , 87

Martin Starkie was an English actor, writer and director for theatre, radio and television. The Oxford University Poetry Society administers the annual Martin Starkie Prize in his honour. Starkie died at the age of 87 on November 5th in London 2010.


(November 25, 1922 –November 5, 2010) 

Starkie was born in Burnley,Lancashire, England, UK and educated at Burnley Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford, under critic Nevill Coghill.^[1] In 1946 he founded the Oxford University Poetry Society, and with Roy McNab edited the Oxford Poetry magazine in 1947.

He made his name in the BBC's The Third Programme and on television in the 1950s. He went on to write with Nevill Coghill and composers Richard Hill and John Hawkins, and to produce and direct Canterbury Tales, based on Nevill Coghill’s translation, first in Oxford, then in the West End, on Broadway and in Australia.^[2]

The Oxford University Poetry Society administers the annual Martin Starkie Prize in his honour.

His acting roles included The Resurrection and the Judgement, The Crucifixion, The Second Shepherd’s Play, Guilds and Pageants and Noah and the Flood.

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Shirley Verrett, American operatic mezzo-soprano, died from heart failure.she was , 79

Shirley Verrett ^[1] was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who successfully transitioned into sopranoroles i.e. soprano sfogato. Verrett enjoyed great fame from the late 1960s through the 1990s, particularly well-known for singing the works of Verdi and Donizetti.

(May 31, 1931 – November 5, 2010)

 

Born into an African-American family of devout Seventh-day Adventists in New Orleans, Louisiana, Verrett was raised in Los Angeles, California. She sang in church and showed early musical abilities,^[2] but initially a singing career was frowned upon by her family. Later Verrett went on to study with Anna Fitziu and with Marion Szekely Freschl at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1961 she won theMetropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.

In 1957, Verrett made her operatic debut in Britten's The Rape of Lucretia. In 1958, she made her New York City Opera debut as Irina in Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars. In 1959, she made her European debut in Cologne, Germany in Nabokov's Rasputins Tod. In 1962, she received critical acclaim for her Carmen in Spoleto, and repeated the role at the Bolshoi Theatre in 1963, and at the NY City Opera in 1964 (oppositeRichard Cassilly and Norman Treigle). Verrett first appeared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1966 as Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera.

She appeared in the first concert ever televised from Lincoln Center in 1962,^[3] and also appeared that year in the first of the Leonard Bernstein Young People's Concerts ever televised from that venue, in what is now Avery Fisher Hall.

She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1968, with Carmen, and at La Scala in 1969 in Samson and Dalila. Verrett's mezzo roles included Cassandra and Didon (Berlioz's Les Troyens)-including the Met premiere, when she sang both roles in the same performance,Giuseppe Verdi's Ulrica, Amneris, Eboli, Azucena, Saint-Saëns' Dalila, Donizetti's Elisabetta I in "Maria Stuarda", Leonora in La favorita,Gluck's Orpheus, and Rossini's Neocles (L'assedio di Corinto) and Sinaide in Moïse. Many of these roles were recorded, either professionally or privately.

Beginning in the late 1970s she began to tackle soprano roles, including Selika in L'Africaine, Judith in Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, Lady Macbeth Macbeth , Madame Lidoine in Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites (Met1977), Tosca, Norma ( from Boston 1976 till Messina 1989), Aida (Boston 1980 and 1989), Desdemona (Otello) (1981), Leonore (Fidelio) (Met 1983), Iphigénie (1984-85), Alceste (1985), Médée(Cherubini) (1986).. Her Tosca was televised by PBS on Live from the Met in December of 1978, just six days before Christmas. She sang the role opposite the Cavaradossi of Luciano Pavarotti.^[4]

In 1990, Verrett sang Dido in Les Troyens at the inauguration of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, and added a new role at her repertoire: Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana in Sienna. In 1994, she made her Broadway debut in the Tony Award-winning revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein'sCarousel at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater, playing Nettie Fowler.

In 1996 Verrett joined the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance as a Professor of Voice and the James Earl Jones University Professor of Music. The preceding year at the National Opera Association Gala Banquet and Concert honoring Mattiwilda Dobbs, Todd Duncan, Camilla Williams and Robert McFerrin, Verrett said: "I'm always so happy when I can speak to young people because I remember those who were kind to me that didn't need to be. The first reason I came tonight was for the honorees because I needed to say this. The second reason I came was for you, the youth. These great people here were the trailblazers for me. I hope in my own way I did something to help your generation, and that you will help the next. This is the way it's supposed to be. You just keep passing that baton on!"^[5]

In 2003, Shirley Verrett published a memoir, I Never Walked Alone (ISBN 0-471-20991-0), in which she spoke frankly about the racism she encountered as a black person in the American classical music world. When the conductor Leopold Stokowski invited her to sing with theHouston Symphony in the early 1960s, he had to rescind his invitation when the orchestra board refused to accept a black soloist. Stokowski later made amends by giving her a prestigious date with the much better known Philadelphia Orchestra.^[6]

Verrett died in Ann Arbor, Michigan on November 5, 2010 of heart failure after a long illness.^[7] She was 79 years old.

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