Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican television producer, comedian, writer and actor, died from gastric cancer he was , 69

 Freddy Reinaldo Beras-Goico  (popularly known as "Freddy Beras" or just "Beras-Goico") was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years died from gastric cancer he was , 69. He hosted the defunct TV show "El Gordo de La Semana" and he was a staple of primetime (and late night) TV. He was one of the most recognized personalities in the Dominican Republic.^[1]

(November 21, 1940 – November 18, 2010)

Biography

During the 1950s, his family fled the Dominican Republic due to the brutal regime of the Trujillo dictatorship and settled in Colombia, where he spent several years before returning to his homeland. He was also linked to the tumultuous times lived in the Dominican Republic after the Trujillo family fled the country in 1961; a legally elected president was chosen when free elections were celebrate after 30 years of dictatorship (1963), this trial to restore the Democracy to the country was destroyed by a coup d'état from Trujillo's Military foes still active in the armed forces; a group of young officers from the military revolted to restored back Democracy in the country but were accused of being communist and the US invaded the country in 1965 to destroy this revolt. All this would shape his comedic style, making him a well-known entertainer for years to come.

Career

Early in his career Beras-Goico's comedic style was mainly based on sketch comedy vignettes in several daytime TV shows, later moving on to having his own personal show, El Gordo De La Semana (lit. The Fat Guy of The Week), which matured into a successful TV variety show. The show's roster of comedians and personalities included: Cuquín Victoria, Milton Peláez, Roberto Salcedo, and others.

Personal life

Beras Goico married twice, first to the singer Luchy Vicioso, and then to his now widow Pilar Mejía. He had several children. He is the cousin of Spanish-language television star Charytín Goico.
In his late years, he converted to Christianity.

Career

Beras Goico returned to the Dominican Republic in the sixties. He started his career working as cameraman. Then in advertising but was always linked to television. Many times, Beras-Goico and the crew would laugh themselves to tears.
He began creating comedic shows for radio and TV, and met many friends that became, along with him, the best comedy team of Dominican television: Felipe Polanco, Cuquin Victoria^[2], Cecilia Garcia, the slain Milton Pelaez, and many more. During most comedy sketches, Beras-Goico and his actors were rarely able to stifle their laughter. Sometimes, Beras-Goico's laughter would become so contagious, that soon the entire cast and crew would start shaking in hysterical attempts to control their own laughter.
Many times, Beras-Goico and the crew would laugh themselves to tears.
He also created his own weekly show, El Gordo de la Semana and Punto Final, a late night TV show.
Beras Goico was well known for his philanthropic work, especially for providing medical assistance to poor Dominicans. Recently, he won the Casandra Award for best actor, for his role in Victor/Victoria, and hosted the nightly show "Con Freddy y Punto", where he shared host duties with "Boruga" and Pamela Sued and married a son freddy jean carlos beras.

Death

Beras Goico died at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City after battling pancreatic cancer, just 3 days before his 70th birthday. Before his death, Several rumours about his death appeared, his death was confirmed by the wife of his son Giancarlo Beras, Pamela Sued, on November 18, 2010, at 4:30 am and by his son later on his twitter account.

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Brian G. Marsden, British astronomer, died after a long illness he was , 73

Brian Geoffrey Marsden ^[1] was a British astronomer born in Cambridge, England, and educated at The Perse School in Cambridge, New College, Oxford and Yale University died after a long illness he was , 73 . Dr. Marsden was the longtime director of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (director emeritus from 2006 to 2010).^[2]

(5 August 1937 – 18 November 2010)

 Life

Marsden specialized in celestial mechanics and astrometry, collecting data on the positions of asteroids and comets and computing their orbits, often from minimal observational information and providing their future positions on International Astronomical Union (IAU) circulars. In addition to serving as MPC director since 1978, he served as the director of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) from 1968 to 1999.^[3] He was president of Commission 6, and Commission 20 of the IAU.^[4]
Marsden helped recover once lost asteroids and lost comets. Some asteroid and comet discoveries of previous decades were "lost" because not enough observational data had been obtained at the time to determine a reliable enough orbit to know where to look for re-observation at future dates. Occasionally, a newly discovered object turns out to be a rediscovery of a previously lost object, which can be determined by calculating its orbit backwards into the past and matching calculated positions with the previously recorded positions of the lost object. In the case of comets this is especially tricky because of nongravitational forces that can affect their orbits (one of which is emission of jets of gas from the comet nucleus), but Marsden has specialized in calculating such nongravitational forces. Notably, he successfully predicted the 1992 return of the once-lost Comet Swift-Tuttle.
In 1998, he calculated that an asteroid, (35396) 1997 XF11 might strike the Earth in 2028. Marsden chose to issue a press release, which Robert Roy Britt called a false alarm.^[5]

• "... astronomers created a media storm by announcing that an asteroid could collide with Earth in 2028, only to revise the estimates hours later." --Gretchen Vogel, Science, 20 March 1998

Other asteroid researchers called it a "mistake" and Marsden himself admitted the announcement was a strategy which needed "rethinking", and NASA asked astronomers not to sound a public alarm like that again but to communicate with each other.^[6] He took some criticism for publicizing this prediction right when movie companies were publicizing films like "Deep Impact" (see also Science by press conference). However, Marsden justified his actions with the argument that the problem of detecting asteroids needs more attention:

• "Much as the incident was bad for my reputation, we needed a scare like that to bring attention to this problem." (Scientific American magazine, 2003)^[7]

Follow-up work determined that an impact would be unlikely.^[8]
He once proposed that Pluto should be cross-listed as both a planet and a minor planet and assigned the asteroid number 10000; however, this proposal was not accepted. A similar proposal was, however, finally accepted in 2006 when Pluto was designated minor planet 134340 and also declared a dwarf planet.

• Marsden won enmity with a segment of the public as a leader of the campaign to downgrade Pluto. Partly at his urging, the International Astronomical Union voted at a meeting in Prague in 2006 to designate Pluto and three asteroids “dwarf planets.”^[7]

Asteroids discovered: 1

37556 Svyaztie

August 28, 1982

with N. S. Chernykh

Family

He married Nancy Lou Zissell; they had a daughter, Cynthia Louise Marsden-Williams, and a son, Jonathan Brian Marsden.^[8]

Honours

Awards

• George Van Biesbroeck Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1989)
• Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society (1995)^[9]
• Royal Astronomical Society Award for Service to Astronomy and Geophysics (2006)
• Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.^[10]

Named after him

• Asteroid 1877 Marsden

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Mackenzie Taylor, British comedian, died after taking after taking an overdose of drugs he was , 32

Mackenzie Taylor was a British comic, writer and director died after taking after taking an overdose of drugs he was , 32.

(8 September 1978 – 18 November 2010)


Born in Crewe, Cheshire, his family moved to Camberley, in Surrey, when he was a baby.^[1] Taylor attended Royal Grammar School in Guildford and was a member of the Surrey Youth Theatre. He worked as an accounts assistant for a firm of quantity surveyors in Chobham, Surrey.^[1]
He started his comedy career in the sketch and improvisational group Wayward Council.^[1]

Taylor died on 18 November 2010 at the age of 32 after taking an overdose of drugs.^[2] His funeral took place on December 8 at St Michael. All Angels church in Pirbright, near Woking, Surrey.^[6]

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Isabelle Caro French model died from Anorexia nervosa she was 28

Isabelle Caro was a French model from Marseille, France, who became well-known after appearing in a controversial ad campaign "No Anorexia" which showed Caro with vertebrae and facial bones showing under her skin in a picture by photographer Oliviero Toscani died from Anorexia nervosa she was 28.  ^[1][2] She was the 3rd cousin of poker author Mike Caro.

(12 September 1982 – 17 November 2010)

 Biography

Caro suffered from severe anorexia nervosa from the age of 13.^[3] Her anorexia was caused by what she called a "troubled childhood". When she appeared on CBS's The Insider, it was revealed that at the worst of her eating disorder, she weighed only 25 kilograms (55 lb; 3 st 13 lb) at a height of 1.65 metres (5 ft 5 in); her most recent weight was 33 kilograms (73 lb; 5 st 3 lb).
She appeared on Channel 4's Supersize vs Superskinny which aired on 11 March 2008, in which she spoke to journalist Anna Richardson about her anorexia.
Caro was hospitalized for the first time when she was 20. At her worst, in 2006, she slipped into a coma, weighing just 25 kilograms (55 lb; 3 st 13 lb). The doctor said she would not survive the coma but she did.
Caro was also interviewed in the second episode of the TV documentary series, The Price of Beauty, in which Jessica Simpson and her two best friends, Ken Pavés and CaCee Cobb, traveled the world to explore the meaning of true beauty. Simpson investigated the problem of how some female fashion models have become obsessed with being skinny. Caro talked about how she became anorexic and warned other girls about the affliction. Simpson was moved to say "What you are doing right now makes you more beautiful and I hope women all over the world hear about the story and it is important to know that how skinny you are does not make you beautiful." It aired on 22 March 22 2010 in the USA and on 21 August in Japan.

Death

Caro died on 17 November 2010 in France, after spending about two weeks in hospital with acute respiratory disease. The cause of her death is unknown. Ms Caro's acting instructor, Daniele Dubreuil-Prevot, told the Associated Press news agency that Ms Caro had died "after returning to France" from a job in Tokyo.^[4] Her family only reported Caro's death to the media a month afterward, on 29 December 2010.^[5]

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Ronni Chasen, American publicist (Hans Zimmer, Michael Douglas), died from five gunshot wounds to the chest she was , 64

 Ronni Sue Chasen  was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others died from five gunshot wounds to the chest she was , 64. Chasen directed the Academy Award campaigns for more than 100 films during her career, including Driving Miss Daisy in 1989 and The Hurt Locker in 2009.^[2]
Chasen was shot and killed November 16, 2010 while driving home from the premiere of the film Burlesque.^[2] The investigation into her murder is ongoing.

(October 17, 1946[1] – November 16, 2010)

Biography

Chasen was born Veronica Cohen in Kingston, New York in 1946. She was raised in both the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx and the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. ^[3] She won a series of Duncan Toys Company yo-yo contests held in Morningside Heights as a child.^[3][4]
Chasen began her early career as a publicist for her brother, film director Larry Cohen, who hired her as a publicist for his 1973 blaxploitation film, Hell Up in Harlem, which became one of her earliest jobs in the industry.^[3]
Chasen became known in Hollywood for her PR work on such films as On Golden Pond, and the second film in the Oliver Stone/Michael Douglas Wall Street movie franchise, Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. She was pushing for Oscar recognition for Douglas in his role as the money hungry, risk averse character Gordon Gekko.^[5] Chasen successfully directed the Oscar campaign for the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture the following year.^[4]
In addition to being named the Senior Vice President for Publicity at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1993,^[6] Chasen owned the PR firm Chasen & Co., in which she focused on artists who composed film music, such as Trevor Horn, Mark Isham, Hans Zimmer, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, and brothers David and Thomas Newman.^[7] Laura Dunn of the Society of Composers and Lyricists said of Chasen, "She laid the groundwork for so many others on how to be a top publicist in the film music industry representing top composers and songwriters."^[8]
According to Los Angeles Times film critic Patrick Goldstein, Chasen reminisced about her early years while working with George Burns on the hit 1970s film The Sunshine Boys and coaching the budding star John Travolta on how to handle his first interview after his fame first broke during Welcome Back Kotter.^[9][10]
Chasen was working with Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Zanuck for the Oscar campaign of the 2010 film, Alice in Wonderland, at the time of her death.^[4] Following her murder, Chasen was called "Hollywood's ultimate old-school publicist" by Patrick Goldstein.^[11][10]

Death

Chasen was shot in Beverly Hills on November 16, 2010, at approximately 12:28 a.m. PST, as she was driving home from the Hollywood premiere of the film Burlesque.
Neighbors near the intersection of Whittier Drive and Sunset Boulevard in the city of Beverly Hills originally reported hearing gunshots in front of their homes, but more calls came in to the 911 call center a few moments later stating that a late model, black Mercedes-Benz had run a curb, then hit and toppled a concrete street light. When police crews arrived, they found Chasen slumped in the driver's seat, the steering wheel airbag inflated, with blood emanating from her nose and chest area, in and out of consciousness with the front passenger side window shattered. Chasen was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.^[12]
Chasen was buried at Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.^[4] She is survived by her brother, film director Larry Cohen.^[4]

Investigation

Beverly Hills Police Department sources stated that Chasen received approximately five gunshot wounds to the chest, which caused her to lose control of the vehicle just after turning from Sunset Boulevard onto Whittier Drive. Police surmised that Chasen's killer was an expert marksman, and likely shot her from an SUV or truck that pulled alongside her car.^[13] A leaked coroner's report noted that hollow-point bullets might have been used by the gunman.^[13]
On December 1, 2010, the Los Angeles Times reported that a man believed to be involved with Chasen's murder committed suicide after being confronted by police at the Harvey Apartments on Santa Monica Boulevard in East Hollywood.^[14][13] The Times reported the man, a convicted felon known to neighbors at the complex as Harold Smith,^[15][16] was approached by police in the apartment lobby, at which point the man pulled out a pistol and shot himself in the head.^[14] On December 6, 2010, it was reported that Smith was no longer considered a person of interest in the murder.^[17]
However, on December 8, 2010, the Beverly Hills Police Department declared its preliminary conclusion that Chasen's murder had been a random act of violence, a robbery attempt turned violent -- committed by Smith while he was riding his bicycle. According to the police, the gun that Harold Smith used to kill himself was the same one used to murder Chasen. Police said they believed Smith acted alone and it was in no way connected with road rage -- an operating theory the previous week. The big break in the case was a tip through "America's Most Wanted" -- after Smith began bragging to neighbors that he shot Chasen and got $10,000 for it. The "AMW" tipster -- who wants to remain anonymous -- stands to collect a $125,000 reward. ^[18]

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Mimi Perrin, French jazz singer and pianist. died she was , 84.

 Jeannine "Mimi" Perrin ^{[1] [2]}was a French jazz pianist and singer, and translator died she was , 84.

(February 2, 1926 – November 16, 2010) 

Perrin received private musical instruction, including piano as a child and pursued English studies at Sorbonne. In 1949, she contracted tuberculosis and was treated at a sanatorium. She recovered and hit the French jazz scene in the cabarets of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, coming to prominence in jazz clubs as a pianist in her own trio. She met her husband, an amateur guitar and bass player. Between 1956 and 1958, she was a member of Blossom Dearie's vocal group Blue Stars of France, but worked mostly in studios as a background singer to yé-yé singers and bands.
In 1959, she formed the vocal sextet Les Double Six, which included, among others, Louis and Monique Aldebert, Monique and Roger Guérin, Christiane Legrand, Ward Swingle, Eddy Louiss and Bernard Lubat. The band name alluded to the fact that the group used overdubbing in the studio to sing twelve-part songs. The group oriented itself to the vocalise of King Pleasure on one side, and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross on the other, and was quite successful in the early 1960s. Les Double Six completed several European tours and also traveled to North America, recording with Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, and Ray Charles. Perrin was the leader and principal soloist in the group and established herself solo with John Coltrane's song "Naima" "as one of the great jazz singers."^[3] From her ensemble eventually emerged the Swingle Singers led by Ward Swingle after he left the Double Six. A later group, founded in 1966 by Perrin, did not achieve her previous success, and she abandoned music after another bout of tuberculosis.
From 1972 onwards, she worked as a translator of science-fiction and fantasy stories by Roger Zelazny, Robert Sheckley, James Blish, and Dean Koontz among others. In the 1980s and 1990, she translated more mainstream novels (including Alice Walker's The Colour Purple and Louise Erdrich' Tracks and Love Medicine) as well as biographies of Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones and Steven Spielberg. She was also known for her French rendition of the novels by John le Carré since 1989, and later by Ha Jin, with her daughter Isabelle.^{[4] [5]}

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Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager, died from a stroke.he was , 58

Wyngard Tracy ^[1] was a Filipino talent manager who has represented various actors and music artists, like Side A, in the Philippines through his office Artiststation, Inc died from a stroke.he was , 58. ^[2] As of June, 2008, he was one of three judges in Pinoy Idol on GMA Network.^[3] He was also the judge of top-rating ABS-CBN shows Showtime and Magpasikat, but was later evicted.
Tracy was the manager of Richard Gomez, Lucy Torres, Maricel Soriano, Wendell Ramos, John Estrada, and Priscilla Meirelles.

(February 7, 1952 - November 16, 2010)

Biography

Tracy's career began as a television production assistant in the 1970s before becoming a radio disc jockey on DWWK, which was the Philippines' first pop FM station. After a brief DJ-ing stint, he was referred to Vicor Entertainment Corporation and was tapped to manage its roster of recording artists, including Pinky de Leon, Maricris Vermont, and Leah Navarro.^[4]
As a talent manager, he also became one of the judges of Search for the Star in a Million on ABS-CBN in 2005.^[4] Tracy even became one of the contestants in the Philippine version of Celebrity Duets on GMA Network, where he was ranked fifth.^[5]

Death

Tracy was rushed to the Makati Medical Center on October 20, 2010. Reports said he suffered his third stroke. The following day, on October 21, Tracy underwent operation to remove the blood clot in his brain. Earlier in July, Tracy underwent a heart surgery after he was rushed to the hospital due to a heart attack.
At around 3:45am of November 16, 2010, Tracy died due to stroke.

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