Gabriela Kownacka, Polish actress (Rodzina zastępcza), died from breast cancer.she was , 58

Gabriela Anna Kownacka, née Kwasz was a Polish film and theater actress, best known for playing in the Polish TV series Rodzina zastępcza.^[1] Kownacka was a Lutheran.^[2]
Gabriela Kownacka died on November 30, 2010, aged 58 from brain tumor^[3]. On December 7, 2010, she was interred at the Evangelical Cemetery in Warsaw.^[4]

(May 25, 1952 - November 30, 2010) 

Biography

W 1971 ukończyła III LO we Wrocławiu i zdała maturę . In 1971 she graduated from III LO Wrocław and passed a high school diploma . In the same year she got the acting department at the National Theatre School in Warsaw .  Being the first year she starred as Sophie in The Marriage of Andrzej Wajda .


Received a diploma of Dramatic Arts in 1975 with the title of Master of Arts dramatic actor. In the same year he embarked on the Theatre Square in Warsaw , where he debuted the title role in the art of Pepsi, Pierrette Bruno directed by the founder and director of this theater Edward Dziewońskiego . . Also in the same year in the Television Theatre she played Maggie in the art of Arthur Miller's After the fall, directed by Andrzej Lapicki .
 
In 1977 he received the Award. Zbigniew Cybulski for the role of Maggie and Countess Rita in leprous Jerzy Hoffman , and in 1979 the title of the Film Star of the Season in Lubuskie Film Summer in Lagow for her role as Anita in the musical comedy Hello Szpicbródka, the last king kasiarzy performance .
In 1978 he received the Erwin Axer proposal engagement at the Contemporary Theatre in Warsaw , then in 1983 from George Grzegorzewski , who made the team after assuming the management of the Studio Theatre in Warsaw .
 
  In 1983, she bore a son Francis. In 1998, even as an actress Studio Theatre, she played a guest at the National Theatre in the role of Sister Dora Halka Spinoza by Witkiewicz , directed by Jerzy Grzegorzewski. . By order of the President dated 22 August 2005 for achievements in artistic work has been awarded the Gold Cross of Merit ^[1] . In the same year during the Festival of Good Humor received a statuette of "bowler" for best actress comedy ^[2] .
In 2006 he has left his hand on Amber Promenade of Stars at the Star Festival in Gdansk ^[3] .
 She has appeared in more than 60 roles Television Theatre, and starred in over 40 theatrical productions around the country.

Illness and death

In 2004 the actress was diagnosed with breast cancer .
Several months of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments have given a positive result, so could return to work on the set of the series Foster .
 
At the end of May and June 2008 there was a sudden recurrence of disease and health condition deteriorated very actress.  In March 2009, at the National Theatre held a charity concert, in which all income was spent on the treatment of actresses ^[4] .

November 30, 2010 died after six years of fighting against cancer ^[5] .
December 7, 2010 was buried in the cemetery of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Warsaw . The funeral was attended by Maja Komorowska , Joanna Szczepkowska , Golda Tencer , Ewa Ziętek , Marian Opania , Wojciech Malajkat and others ^[6] . Actor Martin Hycnar read a farewell letter on behalf of John Englert - Director of the National Theatre in Warsaw.

 Filmography

• 1972: The Wedding - Zosia
• 1975: Skazany - Kasia
• 1976: Trędowata – Rita Szylinżanka
• 1977: Ciuciubabka – Grażyna
• 1977: Pani Bovary to ja
• 1977: Rebus – Ania
• 1977: Rekolekcje – Myszka
• 1977: Szarada – Ewa
• 1978: Hallo Szpicbródka – Anita
• 1980: Urodziny młodego warszawiaka – Jadźka
• 1980: Ukryty w słońcu – Joanna
• 1980: Bo oszalałem dla niej – Sylwia
• 1981: Dziecinne pytania – Bożena
• 1981: Przypadki Piotra S. – prostitute
• 1981: Spokojne lata – Iza
• 1983: Nadzór – Danusia Wabik
• 1984: Jak się pozbyć czarnego kota – Krystyna Danek
• 1984: Pismak – Maria
• 1984: Zamiana – Ola
• 1985: Kronika wypadków miłosnych – Olimpia
• 1985: Ga, ga. Chwała bohaterom – blondie woman
• 1985: Żaglowiec – Michael's mother
• 1985: Czarny kot
• 1986: Nieproszony gość
• 1987: Hanussen – wife
• 1988: Niezwykła podróż Baltazara Kobera – Gertruda
• 1989: Kapitał, czyli jak zrobić pieniądze w Polsce – Barbara
• 1989: Yacht – wife
• 1992: Smacznego telewizorku – Teresa Adler
• 1992: Sauna – Masza
• 1992: Zwolnieni z życia – Elżbieta
• 1993: Les Nouveaux Exploits d'Arsene Lupin
• 1995–1998: Matki, żony i kochanki – Dorota Padlewska-Lindner
• 1996: Cesarska tabakierka – Baronowa
• 1996: Dzieci i ryby – Ewelina
• 1999: Fuks – Alex's mother
• 1999: Kiler-ów 2-óch – president's wife
• 1999: Rodzina zastępcza – Anna Kwiatkowska
• 1999: Bratobójstwo
• 2001: Pas de deux – Anna Struziakowa
• 2002: Na dobre i na złe – Lidia Kornecka, menadżerka Niki
• 2003: Powiedz to, Gabi – actress
• 2006: Przebacz – mother
• 2007: Dwie strony medalu – Jolanta Wysocka
• 2007: Niania – herself

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J.E. "Pat" Patterson, American politician, mayor of Minden, Louisiana (1974–1978) died he was , 86

 Jacob E. Patterson, known as J.E. "Pat" Patterson , was a businessman who served as the Democratic mayor of the small city of Minden, the seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, for a single term from 1974-1978   died he was , 86.^[1]



(April 28, 1924 – November 30, 2010)

Background

Patterson's business interests included Tide Craft, Inc., a boat company previously known as Bayou Boats, which he purchased in the early 1960s. The company sustained three major fires, including one in 1970. In its heyday, Tide Craft consisted of a large office complex with Minden's first computer system, a showroom, and metal buildings for the production of large boats. The boats were shipped by 18 wheelers all over the United States and presented in show rooms nationwide. In 1974, Patterson sold Tide Craft and announced his bid for mayor.^[1]

Tenure as mayor

It had then appeared that the incumbent Republican, Tom Colten, would not seek a third term. At the time, the office of mayor was under the city commission format, but by the end of the term to which Patterson would be elected, the city charter was altered to the mayor-council system. In 1973, Colten had proposed converting the full-time mayoral position to part-time so that he could accept a paid position with Minden's private hospital. The council refused to approve such a change to benefit one individual. Having first said that he would not run again, Colten changed his mind. For the first time ever, a full Republican slate filed for all municipal positions in the historically Democratic city.
Patterson defeated Colten, 3,186 (62.5 percent) to 1,914 (37.5 percent).^[2] Not long afterwards, Colten relocated to Baton Rouge, where he subsequently accepted a position with the Department of Transportation and Development. Along with Patterson's election, a Republican, Felix Garrett (1922–1987), a university professor, won election as the city's last public utilities commissioner, having unseated the incumbent Fred T. "Tony" Elzen, by a 7-3 margin.^[2] By 1978, the city council seats were allocated along single-member district lines, and Garrett became the first Republican on the revamped city council.
While Patterson was mayor, the city decided to retain its historic bricks overlaying Main Street but to remove them from Broadway Street so that they could be used for future repair or replacement parts as needed.^[1]

Representative's race

Patterson did not seek re-election in 1978. Instead, he ran in a special election for Louisiana House of Representative District 10 seat vacated by R. Harmon Drew, Sr., who was elected to his former position as Minden city judge. Patterson ran third in the special election held on November 5, 1978. His 2,687 votes were 102 short of procuring a runoff election berth. The position went to Minden attorney Bruce M. Bolin, a son of Judge James E. Bolin.^[3] At 11:30 p.m. on the night before the state House election, Patterson's son, Ricky G. Patterson (1951–1978), was shot to death under questionable circumstances, which was never resolved and are believed to have been foul play.^[4]
In 1982, Patterson tried to regain the mayor's office but ran third in the nonpartisan blanket primary. His 1,207 votes were 239 short of the number needed to procure a general election berth against the eventual winner, fellow Democrat Noel "Gene" Byars, an educator.^[5] The incumbent, Jack Batton, did not seek a second term.

Family

Patterson was married for more than sixty years to the former Sadie Grace Chanler (February 17, 1929–June 10, 2010). Both graduated in 1946 from Minden High School.^[6] His graduation was delayed by service as a mailman in the United States Navy during World War II.^[1] The couple also had a daughter, Connie Patterson, thereafter Carmen Valerie Patterson Yocom Paul (1948–2007), a businesswoman who died after a triple bypass heart surgery and a 33-day hospital stay. A 1966 Minden High School graduate, she was the widow of Robert Thomas "Tommy" Yocom, II (1947–1983), and thereafter married Stephen Ralph Paul (born July 22, 1949) of Bossier City.^[7] A second daughter and only surviving child is Tanua Shurlaine Patterson Riley (born February 7, 1962) and husband, Samuel Keith Riley, both natives of Minden and residents in 2010 of Diboll, Texas.
Patterson died in Shreveport at the age of eighty-six. Services were held on December 3, 2010, at the First Pentecostal Church in Minden, with the Reverend Jeff Ramsey officiating. Patterson is interred beside his son and his wife, who preceded him in death by five months, at Lane Memorial Cemetery in Sibley in south Webster Parish.^[1]

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Dave Skrien, American CFL football player (Roughriders, Blue Bombers) and coach (BC Lions, Roughriders), died from complications from Alzheimer's disease he was , 81

David A. Skrien^{[1] [2]} was a Canadian Football League player and coach died from complications from Alzheimer's disease he was , 81.

(April 4, 1929 – November 30, 2010)

Skrien graduated from Morris High School (1946) and Minnesota (1950) where he played fullback and linebacker. He played two seasons in the CFL before becoming a coach.
Skrien's first coaching job was at Albert Lea High School where he spent one season as head coach. From there he served as an assistant at Ball State and Minnesota before returning to the CFL as the BC Lions backfield coach in 1959. Skrien was elevated to the Lions' head coaching position during the 1961 season after an 0–6–1 start. In his six seasons as the Lions head coach, Skrien's teams had a record of 42–47–5 and played in two Grey Cup Games, winning one (52nd). He also won the Annis Stukus Trophy in 1963 as the CFL coach of the year. Skrien was fired in 1967 after an 0–5 start.
After one season as an assistant coach at Boise State College, Skrien returned to the CFL as an assistant coach with the Edmonton Eskimos. When head coach Neill Armstrong left the Eskimos at the end of the season, management decided to promote the less experienced Ray Jauch to the head coaching position and Skrien did not return to Edmonton.
On December 29, 1970, Skrien was hired by the Saskatchewan Roughriders to replace head coach Eagle Keys. In his two seasons in Regina, the Roughriders had a 16–14–1 record and made the 1972 Grey Cup. Skrien resigned following the 1972 season.
In 1975, Skrien was hired by former CFL coach and executive Leo Cahill to coach the offensive backfield of the Memphis Southmen, which included Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick. After the World Football League folded, Skiren returned to his native Minnesota to coach Golden Valley Lutheran College. One of his players at GVLC was Nelson Simpson, who later wrestled under the name Nikita Koloff. In 1988, Skiren returned to his alma mater Minnesota as a football administrative assistant and recruiting coordinator. He retired after the 1995 season, but remains involved with Golden Gophers football.

Death

Skrien died in a nursing home in Mound, Minnesota on November 30, 2010 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 81 years old. ^[3]

CFL coaching record

Team	Year	Regular Season					Post Season
		Won	Lost	Ties	Win %	Finish	Won	Lost	Result
BC	1961	1	7	1	.125	5th in Western Football Conference	-	-	Missed Playoffs
BC	1962	7	9	0	.438	4th in Western Football Conference	-	-	Missed Playoffs
BC	1963	12	4	0	.750	1st in Western Football Conference	2	2	Lost Grey Cup
BC	1964	11	2	3	.846	1st in Western Football Conference	3	1	Won Grey Cup
BC	1965	6	9	1	.400	4th in Western Football Conference	-	-	Missed Playoffs
BC	1966	5	11	0	.313	5th in Western Football Conference	-	-	Missed Playoffs
BC	1967	0	5	0	.000	5th in Western Football Conference	-	-	Fired
SSK	1971	9	6	1	.600	2nd in Western Football Conference	1	2	Lost in Conference Finals
SSK	1972	8	8	0	.500	3rd in Western Football Conference	2	1	Lost Grey Cup

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Ted Sorel, American actor (Guiding Light, Law & Order), died from complications from Lyme disease he was , 74

Ted Sorel  was an American actor whose numerous credits included Guiding Light, Law & Order and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He also appeared in film and Broadway productions died from complications from Lyme disease he was , 74.

(November 14, 1936 - November 30, 2010) 


Sorel was born Theodore Eliopoulos in 1936 in San Francisco, California.^[1] He later adopted the professional name of Ted Sorel.^[1] His family had originally immigrated to the United States from their village of Kyparissi, Laconia, in Greece.^[1] Sorel would later renovate his grandfather's home in Kyparissi during his life. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.^[1]
Sorel resided in Katonah, New York, for much of his acting career.^[1] He died of complications of Lyme disease at the Lillian Booth Actors' Home in Englewood, New Jersey, on November 30, 2010, at the age of 74.^[1]

Family

He was survived by his wife, the actress Jacqueline Coslow (the daughter of the late actress Esther Muir and late composer Sam Coslow); two children and a granddaughter.[1

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Monty Sunshine British clarinetist (Chris Barber Orchestra), died he was , 82,

Monty Sunshine ^[1] was an English jazz clarinetist, whose main claim to fame was his clarinet solo on the track "Petite Fleur", a million seller for the Chris Barber Jazz Band in 1959 died he was , 82,.^[1] Sunshine variously worked with The Eager Beavers, The Crane River Jazz Band, Beryl Bryden, George Melly, Chris Barber, Johnny Parker, Diz Disley and Donegan's Dancing Sushine Band.^[1]

(9 April 1928 – 30 November 2010)

Biography

Born in Stepney, London,^[1] he along with Lonnie Donegan, Jim Bray and Ron Bowden, formed the back line of what was the embryo Chris Barber Band. Ken Colyer was the first trumpet player, with Sunshine on clarinet, and the original 1953 band took the Colyer name until there was a split from Colyer in May 1954. Pat Halcox - who only turned the band down originally as he wanted to carry on his studies - took over the spot, and the band formally adopted the Chris Barber Jazz Band as its title.
The band quickly made an international reputation following their inaugural tour of Denmark, before their professional debut in the United Kingdom. Sunshine stayed with the band for several years, until he left around 1960, to be replaced by Ian Wheeler.^[2]

He formed his own band, staying true to the original six man line up, whilst Barber expanded his band membership to seven, then eight and finally to eleven.
In January 1963, the British music magazine NME reported that the biggest trad jazz event to be staged in Britain had taken place at Alexandra Palace. The event included George Melly, Diz Disley, Acker Bilk, Chris Barber, Kenny Ball, Ken Colyer, Alex Welsh, Bob Wallis, Bruce Turner, Mick Mulligan and Sunshine.^[3]
Sunshine returned to play a reunion concert with the original Chris Barber Band at the Fairfield Halls, Croydon in June 1975. This was well received, and the band reformed once again for a international reunion tour in 1994. Sunshine retired from music around 2001.
Monty Sunshine's discography is extensive, and CDs have been issued of recordings with Colyer and Barber, as well as with his own band.
He died in November 2010, at the age of 82.^[1]

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Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet.died she was , 73

Bella (Izabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina  was a Soviet and Russian poet, short story writer and translator known for her apolitical writing stance.^[2] She was part of the Russian New Wave literary movement.^[3] Akhmadulina was cited by Joseph Brodsky as the best living poet in the Russian language when she was alive.^[3][4][5]
Despite the aforementioned apolitical stance of her writing Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet.died he was , 73, Akhmadulina was often critical of authorities in the Soviet Union,^[1] and spoke out in favour of others, including Nobel laureates Boris Pasternak, Andrei Sakharov and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.^[2] She was known to international audiences for her travels abroad during the Khrushchev Thaw, during which she made appearances in sold-out stadiums.^[6] Upon her death in 2010 President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev hailed her poetry as a "classic of Russian literature".^[5]
The New York Times said Akhmadulina was "always recognized as one of the Soviet Union's literary treasures and a classic poet in the long line extending from Lermontov and Pushkin".^[2] Sonia I. Ketchian, writing in The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina, called her "one of the great poets of the 20th century. There's Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam and Pasternak — and she's the fifth".^[2]

(Russian: Бе́лла (Изабе́лла) Аха́товна Ахмаду́лина, 10 April 1937 – 29 November 2010)

 Early life, education and works

Bella Akhmadulina was born the only child of a Tatar father and a Russian-Italian mother.^[2] Her birth occurred on 10 April 1937.^[7] They underwent evacuation to Kazan when World War II broke out.^[2]
Akhmadulina's literary career began when she was a school-girl working as a journalist at the Moscow newspaper, Metrostroevets, and improving her poetic skills at a circle organized by the poet Yevgeny Vinokurov. Her first poems appeared in the magazine October after being approved by established Soviet poets.^{[citation needed]} These first poems were published in 1955.^[1] Émigré critic Marc Slonim described her prospects as follows in 1964 (Soviet Russian Literature): "Her voice has such a purity of tone, such richness of timbre, such individuality of diction, that if her growth continues she will be able some day to succeed Akhmatova" as "the greatest living woman poet in Russia".^[2]
After finishing school, Akhmadulina entered the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute from which she graduated in 1960. While studying at the institute, she published her poems and articles in different newspapers, both official and handwritten. She was the subject of criticism in Komsomolskaya Pravda in 1957.^[7] She was expelled in 1959 (but allowed re-entry as time progressed) as a result of her opposition to the persecution of Boris Pasternak.^[8] In 1962 the first collection of her poems, titled Strune (The String), was published^[7][9] and was a resounding success. In spite of being expunged, many of her collections of verses were published later: Music lessons (1970),^[9] Poems (1975), Candle (1977),^[9] Dreams of Georgia (1977), The Mystery (1983),^[9] Coastline (1991), and others. A collection called Sad (Garden) led to Akhmadulina receiving the USSR State Prize in 1989.^[7][9]
"Many dogs and one dog", a short story written in a surreal style, was published in 1979 in Samizdat's Metropol Almanac.^[6] She assisted in the creation of Metropol.^[7] She wrote essays about Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov.^[7]
She appeared in sold-out stadiums in the 1960s, as did the poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky and Robert Rozhdestvensky.^[6]
Her open letter was published supporting the exiled Andrei Sakharov.^[10]
She was a journalist in a 1964 film.^[7]
After the Soviet Union she published Casket and Key (1994), A Guiding Sound (1995) and One Day in December (1996).^[2]

Translations

The main themes of Akhmadulina's works are friendship, love, and relations between people. She wrote numerous essays about Russian poets and translations, some devoted to her close friend, Bulat Okudzhava. Akhmadulina avoided writing overtly political poems, but took part in political events in her youth, supporting the so-called "dissident movement". She translated into Russian poetry from France, Italy, Chechnya, Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, and many others.
Akhmadulina wrote in a "resolutely apolitical" style.^[2] She made use of imagery and humour in her work.^[2] She used rhymed quatrains in her early works, which discussed ordinary, yet imaginative occurrences from daily life in language that was full of both archaisms and neologisms.^[2] Religion and philosophy became her themes as she aged and she wrote in longer forms.^[2]

Personal life

Bella's first marriage in 1954 was to Yevgeny Yevtushenko, another famous poet of the era; her second husband since 1960 was Yuri Nagibin, major novelist and screenwriter. By her 1971 marriage to film director Eldar Kuliev she has a daughter, Elizaveta Kulieva, who is also a poetess.^[11] In 1974, she married her last husband, the famous artist and stage designer Boris Messerer. They had homes in Peredelkino and Moscow.

Death

Akhmadulina died at her home in Peredelkino near Moscow on 29 November 2010. She was 73 years old. Her death was announced about one hour later.^[7] Akhmadulina's husband said her death was from a heart condition,^[5] describing it as a " cardiovascular crisis".^[7] Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin both paid tribute,^[6][9] with Medvedev writing on his blog that the death was an "irreparable loss".^[5] Medevdev also wrote that Akhmadulina's poetry was a "classic of Russian literature".^[5]

Filmography

Cameo

• I Am Twenty (1961), directed by Marlen Khutsiev

Actor

• There lives such a guy (1964), directed by Vasily Shukshin (Russian: Живёт такой парень)
• Sport, sport, sport (1970), directed by Elem Klimov

Screenwriter

• Clean Ponds (1965), based on the works of Yuri Nagibin
• Stuardess (1968)

Bibliography

• Struna (The String), Moscow, 1962
• Oznob (Fever), Frankfurt, 1968
• Uroki Muzyki, (Music Lessons), 1969
• Stikhi (Verses), 1975
• Svecha (The Candle), 1977
• Sny o Gruzii (Dreams of Georgia), 1978-79
• Metell (Snow-Storm), 1977
• Taina (The Secret), 1983
• Sad (The Garden), 1987
• Stikhotvorenie (A Poem), 1988
• Izbrannoye (Selected Verse), 1988
• Stikhi (Verses), 1988
• Poberezhye (The Coast), 1991
• Larets i Kliutch ('Casket and Key), 1994
• Gryada Kamnei ('The Ridge of Stone), 1995
• Samye Moi Stikhi (My Own Verses), 1995
• Zvuk Ukazuyushchiy (A Guiding Sound), 1995
• Odnazhdy v Dekabre (One Day in December), 1996

Awards

In 1977, Bella Akhmadulina became an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (see AAAL website).

• USSR State Prize Laureate (1989)^[9]
• "Nosside" (Italy, 1992)
• "Independent" (Triumph, 1993)
• "Pushkin" (Germany, 1994)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation^[9] (2004)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (1984)

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Irena Anders, Polish stage actress and singer died she, 90

 Irena Anders ^[1] was a Polish stage actress and singer. During WWII she worked in the troupe of Henryk Wars, giving performances for the Polish Armed Forces in the West (commanded by general Władysław Anders) died she, 90. She was one of the first singers to sing the Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino.

(12 May 1920 – 29 November 2010)

Born as Iryna Jarosiewicz in Bruntál (present-day Czech Republic), she used the stage name Renata Bogdańska. After World War II, she remained in United Kingdom. In 1948, she married General Władysław Anders.^[2] She starred in several movies. In 2003, a documentary film was made about her. In 2007, she received the order of Polonia Restituta.^[3]
She died, aged 90 from a heart attack on 29 November 2010, in London.

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