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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Hank Raymonds, American college basketball coach (Marquette), died from cancer.he was , 86

 Henry C. 'Hank' Raymonds  coached the Marquette University men's basketball team from 1977 to 1983. He also was Athletic Director at Marquette from 1977 to 1987 died from cancer.he was , 86.[1]


(March 5, 1924 – December 6, 2010)

Early lifeBiography

At St. Louis University High School, Raymonds was a three-sport standout in baseball, basketball and football. He played one season each of varsity basketball and baseball at St. Louis University before entering the US Marines in 1943.[2] Following World War II, Raymonds returned to St. Louis University and earned three additional letters each in basketball and baseball, and was named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference team as guard in 1946. He was a valuable member of Coach Eddie Hickey's 1948 Billiken squad that won the National Invitation Tournament championship with a 24-3 record. Raymonds was graduated from St. Louis University in January 1949, with a bachelor's degree in education. His baseball talents drew the attention of major league scouts, and he was signed to a contract by the old Boston Braves.

Coaching career

After one year as an insurance agent, Raymonds was persuaded to try coaching. In five seasons at St. Louis University High he compiled a 108-23 record (.824). His Junior Billikens won the 1952 Missouri State championship and were state runnersup in 1953. While coaching at the high school, Raymonds also guided the 1955 St. Louis University baseball squad to a 15-5 record and the championship of its division in the Missouri Valley Conference. Moving into the college ranks in 1955 at Christian Brothers College in Memphis, Tennessee, Raymonds transformed a weak program into a small college power with a six-year record of 110-50 (.688). Under Raymonds' guidance, CBC won three NAIA District 27 titles.[3]
Raymonds joined the Marquette coaching ranks in 1961 as assistant basketball coach to Eddie Hickey, and coached the MU freshman and junior varsity squads from 1964-73. His teams recorded an impressive 127 wins with only 18 losses. As assistant coach to Hickey's successor, Al McGuire, Raymonds was recognized as the skilled technician who coordinated and disciplined the Marquette attack.
Raymonds was head basketball coach at Marquette from 1977–83 and compiled a record of 126-50 (.716) in six seasons. His teams reached post-season competition in each of the years that he was head coach. His overall record at the collegiate level is 226-100 (.693) in 12 seasons.

Awards

Raymonds is a member of the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame as well as the St. Louis University Sports Hall of Fame as well as Marquette University's M Club Hall of Fame. He was elected to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005.

Head coaching record

NAIA

Season Team Overall
Christian Brothers (Independent) (1955–1961)
1955–1956 Christian Brothers 15-7


1956–1957 Christian Brothers 15-12


1957–1958 Christian Brothers 20-8

NAIA Participant
1958–1959 Christian Brothers 21-7

NAIA Participant
1959–1960 Christian Brothers 21-7

NAIA Participant
1960–1961 Christian Brothers 18-9

NAIA Participant
Total: 110-50
      National Champion         Conference Regular Season Champion         Conference Tournament Champion
      Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Division Champion

NCAA Division I

Season Team Overall
Marquette (Independent) (1977–1983)
1977–1978 Marquette 24-4

NCAA 1st Round
1978–1979 Marquette 22-7

NCAA Sweet 16
1979–1980 Marquette 18-9

NCAA 1st Round
1980–1981 Marquette 20-11

NIT 1st Round
1981–1982 Marquette 23-9

NCAA 2nd Round
1982–1983 Marquette 19-10

NCAA 1st Round
Total: 126-50
      National Champion         Conference Regular Season Champion         Conference Tournament Champion
      Conference Regular Season & Conference Tournament Champion       Conference Division Champion



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Roy R. Rubottom, Jr, American diplomat. died he was , 98

 Roy Richard "Dick" Rubottom, Jr.  was a United States diplomat most notable for being Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1957 to 1960, a post in which he played a major role in engineering the United States' response to the Cuban Revolution died he was , 98.

(February 13, 1912 – December 6, 2010) 

Biography

Early years, 1912—1947

Rubottom was born in Brownwood, Texas on February 13, 1912.[1] His parents ran a boarding house.[2] He was educated at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1933.[3] There he was a member of the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and in 1933, he became the fraternity's seventh full-time traveling secretary (educational leadership consultant) from 1933 to 1935.[4] In 1937, he became dean of student life at the University of Texas at Austin.[5] He married a student, Billy Ruth Young of Corsicana, Texas, in 1938, and together the couple would have three children: a daughter, Eleanor Ann (Rubottom) Odden and two sons, Frank Richard Rubottom and John William Rubottom.[6] During his time at the University of Texas, he also did graduate level studies from 1939 to 1941.[7] In fall 1941, Rubottom joined the United States Navy with the rank of Lieutenant (junior grade).[8] He was initially posted to New Orleans, where he was responsible for recruiting and training.[9] After serving additional assignments in Manzanillo, Colima, Mexico and Asunción, Paraguay he left the Navy in 1946, having achieved the rank of Commander.[10]

Career in the Foreign Service, 1947—1957

Rubottom joined the United States Foreign Service in 1947. His first posting as a Foreign Service Officer was Second Secretary in Bogotá.[11] He then moved to the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. to become Officer-in-Charge of Mexican Affairs, and later Director of the Office of Middle American Affairs.[12] He then returned to the field, serving in the United States Embassy in Madrid, first as Counselor, then as Director of the United States Operations Mission in Spain.[13] In 1956, he returned to Washington, D.C. and became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.[14]

Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, 1957—1960

Upon the resignation of Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Henry F. Holland in September 1956, Rubottom was named Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs.[15] President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower later nominated Rubottom to the office and, after Senate confirmation, Rubottom was Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from June 18, 1957 until August 27, 1960. Pursuing the Eisenhower Administration's Cold War policy of containment (as expressed in the Eisenhower Doctrine), Rubottom's chief aim as Assistant Secretary was to halt the spread of Communism in Latin America. In January 1958, Rubottom gave an important speech entitled "Communism in the Americas" in which he warned that agents of the Soviet Union were increasingly active in Latin America and that the U.S. needed to be prepared to support anti-Communist forces in Latin America.[16]
The Cuban Revolution of 1959 occurred while Rubottom was Assistant Secretary. Rubottom initially believed that Castro was not a Communist, and in April 1959, the State Department greeted Castro as a "distinguished leader".[17] At a January 14, 1960 meeting of the United States National Security Council, Rubottom explained how the State Department's policy evolved from having a positive image of Fidel Castro in early 1959 through to deciding Castro needed to be assassinated by the end of the year[18]:
“ The period from January to March might be characterized as the honeymoon period of the Castro government. In April a downward trend in US-Cuban relations had been evident. . . . In June we had reached the decision that it was not possible to achieve our objectives with Castro in power and had agreed to undertake the program referred to by Mr. Merchant. In July and August we had been busy drawing up a program to replace Castro. Some American companies, however, reported to us during this time that they were making some progress in negotiations, a factor that caused us to slow the implementation of our program. The hope expressed by these companies did not materialize. October was a period of clarification. . . . On 31 October in agreement with Central Intelligence Agency, the Department had recommended to the President approval of a program along the lines referred to by Mr. Merchant. The approved program authorized us to support elements in Cuba opposed to the Castro government while making Castro’s downfall seem to be the result of his own mistakes. ”
In addition to discussions about assassinating Castro, Rubottom was involved in discussions about the United States embargo against Cuba, which began in October 1960, two months after Rubottom left the State Department.[19]
As Assistant Secretary, Rubottom was supportive of moderates in the Dominican Republic who sought the overthrow of dictator Rafael Trujillo, advising the National Security Council in March 1960 that an assassination attempt would occur soon.[20] He was in contact with CIA officials about orchestrating the assassination, which eventually occurred in May 1961.[21]

Later years, 1960—Present

President Eisenhower then nominated Rubottom as United States Ambassador to Argentina; Ambassador Rubottom presented his credentials to the Argentinian government on October 20, 1960 and served in that post for one year, leaving Argentina on October 19, 1961.[22]
Rubottom spent 1961-64 as a faculty adviser at the Naval War College.[23] He then returned to his alma mater, Southern Methodist University, as Vice President of Life (1964-67); Vice President of Administration (1967-70); and Vice President of Planning (1970-71).[24] He then spent two years as president of the University of the Americas before retiring in 1973.[25]
In retirement, Rubottom lived in Dallas.[26] Rubottom and his wife were active members of the Highland Park United Methodist Church.[27] Rubottom was also active in the Boy Scouts of America, serving as U.S. delegate to the World Scout Conference on four occasions and being awarded the Silver Buffalo Award in 1993.[28] Rubottom also remained active in Lambda Chi Alpha, serving on the Grand High Zeta from 1968 to 1976 and as a director of the Educational Foundation Board from 1977 to 1996 (and as its chairman from 1985 to 1989).[29] The fraternity awarded Rubottom its Order of Achievement in 1988.[30] After over 40 years living in Dallas, the Rubottoms moved to Austin in 2006.[31] Rubottom's wife, Billy Ruth, died on January 4, 2008.[32] Roy Richard Rubottom died on December 6, 2010 in Austin, Texas.[33]

Publications by Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.

  • Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., "Communism in the Americas", Department of State Bulletin, Feb. 3, 1958.
  • Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., "Toward Better Understanding between United States and Latin America," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 330, Whither American Foreign Policy? (Jul. 1960), pp. 116-123.
  • Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., "The Goals of United States Policy in Latin America", Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 342, American Foreign Policy Challenged (Jul., 1962), pp. 30-41.

Photographs of Roy R. Rubottom, Jr.


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David French, Canadian playwright, died from cancer he was , 71

 David French, OC  was a Canadian playwright died from cancer he was , 71.

(January 18, 1939 – December 5, 2010)

 Early life

French was born in the tiny Newfoundland outport of Coley’s Point,[1] the middle child in a family of five boys. His father, Garfield French, was a carpenter, and during World War II worked for the Eastern Air Command in Canada. After the war, David’s mother, Edith, came to Ontario with the boys to join their father and the family settled in Toronto among a thriving community of Newfoundlandian immigrants.
French attended Rawlinson Public School, Harbord Collegiate, and Oakwood Collegiate. He was indifferent to books until Grade 8, when his English teacher, to punish him for talking in class, told French to sit down and read a book. The book David happened to pull off the shelf was Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. French says that by the time he finished reading it, he not only knew that he wanted to be a writer[1] – he knew that he was one. Almost immediately he began to publish original stories and poems.
After high school, French trained as an actor. He spent a summer at the Pasadena Playhouse, and studied at various acting studios in Toronto. In the early 1960s, he played roles on stage and in CBC television dramas. Then he began writing for television. Over the next several years he wrote many half-hour dramas, including The Tender Branch, A Ring for Florie, Beckons the Dark River, Sparrow on a Monday Morning, and The Willow Harp. He also wrote episodes of the popular children’s program Razzle Dazzle.

Work for the stage

The Mercer family play cycle

In 1971, he became aware of a new theatre, the Tarragon in Toronto, that was producing a play called Creeps. After seeing the play, French was so impressed that he called up the director, Bill Glassco, and asked him to read a play he had been working on, Leaving Home (1972). Glasco produced the play and it filled the final slot in the Tarragon’s first season. A collaboration between the two men followed which lasted for over thirty years, with Glassco directing each of French’s premiere productions.
Leaving Home is a landmark play in Canadian theatre history. After its very successful run in Toronto in 1972, the play went on to be produced at virtually every regional theatre in the country – the first Canadian play ever to do so. It also received many international productions, including an off-Broadway run. Leaving Home is taught in high schools and universities across Canada, and is one of the most familiar of Canadian plays. It was named one of the “100 Most Influential Canadian Books” by the Literary Review of Canada) and one of the “1,000 Essential Plays in the English Language” in the Oxford Dictionary of Theatre.[2] Leaving Home introduced audiences to the Mercer family, who would come to figure largely in David’s work. The Mercers, like the Frenches, were a Newfoundland family transplanted to Toronto.
Of The Fields, Lately (1973[3]), French's sequel to Leaving Home, also produced at the Tarragon, won the Chalmers Award for 1973.[1] “I wrote it because people kept asking me what happened to the Mercers after Ben leaves home,” said French. It was adapted for CBC television and was produced across Canada and abroad, including a critically acclaimed run in Argentina (in a Spanish translation) and a production on Broadway.
French eventually wrote five plays about the Mercer family. Salt-Water Moon (1984), the third play, is a poetic drama about the courtship of the parents, set in Newfoundland in 1926. Salt-Water Moon has had hundreds of productions since its original run. The French language version, translated by Antonine Maillet, has been produced across Canada. Salt-Water Moon won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play, and the Hollywood Drama-Logue Critics’ Award.
1949 (1988), a fond look at the extended Mercer clan as Newfoundland prepares to join Confederation, premiered at CentreStage. And Soldier’s Heart, which explores the effect of the First World War on two generations of Mercers, was produced at the Tarragon in 2001. Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre has done acclaimed revivals of Leaving Home and Salt-Water Moon, with a Of The Fields, Lately revival running during the summer of 2010.[4]

Other work

The immensely popular backstage comedy Jitters (1979) has been regularly revived in Canada, and enjoyed a six-month run at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Other works include the memory play That Summer (1999), which opened the Blyth Festival’s 25th Anniversary Season; the mystery-thriller Silver Dagger (1993), a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award; One Crack Out (1975) a pool-hall drama produced in Toronto and off-Broadway, and the comedy The Riddle of the World (1981). All of his plays have been published and are in print. (Talonbooks and Anansi).
French also undertook translations of Miss Julie (August Strindberg), The Forest (Aleksandr Ostrovsky), and of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, a version of which was produced on Broadway starring Laura Linney, Ethan Hawke, Jon Voight, and Tyne Daley. French was helped by Russian scholars when preparing the latter two texts.[1]
As a senior playwright, David mentored many aspiring writers. He was Writer-in-Residence at the University of Windsor[2] (2007/08) and The University of Western Ontario (2002/03), and has done a short-term residency at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He taught a course in playwriting each summer at the Prince Edward Island (PEI) Conservatory.[2] He also gave Canada Council-sponsored readings from coast to coast, and often visited high schools and universities that were studying his plays. French’s work is popular with community theatre groups across North America.
David French was the first inductee in the Newfoundland Arts Hall of Honour. He received the Queen’s Jubilee Medal, and the Harold, (a Toronto theatre peer award). He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2001.
He died in Toronto on December 5, 2010 from brain cancer.[5]

Works

  • Leaving Home - 1972
  • Of the Fields, Lately - 1973
  • One Crack Out - 1975
  • Jitters - 1979
  • Salt-Water Moon - 1985 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)[6]
  • 1949 - 1989
  • Silver Dagger - 1993
  • That Summer - 2000
  • Soldier's Heart - 2003

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Saturday, February 12, 2011

John Leslie, American pornographic film actor and director, died from a heart attack he was , 65

John Leslie Nuzzo [1] was a prolific porn actor who went on to have a long-running career as a producer and director of adult movies died from a heart attack he was , 65. Usually credited under the name John Leslie, he has also worked under a variety of pseudonyms, including John Leslie Dupre, Frederick Watson, and Lenny Lovely.


(January 25, 1945 – December 5, 2010)

Career

Beginning with 1973's Sensuous Delights, Leslie was a performer in almost 300 adult films. He won numerous awards during his days as a performer. He appeared with some of the era's most noted porn stars, including Seka, Kay Parker, and Annette Haven. His most noteworthy roles were in Talk Dirty To Me (1980), Nothing To Hide (1981), and Talk Dirty To Me, Part II (1982).




He was one of the first porn actors to make the transition from performing to directing, beginning with 1987's Nightshift Nurses. Since then he directed more than 90 adult movies, including The Chameleon (1989), Curse of the Catwoman (1992), Dog Walker (1994), and Drop Sex (1997), along with the Voyeur, Fresh Meat and Crack Her Jack series. He won many awards for his work behind the cameras as well. Though much of his recent work, in keeping with current trends in adult video, has been in the gonzo genre, such as the "Fresh Meat" and "Crack Her Jack" series, Leslie has continued to make feature films, or "sex dramas"; most recently, in 2007 he directed the film "Brianna Love, Her Fine, Sexy Self."


John Leslie in "Talk Dirty To Me" from Miki Maus on Vimeo.


In the early 1970s, he was a vocalist and harmonica player for the The Brooklyn Blues Busters, a southeastern Michigan-based musical group sometimes accompanying John Lee Hooker.[1] The Brooklyn Blues Busters were the backing band for Victoria Spivey during the 1973 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival.[1] Nuzzo also worked as a bartender in the early 1970s at Mr. Flood's Party, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
He was a member of the AVN[2], Legends of Erotica[3] and XRCO[4] Halls of Fame.
John Leslie died on December 5, 2010, from a heart attack,[1] at his home in Mill Valley, California at the age of 65.[5]

  Awards

  • 1977 AFAA Best Supporting Actor for Coming of Angels[6]
  • 1980 AFAA Best Actor for Talk Dirty to Me[6]
  • 1980 CAFA Best Actor for Talk Dirty to Me[6]
  • 1981 AFAA Best Actor for Wicked Sensations[6]
  • 1982 AFAA Best Actor for Talk Dirty to Me 2[6]
  • 1982 CAFA Best Actor for Talk Dirty to Me 2[6]
  • 1984 AFAA Best Actor for Dixie Ray and for Every Woman has a Fantasy (tied with himself for both movies)[6]
  • 1984 XRCO Best Copulation Scene for Every Woman has a Fantasy[7]
  • 1985 AFAA Best Supporting Actor for Taboo 4[6]
  • 1985 AVN Best Supporting Actor - Film for Firestorm[8]
  • 1986 XRCO Best Actor for Every Woman has a Fantasy 2[6]
  • 1988 AVN Best Actor - Film for Firestorm 2[8]
  • 1988 XRCO Best Actor for Beauty and the Beast[6]
As a director
  • 1987 XRCO Best Director - Video for Nightshift Nurses[6]
  • 1988 XRCO Best Director for Catwoman[6]
  • 1989 AVN Best Director - Video for Catwoman[8]
  • 1992 XRCO Best Film for Chameleons: Not The Sequel[4]
  • 1994 XRCO Best Film for Dog Walker[9]
  • 1994 XRCO Director of the Year[9]
  • 1995 AVN Best Director - Film for Dog Walker[8]
  • 1995 AVN Best Director - Video for Bad Habits[8]
  • 1997 AVN Best All-Sex Release for John Leslie's Fresh Meat 3[8]
  • 1997 XRCO Director of the Year[9]
  • 1998 AVN Best All-Sex Release for John Leslie's Fresh Meat 4[8]
  • 1998 XRCO Director of the Year[9]
  • 1999 AVN Best All-Sex Release for John Leslie's Fresh Meat 5[8]
  • 1999 AVN Best Director - Video for The Lecher 2[8]
  • 2000 AVN Best All-Sex Release for The Voyeur 12[8]
Other awards
  • 1989 AVN Best Screenplay - Video for Catwoman (with Mark Weiss)[8]
  • 1995 AVN Best Screenplay - Film for Dog Walker[8]


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Don Meredith, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and commentator (Monday Night Football), died from a brain hemorrhage he was , 72

Joseph Don "Dandy Don" Meredith  was an American football quarterback, sports commentator and actor died from a brain hemorrhage he was , 72. He spent all nine seasons of his professional playing career (1960–1968) with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). He was named to the Pro Bowl in each of his last three years as a player. He subsequently became a color analyst for NFL telecasts from 1970 to 1984. As an original member of the Monday Night Football broadcast team on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), he famously played the role of Howard Cosell's comic foil.

(April 10, 1938 – December 5, 2010)



Football career

Southern Methodist University

Meredith was born on April 10, 1938 in Mount Vernon, Texas, located approximately 100 miles east of Dallas.[1] He attended Mount Vernon High School in his hometown,[2] where he starred in football and basketball, performed in school plays and graduated second in his class.[3]
Even though he was heavily recruited by then-Texas A&M head coach Bear Bryant,[3] Meredith decided to play college football at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He led the Southwest Conference in passing completion percentage in each of his three years as the starting quarterback, and was an All-America selection in 1958 and 1959.[4] His fellow students jokingly referred to the school as "Southern Meredith University" due to his popularity on campus.[5] He completed 8 of 20 passes for 156 yards in the College All-Stars' 32–7 loss to the Baltimore Colts in the Chicago College All-Star Game on August 12, 1960.[6]
He would be honored twice by SMU in later decades. He was the recipient of the university's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1983. His jersey number 17 was retired during halftime ceremonies at the SMU-Houston football match on October 18, 2008.[4] He was also inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1982.[7]

Dallas Cowboys

Meredith was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round (32nd overall) of the 1960 NFL Draft.[8] Bears owner George Halas made the pick to help ensure that the expansion Dallas Cowboys got off to a solid start. On November 28, 1959, one month prior to the draft, Meredith had signed a personal services contract with Tecon Corporation which, like the Cowboys, was owned by Clint Murchison. He was eventually traded to the Cowboys for a third-round pick in the following year's draft. He is considered by some to be the original Dallas Cowboy because he had come to the team even before the franchise had adopted a nickname, hired a head coach or participated in either the 1960 NFL Expansion Draft or its first NFL Draft in 1961.[9][10] Their crosstown rivals in the American Football League (AFL), the Texans, also chose him as a "territorial selection" in their 1960 draft, but were too late to sign him.
Meredith spent two years as a backup to Eddie LeBaron, eventually splitting time in 1962 before he was given the full-time starting job by head coach Tom Landry in 1963. In 1966, Meredith led the Cowboys to the NFL postseason, something he would continue to do until his unexpected retirement before the 1969 season. His two most heartbreaking defeats came in NFL Championship play against the Green Bay Packers, 34–27 in Dallas (1966), and in the famous "Ice Bowl" game, 21–17 in Green Bay (1967).
"Dandy Don," while never leading the Cowboys to a Super Bowl, was always exceptionally popular with Cowboys fans who remember him for his grit and toughness, his outgoing nature, and his leadership during the first winning seasons for the Cowboys. Meredith, along with Harvey Martin, is among the few players to play his high school (Mount Vernon), college (SMU), and pro (Dallas Cowboys) career in and around the Dallas, Texas, area. During his career, he had a 50.7 percent completion rate, throwing for 17,199 yards and 135 touchdowns with a lifetime passer rating of 74.8. He was named the NFL Player of the Year in 1966 and was named to the Pro Bowl three times.

Post-football career

Following his football career, Meredith became a color commentator for ABC's Monday Night Football beginning in 1970. He left for three seasons (1974 to 1976) to work with Curt Gowdy at NBC, then returned to MNF partners Frank Gifford and Howard Cosell. His approach to color commentary was light-hearted and folksy, in contrast to Cosell's detailed and intellectual analysis and Gifford's rather ponderous play-by-play technique. He was known for singing "Turn out the lights, the party's over" (a line from a Willie Nelson song, "The Party's Over") at the time the game was apparently decided.
Meredith's broadcasting career was also not without a few incidents of minor controversy; including referring to then-President Richard Nixon as "Tricky Dick", announcing that he was "mile-high" before a game in Denver, and turning the name of Cleveland Browns receiver Fair Hooker into a double entendre. (saying 'Fair Hooker...well, I haven't met one yet!') He retired from sportscasting after the 1984 season, a year after Cosell's retirement. His final broadcast was Super Bowl XIX with Frank Gifford and Joe Theismann, which was ABC's first Super Bowl.
Meredith also had an acting career, appearing in multiple movies and television shows, including a recurring starring role as Detective Bert Jameson on Police Story. He was in a series of commercials in the 1980s as Lipton Tea Lover, Don Meredith, a.k.a. "Jeff and Hazel's Baby Boy". He was featured in an episode of King of the Hill, ("A Beer Can Named Desire") in which he misses a throw that would have won the main character, Hank Hill, $100,000.
In 1976, Meredith was inducted into the Cowboys' Ring of Honor at Texas Stadium along with former running back Don Perkins.
Meredith was selected as the 2007 recipient of the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. He received the award at the Enshrinee's Dinner on August 3, 2007.


Family
Meredith was married three times: first wife, Lynne Shamburger, a former SMU cheerleader,which lasted from 1959–1963, and produced one daughter, Mary. From 1965–1971, he was married to the former Cheryl King. Two children were products of that marriage: son Michael and daughter Heather. He met his third wife, the former Susan Lessons Dullea, ex-wife of actor Keir Dullea, as they both were walking down 3rd Avenue in New York City. They married in 1972.

Death
Meredith died on December 5, 2010, at the St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Santa Fe, New Mexico, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 72 years old.[10]

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Virgilio Teixeira, Portuguese actor (Return of the Seven, The Fall of the Roman Empire, El Cid). died he was, 93

Virgilio Delgado Teixeira  was a Portuguese film, television and stage actor, known for roles in both Portuguese and American films. He was known as a Portuguese "hearthrob" and a leading actor during the 1940s and 1950s.[1]

(October 26, 1917 - December 5, 2010)

Teixeira was born in Funchal, Madeira, on October 26, 1917.[1] He began his career in Portuguese and Spanish cinema before taking roles in Hollywood productions.[1] Teixeira made his film debut in the 1943 film, Ave de Arribação.[1] In 1948, Teixeira portrayed Julio, the love interest of Amalia Rodrigues's character, in Fado, História de uma Cantadeira, which was directed by Perdigão Queiroga.[1] His later work in Portuguese film and television included A Mulher do Próximo in 1982 and the telenovela, Chuva na Areia, in 1984.[1]
Teixeira's Hollywood credits included roles in Alexander the Great, Return of the Seven and Doctor Zhivago.[1]
Additionally, Teixeira served as the first director of the Centro das Comunidades Madeirenses.[1]
Virgilio Teixeira died in Funchal, Madeira, of respiratory problems on December 5, 2010, at the age of 93.[1] He was survived by his wife, Vanda Teixeira.[1] President of the Regional Government of Madeira Alberto João Jardim called Teixeira a "Great Madeiran" following his death.

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Thursday, February 10, 2011

King Curtis Iaukea, American professional wrestler, died after a long illness he was , 73

Curtis Piehau Iaukea, III  was a professional wrestler better known as King Curtis Iaukea. Iaukea won championships in several of the major regional US promotions, both as a single and in various tag team combinations, during the 1960s died after a long illness he was , 73. He then competed in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) where he won the WWF Tag Team Championship. He was also later The Master of the Dungeon of Doom in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). Under the name "Iau Kea" he appeared in the film The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze with Moe Howard declaring "That's not a man! That's a committee!".

(1938 - December 4, 2010)

 Biography

He was the grandson of Colonel Curtis Iaukea, a vice chamberlain and diplomat to the court of King Kalākaua and Queen Liliuokalani [1] and later Sheriff of Honolulu and son of a Honolulu Police Department Captain also named Curtis Iaukea. He attended Punahou School and the University of California Berkeley as an economics major where he lettered as a lineman until he dropped out. He played as a tackle for the BC Lions from 1958-1959.[2]
In the early mid sixties, 1963 - 1964, post football and before his pro wrestling debut with 50th State Wrestling, Curtis "the Bull" Iaukea briefly worked as a disc jockey for KUMU Radio station in Kaimuki under then station owner/manager John Wiser. Playing a "Classical Music" format, he provided the first OJT job internship cueing records and tapes as a station gopher/programing assistant for a young upcoming south-shore surfer Steve Gilbert, whom he paid out of his own pocket. As a result of necessitated chair replacement, KUMU DJ's benefitted for years getting to use the extremely solid yet comfortable steel swivel DJ chair with lumbar support, a legacy of "Da Bull's" near 300lb girth which simply demolished several prior replacement bar stool type chairs becoming a major expense of legendary proportion.


Professional wrestling career

In Australia, King Curtis was a part of the face tag team known as the People's Army with Mark Lewin and Spiros Arion.
His first sojourns to Australia were in the 1964–1965 season, where he was a villain. He was teamed with Skull Murphy. King Curtis initially wrestled as Curtis Iaukea in his first run in Australia. The King Curtis tag was the one that stuck as he feuded against Mark Lewin. After becoming a fan favorite in time for the seventies, King Curtis feuded against Tiger Singh and various Japanese "brothers." King Curtis was also a member of an alliance known as "The People's Army."
After retiring in the mid-1980s, he turned to managing. In ICW, knows as King Curtis, he managed Kevin Sullivan and Mark Lewin, taking on the gimmick of a crazed cult leader. His faction feuded with Joe Savoldi and Austin Idol. Curtis Iaukea re-appeared briefly in the WWF promotion as a manager and mouthpiece for Kamala and Sika. He also appeared briefly in WCW as 'The Master' of The Dungeon of Doom stable in the mid-90s.

Championships and accomplishments

  • American Wrestling Alliance


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Dickey Betts died he was 80

Early Career Forrest Richard Betts was also known as Dickey Betts Betts collaborated with  Duane Allman , introducing melodic twin guitar ha...