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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Paul Picerni, American actor (The Untouchables), died from a heart attack. he was , 88

 Paul Vincent Picerni was an American actor  died from a  heart attack. he was , 88.

(December 1, 1922 - January 12, 2011) 

Life and career

Picerni was born in New York City, New York. He was an Eagle Scout who joined the Army Air Forces during World War II, where he served as a first lieutenant bombardier in the China-Burma-India Theater. He flew 25 combat missions and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was the bombardier on one of the planes which attacked and destroyed the real bridge made famous in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). After the Japanese surrendered, Picerni became a Special Services officer in India. Following his discharge, he enrolled at Loyola Marymount University, at Los Angeles.

As a young actor returning from the war, he appeared in military pictures: in Twelve O'Clock High (1949) as a bombardier and as Private Edward P. Rojeck in Breakthrough. This led to a Warner Brothers contract for Picerni and a succession of roles at that studio including a starring turn as the hero in the 1953 horror classic House of Wax. After his departure from Warners, he appeared with Audie Murphy in Universal Studio's, To Hell and Back.
In 1954, he appeared as Rube Burrows in the syndicated western television series Stories of the Century, hosted and narrated by Jim Davis. That same year, he appeared in the pilot episode for the 1957-1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy. Picerni appeared in two episodes, "Gun Hand" and "Badge to Kill" of the 1957-1959 syndicated western series 26 Men, true stories of the Arizona Rangers, starring Tristram Coffin. In 1957, he played a deserter in an episode of the syndicated Boots and Saddles. In 1959, he appeared in an episode of NBC's Northwest Passage adventure series about Major Robert Rogers's exploits during the French and Indian War. That same year, he appeared as a police detective in the episode "The Quemoy Story" of Bruce Gordon's short-lived NBC docudrama about the Cold War, Behind Closed Doors.[1]
When Italian organizations began to complain about the use of Italian gangsters on TV's, The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack as G-man Eliot Ness, Picerni joined the cast of the show as Ness's number-one aide, Lee Hobson, from 1960-63.
In 1964, he portrayed Pierre Lafitte in, The Great Adventure. For some 30 years, Picerni was the half-time master of ceremonies for the Los Angeles Rams home games. He had since moved to Anaheim, California.
Picerni, an Italian American, married former ballet dancer Marie Mason, in 1947; they had eight children and 10 grandchildren. Many of their children and family are employed as Hollywood stunt people, including son Paul V. Picerni, Jr., grandson Rick Picerni and sister Paula Picerni.
His autobiography "Steps to Stardom: My Story," written with the help of Tom Weaver, was published by BearManor Media in 2007. Picerni passed away from a heart attack on January 12, 2011 in Palmdale, California.

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Zoltán Berczik, Hungarian table tennis player and coach died he was , 73.

Zoltán Berczik  was a Hungarian table tennis player died he was , 73.. In the late fifties he was ranked among the best European table tennis players and won, with his athletic play, the first two titles at the Table Tennis European Championships.
Berczik was born in Novi Sad. He began his career as a defensive player. With the advent of topspin in the late 1950s he turned his game around to attack.[1] He died in Budapest.[2]


(7 August 1937 – 11 January 2011)

 National success

He won the Hungarian championship in single continuously from 1959 to 1964. He won the double competition in 1959 with László Földy, in 1960 and 1961 with Ferenc Sido, in 1962 Miklós Péterfy, in 1963 with János Faházi and 1967 with István Jony. In mixed doubles he won in 1960 with Gizella Farkas and Éva Kóczián in 1967.
He won the team championships in 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962 and 1964 with the club Vasútépítő Törekvés and in 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1969 with Bp. Vasutas SC.

World Championships

Berczik took part in World Cups five times: in 1957 he secured the silver medal with the Hungarian team. This happened again at the World Cup in 1959, where he also won the bronze medal in doubles (with László Földy) and mixed (with Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas). At the World Cup in 1961, he was third with the team and runner-up in doubles with Ferenc Sido. In 1963 and 1965 he won no medals.

European Championships

At the Youth European Championship in 1955 in Stuttgart, he arrived in final in doubles, where he lost.
He achieved his greatest success at the European Championships in 1958 and 1960. Here he became European champion both in single and with the Hungarian team. In 1958 he won the Mixed with Gizella Lantos, in 1960 the double competition with Ferenc Sido. In 1964 he reached the final of the individual, which he lost to Kjell Johansson, and semi-finals in doubles.

Trainer and author

From 1969 he served as coach for the Hungarian national team.[3] After a stay in Japan in 1985, he coached Budapest Vasutas SC.[4] In the 1990s he wrote a series of articles for coaches on the table tennis tactics:
  • 1992: Tactics (2): establishment of tactics for a match
  • 1992: Tactics (3): The tactics of the offensive player
  • 1993: Tactics (5): Exercises for offensive players
  • 1993: Tactics (6): Exercises for offensive players
  • 1994: Tactics (7)
  • 1994: Tactics (8)
Berczik ended his coaching career in 1996.[5]

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Susana Chávez, Mexican poet and human rights activist, was strangled. (her death was confirmed on January 6, 2011) she was , 36

 Susana Chávez  was a Mexican poet and human rights activist who was born and lived most of her life in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez  was strangled. (her death was confirmed on January 6, 2011) she was , 36.[1]
She is credited with authorship of the phrase "Not one more", which was used by the civil rights organizations and their supporters struggling to clarify the plight of women in Juárez and to end a wave of killings aimed specifically at women since 1993.
She was found murdered and mutilated in the "Colonia Cuauhtémoc" section of the city of Juárez where she was born and lived most of her life. Positive identification of the remains took place on January 11 of that year. She was 36 years old. 


(November 5, 1974 – c. January 6, 2011)

 Life and work

Susana Chávez began her foray into the poetry scence when she was age eleven. She consistently participated in various literary festivals both in Ciudad Juárez and in other cultural forums throughout Mexico. According to Chávez's blog profile, she received a degree in psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ) and was working on a book of poems.[2]


Death

Chávez was strangled in her hometown of Ciudad Juárez.[1] She was most likely murdered on January 6, 2011. According to a statement released by Chávez's mother, her daughter was going to visit some friends but did not reach her destination. On the morning of January 6, 2011 her body and severed hand were found. Her head was covered with a black bag. On January 10, Chavez's family identified the body, but this information was not released until the next day after it was announced that three individuals were detained for their alleged involvement in the murder.[3]
The state attorney general of Chihuahua, Carlos Manuel Salas, said that the murder of Chavez was not related to her role as an activist. According to Salas, Chavez had inadvertently met up with a group of youths who had gone out "to have fun",and this involveed drugs and alcohol.[4]



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Matti Mattson, American veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade) died he was , 94

Matti August Mattson was an American labor organizer, social activist, and Veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War .died he was , 94
 
(September 17, 1916 – January 11, 2011)

Background

Mattson was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He completed one year of high school and then studied at the B.F. Brown Junior High School, where he took an elective course in printing. He then worked as a blacksmith’s helper at a granite quarry on top of Rollstone Hill in Fitchburg, where a massive glacial boulder stood (it is now on the small triangle on the Upper Common).[1] He lived on Mount Elam Road.
During the Great Depression, he joined the Young Communist League (YCL), the youth organization of the Communist Party USA. He was active in demonstrating, and among other things walked in a "Hunger March" to Boston. The slogans were Feed the Needy, Enact Unemployment Insurance and establish a system of Social Security.

Spanish Civil War

Strongly opposed to Fascism, Mattson was one of four Fitchburg volunteers who went to Spain in a clandestine manner to help the Spanish people defend the legally elected Spanish Republic against the Spanish generals' betrayal, aided by their backers Hitler and Mussolini. He sailed for Spain on the SS Washington.
Once in France, he boarded a small wine-transporting boat that the small businessman risked losing (along with his life) in the Mediterranean port of Sète, about 100 miles from the frontier with Spain.[1] He told the New York Times: "We got on at night when no one was looking — we hoped." He and others reached Spain in March 1937.[2]

In Spain, he was in infantry training for about two weeks and was then assigned to the XIII Brigade Intendencia as a truck driver on the Southern Front. After Brunete, Mattson transferred to the XV Brigade as a front-line ambulance driver where he was with the Lincoln-Washington Battalion at all of its actions until the Ebro Crossing.[1]
He returned to the United States in December, 1938.
About his service as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, Mattson has said:
"I now feel that the decision to volunteer was the most important single thing that I have done. We helped wake the world up to the danger of war, and allowed (the Allies) to prepare somewhat." [3]
At a march and ceremony for the International Brigades before they left Spain, Mattson heard Dolores Ibárruri, "La Pasionaria", speak. In 2008, Mattson said:
"I heard her when we left Spain in 1938. We marched down the Diagonal in Barcelona, then we had a meeting at the end there and she spoke.” He said that she was braver than either one of them (John McCain and Barack Obama)".[4]

World War II

During World War II, Mattson joined the US Army and was trained as a pilot in the Army Air Corps. He graduated with his class but was not permitted to fly because of his political activities. He was ordered to the Army Corps of Engineers and served in the European Theater. Later he was sent to the Pacific as part of the army of occupation in Japan after the close of hostilities. He attained the rank of Staff Sergeant.[1]

Later life

Mattson worked as a printer in New York until his retirement. He was an activist in Local 6 of the Printers Union.[5]
Mattson was a member of Veterans for Peace, NYC Chapter 34. For many years he has marched the length of Fifth Avenue in the Veterans Day Parade and has spoken at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in lower Manhattan on Memorial Day. He was often a speaker at the annual reunions of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in New York City.
On March 30, 2008, Mattson was one of 11 veterans of the Lincoln Brigade present at the dedication of a monument to the Brigade on the Embarcadero in San Francisco, California.[6]
On August 26, 2009, Mattson was made a citizen of Spain. According to The Volunteer of December 2009,
On August 26, 2009, Mattson became the third surviving Lincoln vet to take advantage of one of the key provisions of Spain's controversial "Law of Historical Memory," which allows veterans of the International Brigades to acquire Spanish citizenship without renouncing their other nationality.
The ceremony took place in the office of Fernando Villalonga, Spanish Consul General in New York. Mattson is quoted as saying:
"I am going to accept this citizenship for not only the guys who are buried in Spain, there’s a lot of them, but the guys that are buried in the United States."[7]
On September 6, 2009, Mattson was guest of honor at a dinner organized by the Friends and Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade at the Centro Vasco Restaurant on West 23rd Street, New York City
On January 29, 2010, Mattson was honored with the President's Medal by Fitchburg State College at its Commencement ceremonies. On this occasion he said:
"I am and will still be a staunch anti-fascist and will oppose war to the same extent as before I went to Spain, and after I returned to my country. I know that my life has been somewhat different from some others during my time on Earth, but it has always been an honest effort, and has fulfilled the teaching that my immigrant parents gave me: ‘Try to leave the Earth in better condition than you found it.’"[8]

Death

In the summer of 2010 Mattson broke his femur and caught pneumonia. He moved to the JFK Hospital in Lake Worth, Florida, where he died on January 11, 2011.

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David Nelson, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), died from colon cancer he was , 74.

David Oswald Nelson  was an American actor, director, producer died from colon cancer he was , 74. He was the elder son of bandleader/TV actor Ozzie Nelson and singer Harriet Hilliard and the older brother of singer Eric "Ricky" Nelson.


(October 24, 1936 – January 11, 2011)

Career

Nelson, along with his brother and their parents, appeared on the long-running sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in the 1950s and 1960s. During the run of the series, Nelson directed several episodes. After the series' end, he continued acting, directing and producing. His last film appearance was in Cry-Baby (1990). For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Nelson was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1501 Vine Street, on May 9, 1996.[2]
He attended Hollywood High School and was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity [3]while attending the University of Southern California.[1]
Nelson had two sons - Daniel Blair and James Eric - from his first marriage with June Blair, which ended in divorce, and two sons and a daughter - John, Eric and Teri - from his second marriage with Yvonne Huston.[4].

Death

Nelson died on January 11, 2011 in Century City, California from complications of colon cancer.[5]






Filmography

Actor

Director

Producer

  • Ozzie's Girls (1973)
  • Easy to Be Free (1973)
  • Last Plane Out (1983)

Award nominations

Year Result Award Category Film or series
2006 Nominated TV Land Awards Favorite Singing Siblings The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet Shared with Rick Nelson

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Won-il Rhee, South Korean digital art curator, died from a heart attack. he was , 50

 Won-il Rhee  was a Korean digital art curator died from a heart attack. he was , 50.

( November 1960 – 11 January 2011)

He was born and died in Seoul.
Rhee was the artistic director in 2002 and 2006 of the Media City Seoul Biennale. He was the leading curator of the Total Museum of Art and co-ordinator of the Korean Pavilion for the 1995 Venice Biennale. Also, he served as executive head of the exhibition team for the Third Gwangju Biennale.[1]
From 1996 to 2002 he was head curator at the Sung-Kok Museum of Art and in 2002 he was appointed artistic director of the Media City Seoul Biennale. In 2003 he became chief curator at the Seoul Museum of Art. He also served as the Asian Editor for Flash Art based in Milan and New York City.



Curatorial projects

  • Media City Seoul Biennale, Seoul, Korea, 2002 & 2006
  • ElectroScape, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China, 2005
  • Co-Curator for Shanghai COOL Duolun Museum of Art, Shanghai, 2005
  • Advisory Programmer to DMC, Seoul, 2004
  • Curator for Portrait-Landscape, Gwangju, 2005
  • Curator for City Net Asia, Seoul, 2003
  • Curator for the Asia-Oceania-Korea Section of the Gwangju Biennale, 2004
  • Curator of the Asian Section at the Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland, 2004
  • Curator for Digital Sublime, Taiwan, 2004
  • Curator of Grounding Reality-25 Young Chinese Artists, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, 2005
  • Curator of Silent Power-German Expressionists, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2006
  • Curator of Thermocline of Art: Asian Waves, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2007
  • Curator of Julian Schnabel, World Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2007
  • Co-Curator of Asia-Europe Mediations, Poznan Museum, Poland
  • Co-Curator of BIACS 3: 3rd International Biennial of Seville, YOUniverse, 2008
  • Artistic Director of DIGIFESTA 2010, Gwangju Biennial, Korea
  • Curator of Nanjing Documenta 2010, China
  • Co-Curator of Prague Biennial, 2009-2013, Czech Republic
  • Co-Commissioner of Vancouver Olympic Sculpture Biennial 2009-2011, Canada

On January 11, 2011, Rhee died suddenly of a heart attack.[2]

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Marcel Trudel, Canadian historian and author, died from cancer he was , 93.

Marcel Trudel, CC, GOQ was a Canadian historian, university professor (1947-1982) and author who published more than 40 books on the history of New France, scientifically re-written. Trudel's work has been honored with major awards.

(May 29, 1917 – January 11, 2011)

 Early life and education

Marcel Trudel was born in Saint-Narcisse-de-Champlain, northeast of Trois-Rivières, Quebec, the son of Hermyle Trudel and Antoinette Cossette. He earned a B.A. in 1941 and a Doctorate in 1945 from Université Laval.

Career

In 1945, Trudel began postdoctoral studies for two years at Harvard University and then returned to Université Laval to become a professor of history at the newly-founded Institute of History there. He went on to become head of the history department. He published (between 1955 and 1960), neutrally, on many subjects to be scandalous under the eyes of the Catholic hierarchy controlling the university, as: "Chiniquy" (the first French Catholic priest who became a Presbyterian minister), "The Canadian Catholic Chuch under the English Military Government, in 1759-1764", and "The Slaves in New France" (most of them being Amerindian and belonging even to the Catholic Church masters). Trudel was also, from 1962, the president of the For Laïcité Movement in Quebec City. It was too much: under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, in 1962 Laval University demoted him from his position as head of the History department.
In 1961, Laval University Press joined with the University of Toronto Press in establishing the Dictionary of Canadian Biography (DCB). Trudel served as the Associate General Editor from 1961 to 1965, working with the General Editor, George Williams Brown, a historian at the University of Toronto. They collaborated both in organizing the over-all project, which has published 15 volumes and is on-going, and in editing the first volume, which covered the period from 1000-1700 and was published in 1966. The DCB is published simultaneously in English and French and has been widely recognized as one of the most important scholarly undertakings in Canada.
In 1965 Trudel left Laval University and Quebec City, to live near Ottawa and work, instead, at the Carleton University.The next year, yet, he began teaching at the University of Ottawa, after the Ontario government took over the university from the Catholic Oblate Fathers. He had to retire sixteen years later, in 1982 (as everyone at the age of 65, at that time), but during the next 28 years he wrote and published half of his books, as "retired" near Montreal, from 1983 to his last living year, and (from 1993) he also was a part time lecturer at the university, to some old people groups.
Trudel's life's work has been the history of New France, in particular his monumental and authoritative Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (five volumes published on ten anticipated) from 1963 to 1999. Trudel has meticulously reviewed the primary sources. He implicitly criticized previous accounts in his effort to tell the colony's story without, what he views as, pious or nationalist bias.
Marcel Trudel died, at the age of 93, on January 11, 2011, of generalized cancer.[2] He left his 3 children, plus six grandchildren (one of them, Jean-Philippe Rheault, being his webmaster), and six great-grandchildren.


Selected works (in English)

  • 1954: The Jumonville Affair, published in 1953, Pennsylvania History Quarterly Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 34 pages.[3]
  • 1956: The Seigneurial Regime, a brochure published by the Canadian Historical Society.
  • 1967: Canada: Unity and Diversity (with P.G. Cornell, J. Hamelin, F. Ouellet), Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Toronto, 530 pages.
  • 1968: Introduction to New France, Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, 300 pages (From his first books of « Histoire de la Nouvelle-France »: Le comptoir, 1604-1627, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Awards, etc.)
  • 1970: Canadian History Textbooks - A Comparative Study (with Genevieve Jain), within Studies of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism, Queen's Printer for Canada, 150 pages.
  • 1973: The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663. Translation by Patricia Claxton. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 324 pages, ISBN 0771086105.
  • 2002: Memoirs of a Less Traveled Road: A Historian's Life, translation of his autobiography (Mémoire d'un autre siècle, winner of the 1987 Governor General's Awards) by Jane Brierley, winner of the 2003 Governor General's Awards, Véhicule Press, 248 p., ISBN

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