Mary Murphy, American actress (The Wild One) died she was , 80.

Mary Murphy was an American film actress of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s died she was , 80.. She was born in Washington, D.C., before moving to Los Angeles. Shortly out of high school she was signed to appear in films for Paramount Pictures in the late 1940s.

(January 26, 1931 – May 4, 2011)

Murphy first gained attention in 1953, when she played a good-hearted girl who tries to reform Marlon Brando in The Wild One. The following year, she appeared opposite Tony Curtis in Beachhead, and the year after that as Fredric March's daughter in the thriller The Desperate Hours, which also starred Humphrey Bogart. She co-starred with actor-director Ray Milland in his Western A Man Alone, and appeared in dozens of television series including Perry Mason, I Spy and Ironside. She was long absent from the big screen before acting in 1972 with Steve McQueen in the Sam Peckinpah film Junior Bonner. She had retired from acting by the 1980s.
Murphy died from heart disease complications on May 4, 2011; she was 80 years old.

Bibliography

• Parla, Paul; Mitchell, Charles P. (2000). "Mary Murphy: Wild One's Sweetheart". Screen Sirens Scream! Interviews with 20 Actresses from Science Fiction, Horror, Film Noir and Mystery Movies, 1930s to 1960s. Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland. pp. 159–174. ISBN 0-7864-0701-8.http://www.classicimages.com/past_issues/view/?x=/1997/december97/murphy.html

 

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Thomas G. Nelson, American federal judge, died from complications from declining health he was , 74.

Thomas G. Nelson was a United States federal judge died from complications from declining health he was , 74.

(November 14, 1936 – May 4, 2011)

Nelson was born in Idaho Falls, Idaho.^[1] He received an LL.B. from University of Idaho College of Law in 1962.^[1] He served as Assistant state attorney general and chief deputy state attorney general of Idaho Office of the State Attorney General, from 1963 to 1965.^[1] He was in the United States Army Reserve from 1965 to 1968 and was in private practice of law in Twin Falls, Idaho from 1965 to 1990.^[1]
Nelson was a federal judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Nelson was nominated by President George H. W. Bush on July 18, 1990, to a seat vacated by J. Blaine Anderson.^[1] He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 12, 1990, and received his commission on October 17, 1990.^[1] He assumed senior status on November 14, 2003.^[1] He remained on the court as a senior judge until December 2009, when he retired from hearing cases. He died May 4, 2011.^[1][2]

 

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Frans Sammut, Maltese writer, died from natural causes he was , 66.

Frans Sammut  was a Maltese novelist and non-fiction writer died from natural causes he was , 66.

(November 19, 1945 – May 4, 2011)

Life

Sammut was born in Zebbug, Malta.^[1] He studied at the Zebbug Primary School, St Aloysius' College, St Michael's Teacher Training College, the University of Malta (B.A., S.Th.Dip./Diploma in Sacred Theology, M.Ed.) and Perugia University (Diploma to teach Italian abroad).

Frans Sammut in mid-2010

Sammut first gained recognition in the late 1960s, when he co-founded the Moviment Qawmien Letterarju (Literary Revival Movement). Later he served as Secretary of the Akkademja tal-Malti (Maltese Language Academy).
Sammut ended his career in education as a Head of School, though from 1996 to 1998 he was Cultural Consultant to the Prime Minister of Malta. He was married to Catherine Cachia and they had two sons, Mark and Jean-Pierre.

Mario Philip Azzopardi's Gagga (1971) was based on Il-Gagga.

Works

Frans Sammut in 1970 circa

He published numerous works, including the best-selling novels Il-Gagga (The Cage), which was the basis of the 1971 film directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi,^[2] Samuraj, which won the Rothmans Prize,^[1] Paceville, which won the Government's Literary Medal.^[1] and Il-Holma Maltija (The Maltese Dream), about which literary critic Norbert Ellul-Vincenti wrote, "there is nothing of its magnitude in Maltese literature."^{[citation needed]} Former Prime Minister and playwright Alfred Sant considered it Sammut's "masterpiece",^[3] and British author and poet Marjorie Boulton called it "a colossal work".^[4]
Sammut also published collections of short stories: Labirint (Labyrinth), Newbiet (Seasons), and Hrejjef Zminijietna (Tales of Our Times).
His non-fiction works include Ir-Rivoluzzjoni Franciza: il-Grajja u t-Tifsira (The French Revolution: History and Meaning), Bonaparti f'Malta (Bonaparte in Malta), of which a French translation, Bonaparte à Malte, was published in 2008, and On The Da Vinci Code (2006), a bilingual (English and Maltese) commentary on the international bestseller. He also edited Mikiel Anton Vassalli's Lexicon. Vassalli (d. 1829) is considered the Father of the Maltese Language. In 2006, Sammut's translation of Vassalli's Motti, Aforismi e Proverbii Maltesi was published as Ghajdun il-Ghaqal, Kliem il-Gherf u Qwiel Maltin. In 2007, his Il-Holma Maltija in translation (as La Malta Revo) represented Malta in the Esperanto collection of classic literary works published by Mondial Books of New York. In 2008, his Il-Gagga was published for the fifth time. In 2009, Sammut presented a revolutionary reinterpretation of Pietru Caxaro's poem "Xidew il-qada" (also known as "Il Cantilena"), the oldest written document in the Maltese language.^[5]

Frans Sammut holding his translation of Vassalli's collection of Maltese proverbs. December, 2006

Former University of Malta Rector, Professor of Philosophy and foremost Maltese intellectual Peter Serracino Inglott said:

The genius of Sammut was in his ability as of a Voltairian jester to transform a historical character into a sort of carnivalesque vector of an ironically larger than life mask. The reader is made to enjoy the obverse side of personalities usually regarded with unmitigated solemnity. One smiles like an accomplice in their doubts, slippings and tergiversations. The stylistic shift from historical narrative to fictional is perhaps the biggest challenge to be faced by any kind of translator.^[6]

Last Words

Frans Sammut's famous last words were: “My wife and I should be going to Jerusalem, but it seems plans have changed. I am now going to the Heavenly Jerusalem."^[7]
Serracino Inglott reacted thus to these words: "I realised then that sometimes tears and laughter are interchangeable."^[6]

External links

• www.franssammut.info
• www.franssammut.com

Bibliography

• Labirint u Stejjer Oħra [Labyrinth and Other Stories] (short stories) 1968
• Il-Gaġġa [The Cage] 5 editions (novel) 1971 – made into a film, Gaġġa [Cage], directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi 1971
• Logħba Bejn Erbgħa [A Game Between Four People] (long short story) 1972
• Samuraj [Samurai] 3 editions (novel) 1975
• Kristu fil-Poeżija Maltija 1913-1973 [Christ in Maltese Poetry 1913-1973] (unpublished dissertation, University of Malta) 1977
• Il-Qtil fi Sqaq il-Ħorr [Murder in Honest Alley] (long short story) 1979
• Il-Proċess Vassalli [The Vassalli Trial] (play) 1980
• Il-Mixja tal-Ħaddiem lejn il-Ħelsien [The Worker's March Towards Freedom] (political analysis) 1982
• Ir-Rivoluzzjoni Franċiża: il-Ġrajja u t-Tifsira [The French Revolution: History and Meaning] (history) 1989
• Paceville (novel) 1991
• Letteratura [Literature] (literary criticism) 1992
• Il-Ħolma Maltija [The Maltese Dream] (novel) 1994, translated into Esperanto as La Malta Revo, published in New York, 2007
• Bonaparti f’Malta [Bonaparte in Malta] (history) 1998, translated into French as Bonaparte à Malte, 2008
• Newbiet [Seasons] (short stories) 1998
• Ħrejjef Żminijietna [Tales of Our Times] (short stories) 2000
• Dun Ġorġ: Il-Bniedem tal-Poplu [Father George: a man of the people] (historical and religious theme) 2001
• Ġrajjet Ħaż-Żebbuġ [A History of Haz-Zebbug] (history) (translation of Dun Salv Ciappara's original) 2001
• Lexicon (by Mikiel Anton Vassalli) 2002
• Għala Le għall-UE [Why No to the EU] (political analysis) 2003
• Ħarsa mill-qrib lejn ħajjet San Filep u l-Kult tiegħu [A Close Look at St Philip: His Life and the Devotion Towards Him](historical and religious theme) 2004
• On The Da Vinci Code/Dwar The Da Vinci Code (literary criticism) 2006
• Għajdun il-Għaqal, Kliem il-Għerf u Qwiel Maltin [Maltese Axioms, Aphorisms and Proverbs] (translation of Mikiel Anton Vassalli's original) 2006
• Alfred Sant: Il-Viżjoni għall-Bidla [Alfred Sant: a vision for change] (political analysis) 2008
• Introduction to Baron Vincenzo Azopardi's dictionary in which he analyses Caxaro's "Cantilena" (literary criticism, linguistics) 2009

 

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Richard Steinheimer, American railroad photographer, died from Alzheimer's disease he was , 81.

Richard Virgil Dean Steinheimer was an American railroad photographer, often called the "Ansel Adams of railroad photography died from Alzheimer's disease he was , 81.." His work has been published in Trains Magazine, Railfan, Locomotive and Railway Preservation, and Vintage Rail, and more than seventy books. He lived in Sacramento, California. A pioneer in railroad photography, Steinheimer lived through and documented the railroads' heyday and their transition to diesel motive power from steam. He is one of very few photographers who appreciated the aesthetics of all locomotives, from steam engines to the latest diesel-powered behemoths. He had a particular fondness for the landscape of the American West, and many of his images situate trains in the larger geography and culture of the time. Known for taking pictures at night, in bad weather, and from risky perches on top of moving trains, Steinheimer had an enormous creativity and productivity. His photograph, "Southern Pacific steam helper at Saugus, California, 1947," was included in the Center for Railroad Photography and Art's 20 Memorable Railroad Photographs of the 20th Century.

(August 23, 1929 – May 4, 2011)
 

Early life and later career

Richard Steinheimer was born in Chicago in 1929. His parents divorced in 1935, and he, with his mother and sister, moved to Phoenix, Arizona. It was this trip that first exposured him to trains. In 1939 his family moved to Glendale, California. The Southern Pacific main line was adjacent to his home. In 1945 he started his photographic career with a Kodak Baby Brownie, shooting wartime traffic in the common ¾ "wedgies" style. Also in 1945 he received two books by Lucius Beebe, Highball and High Iron, from which he drew inspiration. By 1946 his photos had evolved into more of an experimental style. In 1946 he began using an Argus A-2 camera, and in 1947 he started using a 3¼×4¼ Speed Graphic. With the Speed Graphic now in hand, the flood gates were opened for the creation of some of the best night photos of railroads ever taken. He used yard lights, flashbulbs or whatever lights were available. His night work predates O. Winston Link's by almost seven years. By 1949 he was going to San Francisco City College and one of his teachers was Joe Rosenthal. From 1956 through 1962 he worked for the Marin Independent Journal as a photojournalist. Kalmbach Publishing produced in 1963 his Backwoods Railroad of the West. Although it failed commercially at the time, it would one day become one of the most sought after railroad books in history.
From 1948 through 2001 Trains Magazine published over 400 of his photographs.
Steinheimer has become recognized as one of the masters of railroad photography, especially across the Western USA, but also pursued a lesser-known career in commercial photography. His specialties included the use of telephoto lenses in railroad scenes, and a devotion to Southern Pacific's Donner Pass crossing of the Sierra Nevada.
In 2000 Steinheimer was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease; he suffered a stroke in late of September 2007. He was cared for throughout his illness by his wife Shirley Burman.
Richard Steinheimer died on May 4, 2011.

 

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Sada Thompson, American actress (Family), died from lung disease he was , 83.

 Sada Carolyn Thompson was an American stage, film, and television actress died from lung disease he was , 83.


(September 27, 1927 – May 4, 2011)

Life and career

Born in Des Moines, Iowa^[1] in 1927 to Hugh Woodruff Thompson and his wife Corlyss (née Gibson), and raised in New Jersey,^[2] Thompson earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, ^[2] after which she worked steadily in regional theatre in such plays as The Seagull, Pygmalion, Our Town, Arms and the Man, and Blithe Spirit.^[1]
She made her off-Broadway debut in a 1955 production of Under Milkwood,^[2] and the following year she appeared on television in a Goodyear Television Playhouse production. She made her Broadway debut in the 1959 musical Juno. Her additional New York City stage-credits include The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Tartuffe, and Twigs. Her stage performances won her an Obie Award, a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play, three Drama Desk Awards and two Sarah Siddons Awards (the last presented for outstanding performances in Chicago theatre). She was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.^[when?]
On the strength of her success in Twigs, Thompson was signed^{[by whom?]} to play neighbor Irene Lorenzo on All in the Family. After taping her first episode, however, she was replaced by Betty Garrett, when it became obvious that she and producer Norman Lear had different opinions about how the character should be played.^[2] Her portrayal of matriarch Kate Lawrence on Family won her the 1978 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and garnered her three nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama.
She was nominated for the Emmy Award nine times, winning once. Thompson's additional television credits included Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, The Love Boat, Father Dowling Mysteries, Andre's Mother, Cheers, Indictment: The McMartin Trial, and Law & Order. Her feature films included The Pursuit of Happiness, Desperate Characters, and Pollock.

Personal life

Thompson was married to Donald E. Stewart from December 18, 1949,^[1] until her death. She and her husband lived in Southbury, Connecticut. They had one daughter, costume designer Liza Stewart. ^[3]

Death

Sada Thompson died May 4, 2011, in Danbury, Connecticut, of lung disease, aged 83.^[3] In addition to her daughter, Liza, she is survived by her husband, a former executive for Pan American Airlines, and a brother, David.^{[citation needed]}

 

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Robert Brout, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist died he was , 82.

Robert Brout  was an American-Belgian theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions in elementary particle physics died he was , 82. He was a Professor of Physics at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

(June 14, 1928 in New York City – May 3, 2011)

Research

In 1964, Robert Brout, in collaboration with Francois Englert, discovered how mass can be generated for gauge particles in the presence of a local abelian and non-abelian gauge symmetry. This was demonstrated by them, both classically and quantum mechanically, successfully avoiding theorems initiated by J. Goldstone while indicating that the theory would be renormalizable. Similar ideas have been developed in condensed matter physics.
Peter Higgs and Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen, and Tom Kibble independently came to the same conclusion as Brout and Englert. The three papers written on this boson discovery by Higgs, Brout and Englert, and Guralnik, Hagen, Kibble were each recognized as milestone papers by Physical Review Letters 50th anniversary celebration.^[1] While each of these famous papers took similar approaches, the contributions and differences between the 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers is noteworthy. This work showed that the particles that carry the weak force acquire their mass through interactions with an all-pervasive field that is now known as the Higgs field, and that the interactions occur via particles that are widely known as Higgs bosons. As yet, these Higgs bosons have not been observed experimentally; however, most physicists believe that they exist.^[2][3]
In 1971, Gerardus 't Hooft, who was completing his PhD under the supervision of Martinus J. G. Veltman at Utrecht University, renormalized Yang-Mills theory in accordance with Veltman's suggestion how this was possible. They showed that if the symmetries of Yang-Mills theory were to be broken according to the method suggested by Robert Brout, Francois Englert, Peter W. Higgs, Gerald Guralnik, C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble then Yang-Mills theory is indeed renormalizable. Renormalization of Yang-Mills theory is one of the biggest achievements of twentieth century physics. Gerardus 't Hooft and Martinus J. G. Veltman were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1999 for this work.^[4]
In addition to this work on elementary particle physics, in 1978, Brout, in collaboration with F. Englert and E. Gunzig, was awarded the first prize gravitational award essay ^[5] for their original proposal of cosmic inflation as the condition of the cosmos prior to the adiabatic expansion, (i.e. the conventional big bang), after cosmogenesis.

Awards

Dr. Brout was awarded the 2010 J. J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics (with Guralnik, Hagen, Kibble, Higgs, and Englert) by The American Physical Society “For elucidation of the properties of spontaneous symmetry breaking in four-dimensional relativistic gauge theory and of the mechanism for the consistent generation of vector boson masses.” ^[6] In 2004, Robert Brout, Francois Englert, and Peter Higgs were awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics for "for pioneering work that has led to the insight of mass generation, whenever a local gauge symmetry is realized asymmetrically in the world of sub-atomic particles".^[7]

 

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Odell Brown, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing") died he was , 70.

Odell Elliott Brown Jr. was an American jazz organist died he was , 70.. He was mainly active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing in a soul jazz and jazz funk vein, and was often billed with his backing band as Odell Brown & the Organ-Izers. The band was originally formed in Nashville in 1961. His most popular record was 1967's Mellow Yellow, which reached #173 on the Billboard 200. The band's personnel was O'Dell Brown, organ, Artee "Duke" Payne and Tommy Purvis, tenor saxophones, Curtis Prince, drums.

(born 1938, Louisville, Kentucky- May 3, 2011, Richfield, Minnesota) 

Brown also co-wrote Marvin Gaye's hit single "Sexual Healing". He played electric piano with Marvin Gaye in the late 70's, early 80's. Brown also accompanied singer Johnny Nash in the 1970s, and arranged and conducted an album with Minnie Riperton on Epic records.
Brown has been living in Richfield, Minnesota since the early 1990s, to stabilize his professional and personal life.

Discography

As leader

• Raising the Roof (Cadet Records, 1966)
• Mellow Yellow (Cadet, 1967)
• Ducky (Cadet, 1967)
• Odell Brown Plays Otis Redding (Cadet, 1969)
• Free Delivery (Cadet, 1970)
• Odell Brown (Paula Records, 1974)

As sideman

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• with Sonny Stitt-Bunky Green Soul in the night (Cadet, 1966)
• with Dorothy Ashby Dorothy's harp (Cadet, 1969)
• with Eddie Harris "The reason why I'm talking S**t !"(Atlantic, 1975)
• with Marvin Gaye Live (Tamla, 1976)

 

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