Bruce Crozier, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Essex South (1993–1999) and Essex (since 1999), died from aortic aneurysm he was , 72

Bruce Crozier was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, representing the riding of Essex for the Ontario Liberal Party.

(June 26, 1938 – June 3, 2011)

Crozier was a Certified General Accountant and member of the Certified General Accountants of Ontario. He worked for the H.J. Heinz Company for eleven years, and was the Vice-President of Finance and Secretary-Treasurer for Bennie Lumber and Building Materials Ltd.. He was also the National Director of the Kinsmen Club from 1975 to 1976, and is a Life Member of the Leamington Kinsman Club.
He was elected to the Leamington city council in 1985, and later served as the town's Mayor from 1988 to 1993. He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in a by-election in on December 2, 1993 in the riding of Essex South, held after longtime Liberal Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Remo Mancini announced his resignation from the legislature. He won this election very easily, defeating his nearest opponent (Progressive Conservative candidate Joan Flood) by almost 10,000 votes, amid fewer than 20,000 cast.
Crozier was re-elected in the 1995 provincial election, defeating his nearest opponent by almost 9000 votes on this occasion. The Progressive Conservatives won the election, and Crozier joined 29 other Liberals in the official opposition. He supported Dwight Duncan for the party leadership in 1996, and gave his support to Dalton McGuinty after Duncan was eliminated.
Crozier was re-elected in the 1999 election by over 10,000 votes in the redistributed riding of Essex, though again the Progressive Conservatives formed government at the provincial level.
His margin of victory was reduced in the 2003 provincial election, which the Liberals won in a landslide. He faced a strong challenge from New Democrat Pat Hayes, who supplanted the Tories for a second-place finish. He was not appointed to Cabinet, but was named as the Legislature's Deputy Speaker on December 8, 2003. Many believed that Crozier was to be chosen as speaker when the assembly reconvened in 2005, replacing Alvin Curling. Instead, Liberal Algoma-Manitoulin MPP Michael A. Brown was selected for that position.
Crozier announced on November 29, 2010, that he would not be a candidate in the 2011 election.^[1]
Premier Dalton McGuinty announced on June 4 that Crozier had died the previous evening of an abdominal aortic aneurysm.^[2]

Election results

Ontario general election, 2007
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce Crozier	19,969	48.02
	Progressive Conservative	Richard Kniaziew	10,400	25.01
	New Democrat	John Grima	8,638	20.77
	Green	Jessica Fracassi	2,220	5.34
	Libertarian	Aaron Parent	358	0.86

Ontario general election, 2003
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Bruce Crozier	20,559	45.28	-11.45
	New Democrat	Pat Hayes	12,614	27.78	+19.43
	Progressive Conservative	Patrick O'Neil	11,234	24.74	-9.49
	Green	Darren J. Brown	998	2.2

Ontario general election, 1999
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Bruce Crozier	25,446	56.73
	Progressive Conservative	Pat O'Neil	15,354	34.23
	New Democrat	Merv Richards	3745	8.35
	Independent	Enver Villamizar	307	0.68

Ontario general election, 1995
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Bruce Crozier	14,513
	Progressive Conservative	Dave Wylupek	5,730
	New Democrat	Dave Maris	4,348
	Family Coalition	Enver Villamizar	1,550
	Independent	David Mitchell	498

Ontario provincial by-election, December 2, 1993 : Essex South edit
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Liberal	Bruce Crozier	12,736
	Progressive Conservative	Joan Flood	3,295
	New Democrat	David Maris	1,100
	Family Coalition	Joyce Ann Cherryr	1,060
	Green	Michael Green	132
	Independent	John Turmel	84

 

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Andrew Gold, American singer-songwriter ("Lonely Boy", "Thank You for Being a Friend"), died from a heart attack he was , 59

Andrew Maurice Gold  was an American singer, musician and songwriter died from a heart attack he was , 59. His works include the Top 10 single "Lonely Boy" (1977), as well as the singles "Thank You for Being a Friend" (1978), and "Never Let Her Slip Away" (1978).
His rendition of the theme from the television series Mad About You, titled "Final Frontier," was used as the wake-up call for the Mars Pathfinder space probe in 1996.
Gold was a prolific multi-instrumentalist as artist, producer, film composer, session musician, actor, painter, and singer.

(August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011)

Early life

Andrew Maurice Gold was born in Burbank, California,^[1] and later joined a family business. His mother is singer Marni Nixon (who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady); his father was Ernest Gold, the Academy Award-winning composer for the movie Exodus.^[4] He has two younger sisters. Gold began writing songs at the age of 13.

Career

1970-1979

By the early 1970s he was working as a musician, songwriter and record producer for many musicians. He was a member of the Los Angeles band Bryndle alongside Kenny Edwards, Wendy Waldman and Karla Bonoff. He played a major role as multi-instrumentalist and arranger for Ronstadt's breakthrough album, 1974's Heart Like a Wheel, and her next four albums. Among other accomplishments, he played the majority of instruments on the album's first track, including the guitar work on "You're No Good," Ronstadt's first #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, and the same on "When Will I Be Loved", "Heatwave", and many others. He was in her band from 1973 until 1977, and then sporadically throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1975, Gold began recording as a solo artist, releasing four studio albums in the 1970s and over twelve since then. His hit single "Lonely Boy" reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in June, 1977^[5] and has appeared in many film soundtracks, including Boogie Nights (1997) and Adam Sandler's movie Water Boy, among others. Although "Lonely Boy" was the bigger radio hit in the States, his single "Thank You For Being A Friend" (which peaked at #25 in 1978^[6]) later gained popularity as the theme song for the 1985–1992 NBC situation comedy The Golden Girls (performed by Cindy Fee for the show). Gold is also known for his biggest UK hit song "Never Let Her Slip Away", which was a UK #5 hit twice, by him and again at #5 fourteen years later by Undercover. Freddie Mercury, who was a friend of Gold's, assisted him with the harmony background vocals of the song. Gold was pleased that Petula Clark covered 'Lonely Boy' in French ('Poor Lonesome Playboy'). It is on her 'Paris, Orleans, Paris' set. He attended one of her performances and reminded her that she had recorded the song. In 1976 Gold wrote the title track 'Endless Flight' for Leo Sayer's hit album.
1975 also marked a successful collaboration with Art Garfunkel, playing most of the instruments on Garfunkel's solo hit "I Only Have Eyes For You" (which went to no.1 on the UK Singles Chart), as well as several other cuts on Garfunkel's album Breakaway, and Gold played guitar on two cuts of Eric Carmen's, Boats Against the Current album, including "She Did It", which was a #23 hit that same year.^[7] Throughout the years, he played and/or sang on records and/or live performances with Carly Simon, Jennifer Warnes, Stephen Bishop, Nicolette Larson, Maria Muldaur, Neil Diamond, Barbi Benton, Juice Newton, Leo Sayer, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Karla Bonoff, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, Brian Wilson, Don Henley, Cher's hit album, Heart of Stone, wrote hits for Trisha Yearwood, Wynonna Judd, for whom he co-wrote the #1 single "I Saw The Light" with Lisa Angelle, who he later produced in her own right. He toured with The Eagles, played on records and toured with Jackson Browne, produced, wrote and sang/played on three 10cc tracks; played and sang on record, and toured with James Taylor, produced singles for Vince Gill, and wrote and produced for Celine Dion; was second engineer on part of Joni Mitchell's Blue album.

1980-2011

In the early 1980s, after 10cc's 1981 album Ten Out of 10 was completed, founding members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman invited Gold to become a member. Although he was a fan of "I'm Not In Love" and "The Things We Do for Love", and wanted to join, business conflicts prevented him from doing so. In late 1983, 10cc broke up, but Gold and Gouldman formed Wax. Wax recorded and toured for five years, enjoying success worldwide and had several top 10 hits including "Right Between the Eyes", and their biggest hit "Bridge to Your Heart". In 1986, interestingly, the duo had a #1 hit in Spain, lasting 6 months on top, and in a bizarre record company decision, no further singles were released there. The band broke up in 1989, but Gold and Gouldman continued to write and record together when possible.
During the 1990s Gold once again joined forces with bandmates Karla Bonoff, Wendy Waldman and Kenny Edwards to re-form Bryndle and release their first album. In 1996, he left Bryndle and released, Halloween Howls, considered by Dr. Demento as one of the two best Halloween albums in history.The same year he recorded under a pseudonym, The Fraternal Order Of The All, "Greetings from Planet Love" on his own record label, QBrain Records. This album utilized a fake 1960s band, with original songs in the style of Gold's favorite 1960s bands, such as The Beatles, The Byrds and The Beach Boys. He released a rareties Wax album, Bikini Wax, and the same year he released ....Since 1951. He has since also produced, composed, and/or written songs for numerous films, such as the comedy Rectuma from director Mark Pirro and contributed songs for many television soundtracks and commercials. He also sang "Final Frontier", the theme song for the Paul Reiser/Helen Hunt sitcom Mad About You. He produced seven albums for Eikichi Yazawa.

Personal life

Gold married Vanessa Gold (step sister of Billy Brown http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra_JB) with whom he had three daughters.^[4] After his divorce, he married Leslie Kogan.^[4]
Although Gold put personal references in "Lonely Boy" (1975) including his year of birth, he told Spencer Leigh in an interview that it was not autobiographical: "Maybe it was a mistake to do that but I simply put in those details because it was convenient. I hadn't been a lonely boy at all – I'd had a very happy childhood."^[8]

Death

On June 3, 2011, Gold died in his sleep, apparently from heart failure,^[1] at age 59 (two months before his 60th birthday) in Los Angeles after having been treated for renal cancer.^[4] He is survived by Kogan, his three daughters and his mother, Marni Nixon.^[9]

Discography

Albums

• 1975: Andrew Gold
• 1976: What's Wrong with This Picture? (95 US)
• 1978: All This and Heaven Too (81 US)(#31 UK)^[10]
• 1978: An Interview with Andrew Gold [Promo-only interview & music LP]
• 1979: Whirlwind
• 1991: Home is Where the Heart Is
• 1996: ...Since 1951
• 1996: Halloween Howls (as Andrew Gold & Friends)
• 1997: Thank You for Being a Friend (compilation album)
• 1998: Leftovers
• 1998: Warm Breezes
• 2000: The Spence Manor Suite
• 2002: Intermission
• 2008: Copy Cat

With Wax

• 1984: Common Knowledge
• 1986: Magnetic Heaven
• 1987: American English
• 1989: A Hundred Thousand in Fresh Notes
• 1997: The Wax Files ('Best of' compilation)
• 2000: Wax Bikini (Compilation of outtakes, demos, etc.)

With Bryndle

• 1995: Bryndle

Singles

• 1968: "Of All The Little Girls" (UK release - recorded as duo of 'Villiers & Gold')
• 1970: "Woke Up This Morning" (with the band 'Bryndle')
• 1975: "Heartaches in Heartaches"
• 1975: "That Is Why I Love You" (#68 US)
• 1976: "Stay"
• 1976: "Do Wah Diddy"
• 1976: "One Of Them Is Me"
• 1977: "Lonely Boy" (#7 US; #11 UK)^[10]
• 1977: "Go Back Home Again"
• 1978: "How Can This Be Love" (#19 UK)^[10]
• 1978: "I'm On My Way"
• 1978: "Thank You for Being a Friend" (#25 US; #42 UK)^[10]
• 1978: "Never Let Her Slip Away" (#67 US; #5 UK)^[10]
• 1979: "Kiss This One Goodbye"
• 1979: "Stranded On The Edge"
• 1979: "Nine To Five" (UK)

With Graham Gouldman as WAX;

• 1984: "Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Released under the band's initial name of World In Action)
• 1984: "Don't Break My Heart" (UK - Re-released under the band's subsequent name of Common Knowledge)
• 1985: "Victoria" (UK - Released under the band name of Common Knowledge)
• 1986: "Right Between The Eyes" (#60 UK )^[11]
• 1986: "Ball & Chain"
• 1986: "Shadows Of Love"
• 1986: "Systematic" (UK)
• 1987: "Bridge to Your Heart" (#12 UK)^[11]
• 1987: "In Some Other World" (UK & Germany)
• 1987: "American English" (Germany)
• 1989: "Anchors Aweigh" (UK)
• 1989: "Wherever You Are" (UK)

He had a worldwide #5 (average) hit in over 5 major countries^{[vague][clarification needed]} with "Bridge To Your Heart", and a #43 album in the US, Magnetic Heaven.
Some singles released as promo copies only; some chart numbers are from the magazines Cashbox and Record World.

 

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John Henry Johnson, American Hall of Fame football player (San Francisco 49ers, Pittsburgh Steelers) died he was , 81.

John Henry Johnson was an American football fullback died he was , 81. He played from 1954 to 1965 for the San Francisco 49ers, the Detroit Lions, and the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. Outside of the NFL, Johnson also played one season with the Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League in 1953, and with the Houston Oilers of the American Football League in 1966.

(November 24, 1929 – June 3, 2011)

College football

Prior to his professional career, he split his college career between Saint Mary's College of California and Arizona State University. He was also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

Professional career

He is best remembered for being a member of the 49ers famed "Million Dollar Backfield". Upon his retirement, John was ranked fourth on pro football's all-time rushing list, behind only Jim Brown, Jim Taylor and his fellow "Million Dollar Backfield" teammate, Joe Perry. He is also still currently ranked fourth on the all-time Steelers rushing list, behind only Franco Harris, Jerome Bettis, and Willie Parker. In 1987, he was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The 49ers "Million Dollar Backfield" is currently the only full-house backfield to have all four of its members enshrined in the Hall of Fame.

Death

On Friday, June 3, 2011, Johnson died in Tracy, California at the age of 81.^[2] On June 9, 2011, it was announced that Johnson and his fellow "Million Dollar Backfield" teammate, Joe Perry, who died on April 25, 2011, would have their brains examined by researchers at Boston University who are studying head injuries in sports. Both men were suspected of suffering form Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disorder linked to repeated brain trauma. According to his daughter, Johnson couldn't talk or swallow in the final year of his life and also was in a wheelchair. She told the San Francisco Chronicle that she hopes by donating her father's brain, it will "help with a cure."^[3]

 

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Miriam Karlin, British actress and activist, died from cancer whe was , 85.

Miriam Karlin, OBEwas a British actress  died from cancer whe was , 85.

(23 June 1925 – 3 June 2011)

Early life

Born Miriam Samuels^[1] in Hampstead, North London, she was brought up in an Orthodox Jewish family; members of her extended family were among those who later died at Auschwitz. She was the daughter of Céline (née Aronowitz) and Harry Samuels, a Jewish barrister, who specialised in industrial and trade union law. Her brother was Michael Samuels a historical linguist, responsible for the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.^[2] When she was doing one of her first radio shows, Terry-Thomas's Top of the Town, she based some of the zany characters she invented and played on people who had appeared before the rent tribunal chaired by her father.^[3][4]

Career

After training at RADA, Karlin made her stage debut for ENSA – the Forces Entertainment organisation – in wartime shows and subsequently appeared in repertory theatre and cabaret. She appeared in productions of The Diary of Anne Frank, The Bad Seed, The Egg, Fiddler on the Roof and Bus Stop, among others.
She made her film debut in 1952's Down Among the Z Men, as well as featuring in Room at the Top, Heavens Above!, Ladies Who Do and Mahler by Ken Russell.
In 1960, she appeared opposite Sir Laurence Olivier in the film of John Osborne's play The Entertainer.^[5] Karlin also had parts in A Clockwork Orange and The Millionairess. She appeared in the stage version of Fiddler on the Roof at Her Majesty's Theatre, starring the Israeli actor Topol.
On television, Karlin became known for playing the belligerent shop steward Paddy in the The Rag Trade, a British sitcom set in a textile factory.^[6] Paddy would use the slightest opportunity to cause a strike; her trademark was blowing a whistle and shouting "Everybody out!" She played the role, to great success, between 1961 and 1963. The show was resurrected by the BBC's rival channel, ITV, in 1977, but did not meet with the same success as the original^{[citation needed]}. She later played Yetta Feldman, the Jewish ghost, in the BBC sitcom, So Haunt Me.
Karlin appeared on stage for the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon, the Aldwych Theatre, and The Barbican Centre. She appeared in a national tour of 84 Charing Cross Road. In 1990 she became the first woman to play the title role in The Caretaker by Harold Pinter in a production at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. She appeared in the 1989 television film The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
In 2008 she appeared, aged 83, in the stage play Many Roads to Paradise by Stewart Permutt at the Finborough Theatre, London.^[7]

Personal life

Karlin, who never married, lived in South London. She was a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association and a patron of the Burma Campaign UK, the London-based group campaigning for human rights and democracy in Burma.
A self-proclaimed atheist,^[8] she was a lifelong campaigner for Jewish and left-wing causes and an anti-fascist activist. A member of the Anti-Nazi League she was prominent in protests against Holocaust denier David Irving and campaigned to expose the Nazi sympathies of Austrian politician Jörg Haider.^[9] She had been an active member of the actors' union, Equity, and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)^[10] in 1975 for her union and welfare work. She had been a patron of Dignity in Dying, a body that campaigns for a change to the laws on assisted dying.

Death

In 2006, while filming an Agatha Christie television mystery, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, Karlin was told that she had cancer and that part of her tongue would have to be removed. Unfortunately, her lengthy bout with cancer was unsuccessful and she died on 3 June 2011.^[1] She was twenty days shy of her 86th birthday.

Works

• Karlin, Miriam (2007). Jan Sargent. ed. Some Sort of a Life. London: Oberon Books. ISBN 9781840027808. (autobiography)

 

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