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was a Ukrainian-born Soviet-era actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier died she was , 71..
(11 May 1940 – 1 August 2011) |
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Zhanna Prokhorenko, Russian film actress (Ballad of a Soldier) died she was , 71.
was a Ukrainian-born Soviet-era actress, best known to European and North American audiences for her role in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier died she was , 71..
Attilio Pavesi, Italian cyclist and Olympic Champion, died he was, 101
(October 1, 1910 – August 2, 2011)
Early life
Pavesi was the 11th child in an affluent family in Caorso, Emilia-Romagna.[5]Professional career
Pavesi turned professional after his Olympic victories, but his only subsequent success was a stage win in the 1934 Tour of Tuscany.[5]At the start of World War II he emigrated to Argentina where he took part in Six-day racing in Buenos Aires.[5
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Eliseo Alberto, Cuban-born Mexican writer, died from complications from a kidney transplant he was 59
(September 10, 1951 – July 31, 2011)
was a Cuban-born Mexican writer, novelist, essayist and journalist d from complications from a kidney transplant he was 59. His numerous works included the novel Caracol Beach.[1] Alberto was nicknamed Lichi.[1][2]
Alberto was born in Arroyo Naranjo, Cuba, on September 10, 1951.[1] His mother was Bella García Marruz.[2] His father, Eliseo Diego, was one of Cuba's best known poets and a member of a well known Havana-based family which included writers, screenwriters and musicians.[2] Alberto's father often held tertulias, or gatherings of writers and other Cuban literary figures, at their home when he was growing up.[2] He worked as a journalist, based in Havana.[1]
Alberto fled into exile in Mexico in 1990. The Cuban government had executed Arnaldo Ochoa and had begun to more strictly persecute writers and other intellectuals during the late 1980s and early 1990s.[2] Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez reportedly helped Alberto escape Cuba and find a new home in Mexico City.[2] He became a Mexican citizen in 2000.[1] Alberto never returned to Cuba and spoke of his experiences in exile, "The worse thing about exile is that the places you inhabit don’t remind you of anything"...."exile becomes your homeland."[2]
Alberto's novels often touched on the themes of Christian morality, including punishment, redemption and forgiveness.[1] He focused much of his attention on characters living in his native city, Havana.[2] Some of his novels set in Havana include La fábula de José ( José’s Fable) and La eternidad por fin comienza un lunes (Eternity Finally Begins on a Monday), about the life of a lion trainer, Tartufo, who grieves after the death of the lion, named Goldwyn Mayer.[2]
Although known as a novelist, Alberto was also a poet and screenwriter for films and television shows.[1] He worked as a professor at film schools in Cuba, Mexico and the United States, including the Sundance Institute.[1][2] His credits as a screenwriter included the film Guantanamera.[2]
A fierce critic of Cuba's Communist government, Alberto released a 1997 book criticizing Fidel Castro, entitled Informe contra mi mismo or Dossier Against Myself.[1] In the 1997 book, Alberto revealed that the Cuban government had asked him to spy on his father's tertulias in 1978 while he was serving in the Cuban military.[2] He was also asked to spy on Cuban exiles returning to the country.[2] Alberto spoke about the book at the Miami Book Fair in 1997.[2]
He was awarded the Premio Alfaguara de Novela literary prize for Caracol Beach in 1998.[1] The novel, perhaps his best known work, follows a war veteran living in a fictitious town in Florida who is haunted by visions of a Bengal tiger with wings.[2] Caracol Beach was translated into English for publication in the United States.[2]
Eliseo Alberto died of complications from a kidney transplant, including heart and respiratory failure, in Mexico City on July 31, 2011, at the age of 59.[1] He had been diagnosed with kidney failure in 2009 and received the transplant on July 18, 2011.[2][3] His funeral was held in Mexico City, while his ashes were returned to Havana.[2]
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Richard Pearson, Welsh actor (The Yellow Rolls-Royce) died he was , 93
(1 August 1918 – 2 August 2011)
In later years, he is perhaps best known for his role as Mole in Cosgrove Hall's The Wind in the Willows (1983), its subsequent television series, The Wind in the Willows which led on from the original film and its spin-off programme Oh, Mr. Toad both of which he starred alongside David Jason, Peter Sallis and Michael Hordern.[1] He has also has appeared in episodes of One Foot in the Grave as Victor Meldrew's absent-minded brother, Alfred and the Men Behaving Badly episode "Three Girlfriends" as Gary's father Mr Strang. He played Mr. Pye in the 1985 TV movie Marple: The Moving Finger. Pearson died on August 2, 2011, one day after his 93rd birthday.[2][3] .
Richard Pearson married the actress Patricia Dickson in 1949. She and their two sons, one of whom, Patrick, is also an actor, survive him.
Selected filmography
- The Girl is Mine (1950)
- The Woman in Question (1950)
- The Clouded Yellow (1950)
- Scrooge (1951)
- The Blue Parrot (1953)
- Fabian of the Yard (1954)
- Dangerous Cargo (1954)
- Svengali (1954)
- Sea Fury (1958)
- Life in Danger (1959)
- Model for Murder (1959)
- The Crowning Touch (1959)
- Libel (1959)
- Man in the Moon (1960)
- Guns of Darkness (1962)
- The King's Breakfast (1963)
- The Comedy Man (1964)
- The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
- The Caramel Crisis (1966)
- Charlie Bubbles (1967)
- How I Won the War (1967)
- The Strange Affair (1968)
- Inspector Clouseau (1968)
- The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971)
- To Catch a Spy (1971)
- The Tragedy of Macbeth (1971)
- Pope Joan (1972)
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975)
- One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
- Royal Flash (1975)
- The Blue Bird (1976)
- Tess (1979)
- The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
- The Wind in the Willows (1983)
- Water (1985)
- Whoops Apocalypse (1986)
- Pirates (1986)
- Men in Black II (2002)
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Clyde Holding, Australian politician, federal minister (1984–1990) died he was 80.
Early life and education
Early politics
Holding joined the Australian Labor Party as a student, and during the Labor Party split of 1954–55, during which he supported the party's federal leader, Dr H.V. Evatt,he was Secretary of the Young Labor organisation in Victoria.[2][3] As a young lawyer he was a prominent campaigner against the death penalty and in favour of the rights of indigenous Australians. His law firm, Holding, Ryan and Redlich, became one of the leading industrial law firms in Melbourne.State politics
In 1962 Holding was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Richmond,[2] which had previously been held for many years by mostly conservative Catholic Labor Party members, although his immediate predecessor, Frank Crean, was a Presbyterian. Clive Stoneham, who had been ALP leader from 1958 onwards, was no match for the dominant Liberal Premier, Sir Henry Bolte. After Labor suffered its fifth consecutive defeat at the 1967 election, Holding took over from Stoneham as party leader.[2]Although Holding was in some ways a social radical, he was opposed to the left-wing faction which had taken control of the Victorian Labor Party following the 1955 split, which had seen many right-wing members expelled. In particular, he supported government aid for non-government, including Catholic, schools, which the left bitterly opposed. He was a supporter of the reforming federal Labor leader, Gough Whitlam, who was determined to reform the Victorian branch as a precondition of winning a federal election. He was also a close ally of the ACTU president, Bob Hawke.
During the 1970 state election campaign, which some commentators suggested Labor could win as a result of voter fatigue with the Liberals after their 15 years in power, Holding campaigned on the new federal policy of supporting state aid to non-government schools. The week before the election, the left-wing state president, George Crawford and state secretary, Bill Hartley, issued a statement saying that a Victorian Labor government would not support state aid. As a result Whitlam refused to campaign for Labor in Victoria, and Holding was forced to repudiate his own policy. Faced with evidence of Labor disunity, the voters re-elected the Bolte government.
This episode led directly to federal intervention in the Victorian branch of the Labor Party. In 1971 the left-wing leadership was overturned by the National Executive and allies of Whitlam, Hawke and Holding took control. The left then formed an organised faction, the Socialist Left, to agitate for socialist policies, supported by some unions. This continuing conflict in the party made it difficult for Holding to oppose the Liberal government effectively.The surge in support for federal Labor which saw Whitlam elected Prime Minister in 1972 was not reflected in Victorian state politics. Bolte retired in 1972, and his successor, Dick Hamer, comfortably won the 1973 and 1976 state elections.
Federal politics
Holding resigned as Opposition Leader after the 1976 election, and in 1977 he was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the seat of Melbourne Ports,[3] which then included Holding's base in Richmond. He defeated Simon Crean, son of Holding's predecessor, to win Labor pre-selection. After the 1980 election, at which Hawke was elected to federal Parliament, Holding emerged as Hawke's key "numbers man" in his campaign to become leader of the federal Labor Party.Minister
When Hawke was elected Prime Minister at the 1983 election, he insisted that Holding be included in the ministry, and gave him the difficult but symbolically important portfolio of Aboriginal Affairs.[3] Holding was a strong supporter of land rights for Indigenous Australians, and his main ambition as minister was to bring in legislation for uniform national land rights, which the 1967 amendment to the Australian Constitution would have permitted. But the Labor Premier of Western Australia, Brian Burke, strongly objected to such a step, which would have upset the powerful mining and pastoral industries in his state. Burke lobbied Hawke and as a result Holding was forced by Hawke to drop the proposal. This was the end of Holding's close relationship with Hawke.In 1987 Holding was shifted to the portfolio of Minister for Employment Services and Youth Affairs. In 1988 he became Minister for Transport and Communications Support. A few months later he was promoted to Cabinet and made Minister for Immigration, Local Government and Ethnic Affairs, but later in the year there was another reshuffle and he was demoted to the Arts and Territories portfolio, outside Cabinet. He held this post until the 1990 election, when he was dropped from the ministry.
Backbench
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Venere Pizzinato, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe and third-oldest living person in the world died he was , 114
Venere Pizzinato Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe and third-oldest living person in the world died he was , 114
(23 November 1896 – 2 August 2011)
was an Italian supercentenarian[1] who was the oldest verified person from Italy,[16] living to the age of 114 years, 252 days. She became one of the ten oldest living people in March 2010. Pizzinato was also the oldest person ever to have been born in the Austrian-Hungarian empire. At the time of her death, Pizzinato was the 3rd oldest living person in the world, one of the 10 oldest Europeans ever, and one of the 40 oldest people ever verified in world history. At the time of her death she was the oldest person ever from Italy, a title she held until 13 December 2011 when she was surpassed by Dina Manfredini.
She was born in Ala, Trentino, then part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire, on 23 November 1896. In 1902 the family moved to Verona, where they had relatives. In 1903, the family moved back to Trentino were Pizzinato attended a boarding school in its capital city, Trento. World War I forced Pizzinato to take refuge in Bazzano, Bologna. After the war she moved back to Milan were she took Italian citizenship and met her future husband Isidoro Papo. During the outbreak of World War two, in 1939, the couple moved to Nice, France, to escape the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini. They married in France, and after the war, they moved back to Milan. Upon retirement in 1964, the couple moved to Verona, where they finally settled. Mr. Papo died in 1981. The couple never had any children. Pizzinato remained in Verona for the rest of her life; at the time of her death, she lived in a retirement home there.[17][18][19]
On 23 November 2010, marking her 114th birthday, Pizzinato was visited by Italy's president Giorgio Napolitano, who wrote her a letter with the words "In this happy and special occasion I would like to send, on behalf of all Italians, sincere congratulations and good wishes of serenity with her loved ones and people around the community Saint Catherine in Verona".[20]
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Friday, May 11, 2012
José Sanchis Grau, Spanish comic book artist died he was , 79
(19 June 1932 – 2 August 2011)
was a Spanish comic book writer. He also worked for Editorial Bruguera[2] and Spanish children comics in general. He was the creator of strips like Pumby (1954) and Robín Robot (1972).
Early years
Sanchis was born in Valencia. He started drawing for money when he was 16 years old, in 1948, and later for the magazine Jaimito, with his first recurring character, El soldadito Pepe. Despite being accidentally wounded by gunfire in 1950, he continued to draw for the editorial for the magazine "Cubilete" and the press of Valencia, giving life to series of minor significance, such as El Machote, El Recluta Policarpo, Pandolfito Cebollínez, Gaspar, etc.[3]Maturity
In 1954, on the number 260 of the magazine Jaimito, appeared his most prominent character, the cat Pumby, in whose series the author gave free rein to his fantasy, quickly connecting with young audiences. Prove of this is that a few months later, on 23 April 1955, a new magazine with the name of the character, Pumby was launched and it exceeded one thousand numbers, and in December 1959 appeared Super Pumby.At the same time he developed new comedy series for the weekly magazine directed at women Mariló such as Marilín y la moda (1955) and for Jamito such as El Capitán Mostachete (1958), Sandokancio or Don Esperpento.[4] He worked at Editorial Valenciana until its demise in 1984, but this does not prevent him from publishing works in the press or humorous magazines from other publishers. Some remarkable characters are Benjamín y su pandilla (1955) for the weekly children's Trampolín or Robín Robot, who developed his adventures in the magazine Zipi y Zape of Editorial Bruguera in 1972.
Later work
After several trials, two judgments were published and Sanchis finally got the rights to his character, who until that point was held by the heirs of Editorial Valenciana. He also achieved "moral compensation for damages resulting from the misappropriation of his work by a third party to use it to non-consensual ends".[5]Work
| Years | Title | Kind | Publication |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | El Soldadito Pepe | Series | Taco Myrga, "Jaimito" (Valenciana) |
| 1948 | El Machote | Series | Taco Myrga, "Jaimito" |
| 1948 | El Recluta Policarpo | Series | "Cubilete" |
| 1948 | Pandolfito Cebollínez | Series | "Jaimito" |
| 1948 | Gaspar | Series | "La hora del recreo" |
| 1954 | Pumby | Series | "Pumby" (Valenciana) |
| 1958 | El Capitán Mostachete | Series | "Jaimito" (Valenciana) |
| 1972 | Robín Robot | Series | "Zipi y Zape" (Bruguera) |
| 1978 | Mazinger-Z, el robot de las estrellas | Serial, co-written with Federico Amorós | Valenciana |
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