Antonio Pettigrew, American athletics coach, 1991 world champion and 2000 Olympic sprinter died he was , 42

Antonio Pettigrew  was an American sprint athlete who specialized in the 400 meters. He was born in Macon, Georgia.
(November 3, 1967 – August 10, 2010)

While attending St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina, he was a four-time NCAA Division II champion in the 400 meter race.^[1] He came to prominence at the 1991 World Championships, where he won the 400 m gold medal and a silver medal in the 4 x 400 meters relay. He admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs between 1997 and 2001, and was stripped of his 1999 World Championship and 2000 Olympic relay gold medals.

In 2008, prosecution documents related to the trial of coach Trevor Graham listed Pettigrew as one of Graham's athletes to have used performance-enhancing drugs.^[2] Pettigrew then admitted to using performance-enhancing drugs and testified against Graham at his trial in May 2008.^[3] Although IAAF rules currently do not retrospectively alter results more than eight years after the event, Pettigrew returned the medals he won in that period.^[4][5] The 2000 Sydney Olympics 4 × 400 m relay US team was stripped of their medals after Pettigrew admitted that he had used performance-enhancing drugs.^[6] He received a two-year athletics ban in 2008, although he had already retired from the track.^[4] At the Summer Olympics in Sydney 2000, Pettigrew threw his gold medal winning Adidas spikes into the crowd after winning the 4 x 400m final for the USA.^[7]Pettigrew was found dead in the backseat of his locked car in Chatham County, North Carolina, on August 10, 2010. The reasons of his death are yet unknown.^[8] Evidence of sleeping pills were found by police. Suicide has not been ruled out as a possible cause of death.^[1] Pettigrew was an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina at the time of his death.^[9]

Personal bests

Event	Time (seconds)	Venue	Date
100 meters	10.42	Unknown	1994
200 meters	20.38	Durham, North Carolina, United States	April 9, 1994
300 meters	32.33	Jerez de la Frontera, Spain	September 13, 1989
400 meters	44.27	Houston, Texas, United States	June 17, 1989

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David L. Wolper, American film and television producer (North and South, Roots, The Thorn Birds), died of heart failure and Parkinson's disease

David Lloyd Wolper was an American television and film producer died of heart failure and Parkinson's disease he was 82, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971). He also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series like Biography (TV series; 1961–63), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This is Elvis, Four Days in November, Imagine: John Lennon, and others. He directed the 1959 documentary The Race for Space, which was nominated for an Academy Award. His 1971 film (as executive producer) about the study of insects The Hellstrom Chronicle won an Academy Award.

(January 11, 1928 – August 10, 2010)

For his work on television, he had received his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The pre-1968 library is owned by Cube Entertainment (formerly International Creative Exchange), the post-1970 library is owned by Warner Bros..

Wolper died on August 10, 2010 of congestive heart disease and complications of Parkinson's disease at his Beverly Hills home at age 82. Wolper was survived by his wife of 36 years Glorida, his 3 children from a previous marriage sons Mark and Michael Wolper and a daughter Leslie. He was also survived by 10 grandchildren.^[1]

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Tab Baker, American actor (Prison Break), died from a heart attack. he was , 50

Terrence Alonzo "Tab" Baker was an American actor died from a heart attack. he was , 50.

(c. 1960 – August 9, 2010)

Life and career

Baker was born either on 1959, or 1960, in Chicago, Illinois. He was a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee. Baker had an acting career that spanned 30 years. He was a successful actor on stage, TV and in film. Some of Baker's credits include Prison Break, Cupid, ER, and Early Edition. He also acted in films such as Gladiator and The Ice Harvest.^[1] Baker also taught acting at Columbia College and at the Act One Studios.

Death

Baker died in his home at the age of 50 on August 9, 2010 after suffering from a heart attack. He is survived by his sisters.^[2][3]

Filmography

• Death of a President (2006) as Hat Man
• Stranger Than Fiction (2006) as Demolition Crew #2
• Prison Break as Crab Simmons (2 episodes, 2005-2006)
• The Ice Harvest (2005) as Dennis
• ER as Vendor (1 episode, 2001)
• Just Visiting (2001) as Cabbie
• Save the Last Dance (2001) as Mr. Campbell
• Cupid as Vaughn (1 episode)
• Hoodlum (1997) as Willie Brunder
• Due South as Lou Robbins (1 episode, 1996)
• Gladiator (1992) as Storm Trooper

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George DiCenzo American character actor (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Helter Skelter) and voice actor (He Man and the Masters of the Universe)

George Ralph DiCenzo was an American character actor and one-time associate producer for Dark Shadows died he was ,70. He was in show business for more than 30 years, with extensive film, TV, stage and commercial credits.

(April 21, 1940 – August 9, 2010)

Life and career

DiCenzo was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He appeared in over 30 feature films, including Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Back to the Future, The Ninth Configuration, The Exorcist III, and About Last Night.... He stated that one of his favorite roles was when he starred in Helter-Skelter, where he played Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor in the Charles Manson mass murder trial. DiCenzo also appeared in Hotel directed by Mike Figgis with an all-star cast, and Tempted, directed by Bill Bennett and starring Burt Reynolds and Saffron Burrows. He recently played the late baseball commissioner, A. Bartlett Giamatti, in the ESPN made for TV movie Hustle, about disgraced baseball great Pete Rose.

George guest-starred in a wide variety of TV shows, including regular appearances on Murder, She Wrote and NYPD Blue. His own series included Equal Justice and Joe's Life in the early and mid-1990s. He appeared as a guest star in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Semi-Professional".

In the early 1990s, George appeared on Broadway with Nathan Lane in On Borrowed Time directed by his late friend George C. Scott.

George's voice can be heard on many commercials, books on tape, and cartoon series. Notable in regards to the third is his work for Filmation; his roles include the title character in BlackStar, and Hordak in She-Ra: Princess of Power.

George was also an acting teacher in New York City and Philadelphia for several years. He apprenticed under his mentor Milton Katselas at the Beverly Hills Playhouse in California. In addition, George frequently privately coached students, and actors appearing on the New York stage. Burt Reynolds on an episode of Inside the Actors Studio referred to George DiCenzo as the best acting teacher in America.

Death

DiCenzo died on August 9, 2010. He had been in ill health after being the victim of a near-fatal accident some years ago.

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Fernando Fernández,, Spanish illustrator and comic artist, died after a long illness he was 79

Fernando Fernández ^[1] was a Spanish comic book artist died after a long illness he was.

(7 February 1940 – 9 August 2010)

Biography

Fernández was born in Barcelona in 1940. In 1956 Fernández joined the well known Spanish agency Selecciones Illustradas, at the age of 16. From 1958 through 1964 Fernandez worked on war comics (including Air Ace and War Picture Library) and romance comics (including Valentine, Roxy and Marilyn) for British publishers. He also painted covers for paperbacks and picture libraries like Commando and Chiller. Fernández left the comics industry for a period of time in the 1960s, returning in 1970. He drew the strip Mosca from 1970

to 1973.^[2]

Fernández started working for Warren Publishing in 1973 due to his connections with

Selecciones Illustradas. Unlike many of the Spanish artists from S.I., Fernández both wrote and drew his stories. During his period with Warren from 1973 to 1975 a total of 11 of these stories were made, all of which were published in Vampirella (issues 28–32, 35–6, 40–3). The story Rendezvous (issue 35) was included in a list of the top 25 Warren stories of all time in the book The Warren Companion by author David A. Roach. Fernandez won a Warren Award in 1975 for Best Artist/Writer on the story Goodbye My Love, Goodbye (issue 41). An additional story written by Fernandez, but drawn by Jose Miralles appeared in issue 57 of Vampirella in 1977. Warren would later reprint three additional Fernandez stories originally done in Spain in Eerie in 1978 (issue 94), 1980 (issue 117) and 1981 (issue 118).

After Warren, Fernández worked on French educational comics for Afha as well as the Cuando el Comic es Arte series for Jose Toutain. He also worked on the series Circulos in 1979 and Zora y los Hibernautas in 1980, which would later be reprinted in the U.S. in the magazine Heavy Metal. In 1982 he drew the comic version of Bram Stoker's Dracula for the Spanish edition of Creepy.^[2] He adapted Isaac Asimov stories in 1983 for the book Firmado por: Isaac Asimov, and collaborated with Carlos Trillo to create the medieval fantasy La Leyenda de las Cuatro Sombras for Zona 84.

He would later adapt Asimov again with Lucky Star in 1989. Fernández eventually left the comics field in the 1990s to focus exclusively on painting.

Selected bibliography

• Vampirella issues 28–32, 35–36, 40–43 (1973–1975)
• Eerie issues 94, 117, 118 (1978, 1980–1981)
• Circulows (1979)
• Zora (1980)
• Firmado Por: Isaac Asimov (1983)
• Heavy Metal (1984)
• Lucky Star (1989)

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Jay Larkin American television boxing executive (Showtime), died from a brain tumor he was , 59,

Jay Larkin was a television boxing and entertainment executive died from a brain tumor he was , 59,. For over twenty years, from 1984 to 2005, Larkin created Showtime Championship Boxing and ShoBox as a pay-per-view sports phenomenon, rising from publicist to senior vice president and executive producer en route to becoming one of the most powerful successful persons in the television boxing business, promoting major boxing events. Larkin also brought MMA to television, but was less successful.

(October 23, 1950 – August 9, 2010)

Childhood and education

Born into a Long Island Jewish family^[1], Larkin held degrees in theatre and directing from C.W. Post College, Long Island University, Boston Conservatory of Music, and the School of Theatre, Film and Television at University of California at Los Angeles.

Boxing and MMA promotion

Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Julio Cesar Chavez, and Felix Trinidad were among the boxers whose bouts Larkin promoted. His biggest fights were Tyson-Holyfield I in 1996, Tyson-Holyfield II in 1997 (a record $100,000,000 revenue night), and Tyson-Lewis in 2002. He was fired due to Showtime network job cutbacks in November of 2005. He followed as president in 2007–2008 of the now defunct mixed martial arts promotion International Fight League. Larkin's venture in MMA was a televised first and a failure. The IFL promotion was the first to be on broadcast TV in 2007 when it signed a deal with MyNetworkTV. IFL lost nearly $36,000,000 in its brief two years of existence in competition with UFC. ^[2][3]

Showtime pay-per-view concerts

Larkin was involved in marketing, distribution and production of such artists as Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Sting, The Rolling Stones, Elton John, Liza Minnelli, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Jay Z, Gloria Esteban, Spice Girls, and BackStreet Boys.

Showtime comedy specials and documentaries

Larkin worked with such celebrities on Showtime as Tim Allen, Ellen DeGeneres, Drew Carey, John Stewart, Dave Chappelle, Dennis Leary and many others. He was executive producer on Broadway of Mario Cantone's Tony-nominated Laugh Whore^[4].

Death

Larkin passed away in Nyack Hospital in Nyack, New York of a brain tumor on August 9, 2010. He was diagnosed in April 2007, and maintained a correspondence with New York Yankee Bobby Murcer, who was in a similar situation^[5] and predeceased him. Larkin was buried in Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York.^[6][7] He was survived by his wife Lisa and their two sons. Before he died, Larkin stated Nigel Benn versus Gerald McClellan was his most painful moment as a promoter.^[8]

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Mariam Baharum Singaporean actress, died of natural causes she was , 75,

Mariam Baharum was a Singaporean-Malay film actress who was known for her work during the 1950s died of natural causes she was , 75.^[1] She was nicknamed Mariam Tahi Lalat by her fans.^[1]

(1935 – August 9, 2010)

Baharum was born in 1935 in Singapore.^[1] She was the sister of another Malay film actress, Datin Saadiah, and the mother of pop singer, Rahimah Rahim.^[1]

Baharum's career reached its zenith during the 1950s as an actress signed to Malay Films Production Studio in Jalan Ampas, Singapore.^[1] Her most well known movie is perhaps the 1952 film, Anjuran Nasib, which was directed B. S. Rajhans and co-starred P. Ramlee.^[1] In 1953, Baharum was named the "Second Favorite Female Artiste Malaya" by Filem Raya Magazine for her role in Anjuran Nasib.^[1]

Baharum other film credits included Aloha, Dewi Murni and Kembar, all of which were released in 1950.^[1] She appeared in the 1952 film, Aladdin, Kipas Hikmat in 1955, Abu Hassan Penchuri in 1955 and Antara Dua Darjat 1960.^[1] Baharum co-starred in her films with most of the major Malaysian film stars of the era, including Kasma Booty, Aziz Sattar, S. Shamsuddin, Osman Gumanti and Datuk Mustapa Maarof.^[1]

Baharum was nominated for the Veteran Actress Award at both the 15th Malaysian Film Festival in 2001 and the 22nd Kota Kinabalu Film Festival in 2009.^[1]

Mariam Baharum died at 5:50 a.m. on August 9, 2010, at her condo in Yishun, Singapore, at the age of 75.^[1] She was survived by her six children from two marriages. Baharum was buried at Abadi Muslim Cemetery in Choa Chu Kang, Singapore.^[1]

The Malaysian Minister of Information, Communications and Culture Rais Yatim paid tribute to Baharum, calling her death a major loss to the Malay film industry.^[2]

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