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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Natalie Nevins American singer (The Lawrence Welk Show), died from complications from hip surgery she was , 85,


Natalie Nevins  was an American singer who appeared on television's The Lawrence Welk Show from 1965 to 1969  died from complications from hip surgery she was , 85,.



 (May 15, 1925 – August 23, 2010)







Early life

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nevins began singing when she was five and later took flute and piano lessons. She graduated from Little Flower Catholic High School for Girls in Hunting Park and later attended Chestnut Hill College and the University of Pennsylvania.[1]

Singing career

In 1950, she had her own television program on WCAU titled Notes From Natalie. Two years later, she was asked by Ed Sullivan to appear on his show after meeting him at a benefit in Philadelphia.[1]
In 1965, she was hired by Lawrence Welk as a vocalist on his weekly television program, where her pitch perfect singing voice earned Natalie nationwide fans and admirers. In addition to solo numbers, she sang in duets with Jimmy Roberts and Joe Feeney plus also recorded a solo album titled Natalie Nevins Sings I Believe & Other Inspirational Songs which was released by Ranwood Records in 1968.[2]
She left the Welk organization in 1969, and later moved back to Philadelphia to care for her mother and to be near her brother, the Rev. John Nevins, a Roman Catholic priest.[3]




Death

Natalie Nevins died on August 23, 2010 from complications from hip surgery at St. Mary's Medical Center in Langhorne, Pennsylvania.[1]

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Bill Phillips, American country music singer, died in plane crash he was 74,


Bill Phillips  was an American country music singer. His professional music career started with the Old Southern Jamboree on WMIL in Miami in 1955. He moved to Nashville in 1957 and worked with Johnny Wright and Kitty Wells until the late 1970s. His biggest recording was entitled "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" which peaked on the country charts at #6 on April 2, 1966 died in plane crash he was  74,. The Decca recording featured uncredited harmony vocals by the song's composer, a very young and then little known Dolly Parton.


(January 28, 1936, Canton, North Carolina – August 23, 2010)



William "Bill" Phillips, Sr. died on Aug. 9, 2010 after the plane on which he was a passenger crashed in remote southwest Alaska, near Dillingham.

Former senator Ted Stevens, whom Phillips had worked with in Washington, was also killed in the crash along with the pilot and two other passengers.





Discography

Albums

Year Album US Country Label
1966 Put It Off Until Tomorrow 11 Decca
1967 Bill Phillips Style 43
1968 Country Action
1970 Little Boy Sad
1980 When Can We Do This Again Soundwaves

Singles

Year Single US Country Album
1958 "Lying Lips" singles only
1959 "Foolish Me"
"Sawmill" (w/ Mel Tillis) 27
1960 "Georgia Town Blues" (w/ Mel Tillis) 24
"All Night Long"
"How Could You"
1961 "Walk with Me Baby"
"Love Never Dies"
1962 "Yankee Trader"
1963 "Lying to Be Together" Put It Off Until Tomorrow
1964 "I Can Stand It (As Long as She Can)" 22
"Stop Me" 26
1965 "I Guess You Made a Fool Out of Me"
"Wanted" single only
"It Happens Everywhere" Put It Off Until Tomorrow
1966 "Put It Off Until Tomorrow" 6
"The Company You Keep" 8 Bill Phillips Style
1967 "The Words I'm Gonna Have to Eat" 10
"I Learn Something New Everyday" 39 Country Action
"Love's Dead End" 25
1968 "I Talked About You Too"
"I'm Thankful" Little Boy Sad
1969 "I Only Regret" 54
"Little Boy Sad"A 10
1970 "She's Hungry Again" 43 singles only
"Same Old Story, Same Old Lie" 46
1971 "Big Rock Candy Mountain" 56 Little Boy Sad
1972 "I Am, I Said" 66 singles only
"(I Know) We'll Make It"
1973 "Nothing's Too Good for My Woman"
"It's Only Over Now and Then" 91
"Teach Your Children"
1974 "I've Loved You All Over the World"
1975 "Four Roses"
1978 "Divorce Suit (You Were Named Co-Respondent)" 90 When Can We Do This Again
"I Love My Neighbor" single only
1979 "You're Gonna Make a Cheater Out of Me" 89 When Can We Do This Again
"At the Moonlite" 85
"Memory Bound"
1981 "Dance the Night Away" singles only
1987 "One by One"
  • A"Little Boy Sad" peaked at #17 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada.
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Monday, October 18, 2010

Nancy Dolman, Canadian actress (Soap), wife of Martin Short, died of natural causes she was , 58


Nancy Dolman  was a Canadian comic actress and singer died of  natural causes she was , 58. She was most notable for her recurring role as Annie Selig Tate on the ABC sitcom Soap. She also appeared in her husband Martin Short's 1985 cable television special Martin Short: Concert for the North Americas.



(September 26, 1951 — August 21, 2010)




Biography

The Toronto-born Dolman performed in the Canadian Rock Theatre production of Jesus Christ Superstar in the early 1970s, which travelled to Las Vegas and Los Angeles, and recorded an album with the group at MGM while they were in Los Angeles.[1][2]
Dolman's brother, screenwriter/director Bob Dolman (who served as a part of SCTV's writing team alongside Short), married their close friend and colleague Andrea Martin, in 1980. Dolman and Martin had two sons, Jack (born 1981) and Joe (born 1983), before divorcing.[2]
In 1980, she married fellow Canadian actor Martin Short, whom she had met during the run of the 1972 Toronto production of Godspell. Dolman was Gilda Radner's understudy. Short dated Radner first, then began dating Dolman in 1974. Dolman attended high school at York Mills Collegiate Institute in Toronto, and held a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario.[2]
Dolman retired from show business in 1985 to be a homemaker and full-time mother to her children. A profile of the couple appeared in the February 1987 issue of Vogue. The family made their home in Pacific Palisades, California. Dolman and Short also kept a vacation home in Lake Muskoka, Ontario.[3]

Children

Dolman had three children: Katherine Elizabeth (born 1983), Oliver Patrick (born 1986), a student at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, and Henry (born 1989), who also attends the University of Notre Dame.

Death

Dolman was suffering with cancer, according to a newspaper in 2007[4] and died on August 21, 2010, in Pacific Palisades, California.[5] The exact cause of death or type of cancer have not been made public.[6] According to the Los Angeles County Coroner, she died of natural causes.[4]

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Harold Dow, American television news correspondent (48 Hours), died from asthma.he was , 62


Harold Dow  was an American television news correspondent, journalist, and investigative reporter with CBS News died from asthma.he was , 62.


 (September 28, 1947 – August 21, 2010[1])









 Personal life

Harold Dow was married to Kathy Dow. They had three children together: Danica, Joelle, David.

Journalist credentials

Dow was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He attended the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Dow had been a correspondent for the CBS TV investigative news series 48 Hours since 1990, after having served as a contributor to the broadcast since its premiere on January 1988. He had been a contributing correspondent for 48 Hours on Crack Street, the critically acclaimed 1986 documentary that led to the single-topic weekly news magazine. Dow conducted the first network interview for 48 Hours with O. J. Simpson following the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. Dow graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Prior to his work with 48 Hours, Dow was a correspondent for the CBS News magazine Street Stories (1992–93), and had reported for the CBS Evening News and CBS News Sunday Morning since the early 1970s.

Other accomplishments

Before joining CBS News, Dow had been an anchor and reporter at Theta Cable TV in Santa Monica, California. He was also a freelance reporter for KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, a news anchor for WPAT Radio in Paterson, New Jersey, and a reporter, co-anchor, and talk-show host for KETV-TV in Omaha, Nebraska. Dow was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc.
Dow joined CBS News in 1972, first as a broadcast associate, then as a correspondent with their Los Angeles Bureau while with KCOP-TV. Dow reported on the return of POWs from Vietnam and the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst, with whom he had an exclusive interview in December 1976.

Death

A resident of Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, Dow died from complications of asthma on August 21, 2010 at a New Jersey hospital.[2]

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Sunday, October 17, 2010

Christoph Schlingensief German director died of lung cancer.s at age 49

Christoph Maria Schlingensief  was a German film and theatre director, actor, artist, and author died of lung cancer.s at age 49. Initially working as an independent underground filmmaker, Schlingensief later began staging productions for renowned theatres and festivals, which often were accompanied by public controversies. In the final years, he also worked for opera houses, and established himself as an artist.


(24 October 1960, Oberhausen – 21 August 2010, Berlin[1])





Career

As a young man he organized art events in the cellar of his parents house, and local artists such as Helge Schneider or Theo Jƶrgensmann performed in his early short films.
Schlingensief considered himself a 'provocatively thoughtful' artist. He created numerous controversial and provocative theatre pieces as well as films, his former mentor being filmmaker and media artist Werner Nekes. Already his debut feature film, the surreal, absurd experimental Tunguska - Die Kisten sind da! ("Tunguska - The boxes have arrived!", 1984) was well-received by critics.
One of his main works is the so-called 'Germany Trilogy' (Deutschlandtrilogie), which deals with three turning points in 20th century German history: the first movie Hundert Jahre Adolf Hitler ("A Hundred Years of Adolf Hitler", 1989) covers the last hours of Adolf Hitler, the second Das deutsche KettensƤgenmassaker ("The German Chainsaw-Massacre", 1990), depicts the German reunification of 1990 and shows a group of East-Germans who cross the border to visit West-Germany and get slaughtered by a psychopathic West German family with chainsaws, and the third Terror 2000 (1992) uses the theme of the 1970s Red Army Faction terror. Hans-JĆ¼rgen Syberberg's film, Hitler: A Film from Germany (1977) is frequently considered as an attenuated remake of Schlingensief's pioneering Hitler film.
In 2004, at the invitation of Wolfgang and Katharina Wagner and to rave reviews, he staged Richard Wagner's Parsifal for the Bayreuth Festival. This production, in the first years conducted by Pierre Boulez, was revived in 2005 and 2006, but unlike other Bayreuth Festival stagings it was not filmed.
One of Schlingensief's central tactics was to call politicians' bluff in an attempt to reveal the inanities of their "responsible" discourse, a tactic he called "playing something through to its end". This strategy was most notable in his work Please Love Austria (alternately named Foreigners out! Schlingensiefs Container) at the time of the FPO and OVP coalition in Austria, a work which attracted international support, a media frenzy and countless debates about art practice.
Schlingensief also directed a version of Hamlet, subtitled, This is your Family, Nazi-line, which premiered in Switzerland, the so-called neutral territory equated with the Denmark of the opening line in Shakespeare's play where there is something foul afoot. Events around the piece questioned and attacked Switzerland's 'neutrality' in the face of growing racism and extreme right wing movements. It also involved former members of Neo Nazi groups, allowing them to play out their own weaknesses in the terms of the characters in the drama, and led to him founding a centre for former members to "de-brief".
Schlingensief's work covered a variety of media, including installation and the ubiquitous 'talk show' and has in many cases led to audience members leaving the theatre space with Schlingensief and his colleagues to take part in events such as Passion Impossible, Wake Up Call for Germany 1997 or Chance 2000, Vote for Yourself in which he formed his own party where anyone could become a candidate themselves in the run up to the federal election of 1998 in Germany. With his demands for people to "prove they exist" in an age of total TV coverage and "act, act, act" in the sense of becoming active not 'actors', his work could be considered a direct legacy of Bertolt Brecht, as it demands involvement as opposed to passivity and merely looking on as is the case in traditional text-based theatre. In an age of extreme media fatigue, his was a fresh voice albeit and undisputedly containing echoes of the past, often humorous and subversive yet never cynical. His influences included Joseph Beuys and his idea of social sculpture, and artists Allan Kaprow and Dieter Roth.
In his latest productions, such as the fluxus oratorio Church of Fear and the ready made opera Mea culpa, he staged his own cancer experience, and related it to his first 'stage experience' as a young altar boy. In this time he started his most ambitious project: building an opera house in the heart of the African savannah, in Burkina Faso. In 2010 he was appointed to design the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2011.

Death

Schlingensief died of lung cancer on August 21, 2010 in Berlin, Germany at age 49.[2] In a note to his death in the SĆ¼ddeutsche Zeitung, Literature Nobel Prize Laureate Elfriede Jelinek wrote: "Schlingensief was one of the greatest artists who ever lived. I always thought one like him can not die. It is as if life itself would be dead. He was not really a stage director (in spite of Bayreuth and Parsifal), he was everything: he was the artist as such. He has coined a new genre that has been removed from each classification. There will be nobody like him."[3]

Projects

1990s

  • 1990–1993 he directed a series of films known as the Germany-trilogy.
  • 1993 he directed his first stage piece "100 Years of CDU " at the VolksbĆ¼hne Berlin
  • 1994 Kuhnen "94, Bring Me the Head of Adolf Hitler! at the VolksbĆ¼hne Berlin
  • 1996 Director of the movie United Trash
  • 1996 Rocky Dutschke at the VolksbĆ¼hne Berlin
  • 1997 My Felt, My Fat, My Hare, 48 Hours Survival for Germany (Dokumenta X, Kassel)
  • 1997 Passion Impossible, Wake Up Call For Germany, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Station Mission for the Homeless
  • 1998 Chance 2000, an Election Circus, Prater Garden, Berlin and other locations nationwide
  • 1999 Freakstars 3000 at the VolksbĆ¼hne Berlin

2000s


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Saturday, October 16, 2010

Jack Horkheimer American public television host (Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer), executive director of Miami Planetarium, died from respiratory ailment

Jack Horkheimer, born Foley Arthur Horkheimer , was the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium died from respiratory ailment. He was best known for his astronomy show Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer, which started airing on PBS on November 4, 1976.[1]


(June 11, 1938 – August 20, 2010)


Early life

Jack Horkheimer was born in 1938 to a wealthy family in Randolph, Wisconsin.[2][3] His father owned a publishing firm and was the mayor of Randolph, Wisconsin for 24 years.[4][5] Horkheimer started his show business career in 1953 at the age of 15 when he hosted a radio show on WBEV. In 1956, he graduated from Campion Jesuit High School.[6]
During the summers away from college, he travelled the country playing jazz on the piano and organ under the name "Horky". His agents at the Artists Corporation of America ended up giving him the stage name "Jack Foley". He later changed this to "Jack Foley Horkheimer". He graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor of science degree in 1963 as a distinguished scholar.[1][5]
He moved to Miami, Florida in 1964 for health reasons and began volunteering at the Miami Science Museum planetarium. He later became its director in 1973.[5][7]

Career

Horkheimer started his astronomy career in 1964, when he was 26, after he moved to Miami and met astronomer Arthur Smith. Smith was the president of the Miami Museum of Science and the chief of the Southern Cross Astronomical Society.[4][5] Horkheimer started volunteering at planetarium writing shows and was later offered a position with the museum.[7]
Smith asked Horkheimer to run the Miami Space Transit Planetarium when it opened in 1966. Horkheimer's shows were successful and the planetarium went from losing money to becoming profitable. Horkheimer worked his way up to become the planetarium's educational director and eventually the executive director.[1][5]
Horkheimer changed the planetarium show from a science lecture to a multimedia event including music, lights and narration. He created the Child of the Universe show for the planetarium in 1972, which became famous and used in other planetariums across the country.[5] Sally Jessy Raphael portrayed the voice of the solar system in this show. The show won an international award from the society of European astronomers in 1976. Horkheimer became the executive director of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium in 1973 and stayed there for 35 years until his retirement in 2008.[2][5]

Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer

Jack Horkheimer was probably best known for his naked-eye astronomy television show Jack Horkheimer: Star Hustler, which started in 1976 and was broadcast nationally in 1985. Created, produced and written by Horkheimer, the show changed its name to Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer in 1997 because Internet searches were producing results for the adult magazine Hustler.

[edit] Media appearances

Horkheimer was known nationally for his commentaries about "astronomical events."[8] He was a science commentator for local Miami news station. starting in 1973.[1] In 1986, he co-organized an event for viewing Halley's Comet, traveling around the world aboard the supersonic airliner Concorde. He appeared on CNN several times, narrating solar eclipses and even hosted shows on Cartoon Network.[3]

[edit] Health issues

Horkheimer was born with a congenital degenerative lung disease known as bronchiectasis and, as a result, suffered from chronic pain.[4] His ailment was not diagnosed until he was 18 years old.[5] During this time, he suffered from radiation sickness and lost his hair as the result of medical X-Ray treatments. In 1957, he had to leave the Honolulu Academy of Fine Arts because it was suspected that he had tuberculosis.[1] His health issues caused him to move to Miami in 1964 for the humid warm climate.[4]
Horkheimer had been close to death on several occasions because of his health issues.[1] As a result, he had prepared a grave site next to his parents. He also had a tombstone prepared and wrote his own epitaph, which reads;[3]
"Keep Looking Up" was my life's admonition;
I can do little else in my present position.

[edit] Death

Horkheimer died at his Florida home on the morning of August 20, 2010 at the age of 72.[4] His death was related to the respiratory ailment that he suffered from since childhood.[5]
Horkheimer had never been married and did not have any children. His death was confirmed by his niece, Kathy, and Tony Lima, marketing vice president for the Miami Science Museum, Horkheimer's employer.[4] An email circulated among the museum's staff, stated that they were "very saddened to have just learned that our resident Star Gazer, Jack Horkheimer, passed away today after being ill for quite some time."[9]

[edit] Awards and honors

Jack Horkheimer received many awards during his lifetime. These are some of the more major awards and honors he received.[1][10]

[edit] Publications

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Friday, October 15, 2010

Tiberio Murgia, Italian actor, died he was 81,

Tiberio Murgia  was an actor in Italian died he was  81.

 

Biography


  Born into a poor family, he began working as a laborer since he was young.  Twenty-year-old street vendor from the unit , [1] [2] the newspaper of the Italian Communist Party . The leaders of the local section of the party, seeing in him the particular political skills and send it to Frattocchie in the province of Rome , seat of the national school for the party leaders. On his return six months later becomes secretary of the Young Communists and is getting married.
After some time, however, starts a relationship with a fellow party member, after which, for the scandal aroused, was expelled from the PCI. Murgia then emigrated to Belgium in Marcinelle , the large coal that sees employees as miners thousands of Italian workers.  There, too, establishes a relationship with the wife of a Belgian colleague and daring escapes death that fateful night of the disaster Marcinelle , where an explosion of gas killed all the miners of his round, including the woman's husband. M Murgia it was fake sick to be able to entertain a lady.

Film 

Murgia returns to his hometown but was forced to emigrate to Rome to escape the wrath of the family of another young woman whom he woos despite being already married. In the capital, began working as a dishwasher in a restaurant in the center (The King of Friends) until he was noticed by an assistant director Mario Monicelli , who invited him into the studio for an audition. The Tuscan director entrusted him with the role of Ferribotte (mispronunciation of ferry boat, the ferry linking Sicily to the mainland), the jealous and possessive Sicilian immigrant, in the band of inexperienced and clumsy Roman underworld, the masterpiece of Italian comedy of the 1958 , Unknown thieves , tries unsuccessfully to storm the safe of the Mount of the Pawns.
.Although Sardinia , Murgia will stay true to the character and the stereotypical caricature of the Sicilian, for most of his film appearances to be divided, with some regularity, for all 40 years, crossing the main popular genres of our cinema recently, and, precisely because Sardinian is doubled every sicula by actors such as Renato Cominetti , Ignazio Balsamo and Michael Gammon . The general public certainly will remember him for his facial expressions, often half-closed eyes and eyebrows perennially arched and thick, slightly turned his head back in the representation satire of Sicilian mistrustful and obstinate.
The same stereotype will be exploited in advertising: Tiberio Murgia it will be for many years testimonial of a famous brand of coffee in the carousels television.  . Also in the shoes of Ferribotte take part in the sequel of The Deal on Madonna Street ( Bold Strike Deal on Madonna Street ) directed by Nanni Loy in 1960 and, again alongside Marcello Mastroianni and Vittorio Gassman , the saga concludes in 1987 with the film Amanzio Todini , Unknown thieves twenty years later .Also directed by Mario Monicelli take part in the secondary role of the soldier Nicotra, it 's The Great War of 1959 and, alongside Monica Vitti , will the girl with the gun of 1968 .
The sixties saw him participate more in supporting actor roles in many productions nature of parody and comedy light typical of Italian cinema of that period.Directed by Sergio Corbucci is opposite TotĆ² it the shortest day of 1962 while in 1961 he starred alongside Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia in the film The honored society  In 1966 , directed by Vittorio De Sica , plays the role of a detective it the Fox in the early seventies while appearing in several productions of the genus decamerotico, under the direction of Mariano Laurenti .
Tiberio Murgia is also active for most of the eighties and appears in several of the plays performed by Adriano Celentano for the direction of Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia , artistic association of writers known as Castellano and Pipolo, and in several films directed by Nando Cicero and belonging to a minor and that kind of comedy that scollacciata drawing especially to the vast repertoire of jokes popular in those years living a moment of brief but intense production.  In 1988 participates in the yellow fllm Children Operation Parrot debut of director Roman Marco Di Tillo , screenplay by Piero Chiambretti , Claudio Fratte Of Marco Di Tillo and the same (in the film's cast also includes Leo Gullotta , Syusy Blady , Didi Perego and Nicola Pistoia ).  In that film, for the first time in his life, is not dubbed but speaks with his voice (which has great inflection Sardinia , but he was always dubbed in Sicily ).

. In 2001 , starring Nino Manfredi , Murgia plays a minor role in the film by Diego Febbraro A Milan to Rome , and also takes part in the comedy Vincenzo Terracciano Rebels for the event , along with Antonio Catania .  In 2008 played a small role in the film who comes round to Alessandro Valori , starring Valerio Mastandrea .
He was ill for some time of Alzheimer , [3] Murgia has died in a nursing home for elderly Tolfa on 20 August 2010 .

Filmography 

Television 

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Dickey Betts died he was 80

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