In 2024, we've experienced the loss of several luminaries in the world of entertainment. These beloved figures—actors, comedians, musicians, singers, and coaches—have touched our lives with their talent, passion, and dedication. They've left an indelible mark on our hearts and shaped the world of entertainment in ways that will continue to inspire and influence generations to come.
Among the incredible actors who bid farewell this year, we mourn the loss of a true chameleon who effortlessly.
(September 16, 1923, Urk, Flevoland – August 29, 2010)
He is mainly known for his large series of detective novels revolving around police inspector De Cock and his side-kick, sergeant Vledder. The name of the protagonist simply means "cook" in Dutch, but has an unusual spelling which is at the heart of a running gag that involves De Cock spelling out his name every time he introduces himself to someone. The novels have spin-offs in the form of a motion picture[1] and a long-running TV-series.[2] Both are named after the author, rather than the main character(s). This led to screenwriterBerend Boudewijn's bitter statement in a Dutch TV Guide ("VPRO Gids", November 11, 2005) that "Baantjer is the only TV-series in the world that is named after a writer, even though it is not written by him". This is not entirely true : Belgian TV-series "Aspe" is also named after its writer. The first season was written by author Pieter Aspe, but the second season is not written by him.
Baantjer's novels have made their way into the English language through the publishing house Speck Press. De Cock's name has been translated as DeKok. There are approximately 23 of the 60 published Baantjer titles available in English. His books have also been translated into Spanish, French, Russian and Korean and Estonian.[3]
Peter Lenz was a nationally ranked American amateur motorcycle racer died from a collision he was , 13.
Lenz was born in Orlando, Florida. He was a four-time international champion, five-time national champion and in 2009 started competing in 125GP racing.[1] He was featured in Roadracing World’s 2009 and 2010 Young Guns: North America’s Fastest Kids feature.[2]
On August 29, 2010, Lenz was killed in an accident during the warmup lap of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP.[3]
(May 30, 1997 – August 29, 2010)
Racing results
Four International (Can-Am) Championships, nine National Championships, nine Regional Championships and one Provincial Championship with 135 race wins and 43 additional podiums from years 2005 to 2009.
Grand Prix racing
In 2009 Lenz began racing full time on 125 GP race bikes. He competed in the USGPRU National Series and select WERA West, AFM, CCS SW and OMRRA races.
At the age of 11, Lenz became the youngest licensed Expert racer in AFM (American Federation of Motorcyclists) history; the previous holder of that honor was American GP racer Randy Mamola. Lenz also became the youngest rider to win an AFM race with his win in the Clubman Lightweight class on March 21, 2009, at Buttonwillow Raceway Park.
At the age of 11, Lenz became the youngest licensed Expert racer in CCS (Championship Cup Series) history. He also became the youngest rider to win a CCS race with his win in the 125GP class on March 1, 2009, at Firebird International Raceway (East Course). In the same day, Lenz set a new 125GP track record of 59.14s.[4]
After the first two rounds, Lenz was leading the USGPRU (United States Grand Prix Racers Union) West Coast 125GP and 250GP class championships.[5] Mid-season Lenz crashed into a tire wall[6] at Portland International Raceway (PIR) on May 31, 2009, due to several mechanical failures. He suffered several broken bones (tibia and fibula just above the boot line; a broken femur; and a broken humerus just above the elbow) requiring several surgeries. The arm also suffered a severed radial nerve. The accident effectively ended Lenz’s 2009 season and his run at the USGPRU 125GP and 250GP motorcycle road racing national championships. Lenz recovered and returned to racing in 2010.
Career
Lenz began riding in the dirt on a Yamaha PW50 when he was 5 and quickly started racing it. He soon moved up to a KTM Pro Senior 50. At age 7 he transitioned to pocketbikes on pavement which he rode for the next 2 years, finishing with an undefeated season.[7] Lenz then advanced to racing minis for 3 years on a variety of bikes including: Honda NSR50, KTM 65SX roadracer, Metrakit MiniGP 50 and 80 and Honda RSF150R.
2005
2005 was Lenz’s first season riding pocketbikes (see Pocketbike racing) as well as being a member of the BMS Factory Racing, USA Team.[8] He finished the season taking 4th Overall in the Junior division of OMRRA (Oregon Motorcycle Road Racing Association).
2006
In 2006 Lenz rode a full season with OMRRA and joined Portland, Oregon based FNB Racing. In March he traveled to France, to visit the BMS factory, and Spain where he placed 4th and 6th in an internationally attended pocketbike race. At the Canadian Mini Nationals sanctioned by the CMA in August at Quesnel, British Columbia, Lenz went home as the 2006 CMA Canadian National Open Pocketbike Champion and the Canadian Junior National Pocketbike Champion. Lenz also raced his first year in MiniGP on his NSR50 finishing as the NMRRA Mini50 GP Class Champion. Lenz completed the season as the OMRRA Junior Overall Pocketbike Champion and announced his retirement from pocketbikes.
2007
In 2007 Lenz rode undefeated in the 50cc classes for the Metrakit Canada Factory team[9] on a Metrakit 50 with ambitions of winning several Canadian National titles. Unfortunately, a startline crash[10] resulted in a broken arm taking Lenz out of the series and along with it, his ride with Metrakit. He finished the year aboard his Honda NSR50 and his KTM 65SX motard racer taking a total of 4 national wins, 34 regional wins, and an additional 14 podiums for the season.
2008
In 2008 Lenz focused on full-size GP chassis bikes. The focus of his riding was to continue the development of his racecraft on MiniGP tracks on his Honda NSR50, KTM 65SX, and new Honda RS85 and Honda RSF150R in select SCMINIGP, CMA CNMRA, CMRRA, NMRRA, & SMRRC races. He also ran the Can-Am Mini Motorcycle Roadracing Championship Series[11] in which he won four National Champion titles. He also won the CMA Canadian National Formula Thunder Championship. Awareness of Lenz increased significantly when a video of him titled, “Follow 10yr roadracer Peter Lenz at the Streets of Willow” was posted on YouTube and was viewed by tens of thousands and shared on hundreds of internet forums.[citation needed] Lenz's Honda RSF150R was featured in RoadRacerX’s The Point feature.[12] Lenz began riding a Honda RS125 in the fall of 2008 and retired from mini racing on kart tracks. He raced his RS125 for the first time with WERA at Las Vegas Motor Speedway finishing in second place, five tenths of a second off the track record. Lenz was also awarded one of CMA's MAX Awards for the year.[13]
Coaching
The California Superbike School sponsored Lenz.[14] Lenz repeatedly mentioned in interviews[15] that the school and its founder, Keith Code, were instrumental in his success as a racer.
Personal life
Lenz lived with his parents and two sisters in Vancouver, Washington. Lenz trained by running, playing motorcycle video games and riding motocross. In his spare time he enjoyed ripstiking, cycling and video games. As of June 2010 his height was 4'10" (147 cm), and his weight was 80 lbs (36 kg).
Pre-death crashes
On July 8, 2007, Peter Lenz was racing at the Canadian Mini Road Race Formula 80GP when another rider accidentally bumped his handle bar forcing him into a hard right turn and into several other riders. One of the other riders suffered a fractured arm.[citation needed]
On May 31, 2009, Peter Lenz suffered a brake failure and hit tire barriers at the Portland International Speedway at over 100mph (160 km/h). He suffered multiple fractures to, among others, the fibula, the tibia and the femur, facial lacerations and a severed nerve.[citation needed] Peter Lenz's first comment about the cause of the failure was that someone had failed to pump his brakes before the race. Others, including father Michael Lenz, speculated the wreck may have been caused by a failure unrelated to the brakes.[citation needed]
Death
On August 29, 2010, Lenz was involved in a fatal crash during a warm-up lap at the MD250H race of the Red Bull Indianapolis GP. Lenz fell and was struck by another rider, a 12-year-old. Paramedics immediately placed Lenz into a cervical collar, intubated him, performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and rushed him to the Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis, where he later died of his injuries.[16] Reigning MotoGP World Champion Valentino Rossi fell four times at the track during practice and warm-ups and other top riders acknowledged the track was difficult.[17]
The funeral was held on September 3, 2010, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Vancouver, Washington.[18]
Victoria Constance Mary Longley was an Australianactress. She worked extensively in television died from breast cancer she was , 49.
She debuted in a film called The More Things Change as a pregnant au pair, alongside Barry Otto and Judy Morris. An early foray into television was in the epic miniseries The Dirtwater Dynasty opposite Hugo Weaving. In the ABC television series, The Mercury, not-so-loosely based on the Sunday Age, she played a senior journalist, with Geoffrey Rush cast as editor, believed to be modelled on Bruce Guthrie.
Longley's television credits included: Murder Call, Wildside, Water Rats, Farscape, Turtle Beach, Young Lions, and All Saints.[1]
Longley died from breast cancer at the age of 49.
The story showcased garments by Romeo Gigli, Joseph Tricot, Ralph Lauren, and a feather head-dress from the now-defunct Covent Garden boutique World.[2] The photographs, which include one depicting Moss topless and another in which it is implied that she was naked, are some of the first published fashion photographs of Moss, who was sixteen at the time (since 2003, following the Sexual Offences Act, designates that those under eighteen are protected and defined as children).[3]
In 1993, Day photographed Moss for the cover of British Vogue—a cover that has become associated with defining the 'waif' look that became pervasive in fashion culture, in the early 1990s.[4]
In 2006, Day had a solo exhibition of her photographs at Gimpel fils gallery in London.[citation needed]
In 2007, Day was commissioned to photograph Kate Moss by the National Portrait Gallery. Discussing the shoot, Day Said, "I suggested to Kate that we have a conversation about a serious subject. The subject she chose to talk about revealed her true feelings and in turn defined her character."[5]
On 7 August 2009, an article on models.com reported that Day had been diagnosed with a life threatening brain tumor.[6]
Moss and others, raised more than £100,000 by selling photographic prints—in a campaign they titled 'Save the Day'—in order that Day receive Insulin Potentiation Therapy Low Dose or IPTLD chemotherapy in Arizona, USA.[7] Day returned to England where, from February 2010 until her death on 27 August 2010 from complications related to the tumor, she was "gravely ill".[8]
Writing in The Daily Telegraph, in late August 2010, Belinda White said, "Corinne opened the door for a whole generation of photographers, designers, models and stylists who suddenly saw that the fashion industry didn’t have to be this exclusive club for the privileged and perfect."[9]
Hitchcock was born in Hood River, Oregon, graduating in 1935 from the University of Oregon, where he was a reporter on the school newspaper. After college, he worked as a journalist for several labor movement periodicals, including The Western Worker and The People’s Daily World, simultaneously developing an interest in poetry which was fostered by Kenneth Rexroth. He joined the United States Merchant Marine during World War II, and worked as a cook and a waiter in the South Pacific.[1]
After the war, he became more active in the labor movement, working to organize dairy workers in California and teaching at the California Labor School. Later, he became active in the San Francisco theater scene, writing plays and acting with the Actor's Workshop and the Interplayers while working as a landscape gardener.[1]
While performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in 1957, Hitchcock was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee, where in response to a question asking him his profession, he responded, "I am a gardener. I do underground work on plants". He refused to answer any further questions "on the grounds that this hearing is a big bore and waste of the public's money".[1]
Magazine publisher
In 1958, after the San Francisco Review published one of Hitchcock's plays, he joined it as an editor. When the organization folded, he founded Kayak as a response to what he saw as the "tepid eclecticism" of the other literary journals of the day, with the journal's title representing the "small watertight vessel operated by a single oarsman" that was a metaphor for the way he personally ran the publication as a self-titled "dictator".[3] Hitchcock ran Kayak frugally as a one-man show from its creation in 1964, using an offset printing press he had purchased and having personally "designed the magazine, edited it, printed it, illustrated it" and ran parties where the printed sheets would be assembled for mailing.[1] He moved to Santa Cruz, California in 1970 and joined the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he taught poetry and playwriting until 1989. In the magazine's 64 issues published before he shut the publication in 1984, Kayak included many significant poets and writers of prose, such as Raymond Carver, Anne Sexton, Robert Bly, and Margaret Atwood.[1]Howard Junker, founder and editor of Zyzzyva: The Journal of West Coast Writers and Artists, called Hitchcock "the pre-eminent maverick independent magazine publisher".[1].
Hitchcock had co-written a critical satire Pioneers of Modern Poetry with poet Robert Peters in 1966. It was led to be an experiment in criticism. In these pieces where Hitchcock arranged most of the "poems" from various prose texts, and Peters wrote most of the "interpretations." These ripostes between Hitchcock & Peters were thrust against some of the excesses of Projective Verse poets, their adulators, and academic readings of poems.[4]
Hitchcock died at age 96 on August 27, 2010, at his home in Eugene, Oregon. He was survived by his companion, Marjorie Simon, as well as by a son, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild.[1]
Rock musician, the soloist of the band “Kruiz” Alexander Monin, passed away on the 56th year of life, RIA “Novosti”, referring to the words of the collective drummer Nikolaj Chunusov.
According to the musician’s wife, Monin was hospitalized around 1 p.m. with peritonitis. He was operated on, but the heart appeared to be weak.
The funeral will take place on Monday, but the place and time has not been still defined.
Alexander Monin is the author of such popular songs as “Krututsya volchok”, “Kak skuchno zhit bez svetloj skazki” and many others.
The musician was born on December 19, 1954 in Budapest in the Soviet Army military baze, where his father served. The father was a military pilot, and the mother – a teacher. At school he created a band, in which he was a drummer and sang. After leaving school he entered the Medical University. But his passion for music brought him to the professional stage, and didn’t graduate from the University as a result.
In the year of 1977 Monin managed to be a member of three musical bands –“SNG”, “Kordinal”, “Novye elektrony” and then got acquainted with Valerij Gain, Alexander Kirnitskij, Vsevolod Korolyuk and worked jointly with them in the band “Magistral” till 1978.
History
Kruiz was formed in 1978, originally playing soft and hard rock songs with Russian lyrics. The original lineup consisted of Alexandre Monin (vocals), Valery Gaina (guitars), Alexander Kirnitsky (8 November1956-7 November2008) (bass), Serge Sarychev (keyboards), and Seva Korolyuk (drums). In 1980, they released their first album called The Top, which was really a collection of demos.
In 1981, they released their first official album, Крутится Волчoк (transscription: Krutitsya Volchok, translation: The Top Keeps Turning), featuring Alexander Kirnitsky on bass, and additional keyboards by Matvey Anitchkin. This was followed by another album Послушай Человек (Poslusshay Chelovek, translation: Listen Man).
In 1983, the lineup changed to Monin (vocals), Gaina (guitars), Gregory Bezougly (guitars), Oleg Kouzmitchyov (bass), Vladimir Kapoustin (keyboards), and Nikolai Tchunusov (drums). This lineup released the album Путешествие на Воздушном (Puteshestvye na Vozdushnom, translation: Balloon Journey). Shortly after the release of this album, the band unfortunately drew the ire of the Communist government and were ordered to disband. The band released one final album P.S. Продолжение Слeдует (P.S. Prodolzhenye Sleduet, translation: P.S. To be Continued) in 1983, before stopping all activities.
In 1985, Valery Gaina decided to reform the band and take a heavier approach to their music. The new lineup consisted of Gaina (guitars and vocals), Alexander Kirnitsky (bass), Vsevolod Korolyuk (drums), with Vadim Malikov (additional vocals). They released an album called КиКоГаВва (translation: KiKoGaVva), named after the first two letters of the band members names.
This lineup was short-lived and Valery Gaina soon recruited another lineup with himself on vocals and guitars, Fyodor Vasilyev (bass), and Sergey Efimov (drums). This particular incarnation of the band had a speed metal sound . They released a demo and an album, Kruiz-1 on Melodia records (a state owned record company). One song (Rock is Forever) was promptly banned by the authorities and hence, only appears on the demo. Only two years later the song was included in compilation album "A Place To Meet ... " with other soviet rock bands.
Kruiz became known to the west, when they opened a few shows for the German band Rage. The band redid some of their songs with English lyrics and released the album Kruiz in 1988, for WEA Records (Warner Bros. Records). The song In Flames from this album received a lot of air-play in the Canadian metal show, The Power Hour. It is on the strength of this album and the video that Kruiz became known as a speed metal band, and their past as a soft-rock/hard-rock band was largely unknown in the west.
The band went on a European Tour in 1989 and were featured on a German TV program, "Mosh Special", on February 5, 1989. Kruiz opened for bands such as Metallica and Slayer and were scheduled to release a third album, titled Culture Shock, but their contractual obligations prevented them from doing so. Sergey Efimov flew back to Russia. Gaina and Vasilyev attempted to finish the album using the services of Iain Finlay (then drummer for Running Wild), but could not complete the album. Shortly after this, the band broke up.
Post breakup
Valery Gaina then formed the band Gain, with Vladimir Bajin (vocals), Alexander Shprot (bass), and Andrei Shatounovsky (session drummer). This band recorded an album in 1990 but it only came out in 1995, with two bonus tracks from the unreleased third Kruiz album Culture Shock. Valery Gaina then moved to Los Angeles, mainly because of the rise of the Russian Mafia. He formed a band called Karma and released an album (Fence) under the Frozen Hound label. This album was described as a cross between the Stone Temple Pilots and Red Hot Chili Peppers, very unlike the music of Kruiz. Gaina also built his own studio and produced music for local bands. Karma nearly signed with Mercury Records, but the deal fell through. Meanwhile Gaina put out a dance/hip-hop album called Fantasy, which went gold in South Korea.
Bassist Fyodor Vasilyev went on to play for a Russian hard rock band called Black Coffee, where he found success.
Drummer Sergey Efimov also moved to the United States and later played in bands called Wolves and Hippies of Chaos, where he also sang in the band. He also found work as a session musician.
Reunion
In 1994, the original vocalist of Kruiz, Alexandre Monin, upon the success of V.Gaina, reformed the band, with the lineup consisting of himself, Gregory Bezougly (guitars), Vladimir Kapoustin (keyboards), Oleg Kouzmitchyov (bass), and Nikolai Tschunosov (drums). This lineup returned back to their original style of soft and hard rock music and released three albums, Live at Robin Hood Festival in 1994, Bcem BCTATb (translation: Stand Up Everyone) in 1996 and Live Collection in 1998. This lineup also opened for Ronnie James Dio on May 3 1999, at Moscow, Russia at the Olimpiyskey Stadium. This particular lineup still plays gigs to this day, but do not play any metal, and in fact, don't want anything to do with the Metal Kruiz.
In 2002, Valery Gaina regrouped with the 1988 lineup of Vasilyev and Efimov, and also released a demo under the name of Kruiz. The bass and drums were recorded in Moscow and the tapes were mastered by Gaina in Los Angeles. Gaina also announced plans for a full reunion.
On August 27, 2010 Alexandre Monin died at age of 56 of peritonitis.[1][2]
Alain Corneau was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977).
