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.
He made his primary school in the Industrial School of Don Bosco in Puerto Sauce and one year of the high school in the public lyceum. He abandoned because he started to work as worker in textile factories settled in his hometown. But he completed his studies in a free nocturnal lyceum organized by him and other workers.
Artistic beginnings
In 1967 he migrated to Montevideo and started to act in folk clubs singing his compositions. That year he has the opportunity to release, for the Orfeo label his first phonogram, in which featured guitar with Roberto Cabrera.
This disc integrated by four chamarritas went virtually unnoticed, and two years later in 1969 he recorded his first LP album called "Canto Popular".
Foreword by the poet Idea Vilariño, and with instrumental support of Yamandú Palacios and Roberto Cabrera, this disc had a remarkable success in Uruguay and Latin America. On it, it is included some of the most emblematic songs of this artist, like "Chiquillada", "La sencillita" y "A mi gente".
Exile
In the 1970s he reached fame in all Latin América through the song Chiquillada, that was also performed by Leonardo Favio and Jorge Cafrune.
Between 1970 and 1973 he lived in Buenos Aires, and then the Uruguayan dictatorship made him emigrate, passing for countries like México, France and Spain. There he was expelled by the franquism, and later he was definitely established in Holland.
Latest years
He came back to Uruguay in 1984 but in 1992 he settled again in Holland, although he kept a music band in Montevideo.
Death
In the dawn of 21 October 2010 he died in his house of Villa Argentina (Canelones Department) of a cardiac arrest.[1].
Forster was born in Munich, Germany,[1][2] the granddaughter of a wealthy German newspaper proprietor. Forster's mother, Nora, was known in the music industry, as she was a friend of Jimi Hendrix and dated Chris Spedding for three years. Ari noted that Jon Anderson, the singer of the group Yes, was her godfather.[3] Nora would later date and marry the Sex Pistols' lead singer, John Lydon. Their home was known to be something of a punk domain, where Nora would take in poor musicians. The constant presence of punk music led to Ari Up experimenting in it herself, learning guitar skills from The Clash's Joe Strummer.[4]
Ari Up was only fourteen when she formed The Slits with drummer Palmolive in 1976. By the late seventies, they were touring as the opening act for The Clash.[3] Ari Up's love of reggae led The Slits into a "jungly", dub style. She was the most flamboyant member of the group. Her wild hair and crazy stage outfits became her trademarks. She can be seen briefly in The Clashmovie, Rude Boy, with the band backstage. Her 1977 performances with The Slits are featured in The Punk Rock Movie, a 1992 release of various punk group club performances, principally at The Roxy.
After The Slits split in 1981, she moved with her husband and twin children to jungle regions of Indonesia and Belize, living among indigenous people in those areas. Later, they moved to Jamaica, eventually settling in Kingston.[5] She continued to make music, first with the New Age Steppers, then solo as Baby Ari, Madussa, and Ari Up.
Despite growing up in England, Ari Up possessed an unusual accent, a cross between German, English and Jamaican.[6] Her first full length solo album entitled Dread More Dan Dead was released in 2005.
Later life and death
In 2006 Ari Up reformed The Slits with original bass player Tessa Pollitt. They released an EP and later toured in Europe, North America, Australia, and Japan. She occasionally played solo concerts in New York, and toured the UK with her backing band 'The True Warriors'.
She also recorded with the Jammyland All Stars, Brave New Girl, Dubistry, and the German techno-dancehall outfit, Terranova.
Ari Up appeared on Lee "Scratch" Perry's 2008 album, Repentance,[7] and performed a duet on a cover version of The Yardbirds' song "Mister You're a Better Man Than I" on Mark Stewart's 2008 album, Edit. In July 2009, she performed with Perry and Austrian dub band Dubblestandart in Brooklyn, New York just prior to the Central Park SummerStage festival.[8] One of Ari's last recordings done in May 2010 in New York was on a track with Lee Scratch Perry recorded by Subatomic Sound System and released in August 2010 on 7" vinyl called "Hello, Hell is Very Low" b/w "Bed Athletes". The Slits' final work, the video for the song "Lazy Slam" from Trapped Animal, was released posthumously in accordance with Ari Up's wishes.[9]
Ari Up died aged 48 from cancer in Los Angeles on 20 October 2010.[1] Her death that morning was initially announced on John Lydon's homepage.[10][11]
Bob Guccionewas the founder and publisher of the adult magazine Penthouse. He resigned from his publisher position in November 2003 died from lung cancer.he was , 79.
( December 17, 1930 – October 20, 2010)
Early life
Robert Charles Joseph Edward Sabatini Guccione was born in Brooklyn, New York, of Sicilian descent, and raised as a Roman Catholic in Bergenfield, New Jersey. His father Anthony was an accountant. His mother, Nina, was a house wife. He considered, but rejected, entering the priesthood.[2] He attended high school at Blair Academy, a prep school in Blairstown, New Jersey.
Guccione married the first of his three wives, Lilyann Becker, before the age of 20, and had a daughter, Tonina. The marriage soon failed. He left his wife and child to go to Europe, where he wanted to be a painter. He eventually met an English woman, Muriel, moved to London with her, and married her. They had two children, Bob Jr. and Tony. To support his family he managed a chain of laundromats. He eventually got work as a cartoonist on an American weekly newspaper, The London American, while Muriel started a business selling pinup posters. He sometimes created cartoons for Bill Box's humorous greeting card company, Box Cards.[3][4][5]
Career
Penthouse began publication in 1965 in England and in North America from 1969. The magazine was an attempt to compete with Hugh Hefner's Playboy on several levels. One approach Guccione took was offering editorial content that was more sensationalistic than Playboy. The magazine's writing was aimed more at the middlebrow reader than Hefner's upscale emphasis, with stories about government cover-ups and scandals.[3] Due to his lack of money and other resources, Guccione himself photographed most of the models for the magazine's early issues.[3] Lacking professional training, Guccione applied his knowledge of painting to his photography, establishing the diffused, soft focus-look that would become one of the trademarks of the magazine's pictorials. Guccione would sometimes take several days to complete a shoot.
As the magazine grew more successful, Guccione openly embraced a life of luxury; his former mansion is said to be the largest private residence in Manhattan at 22,000 square feet (2,000 m2). However, in contrast to Hugh Hefner (who threw wild parties at his Playboy Mansions), life at Guccione's mansion was remarkably sedate even during the hedonistic 1970s.[3] He reportedly once had his bodyguards eject a local radio personality who had been hired as a DJ for jumping into the swimming pool naked.[6]
The magazine's pictorials offered more sexually explicit content than was commonly seen in most openly sold men's magazines of the era, being the first to show female pubic hair, then full-frontal nudity, and then the exposed vulva and anus.[3]Penthouse has also, over the years, featured a number of authorized and unauthorized photos of celebrities such as Madonna and Vanessa Lynn Williams. In both cases, the photos were taken earlier in their careers and sold to Penthouse only after Madonna and Williams became famous. In Williams' case, this led to her forced resignation as Miss America in 1984; the issue in which Williams was first featured also included a layout featuring porn actress Traci Lords, who was later revealed to be underage during most of her porn career (including her Penthouse session). By the early 1990s, the magazine was showing sexual penetration in many of its photo layouts, something the American porn magazine industry did not adopt until later in the decade. In the late 1990s, the magazine began to show "fetish" content such as urination, bondage, and "facials".[3]
In 1976, Guccione used about US$17.5 million of his personal fortune to finance the controversial historical epic film-cum-hardcore porn flick, Caligula, with Malcolm McDowell in the title role and a supporting cast including Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, and Peter O’Toole. The film, which was eventually released in late 1979, was produced in Italy (made at the legendary Dear Studios in Rome) and was directed by Tinto Brass. Guccione also created the magazines Omni, Viva, and Longevity.[3] Later Guccione started Penthouse Forum which was more textual in content. In the early 2000s, Penthouse published a short-lived comic book spin-off entitled Penthouse Comix featuring sexually explicit stories.
Decline and resignation
Several wildly unsuccessful investments by Guccione — including the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino (which lost $160 million),[3] and a (never-built) nuclear fusion power plant — added to his publishing empire's financial woes.[6] Guccione's efforts to regain sales and notoriety, which included attempts to get Monica Lewinsky to pose for the magazine (which was parodied in a sketch on Saturday Night Live in 1998,[7] but didn't have someone impersonating Guccione) and offering the Unabomber a free forum for his views, failed to increase readership. With the rise of online access to (often free) pornography in the latter 1990s, Penthouse's circulation numbers began to suffer even more. In 2003, General Media (the publishing company for Penthouse) declared bankruptcy. Guccione resigned as chairman of the board and CEO of Penthouse International, Inc. The magazine as of 2010 was still in publication, and had an online presence; its circulation was estimated at 500,000, roughly a tenth of what it was at its peak.[citation needed]
Legal dispute
In 2006, Guccione sued Penthouse Media Group for fraud, breach of contract, and conspiracy, among other charges. Some of the people named in the case included Jason Galanis, Charles Samel, Marc Bell, Dr. Fernando Molina, and Daniel C. Stanton.[8][9]
Guccione's English-reared son, Bob Guccione, Jr. (b. 1956), was given editorship of Spin, but father and son soon fell out over editorial decisions, and Bob Jr. eventually found independent investors to continue the magazine. Father and son remained estranged for a long time, but reportedly reconciled before Bob Guccione, Sr.'s death in 2010.[12]
Illness
He married his long-time companion, Kathy Keeton, a native of South Africa. She died in 1997, aged 58, following treatment for advanced cancer. Guccione continued to list her on the Penthouse masthead posthumously as President until he lost control of the magazine. Guccione suffered from cancer himself. He was diagnosed with throat cancer and stated: “My cancer was only a tiny tumor about the size of an almond at the base of my tongue”, he explains. “The cure is probably every bit as bad as the disease. It's affected my ability to swallow ... the mobility of my tongue ... it makes it very difficult for me to talk..."[13] He was later diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
Residence
Guccione brought artisans in from France and Italy to build the largest private residence in Manhattan. As a tribute to Guccione the artisans carved both his and his wife's face into the marble columns near the entrance. According to New York magazine, "It's one of the biggest private houses in Manhattan, with 30 rooms, and it costs $5 million a year to maintain."[14] In November 2003, the mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side was foreclosed on by Kennedy Funding of New Jersey,[15] the mortgage holder along with an affiliate of multi billion-dollar hedge fund Elliot Associates of New Jersey. In January 2004, a group of investors came to Guccione’s aid during his Sheriff-enforced eviction. A London-based investor named Jason Galanis lead an investment group that purchased the house for $26.5 million in cash.[16][17][18] The house was purchased by NY Real Estate LLC, an entity set up to acquire the mansion. Galanis contributed $2.6 million, and two New York hedge funds, Laurus Funds and Alexandre Asset Management made a mortgage loan of $24 million to NY Real Estate LLC, which was owned by Penthouse International, the parent and debtor-in-possession of General Media.
As a result of the continuing contentious bankruptcy which lasted over a year, the promissory notes due to Laurus were considered in technical breach of covenants which resulted in severe financial penalties in excess of $8 million. Penthouse International elected to forego refinancing the house due to the combination of the penalties and the unfavorable lifetime lease of $1.00/year that was granted to Guccione, which made the property unmarketable. Laurus sued Guccione to take possession of the house from the tenant.[19] It was reportedly sold for $49 Million, well below the asking price of $59 million, to Wall Street financier Philip Falcone.[20]
Guccione also had to sell his country house in Staatsburg, New York. The estate was purchased by actress Uma Thurman and hotelier Andre Balazs.[21]
Guccione also owned a 15-room, Baroque stucco mansion on a 75-acre property on the Hudson River, which was foreclosed upon and sold for $4 million.[22]
Guccione was once listed in the Forbes 400 ranking of wealthiest people, with $400 million net worth in 1982.[26] An April 2002 New York Times article quoted Guccione as saying that Penthouse grossed $3.5 billion to $4 billion over the 30-year life of the company, with a net income of almost 500 million dollars.[27]
Death
Guccione died of cancer on October 20, 2010, two months before his 80th birthday, at Plano Specialty Hospital in Plano, Texas;[2][28] suffering according to his wife from lung cancer for some time.[28] Two of his children were by his side.[28]
Eva Ibbotson was an Austrian-born British novelist, died she was , 85. She is known for her award-winning children's books and for her romance novels, which have been marketed to both a young adult and adult readership.
Eva Ibbotson was born Maria Charlotte Michelle Wiesner in Vienna, Austria, to non-practising Jewish parents[2] in 1925. Her father, Berthold Wiesner, was a physiologist and her mother, Anna Gmeyner, a communist playwright who had worked with Bertolt Brecht and written film scripts for G. W. Pabst.[3] Her parents separated in 1928 and after remaining in Vienna in a church orphanage she joined her father, who had left Austria to work in Scotland in 1933 just before Hitler and the Nazi party came into power.[4]
She was educated at Dartington Hall School; attended Bedford College, London, graduating in 1945; Cambridge University from 1946–47; and the University of Durham, from which she graduated with a diploma in education in 1965.
Ibbotson had intended to be a physiologist, but was put off by the amount of animal testing that she would have to do.[2] Instead, she married and raised a family, returning to school to become a teacher in the 1960s.[5]
Ibbotson was widowed with three sons and a daughter. She died at her home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010, during post-production of a film based on her novel The Great Ghost Rescue.
Career
Ibbotson began writing with the television drama Linda Came Today (1962[6]) and published her first novel, The Great Ghost Rescue in 1975.
Ibbotson authored numerous books including The Secret of Platform 13, The Star of Kazan, Journey to the River Sea, Which Witch?, Island of the Aunts, and Dial-a-Ghost. She won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize for Journey to the River Sea, and has been a runner up for many of major awards for British children's literature. The books are imaginative and humorous, and most of them feature magical creatures and places, despite the fact that she disliked thinking about the supernatural, and created the characters because she wanted to decrease her readers' fear of such things. Some of the books, particularly Journey to the River Sea, also reflect Ibbotson's love of nature. Ibbotson wrote this book in honor of her husband (who had died just before she wrote it), a former naturalist. The book had been in her head for years before she actually wrote it. Ibbotson said she dislikes "financial greed and a lust for power" and often creates antagonists in her books who have these characteristics.
Her love of Austria is evident in works such as The Star of Kazan, A Song For Summer & Magic Flutes / The Reluctant Heiress. These books, set primarily in the Austrian countryside, display the author's love for nature and all things natural.
Ibbotson's non-children's books have been classified both as Young Adult titles and as romances. In an interview, she referred to them as books for adults. Several of these books have been published in other languages with different titles.
Her books for young adults/adults include:
The Secret Countess (originally published as 'A Countess Below Stairs')
The Morning Gift
A Company of Swans
A Song For Summer
Magic Flutes (in some editions published as 'The Reluctant Heiress')
The Secret of Platform 13
The similarity of "Platform 9 3/4" in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books to Ibbotson's The Secret of Platform 13, which came out three years before the first Harry Potter book, has been commented on. Amanda Craig is one example of a journalist who has written about the similarities: "Ibbotson would seem to have at least as good a case for claiming plagiarism as the American author currently suing J. K. Rowling [Nancy Stouffer], but unlike her, Ibbotson says she would 'like to shake her by the hand. I think we all borrow from each other as writers'."[7]See Harry Potter influences and analogues.
Carnegie Medal shortlist, British Library Association, 1978, for Which Witch?, and 2001, for Journey to the River Sea;
Best Romantic Novel of the Year Published in England, Romantic Novelists Association, 1983, for Magic Flutes; Smarties Prize Shortlist, and Best Books designation, School Library Journal, 1998, for The Secret of Platform 13; Guardian Children's Fiction Award runner-up, and Whitbread Children's Book of the Year award shortlist, and Smarties Prize shortlist, all 2001, all for Journey to the River Sea. The Star of Kazan was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal in 2005.
Film and television
In 1962, Ibbotson wrote Linda Came Today for television; in 1978, she also wrote Der Große Karpfen Ferdinand und andere Weihnachtsgeschichten for German television.
Currently, Enda Walsh is adapting Island of the Aunts for a feature film.[8] An adaptation of The Great Ghost Rescue is also in production,[9] and Gail Gilchriest is adapting The Haunting of Hiram C. Hopgood.[10]
Robert Katz[1] was an American novelist, screenwriter, and non-fiction author died from complications from cancer surgery he was , 77.[2]
(27 June 1933 – 20 October 2010)
Katz was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Sidney and Helen Katz, née Holland, and married Beverly Gerstel on September 22, 1957. The couple had two sons: Stephen Lee Katz, Jonathan Howard Katz.
He studied at Brooklyn College 1951-53 and went on to be a photojournalist, filmmaker, United Hias Service, NYC 1953-57. As a writer, he began at the American Cancer Society in New York (1958-63) and then at the United Nations in New York and Rome (1963-64). He has been a freelance writer since 1964.
He has fulfilled academic roles at numerous institutions, including being Visiting Professor of Investigative Journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1986-92). Awarded an ongoing GuggenheimFellowship in 1970, he has also been a fellow of Adlai E. Stevenson College; University of California during 1986 to 1992. He became a grantee of the American Council Learned Societies in 1971; and a recipient of the Laceno d'Oro (best screenplay) award at the Neorealist Film Festival in Avellino, Italy (1983).
A criminal-libel case involving Katz and others in Italy over the contents of his book Death in Rome, in which he was charged with "defaming the memory of the Pope" Pius XII regarding the Ardeatine Massacre of 335 Romans and 70 Jews at the Ardeatine Caves in 1944. The case ended with the charges being dismissed in 1980 by Italy's highest court. The suit had been issued by the Pope's family.[3][4]
Katz lived for many years in Tuscany, Italy. He died October 20, 2010, in Montevarchi, Italy, as a result of complications from cancer surgery.[5]
Non-fiction writings
Death in Rome, Macmillan, 1967.
Black Sabbath: A Journey through a Crime against Humanity, Macmillan, 1969.
The Fall of the House of Savoy, Macmillan, 1971.
A Giant in the Earth, Stein & Day, 1973.
Days of Wrath: The Ordeal of Aldo Moro, the Kidnapping, the Execution, the Aftermath, Doubleday, 1980. (Pulitzer Prize nomination 1981)
Il caso Moro (with G. Ferrara and A. Balducci) , Pironti, 1987.
Love is Colder than Death: The Life and Times of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Random House, 1987.
Naked by the Window: The Fatal Marriage of Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.
Dossier Priebke, Rizzoli, 1997.
The Battle for Rome: the Germans, the Allies, the Partisans and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944, Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Robert William PaynterBSC was an English cinematographer , 82. He entered the film industry at the age of 15 as a camera trainee with the Government Film Department. He is widely known for his collaboration with John Landis and Michael Winner.
(12 March 1928 - 20 October 2010)
Significant collaborations
With John Landis
Russian ICBM from Spies like Us, last film on which Paynter collaborated with Landis
Paynter worked with director John Landis on five films: An American Werewolf in London, Trading Places, Thriller, Into the Night and Spies Like Us. Paynter helped to create a "pop" comic book-style of American Werewolf, Thriller and Into the Night.[2] He also made a cameo in three Landis' productions: Into the Night (as Security Guard), Spies like Us (as Dr. Gill) and Burke and Hare.
With Michael Winner
Winner collaborated on 10 films with Paynter (from 1969 to 1984), including: The Big Sleep (1978) and Scream for Help (1984).
Phillips was a professional freelance musician from 1950 to 1971, winning his first professional position with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Band as a teenager. In 1960, he co-founded The All-Star
Concert Band with American cornet soloist James F. Burke. The band recorded three albums and was composed of virtually every top soloist and first chair player in the country. He served as personnel manager for Symphony of the Air, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, and Gunther Schuller. He was a key figure in the formation of the International Tuba Euphonium Association (formerly T.U.B.A.) and the founder and president of the Harvey Phillips Foundation, Inc. which administers Octubafest, Tubachristmas, Tubasantas, Tubacompany, andTubajazz.
Along with William Bell and Arnold Jacobs, Phillips was considered legendary among tubists. In 2007, Phillips was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame, the only wind instrument player to receive this prestigious honor. Other inductees that year included Yo-Yo Ma, Donald Martino and the Cleveland Orchestra.
Honorary Doctor of Music New England Conservatory (1971)
Harvey Phillips Day has been celebrated by the New England conservatory (1971) and by his home town Bi-Centennial Celebration, Marionville, Missouri (1976)
Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal (1979)
Governor of Missouri declared a Harvey Phillips Weekend (1985)
José María Carbajal Pruzzo, known as El Sabalero was an Uruguayan singer, composer and guitarist ,died from cardiac arrest he was , 66,.
In the 1970s he reached fame in all Latin América through the song Chiquillada, that was also performed by Leonardo Favio and Jorge Cafrune.
In the dawn of 21 October 2010 he died in his house of Villa Argentina (Canelones Department) of a cardiac arrest.[1].
