Andrea True, American adult film star and disco singer, died from heart failure she was 68.

Andrea True ^[2] was an American adult film star and singer from the disco era died from heart failure she was 68..^[3] In addition to her given name, she had multiple stage names, including Inger Kissin, Singe Low, Sandra Lips,^[1] Andrea Travis, and Catherine Warren.
She is best known for the 1976 disco tune, "More, More, More", which peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #5 on the UK Singles Chart.^[4][5]

^{(July 26, 1943 – November 7, 2011)}

Early life

Andrea Marie Truden was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.^[2] She attended Saint Cecilia Academy, an all-girl Catholic school in Nashville.^[6]

Career

True moved to New York City as a teenager, to seek fame as a mainstream film star. While she did manage to get some minor roles in mainstream movies from time to time, including The Way We Were, the fame she sought was fleeting. When some friends asked her to join them in a pornographic movie, she went along with the idea, initially thinking of this opportunity as the best way for her to gain more experience with films and acting. She performed in pornographic films in Scandinavia in the 1960s, and by the end of the decade, began appearing in American adult films. Eventually, she appeared in more than 60 hardcore porn films throughout the 1970s and early to mid-1980s, and distinguished herself as one of the more recognizable porn stars in the early New York adult film industry.^[6]
During her heyday as a porn actress, around 1975, True was hired by a real estate business in Jamaica to appear in their commercials. During her stay in Jamaica, a political crisis gripped the island, and no one was allowed to leave with any money. Not wanting to lose the pay she had earned from the real estate ads, True asked her friend, record producer Gregg Diamond, to travel to the island and produce a track for her, which she would finance locally using that money. Diamond arrived with a composition in hand, to which True added her vocals. The result of their collaboration was "More, More, More." Ultimately remixed by recording engineer Tom Moulton, "More, More, More" became a favorite in discos and nightclubs. It ultimately reached No. 4 on the US Billboard Hot 100, and a full album with the same title soon followed. The single also reached the charts in the United Kingdom (where it peaked at No. 5),^[5] Germany (where it reached No. 9)^[3] and Italy (where it reached No. 11).^[7]
By the time of her singing career, True admitted she was burned out and tired of porn, saying, "I'd rather be a waitress or a typist than make another adult film," and also, "Don't think of me as a porn star anymore, think of me as a recording star. I just want to record and perform." In early 1977, True released the single "N.Y. You Got Me Dancing," from her follow-up album, White Witch. The single became True's second biggest hit, reaching No. 27 on Billboard's pop chart. In 1978, she had a second hit in the UK with "What's Your Name, What's Your Number," which peaked at No.34 in the UK.^[5] Both albums included studio musicians with a new band assembled for the tour, the second line-up, which included future Kiss guitarist Bruce Kulick. In 1980, she released her third and final album, War Machine, a more hard rock-oriented album; released only in Europe, but it flopped.
After her third album failed, True briefly attempted returning to porn, but at nearly 40, she was too old for a comeback. She also could not return to music because a goiter that developed on her vocal cords required surgery, essentially ending her singing ability.^[8] She then lived in Los Angeles for some time and subsequently moved to New York. During the early 1990s, Andrea lived in an apartment on Manhattan's east side, and was known for cooking gourmet meals for her friends. Finally, by the turn of the century she had begun a new low-profile career, living in Boynton Beach, Florida working as a psychic reader as well as a counselor for drug and substance abusers.
True continued receiving royalties from her music, and "More More More" remained a popular song on TV and movies. True received a renewed burst of publicity when the Canadian group Len sampled the instrumental break from "More, More, More" in their own hit single, "Steal My Sunshine." Subsequently, True appeared on several VH1 specials including 100 Greatest Dance Songs in 2000 ("More, More, More" was the No. 45 greatest dance song), Where Are They Now and 100 Greatest One-hit Wonders (both in 2002), in which she said she wants to be remembered as a person who "gave people pleasure" — then emphasized the words — "with my music." She also made an appearance in the 2005 documentary movie Inside Deep Throat.^[9]

Death

True died on November 7, 2011, at a hospital in Kingston, New York, located near her home of Woodstock, New York. She was 68 years old. A longtime friend, Louise Marsello Landham, said the cause was heart failure. In line with her wishes, True was cremated.^[2][10] She left behind no immediate family.



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Takanosato Toshihide, Japanese sumo wrestler, died he was 59.

Takanosato Toshihide was a sumo wrestler from Namioka, Aomori, died he was 59.. He was the sport's 59th Yokozuna from 1983 to 1986 and won four top division tournament championships. After retirement he established Naruto stable which he ran from 1989 until his death.

(Toshihide Takaya, September 29, 1952 – November 7, 2011)

Early career

Takanosato played football and judo before turning to sumo. He was from the same area of Japan as Wakanohana Kanji II and the two entered professional sumo together in July 1968, joining Futagoyama stable. Takanosato reached the top makuuchi division in May 1975 but had some indifferent results and fell back to the jūryō division on several occasions. A late developer, he did not reach the san'yaku ranks until 1979, by which time Wakanohana was already a yokozuna. In 1980 he was runner-up in two consecutive tournaments, but he did so from the maegashira ranks. Nicknamed "Popeye" because of his brawny physique,^[1] by 1981 he was a san'yaku regular, and in January 1982 he produced his third runner-up performance, this time at sekiwake rank, and earned promotion to ōzeki. Following his promotion he announced that he had been suffering from diabetes for many years, and had devised a special diet to keep the illness under control.^[2] He won his first top division championship in September 1982 with a perfect 15-0 record. He was runner-up in the tournaments of March and May 1983, and then took his second championship in July. Following this tournament was promoted to yokozuna.

Yokozuna

Takanosato was almost thirty one years old when he reached sumo's highest rank, and the 91 tournaments it took him to reach yokozuna from his professional debut is the second slowest in sumo history, behind only Mienoumi. Most yokozuna struggle to perform well in the tournament immediately following their promotion, but Takanosato won it with a perfect record—the first yokozuna to do so since Futabayama in the 1930s.^[2] Although his yokozuna career was relatively short, he had a great rivalry with fellow yokozuna Chiyonofuji. In the four tournaments from July 1983 to January 1984, the two wrestlers came into the final day with the same score. This is a unique occurrence in sumo.^[2] It was Takanosato who won three out of the four tournament-deciding bouts,^[2] and he was one of the few wrestlers to have a winning record against Chiyonofuji. He was often able to keep his rival from getting his favoured left hand grip on his mawashi, and he defeated Chiyonofuji eight times in a row from July 1981 to September 1982. In all Takanosato emerged victorious from 18 of their 31 encounters.
Takanosato's fourth tournament championship in January 1984 proved to be his last, and thereafter his yokozuna career was disappointing. He missed most of 1985 through injury, only managing to complete one tournament. He announced his retirement in January 1986 at the age of 33.

Retirement from sumo

Takanosato took the name Naruto upon joining the Sumo Association as an oyakata, or elder, and in 1989 opened his own stable, Naruto, which has produced several top division wrestlers. The first was Rikio (now a professional wrestler) in 1996 and he was followed by Wakanosato in 1998, Takanowaka in 1999, Kisenosato in 2004, and Takayasu and Takanoyama in 2011. Naruto also worked as a shinpan or judge of tournament bouts and for NHK as a sumo commentator.

Death

In October 2011 the Sumo Association launched an investigation into allegations made by the tabloid Shukan Shincho that Naruto had beaten a former junior member of his stable with a block of wood and had injected Takanoyama with insulin so that the barely 100 kg wrestler would increase his appetite and put on weight.^[3] Both Naruto and Takanoyama were summoned for questioning by chairman Hanaregoma.^[3] Just days later, on November 7, 2011, Naruto died of respiratory failure in Fukuoka at the age of 59.^[4]

Fighting style

Takanosato's most common winning kimarite or technique was overwhelmingly yorikiri or force out, which accounted for about 45 percent of his victories at sekitori level.^[5] He preferred a migi-yotsu grip (the same as Chiyonofuji), with his left hand outside and right hand inside his opponent's arms. He also regularly won by uwatenage (overarm throw) and tsuridashi (lift out), the latter a technique seldom seen today due to the increasing weight of wrestlers.


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Alejandro Rodriguez, American psychiatrist and academic, died he was 93.

Alejandro Rodriguez  was a Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist, known for his pioneering work in child psychiatry died he was 93.. He was the director of the division of child psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and conducted pivotal studies on autism and other developmental disorders in children.

(February 1918 – January 20, 2012)

Early life

Alejandro Rodriguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1918, to a businessman and a homemaker, where he spent his entire youth. After his graduation from the St. Ignacio School in Caracas, he entered the Universidad de Venezuela, where he earned his medical degree in 1939.
In 1942, he received a private scholarship for pediatrics training at Johns Hopkins. Upon his pediatrics residency, Rodriguez returned to Venezuela for 13 years to practice pediatrics.^[1]

Years at Johns Hopkins

Rodriguez then returned to the United States in 1956 to study psychiatry at Stanford. He stayed there for a year, then returned to Johns Hopkins to complete his child psychiatry traing, where he was later employed under Leo Kanner in child psychiatry while Kanner was Division Chief in the 1950s during the early days of child psychiatry. Kanner mentored both Rodriguez and Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who became Johns Hopkins Division Chief after the retirement of Kanner, who is credited with discovering the syndrome of autism in 1935^[2] and by many is considered to be "the founding parent of child psychiatry", since he coined the term autism in 1935 and authored the first child psychiatry textbook. In 1959, while Eisenberg, following Kanner, was Division Chief of Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and Rodriguez reported to him, they co-authored - with Maria Rodriguez, Alejandro's wife, a famous paper describing school phobia syndrome as a variant of separation anxiety.^[3]
When Leon Eisenberg resigned in 1968 to leave for Boston to become Chief of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Rodriguez became the director of the Division of Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins, a position he kept until he retired in 1978. Rodriguez authored Handbook of Child Abuse and Neglect in 1977.^[4] Rodriguez continued seeing patients until age 85, according to his son, Dr. Ignacio R. Rodriguez, a Hopkins-trained neurologist practicing in Silver Spring, Maryland.^[5]

Death

Dr. Alejandro Rodriguez died of heart failure complications at his home in Palm City, Florida, on January 20, 2012. Rodriguez is survived by his second wife, Maria Consuelo Rodriguez, son, Dr. Ignacio R. Rodriguez, a neurologist practicing in Silver Spring, Maryland, and two grandchildren, Carlos and Maria Rodriquez.^[6]


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F. Springer, Dutch writer, died he was 79.

F. Springer was the pseudonym of Carel Jan Schneider, a Dutch foreign service diplomat and writer died he was 79.. 

(15 January 1932 – 7 November 2011)  

Schneider was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies. He spent World War II in a Japanese internment camp,^[1] and afterward lived and worked in New Guinea, New York, Bangkok, Brussels, Dhaka, Luanda, East Berlin (he was the next-to-last Dutch ambassador there^[1]), and Tehran all of which have served as locations for the novels and stories which he has published.
His laconic style has been compared to that of F. Scott Fitzgerald or Graham Greene,^[1] and he often adopts an ironic perspective on his often tragic subject matter, such as in Teheran, een zwanezang, a love story set against the background of the Iranian Revolution. Especially important in his work is the Netherlands Indies^[2] and the concept of tempo doeloe, the nostalgia associated with life in the former Dutch colonies in the East.^[1]
For Bougainville he received the Ferdinand Bordewijk award in 1982 and was awarded the Constantijn Huygens Prize for his entire work in 1995. He died in The Hague.


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Tomás Segovia, Spanish-born Mexican poet, died from cancer he was 84.

Tomás Segovia ^[1][2] was a Mexican author, translator and poet of Spanish origin died from cancer he was 84.. He was born in Valencia, Spain, and studied in France and Morocco.^[3] He went into exile to Mexico, where he taught at the Colegio de México and other universities.^[3] Segovia founded the publication Presencia (1946),^[4] was director of La Revista Mexicana de Literatura (1958–1963),^[5] formed part of the magazine Plural, and collaborated in Vuelta.^[6]

In honour of the poet, on August 2012, Conaculta (the Mexican Council for National Culture and Arts) announced the $100,000 Tomás Segovia Literary Translation Prize, to be awarded in alternating years for the best translation into Spanish or from Spanish.^[7]

^{(21 May 1927 – 7 November 2011)}

Works

His work as a poet is not separate from his literary criticism and works of translation. Notable books of poetry include La luz provisional (1950), El sol y su eco (1960), Anagnórisis (1967), Figura y secuencias (1979) and Cantata a solas (1985). Prose works include: Contracorrientes (1973), Poética y profética (1986) and Alegatorio.^[3][8][9]
At the time of his death he resided in Madrid, Spain.^[10]

Awards

Segovia won the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize in 1972,^[5] the Juan Rulfo Prize in 2005,^[11] and the Premio García Lorca in 2008.^[2]


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Georgi Movsesyan, Russian composer, died from a heart attack he was 66.

Georgi Viktorovich Movsesyan was a Russian composer of Armenian descent died from a heart attack he was 66..^[1]

^{(Russian: Гео́ргий Ви́кторович Мовсеся́н; 2 August 1945 – 7 November 2011)} 

Biography

Movsesyan was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, into a family of artists. He graduated from the Gnessin State Musical College in 1964.
A People's Artist of Russia (2001), he is mostly known for his songs "Beryoza", "Moi goda", "Olympiada", "Nachalo" performed by Iosif Kobzon, Lev Leshchenko, Anna German, Vakhtang Kikabidze and others. He died in Moscow.


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Dov Schwartzman, Russian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva, died he was 90.

 Dov Schwartzman , also called Berel Schwartzman, was a Haredi Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean) of Bais Hatalmud, which he founded in the Sanhedria Murhevet neighborhood of Jerusalem and led for over 40 years died he was 90..^[1][2] He also founded and led the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia together with Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky, and co-founded the first yeshiva in Israel for baalei teshuva (returnees to the faith). He taught and influenced tens of thousands of students,^[3] many of whom received semicha (rabbinic ordination) from him and went on to lead their own communities.^[2] He was renowned as a Talmudic genius and was conversant in all areas of Torah and Kabbalah.

(1921 – 7 November 2011)

Early life

Schwartzman was born in Elul 1921 in Nevel, Russia to Rabbi Yehoshua Zev Schwartzman, a graduate of the Slabodka yeshiva.^[3] In the 1930s, his family escaped Communist Russia and immigrated to Tel Aviv, where his father served as a Rav. Schwartzman enrolled in Yeshivas Bais Yosef Novardok and learned under Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, the Steipler Gaon.^[1] In 1933, at age 12, he transferred to the Hebron Yeshiva in the Geula neighborhood of Jerusalem, where his hasmadah (diligence) was evident and widely admired.^[3] During one period, he would study for 40 hours at a time. He would begin learning on Sunday morning at 7:00 a.m. and continue straight through till Monday night, with short breaks for prayers and eating. He would sleep on Tuesday night, and then rise early on Wednesday for another 40-hour stretch. His roommate in the yeshiva, Rabbi Michel Yehuda Lefkowitz, never saw him in the room, since Schwartzman would come in after Lefkowitz was sleeping and leave before he awoke.^[1]
Rabbi Aharon Kotler, rosh yeshiva of Beth Medrash Govoha (the Lakewood Yeshiva), chose him as a son-in-law after visiting Israel and witnessing Schwartzman's genius and diligence.^[1] In 1946 Schwartzman came to America to marry Rabbi Kotler's daughter and began learning at the Lakewood Yeshiva, where he led chaburas (small-group learning sessions).^[3]
In the mid-1950s,^[1] as part of Lakewood Yeshiva's effort to establish out-of-town yeshivas, Schwartzman and Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky were sent to head the new Talmudic Yeshiva of Philadelphia. In 1955 Schwartzman departed to open his yeshiva in Israel and was replaced as rosh yeshiva by Rabbi Elya Svei.^[4] From 1961 to 1962 he was a maggid shiur (lecturer) at Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin.^[3]

Israeli rosh yeshiva

Schwartzman moved back to Israel in the early 1960s. He established a yeshiva in Ramat HaSharon,^[1] and in 1965 founded Yeshiva Maron Tzion in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem, which evolved into Yeshivat Bais HaTalmud, now located in Sanhedria Murhevet; Bais HaTalmud now includes a yeshiva ketana, yeshiva gedola, and kollel.^[3] In addition to delivering a daily blatt shiur (lecture on two pages of Gemara) and a weekly shiur klali (lecture to the entire yeshiva), he traveled abroad frequently to raise funds for the yeshiva's upkeep.^[1]
His lifelong dedication to Torah study produced a scholar who was completely at home in the breadth and depth of Judaism's holy works. He was fluent in the works of the Maharal and had a thorough mastery of Jewish philosophical works, Hasidic thought, and Kabbalah. His shiurim were known for their depth and clarity. In his Gemara shiurim, he presented the pshat (simple understanding of the text) in such a way that it was clear this was indeed the only meaning. He was also known for his Friday-night shiur in the yeshiva on Mizmor Shiur L'Yom HaShabbat, which presented a different explanation each week of Psalm 92. He enlivened his students with his excitement for learning, and also endeared them with his paternal concern for their needs and his pleasant and humble personality.^[1][3]
Schwartzman was one of the fathers of the Israeli baal teshuva movement. In the early 1970s, he co-founded the first yeshiva for baalei teshuva, Shema Yisrael, with Rabbi Mendel Weinbach, Rabbi Nota Schiller, and Rabbi Noach Weinberg. After this yeshiva evolved into Ohr Somayach yeshiva, Schwartzman continued on as a rosh yeshiva, delivering shiurim and guiding the staff in establishing policies for the new and untested field of baal teshuva education.^[3]

Final years

Schwartzman's health worsened in his last years, forcing him to give up his duties as rosh yeshiva of Beis HaTalmud.^[1] He died on 7 November 2011 (10 Cheshvan 5772) and was buried on the Mount of Olives.^[2]

Family

With his first wife, Schwartzman had three sons and three daughters. With his second wife, Yehudis Moller, daughter of Rabbi Meir Moller of Paris,^[3] he had another son and five daughters. His sons and sons-in-law are Torah scholars and educators in Israel and America. His eldest, Rabbi Yaakov Eliezer Schwartzman, who is also the eldest grandson of Rabbi Kotler,^[5] is the rosh yeshiva of Lakewood East in Jerusalem.^[6] His second son, Rabbi Zevulun Schwartzman, heads the kollel in the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem, and his third son, Rabbi Isser Zalman Schwartzman, is a maggid shiur at Yeshivas Hadera in Modiin Ilit.^[3] Two of his sons-in-law, Rabbi Yeruchem Olshin and Rabbi Yisroel Neuman, are roshei yeshiva at the Lakewood Yeshiva in America.^[3][7]


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