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Fateh Singh Rathore, Indian wildlife conservationist. died he was , 72
Fateh Singh Rathore was recognized as India’s greatest Tiger expert to date died he was , 72. Having spent 50 years in wildlife conservation Fateh will be remembered for his historic relocation of villages from inside the Ranthambhore National Park in 1977 which was how the tigers started to be visible in day light.
| (10 August 1938 – 1 March 2011) |
Biography
Fateh Singh Rathore (FSR) was the eldest son in a family of 6 boys and 5 girls. His grandfather Laxman Singh Rathore was a Subedar in the army. FSR’s father Sagat Singh was the eldest son of Laxman Singh, and managed the family’s land and property in a village near Jodhpur. The village was in the desert, and servants used to be sent on camelback for miles to fetch water in buffalo skins for all their needs. FSR’s uncles, one in the army, and the other a lawyer, brought him up. His mother loved him very dearly, and was a very bold lady, protecting him from his grandfather’s anger when he was mischievous. She passed away in February 2010. He was sent away to a boarding school, and later stayed with his uncle while a college student. He was not interested in his studies, preferring to take part in dramas etc. and have fun. His uncle wanted him to be a lawyer, but his heart was not in it. He tried several different occupations, until by chance he was sent to Sariska to take up a post as a forest ranger.
Conservation work
This position changed the course of his life. He loved the forest, and grew very interested in conservation. This was in the late 1950s or early 1960s. Ironically, the first task he was given in the area which later became Ranthambhore National Park (RNP) was to organize a tiger shoot for the visit of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain in January 1961. The area of RNP still existed as a forest, although degraded, because it was the hunting ground of the royal family of Jaipur.
After Sariska FSR was posted for some years in Mt. Abu. In those days there were tigers around there. He was sent to the Wildlife Institute of India for training, in the first batch of forest officers to be trained there. Even there, he showed a greater aptitude for field work, not too interested in theory. He fared well there, and his guru, S. R. Choudhury, recognized his potential.
“Project Tiger”
Project Tiger (PT) was started in 1973 at the instance of Indira Gandhi, who was very concerned about the fact that the number of wild tigers was reducing because of hunting. Hunting was banned from then on, and 9 reserves were selected under PT. Ranthambhore was one of them. FSR was sent there as the Assistant Field Director, but was given a free hand by his senior. At that time, the area looked very different. There were wheat fields where Padam Talao now stands – there had been an artificially created lake there, which the villagers had drained for their agriculture, and he restored the lake along with Raj Bagh and Malik Talao. 16 villages dotted the whole area, with no roads connecting them with each other. The villagers lived in extreme poverty and deprivation, with no health care or educational facilities. The vegetation had all been eaten by domestic cattle. There were wild animals around, but they emerged mostly at night and were rarely seen. FSR went about carving roads through the area, patrolling it regularly, and realized that the villages needed to be moved out if the tigers were to have any chance of flourishing. It required a huge amount of tact and patience to convince people to leave their homes, and FSR frequently found himself crying along with the villagers. He managed to convince a young schoolteacher about the benefits of moving to another location, making him his wife’s rakhi brother. The villagers were given a good compensation package, and finally moved to a newly established village called Kailashpuri which had a health centre and a school, and better agricultural land outside the park.
Once the villages were moved out, (1973-5), the park’s vegetation started regenerating on its own. Soon FSR began to see the pugmarks of tigers, but they were still nocturnal. A lame buffalo had been left behind by the villagers, and when he saw the pugmarks of a tigress and cubs in that area, he knew that she would kill the animal sooner or later. One day he found that the buffalo had been killed, so he climbed a tree and waited there. The tigress soon appeared with her cubs and started feeding. She was aware of FSR up in the tree and snarled at him a couple of times. He was so excited that his hands shook as he took photos. Later, he had many opportunities to study this tigress whom he named Padmini after his elder daughter, and she tolerated his presence benignly.
In August 1981 FSR was nearly killed by a group of villagers who resented being sent away from the park area because they used to collect fees from others for allowing their cattle to graze there. He was beaten up and left for dead with several fractures and a head injury, and it took several months for him to recover. Later he was given a bravery award for this. When he recovered he went back and confronted the villagers. Nothing was going to stop him from trying to save his tigers.
Tiger Watch
In the 1990s a group of friends got together to form an NGO called Tiger Watch (TW), of which FSR was made the Vice-Chairman. At first the Forest Department allowed TW to carry out research in the park. In 2003 a young wildlife biologist called Dharmendra Khandal (DK) was selected by TW to carry out research. In 2004 DK produced a report which contradicted the Forest Department’s claim that the census showed 45 tigers in the park. According to DK’s report there were just 26. He substantiated his claim with photographs taken by camera traps, a more foolproof method of tiger population estimation than the old method of taking plaster casts of pugmarks. Typically, in a scenario that has repeated itself in many parks throughout the country, the forest department not only denied this, but banned TW henceforth from carrying out any research within the park. TW set up an anti-poaching project, and with the help of the police, succeeded in arresting several poachers and confiscating their weapons, sometimes pre-empting their raids. Poachers’ confessions were recorded on video, and a DVD was produced called “Curbing the Crisis”. The Forest Department continued to be in a state of denial and resentment.
Realising that the poachers are mainly from the Mogya tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers with no other means of livelihood, TW has started a rehabilitation programme for them, involving the women in handicraft production, and setting up a hostel where their children can be clothed, fed and educated, to give them some dignity and better prospects in future. This is strictly on condition that the men give up poaching. As this exercise depends solely on donations from well-wishers, funds are always a problem to collect, but the efforts go on.
TW has a sister organisation called the Prakrtik Society, set up by FSR’s son Goverdhan. This organisation has set up a hospital (Ranthambhore Sevika) and the Fateh Public School for local community as part of efforts towards community conservation.
FSR always believed to work with the people to save the tiger and in a country with billion population only this people centric approach worked.
Honours and awards
FSR received several awards some of them were the 1982 Fred M. Packard International Parks Merit Award by the Commission on National Parks and Protected Areas in recognition of outstanding service in furthering the conservation objective of protect areas to society given by the Duke of Edinburgh.
The WWF lifetime achievement award and ESSO Award by Shri I.K. Gujral, Former Prime Minister of India for life time achievement in Tiger Conservation.
Publications
Picture and Articles of wild tigers taken in Ranthambhore have been published in many books and periodicals all over the world.
Some of the important books written & photographed : With Tigers in the Wild (Vikash Publications) Tiger – Portrait of a predator (Collines Publications) Tiger – Secret Life (Alm Tree) Tiger’s Destiny Wild Tigers of Ranthambhore
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Hazel Rowley, British-born Australian writer , died from a cerebral hemorrhage she was , 59.
Hazel Joan Rowley was a British-born Australian author and biographer died from a cerebral hemorrhage she was , 59..
(16 November 1951 – 1 March 2011)
Born in London, Rowley emigrated with her parents to Adelaide at the age of eight. She studied at the University of Adelaide, graduating with Honours in French and German. Later she acquired a PhD in French. She taught literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, before moving to the United States.[1]
Rowley’s first published biography, of Australian novelist Christina Stead, was critically acclaimed and won the National Book Council’s “Banjo” Award for non-fiction in 1994.[2] Her next biographical work was about the African American writer Richard Wright. Her best known book, Tête-à-tête (2005), covers the lives of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (de Beauvoir had been the subject of Rowley’s PhD thesis). Her last published book is Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage, about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (2011).[3]
Rowley suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in New York in February 2011[3] and died there on 1 March.[4]
Bibliography
- Christina Stead: A Biography (1994)
- Richard Wright: The Life and Times (2001)
- Tête-à-tête: The Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir & Jean-Paul Sartre (2005)
- Franklin & Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage (2011)
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Annie Girardot, French actress, died from Alzheimer’s disease she was , 79..
Annie Girardot was a French actress died from Alzheimer’s disease she was , 79.
She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland. At the Venice Film Festival she won the Volpi Cup (Best Actress), in 1965 for Trois chambres a Manhattan.
(25 October 1931 – 28 February 2011)
In 1992, she was the Head of the Jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival.[1]
In 2002, she was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano Teacher. She collaborated with director Michael Haneke again, in the 2005 film Caché.
Another of her best known roles was as Nadia the prostitute in Luchino Visconti‘s epic Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960). Nadia’s beauty drives a wedge between Rocco and his brother Simone (Renato Salvatori), who eventually rapes her. In contrast to their violent on-camera relationship, Girardot and Salvatori married in 1962. They had a daughter, Giulia, and later separated but never divorced.
Later life and death
The 21 September 2006 issue of Paris Match magazine revealed that Girardot was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. On 28 February 2011, Girardot died in a hospital in Paris, aged 79. She was interred Pere-Lachaise cemetery.[2]
Filmography
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Peter J. Gomes, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, died from a brain aneurysm and heart attack he was , 69.
Rev. Peter John Gomes was an American preacher and theologian, and a professor at Harvard University‘s Divinity School died from a brain aneurysm and heart attack he was , 69..
(May 22, 1942 – February 28, 2011)
Biography
Born May 22, 1942 in Plymouth, Massachusetts from a Cape Verdean father and a native Bostonian mother, the Reverend Professor Peter John Gomes, despite his upbringing in a Baptist tradition, was, according to his own testimony on the Colbert Report, baptized a Catholic.[1]
Gomes graduated from Bates College in 1965 and from Harvard Divinity School in 1968. After a short tenure at Tuskeegee, he returned to Harvard and to the Memorial Church where he served until his death in 2011.
Widely regarded as one of America’s most distinguished preachers, Professor Gomes fulfilled preaching and lecturing engagements throughout America and the British Isles. In 2009 he represented Harvard University as lecturer to The University of Cambridge, England, on the occasion of its 800th anniversary; in 2007 he was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II to membership in The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; in 2000 he delivered The University Sermon before The University of Cambridge, England, and The Millennial Sermon in Canterbury Cathedral, England; and he presented The Beecher Lectures on Preaching, in Yale Divinity School.
Named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion in American Life, Professor Gomes participated in the presidential inaugurations of [[Ronald Reagan[[ and of George Herbert Walker Bush. His New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, (1996); and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living (1998), were published by William Morrow and Company, Inc. The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need was published in 2002 by HarperOne, which published Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living in 2003, and in 2007, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What’s So Good About the Good News? His most recent book, in 2008, is A Word to the Wise, and Other Sermons Preached at Harvard; and he published ten other volumes of sermons as well as numerous articles and papers.[2]
Gomes’s great strength was his preaching style; his accent–combining British RP (Received Pronunciation), family intonations, the tradition of Southern Baptist preaching, and the educated diction of Harvard–his wit, and his mastery of alliteration and parallelism were noteable characteristics of his hermeneutic style, [3]
Gomes was ordained as an American Baptist minister by the First Baptist Church of Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1968. Gomes remained a member of First Baptist and occasionally preached there until his death.[4]
Gomes served as trustee of The National Cathedral School, Washington, DC, as Harvard University trustee of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and trustee of The Roxbury Latin School and of Bates College; and he was a member of The Massachusetts Historical Society, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and a sometime Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, London, England. Former acting director of The W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University, he was past president of The Signet Society, Harvard’s oldest literary society; and former trustee of Bates College, Wellesley College and of The Public Broadcasting Service; and he was past president and trustee of The Pilgrim Society, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[5]
A DNA test showed that Gomes is related to the Fulani, Tikar, and Hausa peoples of West Africa. Gomes is also descended from Portuguese Jews through his paternal grandfather who was born in the Cape Verde Islands.[6]
Career affiliations
Peter Gomes served from 1970 to 2011 as Pusey Minister in the nondenominational Memorial Church of Harvard University and as one of Harvard’s official interfaith chaplains at the University.[7] He taught diverse courses throughout his Harvard career in both the undergraduate College and at the Harvard Divinity School.
From 1974 Gomes held the chair of Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. At Harvard, Gomes served as faculty adviser of the Harvard Ichthus and taught the popular course Religion 1513: “History of Harvard and Its Presidents”.[8]
Gomes was also a visiting professor at Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Profiled by Robert Boynton in The New Yorker, and interviewed by Morley Safer on 60 Minutes, The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes was included in the premiere issue of Talk magazine as part of its feature article, ‘The Best Talkers in America: Fifty Big Mouths We Hope Will Never Shut Up.’[9]
Theology, theography, social advocacy and politics
Gomes was a leading expert on early American (US) religion. Regarding ancient texts, Gomes frequently maintained that “one can read into the Bible almost any interpretation of morality…for its passages had been used to defend slavery and the liberation of slaves, to support racism, anti-Semitism and patriotism, to enshrine a dominance of men over women, and to condemn homosexuality as immoral,” as paraphrased by the New York Times.[10]
Widely regarded as one of America’s most distinguished preachers,[who?] Professor Gomes fulfilled preaching and lecturing engagements throughout the United States and Great Britain. His New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart and Sermons, the Book of Wisdom for Daily Living, were published by William Morrow & Company. The Right Reverend Lord Robert Runcie, 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury, England, ecclesiastical head of the Anglican Communion said of Gomes’s The Good Book it “offers a crash course in biblical literacy in a nuanced but easy-to-understand style” which is also “lively”; Henry Louis Gates, Jr. called it “Easily the best contemporary book on the Bible for thoughtful people”.[11]
Gomes published in total ten volumes of sermons, as well as numerous articles and papers. He was well-known for his sermons, particularly for one he delivered in the immediate wake of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a sermon poignantly referenced by Governor Deval Patrick at Gomes’s memorial service on April 6, 2011. .[12]
His most recent work, The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus, included extensive commentary and observation on the interrelations of Church and State throughout history and particularly in recent US history. On September 15, 2008 he appeared on The Colbert Report to promote his book. During this interview, he also stated that he was baptized a Catholic.
In 1991, Gomes publicly revealed that he was gay,[13] and from that time became an advocate for wider acceptance of homosexuality in American society. In the case of his own sexual practices, he stated that he remained celibate. “I now have an unambiguous vocation — a mission — to address the religious causes and roots of homophobia,” he declared. “I will devote the rest of my life to addressing the ‘religious case’ against gays.”[14] Same-sex marriage advocate Evan Wolfson described Gomes as an integral contributor to the cause of marriage equality.[15]
An almost lifelong Republican, Gomes offered prayers at the inaugurals of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. However, in August 2006 he moved his registration to the Democratic Party (United States), supporting the gubernatorial candidacy of Deval Patrick, a student Gomes had interviewed during his time at Harvard and later the first African-American elected governor of Massachusetts.
Late career and death
In January 2010, Rev. Gomes announced he was planning to retire from Harvard in 2012.[16] He suffered a stroke on December 10, 2010 and was hospitalized.[17][18] He hoped to return to the pulpit of Harvard’s Memorial Church, possibly even in time to give the Easter 2011 sermon.[19] He died from a brain aneurysm and heart attack on February 28, 2011 at the age of 68.[20][21] Speakers at his memorial service, at the Memorial Church on April 6, 2011, included Derek C. Bok, a former president of Harvard University, Drew Gilpin Faust, president of the University, and Deval Patrick, Governor of Massachusetts. [22]
Harvard University announced on its website that it had named Wendel W. Meyer, who had originally served as associate minister for administration in December 2010, as the acting Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church, while the University searches for a qualified minister and academic to succeed Reverend Gomes.
Honors and tributes
- 2008 Gomes and his family were featured by Henry Louis Gates on the PBS documentary African American Lives 2.
- Academic tenures and honorary degrees: member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of the Faculty of Divinity of Harvard University, Professor Gomes held degrees from Bates College (A.B., 1965), and from the Harvard Divinity School (S.T.B., 1968); and thirty-nine honorary degrees: New England College, Waynesburg College, Gordon College, Knox College, The University of the South, Duke University, The University of Nebraska, Wooster College, Bates College, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, Trinity College, Bowdoin College, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, Colby College, Olivet College, Mount Holyoke College, Furman University, Baker University, Mount Ida College, Willamette University, The State University of New York at Geneseo, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Ursinus College, Wagner College, Lesley University, Williams College, Virginia Theological Seminary, Morris College, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Hamilton College, Union College, Tuskegee University, Lasell College, The General Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York, Lafayette College, Augustana College, Westfield College, Washington and Jefferson College, and St. Lawrence University. In 2010, he gave The Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture; Harvard University in 2010 elected him Honorary President of the Alpha-Iota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; and in 2009, he gave The Lowell Lectures of Massachusetts. He was an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, The University of Cambridge, England, where The Gomes Lectureship is established in his name.[23]
- 2000 W. E. B. Du Bois Medal recipient from the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University[24]
- 1998 Clergy of the Year as named by Religion and American Life
Publications
- The Good Book: Reading the Bible with mind and heart HarperOne (2002)
- Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living HarperOne (2002)
- The Good Life: Truths that Last in Times of Need HarperOne (2003)
- Strength for the Journey: Biblical wisdom for Daily Living HarperOne (2004)
- The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What’s so good about the Good News? HarperOne (200
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Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian diplomatic clerk, died from natural causes she was 102,
Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, née Aracy Moebius de Carvalho, was a Brazilian diplomatic clerk who has been recognized with the title of Righteous Among the Nations died from natural causes she was 102,.
(December 5, 1908 – February 28, 2011)
Early life
Born to a German mother in Rio Negro, Paraná, Aracy de Carvalho was able to speak German, English, and French. She moved to São Paulo. She lived there with her German first husband Johannes Edward Ludwig Tess and their child until 1935, when they separated.[1]
Humanitarian Work
In 1936, she was appointed to the Brazilian Consulate in Hamburg, Germany, where she was made the Chief of the Passport Section. She started to help Jewish people during Kristallnacht, on November 9, 1938.[2] She handed out visas to Jews without the red “J” that identified them as such, since Brazilian Dictator Getúlio Vargas non-officially denied visas to Jews. She was in very close relations with underground activists in Germany and would even grant visas to Jews she knew that had forged passports. In 1938 she met fellow diplomat and assistant-Consul João Guimarães Rosa, who would later become her second husband, and one of the most important Brazilian writers. With his help, she intensified her humanitarian activity, saving a great number of Jews from imprisonment and death. She remained in Germany until 1942, when Brazil broke relations with Germany and joined the Allied Forces.[3]
Recognition
On July 8, 1982, Aracy de Carvalho became one of the two Brazilians honoured by the Yad Vashem with the Righteous Among the Nations award, together with Ambassador Luiz Martins de Souza Dantas.
Death
Aracy de Carvalho suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. She died at the age 102, in São Paulo, on February 28, 2011, due to natural causes.[4]
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Jane Russell, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), died from respiratory illness she was , 89.
Jane Russell [2] was an American film actress and was one of Hollywood‘s leading sex symbols in the 1940s and 1950s died from respiratory illness she was , 89. .
Russell moved from the Midwest to California, where she had her first film role in 1943 with The Outlaw. In 1947, Russell delved into music before returning to films. After starring in multiple films in the 1950s, Russell again returned to music while completing several other films in the 1960s. She starred in over 20 films throughout her career.
Russell married three times and adopted three children and, in 1955, founded the World Adoption International Fund. For her achievements in film, she received several accolades including having her hand and foot prints immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
(June 21, 1921 – February 28, 2011)
Early life
Born Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell in Bemidji, Minnesota, Russell was the eldest child and only daughter of the five children of Roy William Russell (January 5, 1890 – July 18, 1937) and Geraldine Jacobi (January 2, 1891 – December 26, 1986). Her brothers are Thomas (born 1924), Kenneth (born 1925), Jamie (born 1927) and Wallace (born 1929).[3]
Russell’s parents were both born in North Dakota and married in 1917.[citation needed] Three of her grandparents were born in Canada, while her paternal grandmother was born in Germany.[citation needed] Her father had been a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, and her mother was a former actress with a road troupe. Her parents spent the early years of their marriage in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[citation needed] For her birth her mother temporarily moved back to the U.S. to ensure she was born a U.S. citizen.[original research?] Later the family moved to the San Fernando Valley of Southern California. They lived in Burbank in 1930 and her father worked as an office manager at a soap manufacturing plant.[citation needed]
Russell’s mother arranged for her to take piano lessons. In addition to music, she was interested in drama and participated in stage productions at Van Nuys High School.[citation needed] Her early ambition was to be a designer of some kind, until the death of her father at forty-six, when she decided to work as a receptionist after graduation. She also modeled for photographers and, at the urging of her mother, studied drama and acting with Max Reinhardt’s Theatrical Workshop and with Russian actress Maria Ouspenskaya.
Career
The Outlaw
In 1940, Russell was signed to a seven-year contract by film mogul Howard Hughes[4] and made her motion picture debut in The Outlaw (1943), a story about Billy the Kid that went to great lengths to showcase her voluptuous figure. Although the movie was completed in 1941, it was released for a limited showing two years later. There were problems with the censorship of the production code over the way her ample cleavage was displayed. When the movie was finally passed, it had a general release in 1946. During that time, she was kept busy doing publicity and became known nationally. Contrary to countless incorrect reports in the media since the release of The Outlaw, Russell did not wear the specially designed underwire bra (the first of its kind[5]) that Howard Hughes constructed for the film. According to Jane’s 1988 autobiography, she was given the bra, decided it had a mediocre fit, and wore her own bra on the film set with the straps pulled down.[6]
With measurements of 38D-24-36 and standing 5’7″ (97-61-91 cm and 1.7 meters), Russell was more statuesque than most of her contemporaries. Aside from thousands of quips from radio comedians, including Bob Hope, who once introduced her as “the two and only Jane Russell” and “Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands”, the photo of her on a haystack was a popular pin-up with servicemen during World War II. She was not in another movie until 1946, when she played Joan Kenwood in Young Widow for RKO.
Early musical ventures
In 1947, Russell attempted to launch a musical career. She sang with the Kay Kyser Orchestra on radio and recorded two singles with his band, “As Long As I Live” and “Boin-n-n-ng!” She also cut a 78 rpm album that year for Columbia Records, Let’s Put Out the Lights, which included eight torch ballads and cover art that included a diaphanous gown that for once put the focus more on her legs than on her breasts. In a 2009 interview for the liner notes to another CD, Fine and Dandy, Russell denounced the Columbia album as “horrible and boring to listen to.” It was reissued on CD in 2002, in a package that also included the Kyser singles and two songs she recorded for Columbia in 1949 that had gone unreleased at the time. In 1950, she recorded a single, “Kisses and Tears,” with Frank Sinatra and The Modernaires for Columbia.
Motion-picture stardom
She performed in an assortment of movie roles. She played Calamity Jane opposite Bob Hope in The Paleface (1948) on loan out to Paramount, and Mike “the Torch” Delroy opposite Hope in another western comedy, Son of Paleface (1952), again at Paramount. Russell played Dorothy Shaw in the hit film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) opposite Marilyn Monroe for 20th Century Fox.
1950s
She appeared in two movies opposite Robert Mitchum, His Kind of Woman (1951) and Macao (1952). Other co-stars include Frank Sinatra and Groucho Marx in the comedy Double Dynamite (1951); Victor Mature, Vincent Price and Hoagy Carmichael in The Las Vegas Story (1952); Jeff Chandler in Foxfire (1955); and Clark Gable and Robert Ryan in The Tall Men (1955).
In Howard Hughes’s RKO production The French Line (1954), the movie’s penultimate moment showed Russell in a form-fitting one-piece bathing suit with strategic cut outs, performing a then-provocative musical number titled “Lookin’ for Trouble.” In her autobiography, Russell said that the revealing outfit was an alternative to Hughes’ original suggestion of a bikini, a very racy choice for a movie costume in 1954. Russell said that she initially wore the bikini in front of her “horrified” movie crew while “feeling very naked.”
In 1955, Russell and her first husband, former Los Angeles Rams quarterback Bob Waterfield, formed Russ-Field Productions. They produced Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955), The King and Four Queens (1956) starring Clark Gable and Eleanor Parker, Run for the Sun (1956) and The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957).[citation needed] The last of these was a box-office failure.
She starred in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes alongside Jeanne Crain, and in The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956). After making The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957) she did not appear on the silver screen again for seven years.[citation needed]
Marilyn Monroe and Russell putting signatures, hand and foot prints in cement at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, 1953
Return to music
On the musical front, Russell formed the Hollywood Christian Group, a gospel quartet, with Connie Haines, Beryl Davis, and Della Russell. Haines was a former vocalist in the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey orchestras, while Davis was a British emigrant who had moved to the U.S. after success entertaining American troops stationed in England during World War II. With Della Russell as a fourth voice and backed by an orchestra conducted by Lyn Murray, their Coral single “Do Lord” reached number 27 on the Billboard singles chart in May 1954, selling two million copies. Russell, Haines and Davis followed up with an LP for Capitol Records, The Magic of Believing.[7] According to the liner notes on this album, the group started when the women met at a church social. Later, another Hollywood bombshell, Rhonda Fleming, joined them for more gospel recordings. A collection of some of Russell’s gospel and secular recordings was issued on CD in Britain in 2005, and the Capitol LP was issued on CD in 2008, in a package that also included more secular recordings, including Russell’s spoken word performances of Hollywood Riding Hood and Hollywood Cinderella backed by a jazz group that featured Terry Gibbs and Tony Scott.[citation needed]
In October 1957, she debuted in a successful solo nightclub act at the Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. She also fulfilled later engagements in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, South America and Europe. A self-titled solo LP was issued on MGM Records in 1959. It was reissued on CD in 2009 under the title Fine and Dandy, and the CD included some demo and soundtrack recordings as well. “I finally got to make a record the way I wanted to make it,” she said of the MGM album in the liner notes to the CD reissue. In 1961, she debuted with a tour of Janus in New England. In the fall of 1961, she performed in Skylark at the Drury Lane Theatre, Chicago. In November 1962, she performed in Bells Are Ringing at the Westchester Town House in Yonkers, New York.[citation needed]
Silver-screen decline
Her next movie appearance came in Fate Is the Hunter (1964), in which she was seen as herself performing for the USO in a flashback sequence. She made only four more movies after that, playing character parts in the final two.
In 1999, she remarked, “Why did I quit movies? Because I was getting too old! You couldn’t go on acting in those years if you were an actress over 30.”[8]
Other venues
In 1971, she starred in the musical drama Company, making her debut on Broadway in the role of Joanne, succeeding Elaine Stritch. Russell performed the role of Joanne for almost six months. Also in the 1970s, she started appearing in television commercials as a spokeswoman for Playtex “‘Cross-Your-Heart Bras’ for us full-figured gals”, featuring the “18-Hour Bra,” still one of International Playtex‘s best-known products even as of early March of 2011. She wrote an autobiography in 1985, Jane Russell: My Path and My Detours. In 1989, she received the Women’s International Center (WIC) Living Legacy Award.[citation needed]
Russell’s hand and foot prints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6850 Hollywood Boulevard.[citation needed]
Russell was voted one of the 40 Most Iconic Movie Goddesses of all time in 2009 by Glamour (UK edition).[9]
Fictional portrayals
Russell was portrayed by Renee Henderson in the 2001 CBS mini-series Blonde, based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates and portrayed leaving her imprints at Grauman’s along with Marilyn Monroe in the HBO film Norma Jean & Marilyn starring Ashley Judd and Mira Sorvino.
Personal life
Russell had three husbands: Bob Waterfield, a UCLA All American, Cleveland Rams and Los Angeles Rams quarterback, Los Angeles Rams head coach, and Pro Football Hall of Fame member (married on April 24, 1943, then divorced in July 1968); actor Roger Barrett, (married on August 25, 1968, until his death on November 18, 1968); and the real-estate broker John Calvin Peoples (married January 31, 1974 until his death from heart failure[10] on April 9, 1999). Russell and Peoples lived in Sedona, Arizona for a few years, but spent the majority of their married life residing in Montecito, California. In February 1952, she and Waterfield adopted a baby girl, Tracy. In December 1952, they adopted a fifteen-month-old boy, Thomas, whose birth mother, Hannah McDermott had moved to London to escape poverty in Derry, Northern Ireland, and in 1956 she and Waterfield adopted a nine-month-old boy, Robert John. Due to back street abortions, her first at 18, Russell herself was unable to have children, [11]and in 1955 she founded World Adoption International Fund (WAIF), an organization to place children with adoptive families and which pioneered adoptions from foreign countries by Americans.[12] She described herself as “vigorously pro-life”.[13]
At the height of her career, Russell started the “Hollywood Christian Group,” a weekly Bible study at her home which was arranged for Christians in the film industry.[14] In 1953 she tried to convert Marilyn Monroe during the filming of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Monroe later said “Jane tried to convert me (to religion) and I tried to introduce her to Freud”.[12] Russell appeared occasionally on the Praise The Lord program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a Christian television channel based in Costa Mesa, California. Russell was, at times, a prominent Republican Party member who attended Dwight Eisenhower‘s inauguration along with other notables from Hollywood such as Lou Costello, Dick Powell, June Allyson, Anita Louise and Louella Parsons. She has described her struggles with alcoholism, commenting in her later life, “These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.”[11]
Russell resided in the Santa Maria Valley along the Central Coast of California. She died at her home in Santa Maria[10] of a respiratory-related illness on February 28, 2011.[15][12] She was survived by her three children: Thomas Waterfield, Tracy Foundas and Robert Waterfield.[2] Her funeral was held on March 12, 2011 at Pacific Christian Church, Santa Maria.[10]
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Wally Yonamine, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), died from prostate cancer he was , 85.
Wallace Kaname Yonamine , also known as Wally Yonamine, was a former multi-sport American athlete who played in the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and Japan‘s Nippon Professional Baseball.
Yonamine, a Nisei Japanese American, was born in Hawaii to parents Matsusai (September 1, 1890–July 31, 1988) and Kikue (February 14, 1901–February 26, 1999) died from prostate cancer he was , 85..
(June 24, 1925 – February 28, 2011)
A two-sport star, he played running back on the San Francisco 49ers in their second season (1947), becoming the first football player of Asian ancestry to play professional football.[1] In his one season with the team, he had 19 carries for 74 yards and caught 3 passes for 40 yards. His football career ended during the off-season, when he broke his wrist playing in an amateur baseball league in Hawaii.[1]
In baseball, Yonamine was the first American to play professional baseball in Japan after World War II. A multi-skilled outfielder, Yonamine was also noted for his flexible batting style and aggressive baserunning during his career with the Yomiuri Giants and Chunichi Dragons.
In Japan, Yonamine was a member of four Japan Series Championship teams, the Central League MVP in 1957, a consecutive seven-time Best Nine Award winner (1952–58), an eleven-time All-Star, a three-time batting champion, and the first foreigner to be a manager (Dragons, 1972–77).
Wally Kaname Yonamine was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1994 for his achievements during his 12-year career with the Giants and Dragons.[1] He is the only American yet admitted into the Hall as a player.
Wally Yonamine operated a highly successful pearl store—Wally Yonamine Pearls—in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan, with his wife Jane. They also had a branch of their store in California run by their children.
In 2008, Wally Kaname Yonamine joined Master League team Nagoya 80 D’sers as a coach/part time player.[1]
After an extended battle with prostate cancer, Yonamine died on February 28, 2011 in Honolulu.[2] He was 85.
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Doyald Young, American logotype designer, died from complications of heart surgery he was , 84.
Doyald Young was an American typeface designer and teacher who specialized in the design of logotypes, corporate alphabets, and typefaces died from complications of heart surgery he was , 84..
(September 12, 1926 – February 28, 2011)
Work
The typefaces designed by Doyald Young include Young Baroque, ITC Éclat, Home Run, and the formal script Young Gallant.
Commissions for logotypes and trademarks include the industrial design firm of Henry Dreyfuss Associates, California Institute of Technology, University of California at Los Angeles, exhibition catalogs for UCLA’s Clark Memorial Library, The Music Center of Los Angeles County, Mattel Toys, Max Factor, Vidal Sassoon and Prudential Insurance. With Don Bartels, designed the font for General Electric Company’s corporate identity program.[1] His life story and working method is profiled in the Lynda.com “Creative Inspirations” video Doyald Young: Logotype Designer.[2]
His entertainment credits include: Liza Minnelli and Frank Sinatra specials, Disney’s 30th Anniversary Celebration, Harry Connick Jr., k.d. lang, Bette Midler, Prince, The Grand Reopening of Carnegie Hall, The Grammy Awards, The Annual Academy of Country Music Awards, The Golden Globe Awards, and The Tony Awards, and most recently, the Art Directors Guild logo.
Teaching
Young was a teacher at Art Center College of Design, where he taught lettering, logo design, and typographic basics from 1955 to 1978, and again from 1998 until his passing in 2011.
Honors
His book Fonts and Logos was awarded a Silver Medal by the Western Art Directors Club, November 2000. In 2001 Art Center College of Design named him Inaugural Master of the School for teaching and his contribution to the field of art and design. In 2009 AIGA awarded him the prestigious AIGA Medal[3] for his contributions to the field of graphic design.[1] On December 18, 2010 Art Center College of Design bestowed on him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters.[4]
Death
Young died on February 28, 2011 following complications from cardiac surgery.
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Did you know what two actors played the same character for 20 years?
Did you know that Kelsey Grammer has received at least 45 nominations for major awards and has won on 18 occasions?[18]
Did you know that Grammer received 14 individual Emmy Award nominations for 4 different television shows (plus an additional 2 as part of the Frasier ensemble) and has won on 5 occasions?
Did you know that on May 22, 2001, Grammer was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for television?
Did you know that Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcom Cheers was supposed to be a six-episode job but ended up as a regular cast member?[14]
Did you know that the spin-off series Frasier, is arguably the most successful spin-off in TV history?
Did you know that in 2001, Grammer negotiated a
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Did you know that Dr. Frasier Crane character lived from 1984 to 2004 he ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshall Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975?
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Who is Macaulay Carson Culkin?
Who is Macaulay Carson Culkin? Macaulay Culkin is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple.[1]
Culkin was ranked No. 2 in VH1 and E!‘s respective lists, the “100 Greatest Kid-Stars” and “50 Greatest Child Stars”.[2]
Early life
Culkin was born August 26, 1980 in Manhattan, New York City,[3] and raised in Yorkville, the son of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin, a former stage actor known for his productions on Broadway.[4] Culkin was raised Roman Catholic;[5] he attended a Catholic school (St. Joseph’s School of Yorkville) for 5 years[6] before moving on to Professional Children’s School. Culkin also studied ballet at the School of American Ballet.[7] Culkin was the third of seven children, five boys and two girls: Shane (born 1976), Dakota (1978–2008),[8] Kieran (born 1982), Quinn (born 1984), Christian (born 1987), and Rory (born 1989). Culkin is the nephew of actress Bonnie Bedelia, his father’s sister. During Culkin’s early childhood, the family lived in a small apartment; his mother was a telephone operator and his father worked as a sacristan at a local Catholic church.[9]
Career
Culkin began acting at the age of four. Early roles saw him appearing in a stage production of Bach Babies at the New York Philharmonic. He continued appearing in roles on stage, television, and in films throughout the 1980s. Notable parts in this period included an episode of the popular action series The Equalizer in which he played the victim of a kidnapping, and also in the TV movie The Midnight Hour. In 1989 he starred in Uncle Buck with John Candy.[10]
Culkin rose to international fame with his lead role as Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster film Home Alone (1990), where he was reunited with Uncle Buck writer and director John Hughes and Uncle Buck co-star John Candy.[11] He reprised the role of Kevin in the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Culkin also starred in a Saturday morning cartoon entitled Wish Kid, and hosted Saturday Night Live in late 1991.
Despite the huge success of Uncle Buck, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and My Girl, other films Culkin acted in, such as The Good Son, only did reasonably well (although he was nominated for MTV Movie Award in the category for Best Villain for his performance in the film). Getting Even with Dad, Richie Rich, and The Pagemaster, all released in 1994, were only mildly successful at the box office. He also appeared in a filmed version of The Nutcracker as the title role in 1993, which was staged from the 1954 George Balanchine New York City Ballet version of the ballet. He appeared in the 1998 music video for the song “Sunday” by the rock band Sonic Youth.
After several years of inactivity, Culkin returned to acting in 2000 with a role in the play Madame Melville, which was staged in London’s West End.[12] In the spring of 2003, he made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace.[13] His role as Karen Walker‘s deceptively immature divorce lawyer won him favorable reviews. Culkin headed back into motion pictures in 2003 with Party Monster, in which he played a role very different from those he was known for, that of party promoter Michael Alig, a drug user and murderer. He quickly followed that with a supporting part in Saved!, as a cynical wheelchair-bound, non-Christian student in a conservative Christian high school. Though Saved! only had modest success at the box office, Culkin received positive reviews for his role in the film and its implications for a career as an adult actor.[14][15][16]
Culkin began doing voice-over work, with his appearances on Seth Green‘s Robot Chicken. In 2006, he published an experimental, semi-autobiographical novel, Junior, which featured details into Culkin’s stardom and his shaky relationship with his father. Culkin starred in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman.[17] Alexis Dziena, Kuno Becker and Eliza Dushku also star in this story of a couple whose therapist recommends group sex to them. Shooting for the film, Culkin’s first since Saved!, took place in September 2006. The film opened in Los Angeles on November 30, 2007, and was released on DVD on January 22, 2008 by First Look Pictures. Culkin’s next project was a role in the thirteen-episode NBC television series Kings as Andrew Cross.[18]
In 2009, Culkin appeared in a UK-based commercial for Aviva Insurance (formerly Norwich Union) to help promote their company’s rebranding. Culkin stared into the camera citing the phrase “Remember me.”
On August 17, 2009, Culkin made a brief cameo appearance on WWE Raw at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri, following a “falls count anywhere” match between Hornswoggle and Chavo Guerrero in which Guerrero was defeated by the classic Home Alone gag of rigging a swinging paint can to hit him upon opening a door. Culkin appeared in the doorway and said, “That’s not funny.”
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Culkin married actress Rachel Miner in 1998,[19] but the couple later separated in 2000[20] and divorced in 2002.[21] Culkin began dating actress Mila Kunis in May 2002.[21] The couple postponed a possible engagement in 2006 [22][23] with Culkin residing in New York, and Kunis residing in Los Angeles.[22] On January 3, 2011, Kunis’ publicist confirmed reports that Culkin and Kunis had ended their relationship several months previously, saying “The split was amicable, and they remain close friends”.[24]
On September 17, 2004, Culkin was arrested in Oklahoma City for the possession of 17.3g of marijuana and two controlled substances, 16.5 mg of Alprazolam and 32 mg of Clonazepam,[25] for which Culkin was briefly jailed but soon released on a $4,000 bond.[26][27] After being arraigned in court for misdemeanor drug offenses, he pleaded not guilty at the trial (October 15, 2004 to June 9, 2005), then later reversed the plea to guilty. His lawyers reached a plea bargain with the state of Oklahoma and Culkin received three one-year suspended prison terms, forced enrollment into a probationary drug treatment program and a $540 fine.
Friendship with Michael Jackson
Around the time of the first Home Alone movie, Culkin became close friends with pop singer Michael Jackson, making an appearance in Jackson’s “Black or White” music video. Culkin and Jackson went on vacations together to such places as Bermuda and Disney World, and Culkin often stayed at Jackson’s Neverland Ranch home. Culkin’s brothers, Shane and Kieran, occasionally joined them. Jackson later asked Culkin to be godfather of his children Michael Joseph “Prince” Jackson Jr. and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson.[28]
During the trial against Michael Jackson, Culkin reported he had slept in Jackson’s bed on countless occasions, but that Michael Jackson never sexually molested him or touched him in improper ways, and referred to the allegations as “absolutely ridiculous.”[29] Culkin attended Jackson’s funeral on September 3, 2009.[30]
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