Obituaries
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Irving Ravetch: Screenwriter and producer who garnered Oscar nominations for his adventurous literary adaptations
The screenwriter and occasional film producer Irving Ravetch was best known for the screenplays he wrote with his wife, Harriet Frank Jr, including two films for which they were nominated for Oscars, Hud (1963) and Norma Rae (1979).
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Jean Samuel: Auschwitz survivor who featured in Primo Levi's Holocaust masterpiece 'This Is A Man'
Monday, 27 September 2010
Jean Samuel lived through and survived some of the very worst tortures of the Nazi Holocaust.
Eddie Fisher: Singer and actor whose career was overshadowed by his marriages and divorces
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Eddie Fisher was a major figure in American entertainment for 20 years from the late 1940s, with a string of hit songs and albums.
Alan Rudkin: Boxer hailed as the best British fighter never to win a world title
Saturday, 25 September 2010
He was often beautiful to watch inside the ring and when he finally retired people started to refer to Alan Rudkin as the best British boxer never to win a world title.
Gennady Yanayev: Politician who acted as figurehead in the attempted Soviet coup of 1991
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Along with Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank, it was the defining image of the dying Soviet Union's comic opera coup in August 1991: Gennady Yanayev, the new figurehead president, facing the world's press in Moscow for the first and only time, stammering out one inept answer after another, his hands shaking from nerves and too much vodka.
Walter Womacka: East German painter who remained loyal to communism all his life
Friday, 24 September 2010
Walter Womacka, one of the best-known East German artists, was lionised by the Communist state, the German Democratic Republic
Lives remembered: Eddie Crooks
Friday, 24 September 2010
My godfather Eddie Crooks, who died on 6 August in Douglas Hospice, was a motorcyclist who made his name on the Isle of Man. He was also the first Suzuki dealer in the UK.
Holly Eley: Writer for 'Rolling Stone' and editor with the 'TLS' who later became a gamekeeper
Friday, 24 September 2010
Holly Eley, literary editor-turned-gamekeeper, was born in 1940 in Leeds, where her father, Bruce Urquhart-Pollard of Craigston, was serving in the army. He ended the war as a Major in the Engineers, his most important military work securing the national supply of timber to make pit props for the mines. He had gained his knowledge of forestry at his ancestral castle in Aberdeenshire, which he inherited, along with its large mortgage.
Frank Critchlow: Community leader who made his restaurant the beating heart of Notting Hill
Thursday, 23 September 2010
For many years Frank Critchlow played a central role in the Notting Hill's black community
Hank Cochran: Country songwriter best known for Patsy Cline's hit 'I Fall to Pieces'
Thursday, 23 September 2010
With over 500 recorded songs, Hank Cochran was a prolific and successful country-music writer. He rarely strayed from country music but "I Fall to Pieces" and "Make the World Go Away" became standards known the world over. He had considerable integrity and he would say, "I would rather have a friend than a hit."
Vonetta McGee: Actress who made her name in the 'blaxploitation' genre
Thursday, 23 September 2010
The American actress Vonetta McGee cast a spell over cinema-goers throughout continental Europe when she appeared in Il Grande Silenzio (1968), the downbeat, snowbound Italian Western directed by Sergio Corbucci. She had large, expressive eyes and brought great dignity and a haunting quality to the role of Pauline, a widow who hires a mute gunfighter, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, to avenge the killing of her husband by Klaus Kinski's unscrupulous bounty hunter. The film was remade as Joe Kidd with Clint Eastwood in 1972, and Eastwood cast McGee in The Eiger Sanction, his mountaineering action thriller, in 1975.
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3 Verita Thompson: Humphrey Bogart's secret mistress
4 Frank Critchlow: Community leader who made the Mangrove Restaurant the beating heart of Notting Hill
5 Eddie Fisher: Singer and actor whose career was overshadowed by his marriages and divorces
6 obituary: Professor Brian Abel-Smith
9 Alan Rudkin: Boxer hailed as the best British fighter never to win a world title
10 Eric Stemp
11 Arrow: Soca singer who came to worldwide fame with his hit 'Hot, Hot, Hot'
12 Myra Hindley
13 Bob Crossley: Abstract painter whose work was inspired by his love of the Cornish landscape
14 Harry Dodson
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