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Valentin Berlinsky Mainstay Cellist of the Borodin Quartet Dies
Valentin Berlinsky, for six decades the cellist of the Borodin Quartet, one of the most renowned string quartets in the world and by all accounts the longest continuously playing one, died on Dec. 15 in Moscow. He was 83 and had lived in Moscow most of his life. The death was announced on the quartet’s Web ...
Richard Van Allan, Opera Bass-Baritone, Dies at 73
Richard Van Allan, a British bass-baritone who was a commanding presence on the world’s opera stages, died on Dec. 4 in London. He was 73. The National Opera Studio, which Mr. Van Allan directed from 1986 to 2001, announced his death. He learned he had lung cancer two years ago. Mr. Van Allan’s roles included Pooh-Bah ...
Notable Deaths of 2008
Actor Paul Newman died this year. So did Larry Harmon, who was better known as Bozo the Clown; W. Mark Felt, who was the mysterious Deep Throat; and William Stulla, who as Engineer Bill delighted a generation of children with a glass of milk. William F. Buckley, the father of the modern conservative movement, also left ...
John Costelloe 'Sopranos' Johnny Cakes Dead in Suicide
Police: 'Sopranos' actor who played gay cook 'Johnny Cakes' dead in apparent suicide in NYC Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on The Sopranos has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York. Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel says John Costelloe was found dead in an ...
Joza Karas Musician Revived Compositions by Jews in Concentration Camp
Joza Karas, a Czechoslovakian-born violin teacher who spent decades tracking down and reviving musical compositions written by Jews in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, died Nov. 28 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 82 and had congestive heart failure. Karas spent more than 50 years teaching violin at the University of Hartford's Hartt School ...
Harold Pinter Influential Playwright and Nobel Winner Dies
Harold Pinter: master of menace. The English dramatist's original style changed the face of 20th century theater. As he wrote about oppression and censorship for the stage, he also lobbied for justice as a political activist. Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning British playwright who addressed the isolation, fear and brutality of life in an original style ...
Eartha Kit Seductive Singer Crooned "Santa Baby" Dies on Christmas
Eartha Kitt, who purred and pounced her way across Broadway stages, recordings and movie and television screens in a show-business career that lasted more than six decades, died on Thursday. She was 81 and lived in Connecticut. Ms. Kitt, who began performing as a dancer in New York in the late 40s, went on to achieve ...
Page Cavanaugh Pianist-Singer Led Southland Jazz Trio Dies
Page Cavanaugh, a veteran pianist-singer whose trio was a popular nightclub and recording group in the late 1940s and '50s and who became one of Southern California's most enduring lounge jazz artists, has died. He was 86. Cavanaugh, who also was a composer and arranger during his more than 60-year career, died Friday morning of kidney ...
Elmer Valentine, CO-Founder of Whisky a Go Go, Dies at 85
Elmer Valentine, co-founder of the Whisky a Go Go, the legendary live rock showcase on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood that gave birth to the go-go dancer phenomenon of the 1960s, has died. He was 85. Valentine, who also co-founded the Roxy Theatre in the early '70s, died at his home in Studio City after ...
Robert Mulligan Directed 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Dies
Robert Mulligan, who was nominated for an Academy Award for directing the 1962 film classic To Kill a Mockingbird, died Saturday at his home in Lyme, Conn. He was 83. Mulligan had heart disease, his nephew Robert Rosenthal said. The director began working in live television in New York in the early 1950s and won an ...
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