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Robert Maheu Confidant to Billionaire Howard Hughes
Robert Maheu, who worked for the FBI and the CIA before he became billionaire Howard Hughes' confidant and right-hand man, has died. He was 90. Shielding the eccentric industrialist from the public he feared and crafting the deals that made him a Las Vegas power player during a critical period in the city's development. The cause ...
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dies
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose stubborn, lonely and combative literary struggles dies He gained the force of prophecy as he revealed the heavy afflictions of Soviet Communism in some of the most powerful works of fiction and history written in the 20th century, died late Sunday in Russia, his son Yermolai said early Monday in Moscow. He said ...
Suzanne Tamim Lebanese Singer Killed in Dubai
Suzanne Tamim found stabbed to death LONDON -- Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim was found stabbed to death in her Dubai apartment July 28. Tamim had shot to fame after winning the popular Studio Al Fan television show contest in 1996. Her subsequent career was blighted by a turbulent personal life, which included two divorces and a ...
Luther Davis Writer of Musicals and Movies, Dies
Luther Davis, a Playwright who won a Tony Award in 1954 Dies Tony's for the book of the musical Kismet and a screenwriter whose films included The Hucksters, with Clark Gable, and Lady in a Cage with Olivia de Havilland, died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 91 and lived in Manhattan and West Palm ...
Clay Whitehead Nixon's Telecom Advisor Dies
Clay 'Tom' Whitehead, 69; Nixon's telecom advisor revolutionized cable TV industry Clay T. “Tom" Whitehead, who helped the cable TV industry flourish by bringing competition to the domestic satellite market in the early 1970s, died of prostate cancer July 23 at Georgetown University Hospital. He was 69. During the Nixon administration, Whitehead became the country's first ...
Hiram Bullock NY Times Obituary
Hiram Bullock, 52, Soulful Guitarist, Dies Hiram Bullock, a soulful and adaptable jazz and rock guitarist who was a member of the original band for Late Night with David Letterman, died last Friday in Manhattan. He was 52. The cause is pending, said Jennifer Armstrong, his partner of 16 years. Mr. Bullock was found to have ...
Michael Weiss Remembers Johnny Griffin
Long before he won the Thelonious Monk Institute Composers Competition in 2000, Michael Weiss established himself as a pianist. Fresh out of Dallas in his early twenties, he was soon working with Jon Hendricks, Junior Cook, Charles McPherson and Lou Donaldson, among others. He went on to play with Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Frank Wess, the ...
Bud Browne Father of Surf Films Passes
Surf's Up Bud Browne, a onetime Venice Beach lifeguard who became known as “the father of surf films." Browne began showing his 16-millimeter surf movies commercially up and down the California coast in the early 1950s. Browne died at the age of 96 in his sleep Friday at his home in San Luis Obispo, ...
Mourning the Internet Famous: Randy Pausch
When the silent film star Rudolph Valentino died in 1926, thousands gathered in the streets of New York in such an excitable state that a riot broke out, injuring 100 people. It was a leading indicator that the medium and its stars held Americans in thrall. Randy Pausch's death on Friday provides an example of how ...
Michael Berniker Record Producer Dies
Michael Berniker, a prolific record producer whose diverse projects won nine Grammy Awards over four decades, died on Friday in Great Barrington, Mass. He was 73. Best known for producing the first three Barbra Streisand albums on Columbia as well as numerous Broadway cast albums, Mr. Berniker also produced Latin jazz, spoken word, comedy and classical ...
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