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Longtime CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint dies
Oct 23, 2:43 AM (ET)
By ANDREW DALTON
LOS ANGELES (AP) - CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint - who covered six presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis in a career that spanned more than four decades - died Saturday in California, his daughter said. He was 86.
Pierpoint, who retired in 1990, died of complications from surgery at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Marta Pierpoint told The Associated Press. He had broken his hip Oct. 12 at the Santa Barbara Retirement Community where he lived with his wife Patricia.
After making his name covering the Korean War - a role he reprised when he provided his radio voice for the widely watched final episode of "MASH" in 1983 - Pierpoint became a White House correspondent during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, a position he would hold through the Jimmy Carter administration.
Full story at Iwon/AP News.
Oct 23, 2:43 AM (ET)
By ANDREW DALTON
LOS ANGELES (AP) - CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint - who covered six presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis in a career that spanned more than four decades - died Saturday in California, his daughter said. He was 86.
Pierpoint, who retired in 1990, died of complications from surgery at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Marta Pierpoint told The Associated Press. He had broken his hip Oct. 12 at the Santa Barbara Retirement Community where he lived with his wife Patricia.
After making his name covering the Korean War - a role he reprised when he provided his radio voice for the widely watched final episode of "MASH" in 1983 - Pierpoint became a White House correspondent during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration, a position he would hold through the Jimmy Carter administration.
Full story at Iwon/AP News.
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Swami Bhaktipada Dead in this life
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.
A biographer for the disgraced former leader of a West Virginia Hare Krishna community says Swami Bhaktipada has died in India. He was 74.
Also known as Kirtanananda Swami, he was born Keith Ham in Peekskill, N.Y.
Bhaktipada ran the New Vrindaban community near Moundsville from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
In 1987, the FBI seized records in a raid. Federal prosecutors later accused of him of ordering the murders of two devotees who threatened his control and amassing more than $10 million through illegal fundraising schemes.
Bhaktipada served eight years in prison for racketeering.
Spokesman Henry Doktorski says Bhaktipada was hospitalized in India in July with a collapsed lung and bleeding brain.
His kidneys began failing last week, and Doktorski said Bhaktipada died Monday.
MORGANTOWN, W.Va.
A biographer for the disgraced former leader of a West Virginia Hare Krishna community says Swami Bhaktipada has died in India. He was 74.
Also known as Kirtanananda Swami, he was born Keith Ham in Peekskill, N.Y.
Bhaktipada ran the New Vrindaban community near Moundsville from the 1970s to the early 1990s.
In 1987, the FBI seized records in a raid. Federal prosecutors later accused of him of ordering the murders of two devotees who threatened his control and amassing more than $10 million through illegal fundraising schemes.
Bhaktipada served eight years in prison for racketeering.
Spokesman Henry Doktorski says Bhaktipada was hospitalized in India in July with a collapsed lung and bleeding brain.
His kidneys began failing last week, and Doktorski said Bhaktipada died Monday.
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Woody O'Hara Dead At 70
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A longtime member of the Mountaineer Sports Network broadcast team has died.
Woody O'Hara, 70, of Morgantown, passed away early Wednesday morning at Monongalia General Hospital following complications from surgery he had last Friday.
O'Hara was best known for being the second-man in the booth with the legendary Voice of the Mountaineers Jack Fleming, but O'Hara had a long and distinguished broadcast career.
The Winchester, Virginia native was as very good athlete in high school. He was inducted into the Handley High School Hall of Fame in 1994. From there, O'Hara went to Shenandoah College where he graduated in 1962.
The father of three worked at radio stations in Charles Town and Montgomery before landing in Morgantown at WAJR.
O'Hara was inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2008.
At the time he said, “I think it’s a wonderful honor. I accepted this as an ultimate reward. And I still enjoy being a part of MSN.”
O'Hara began working for MSN in 1970 and he did a number of things including color commentary, play-by-play and hosting various MSN television programs.
MSN Executive Producer Mike Parsons says O'Hara did a lot of things for the network over the years.
"He was certainly one of our great assets," he said. "He not only did play by play. He did color. He did football and basketball. He did television and news on television."
Parsons says O'Hara was also the face of MSN for many years.
"He was the type of guy who loved to go to the parades. He loved to make the visits into certain communities and do public relations work that was required," Parsons said. "He always enjoyed that part of it because he always enjoyed being around people."
Current MSN play by play voice Tony Caridi says to this day O'Hara and Fleming are paid the highest compliment by Mountaineer fans.
"When someone knows who you are simply by saying your first name, and that was the case with Woody and Jack, I think that speaks volumes," Caridi said.
O'Hara's death makes the third and final passing of the broadcast team that was together for years including Fleming and engineer-in-charge John McKinney.
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Father of artificial intelligence dies in Calif.
Oct 25, 6:54 PM (ET)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died. He was 84.
Stanford University, where McCarthy was a professor for four decades, announced McCarthy's death Monday. The school said he died at his Palo Alto home but did not provide a cause.
Tributes to McCarthy flooded into Twitter, where people mourned the loss of another Silicon Valley technology innovator. Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs and C programming creator and UNIX co-developer Dennis Ritchie died earlier this month.
McCarthy was a leader in the artificial intelligence field, coining the term in a 1955 research proposal. He said "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
He went on to create the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, serving as its director from 1965 to 1980.
In 1958, McCarthy invented the programming language Lisp, which paved the way for voice recognition technology, including Siri, the personal assistant application on the newest iPhone.
McCarthy also developed the concept of computer time-sharing, which allowed multiple users to interact with a single computer. That lay the foundation for cloud computing today.
Born in Boston on Sept. 4, 1927, McCarthy moved west to pursue a degree in math at the California Institute of Technology. He received a doctorate in math from Princeton in 1951, and then became a professor at Princeton until 1953. He did turns at MIT and Dartmouth before settling at Stanford in 1962 until his retirement at the end of 2000.
"He could be blunt, but John was always kind and generous with his time, especially with students, and he was sharp until the end," said Ed Feigenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford and a colleague recruited by McCarthy in the 1960s. "He was always focused on the future. Always inventing, inventing, inventing."
McCarthy won several awards including the A.M. Turing Award in 1971, the highest recognition in computer science, for his contributions to the artificial intelligence field. He was also honored with the Kyoto Prize in 1988 and the National Medal of Science in 1990.
He is survived by his third wife, Carolyn Talcott of Palo Alto; two daughters, Susan McCarthy of San Francisco and Sarah McCarthy of Nevada City, Calif.; a son, Timothy McCarthy of Palo Alto; a brother, Patrick, of Los Angeles; two grandchildren; and his first wife, Martha Coyote.
McCarthy's second wife, Vera Watson, died in 1978 in a mountain-climbing accident attempting to scale Annapurna in Nepal.
wvmetronews.com Staff
Charleston
A longtime member of the Mountaineer Sports Network broadcast team has died.
Woody O'Hara, 70, of Morgantown, passed away early Wednesday morning at Monongalia General Hospital following complications from surgery he had last Friday.
O'Hara was best known for being the second-man in the booth with the legendary Voice of the Mountaineers Jack Fleming, but O'Hara had a long and distinguished broadcast career.
The Winchester, Virginia native was as very good athlete in high school. He was inducted into the Handley High School Hall of Fame in 1994. From there, O'Hara went to Shenandoah College where he graduated in 1962.
The father of three worked at radio stations in Charles Town and Montgomery before landing in Morgantown at WAJR.
O'Hara was inducted into the West Virginia Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2008.
At the time he said, “I think it’s a wonderful honor. I accepted this as an ultimate reward. And I still enjoy being a part of MSN.”
O'Hara began working for MSN in 1970 and he did a number of things including color commentary, play-by-play and hosting various MSN television programs.
MSN Executive Producer Mike Parsons says O'Hara did a lot of things for the network over the years.
"He was certainly one of our great assets," he said. "He not only did play by play. He did color. He did football and basketball. He did television and news on television."
Parsons says O'Hara was also the face of MSN for many years.
"He was the type of guy who loved to go to the parades. He loved to make the visits into certain communities and do public relations work that was required," Parsons said. "He always enjoyed that part of it because he always enjoyed being around people."
Current MSN play by play voice Tony Caridi says to this day O'Hara and Fleming are paid the highest compliment by Mountaineer fans.
"When someone knows who you are simply by saying your first name, and that was the case with Woody and Jack, I think that speaks volumes," Caridi said.
O'Hara's death makes the third and final passing of the broadcast team that was together for years including Fleming and engineer-in-charge John McKinney.
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Father of artificial intelligence dies in Calif.
Oct 25, 6:54 PM (ET)
PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) - John McCarthy, a pioneer in artificial intelligence technology and creator of the computer programming language often used in that field, has died. He was 84.
Stanford University, where McCarthy was a professor for four decades, announced McCarthy's death Monday. The school said he died at his Palo Alto home but did not provide a cause.
Tributes to McCarthy flooded into Twitter, where people mourned the loss of another Silicon Valley technology innovator. Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Jobs and C programming creator and UNIX co-developer Dennis Ritchie died earlier this month.
McCarthy was a leader in the artificial intelligence field, coining the term in a 1955 research proposal. He said "every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it."
He went on to create the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, serving as its director from 1965 to 1980.
In 1958, McCarthy invented the programming language Lisp, which paved the way for voice recognition technology, including Siri, the personal assistant application on the newest iPhone.
McCarthy also developed the concept of computer time-sharing, which allowed multiple users to interact with a single computer. That lay the foundation for cloud computing today.
Born in Boston on Sept. 4, 1927, McCarthy moved west to pursue a degree in math at the California Institute of Technology. He received a doctorate in math from Princeton in 1951, and then became a professor at Princeton until 1953. He did turns at MIT and Dartmouth before settling at Stanford in 1962 until his retirement at the end of 2000.
"He could be blunt, but John was always kind and generous with his time, especially with students, and he was sharp until the end," said Ed Feigenbaum, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford and a colleague recruited by McCarthy in the 1960s. "He was always focused on the future. Always inventing, inventing, inventing."
McCarthy won several awards including the A.M. Turing Award in 1971, the highest recognition in computer science, for his contributions to the artificial intelligence field. He was also honored with the Kyoto Prize in 1988 and the National Medal of Science in 1990.
He is survived by his third wife, Carolyn Talcott of Palo Alto; two daughters, Susan McCarthy of San Francisco and Sarah McCarthy of Nevada City, Calif.; a son, Timothy McCarthy of Palo Alto; a brother, Patrick, of Los Angeles; two grandchildren; and his first wife, Martha Coyote.
McCarthy's second wife, Vera Watson, died in 1978 in a mountain-climbing accident attempting to scale Annapurna in Nepal.
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Longtime Oklahoma radio play-by-play announcer Bob Barry Sr. dies at age 80
By Associated Press, Published: October 30
OKLAHOMA CITY — Bob Barry Sr., the longtime play-by-play voice of Oklahoma football and men’s basketball games who also was a local sports anchor, died Sunday. He was 80.
KFOR-TV news director Mary Ann Eckstein said Barry was found dead in his Norman home.
“He didn’t get his morning papers and his neighbors became concerned,” Eckstein said. She had no other details and said a cause of death had not been determined.
Barry became the radio play-by-play voice of the University of Oklahoma in 1961, when he was chosen by football coach Bud Wilkinson. Barry held the job until the team’s radio rights changed in 1972.
He returned as the voice of the Sooners in 1991 after providing basketball and football play-by-play for Oklahoma State University and basketball play-by-play for the University of Tulsa in between his OU stints.
Barry retired last spring at the end of the OU basketball season, having spent 50 years calling Division I college games in the state. He said he did so for health reasons and because he didn’t feel his vision allowed him to perform up to his standards.
“Something you love to do your entire life and you’re able to do it and get paid for it, it’s hard to let go. Really, part of me doesn’t want to let go. But the other part of me says, ‘It’s time, Bubba,’” Barry said in August 2010, when announcing his retirement plans.
Barry was sports director at Oklahoma City’s KFOR until 1998, when he was succeeded by his son, Bob Barry Jr. Barry Sr. continued providing reports for the television station until retiring in 2008.
OU President David Boren said Barry was “loved by Oklahomans” across the state.
“Bob Barry represented the best of the Sooner spirit. With his contagious enthusiasm, he was one of the best sports broadcast journalists in the entire nation,” Boren said in a statement released by the university.
When announcing his retirement, Barry listed the 1971 “Game of the Century” between No. 2 Oklahoma and top-ranked Nebraska and the Sooners’ most recent national championship win in the 2001 Orange Bowl among the highlights of his career.
His very first game was Oklahoma’s trip to Notre Dame in the 1961 season opener.
“I was scared to death,” Barry said last year. “I get in there and do the game, broadcast the game and then like a little kid, I get on the phone, ‘Dad, how’d I do? How’d I do, Dad?’ ... He said I did OK.”
OU football coach Bob Stoops, in a statement released by the university, expressed condolences to Barry’s family.
“I know this is a difficult time for them, but hope they can find comfort in a life well-lived and the love of countless fans all over the country.”
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, who was the Cowboys’ quarterback when Barry was the Cowboys’ play-by-play announcer during the 1980s, issued a statement calling Barry a family friend and a state legend.
“He always had a smile and a great sense of humor. From the Gundy family and the entire Oklahoma State family, we send our thoughts and prayers.”
Toby Rowland, the man who replaced Barry as the voice of the Sooners, said he never saw Barry have a bad day.
“Even after 50 years of broadcasting he would show up at the stadium like a kid in a candy store. His play by play style was unmistakable, but it is his gentle, kind and fun-loving spirit that I will always remember,” Rowland said.
Barry’s career began with him calling football and basketball games at Norman High School before he was noticed by Wilkinson, whose sons attended the school. He then spent the final two decades of his career back on the sidelines calling Sooners games.
“I don’t know what I did right to deserve this,” Barry said upon announcing his retirement, “but it’s just been wonderful.”
By Associated Press, Published: October 30
OKLAHOMA CITY — Bob Barry Sr., the longtime play-by-play voice of Oklahoma football and men’s basketball games who also was a local sports anchor, died Sunday. He was 80.
KFOR-TV news director Mary Ann Eckstein said Barry was found dead in his Norman home.
“He didn’t get his morning papers and his neighbors became concerned,” Eckstein said. She had no other details and said a cause of death had not been determined.
Barry became the radio play-by-play voice of the University of Oklahoma in 1961, when he was chosen by football coach Bud Wilkinson. Barry held the job until the team’s radio rights changed in 1972.
He returned as the voice of the Sooners in 1991 after providing basketball and football play-by-play for Oklahoma State University and basketball play-by-play for the University of Tulsa in between his OU stints.
Barry retired last spring at the end of the OU basketball season, having spent 50 years calling Division I college games in the state. He said he did so for health reasons and because he didn’t feel his vision allowed him to perform up to his standards.
“Something you love to do your entire life and you’re able to do it and get paid for it, it’s hard to let go. Really, part of me doesn’t want to let go. But the other part of me says, ‘It’s time, Bubba,’” Barry said in August 2010, when announcing his retirement plans.
Barry was sports director at Oklahoma City’s KFOR until 1998, when he was succeeded by his son, Bob Barry Jr. Barry Sr. continued providing reports for the television station until retiring in 2008.
OU President David Boren said Barry was “loved by Oklahomans” across the state.
“Bob Barry represented the best of the Sooner spirit. With his contagious enthusiasm, he was one of the best sports broadcast journalists in the entire nation,” Boren said in a statement released by the university.
When announcing his retirement, Barry listed the 1971 “Game of the Century” between No. 2 Oklahoma and top-ranked Nebraska and the Sooners’ most recent national championship win in the 2001 Orange Bowl among the highlights of his career.
His very first game was Oklahoma’s trip to Notre Dame in the 1961 season opener.
“I was scared to death,” Barry said last year. “I get in there and do the game, broadcast the game and then like a little kid, I get on the phone, ‘Dad, how’d I do? How’d I do, Dad?’ ... He said I did OK.”
OU football coach Bob Stoops, in a statement released by the university, expressed condolences to Barry’s family.
“I know this is a difficult time for them, but hope they can find comfort in a life well-lived and the love of countless fans all over the country.”
Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy, who was the Cowboys’ quarterback when Barry was the Cowboys’ play-by-play announcer during the 1980s, issued a statement calling Barry a family friend and a state legend.
“He always had a smile and a great sense of humor. From the Gundy family and the entire Oklahoma State family, we send our thoughts and prayers.”
Toby Rowland, the man who replaced Barry as the voice of the Sooners, said he never saw Barry have a bad day.
“Even after 50 years of broadcasting he would show up at the stadium like a kid in a candy store. His play by play style was unmistakable, but it is his gentle, kind and fun-loving spirit that I will always remember,” Rowland said.
Barry’s career began with him calling football and basketball games at Norman High School before he was noticed by Wilkinson, whose sons attended the school. He then spent the final two decades of his career back on the sidelines calling Sooners games.
“I don’t know what I did right to deserve this,” Barry said upon announcing his retirement, “but it’s just been wonderful.”
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Sherman Ward, veteran member of the WV Radio Corp engineering staff, passed away this morning at this home. Sherman has been battling cardiac problems for the past few years, but he didn't let it slow him down, as we could always count on him to give 100-percent on every task he was assigned. The Sherminator will be missed in many, many ways. He was 53 years old.
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Guitarist for Metal Band GWAR Found Dead on Tour Bus.
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The lead guitarist and co-producer for a veteran heavy metal band was found dead Thursday on the group’s tour bus, The Washington Post reports.
Cory Smoot’s body was found shortly before the GWAR bus was to cross the border from North Dakota into Manitoba, Canada, the story reports. Smoot had performed with the band since 2002, using the stage name Flattus Maximus.
The Richmond, Va.-based speed metal band, formed in 1984, is known for its science-fiction-oriented stage performances, vulgar lyrics and grotesque costumes. Smoot reportedly produced GWAR’s two most recent albums.
No additional details were released about Smoot’s death, and it was unclear whether the band would continue its tour.
GWAR lead singer Dave Brockie, who performs as Oderus Urungus, released a statement calling Smoot “one of the most talented guitar players in metal today” and asking for privacy. “At this point we are just dealing with the loss of our dear friend and brother,” he said in the statement.
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'Porky's' actor Wyatt Knight found dead in Hawaii
Actor Wyatt Knight has been found dead outside his home in Maui, Hawaii.
The wife of the "Porky's" star has confirmed reports that the 56-year-old took his own life. Silvina Knight tells TMZ that her husband grew tired of the physical and emotional pain he suffered while battling cancer.
Bing: Wyatt Knight biography
She says, "After much contemplation, he chose to end his life in a beautiful and a serene place. ... His family and friends are devastated."
Paying tribute to the actor, she adds, "Wyatt was an incredibly talented, intelligent and loving person with an amazing spirit. He is free and at peace."
Knight's screen credits also include guest appearances on a number of TV shows, including "Renegade," "Pacific Blue" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." He played Tommy Turner in the "Porky's" movies.
Actor Wyatt Knight has been found dead outside his home in Maui, Hawaii.
The wife of the "Porky's" star has confirmed reports that the 56-year-old took his own life. Silvina Knight tells TMZ that her husband grew tired of the physical and emotional pain he suffered while battling cancer.
Bing: Wyatt Knight biography
She says, "After much contemplation, he chose to end his life in a beautiful and a serene place. ... His family and friends are devastated."
Paying tribute to the actor, she adds, "Wyatt was an incredibly talented, intelligent and loving person with an amazing spirit. He is free and at peace."
Knight's screen credits also include guest appearances on a number of TV shows, including "Renegade," "Pacific Blue" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation." He played Tommy Turner in the "Porky's" movies.
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Leonard Stone, 'Wonka' actor who played Violet's dad, dies at 87
Nov 4, 11:51 PM (ET)
ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) - Leonard Stone, who played the father who accompanied chronic gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde on a tour through a far-out candy palace in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," has died.
Granddaughter Lindsey Fryman-Borchard tells The Associated Press that Stone died of cancer Wednesday in Encinitas, Calif., a day before his 88th birthday.
He was best known as fast-talking father Sam Beauregarde in the 1971 film that starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. Stone watches in horror as his daughter turns into a giant blueberry and utters the famous line "Violet, you're turning violet, Violet!"
The Oregon native went on to play recurring characters in many television series including "Barney Miller,""Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law." In 2005, he played Warren Buffett in the Arnold Schwarzenegger TV biopic, "See Arnold Run."
Nov 4, 11:51 PM (ET)
ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) - Leonard Stone, who played the father who accompanied chronic gum-chewer Violet Beauregarde on a tour through a far-out candy palace in "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," has died.
Granddaughter Lindsey Fryman-Borchard tells The Associated Press that Stone died of cancer Wednesday in Encinitas, Calif., a day before his 88th birthday.
He was best known as fast-talking father Sam Beauregarde in the 1971 film that starred Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. Stone watches in horror as his daughter turns into a giant blueberry and utters the famous line "Violet, you're turning violet, Violet!"
The Oregon native went on to play recurring characters in many television series including "Barney Miller,""Hill Street Blues" and "L.A. Law." In 2005, he played Warren Buffett in the Arnold Schwarzenegger TV biopic, "See Arnold Run."
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Smoking Joe Frazier
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The champ is dead: Former heavyweight boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier - the first man to beat Muhammed Ali - loses battle with liver cancer
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The champ is dead: Former heavyweight boxer Smokin' Joe Frazier - the first man to beat Muhammed Ali - loses battle with liver cancer
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Rapper Heavy D dies at 44
Heavy D, the former leader of the hip-hop group Heavy D and the Boyz, has died at the age of 44.
According to TMZ, a 911 call was placed from Heavy's Beverly Hills home around 11:25 a.m. Tuesday to report an unconscious male on the walkway. The rapper was rushed to a hospital and was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. PT.
Police are investigating his death, but there are no signs of foul play.
Heavy D, born Dwight Arrington Myers, broke into the music industry with "Living Large," his first record with the Boyz, in 1987.
He is known for hit songs like "Nuttin But Love" and "Now That We Found Love." He also recorded theme songs for the television series "In Living Color" and "MADtv." In recent years, D recorded a series of reggae fusion albums.
Heavy performed at the Michael Jackson Tribute Concert in Wales on Oct. 8. And he also had a cameo in Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller 's new film, "Tower Heist."
Heavy D, the former leader of the hip-hop group Heavy D and the Boyz, has died at the age of 44.
According to TMZ, a 911 call was placed from Heavy's Beverly Hills home around 11:25 a.m. Tuesday to report an unconscious male on the walkway. The rapper was rushed to a hospital and was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. PT.
Police are investigating his death, but there are no signs of foul play.
Heavy D, born Dwight Arrington Myers, broke into the music industry with "Living Large," his first record with the Boyz, in 1987.
He is known for hit songs like "Nuttin But Love" and "Now That We Found Love." He also recorded theme songs for the television series "In Living Color" and "MADtv." In recent years, D recorded a series of reggae fusion albums.
Heavy performed at the Michael Jackson Tribute Concert in Wales on Oct. 8. And he also had a cameo in Eddie Murphy and Ben Stiller 's new film, "Tower Heist."
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Bil Keane, creator of 'Family Circus' that entertained for nearly half-century, dies at 89
AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press
4:06 p.m. CST, November 9, 2011
PHOENIX (AP) — Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the American public needed the consistency.
Keane, who started drawing the one-panel cartoon featuring Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. and their parents in February 1960, died Tuesday at age 89 at his longtime home in Paradise Valley, near Phoenix. His comic strip is featured in nearly 1,500 newspapers across the country.
Jeff Keane, Keane's son who lives in Laguna Hills, Calif., said that his father died of congestive heart failure with one of his other sons by his side after his conditioned worsened during the last month. All of Keane's five children, nine grandchildren and great-granddaughter were able to visit him last week, Jeff Keane said.
"He said, 'I love you' and that's what I said to him, which is a great way to go out," Jeff Keane said of the last conversation he had with his father. "The great thing is Dad loved the family so much, so the fact that we all saw him, I think that gave him great comfort and made his passing easy. Luckily he didn't suffer through a lot of things."
Jeff Keane has been drawing "Family Circus" in the last few years as his father enjoyed retirement.
Full story at Chicago Tribune.
AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press
4:06 p.m. CST, November 9, 2011
PHOENIX (AP) — Bil Keane's "Family Circus" comics entertained readers with a simple but sublime mix of humor and traditional family values for more than a half century. The appeal endured, the author thought, because the American public needed the consistency.
Keane, who started drawing the one-panel cartoon featuring Billy, Jeffy, Dolly, P.J. and their parents in February 1960, died Tuesday at age 89 at his longtime home in Paradise Valley, near Phoenix. His comic strip is featured in nearly 1,500 newspapers across the country.
Jeff Keane, Keane's son who lives in Laguna Hills, Calif., said that his father died of congestive heart failure with one of his other sons by his side after his conditioned worsened during the last month. All of Keane's five children, nine grandchildren and great-granddaughter were able to visit him last week, Jeff Keane said.
"He said, 'I love you' and that's what I said to him, which is a great way to go out," Jeff Keane said of the last conversation he had with his father. "The great thing is Dad loved the family so much, so the fact that we all saw him, I think that gave him great comfort and made his passing easy. Luckily he didn't suffer through a lot of things."
Jeff Keane has been drawing "Family Circus" in the last few years as his father enjoyed retirement.
Full story at Chicago Tribune.
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Not to denigrate the memory of a single person in this unfortunately growing thread, but could we also add today's EAS test?
"Television is a medium because anything well done is rare."
~ Fred Allen ~
“Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless”-Steve Allen
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“Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless”-Steve Allen
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Norman Ramsey
From ThisisTrue.com
6 November 2011
An atomic physicist, Ramsey studied matter and energy at an atomic level. He learned he could precisely control the flow of atoms through a magnetic field. He called it "the separated oscillatory fields method". Everyone else in the field calls it the "Ramsey Method". So what? So this: the Method is what enables MRIs -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging medical scanners -- to work. In addition, the Ramsey Method made it possible to build the most accurate timepiece ever created: "atomic" clocks, which are so accurate that current versions are not expected to gain or lose even one second over 138 million years. "I didn't even know there was a problem about clocks initially," Ramsey said in 1995. But atomic clocks aren't just a curiosity: they enable technologies such as the Global Positioning System to be accurate. And he spent 39 years teaching physics at Harvard, passing on his knowledge. "If you made a list of the most outstanding physicists of the 20th century, he'd be among the leaders," said Leon M. Lederman, emeritus director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- which Ramsey co-founded. Dr. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for his Method. He died in Massachusetts on November 4. He was 96.
From ThisisTrue.com
6 November 2011
An atomic physicist, Ramsey studied matter and energy at an atomic level. He learned he could precisely control the flow of atoms through a magnetic field. He called it "the separated oscillatory fields method". Everyone else in the field calls it the "Ramsey Method". So what? So this: the Method is what enables MRIs -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging medical scanners -- to work. In addition, the Ramsey Method made it possible to build the most accurate timepiece ever created: "atomic" clocks, which are so accurate that current versions are not expected to gain or lose even one second over 138 million years. "I didn't even know there was a problem about clocks initially," Ramsey said in 1995. But atomic clocks aren't just a curiosity: they enable technologies such as the Global Positioning System to be accurate. And he spent 39 years teaching physics at Harvard, passing on his knowledge. "If you made a list of the most outstanding physicists of the 20th century, he'd be among the leaders," said Leon M. Lederman, emeritus director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory -- which Ramsey co-founded. Dr. Ramsey was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989 for his Method. He died in Massachusetts on November 4. He was 96.
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Evelyn Lauder Dead: Breast Cancer Ribbon Creator And Estee Lauder Doyenne Dies At 75
AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 11/13/11 10:19 AM ET Updated: 11/13/11 12:06 PM ET
Text by Christian Salazar and Samantha Critichell, AP
NEW YORK -- Pink was Evelyn Lauder's color.
In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life.
In 1992, Lauder worked with her friend Alexandra Penney, the former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, to create the pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer awareness. It started small with Lauder and her husband, Leonard, largely financing the little bows given to women at department store makeup counters to remind them about breast exams.
That grew into fundraising products, congressional designation of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and $330 million in donations – $50 million from Estee Lauder and its partners – to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which Lauder also started.
That money helped establish the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, which opened in 2009.
Lauder died Saturday at her Manhattan home from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer. She was 75.
Just last month, she reminisced about the early days of the breast cancer campaign. When it launched, it was so little known that some people thought it symbolized AIDS awareness.
"There had been no publicity about breast cancer, but a confluence of events – the pink ribbon, the color, the press, partnering with Elizabeth Hurley, having Estee Lauder as an advertiser in so magazines and persuading so many of my friends who are health and beauty editors to do stories about breast health -- got people talking," she said. Then, three years after distributing the first pink ribbon, a flight attendant noted it on Lauder's lapel and said, "I know that's for breast cancer."
"From there, it became ubiquitous," she remembered.
Lauder had been diagnosed with her cancer in 2007, but it didn't slow her down much. Come each October, she appeared at cancer awareness events around the world.
The rest of the time, she went to work at Estee Lauder's Fifth Avenue headquarters, which, despite its annual revenue of $2.48 billion, was run much like a family business. Over the years, Evelyn Lauder would hold many positions there and she helped develop its lines of skin care, makeup and fragrance.
She came up with the name of its popular Clinique brand during the 1960s. Most recently, she held the title of senior corporate vice president.
Her other passion was photography, and she was the author of the book "In Great Taste: Fresh, Simple Recipes for Eating and Living Well."
Born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, she fled Nazi-occupied Europe with her parents, and they settled in the U.S. She attended public schools in New York City and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
As a college freshman, she met her husband, the elder son of Estee Lauder and whose family owned what was then a small cosmetics company.
"We had five products in the line, we only had two or three colors in our lipsticks," she told cable news channel NY1 in 2005. "It was a baby company."
The young couple married in 1959. Leonard Lauder is now chairman emeritus of the company. Estee Lauder died in 2004 at 97.
Leonard and Evelyn Lauder's son William is executive chairman of Estee Lauder Cos. Another son, Gary, is managing director of Lauder Partners LLC, a technology investment firm.
AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 11/13/11 10:19 AM ET Updated: 11/13/11 12:06 PM ET
Text by Christian Salazar and Samantha Critichell, AP
NEW YORK -- Pink was Evelyn Lauder's color.
In her long career as an executive at cosmetics giant Estee Lauder Cos., the company founded by her mother-in-law, Lauder worked with many shades of red, peach, bronze and even blues, but pink was the one hue that changed her life.
In 1992, Lauder worked with her friend Alexandra Penney, the former editor-in-chief of Self magazine, to create the pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer awareness. It started small with Lauder and her husband, Leonard, largely financing the little bows given to women at department store makeup counters to remind them about breast exams.
That grew into fundraising products, congressional designation of October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and $330 million in donations – $50 million from Estee Lauder and its partners – to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which Lauder also started.
That money helped establish the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, which opened in 2009.
Lauder died Saturday at her Manhattan home from complications of nongenetic ovarian cancer. She was 75.
Just last month, she reminisced about the early days of the breast cancer campaign. When it launched, it was so little known that some people thought it symbolized AIDS awareness.
"There had been no publicity about breast cancer, but a confluence of events – the pink ribbon, the color, the press, partnering with Elizabeth Hurley, having Estee Lauder as an advertiser in so magazines and persuading so many of my friends who are health and beauty editors to do stories about breast health -- got people talking," she said. Then, three years after distributing the first pink ribbon, a flight attendant noted it on Lauder's lapel and said, "I know that's for breast cancer."
"From there, it became ubiquitous," she remembered.
Lauder had been diagnosed with her cancer in 2007, but it didn't slow her down much. Come each October, she appeared at cancer awareness events around the world.
The rest of the time, she went to work at Estee Lauder's Fifth Avenue headquarters, which, despite its annual revenue of $2.48 billion, was run much like a family business. Over the years, Evelyn Lauder would hold many positions there and she helped develop its lines of skin care, makeup and fragrance.
She came up with the name of its popular Clinique brand during the 1960s. Most recently, she held the title of senior corporate vice president.
Her other passion was photography, and she was the author of the book "In Great Taste: Fresh, Simple Recipes for Eating and Living Well."
Born Evelyn Hausner in 1936 in Vienna, Austria, she fled Nazi-occupied Europe with her parents, and they settled in the U.S. She attended public schools in New York City and Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.
As a college freshman, she met her husband, the elder son of Estee Lauder and whose family owned what was then a small cosmetics company.
"We had five products in the line, we only had two or three colors in our lipsticks," she told cable news channel NY1 in 2005. "It was a baby company."
The young couple married in 1959. Leonard Lauder is now chairman emeritus of the company. Estee Lauder died in 2004 at 97.
Leonard and Evelyn Lauder's son William is executive chairman of Estee Lauder Cos. Another son, Gary, is managing director of Lauder Partners LLC, a technology investment firm.
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'Wizard of Oz' Munchkin Karl Slover dies at 93
November 16, 2011 10:36 AM EST
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," has died. He was 93.
The 4-foot-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday afternoon in a central Georgia hospital, said Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley. According to friends, as recently as last weekend, Slover appeared at events in the suburban Chicago area.
Slover was best known for playing the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins' band but also had roles as a townsman and soldier in the film, said John Fricke, author of "100 Years of Oz" and five other books on the movie and its star, Judy Garland. Slover was one of the tiniest male Munchkins in the movie.
Long after Slover retired, he continued to appear around the country at festivals and events related to the movie. He was one of seven Munchkins at the 2007 unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to the little people in the movie. Only three remain of the 124 diminutive actors who played the beloved Munchkins.
Full story at access Atlanta.
November 16, 2011 10:36 AM EST
DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Karl Slover, one of the last surviving actors who played Munchkins in the 1939 classic film, "The Wizard of Oz," has died. He was 93.
The 4-foot-5 Slover died of cardiopulmonary arrest Tuesday afternoon in a central Georgia hospital, said Laurens County Deputy Coroner Nathan Stanley. According to friends, as recently as last weekend, Slover appeared at events in the suburban Chicago area.
Slover was best known for playing the lead trumpeter in the Munchkins' band but also had roles as a townsman and soldier in the film, said John Fricke, author of "100 Years of Oz" and five other books on the movie and its star, Judy Garland. Slover was one of the tiniest male Munchkins in the movie.
Long after Slover retired, he continued to appear around the country at festivals and events related to the movie. He was one of seven Munchkins at the 2007 unveiling of a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame dedicated to the little people in the movie. Only three remain of the 124 diminutive actors who played the beloved Munchkins.
Full story at access Atlanta.
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LOS ANGELES -- UCLA Basketball great, Walt Hazzard, passed away this afternoon at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center following a long illness.
He was 69 years old.
Hazzard's family said he had been recuperating for a long time from complications following heart surgery. The school said Hazzard died at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center.
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He was 69 years old.
Hazzard's family said he had been recuperating for a long time from complications following heart surgery. The school said Hazzard died at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center.
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I remembered that Hazzard had converted to Islam during his pro career and took the name Mahdi Abdul-Rahman. I wondered why this wasn't mentioned in his obit story. The answer is in his wikipedia entry:
During his professional basketball career, Hazzard converted to Islam and changed his name to Mahdi Abdul-Rahman. However, he felt that the name change was poorly received in basketball circles, believing that it cost him opportunities, both during and after his playing career. Therefore, although he remained devout in his Muslim faith, he chose to return to using the name Walt Hazzard professionally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Hazzard
During his professional basketball career, Hazzard converted to Islam and changed his name to Mahdi Abdul-Rahman. However, he felt that the name change was poorly received in basketball circles, believing that it cost him opportunities, both during and after his playing career. Therefore, although he remained devout in his Muslim faith, he chose to return to using the name Walt Hazzard professionally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Hazzard
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Larry Munson, longtime Georgia announcer who pleaded for Dawgs to ‘Hunker Down,’ dies at 89
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/co ... story.html
ATHENS, Ga. — Larry Munson, whose growling delivery as the voice of the Georgia Bulldogs for nearly 43 years made him as celebrated as the players and coaches he covered, died Sunday night. He was 89.
A university statement said Munson died at his Athens home of complications from pneumonia, according to his son, Michael.
Munson’s broadcasting career covered more than 60 years and included a stint with the Atlanta Braves when they moved from Milwaukee in 1966. But he’ll always be remembered as the radio play-by-play announcer at Georgia, endearing himself to generations of fans with his quirky calls and unabashed partisanship for the Bulldogs.
“Hunker down!” he would implore when the team faced a crucial play.
Munson was as cherished between the hedges as Georgia’s other football icons, including coach Vince Dooley, Heisman Trophy-winning running back Herschel Walker and tough defensive coordinator Erk Russell.
His death came one day after Georgia clinched a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game for the first time since 2005.
Munson’s delivery was unique and often imitated. There were so many imitators among Georgia fans that contests became common to determine the best impersonation.
He thrilled Georgia fans with calls such as “Run, Lindsay, run!” during Lindsay Scott’s 93-yard touchdown reception against Florida that kept the Bulldogs on course for the 1980 national championship.
After telling fans he broke through his steel chair during Scott’s run, Munson added that excited Georgia fans from Jacksonville to Jekyll Island, Ga., might follow his path.
“Man, is there gonna be some property destroyed tonight!” he exclaimed.
Occasionally, Munson’s exuberance landed him in trouble. He had to apologize after yelling “My God! A freshman!” when Walker ran over Tennessee defensive back Bill Bates for a touchdown in his first college game.
After a 1982 win over Auburn sent Georgia to the Sugar Bowl, Munson’s memorable line was “Look at the sugar falling out of the sky!”
Munson’s death resonated beyond Georgia football. Two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy, who spent the bulk of his baseball career with the Braves, tweeted Sunday night: “Saw that Larry Munson passed away, voice of the Georgia football. Thankful to have lived in ATL and hear him call the games, great memories.”
Not all of his famous lines came during Georgia’s most successful years. In Mark Richt’s first season as coach in 2001, Munson was moved by a last-second win over Tennessee.
“We just stepped on their face with a hobnailed boot and broke their nose! We just crushed their face!” he said.
Indeed, Munson never hid his allegiance to the Bulldogs, part of a generation of play-by-play announcers who saw no reason to pass themselves off as unbiased.
He skipped road games in 2007 except for Georgia Tech, just a 75-mile drive from Athens. Munson had surgery to remove blood clots from his brain several months before the ‘08 season, but returned to work Georgia’s first two home games.
Then, he suddenly retired, shortly before his 86th birthday.
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Another more detailed obit from Tony Barnhart and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/20 ... age-of-89/
It includes how Munson played piano in 1941 for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and their singer Frank Sinatra. Munson was a high school senior at the time.
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If you're not familiar with Munson's work and style, here's an espn.com blog with links to his top 10 most famous calls of UGA football:
http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/college ... 3fid%3d484
http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/co ... story.html
ATHENS, Ga. — Larry Munson, whose growling delivery as the voice of the Georgia Bulldogs for nearly 43 years made him as celebrated as the players and coaches he covered, died Sunday night. He was 89.
A university statement said Munson died at his Athens home of complications from pneumonia, according to his son, Michael.
Munson’s broadcasting career covered more than 60 years and included a stint with the Atlanta Braves when they moved from Milwaukee in 1966. But he’ll always be remembered as the radio play-by-play announcer at Georgia, endearing himself to generations of fans with his quirky calls and unabashed partisanship for the Bulldogs.
“Hunker down!” he would implore when the team faced a crucial play.
Munson was as cherished between the hedges as Georgia’s other football icons, including coach Vince Dooley, Heisman Trophy-winning running back Herschel Walker and tough defensive coordinator Erk Russell.
His death came one day after Georgia clinched a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game for the first time since 2005.
Munson’s delivery was unique and often imitated. There were so many imitators among Georgia fans that contests became common to determine the best impersonation.
He thrilled Georgia fans with calls such as “Run, Lindsay, run!” during Lindsay Scott’s 93-yard touchdown reception against Florida that kept the Bulldogs on course for the 1980 national championship.
After telling fans he broke through his steel chair during Scott’s run, Munson added that excited Georgia fans from Jacksonville to Jekyll Island, Ga., might follow his path.
“Man, is there gonna be some property destroyed tonight!” he exclaimed.
Occasionally, Munson’s exuberance landed him in trouble. He had to apologize after yelling “My God! A freshman!” when Walker ran over Tennessee defensive back Bill Bates for a touchdown in his first college game.
After a 1982 win over Auburn sent Georgia to the Sugar Bowl, Munson’s memorable line was “Look at the sugar falling out of the sky!”
Munson’s death resonated beyond Georgia football. Two-time National League MVP Dale Murphy, who spent the bulk of his baseball career with the Braves, tweeted Sunday night: “Saw that Larry Munson passed away, voice of the Georgia football. Thankful to have lived in ATL and hear him call the games, great memories.”
Not all of his famous lines came during Georgia’s most successful years. In Mark Richt’s first season as coach in 2001, Munson was moved by a last-second win over Tennessee.
“We just stepped on their face with a hobnailed boot and broke their nose! We just crushed their face!” he said.
Indeed, Munson never hid his allegiance to the Bulldogs, part of a generation of play-by-play announcers who saw no reason to pass themselves off as unbiased.
He skipped road games in 2007 except for Georgia Tech, just a 75-mile drive from Athens. Munson had surgery to remove blood clots from his brain several months before the ‘08 season, but returned to work Georgia’s first two home games.
Then, he suddenly retired, shortly before his 86th birthday.
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Another more detailed obit from Tony Barnhart and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
http://blogs.ajc.com/uga-sports-blog/20 ... age-of-89/
It includes how Munson played piano in 1941 for the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and their singer Frank Sinatra. Munson was a high school senior at the time.
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If you're not familiar with Munson's work and style, here's an espn.com blog with links to his top 10 most famous calls of UGA football:
http://insider.espn.go.com/blog/college ... 3fid%3d484
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