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MAY 2...Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suspected suicide by gunshot
MAY 1...Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner in Dallas, Texas, tried to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Dr. Rose was thrust into the thick of a 20th-century American nightmare. He performed an autopsy on J. D. Tippit, the police officer who was believed to have been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, the lone suspect in the assassination.
Two days later, he performed an autopsy on Oswald himself after the nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot him in the basement of Dallas police headquarters.
Four year later, Dr. Rose performed an autopsy on Ruby, determining that he had died of a blood clot in a lung.
But it was the autopsy he did not do that has become the most historic.
After demanding to conduct an autopsy on the president, as he was legally required to do in any murder, Dr. Rose reluctantly stepped aside to allow the president’s body to be returned to Washington, as the president’s widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, and his aides insisted.
The autopsy was later performed at Bethesda National Naval Medical Center in Maryland. The pathologists there did not know that a doctor at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, where the stricken president had been taken, had performed a tracheotomy on Kennedy that obscured a gunshot wound in his neck. Nor did they have access to the clothing the president was wearing.
A forensic panel commissioned by Congress determined in 1978 that the Bethesda doctors had failed to dissect a wound in Kennedy’s upper back and had only probed it with a finger.
The same year, pathologists involved in the autopsy admitted that they had been in “hurry up” mode. Conspiracy theorists have questioned whether high-ranking civilian and military officials who were present during the autopsy may have influenced its results.
Dr. Rose said in 1992 that an autopsy performed in Dallas “would have been free of any perceptions of outside influence.”
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Andrew Love (November 21, 1941-April 12, 2012) was a saxophone player based in Memphis, Tennessee best known for being a member of The Memphis Horns.
Love was born in Memphis and began his interest in music at the Baptist church were his father was pastor. His music education continued in high school and at Langston University in Oklahoma. He returned to Memphis in 1965 and began session work at Stax Records where he teamed up with trumpet player Wayne Jackson. The two created the signature horn sound at Stax on hit records by Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and others.
After recording numerous tracks at Stax, he and Jackson incorporated themselves into The Memphis Horns and began freelancing. Love and Jackson recorded at sessions for such artists as Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley and Dusty Springfield. The duo also toured with The Doobie Brothers, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray and numerous other performers.
In 2002, Love was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease which forced his retirement the following year and his eventual death in 2012 at age 70.
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William Henry Harrison "Tippy" Dye (April 1 1915 - April 11 2012) was a college athlete, coach, and athletic director in the United States. As a basketball head coach, Dye led the University of Washington to their only NCAA Final Four appearance. As an athletic director, Dye helped build the University of Nebraska football dynasty.
Dye was named after former United States President William Henry Harrison. Harrison used the campaign nickname of Tippecanoe, which led in turn to Dye's nickname of Tippy.
As of March 2012 he was the 4th oldest living former professional football player.
William H.H. Dye passed away on April 11, 2012, 10 days after his 97th birthday. In recent years, he had lived in California with his daughter and her husband following his wife's death.
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« Reply #3 on: May 3rd, 2012, 10:36pm » |
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APRIL 9...Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
APRIL 8...Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), suspected heart attack.
Jack Tramiel, 83, American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
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Micah True (c. November 10, 1954 – March 2012) born Michael Randall Hickman and also known as "Caballo Blanco", was an American ultrarunner from Boulder, Colorado, who gained fame as a central character in Christopher McDougall's best-selling book Born to Run.
The book chronicles his time in Mexico's Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara Indians, who taught him a new and better way to run so he could avoid the normal injuries that beset long distance runners. He was said to be "a legend" in the ultra marathon community. He was thought to be "indestructible" and a "pillar of the running community."
He was the race director of the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon which ends in Urique's plaza. The race covers 50 miles (80 km) of single track trail and dirt road. True's own website described the 2011 marathon:
"While some are at war in many parts of Northern Mexico and the world, we came together at the bottom of a deep canyon to share with the local people of the region, eat, laugh, dance, run, and create peace."
The event was said to be unique, and one which only True could successfully organize. Just before he disappeared, he tweeted about the race, "We are [messengers] fueled by the message. When the message we carry is of Truth/Beauty, love, hope, and peace ..."
For almost 20 years, he spent the winter training in Mexico and Central America, averaging 170 miles (270 km) per week.
True stated his best advice to fellow runners was: "Run easy, light, smoooooth [sic], happy ... and run free! Andale!"
As reported by Laura Zuckerman of Reuters News Service: "In January, True wrote on his Facebook page: If I were to be remembered for anything at all, I would want that to be that I am/was authentic. No Mas. Run Free!"
On March 27, 2012, True disappeared after heading out for a run in the Gila Wilderness, part of the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico.
He departed from the Wilderness Lodge in Gila, left his dog, took a water bottle and said he was going for a 12 miles (19 km) run. It was assumed that he was heading north towards the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. His body was found around 6 p.m. on March 31, 2012. Cause of death is unknown at this point.
The local sheriff said there were "no obvious signs of trauma." The mountain rescue effort involved three aircraft and at least nine search and rescue teams. in off-road vehicles and horses, looking across two hundred thousand acres of high desert. His remains were expected to be removed by horseback, and because of difficult terrain and remote location, that was not expected to be completed until April 1.
True was to attend the memorial for his mother Mary Louise Hickman on Sunday, April 1, 2012.
Runners expressed shock at his passing, and noted that having his friends run all over the wilderness looking for him was a fitting honor that he would have appreciated.
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Bert Randolph Sugar (June 7, 1937-March 25, 2012) was a boxing writer and sports historian.
Sugar bought Boxing Illustrated magazine in 1969 and was editor until 1973. From 1979–1983 he was editor and publisher of The Ring. In 1988 he once again began editing Boxing Illustrated. In 1998 he founded Bert Sugar's Fight Game.
Sugar has written over 80 books, mostly on boxing history. Various boxing books that Sugar has written include Great Fights, Bert Sugar on Boxing, 100 Years of Boxing, Sting like a Bee (with José Torres), The Ageless Warrior (Preface, with Mike Fitzgerald) and Boxing's Greatest Fighters. Sugar was called "The Greatest Boxing Writer of the 20th Century" by the International Veterans Boxing Association.
He has also appeared in several films playing himself, including Night and the City, The Great White Hype and Rocky Balboa. Interviews with Sugar feature in Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. He has been called Runyonesque (in reference to Damon Runyon) by Bob Costas, and "one of the foremost historians alive," by the Boston Globe newspaper. Along with Lou Albano, he helped write The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pro Wrestling. He wrote a regular sports column for Smoke Magazine, a quarterly cigar lifestyle magazine.
Sugar was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in January 2005. In May 2009 he and Running Press published Bert Sugar's Baseball Hall of Fame: A Living History of America's Greatest Game. In May 2010, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. In 2011, he was featured on The Pentagon Channel's Armed Forces Boxing Championships. He was scheduled to broadcast the 2012 matches, but his health prevented him from doing so.
Bert Sugar died of cardiac arrest. Jennifer Frawley, Sugar's daughter, said his wife, Suzanne, was by his side when he died at Northern Westchester Hospital. Sugar also had been battling lung cancer.
He was 75.
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« Reply #6 on: May 3rd, 2012, 10:44pm » |
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Murray Lender, 81, American entrepreneur (Lender's Bagels), complications from a fall
Lender's Bagel Bakery was established by Harry Lender, a Jewish baker originally from Chelm, Poland who had immigrated to the United States from Lublin in August 1927.
After first working in a bagel bakery in Passaic, New Jersey, Lender purchased his own bakery on Oak Street in New Haven, Connecticut for $600, and brought his family to join him in the United States on December 30, 1929.
New Haven then had a population of over 162,000, many of them new immigrants, and a Jewish population of 25,000, accounting for almost one sixth of the population. Lender's bagel bakery, called the "New York Bagel Bakery", was one of the first bagel bakeries in the United States to be established outside of New York City.
In 1960, Harry Lender died, and his sons Sam and Murray, who had been running the bakery with him, continued. (Oldest son Hyman had previously left the family business.) When youngest son Marvin graduated from college, he became a partner as well, and shortly thereafter Sam retired. The two brothers teamed up to expand operations, with Marvin managing the bakery and Murray in charge of sales.
In 1965 the bakery, now renamed "Lender's Bagel Bakery", moved to a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m2) plant on the Boston Post Road in West Haven, in order to have ample reserve capacity for expansion; business increased so quickly that the bakery was working at full capacity within a year. The Lenders began flash-freezing the bagels and produced softer and sweeter bagels than was traditional. In 1974, Lender’s had bought their major competitor, Abel's Bagels in Buffalo, New York. In 1978 the family opened a bagel restaurant in Orange, Connecticut under the name “H. Lender and Sons”, two years later they opened a second one in Hamden. After Lender's Bagels was sold to Kraft Foods, the name of the restaurant was changed to S. Kinder Restaurants. The name is derived from Yiddish esst, kinder, meaning eat, children.
Under Marvin and Murray Lender, Lender's Bagels eventually grew to a highly automated 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) bakery, pioneering the modern automated bagel bakery. The company grew from six employees when it moved to West Haven to 600 in 1984, selling about $60 million worth of bagels from four bagel factories producing more than 750,000,000 bagels a year, becoming the world's biggest bagel producer.
In the spring of 1984, the Lender family sold Lender's Frozen Bagels to Kraft Foods, with the stipulation that Marvin would remain president and Murray spokesman for the next two years. Murray Lender publicized the sale in characteristic form, by holding "the marriage of the century", with Murray and Marvin escorting a 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) Lender’s Bagel, "Len", down the aisle to meet his new bride, "Phyl", a Kraft Philadelphia brand cream cheese.
Murray Lender's advertisements and marketing promotions put bagels into the public consciousness. He was traveling throughout the United States marketing Lender's Frozen Bagels to a country which was disdainful of frozen foods and unfamiliar with bagels. His success helped elevate the entire frozen food industry. In response to observations that March was the slowest month for sales of frozen foods, Murray Lender organized the frozen food industry to declare March Frozen Foods Month, raising sales dramatically. In recognition of his contributions to the industry as a whole, he was elected chairman of the National Frozen Food Association, nominated to the Halls of Fame of the International Deli-Bakery Association and the Frozen Food Association, and named "Man of the Year" by the Frozen Food Association of New England, the National Prepared Frozen Food Association, and the Connecticut Food Stores Association. In response to the public's growing consciousness of health foods and the drop in popularity of white bread, he began to stress bagels as more natural baked goods, and Lender's Bagels became one of the first products to voluntarily include nutritional information on the package.
Murray Lender appeared as a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He created green bagels for Saint Patrick's Day, oval bagels for President Lyndon B. Johnson to be photographed eating in the Oval Office, and "bagel heads", miniature decorated bagels, in the likeness of the world leaders attending the 9th G7 summit in 1983
In 2007, the site of the first Lender's bagel bakery was dedicated as a playground and named after one of Harry Lenders sons “Murray Lender Playground”.
On March 21, 2012, Murray Lender died from the complications of a fall in Florida.
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Sid Couchey (May 24, 1919 – March 11, 2012) was an American comic book artist best known for his illustration work on the Harvey Comics characters Richie Rich, Little Lotta and Little Dot. His style is known for big, friendly faces and a sharp sense of visual humor.
Couchey was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He counts Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon, Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon and Howard Pyle among his influences.
After enrolling in the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning, a correspondence course out of Cleveland, he continued to practice his craft on the back of his school papers. When he was 14, he wrote to Walt Disney, and "asked when I should come... I've sharpened my pencils... I'm ready." However, Disney told Couchey that they weren't quite ready for him.
Couchey graduated from the Art Career School and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School (which became The School of Visual Arts), both located in New York City. For his first job after art school, Couchey assisted John Lehti on the comic strips Tommy of the Big Top and Tales from the Great Book. In his home, Sid displays an original piece from the Great Book strip, in which he appears as the census taker and scribe for the Pharaoh.
In the early 1950s, Couchey worked on backgrounds for the Lassie, Big Town and Howdy Doody TV tie-in books. His first complete work was published in Hoot Gibson #6 and several Couchey-illustrated stories appear in Heroic Comics, published by Famous Funnies. His stories were printed in Issues #62, 70, 71, 74, 75, 76, 78, 80 and 82.
In the mid-1950s, Couchey answered an advertisement in The New York Times and thus briefly became an assistant for Joe Shuster, the co-creator of Superman. After several planning sessions in Couchey's Ninth Avenue apartment, Shuster came up with "another alien baby" named Golly Galloo. Although "Galloo never flew," Couchey still has many of Shuster's original tracing-paper sketches for this character.
Sid Couchey's "big break" came when Harvey Comics advertised for cartoonists. A few of Couchey's fellow art school graduates, who had started an art studio of their own, told him about the advertisements. According to Couchey...
“ My first interview at Harvey Comics was with the man who turned out to be the elder statesman of Harvey cartoonists, Warren Kremer. He created all the spec sheets for the various characters and was a remarkably imaginative and accurate artist. I came there fresh out of art school. 'Green' is more appropriate than 'fresh,' but fortunately, Warren was also patient. He taught me what I needed to know about the Harvey kids so that I could go back up home to Essex, New York, (with my new bride, Ruth) and send my artwork to Harvey Comics. Editor Sid Jacobson was always good to me and Leon Harvey, on one of the few occasions that I saw him, had pictures taken of himself with my family.”
At Harvey, Couchey’s artwork began appearing in the Little Dot, Little Lotta and Richie Rich titles throughout the 1950s and 1960s, with reprints appearing for many years. Couchey did not create these famous Harvey characters — but he did have the opportunity to change attitudes or events. According to Couchey, "One time, they had Little Lotta facing a mean bulldog and the script called for her to bash or kick him — and I didn't think that was in keeping with her character, so I changed that to have her subdue it in a somewhat less brutal way like tossing him in a thicket, or something
In the early 1980s, Couchey provided spot illustrations for Good Old Days magazine. In the spring of 1994, Couchey received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Kansas City Comics Convention. The other honorees included John Byrne, George Pérez, and Lee Falk, who bore a striking resemblance to Couchey. Couchey and Falk played on this, and dressed alike during the convention for their fans.
Couchey has kept busy with local artwork, especially with many cartoons devoted to Champ, the Monster of Lake Champlain. A second cousin to Scotland's "Nessie", Champy has been sighted for centuries in the Port Henry region of Lake Champlain, even by Samuel de Champlain himself (who described the creature as a 20-foot (6.1 m)-long serpent with the head of a horse).
In addition to his work with Champy, Couchey also contributed artwork to alcohol-awareness programs for the State of Vermont. In the mid-1980s, Dr. John K. Worden and his University of Vermont team invited Sid and Vermonter Jim Starbuck to create a “spokestoon” to deter alcohol abuse—thus, the noble character of Rascal Raccoon emerged. Around that time, Jim Heltz of Green Mountain Video worked with Couchey to create the “Drinking Dog/Cool Cat” series as part of an alcohol-awareness program for the State of Vermont. These characters were featured in various posters and animated TV spots to present an anti-alcohol message to children.
Calvin Castine, popular writer and videographer of Hometown Cable of Champlain, New York, invited Couchey, along with famed cartoonist Arto Monaco--creator of the Land of Makebelieve amusement park—to join him in the production of a comic book honoring the memory of Tom Tyler, a B-movie hero and matinee idol who was born in Port Henry, New York. Tom Tyler Tales and its sequel, Tom Tyler Tales, Too--written and produced by Castine—are still in print and are available at Hometown Cable and other outlets.
Author Morris Glenn is currently working with Couchey on a history-oriented book titled “A Walk Around Whallon’s Bay”.
The Heritage Society of Willsboro, New York, has invited Couchey to use part of their newly renovated facility as a permanent home for the display of his paintings and drawings. The Opening Reception was held on Friday, June 6, 2008 in Willsboro
On June 21, 2002, thanks to the efforts of Calvin Castine, well-known radio personality Gordie Little, and the Montreal Expos baseball organization, Couchey (a notorious Cleveland Indians fan) got his chance to throw out the first pitch at an Expos-Indians game. Cal Castine promoted the event and covered every action-packed moment of Couchey’s pitch. Couchey also made his own baseball cards, featuring a "bobblehead" Sid.
In honor of this landmark event, Couchey was inducted into the First Ball Pitchers' Hall of Fame with a Proclamation from Judge Lewis. Currently, Couchey (head of the selection committee) and Dave Dravecky are the only two honorees in this Hall of Fame. The hallowed Hall is located in Jim’s Pretty Good Bookstore in Whallonsburg, New York, which is also the meeting place for the (in)famous Do-Nothing Club.
Until recently Couchey and his wife Ruth still made appearances at book signings and comic-book conventions, in addition to visiting cartoon museums and libraries. Recently, Couchey has completed a series of paintings that echo his professional training—Champy in the Style of the Old Masters, which has been on display in Plattsburgh and at the Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum, both located in New York State. In this collection, Couchey portrays the famous lake-serpent as he would have been painted by Seurat and Picasso, among others.
Cartoonists and comic-book artists love to add in-jokes to their work, and Couchey is no exception. He included local references in dozens of books. The residents of northern New York State would be surprised to find the names of nearby towns in the pages of a Harvey book. In one Little Lotta story, Couchey drew a strip around an athletic contest between the towns of Keeseville and Willsboro. Years later, Couchey met a basketball coach from Keeseville, who had been wondering "how the heck [our town] ever got in that comic and why they had to lose to Willsboro!" This story, entitled "Not Qualified", appears in Little Dot's Uncles & Aunts #8.
In the April 1960 (Vol. 1, No. 55) issue of Little Dot, Sid Couchey appears in a Little Lotta strip entitled "Problem Child", along with his then-fiancée Ruth Horne. According to his wife, Couchey proposed to her with that story. They were married on November 14, 1959. Sid and Ruth Couchey lived in Inman, South Carolina and have two children—Brian and Laura—and many grandchildren.
In February 2012, Sid was diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma. The agressive cancer took hold quickly and Sid passed away on March 11, 2012 aged 92. He is survied by his wife of 52 years, Ruth; their 2 children and many grandchildren.
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James T. Ellis, singer for The Trammps, dies at 74
ROCK HILL, S.C., Thu Mar 08, 08:36 PM
James T. "Jimmy" Ellis, who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit that's still replayed in modern sports arenas, has died. He was 74.
David Turner of Bass-Cauthen Funeral Home in Rock Hill, S.C., said the frontman for The Trammps died Thursday at a nursing home in the city. A cause of death was not immediately known.
The Trammps released "Disco Inferno" - the song with the popular refrain - in 1976. The song was featured in the iconic movie "Saturday Night Fever," its soundtrack winning the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978. "Disco Inferno" soared up to No. 11 on Billboard's Hot 100 on May 27, 1978.
Turner said a memorial service will be held Friday in Charlotte, N.C.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sun Mar 04, 06:22 PM
Rock guitarist Ronnie Montrose, who formed the band that bore his name and performed with some of rock's heavy hitters, has died.
His booking agent, Jim Douglas, says Montrose died Saturday at his home in Millbrae, Calif. He was 64.
Douglas says Montrose had been in declining health for some time, battling prostate cancer and what Douglas termed "personal demons."
In 1969, he started out in a band called Sawbuck with Bill Church. Montrose had been in the process of recording what would have been his first album with Sawbuck when David Rubinson, the producer, arranged an audition with Van Morrison. Montrose got the job and played on Morrison's 1971 album Tupelo Honey. He also played on the song "Listen to the Lion", which was recorded during the Tupelo Honey sessions but released on Morrison's next album. Saint Dominic's Preview (1972)
Montrose played briefly with Boz Scaggs and then joined the Edgar Winter Group in 1972. He played on They Only Come Out at Night (1972), which included the hit singles "Frankenstein" and "Free Ride". He then formed his own band, Montrose, in 1973, featuring Sammy Hagar on vocals. That incarnation of the band put out two albums on Warner Bros. Records, Montrose (1973) and Paper Money (1974), before Hagar left to pursue a solo career. Although the liner notes for the CD edition of Paper Money said that Ronnie was offered to play lead guitar for Mott the Hoople when he left the Edgar Winter Group, Ronnie says that it never happened and was just a rumor. He also added his guitar work to Gary Wright's song, "Power of Love" off the 1975 album, The Dream Weaver.
The guitarist continued to put out albums as "Montrose" (Warner Brothers Presents... Montrose! and Jump on It) or "Ronnie Montrose" (Open Fire) until he formed Gamma in 1979, initially putting out three albums using that moniker with Davey Pattison singing.
In 1983 he played lead guitar on the song "(She Is A) Telepath" from Paul Kantner's album Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra although he wasn't a member of the original PERRO.
In 1985 he joined Seattle's Rail (winners of MTV's first Basement Tapes video competition) for several months. He was looking for a new band and one of Rail's guitarists, Rick Knotts, had recently left. Billed as Rail featuring Ronnie Montrose or Ronnie & Rail, they played a set of half Rail favorites and half Montrose songs ("Rock Candy," "Rock the Nation," "Matriarch," and Gamma's remake of Thunderclap Newman's "Something in the Air"). At the end of the tour, there was an amicable split.
He continued to record through the 1980s and 1990s, and Gamma put out a fourth album in 2005.
Ronnie Montrose appeared on Sammy Hagar's Marching To Mars along with original Montrose members Bill Church and Denny Carmassi on the song "Leaving The Warmth Of The Womb." The original Montrose lineup also reformed to play as a special guest at several Sammy Hagar concerts in summer 2004 and 2005. Ronnie Montrose has also performed regularly from 2002 to present with a Montrose lineup featuring Keith St. John on lead vocals and a rotating cast of veteran hard rock players on bass and drums.
On his most recent tour, in late 2009, Montrose revealed that he had successfully fought prostate cancer over the last two years; however, on March 3, 2012 Montrose lost his battle with cancer.
Montrose is survived by his wife, Leighsa, as well as a son, a daughter and five grandchildren.
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Andrew Breitbart (February 1, 1969 – March 1, 2012) was an American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author,[and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report Web site. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and helped launch her web publication The Huffington Post.
He ran his own news aggregation site, Breitbart.com, and five other websites: Breitbart.tv, Big Hollywood, Big Government, Big Journalism, and Big Peace.
In 1995 Breitbart saw the Drudge Report and was so impressed that he emailed Matt Drudge. Breitbart said, "I thought what he was doing was by far the coolest thing on the Internet. And I still do." Breitbart described himself as "Matt Drudge’s bitch" and selected and posted links to other news wire sources. Later Matt Drudge introduced him to Arianna Huffington (when she was still a Republican) and Breitbart subsequently assisted her (after she became a liberal) in creating her website.
Breitbart's work has been published in the Wall Street Journal, National Review Online and the Weekly Standard Online, among others. He wrote a weekly column for The Washington Times, which also appeared at Real Clear Politics. Breitbart also co-wrote the book Hollywood, Interrupted: Insanity Chic in Babylon with Mark Ebner, a book that is highly critical of U.S. celebrity culture. On January 19, 2011, the conservative gay rights group GOProud announced Breitbart had joined its Advisory Council.
In April 2011 Grand Central Publishing released Breitbart's book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World, in which he discussed his own political evolution and the part he took in the rise of new media, most notably at the Drudge Report and The Huffington Post.
In June 2011 Breitbart was involved in the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal when his websites broke the story that Weiner was sending women revealing photographs of himself.
Breitbart appeared as a commentator on Real Time with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. In 2004 he was a guest commentator on Fox News Channel's morning show and frequently appeared as a guest panelist on Fox News's late night program, Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld. Breitbart also appeared as a commentator in the 2004 documentary Michael Moore Hates America.
On October 22, 2009, Breitbart appeared on the C-SPAN program Washington Journal. He gave his opinions on the mainstream media, Hollywood, the Obama Administration and his personal political views, having heated debates with several callers.
In February 2010 Breitbart received the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. During his acceptance speech, he responded directly to accusations by New York Times reporter Kate Zernike that Jason Mattera, a young conservative activist, had been using "racial tones" in his allusions to President Barack Obama, and had spoken in a "Chris Rock voice." From the podium, Breitbart called Zernike "a despicable human being" for having made such allegations about Mattera's New York accent. At the same conference, Breitbart was also filmed saying to journalist Max Blumenthal that he found him to be "a jerk", and "a despicable human being" due to a blog entry posted by Blumenthal.
Breitbart often appeared as a speaker at Tea Party movement events across the U.S. For example, Breitbart was a keynote speaker at the first National Tea Party Convention at Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville on February 6, 2010. Breitbart later involved himself in a controversy over homophobic and alleged racial slurs being used at a March 20, 2010 rally at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. by asserting that slurs were never used, and that "It was a set-up" by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party. Breitbart offered to donate $100,000 to the United Negro College Fund "for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled", claiming that they made it up. Breitbart insisted Congressman John Lewis and the several other witnesses were forced to lie, concluding that "Nancy Pelosi did a great disservice to a great civil rights icon by thrusting him out there to perform this mischievous task. His reputation is now on the line as a result of her desperation to take down the Tea Party movement.
Breitbart launched a number of Web sites, including Breitbart.com, BigHollywood.com, BigGovernment.com, BigJournalism.com, and BigPeace.com.
Breitbart launched his first Web site as a news site; it is sometimes linked to by the Drudge Report and other websites. It has wire stories from the Associated Press, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Fox News, PR Newswire, and U.S. Newswire, as well as direct links to a number of major international newspapers. Its Blog & "Network" links tend to run to the right within the U.S. political spectrum (e.g., National Review and Townhall.com). The site also has a search engine powered by Lingospot and a finance channel powered by FinancialContent. In 2007, Breitbart launched a video blog, Breitbart.tv.
In 2008 Breitbart launched the Web site "Big Hollywood," a "group blog" driven by some who work within Los Angeles, with contributions from a variety of writers, including politically conservative entertainment-industry professionals. The site, an outgrowth of the column "Big Hollywood" that Breitbart wrote for the Washington Times, addresses issues facing conservatives who work in Hollywood. In 2009, the site used audio from a secretly recorded conference call to accuse the National Endowment of the Arts of encouraging artists to create work in support of Barack Obama's domestic policy agenda.
Breitbart launched BigGovernment.com on September 10, 2009. He hired Mike Flynn, a former government affairs specialist at Reason Foundation, as Editor-in-Chief of Big Government. The site premiered with hidden camera video footage taken by Hannah Giles and James O'Keefe at Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now offices in various cities, attracting nationwide attention resulting in the ACORN 2009 undercover videos controversy.
In January 2010, Breitbart launched Big Journalism. He told Mediaite: "Our goal at Big Journalism is to hold the mainstream media’s feet to the fire. There are a lot of stories that they simply don’t cover, either because it doesn’t fit their world view, or because they’re literally innocent of any knowledge that the story even exists, or because they are a dying organization, short-staffed, and thus can’t cover stuff like they did before." Big Journalism was edited by Michael A. Walsh, a former journalism professor and Time magazine music critic. It is now currently edited by Dana Loesch. The site has a fictional contributor named "Retracto, the Correction Alpaca" who posts items requesting corrections from the traditional media.
BigPeace.com debuted July 4, 2010. The site covers topics such as international issues and foreign policy, the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, terrorism, Islamic extremism, espionage, border security, and energy issues.
On May 28, 2011, Breitbart posted a sexually explicit photo on his BigJournalism website of New York Representative Anthony Weiner obtained through Weiner's Twitter account. Weiner initially denied that he had sent a 21-year-old female college student the link to the photograph, but after questions developed, he admitted to inappropriate online relationships. On June 6, 2011 Breitbart reported other photos Weiner had sent, including one that was sexually graphic. On June 8, 2011, the sexually graphic photo was leaked after Breitbart participated in a radio interview with hosts Opie and Anthony, though Breitbart stated that the photo was published without his permission. Weiner subsequently resigned from his congressional seat on June 21, 2011.
On July 19, 2010, Breitbart posted two short videos showing excerpts of a speech by Shirley Sherrod at an NAACP fundraising dinner in March 2010. The ensuing controversy resulted in Sherrod being fired from the United States Department of Agriculture on July 19. After Breitbart was criticized for taking Sherrod's words out of context, he posted the complete 40-minute video of the speech. The NAACP stated that the video excerpts aired by Breitbart were deliberately deceptive and said that he had "snookered" the group. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack later apologized to Sherrod and offered her a new job. In 2011, Sherrod brought suit against Breitbart for defamation
Breitbart was also involved in the 2009 ACORN video controversy. Hannah Giles posed as a prostitute seeking assistance while James O'Keefe portrayed her boyfriend, and clandestinely videotaped meetings with ACORN staff. Subsequent criminal investigations by the Brooklyn District Attorney's office and the California Attorney General found the videos were heavily edited in an attempt to make ACORN's responses "appear more sinister", and contributed to the group's demise. Breitbart then provided a forum for O'Keefe on his BigGovernment.com website and defended his actions on Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel program
Breitbart was also embroiled in a controversy within the conservative movement related to the participation of gay group GOProud in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), an annual conference held in Washington, D.C. by the American Conservative Union. In 2011 he was the primary host of a party that served to "welcome" the "homocons" to the convention (though it was the second year they had been participants). This flew in the face of a boycott staged by a few social conservative groups that were offended by the inclusion of GOProud within the conservative fold. Writer, producer, and publisher Roger L. Simon referred to the group as a "game-changer" for the Republican party, and asserted that it represented a turning point in the appeal that the conservative movement might hold for young people. Breitbart was on the Advisory Board of GOProud until he stepped down in the wake of the group's inadvertent outing of a senior Rick Perry aide
At the Conservative Political Action Conference convention in Washington, D.C., on February 10, 2012, a belligerent Breitbart was captured walking with a glass of wine, screaming a diatribe at protesters, including repeatedly calling them "filthy freaks" and "murderers," demanding that they "stop raping the people." He was restrained by convention hotel security, resisting as they physically pushed him away from the demonstration
Breitbart was married to Susannah Bean, the daughter of actor Orson Bean, and had four children.
On March 1, 2012, Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's website, released a statement saying that Breitbart had died unexpectedly from natural causes earlier that day in Los Angeles. He was 43 years old. A bystander saw him collapse while out on a walk in Brentwood shortly after midnight and called paramedics, who rushed him to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center where he was declared dead.
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Donald Gilbert Joyce (October 8, 1929 – February 26, 2012) was an American football defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) and the American Football League (AFL).
Joyce was born in Steubenville, Ohio. He played for the NFL's Chicago Cardinals (1951–1953), the Baltimore Colts (1954–1960), and the Minnesota Vikings (1961). He played for the AFL's Denver Broncos (1962). He was selected to the Pro Bowl after the 1958 season. Joyce was a professional wrestler in the off-season.
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Lynn D. "Buck" Compton (December 31, 1921 – February 25, 2012) was a California Court of Appeals judge who served as the lead prosecutor in Sirhan Sirhan's trial for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy. From 1946-1951, Compton served with the Los Angeles Police Department. During World War II, he was a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army. Compton was portrayed in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers by Neal McDonough.
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Dennis Gomes
Gomes, a well-known Atlantic City showman, has died at the age of 68.
Gaming regulator-turned-casino mogul Dennis Gomes has a sprawling list of accomplishments that spans four decades from the Jersey Shore to the Nevada desert.
At the Tropicana in Atlantic City, he developed the Quarter, a Havana-themed shopping-restaurant complex built to lure crowds beyond slot machines and table games. Over the past two years, he transformed Resorts from a struggling property into a sleek spot for hipster throngs.
Earlier, as a Las Vegas investigator, he busted a coin-skimming crime ring, a case made famous in the movie "Casino."
Gomes’ proudest achievement, however, involved farm animals. During his tenure at the Tropicana, he rolled the dice on a tic-tac-toe challenge that featured live chickens. Customers were invited to compete against feathered rivals in a pioneering game that evolved into a national trend.
"I found an obscure newspaper article about a tic-tac-toe-playing chicken that was stolen from a state fair," Gomes said during an interview in September. "I tracked down the farmer, and sure enough he had trained chickens to play tic-tac-toe. Of course, we incorporated a computer, which helped the chicken significantly. People might think it is nuts, but I think it makes sense because you need to cut through all the clutter and differentiate yourself."
Charismatic, imaginative and, at times, politically incorrect, Gomes was regarded as a casino giant. His death Thursday night, at 68, shocked the gaming industry. The Margate resident died less than a month after his eldest son, Doug Gomes, passed away.
"We’ve lost an icon," said Linda Kassekert, chairwoman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. "He started out with the State Police, so he understood the importance of a strong regulatory environment but he also could think outside the box. People were so excited when he came to Resorts. It created a sense that everything was going to be okay in Atlantic City."
The cause of Gomes’ death is undetermined, according to a Resorts spokeswoman. He had suffered a back injury while moving furniture last autumn, but the father of five was known as a health food enthusiast who practiced martial arts. Last September, Gomes personally chased down a robber on Resorts’ casino floor.
"He was famous for his karate classes, nutrition and exercise classes," Tony Rodio, president and CEO of the Tropicana, said via e-mail.
Gomes was both a spiritual mentor and a shrewd businessman who reduced the staff and cut salaries at Resorts when he and business partner Morris Bailey took the helm. The casino workers union, Local 54 of UNITE-HERE picketed outside Resorts during the summer and autumn. The casino was sued by a group of cocktail waitresses who said they were laid off after Gomes introduced tight, backless flapper dresses.
Ultimately, the turbulent changeover yielded results. Revenue was up at Resorts in January amid a climate of tumbling profits at other destinations. And Gomes had been making progress with union leaders in the weeks before his death.
"Though we have had our differences, in our recent conversations Dennis expressed his commitment to making Resorts successful and settling a fair contract with the workers," Bob McDevitt, president of the union local, said via e-mail.
Because he brought Resorts back from the brink, Gomes considered himself a job creator. He also said the divisive flapper outfits were an expression of female empowerment.
"The first flapper I ever saw was a picture of my grandmother," said Gomes. "I love that 1920s era because women were coming out of their shells and they came from that puritanical Victorian period where women couldn’t do anything. They were covered from their neck all the way down to their shoes. In the 1920s, they started wearing sexier dresses and feeling like they could party and do whatever any man could do."
Gomes thrived on dichotomies, said Kassekert, and he made no apologies for his irreverent ideas.
"There was a lot of contention with the waitress costumes, but he followed it through to the end," said Kassekert. "I called him when he started with the chickens at the Tropicana to ask him if it would be okay with animal rights groups like PETA. He said, ‘Please, those ‘blankety-blank’ chickens have a better life than we do. We take care of them.’ Dennis had strong ideas and he’d stick to those ideas, and if there was controversy, he’d weather it."
Resorts is going to remain driven by Gomes’ ideas, according to his partner.
"We are committed to continuing Dennis’ vision for Resorts and Atlantic City, and our success will be a tribute to his memory," Bailey said via e-mail.
Gomes is survived by his wife, Barbara; and his children, Mary, Danielle, Aaron and Gabrielle. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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William E. "Billy" Strange (September 29, 1930 – February 22, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor.
Billy Strange was born in Long Beach, California in 1930.
Strange teamed up with Mac Davis to write several hit songs for Elvis Presley including "A Little Less Conversation", the theme from Charro!, and "Memories". Strange also composed the musical soundtrack for two of Elvis' films Live a Little, Love a Little and The Trouble with Girls. He also wrote "Limbo Rock" for Chubby Checker.
Strange recorded many cover versions of James Bond movie themes for GNP Crescendo Records and provided the instrumental backing and arrangement for Nancy Sinatra's non soundtrack version of "You Only Live Twice" as well as Nancy and Frank's "Somethin' Stupid". He has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame for his pioneering contribution to the genre. Billy Strange was inducted into the Musicians Hall Of Fame & Museum.
Strange played guitar on numerous Beach Boys hits including "Sloop John B" and the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album. He has also played guitar for Nancy Sinatra, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, Willie Nelson, The Everly Brothers, Wanda Jackson, Randy Newman, and Nat King Cole among others. One of his most famous performances is on Nancy Sinatra's version of Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down).
Strange arranged and conducted all of Nancy Sinatra's Reprise albums as well as Nancy & Lee's 1972 RCA Records release, Nancy & Lee Again and their 2003 album, Nancy & Lee 3. He also arranged the 1981 Nancy Sinatra & Mel Tillis album, Mel & Nancy. He has arranged and conducted for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Duane Eddy, and Elvis Presley. One of his most famous arrangements was "These Boots are made for Walkin'" for Nancy Sinatra. Strange also performed the vocals for Steve McQueen in Baby the Rain Must Fall.
Strange wrote such hits for Presley as “A Little Less Conversation” and "Memories". “A Little Less Conversation (Junkie XL Remix),” which he wrote with Scott Davis, was on the soundtrack of both the DreamWorks animated feature films Shark Tale (2004) and Megamind (2010).
He sang his own composition, “The Ballad of Bunny and Claude,” in the Merrie Melodies Bunny And Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches)(196 and The Great Carrot-Train Robbery (1969).
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Royal Academy (1987 – 22 February 2012) was an Irish Thoroughbred racehorse bred in the United States best known as the winner of the 1990 Breeders' Cup Mile in which famed British jockey Lester Piggott came out of retirement to ride the colt to victory.
In 1991 Royal Academy was retired to stud at Coolmore Stud's American arm, Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky. Among others, he sired 2001 Breeders' Cup Mile winner Val Royal, Bullish Luck who in 2006 was voted Hong Kong Horse of the Year and has career earnings of $6,435,501 and of Bel Esprit who is the sire of Black Caviar who in 2011 is rated the best sprinter in the world.
Royal Academy was retired from stud duty in 2010 and died of old age on 22 February 2012 at the Coolmore stud in Australia.
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Dmitri Vladimirovich Nabokov (May 10, 1934 – February 22, 2012) was an American opera singer and translator. He was the only child of the writer Vladimir Nabokov and his wife Véra Nabokov, and was in his latter years the executor of his father's literary estate.
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Marie Colvin, 55, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling- (Marie Catherine Colvin (January 12, 1956 – February 22, 2012)was an American journalist who worked for the British newspaper The Sunday Times from 1985. She was killed while covering the Siege of Homs in Syria.
Thom Enright, 59, American musician (The Young Adults), brain cancer.
Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
20Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
Rose Cliver, 109, American centenarian, one of the last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Roger Miner, 77, American federal appellate judge, heart failure.
Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose).
Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
Jon McIntire, 70, American band manager (Grateful Dead), cancer.
Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.
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