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The RIP Famous Person ThreadQuote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
err being an actor doesn't automatically equate with fame ...................Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Errrr... what the fuck are you on about? Why do you think his death is being reported everywhere?
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Leonard Garment; lawyer, Watergate figure dies at 89
New York Times
POSTED: 07/15/2013 12:01:00 AM CDT | UPDATED: ABOUT 11 HOURS AGO
Leonard Garment, a Wall Street litigator who was a top adviser to President Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal and who went on to flourish as one of the capital's most powerful and garrulous lawyers, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.
His daughter Ann Garment confirmed the death.
As White House counsel, Garment played a central role in some of Watergate's highest drama, discouraging Nixon from destroying White House tapes, pushing unsuccessfully for the president's early resignation in 1973, and recommending to his successor, Gerald Ford, that Nixon be pardoned.
Garment himself stepped down as Nixon's Watergate lawyer in late 1973 once it became clear to him that the scandal was moving inexorably toward the president's downfall.
Long after many Watergate figures had gone to prison or faded into ignominy, Garment remained one of Washington's most sought-after lawyers, known for his quick puns, a gift of gab and savvy media skills. He often represented powerful figures in trouble, among them Attorney General Edwin Meese III and Robert McFarlane, a national security adviser to President Ronald Reagan.
But for all his later successes, Garment remained linked in many minds to Nixon, his longtime friend and former law partner, and the scandal that brought him down. Garment regarded Nixon as an older brother of sorts.
Yet the two made for an odd pairing. Garment was a liberal in a Republican administration, a Democrat who voted for John F. Kennedy over Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. He was a Jew from Brooklyn working for a native Californian given to making anti-Semitic comments in private. He was a gregarious man with a talent for jazz who counseled a dour president. He was a champion of human rights in an administration that many blacks considered hostile to minority issues. And he was regarded as a voice of conscience in a White House that had lost its ethical bearings.
In later years, Garment viewed Nixon with an uneasy mix of reverence, nostalgia, conflict and disappointment.
"My feelings about Mr. Nixon remained the same until his death -- a tangle of familial echoes, affections, and curiosities never satisfied," Garment wrote in his 1997 autobiography, originally titled "Crazy Rhythm: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond."
He added: "The Nixon who was despised by millions of strangers, and who aroused powerful ambivalence in close associates because of his nasty mood swings between grandiosity and pettiness, was not the Nixon I knew. I was exposed mainly to his attractive sides -- his intelligence, idealism, and generosity. Only by 'hearsay,' mainly tape-recorded, did I 'see' the fulminating stranger I was happy not to know."
Leonard Garment was born on May 11, 1924, "on a kitchen table," he wrote, in a three-room tenement apartment in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. His father, who owned a dress factory in Queens, had immigrated from Lithuania and his mother from Poland, and the immigrant roots in his neighborhood ran deep; Garment likened Brownsville to a semi-rural European shtetl, with the street peddlers hawking their wares in Yiddish.
He went to Samuel J. Tilden High School in East Flatbush, Brooklyn College and Brooklyn Law School, where he was editor of the law review and graduated first in his class in 1949.
Bloody lawyers, can't do anything short and simple can they? :)Quote:
Garment wrote in his 1997 autobiography, originally titled "Crazy Rhythm: My Journey From Brooklyn, Jazz, and Wall Street to Nixon's White House, Watergate, and Beyond.
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Sten Allan Olsson, the founder of Stena Line has died last week aged 96, reports the Belfast Newsletter.
The Swede had established the ferry company which operates routes between Ireland and Britain and throughout Scandinavia.
Sten Allan Olsson was "one of Sweden's greatest entrepreneurs of all time", according to Stena Metall Group, and built up a group of companies that produced a total revenue of over 68,848,000,000 SEK (£6,833,577,088) in 2012.
The foundations were laid in 1939 and now the Olsson family empire, Stena Sphere, boasts three companies which span freighting, passenger ferries, recycling and international steel and oil trading.
The Olsson family still own the ferry firm in which his son Dan is the chairman of the ferry giant which as previously reported on Afloat.ie celebrated its 50th anniversary last year running routes stretching from the Irish Sea to the Baltic.
Actor Victor Lundin Dies at 83
He starred in the 1964 film “Robinson Crusoe on Mars” and made history on “Star Trek” during his long career.
Victor Lundin, a frequent tough guy in films and on television who played the alien slave Friday in the 1964 sci-fi cult classic Robinson Crusoe on Mars, has died. He was 83.
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Lundin died June 29 in Los Angeles after a long illness, Douglas Dunning, director of acquisitions and the newly appointed head of production for Cinema Epoch, confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter.
The Chicago native was the first actor to appear onscreen as a Klingon on NBC's Star Trek, playing a lieutenant on the episode “Errand of Mercy” first broadcast in March 1967. He also was one of The Penguin’s (Burgess Meredith) henchmen on Batman and played Chief Standing Pat opposite Cliff Robertson as the cowboy crook Shame in another episode of the campy 1960s ABC series.
In Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Byron Haskin’s adaptation of the Daniel Defoe novel, Lundin stars as Friday, an alien slave who is found and eventually rescued by marooned Commander Draper (Paul Mantee).
A trained opera singer in high school who went on to graduate from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Lundin portrayed Machine Gun Kelly in Ma Barker’s Killer Brood (1960). He also had roles in Robert Wise’s Two for the Seesaw (1962), Island of Love (1963), Promises … Promises! (1963), George Stevens’ The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and Beau Geste (1966).
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T Model Ford, James Lewis Carter Ford has died July 16 (age unknown, about 89 - 93 yrs old).
James Lewis Carter "T-Model" Ford, a hard-living blues singer who taught himself to play guitar when he was 58 years old and his fifth wife left him, died Tuesday at his home in Greenville, Miss.
His age was uncertain. Washington County Coroner Methel Johnson said the family told her Ford was born in 1924 and had already had his birthday this year, which would have made him 89. But a blues expert and longtime friend, Roger Stolle, said Ford didn't remember what year he was born and claimed to be 93.
Johnson told The Associated Press that Ford had been under hospice care and died of respiratory failure shortly after 10 a.m. Tuesday. She said he was at home with several relatives, including his wife, Estella Ford.
Stolle, who owns a Clarksdale, Miss., store called Cat Head Delta Blues & Folk Art, accompanied Ford and other blues men when they toured Europe in 2009. He also traveled with Ford to gigs in New York.
"He was known as one of the last really authentic Mississippi blues men," Stolle told AP on Tuesday. "He has a story and could back it up."
When Ford was young, he served two years of a 10-year prison sentence for killing a man in self-defense, and he had scars on his ankles from serving on a prison chain gang, Stolle said.
Ford had six wives and 26 children, Stolle said. When Ford's fifth wife left him, she gave him a guitar as a parting gift.
"He stayed up all night drinking white whiskey," or moonshine, "and playing the guitar," Stolle said. "He kind of went on from there."
Ford started his blues career by playing at private parties and at juke joints in Greenville.
"He'd play late, then he'd spray himself with a bunch of mosquito spray and sleep in his van," Stolle said.
Stolle said Ford recorded seven albums with three labels, including three albums with Fat Possum Records in Oxford, Miss.
Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett, who co-owns the city's Ground Zero Blues Club with actor Morgan Freeman, said Ford was "a master of old-school blues" with an international following.
"His music would take you right back to the heart and soul of the Delta, back in the day," Luckett said.
Ford would show up for gigs early and often play longer than expected, even when he started experiencing heart problems in recent years, Stolle said. Ford would also swig Jack Daniels on stage and chat with the audience. Often, he'd pick out a happy-looking couple that included an attractive woman and would talk directly to the man.
"He'd say, 'You'd better put your stamp on her because if she flags my train, I'm going to let her ride," Stolle said. "He'd do it with a gleam in his eye and a smile. He could get away with a lot."
Donna Hartley obituary
Golden girl of British athletics in the 1970s who later became a top bodybuilder
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Donna Hartley (Donna Murray) competing in 1976.
No British athlete competing in the 1970s was more instantly recognisable than Donna Hartley, the one-time golden girl of the sport, who has died suddenly, aged 58. With her long blonde hair, blue eyes and striking good looks, she was the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine profiles after bursting to prominence by winning the AAA's 200m title, aged 17, in 1972 to earn selection for the Great Britain team for the Munich Olympics. She reached the semi-finals of the event and went on to achieve double gold-medal success at the Commonwealth Games of 1978 and a 4x400m relay bronze medal at the Moscow Olympics of 1980.
Hartley had a slender frame and a long-striding running style that set athletics aficionados purring at a time when women's sprint events were dominated by East German and Soviet athletes – now known to have been the product of state-organised doping programmes.
She was born Donna-Marie Louise Murray in Southampton and took up running seriously when she was about 13 and a pupil at Hampton Park school. Joining Southampton Amateur Athletics Club, she quickly progressed when she was taken on, aged 15, by Mike Smith, who went on to coach the 400m runners Roger Black and Iwan Thomas as well as the hurdler Kriss Akabusi.
Representing her country on 37 occasions, she also ran herself into the record books, setting a new UK 400m best of 51.28 seconds in Sofia in 1975 while running for her country in the semi-finals of the European Cup. Three years later she would clock an impressive 22.75 for the 200m, taking the UK record from Sonia Lannaman at a time that still ranks her as the sixth fastest British runner ever.
In 1977 Donna married Bill Hartley, who had won a silver medal in the 400m hurdles at the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. The following year she won two gold medals in the Commonwealth Games staged in Edmonton, Canada, where she triumphed in the 400m and the 4x400m relay.
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Donna Hartley in 1988. appointed MBE in 1979, was a household name by the time she began her preparations for the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games. Although given six months off by her employers, the Midland Bank, she lost form and was bitterly disappointed when she was not selected for the individual 400m. But she went on to produce what she described as "the greatest race of my life" when she ran the anchor leg for the British team in the 400m relay. Picking up the baton in seventh place, Hartley had moved up to fifth by the final bend before surging through the field to grasp a bronze medal behind a world record-breaking East Germany team and the Soviet Union.
An achilles tendon injury forced Hartley to give up competitive running when she was only 27. She then went on to achieve prominence as a bodybuilder, to the general astonishment and occasional horror of those who had competed against her as an athlete. By then, her marriage to Bill Hartley had ended and she had begun a relationship with the Sheffield comedian and actor Bobby Knutt (real name Bobby Wass) whom she married in 1986 and who survives her.
Pumping her body weight up by more than two stones, Hartley won the Miss Great Britain Physique title of 1988 and was a runner up in the Miss International Bikini (Physique Class) of the 1988 Ms Universe competition. Thereafter, she slipped out of the media spotlight and ran fitness classes and a line dancing school near her home. More recently, she had been appointed a manager of the spa and leisure facility of a hotel and country club near Macclesfield, Cheshire.
• Donna Hartley-Wass, athlete, born 1 May 1955; died 7 June 2013
• This article was amended on 26 June 2013. In 1978 Hartley took the UK record for 200m from Sonia Lannaman, who was the holder at the time, rather than Kathy Smallwood, later Kathy Cook.
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Todd Bennett: GB Olympic silver medallist dies of cancer
Great Britain's Olympic silver medallist Todd Bennett has died at the age of 51 after battling cancer.
Bennett, who was born in Southampton, won a silver medal in the 4x400m relay at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles along with Kriss Akabusi, Garry Cook and Philip Brown.
He was also a former world indoor 400m record holder, running 45.46 seconds.
Bennett was European Indoor Champion in 1985 and 1987, and also won silver at the World Indoor Championships in 1985.
Former European and Commonwealth 400m gold medallist Iwan Thomas trained with Bennett at Team Southampton AC and paid tribute him.
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"It's just so sad really," Thomas told BBC Radio Solent.
"We all knew Todd was unwell and it all happened so quickly.
"I have lovely memories of him. When I first moved to Southampton I trained with him and then he subsequently became a really good coach.
"He was someone I looked up to, always gave his all and would never be shy to give any advice.
"He was a really nice guy and my heart goes out to his family.
"What an amazing athlete, a real gutsy runner and one of those people who was so proud to put the GB vest on. I will remember him as a kind man who gave up his time for others and as an athlete someone I really respected."
Bennett's son Aaron paid tribute to his father on Twitter: "Today Todd Bennett crossed his final finish line.. Cancer one of the few to beat him. Went out battling. Best father to wish for #sleeptight."
And his business partner and close friend Darren Campbell, who won Olympic relay gold in 2004, added: "Thank you Todd Bennett for allowing me to know a special man, father, husband, athlete and friend. You will always be in my heart! #RIP."
OK that's two athletes, Seb Coe must be crapping himself.
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Goalkeeper Bernd Trautmann - famous for playing in the FA Cup final with a broken neck - has died at the age of 89.
Trautmann, known more commonly as Bert, made a name for himself in England with Manchester City after originally arriving as a prisoner of war.
He played more than 500 times for the Citizens between 1949 and 1964 while he was bestowed with an honorary OBE for his work in promoting Anglo-German post-war relations.
Trautmann was an FA Cup winner with City in 1956, playing the final 17 minutes of that game with a broken neck.
After his playing days, he moved into management with Stockport before returning to his native Germany in 1967 to coach Preussen Munster.
He passed away at his home in Spain this morning.
German FA president Wolfgang Niersbach said: "Bert Trautmann was an amazing sportsman and a true gentleman.
"He went to England as a soldier, and thus a war enemy, and he became a celebrated hero there. He was a legend.
"His extraordinary career will remain forever in the history books."
Trautmann survived two heart attacks this year, but passed away unexpectedly in La Llosa, near Valencia, this morning.
"We were in very close contact since 1996, when he was part of our official delegation when we won the European Championships in England," continued Niersbach.
"The DFB had invited him to Nuremberg in October, but he turned down the invitation because it was the same time he wanted to celebrate his 90th birthday.
"That makes this news even more surprising."
There's the 3rd sportsperson
Mel Smith dies of a heart attack aged 60
Smith worked closely with Griff Rhys Jones
Comic actor and writer Mel Smith has died of a heart attack, aged 60, his agent has confirmed.
The British comedian - known for his work on sketch shows Alas Smith and Jones and Not The Nine O'clock News - died at his home on Friday.
Smith formed a lasting partnership with Griff Rhys Jones with whom he set up the independent television company, Talkback Productions.
BBC News - Mel Smith dies of a heart attack aged 60
Blimey, massive deadpan character. Very fond memories of his tv series with Jones.
I love this sketch.
Not The Nine O'Clock News - Gerald the gorilla - YouTube
That's a sad demise. Very funny guy.
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They say don't speak ill of the dead so let's let Helen Thomas speak for herself:
Helen Thomas tells Jews to go back to Germany - YouTube
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TOO TRUE, quit whinging.
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I found you a tribute to the legend:rofl:
CORY MONTEITH TOP 5 BEST "GLEE" PERFORMANCES AS FINN HUDSON - YouTube
Glee / WTF ? :rofl:
Nice one Helen. RIP
Must stop reading obituaries..... I find it somewhat depressing. :saroll: