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"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the
grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun." Bishop Hall
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Welcome to another edition of Dead End.
This week we say goodbye to an adventurous and influential
American director of the late 20th century, Robert Altman.
Also we remember this week history the deaths of not only
the most successful writer in America in the early 20th
century, Jack London, but as well as our 35th president
John F. Kennedy.
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ROBERT ALTMAN, DIRECTOR, DEAD AT 81
Robert Altman, the American film director, died Monday in
Los Angeles. He was 81. He is best remembered for a run of
masterly films that propelled him to the forefront of American
directors and culminated in 1975 with what many regard as his
greatest film, "Nashville." The best known was "MASH," the
1970 comedy that was set in a field hospital during the Korean
war but that was clearly aimed at antiwar sentiments engendered
by Vietnam. Its success, both critically and at the box office,
opened the way for Mr. Altman to pursue his ambitions. "Robert
Altman is an artist and a gambler," his longtime assistant
director, Alan Rudolph, wrote in a 1994 tribute.
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RUTH BROWN, SINGER, DEAD AT 78
Ruth Brown, the gutsy rhythm and blues singer whose career
extended to acting and crusading for musicians’ rights, died
on Friday in Las Vegas. She was 78. "She was one of the
original divas," said the singer Bonnie Raitt. Ms. Brown
sustained a career for six decades. Sometimes it was said that
R&B stood as much for Ruth Brown as it did for rhythm and
blues. After Ms. Brown’s string of hits ended, she kept singing
but also went on to a career in television, radio and movies
and on Broadway, where she won a Tony Award for her part in
"Black and Blue." Ms. Brown was the best-selling black female
performer of the early 1950s, even though, in that segregated
era, many of her songs were picked up and redone by white
singers, The pop singer Frankie Laine gave her a lasting
nickname: Miss Rhythm.
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NICHOLAS PROFFITT, JOURNALIST, DEAD AT 63
Nicholas Proffitt, a war correspondent for Newsweek in Vietnam
and Beirut who also wrote a novel and a screenplay based on his
service in the honor guard at Arlington National Cemetery, died
on Nov. 10 at his home in Naples, Fla. He was 63. Mr. Proffitt
covered the Vietnam War for Newsweek as a correspondent in 1970
and as its Saigon bureau chief in 1971. In April 1975, Mr.
Proffitt returned to Vietnam to cover the fall of Saigon. He
retired in 1981 and began writing novels. Mr. Proffitt’s first
novel, "Gardens of Stone" (1983), was made into a film,
directed by Francis Ford Coppola, in 1987. After "Gardens of
Stone," he wrote "Embassy House" (1986), about C.I.A.
operations in Vietnam, and "Edge of Eden" (1990), about animal
poaching in Africa, based on his time there.
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PETER WENSBERG, FORMER POLAROID VP, DEAD AT 77
Peter Wensberg, a driving force in raising the Polaroid
company’s profile in the 1970s by broadening its distribution
of the "instant camera," died Nov. 8 in Peterborough, N.H. He
was 77. Mr. Wensberg was Polaroid’s senior vice president for
marketing from 1971 to 1982. A key tool in his strategy for
sales beyond the local camera shop was a series of television
commercials that Mr. Wensberg insisted be both emotionally
appealing and technically instructive. That concept was first
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"Land’s Polaroid: A Company and the Man Who Invented It."
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Notable deaths this week in history...
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In 1916, Jack London, the most successful writer in America
in the early 20th century, died at the age of 40.
In 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United
States, died at age of 46.
In 1991, Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the popular
British rock group Queen, died at his London home. He was 45.
In 1992, country music icon Roy Acuff, who sold more records
in the 1930s and 1940s than any country star, died at the
age of 89.
In 1993, actor Bill Bixby, whose most memorable role was that
of "The Incredible Hulk", died at the age of 59.
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