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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.
Let us remember the wife of late Christopher Reeve, Dana,
who died of lung cancer Monday night. With her husband, Dana
Reeve founded and ran the Christopher Reeve Foundation to
raise money for research grants and draw attention to the
need for stem-cell treatments and other means of finding a
cure for paralysis. She will be remembered for all the great
efforts she made in her time on earth.
Let us also remember Hollywood's first major black director,
Gordon Parks, baseball Hall of Fame player Kirby Puckett, and
Grammy Award-winning African gurke player, Ali Farka Toure.
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DANA REEVE, ACTIVIST WIFE OF LATE CHRISTOPHER REEVE, DEAD AT
44
Dana Reeve, the former actress and activist wife of the late
Christopher Reeve, has died of lung cancer in New York. She
was 44. Reeve, a non-smoker, died Monday night, Kathy Lewis
of the Christopher Reeve Foundation told the New York Times.
The former actress and singer who appeared on "Law and Order"
and "All My Children" announced in August she was battling
lung cancer. Together with her husband, Reeve founded and ran
the Christopher Reeve Foundation to raise money for research
grants and draw attention to the need for stem-cell treatments
and other means of finding a cure for paralysis. Reeve took
over the chairmanship of the foundation after her husband's
2004 death and helmed the creation of the Christopher and Dana
Reeve Paralysis Resource Center. She was also key to the
foundation's granting of more than $8 million to projects
aimed at improving the lives of paralysis victims. She is
survived by her son, Will, 13; two step-children, her father
and two sisters.
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GORDON PARKS, HOLLYWOOD GROUND-BREAKING DIRECTOR, DEAD AT 93
Hollywood's first major black director, Gordon Parks, best
known for "Shaft" and "The Learning Tree," has died in New
York. He was 93. Parks first broke ground as a top photo-
grapher for Life magazine from 1948 to 1968, covering
everything from high society to the dregs of poverty and the
civil rights movement. His first movie was "The Learning
Tree," based on his own semi-autobiographical novel, for
Warner Bros., making him the first African-American to
direct a film for a major Hollywood studio. "The Learning
Tree" was one of the first 25 films honored by the U.S.
Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film
Registry in 1989. He went onto spark Hollywood's "blaxploit-
ation" genre in 1971 with the Richard Roundtree vehicle,
"Shaft." His other directing credits included "Shaft's Big
Score," "The Super Cops," "Leadbelly" and the TV movie
"Solomon Northup's Odyssey." He also wrote music for Duke
Ellington, was co-founder of Essence magazine and was
awarded a National Medal of Arts by President Ronald Reagan.
Parks is survived by a son, two daughters and several
grandchildren.
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KIRBY PUCKETT, BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER, DEAD AT 45
Kirby Puckett, baseball Hall of Fame player, has died after
suffering a stroke. He was 45. Puckett helped lead the
Minnesota Twins to two World Series titles - in 1987 and
1991. In 1991's Game 6 of the World Series against Atlanta,
Puckett collected three hits, three RBIs and scored two
runs. He became the ninth player to end a World Series game
with a home run on the final pitch. During his 12-season
career with the Twins, Puckett was a 10-time All-Star and
a six-time Gold Glove Award winner. His .318 lifetime
batting average ranked as the highest for any right-handed
batter since World War II, according to the site
BaseballLibrary.com. In 2000, Puckett was selected to the
Twins' 40th Season Anniversary All-Time Team and inducted
into the Twins' Hall of Fame. Puckett, who was divorced in
December 2002, is survived by his son, daughter and fiance,
the Twins said.
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ALI FARKA TOURE, GURKE PLAYER, DEAD AT LATE 60S
Grammy Award-winning African gurke player, Ali Farka Toure,
died Tuesday at his home in Bamako, Mali, from bone cancer.
The so-called Bluesman of Africa was believed to be in his
late 60s, but the exact date of his birth in Timbuktu was
unknown, the BBC said. Toure won the first of his two
Grammys for his 1995 recording with guitarist Ry Cooder,
"Talking Timbuktu." His second Grammy was awarded this year
for "In the Heart of the Moon," an album he recorded with
Toumani Diabate of Mali. Toure worked with several U.S.
blues guitarists through the years and Nonesuch Records
said he had recently completed recording a new solo album.
A release date had not been set. Radio stations throughout
Mali interrupted programming Tuesday to play Toure's music,
the BBC said. His funeral was scheduled for Wednesday in his
childhood home of Niafunke, Mali.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1932, famous American band conductor and march king John
Philip Sousa, leader of the Famous Sousa Band, died at the
age of 77.
In 1986, Georgia O'Keeffe, the doyenne of American painting
and a leader, with her husband, of a crucial phase in the
development and dissemination of American modernism, died at
age 98.
In 1998, Lloyd Bridges, actor in such films as "A Walk in
the Sun," "High Noon," and "Airplane!", died at the age of
85.
In 1999, professional baseball player Joe DiMaggio, who had
a 13-year career with the Yankees and led them to 10 pennants
and nine World Series Championships, died at the age of 84.
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