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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 remember writer and actor Mickey Spillane, who
wrote the "Mike Hammer" mystery books. We remember stage,
film and TV actress Carrie Nye, rock 'n' roll critic Paul
Nelson, and Bill Miller, Frank Sinatra's longtime piano
accompanist. We also remember Washington School of Ballet
co-founder Mary Day.
Remember you can comment on any part of this issue or read
comments by visiting: Dead End Blog
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MICKEY SPILLANE, WRITER AND ACTOR, DEAD AT 88
Writer and actor Mickey Spillane, who wrote the "Mike Hammer"
mystery books, has died in Murells Inlet, S.C., at age 88.
Spillane would often say that he was a writer and not an
author, but he still managed to write 13 "Mike Hammer"
mysteries plus nine other novels and two children's books,
South Carolina's The State reported Tuesday. He made his
mark in the literature world with his first book in 1946.
He wrote the "Mike Hammer" novel "I, the Jury" in just days.
He was 28 years old, and Dutton publishing, part of the
Penguin Group, bought the book for $1,000. At one point in
his career, seven out of 10 of the most-translated books in
the world and three of the top 10 all-time best-sellers were
his books. Seven of his books were also made into movies.
The New York Times reported that Spillane was the only
mystery writer to ever portray his own character on screen.
He played Hammer in the film "The Girl Hunters."
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CARRIE NYE, ACTRESS, DEAD AT 69
Stage, film and TV actress Carrie Nye, the wife of TV talk
host Dick Cavett, has died in New York at age 69. Nye died
Friday of lung cancer at the couple's home, The New York
Times reported Monday. Nye broke onto the Broadway scene in
1960 with her dry wit and Mississippi drawl that attracted
comparisons with Tallulah Bankhead, The Times said. She was
nominated for a Tony Award in 1965 for the musical "Half a
Sixpence," but most of her stage career was in regional
theater. She performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival
in northern Massachusetts from 1955 until the late 1970s
with leads in "A Streetcar Named Desire," "The Skin of Our
Teeth" and "Nude With Violin." In later years, she appeared
in plays by Ibsen, Chekhov and Tennessee Williams at several
theaters in New York and New Jersey. She was nominated for
an Emmy Award in 1980 for her portrayal of Bankhead in the
TV movie "The Scarlett O'Hara War." Her film roles included
"Creep Show" and "Hello Again" and she played different
characters on the CBS soap, "Guiding Light" in the 1980s and
2003. She is survived by her husband.
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PAUL NELSON, PIONEER ROCK CRITIC, DEAD AT 70
Rock 'n' roll critic Paul Nelson has died of heart disease
at his New York apartment at the age of 70. Nelson was a
pioneer rock critic, whose interest in folk music led him to
start his first review magazine, The Little Sandy Review,
dedicated to folk music, while he was in college at the
University of Minnesota, The Los Angeles Times reported
Friday. During his career in the '60s and '70s he was an
editor and reviewer for Rolling Stone, Circus and Creem
music magazines. But he retired from writing about rock in
the late 1980s, and until last summer, he worked at Evergreen
Video in New York's Greenwich Village, the Times said. "I
don't really want a job anymore where you have to think,"
Nelson said in a Times interview in 2000. "The store has a
lot of old films and foreign films. A lot of movie nuts come
in, and you get to talk about the movies. I couldn't possibly
go back to writing about rock. I don't have any comparison
points anymore."
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BILL MILLER, SINATRA'S PIANIST, DEAD AT 91
Bill Miller, Frank Sinatra's longtime piano accompanist and
closest musical adviser, has died at 91 in a Montreal
hospital. Miller, who accompanied Sinatra from 1951 until
the legendary singer's final performance in 1995, died
Tuesday from complications of a heart attack, The Los
Angeles Times reported. Miller had been performing in
Montreal with Frank Sinatra Jr. when he broke his hip two
weeks ago, and then suffered a heart attack. He died after
heart bypass surgery, his daughter, Meredith, told the Times.
Miller had been playing 14 songs a night in Sinatra Jr.'s
show, including "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road),"
the saloon song he introduced to the elder Sinatra in the
early 1950s -- and which he played at the late singer's
funeral in 1998. He went on to play with Joe Haymes and His
Orchestra, the Red Norvo-Mildred Bailey band, Tommy Dorsey,
Benny Goodman and Charlie Barnet.
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MARY DAY, WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF BALLET CO-FOUNDER, DEAD AT 96
Washington School of Ballet co-founder Mary Day has died of
complications from heart disease at age 96. Day, founder of
the world reknowned Washington Ballet company and grande
dame of the classical dance scene for six decades, died at
her Washington home Tuesday, the Washington Post reported.
The Washington School of Ballet, which Day started in 1944
with dancer Lisa Gardiner, is considered one of the nation's
premiere training facilities for classical dancers. Day took
over the sole direction of the school after Gardiner's death
in 1958. Her annual presentation of "The Nutcracker," which
debuted in 1961, has become a holiday tradition in the
nation's capital. Many of Day's students went on to dance
with major ballet troupes across the United States, the Post
said. Day stepped down from her duties at the school in 1999.
The ballerina and teacher -- who grew up an only child --
devoted her life to dance and never married or had children.
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Notable deaths this week in history...
In 1817, Jane Austen, the author who wrote such classics as
Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, died at the
age of 41.
In 1959, famed jazz singer Billie Holiday died of congestion
of the lungs complicated by heart failure. She was 44.
In 1973, Bruce Lee, who remains the most recognized martial
artist of the twentieth century, died at the age of 32.
In 1998, Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American to fly in
space, died at the age of 74.
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