Archive for March, 2008

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

AP - Violet Coffin

O'Jays son dies after taken from jail (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

LeVert, the rhythm and blues pop trio of Marc Gordon, right, and brothers, from left, Gerald LeVert and Sean LeVert is seen in this May 15, 1989 file photo.  The coroner in Cleveland says the son of lead O'Jays singer Eddie Levert, Sean LeVert has died after a medical emergency in jail. Thirty-nine-year-old Sean Levert was sent to jail last week for failing to pay child support. He died late Sunday night, March 30, 2008, at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Dave A. Cantor)AP - Sean Levert, a third of the 1980s R&B trio LeVert and son of lead O’Jays singer Eddie Levert, has died after falling ill while serving a jail term. He was 39.

Film director Jules Dassin dies at 96 (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

AP - American director Jules Dassin, whose Greek wife Melina Mercouri starred in his hit movie “Never on Sunday” and six more of his films, died late Monday at an Athens hospital, officials said. He was 96.

British artist Angus Fairhurst dies (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

AP - Angus Fairhurst, one of the group of “Young British Artists” who stormed the international art scene in the 1990s, has died. He was 41.

`Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

FILE **Dith Pran, center, embraces some of his relatives he has not seen since 1979 at the Site 2 refugee camp in Thailand seen in this Aug. 16, 1989, file photo. Dith Pran's death from pancreatic cancer was confirmed Sunday, March 30, 2008,  by journalist Sydney Schanberg, his former colleague at The New York Times. Pran was 65. (AP Photo/Gray)AP - Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country’s murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film “The Killing Fields,” died Sunday. He was 65.

Obituaries in the news (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

AP - Billy Consolo

Classics translator Robert Fagles dies (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Robert Fagles, retired Princeton University comparative literature professor, peruses a copy of his translation of Virgil's 'The Aeneid,' at his home in Princeton, N.J., in this Oct.. 17, 2006 file photo. Fagles, acclaimed for his translations of Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' died Wednesday, March 26, 2008 in Princeton of prostate cancer, the university said Friday.  He was 74. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)AP - Robert Fagles, a professor emeritus at Princeton University whose bold, flowing translations of Homer and Virgil made him an esteemed and best-selling classical scholar, has died. He was 74.

Oscar winner Abby Mann dies at 80 (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Abby Mann is seen in this undated file photo. Mann, writer of socially conscious scripts for movies and television whose screenplay for 'Judgment at Nuremberg' won the 1961 Academy Award, died Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at age 80. (AP Photo)AP - Abby Mann, writer of socially conscious scripts for movies and television and winner of the 1961 Academy Award for adapted screenplay for “Judgment at Nuremberg,” has died at 80.

Chicago radio host Wally Phillips dies (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

AP - Wally Phillips, the most listened-to Chicago radio host for two decades, has died. He was 82.

Richard Widmark dies at 93 (AP)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

In this  1984 photo released by Columbia Pictures, actor Richard Widmark appears in a scene from the film 'Against All Odds, with actress Jane Greer. Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in 'Kiss of Death' and became a Hollywood leading man in 'Broken Lance,' 'Two Rode Together' and 40 other films, died Monday, March 24, 2008, after a long illness. He was 93. (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures)AP - Richard Widmark, who made a sensational film debut as the giggling killer in “Kiss of Death” and became a leading man in “Broken Lance,” “Two Rode Together” and 40 other films, died at his home in Roxbury after a long illness. He was 93.