Obituaries in the news (AP)
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008AP - Hayden Carruth
AP - Hayden Carruth
AP - Poet and screenwriter Konstantin Pavlov, who became one of Bulgaria’s most prominent intellectuals with his rare defiance of the country’s communist regime, has died, a filmmakers union said. He was 75.
AP - Former Dutch Defense Minister Relus ter Beek, who abolished the draft and sent troops to an ill-fated United Nations peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, died Monday of lung cancer aged 64, the government announced.
AP - Osborn Elliott
AP - Former Newsweek Editor Osborn Elliott, widely credited with making the magazine competitive with archrival Time magazine, died Sunday at age 83.
AP - Paul Newman never much cared for what he once called the “rubbish” of Hollywood, choosing to live in a quiet community on the opposite corner of the U.S. map, staying with his wife of many years and long after he became bored with acting pursuing his dual passions of philanthropy and race cars.
AP - Ronald N. Kornblum, a former Los Angeles County coroner who performed autopsies on such celebrities as John Belushi, Natalie Wood and Truman Capote, has died. He was 74.
AP - The statement released Saturday by Paul Newman’s daughters, Susan, Stephanie, Elinor, Melissa and Clea:
AP - Statement released Saturday by Robert Forrester, vice-chairman of Newman’s Own Foundation: