Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Janacek One of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, who has died aged 82, had a lengthy career that carried on into the 1990s, when she was well into her 60s. In everything she attempted, her vibrantly beautiful singing...
Robert Otis Trojan, who devoted almost half of his life to protecting Houston residents as a police officer, died Tuesday after a long battle with heart and kidney problems.
She was one half of the of the environmental artist known to the world as Christo The flame-haired artist Jeanne-Claude – or Mrs Christo, as she sometimes called herself – worked with her husband to mummify the Pont Neuf, to envelop a series of Miami islands in flamingo pink nylon, to bind the German Reichstag building in aluminium fabric and to erect 7,503 billowing saffron "gates"...
Obituary: John Craxton by William Leece, JohnCraxtonONE way or another, John Craxton was destined to make his mark on the arts.His father, Harold Craxton, was a professor at the Royal College of Music, his mother, Essie, a violinist of some note, his younger sister was the oboist Janet Craxton and his older brother, Harold, a leading television producer.The only mystery, perhaps, is why John Craxton...
A talented and well-connected artist with a passion for the Greek landscape In 1946 the painter John Craxton, who has died aged 87, had a show of haunted landscapes in Zurich. He sent a postcard home, saying that he might go on to Italy, but by the time it arrived he had landed in his eventual homeland of Greece. He had been spirited away by Lady Norton, wife of the British ambassador in Athens, who...
Brian MacDonald writes: I had the privilege of using Stanley Ellis (obituary, 14 November) a number of times as an expert witness when I was an investigator for HM Customs. I first met him in 1989, when I gave him a short lift to Isleworth crown court. We spoke only briefly during the car journey, and as he got out of my car, he surprised me by asking which part of the Wirral peninsula I was brought...
Gavin Gaughan writes: Michael Coveney's account of Timothy Bateson (obituary, 8 November) omitted a minor but noteworthy event in television comedy. The first person to give life on screen to Basil Fawlty was not John Cleese, but the diminutive, inoffensive-looking Bateson. Cleese took the inspiration from the real-life hotel proprietor Donald Sinclair, and before Fawlty Towers used Sinclair as the...
Influential programmer for the NFT and London film festival Anyone whose love of the cinema was burnished by the National Film Theatre in the 1970s and early 80s owes a considerable debt to Ken Wlaschin, who has died aged 75. He not only programmed the theatre for some 15 years, but also directed the London film festival. During that time, he expanded both indefatigably, often in the teeth of financial...
I usually try to stay away from politics on weekends, but I love the writing of Dominick Dunne, and MarkSteyn's obituary about him does mention some inconvenient women who encountered some VIP's in Hollywood or other posh neighborhoods... Steyn's column on Johnny Mercer, born 100 years ago this week, is HERE . Mercer is mentioned in the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" , but...
I saw this post today on core77 and I thought it was a great story to share it with our Abduzeedo readers. I'm sure you've all heard the notion that "print is a dying medium." Advertising in print is down, and seems to continue declining, because more people are going online to read content. So what do we do? Do we just write Print's obituary and sit around remembering it fondly, or do we...
It happens too often: a writer dies, and I’m reminded by the obituaries of books I meant to read but never did. Otto Friedrich’s City of Nets was a perfect example; I read all the reviews when that work came out in 1986, but it wasn’t until after Friedrich’s death in 1995 that I fell in love with his history of Hollywood in the 1940s. The part that interested me most were the...
Son lived in home with dead mother's body for six months Where Americans die abroad The Autopsy ( via ) 'Body sold' to Russia kebab shop Unusual wedding at funeral parlor moved millions Lonely spinster left estate worth millions to animal welfare groups Actor Edward Woodward dies aged 79 'Cannibals' arrested for killing man and selling his body parts to kebab and pie shop Witnesses to suicide: A man...
The first day of Indian Parliament's winter session on Thursday was rocked by protests from Opposition parties against central government's sugarcane price move that discourages states from fixing higher prices. As soon as the session began after obituary references to nine former members and with Speaker Meira Kumar condemning the Naxal attacks in Maharashtra's Gadchiroli and Chhattisgarh's Bastar...
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