AP Obits--11/7
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By The Associated Press, Roy Boulting, Eldon B. Hickman, Angelo Ippolito, Bozo
Knezevic, Earle K. Moore, Edward Padula, Anthony Shaffer, Paul Screvane, Archie
Waters
LONDON (AP) - Roy Boulting, who with his twin brother produced some of postwar
Britain's most enduring films, died Monday after being ill with cancer. He was
87.
Boulting and his brother John set out to make hard-hitting movies. They created
social-issues melodramas in their early career and satirical comedies later.
They first gained attention with ``Pastor Hall'' (1940), based on the story of
Martin Neimuller, a German clergyman killed by the Nazis.
After turning out several military documentaries during World War II -
including ``Tunisian Victory'' with American director Frank Capra - the
brothers produced several postwar thrillers. Among the most memorable are
``Brighton Rock'' (1947), an adaptation of Graham Greene's gangster novel, and
``Seven Days to Noon'' (1950), about a threatened nuclear attack on London.
The Boultings lightened up with later comedies such as ``I'm All Right, Jack,''
a 1959 satire of trade unions starring Peter Sellers.
Roy directed and John produced most of the pair's films, though they
occasionally swapped roles. John Boulting died in 1985.
Boulting was married five times, including to actress Hayley Mills, 33 years
his junior. Their son is Crispian Mills, former singer of the band Kula Shaker.
Boulting claimed to have lost count of the children he had fathered.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Eldon B. Hickman, the physician who removed a blood
clot threatening the life of former President Nixon, died Saturday of cancer.
He was 69.
The surgeon was thrust into the national spotlight weeks after Nixon resigned
in 1974 when Hickman operated on the ex-president at Long Beach Memorial
Medical Center to remove a clot brought on by phlebitis, a potentially deadly
condition that causes the arteries to become inflamed.
Adversaries speculated that Nixon's condition had been exaggerated to protect
him from testifying about his role in the Watergate scandal that doomed his
presidency. Hickman had ordered that Nixon not travel for six weeks after the
surgery.
Judge John Sirica sent three surgeons to assess Nixon's ability to travel and
they agreed with Hickman's orders. They even tacked on an additional two weeks
of recuperation time.
Nixon never testified in court because of a pardon granted by President Ford.
NEW YORK (AP) - Angelo Ippolito, a painter and co-founder of the Tanager
Gallery, which was part of the New York School of Abstract Expressionists in
the 1950s, died Oct. 29 of a stroke in Johnson City, N.Y. He was 79.
Ippolito, who was born in Italy, came to New York at age 9. His paintings are
in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art
and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) - Bozo Knezevic, a television journalist whose documentary
on Croat wartime atrocities stirred heated debate here, died Tuesday in a car
accident in southern Croatia, police said. He was 49.
Knezevic gained attention in early October, when state-run television broadcast
a documentary he had made about alleged Croat atrocities against Serb civilians
in 1995 during a Croat offensive that recaptured areas seized by Serb rebels.
The program, which included footage filmed by Knezevic and the United Nations
(news - web sites), showed burning houses, corpses and witnesses describing the
killings.
The program was the first of its kind shown on state television - the only
nationwide channel - which for years sought to diminish crimes committed by
Croats during the country's war. The documentary shocked many and triggered
fierce protests from the former ruling nationalist party of the late President
Franjo Tudjman.
Knezevic worked for Croatian state-run television until 1991. He then joined
YUTEL, a Yugoslav TV station based in Sarajevo, and later worked as a
free-lance cameraman for foreign stations.
NEW YORK (AP) - Earle K. ``Dick'' Moore, a lawyer who won a landmark 1964 suit
challenging the license renewal of a Mississippi television station for
discriminating against blacks, died Saturday after a long bout with cancer. He
was 79.
In 1964, Moore became involved with an effort to challenge the license renewal
of WLBT-TV in Jackson, Miss., an NBC affiliate.
He applied what at that time was a radical interpretation of communications
law: that TV stations were obligated to serve their viewers in the public
interest.
Representing the Rev. Everett C. Parker, director of the Office of
Communication of the United Church of Christ, Moore first petitioned the
Federal Communications Commission (news - web sites) over the license.
Rejected by the FCC (news - web sites), he waged a successful court fight to
bring in new ownership for the station's license.
Moore and his first wife, Sarah Burt, led a successful campaign to integrate
New York's Stuyvesant Town housing complex. In 1976, Moore was instrumental in
helping New York computerize its Housing Court.
BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) - Edward Padula, a Broadway producer who won a Tony
Award in 1961 for ``Bye Bye Birdie,'' died Nov. 1 of a heart attack. He was 85.
Padula began his career in television as a writer, director and producer for
NBC. But it was the theater that proved to be his passion. ``Bye Bye Birdie''
won six Tonys and made Padula one of Broadway's hottest producers.
Padula never matched the success of his hit play. In 1962, he produced ``All
American,'' which lasted only one week at the Winter Garden theater. Padula and
Mel Brooks worked briefly on a project, tentatively titled ``Springtime for
Hitler,'' which later became Brooks' 1968 hit movie and a 2001 Broadway smash,
``The Producers.''
Padula's last Broadway credit was in 1972 for ``Don't Bother Me, I Can't
Cope,'' which earned him a Tony nomination. It ran two years.
LONDON (AP) - Anthony Shaffer, a playwright whose deft thriller ``Sleuth'' was
one of the most successful plays of the 1970s, died Tuesday after suffering a
heart attack. He was 75.
``Sleuth'' was the first major play for Shaffer, a former lawyer and
advertising copywriter. A twisting tale of betrayal and revenge that played
with the whodunit format while delivering thrills, it opened in 1970 and ran
for 2,359 performances in London's West End.
It ran another 2,000 performances on Broadway, where it won a Tony award as the
best play of 1970.
A 1972 film version starred Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier, who were
nominated for Oscars (news - web sites).
None of Shaffer's other plays has had the impact of ``Sleuth,'' which is still
frequently performed around the world. He wrote the screenplays for several
well-known films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ``Frenzy'' (1972) and ``The
Wicker Man'' (1973), a spooky cult horror classic starring Christopher Lee. He
also adapted Agatha Christie's ``Death on the Nile'' and ``Evil Under the Sun''
for the screen.
Shaffer's autobiography, ``So What Did You Expect?'', will be published in
Britain this month.
NEW YORK (AP) - Paul Screvane, who served as president of the City Council in
the early 1960s, died Sunday at his home in Wyomissing, Pa., of congestive
heart failure. He was 87.
Screvane began his public service career driving a garbage truck and was
appointed commissioner of the Sanitation Department in 1957. After his term as
City Council president, he ran for mayor in 1965 but was defeated by Abraham
Beame in the Democratic primary.
Screvane also served as head of the New York City Off-Track Betting
Corporation. In 1978, he became president and chief executive of Federal Metal
Maintenance until his retirement seven years ago.
Ten months before Pearl Harbor, Screvane enlisted in the Army as a private. By
the end of World War II, he was a colonel and had won the Silver Star for
gallantry and two Bronze Stars for meritorious achievement.
EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Archie Waters, an El Paso Times columnist who was a
mentor to chess prodigy Bobby Fischer, died Monday after suffering a stroke a
month ago. He was 83.
Waters co-wrote two books on Spanish pool checkers or draughts, a complicated
variation on the standard game of checkers.
The New York native worked for 11 years at the Long Island Daily Press and
served as a civic affairs columnist for the New York Daily News.
He moved to El Paso in 1980 and was a columnist for the El Paso Times for about
20 years. He wrote about community affairs with an emphasis on the black
community.
Waters, who was the first black member of the prestigious Marshall Chess Club
of New York, befriended a teen-age Fischer in Brooklyn in the 1950s and
accompanied the chess genius to Iceland during his landmark world title match
against Russian Boris Spassky in 1972.
His wife, Elizabeth Josephine Waters, died earlier. He is survived by two
daughters and a sister.
Edwin King
>
> LONDON (AP) - Roy Boulting, who with his twin brother produced some of postwar
> Britain's most enduring films, died Monday after being ill with cancer.
<snip>
> They first gained attention with ``Pastor Hall'' (1940), based on the story of
> Martin Neimuller, a German clergyman killed by the Nazis.
In fact, Neimuller survived the Nazis and didn't die until 1984...
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, Edwin King <edwin...@virgin.net> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > They first gained attention with ``Pastor Hall'' (1940), based on the
> > story of Martin Neimuller, a German clergyman killed by the Nazis.
>
> In fact, Neimuller survived the Nazis and didn't die until 1984...
They musta got him with that slow-acting Nazi poison. Zyklon A, maybe.
The name of the guy you're thinking of, BTW, is Niemöller. Anglicize
out that ö if you must, I suppose.
The protagonist of the film "Pastor Hall" (if I'm thinking of the
right film) is killed by Nazi troops. "Shot while escaping," I
believe.
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Edwin King
>
> In the previous article, Edwin King <edwin...@virgin.net> wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > They first gained attention with ``Pastor Hall'' (1940), based on the
> > > story of Martin Neimuller, a German clergyman killed by the Nazis.
> >
> > In fact, Neimuller survived the Nazis and didn't die until 1984...
>
> They musta got him with that slow-acting Nazi poison. Zyklon A, maybe.
>
> The name of the guy you're thinking of, BTW, is Niemöller. Anglicize
> out that ö if you must, I suppose.
Quite - I was following AP there. One could count that as a second
mistake.
Edwin