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Richard Sandomir

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Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
Yao Li, a celebrated singer in Shanghai in the midst of war in the 1930s and ’40s, whose music remained popular after she moved to Hong Kong when China turned communist, died July 19. She was 96.
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
Ida Wyman, a photographer who in the 1940s and ’50s roamed New York and other cities to capture compelling images of everyday people working, playing, idling, dancing or selling newspapers, died July 13 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, near Madison. She was 93.
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
Michel Roux, a French-born liquor executive who used a distinctive and witty advertising campaign to turn Absolut, a little-known Swedish brand, into the top imported vodka in the United States, died on April 30 at his home in Palm Coast, Florida. He was 78.
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally acclaimed biography, was found dead April 24 at his home in New York. He was 87.
Chris Albertson, Biographer of Bessie Smith, Is Dead at 87
Kenya The New York Times world
18 Aug 2024
Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally acclaimed biography, was found dead April 24 at his home in New York. He was 87.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 51.
John Singleton, 'Boyz N the Hood' Director, Dies at 51
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 51.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Steve Golin, an independent producer whose career began with low-budget movies like “Hard Rock Zombies” in the 1980s and reached its peak when he and three colleagues won the best-picture Oscar in 2016 for “Spotlight,” died Sunday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 64.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Gary Stewart, a scholarly music fan whose enthusiasm and attention to detail helped make Rhino Records the much-emulated gold standard for reissue compilations of the great, the faded and the forgotten, died April 11 in Santa Monica, California. He was 62.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Stanley Plumly, an award-winning former poet laureate of Maryland whose poignant narratives were inspired by the beauty and transcendence of John Keats’ lyrical verse , died Thursday at his home in Frederick, Maryland. He was 79.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Ed Westcott, a photographer who documented life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the secret city where uranium was enriched as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, died March 29 at his daughter’s home in Oak Ridge, where he also still lived. He was 97.
Ed Westcott, a Singular Eye at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Dies at 97
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Gerry Stickells was a car mechanic in southeast England who drove local rock groups to their engagements in his van when, in 1966, he met Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix’s manager. Chandler made him an offer: If he could get Hendrix’s gear out of customs at Heathrow Airport, he could join him on the road in Europe.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
David White, who formed the doo-wop quartet Danny and the Juniors in the mid-1950s, co-wrote their No. 1 hit, “At the Hop,” and composed their successful follow-up, “Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay,” died March 16 in Las Vegas. He was 79.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Mary Warnock, an Oxford-educated philosopher who helped provide an ethical pathway for Britain to govern its fledgling infertility treatment and research industry after the first test-tube baby was born, died March 20 at her home in Wiltshire, about 75 miles west of London. She was 94.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Victoria Ruvolo, whose face was shattered when a teenager tossed a 20-pound frozen turkey through the windshield of her car in 2004 but who then insisted on mercy in his sentencing, died Monday at her home in Ronkonkoma, New York, on Long Island. She was 59.
Victoria Ruvolo, Who Forgave Her Attacker, Is Dead at 59
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died Friday in London. He was 76.
Kenya The New York Times world
17 Aug 2024
Maya Turovskaya, a Russian film and theater critic, once called “the Susan Sontag of Soviet aesthetic thought,” who also co-wrote a popular documentary in the 1960s that drew parallels between Stalin-era totalitarianism and Nazism, died March 4 at her home in Munich. She was 94.