Saturday, 5 December 2015

Luiz Carlos Miele, Brazilian artist and musical producer, Died at 77

Luiz Carlos Miele was born on May 31,1938, in Rio de Janeiro and died on October 14, 2015.

He was a producer, actor, writer, Brazilian artist, musical producers and director of shows.

Luiz started his professional career as an announcer for the radio stations Excelsior, Tupi and Nacional.

In 1959 Luiz moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro, where he met the composer Ronaldo Bôscoli.

Together they formed the duo Miele & Bôscoli, responsible for the direction and production of various shows, and music programs on television stations.

After the death of comedian Manuel de Nobrega in 1976, he then presents The Praça da Alegria on Rede Globo, leaving the air in 1979.

The program included the participation of Ronald Golias.

On television, Luiz worked in the direction and production of the musical programs Gala Evening and Cara & Crown (with Dori Caymmi and Sylvia Telles), the TV Rio.

He was also apart of the following: Two in the balance sheet (jazz and bossa nova), The Apartment (with Cyl Farney and Odete Lara), King River, The 7 Sins (with Fernando Barbosa Lima) and Musical in Bossa 9, on TV Excelsior, O Fino da Bossa, Show in Simonal and Elis Special on TV Record, Hello Dolly, Dick & Betty 17 (with Dick Farney and Betty Faria), Fantastic (musical direction), Elis Especial, Praça da Alegria, Sandra & Miele, A hundred years show, Viva Marilia and Battle of the Stars, as well as music festivals, on Rede Globo, a man - a woman (with Tuca), Cassio Muniz Show (creation of trade) and Program Flávio Cavalcanti (essential musical) on TV Tupi, Miele & Co. and His & Her (with Leila Richers), in Headline TV, Cocktail and Cocktail at SBT, and Little School of Noise on TV Record.

At the end of 2011 Luis preformed in the film The Adventures of Agamemnon, the reporter playing the father of Agamemnon Mendes quarry .

In 2012 Luiz starred in the miniseries The Brado Resounding in the role of "Nicodemo Cabral, Senator."

He plays the mogul Jack Parker, the novel Generation Brazil, in 2014.

In 2014 Luiz starred in the miniseries The Web, in the role of former Senator Walter Gama.

In August 2014, part of the Famous dance in the program Domingão Faustão.

In 2014, Luiz interprets the stallion neighbor Gustavo Pennaforte, in the episode "She is the Owner of Everything" sitcom betray and Scratching It's Only Starting, channel Multishow.

Luis Carlos Miele passed away at 77 yrs old.

Julia Wilson Dickson, English dialect coach, Died at 66

Julia Wilson Dickson was born in 1949 in Brighton, East Sussex, England and died on October 16, 2015.

She was an English dialect coach (Braveheart, In Bruges, Chocolat).

Dickson attended Guildford high school for girls, and then on to the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. She was a teacher.

Julia’s profound technical knowledge combined with an intellectual and emotional understanding of both text and dialogue, and musicality she helped gain greater recognition for the work of dialect coaches within the British film industry.

She was the daughter of Olivia (nee Rudder) and her father Philip Wilson-Dickson, who worked at the Home Office.

Julia coached Robert de Niro on Frankenstein in 1994 and Helena Bonham Carter on Mighty Aphrodite in1995.

She also coached Julianne Moore for The End of the Affair in 1999, Glenn Close on Albert Nobbs in 2011, and Eddie Redmayne for the performance as Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything in 2014, that won him an Oscar.

She worked on several of Peter Hall productions, on stage with Dustin Hoffman as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice at Phoenix theatre, London, in1989 and Vanessa Redgrave as Lady Torrance in Orpheus Descending (Haymarket, 1988), and Judi Dench.

She also worked with Anthony Hopkins in the title roles of Antony and Cleopatra (at the National Theatre, 1987.

Dickson also worked with the casts of Sam Mendes’s 1995 productions of Company and The Glass Menagerie, Max Stafford-Clark’s Royal Court productions of The Queen and I (1994) and Our Country’s Good (1988), Peter Wood’s 1994 The Beaux’ Stratagem, and Peter Gill’s 1989 Juno and the Paycock.

Her work in television productions including Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (1989), The Camomile Lawn (1992), The Lost Prince (2003), Wolf Hall (2015), and series including Spooks, Doctor Who, The Good Wife and EastEnders.

Julia Wilson Dickson passed away at 66 due to a brain haemorrhage.

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian film director, Died at 94

Dead, Michelangelo Antonioni on the 30th of July 2007 at the age of 94, he was an Italian film director, screenwriter, editor, and short story writer.

Born into a prosperous family of landowners in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna, in northern Italy on the 29th of September 1912, in 1940, Antonioni moved to Rome, where he worked for Cinema, the official Fascist film magazine edited by Vittorio Mussolini.

However, Antonioni was fired a few months afterward. Later that year he enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to study film technique, but left it after three months. He was drafted into the army afterwards.

During the war Antonioni survived being condemned to death for his membership in the resistance.

In 1943, he travelled to France to assist Marcel Carné on Les visiteurs du soir and then began a series of short films with Gente del Po (1943), a story of poor fishermen of the Po valley.

After the Liberation, the film stock was stored in the East-Italian Fascist "Republic of Salò" and could not be recovered and edited until 1947 (the complete footage was never retrieved).

These films were neorealist in style, being semi-documentary studies of the lives of ordinary people.

Antonioni then signed a deal with producer Carlo Ponti that would allow artistic freedom on three films in English to be released by MGM.

The first, Blowup (1966), set in Swinging London, was a major international success.

The script was loosely based on the short story The Devil's Drool (otherwise known as Blow Up) by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar.

Although it dealt with the challenging theme of the impossibility of objective standards and the ever-doubtable truth of memory, it was a successful and popular hit with audiences, no doubt helped by its sex scenes, which were explicit for the time. It starred David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave.

The second film was Zabriskie Point (1970), his first set in America and with a counterculture theme.

The soundtrack carried popular artists such as Pink Floyd (who wrote new music specifically for the film), the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.

In 1994 he was given the Honorary Academy Award "in recognition of his place as one of the cinema's master visual stylists." It was presented to him by Jack Nicholson.

Months later, the statuette was stolen by burglars and had to be replaced.

Previously, he had been nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay for Blowup.

Antonioni's final film, made when he was in his 90s, was a segment of the anthology film Eros (2004), entitled "Il filo pericoloso delle cose" ("The Dangerous Thread of Things").

The short film's episodes are framed by dreamy paintings and the song "Michelangelo Antonioni", composed and sung by Caetano Veloso.
Antonioni is recognizably the product of the mild, uneventful plains of northern Italy that form the background for several of his films.

Reserved and unexpansive in manner, he has said that the experience most important to his development as a filmmaker and as a man was his upbringing in a settled, bourgeois, provincial home, with a sufficiency of money; a traditional education; a code of reserve and self-discipline; and the leisure and ease necessary for a detached view of people and of life.

He attended school in Ferrara and went to the university at Bologna, though he continued to live at home and commuted daily to his studies.

William Byrd Wilkins, American actor, Died at 50

William Byrd Wilkins was born on January 19, 1965 in Louisburg, North Carolina, and died on October 31, 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He was an American actor, in Running Scared and Doctor Who.

The actor played in the Doctor Who (TV Series), A Town Called Mercy (2012), The U (TV Movie), in 360 as a social worker and in Overnight Delivery in 1998 as the Bouncer.

William Byrd Wilkins passes away at 50 due to pancreatic cancer.

Dick Maugg, known for Bartles & Jaymes ads, Died at 83

Dick Maugg was born in Longview, Washington, and died on July 28, 2015.

He was known as the silent half of the Bartles & Jaymes duo from the brand’s of the 1980s commercials.

Dick had studied business at the University of Washington.

Dick Maugg is known as the wine cooler pitchman.

The commercials began with a “Hello” from Bartles, played by Dave Rufkahr, and ended with, “Thank you for your support”. This made the Bartles & Jaymes drink a top seller.

Dicks acting career was very short-lived.

He was in sales and building construction before landing the role with the E&J Gallo wine cooler brand.

Hal Riney was charged with overseeing the Bartles & Jaymes ads.

A cattle rancher named Rufkahr got the job for the part of Bartles.

The role of Ed Jaymes was given to Maugg the night before the first shoot.

The pair went on to make over 200 ads together.

He left behind his wife and 3 children. Rufkahr passed away in 1996.

Dick Maugg passed away at 83 yrs old.

Luz Marina Zuluaga, Colombian beauty queen, Died at 77

Luz Marina Zuluaga Zuluaga was born on October 31, 1938, and died on December 2, 2015.

Luz was a Colombian director and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1958.

She was the first Colombian woman to win the Miss Universe pageant, and the only Miss Colombia to win until 56 years later, when Paulina Vega became Miss Universe 2014.

Luz Zuluaga was born in Pereira.

She moved to Manizales, (Department of Caldas) as a small child and grew up there.

Luz applied for the Miss Caldas contest, and she won in 1957.

Luz went on with her training towards the Miss Colombia contest and arrived in Cartagena, hoping to win the Miss Colombia title.

Pereira is part of the Caldas department.

Risaralda was made a department in 1966 some years after her election.

She was Miss Pereira, Miss Caldas, Miss Colombia and then Miss Universe.

After years outside the spotlight, Luz made headlines again when she married a medical doctor and moved to the United States.

In 1966, Luz returned to Manizales and became involved with the city council as well as with the state's institute of tourism, of which she eventually became director.

Luz has three sons and a daughter.

She passed away on December 2, 2015 at the age of 77 at her home in Manizales.

Marc Breslow, American game show director, Died at 89

Marc Breslow was born in 1926, and died on December 1, 2015.

He was an American television director, specializing in game shows for Mark Goodson Productions.

Marc was the director throughout the CBS and syndicated run of Match Game during the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as the CBS and syndicated run of Card Sharks during the late 1980s, and was the original director of the 1972 version of The Price Is Right.

Marc was relieved of his position as director of The Price Is Right by Mark Goodson in 1986 due to clashes with the show's former host, Bob Barker.

Paul Alter replaced Breslow as director of The Price Is Right, though Breslow remained on The Price Is Right credits until 1996 under the title of Creative Consultant as part of a 10-year, $1 million severance package.

Marc continued to direct other shows for Mark Goodson Productions.

Marc Breslow passed away on December 1, 2015 at the age of 89.