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.
Saturday 5 December 2015
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Wednesday 2 December 2015
Art Buchwald, American humorist, Died at 81
Dead, Arthur "Art" Buchwald on January 17, 2007 at the age of 81, he was an American humorist best known for his long-running column in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers.
Born to an Austrian-Hungarian Jewish immigrant family on October 20, 1925, he was the son of Joseph Buchwald, a curtain manufacturer, and Helen Klineberger, who later spent 35 years in a mental hospital.
He was the youngest of four, with three older sisters—Alice, Edith, and Doris.
Buchwald's father put him in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York City when the family business failed during the Great Depression.
Buchwald was moved about between several foster homes, including a Queens boarding house for sick children (he had rickets) operated by Seventh-day Adventists.
In 1949 he left USC and bought a one-way ticket to Paris.
Eventually, he got a job as a correspondent for Variety in Paris.
In January 1950, he took a sample column to the offices of the European edition of The New York Herald Tribune.
Titled "Paris After Dark", it was filled with scraps of offbeat information about Parisian nightlife.
Buchwald was hired and joined the editorial staff.
His column caught on quickly, and Buchwald followed it in 1951 with another column, "Mostly About People".
They were fused into one under the title "Europe's Lighter Side".
Buchwald also enjoyed the notoriety he received when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, took seriously a spoof press conference report claiming that reporters asked questions about the president's breakfast habits.
After Hagerty called his own conference to denounce the article as "unadulterated rot," Buchwald famously retorted, "Hagerty is wrong.
I write adulterated rot."
On August 24, 1959, TIME magazine, in reviewing the history of the European edition of The Herald Tribune, reported that Buchwald's column had achieved an "institutional quality."
In 1988, Buchwald made headlines not for his popular column, but for his lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over a script idea.
He believed that his idea was used as the basis for the film Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy. After a lengthy court battle, the two sides reached a settlement in 1995.
Around this time, Buchwald wrote the 1994 memoir Leaving Home.
He again explored his own experiences in I’ll Always Have Paris (1996).
Buchwald’s last book, Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006), chronicles his time at a hospice after being told he only had a short time to live because of kidney problems.
He defied doctor’s expectations and lived long enough to reflect on his own passing in this work.
Buchwald later wrote about his depression, hoping to share with others the ability to endure such pain.
He also suffered a series of setbacks to his health.
When his kidneys started to fail, he refused dialysis, and instead, prepared for his own death.
Born to an Austrian-Hungarian Jewish immigrant family on October 20, 1925, he was the son of Joseph Buchwald, a curtain manufacturer, and Helen Klineberger, who later spent 35 years in a mental hospital.
He was the youngest of four, with three older sisters—Alice, Edith, and Doris.
Buchwald's father put him in the Hebrew Orphan Asylum in New York City when the family business failed during the Great Depression.
Buchwald was moved about between several foster homes, including a Queens boarding house for sick children (he had rickets) operated by Seventh-day Adventists.
In 1949 he left USC and bought a one-way ticket to Paris.
Eventually, he got a job as a correspondent for Variety in Paris.
In January 1950, he took a sample column to the offices of the European edition of The New York Herald Tribune.
Titled "Paris After Dark", it was filled with scraps of offbeat information about Parisian nightlife.
Buchwald was hired and joined the editorial staff.
His column caught on quickly, and Buchwald followed it in 1951 with another column, "Mostly About People".
They were fused into one under the title "Europe's Lighter Side".
Buchwald also enjoyed the notoriety he received when U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's press secretary, Jim Hagerty, took seriously a spoof press conference report claiming that reporters asked questions about the president's breakfast habits.
After Hagerty called his own conference to denounce the article as "unadulterated rot," Buchwald famously retorted, "Hagerty is wrong.
I write adulterated rot."
On August 24, 1959, TIME magazine, in reviewing the history of the European edition of The Herald Tribune, reported that Buchwald's column had achieved an "institutional quality."
In 1988, Buchwald made headlines not for his popular column, but for his lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over a script idea.
He believed that his idea was used as the basis for the film Coming to America, starring Eddie Murphy. After a lengthy court battle, the two sides reached a settlement in 1995.
Around this time, Buchwald wrote the 1994 memoir Leaving Home.
He again explored his own experiences in I’ll Always Have Paris (1996).
Buchwald’s last book, Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006), chronicles his time at a hospice after being told he only had a short time to live because of kidney problems.
He defied doctor’s expectations and lived long enough to reflect on his own passing in this work.
Buchwald later wrote about his depression, hoping to share with others the ability to endure such pain.
He also suffered a series of setbacks to his health.
When his kidneys started to fail, he refused dialysis, and instead, prepared for his own death.
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