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...DIED. GENE PITNEY, 65, wholesome, ebullient former teen idol who crooned melodramatic tales of failed romance, topping the charts in the 1960s with hits including 24 Hours from Tulsa, (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance and the Oscar-nominated title song for the 1961 film Town Without Pity; apparently of natural causes, while on tour in Britain; in Cardiff, Wales. One of the first acts to be produced by Phil Spector, Pitney got his start behind the scenes, penning hits for artists like Ricky Nelson (Hello Mary Lou), Bobby Vee (Rubber Ball) and the Crystals (He's a Rebel...
...with her color, and each man a t-shirt with his number. At its best, the play is by turns joyful, poignant, and angry as it deals with the two massive topics of love and the experience of being black in modern—or in some vignettes, 1960s and ’70s—cities. At its weakest, it is preachy, as the characters step outside themselves to deliver the playwright’s views. The monologue on acquaintance rape, for example, was reminiscent at times of a “Sex Signals” talk: long...
...Italy is now on course to become the Oldest Country. Stuck with a stubbornly low birthrate of 1.3 children per woman (compared with 2.7 in the 1960s), its society is ossifying, and the economy faces deep structural strains. The median age since 1995 has risen from 40.2 to 42.5. In the past 10 years, the percentage of retired Italians has jumped from 23% to 28%--the second highest percentage in the world after Japan--meaning that there are fewer than four workers for every retiree. The rapidly aging workforce has clipped productivity and jeopardized the solvency of the pension system...
...Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney ailments. He was 88.Weinberger, who died at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with his wife of 63 years, Jane, by his side, had served as chairman of Forbes Inc. until his death.A major force in California’s Republican Party during the 1960s, Weinberger held three major posts in Washington the following decade under Presidents Nixon and Ford. In his first stint in the executive branch, he served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, then as director of the Office of Management and Budget, and finally as secretary of the old Department...
DIED. DAN CURTIS, 78, TV producer; in Los Angeles. In the early 1960s, Curtis pitched a campy soap set on a desolate Maine estate and centered on a vampire and other gothic creatures. It became the cult hit Dark Shadows, which ran on ABC from 1966 to '71. Later he produced and directed two of the best-rated mini-series in history: The Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembrance--starring Robert Mitchum, above with Curtis--for which he won an Emmy...