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DIED. ANN CALVELLO, 76, fiery Roller Derby Queen and a reigning icon of the American sport cum spectacle since the 1940s; in Burlingame, Calif. Cast as a villain who relished boos from the crowd, she reached her zenith in the '60s as a star of San Francisco's famed Bay City Bombers. With purple, green and polka-dot hair, tattoos and a flair for elbow-throwing, the Meanest Mama on Skates endured 12 broken noses and numerous cracked ribs competing over seven decades...
...Indiana Jones, another Saturday matinee hero, the icon of the three-film collaboration with Spielberg that promises another installment one of these years. He?s also preparing a DVD release of the Young Indiana Jones TV series, with a one-hour documentary on the subject of each episode...
DIED. SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC, 64, wily, charismatic power-addicted former Yugoslav President and icon of Serbian nationalism known as the Butcher of the Balkans; in his cell at the U.N. detention center near the Hague, where he was the first head of state to be prosecuted for genocide; apparently of natural causes. Milosevic, who had heart trouble, had been on trial since 2002 for his alleged role as architect of the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and other crimes. His decade-long rule over Yugoslavia and Serbia produced four wars, which led to 250,000 deaths...
...disappearing.” He added, playfully, “In many ways CBS is better than some, but that’s a subject for another time.” Jones, who is director of the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, described Rather as an icon and as a man who “speaks his mind.” “The president sassed him and he sassed him back,” Jones said in his opening remarks. While Rather denied having “sassed” any president, he agreed that...
That combination is proving irresistible to creative types on the lookout for a collaborator who is utterly commercial without sacrificing cool. Japanese design icon Takashi Murakami and artists from Brooklyn to Hong Kong have designed toys sold by Kidrobot. Its vinyl characters have sported clothing by Marc Jacobs and Jil Sander, and New York City's Barneys sells an exclusive line of Kidrobot sneakers...