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DIED. FRANK DEL OLMO, 55, Pulitzer prizewinning editor and columnist who covered Latino issues for the Los Angeles Times; of an apparent heart attack, after collapsing in his office; in Los Angeles. The L.A. native began his 34 years at the paper as an intern and rose to become the first Latino listed among the top editors on the masthead. He won a Pulitzer for a series on Southern California's Latino community in 1984 and an Emmy Award in 1975 for writing The Unwanted, a TV documentary on illegal immigration...
...Gabin, Jean-Paul Belmondo -- to men of the world. Depardieu, 42, is cut from this rough cloth. This versatile actor can play comical, tragical and historical, as well as pastoral, but his most famous roles are as peasants: the duped Jean de Florette, the mysterious Martin Guerre, the noble Olmo in Bertolucci's 1900. He has assayed the holy fools of French history and literature: Danton, Tartuffe and, in a recent triumph playing in the U.S., Cyrano de Bergerac...
Other New Yorkers are waging private wars for safe and affordable housing. Willie Olmo, an electronics technician who supports his wife Mabel and five daughters on a salary of $30,000, had nowhere to go last year when the landlord abandoned the apartment building in which the family lived. When police declined to drive away crack users who had set up a drug den in the building's basement, Olmo picked up a baseball bat and chased them out himself. He then bought walkie-talkies with his own money and started a tenants' patrol, which has since expanded into...
Frank del Olmo, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a Nieman Fellow this year, moderated the discussion...
Other Nieman Fellows include Elinor Brecher of The Louisville [KY] Courier-Journal, Frank Del Olmo of The Los Angeles Times, Robert Hitt III, of The Columbia Record, John MacCormack of the Dallas Times Herald, Dale Maharidge of The Sacramento Bee, Michele McDonald of The Virginian-Pilot, Eileen McNamara May of The Boston Globe, Lindsay Miller, a producer with Public Broadcasting Service, William Sutton, of The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Gene Weingarten, of the Miami Herald...