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DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, British comedian; in Rye, England. With Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers, Milligan ruled Britannia's radio waves in the comic series The Goon Show during the '50s. His absurd, mildly grotesque characters caught on with the Beatles generation: without his work, John Cleese said, there "would have been no Monty Python...
...resurgence of fame at age 73 playing the sinister leader of a criminal gang in Quentin Tarantino's 1992 cult film Reservoir Dogs. DIED. SPIKE MILLIGAN, 83, irreverent comedian and founding member of The Goon Show, the anarchic 1950s radio series co-starring Harry Secombe, Michael Bentine and Peter Sellers that redefined modern British humor; in Rye, England. Milligan started his career at the age of 15 singing in music halls. Injured as a soldier during WW II, he first experienced the mental illness that was to haunt him for the rest of his life. When the The Goon Show...
...Like many beautiful things, however, cranes are delicate?and they are dying. In Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes (North Point Press; 350 pages), nature writer and novelist Peter Matthiessen records his encounters with each of the 15 species of crane, a series of journeys that takes him through Asia, Australia, Africa and North America. He arrives each time in the wake of vanishing populations like a policeman reaching a murder scene too late. The cranes' struggles in their eroding habitats are depressingly familiar but Matthiessen and his fellow "craniacs" remain undaunted. His book, like his life, is a tribute...
...accounts for their soaring value as collectibles. When Lau released a punkish kid called Tatto in 1999, it sold for $19.20. Today at Toy Tokyo in New York City, it goes for $500. "Lau has a distinctive, original style that no other toy designer in the world has," says Peter Kato, the shop's assistant manager...
...DIED. PETER SUTCH, 56, former chairman of Hong Kong's Swire Group, one of the territory's older trading houses, of cancer; in Rome. Sutch eschewed the stuffy, colonial taipan mold in favor of a more modern and pragmatic management style...