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- George Martin was born on 15 August 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Dead Poets Society (1989), Awakenings (1990) and Léon: The Professional (1994). He was married to Katherine Helmond. He died on 1 June 2010 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
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Joseph Strick was born on 6 July 1923 in Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and director, known for The Savage Eye (1959), Ulysses (1967) and Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1971). He was married to Martine Rossignol and Anne Laskin. He died on 1 June 2010 in Paris, France.- Margaret Hickey was an actress, known for Doctor Who (1963). She died on 1 June 2010.
- Kazuo Ohno was born in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, on October 27 in 1906. His father, the head of a fishermen's cooperative, spoke Russian and went to fish all over to Kamchatka. His mother was good at cooking European cuisine and playing Japanese zither with thirteen strings. She also played organ and her children often sang to her organ.
When Kazuo was at junior high school, he was sent to one of his relatives, Shiraishi, in Akita prefecture to live with them. Shiraishi family didn't have any children. At Odate junior high school Kazuo belonged to a track-and-field events club and established a new record in the prefecture. In 1926 Kazuo entered the Japan Athletic College. A poor student as he was, a superintendent of a dormitory took him to the Imperial Theater to see a performance by the Spanish dancer Antonia Merce, known as "La Argentina," .La Argentina was also known as "the Queen of the Castanets" and she innovated 20th century Spanish dance. Spanish poet Garcia Lorca highly praised her. Kazuo was so impressed by her dance.
After graduating the college, Kazuo began working as a physical education teacher at Kanto Gakuin High School, a private Christian school in Yokohama. He began to dance upon moving to Soshin Girls school, another Christian school, since he needed to teach dance to the girls students.He began training with two of Japan's modern dance pioneers, Baku Ishii and Takaya Eguchi, the latter a choreographer who had studied Neue Tanz with Mary Wigman in Germany. In 1938 Kazuo was drafted and went with the army to the front in China and New Guinea for 9 years
Kazuo held the first recital in 1949 at Kanda Kyoritsu Hall in Tokyo when he was 43 years old. As soon as returning from New Guinea, where he was a prisoner of war for a year, Kazuo resumed dancing. The experience of the war made him dance "Jellyfish dance" in one of his recitals in 1950s. On returning from New Guinea, he saw jellyfishes in the sea where those who died on board by hunger and diseases were buried. In the 1950s, Kazuo Ohno met Tatsumi Hijikata, who inspired him to begin cultivating Butoh (originally called Ankoku Butoh, the "Dance of Utter Darkness"). Butoh was evolving in the turmoil of Japan's postwar landscape. Hijikata, who rejected the Western dance forms so popular at the time, developed with a collective group the vocabulary of movements and ideas that later, in 1961, he named the Ankoku Butoh-ha movement. In 1959, Hijikata created one of the earliest Butoh works, Kinjiki(Forbidden Colors), based on the novel by Yukio Mishima. In 1977, Ohno premiered his solo Butoh work directed by Hijikata, "La Argentina Sho" (Admiring La Argentina), which was awarded the Dance Critic's Circle Award. In 1980, "Admiring La Argentina" is Kazuo's masterpiece as well as Butoh's.
Kazuo Ohno was invited to the 14th International Festival in Nancy, France, in 1980 and toured to Strasbourg, London, Stuttgart, Paris and Stockholm. He danced "Admiring La Argentina" in the festival and had a great impact on the audience by his unique work. With Hijikata directing, he created two more major works, "My Mother" and "Dead Sea", performed with Yoshito Ohno. Other works of Ohno's include "Water Lilies", "Ka Cho Fu Getsu"(Flowers-Birds-Wind-Moon)and "The Road in Heaven, The Road in Earth". As one of the most significant Butoh performers, Ohno has toured throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia and Asia. He has performed in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, France, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Canada and the United States. Many students have come to study under him from all over the world.
After his 90th birthday, he was still active as a Butoh dancer. The last overseas performance was "Requiem for the 20th Century" which was held in New York on December 1999. But in the same year he had eye trouble and his physical strength gradually started waning.Yet Kazuo Ohno has continued dancing as if he was nourished by his age. When he could not walk by himself, he danced with the supports by others.When he could not stand even with the supports, he danced as he seated himself. When his legs didn't move as he wanted, he danced with his hands. When he lost himself, he crawled on his knees and audience were so moved by watching his back.
When he dances, he vitalizes himself. An ordinary old man becomes a somebody who gives power to others. People love to encounter Kazuo because of that. He lives long, he moves people deeply. Kazuo Ohno is an artist who has enlarged human potential.
Awards: He was awarded a cultural award from Kanagawa Prefecture in 1993, a cultural award from Yokohama city in 1998 and the Michelagelo Antonioni Award for the Arts in 1999.
Films: Kazuo Ohno starred in the films, "The Potrait of Mr.O" (1969), "Mandala of Mr.O" (1971) and "Mr.0's Book of the Dead" (1973), directed by Chiaki Nagano; in "The Scene of the Soul" (1991) by Katsumi Hirano; and "Kazuo Ohno" (1995), directed by Daniel Schmid. Books: He has written three books on Butoh, "The Palace Soars through the Sky", a collection of essays and photographs, "Dessin" with drawings and notes on his Butoh creations and "Words of Workshop", a collection of lectures given in his workshop. Also "Food for the Soul", a book of his selected pictures from 1930's through 1999, has been published. "Words of Workshop" and "Food for the Soul" has been translated into English as "kazuo ohno's world : from without & within" published by Wesleyan University Press. - Actor
Hank Bergman was born on 12 March 1919 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor. He was married to Anne G. Sterling. He died on 1 June 2010 in Miami, Florida, USA.- John Perri was born on 18 November 1923 in Italy. He was an actor, known for Sea Hunt (1958), Peter Gunn (1958) and The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956). He died on 1 June 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Patrick Sexton was born on 1 April 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Thriller (1960), Pirates of Tortuga (1961) and The Yellow Tomahawk (1954). He died on 1 June 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Andrei Voznesensky was a Russian poet and public figure, one of the Soviet Union's boldest and most celebrated young poets of the 1950s and 60s who helped lift Russian literature out of its state of fear and virtual serfdom under Stalin. He was also known for the popular rock-opera Juno and Avos, which was made into best-selling video-movie starring Nikolay Karachentsov and Aleksandr Abdulov. Before his death he was both critically and popularly proclaimed "a living classic", and "an icon of Soviet intellectuals."
He was born Andrei Andreevich Voznesensky on May 12, 1933, in Moscow, Russia. His great-grandfather was a Priest of Russian Orthodox Church. His father, Andrei Voznesensky, was a prominent Soviet engineer known for construction of Bratsk and Inguri hydro-power stations. His mother, Antonina Sergeevna (nee Pastushikhina), was fond of art and poetry. During the Second World War Voznesensky was evacuated with his mother to a Siberian city of Kurgan, while his father served during the Nazi siege of Leningrad. Young Voznesensky experienced hardship and learned about survival. After WWII he returned to Moscow and continued his school studies. He was reading voraciously and also demonstrated his gift as an artist and poet.
In 1947, then 14-year-old, Voznesensky sent his poems to Boris Pasternak and was invited by the Nobel Laureate to visit him. Voznesensky became an apprentice of Pasternak. He also absorbed from futuristic poetry of Semen Kirsanov, and mentioned Vladimir Mayakovsky and Pablo Neruda as his influences. From 1952-1957 Voznesensky studied at the Moscow Institute of Architecture, graduating as architect in 1957. A dramatic event occurred before his graduation, when a fire in the Institute building burned all his architectural designs. Voznesensky believed in a symbolic meaning of that fire. He quit architecture in favor of poetry.
His first publications in 1958 and 1959 became a sensation and were highly praised by Boris Pasternak. Voznesensky became one of the most popular Russian poets along with Yevgeniy Yevtushenko and Bella Akhmadulina during the "Thaw" that was initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. In 1960 and 1961 Vosnesensky was allowed to travel abroad and visited Europe and the United States. His poems caught attention of president Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe. His international success caused local jealousy and prosecution back in Moscow. In 1963 Khrushchev publicly attacked and threatened Voznesensky at an official meeting in Kremlin by falsely branding the poet as pervert. Then the Soviet leader personally threatened to exile him. As a result of the Khrushchev's attack Voznesensky suffered from a severe nervous breakdown that caused him a heart condition and asthma that changed his life forever due to frequent attacks of suffocation. Only after a telephone call from president John F. Kennedy, Khrushchev stopped harassing the poet.
During the neo-Stalinist era of Leonid Brezhnev Voznesensky was under tight surveillance. He received as much attention from the KGB, as from all genuine connoisseurs of fine poetry. His play "Beregite vashi litsa" (Save Your Faces) was staged by director Yuriy Lyubimov at the Taganka Theatre in 1964, and was immediately banned. His other play "Antimiry" (Anti-worlds 1964) became the first theatrical appearance of the leading Russian singer Vladimir Vysotskiy. Voznesensky became one of the leaders of the 60's generation. His publications were rare and very popular; up to half a million readers subscribed to buy his book "An Achilles Heart" (1966). In 1967 he was restricted from traveling outside the Soviet Union. In 1968, he condemned the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
His remarkable public performances, always to sold out audiences, has been acclaimed as special cultural events in Russia and abroad. Audiences in Russia were consistently filling large sport arenas to hear and see live performances of Voznesensky. Together with his literary colleagues of the 60's generation, Voznesensky played an important role in liberation of the collective consciousness after decades of repressions under dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. As one of the so-called "children of the '60s," Voznesensky led the generation of thinkers who promoted intellectual freedom in the post-Stalin USSR. He was a staunch proponent for freedom of speech and human rights in the Soviet Union. He supported the humanitarian positions of Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner. In 1979 Voznesensky joined Vasiliy Aksyonov and Bella Akhmadulina among other authors of a literary almanac Metropol, which was instantly banned by Soviet censorship.
In the 1970s and 80s, Voznesensky contributed to popular culture by creation of the first Russian rock-opera 'Yunona i Avos' (Juno and Avos 1980). It was staged at Moscow Lenkom Theatre in collaboration with composer Aleksey Rybnikov and director Mark Zakharov. 'Juno and Avos' became the most popular Russian rock-opera of all time. It had a run of over a thousand performances and was made into a best-selling video-movie starring Nikolay Karachentsov and Aleksandr Abdulov. Voznesensky wrote such international hits as "Million Roses" and other popular songs in collaboration with composer Raimonds Pauls and singer Alla Pugacheva. He also created a cycle of intimate romantic songs in collaboration with composer Mikael Tariverdiev.
Andrei Voznesensky's poetry is experimental in many ways, always novel and on the cutting edge of creative endeavors. Thanks to his education as an architect, architecture's demands for structural harmony and contrast seemed to be present in his poetic design. His works are an original synthesis of deep lyricism and profound philosophical concepts, musical and sounding like a powerful warning bell at the same time. His innovative verse thrilled readers but irked authorities and was criticized by orthodox Soviet writers. Voznesensky remained faithful to himself and attracted worldwide attention as creator of powerful verse and symbols of youthful defiance. His skill, experimentation and depth as a poet won him respect around the world, and his works were widely translated.
As Moscow was ever in search of approval, Voznesensky traveled the world to read his poetry, serving as a sort of unofficial Kremlin cultural envoy, even though he was a critic of rough-handed Soviet policies. He was a member of the Russian Academy, American Academy of Arts and Letters, European Academy, among other literary academies. In 1996 Voznesensky was named the "Greatest poet of our time" by Le Nouvel Observateur. He was living near his long-serving mentor and muse, Boris Pasternak, in Peredelkino, the prestigious suburb of Moscow. Pasternak, who died in 1960, paid him the ultimate tribute - "Your entrance into literature was swift and turbulent. I am glad I've lived to see it."
In later years Voznesensky became reclusive. However, in 2008, he attended the presidential reception at the Moscow Kremlin and received a state award from the Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. Voznesensky died of complications from asthma and heart condition, and multiple strokes, in Moscow, on June 1, 2010, and was laid to rest next to his parents in Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow, Russia.- Haywood Harris was born on 26 August 1929 in Maryville, Tennessee, USA. He was married to Carolyn Jo West. He died on 1 June 2010 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
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Jirí Zavrel was born on 5 October 1949 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Amadeus (1984), Immortal Beloved (1994) and Lea (1996). He died on 1 June 2010 in Prague, Czech Republic.- Art Department
Carlos Acosta was born on 9 December 1937 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He is known for Witness (1985), Quiet Cool (1986) and Making Love (1982). He died on 1 June 2010 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.- Barbara Greenspun was born on 17 February 1922 in London, England, UK. She was married to Hank Greenspun. She died on 1 June 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
- Gary Henderson was born on 7 November 1948. He was an actor, known for Burn After Reading (2008). He died on 1 June 2010 in New York, New York, USA.
- Roger Manderscheid was born on 1 March 1933 in Itzig, Hesperingen, Luxembourg. He was a writer, known for Schacko Klak (1989) and Schockela Knätschgummi a brong Puppelcher (2010). He died on 1 June 2010 in Luxembourg.