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Obit Magazine, Off-Beat Obit: “A Man’s Gotta Have a Code”:

“BALTIMORE - Omar Little, the veteran stick-up artist who inspired fear and fascination in drug-plagued neighborhoods across the city, was shot and killed in a west-side convenience store yesterday. Police said the assailant remained at large.

Famed for his brazen robberies of area drug dealers, Mr. Little had retired from what he called “the game” a year ago, moving to the Caribbean with a new romantic partner. But he apparently returned to Baltimore this winter to seek revenge following the brutal murder of a beloved business associate.

Mr. Little’s efforts to hunt down Marlo Stanfield, the man he blamed for the killing, were unsuccessful–an unusual stumble in a celebrated career. He injured his leg jumping out a window during what sources said was a firefight with alleged Stanfield associates. As a result, witnesses said, the once intimidating figure was reduced to limping along city streets on an improvised crutch. (…)”

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Nota Bene: “MANY ARE TRAPPED FOR HOURS IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION.”

The Guardian, Obituary: Jan Wolkers:

“The Dutch author and sculptor Jan Wolkers, who has died aged 81, became famous, not to say notorious, with his book Turkish Delight, which appeared in 1969 and contained explicit sex scenes of startling frankness, unprecedented in Dutch literature and probably unexceeded anywhere at the time. A work true to the spirit of the 1960s, it shocked a society that had not yet completed the transition from provincial conservatism to the libertarianism of modern Amsterdam (by no means shared by the whole of the rest of the country; and even Amsterdam now seems to be having second thoughts).”

BBC: “Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni, renowned for his 1966 release Blow-Up, has died aged 94.”

M. Antonioni
Senses of Cinema: Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni op Wikipedia

BBC: “Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman has died aged 89, according to a Swedish news agency.”

Toeval, geïnspireerd door BBC’s Arena: Ingmar Bergman hield ik net een klein, particulier Ingmar Bergman Zomerfestival. (Summer with Monika, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Criterion, Autumn Sonata en Fanny and Alexander).

Ingmar Bergman Face to Face.
Bergmanorama
Ingmar Bergman op Wikipedia

Count Gottfried von Bismarck, who was found dead on Monday aged 44, was a louche German aristocrat with a multi-faceted history as a pleasure-seeking heroin addict, hell-raising alcoholic, flamboyant waster and a reckless and extravagant host of homosexual orgies.

The Daily Telegraph, Count Gottfried von Bismarck