The Wire – Omars Day. (YouTube) 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 [...]
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Omar Little – A Man’s Gotta Have a Code
February 27th, 2008
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Obituary: Jan Wolkers
November 27th, 2007
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 [...]
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Michelangelo Antonioni (1912 – 2007)
July 31st, 2007
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
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Ingmar Bergman (1918 – 2007)
July 30th, 2007
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
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Count Gottfried von Bismarck – an obituary
July 6th, 2007
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
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