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A look backmost astatine the esteemed personalities who near america this year, who'd touched america with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

By CBSNews.com elder shaper David Morgan. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.

The magnetic British histrion Terence Stamp (July 22, 1938-Aug. 17, 2025) earned a champion supporting histrion Oscar information for his archetypal movie appearance, successful 1962's "Billy Budd." But helium was champion known for playing the supervillain General Zod successful "Superman" and "Superman II." His different large movie roles included a kidnapper successful "The Collector," a London transgression successful "The Limey," and a trans pistillate accompanying 2 resistance queens successful a romp crossed the Australian Outback successful the drama "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert."

Born successful London, Stamp worked successful advertizing earlier pursuing an acting career. Early on, helium shared an flat with chap up-and-coming histrion Michael Caine (they besides shared the aforesaid suit for auditions). After making his surface debut arsenic the rubric quality successful "Billy Budd," Stamp appeared with Laurence Olivier successful "Term of Trial," Monica Vitti successful "Modesty Blaise," and Julie Christie successful "Far From the Madding Crowd." He appeared successful respective European films ("Teorema," "Hu-Man," "The Divine Nymph"), but helium spent overmuch of the '70s connected a spiritual quest successful India aft years of unemployment, believing helium has aged retired of his early, youthful roles which had played disconnected his dashing bully looks.

At a 2013 British Film Institute screening, Stamp said helium was surviving successful an ashram erstwhile helium got a telegram offering him the portion of Zod other Marlon Brando. "And I thought, my beingness is astir to change," helium said.

His show arsenic the ruthless exile from Krypton who wields the aforesaid superpowers arsenic Superman was indelible, arsenic was his tendency to predominate the Earth. Stamp claimed "Superman" was the lone palmy movie he'd ever been in, but it near its mark: "I tin seldom get done the time without idiosyncratic coming up to maine and saying, 'Kneel earlier Zod!'" helium said.

His movie and TV credits included "Meetings With Remarkable Men," "The Hit," "Legal Eagles," "The Company of Wolves," "Wall Street," "Young Guns," "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace," "Bowfinger," "His Dark Materials," "Unfinished Song," "Wanted," "The Adjustment Bureau," "A Song for Marion," "Bitter Harvest," and "Last Night successful Soho." He spent overmuch of his aboriginal vocation playing darker, villainous (but inactive charismatic) characters.

He published respective memoirs, including "Stamp Album," "Coming Attractions," "Double Feature," and "The Ocean Fell into the Drop."

In 1987, Stamp told BBC Radio's "Desert Island Discs": "I person a batch of things successful my head. Obviously I'm benignant of, there's a batch of clip erstwhile I'm fueled by benignant of high-up pain. As an actor, I get a accidental to explicit each the antithetic things that travel up retired of it. And so, it's a benignant of release, it's similar a information valve. The large vigor tin beryllium channeled into thing productive. I deliberation if I didn't person that outlet, past I would beryllium idiosyncratic who vacillated from terrific ups to terrific downs, and I see that psychotic." He added, "I'm fortunate due to the fact that I tin bash thing with each these things that hap to me, I tin transmission them."

James Lovell

When astronaut James Lovell (March 25, 1928-Aug. 7, 2025) was launched aboard Apollo 8, conscionable 4 days earlier Christmas 1968, NASA's formation manager believed they lone had a 50% accidental of coming location safely. "Some of the likelihood of trying to beryllium palmy successful that ngo are overwhelming, and possibly astatine that clip we didn't adjacent recognize what the likelihood were," Lovell told "CBS Evening News" successful 2018.

That Christmas Eve, they became the archetypal quality unit to ellipse the moon. "We're similar 3 schoolkids looking into a candy store window, watching those past aged craters connected the acold side, dilatory gaffe underneath us," Lovell told "Sunday Morning" successful 2018.

But the genuinely moving show was erstwhile they viewed their location satellite emergence supra the surface. "I could enactment my thumb up to the window, and wholly fell the Earth," Lovell said. "You person to deliberation astir that – implicit 5 cardinal people, everything I ever knew, was down my thumb!"

A U.S. Naval Academy postgraduate and trial pilot, Lovell joined the abstraction programme successful 1962, becoming 1 of NASA's astir traveled astronauts during its archetypal decade. Lovell flew into abstraction 4 times: aboard Gemini 7, Gemini 12, Apollo 8 and Apollo 13.

It was that past mission, successful 1970, that proved the astir harrowing. Apollo 13's work module, carrying Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise, experienced a abrupt oxygen vessel detonation connected its mode to the moon. "Houston, we've had a problem," Swigert and Lovell radioed.

With the landing ngo scrapped, Lovell and his crewmates moved into the cramped lunar lander to usage arsenic a lifeboat, arsenic hundreds of formation controllers and engineers worked to usher the damaged spacecraft backmost home. With the crew's beingness enactment dwindling, the satellite watched gripped successful suspense implicit their four-day travel backmost to Earth.

Lovell's calm demeanor during the ngo (which was dramatized successful the movie "Apollo 13," starring Tom Hanks) fixed his nationalist image, underscoring the heroism of astronauts moving successful the deadly situation of space. Though disappointed helium ne'er got to locomotion connected the moon, Lovell understood that, successful immoderate ways, the failed ngo was a success. "Going to the moon, if everything works right, it's similar pursuing a cookbook. It's not that large a deal," helium told the AP successful 2004. "If thing goes wrong, that's what separates the men from the boys."

Loni Anderson

She was primitively hired to play a "dumb blonde" receptionist connected the CBS sitcom "WKRP successful Cincinnati," but histrion Loni Anderson (Aug. 5, 1945-Aug. 3, 2025) wanted thing different. "I liked the show, but I didn't similar the role, and truthful I refused," she told Australia's Studio 10 successful 2019, describing the quality of Jennifer Marlowe arsenic model dressing. When asked however she would bash it, Anderson replied, "Let's marque her look similar Lana Turner and beryllium the smartest idiosyncratic successful the room." Blonde, but not dumb.

Anderson starred connected "WKRP" from 1978 to 1982, playing a receptionist whose ratio kept the sagging presumption up and running. The relation earned her 2 Emmy nominations and 3 Golden Globe nominations.

A autochthonal of St. Paul, Minnesota, Anderson's archetypal movie relation was an uncredited quality successful the Steve McQueen occidental "Nevada Smith" (playing a brunette barroom girl). She guest-starred connected specified TV bid arsenic "S.W.A.T.," "Police Woman," "Phyllis," "Police Story," "Barnaby Jones," "The Bob Newhart Show" and "The Incredible Hulk."

Following "WKRP," Anderson starred successful the bid "Partners successful Crime," "Easy Street," "Nurses," and "My Sister Is So Gay," and the TV movies "The Jayne Mansfield Story," "A Letter to Three Wives," "Blown Away," "Sorry, Wrong Number," and "White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd." She co-starred with Burt Reynolds (who aboriginal became her 3rd husband) successful "Stroker Ace," and appeared successful "A Night astatine the Roxbury."

In the aboriginal 1990s she returned to the relation of Jennifer Marlowe successful "The New WKRP successful Cincinnati."

In her 1995 autobiography, "My Life successful High Heels," Anderson wrote astir her matrimony and tabloid divorcement involving Reynolds, describing the maturation of "a pistillate who survives."

Tom Lehrer

Tom Lehrer (April 9, 1928-July 26, 2025) was a mathematics prodigy (earning a Harvard grade astatine property 18), and was possibly the lone mathematician with a signaling contract. But portion helium was teaching astatine Harvard and MIT, helium was champion known to the nationalist arsenic a philharmonic satirist, signaling songs successful the 1950s and '60s astir politics, marriage, race, religion, the Boy Scouts, the Cold War and the environment. His ditties included "Poisoning Pigeons successful the Park," "The Old Dope Peddler," "Be Prepared," and "The Vatican Rag," portion "I Got It From Agnes" hinted astatine the dispersed of a sexually-transmitted illness among his friends (and his audience). He besides wrote vacation music, specified arsenic "(I'm Spending) Hanukkah successful Santa Monica."

Lehrer began penning comic songs and performing them successful revues astatine Harvard, and made his archetypal record, "Songs by Tom Lehrer," successful 1953. In summation to mocking existent events, helium besides mocked philharmonic styles. His opus "The Elements" mimicked a melody of Gilbert & Sullivan's to database the periodic table.

His 1959 unrecorded recording, "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer," was nominated for a Grammy for champion drama show (musical).

He besides contributed songs to the satirical TV quality bid "That Was the Week That Was," the BBC's "The Frost Report," and "The Electric Company," and his euphony became the ground of an Off-Broadway revue, "Tomfoolery."

Lehrer mostly abandoned his moonlighting euphony vocation to instrumentality to teaching math; helium was connected the module of the University of California astatine Santa Cruz into his precocious 70s. However, agelong aft he'd stopped touring, his recordings earned different beingness via Dr. Demento's long-running vigor show, inspiring artists specified arsenic "Weird Al" Yankovic. And portion his assemblage of enactment was rather tiny — less than 100 songs — they filled retired respective compilations, including a container set, "The Remains of Tom Lehrer."

In 2020, helium relinquished his copyright to his songs, granting the nationalist support to usage them successful immoderate format. Posting the lyrics and expanse euphony online, helium wrote, "Help yourselves, and don't nonstop maine immoderate money."

In a 2015 Library of Congress interview helium was asked astir the longevity of his "Songs by Tom Lehrer" recording: "One of the reasons for its entreaty is that it's simple: conscionable soft and voice. Most records are 'produced' by someone, but I didn't adjacent cognize what a grounds shaper was. That whitethorn beryllium 1 of the reasons that children similar it, adjacent if they don't recognize it. I heard that Joan Baez — whom I've ne'er met — was asked successful an interrogation if she sang lullabies to her baby. She said that doesn't work, but she sings 'The Old Dope Peddler' to him and helium goes close to sleep."

Cleo Laine

British vocalist Dame Cleo Laine (Oct. 28, 1927-July 24, 2025) possessed 1 of the astir distinctive voices successful jazz. She utilized her singular four-octave vocal scope not conscionable for jazz but besides for pop, Broadway and opera.

Born Clementina Dinah Campbell, she had piano, dependable and creation lessons arsenic a child, performing from arsenic young arsenic property 3. For years aft leaving school, she faced rejections from singing auditions, until 1951, erstwhile she tried retired for the Johnny Dankworth Seven. As Dankworth recalled for "Sunday Morning" successful 1990, "We were conscionable wholly overwhelmed, due to the fact that determination was a finished nonfiction — a vocalist who sung similar herself and didn't sing similar a watered-down mentation of Ella Fitzgerald oregon Doris Day oregon immoderate it whitethorn be."

In 1958, a twelvemonth aft divorcing her archetypal husband, Laine joined Dankworth — and discontinue the band. But helium continued arsenic her manager, and Laine moved connected from London cabarets to performance halls astir the world.

Laine was ne'er pigeonholed, embracing euphony of virtually each style, from a Kurt Weill opera, to an medium of Shakespearean sonnets, to Jerome Kern's "Show Boat" and Stephen Sondheim's "Into The Woods." The 1986 medium "Cleo astatine Carnegie" won her a Grammy Award; that aforesaid year, she earned a Tony information for "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."

Laine and Dankworth besides founded a campy successful Wovendun, extracurricular of London, arsenic a schoolhouse for musicians. There, they shared lessons from their agelong careers. As Laine remarked to 1 young singer, "Don't ever transcript anybody. Find your flaws, if you like, and enactment connected them and marque them portion of you. Dismiss. Listen to them, learn, instrumentality bits, similar the play of it oregon the method quality oregon whatever, but not their sounds. I beg of you, don't bash that, and you'll spell far."

Ozzy Osbourne

Singer Ozzy Ozbourne (Dec. 3, 1948-July 22, 2025) was a founding subordinate and frontman of the pioneering dense metallic set Black Sabbath, who aboriginal became a demonic solo enactment — arsenic good arsenic the frontman of an MTV world bid starring his family, "The Osbournes."

Growing up successful Birmingham, England, John Michael Osbourne — a instrumentality of The Four Seasons, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and The Beatles — teamed up with bassist Terry "Geezer" Butler, guitarist Tony Iommi and drummer Bill Ward arsenic portion of a radical that called itself the Polka Tulk Blues Band. The 4 past reconstituted arsenic Black Sabbath, taking the sanction from an Italian fearfulness movie. The radical released 5 albums successful 4 years, including their debut, "Black Sabbath" (recorded successful 2 days), "Paranoid," "Master of Reality," "Vol. 4" and "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath." The euphony was industrial, with guitar jams, drum riffs, and dramatically shifting tempos that propulsed a screaming Osbourne to obstruction and wail astir war, the establishment, religion, skinheads and drugs. Only the singles "Paranoid" and "Iron Man" charted, but the albums themselves each went platinum.

Osbourne's excesses, specified arsenic missing gigs and rehearsals, got him fired from the group, and truthful helium began a solo career, releasing "Blizzard of Ozz" successful 1980. Twelve much workplace albums followed.

Among his hits were "Crazy Train," "Goodbye to Romance," "Flying High Again," "Bark astatine the Moon," "Shot successful the Dark," "Mama, I'm Coming Home," "Road to Nowhere," "See You connected the Other Side," "Back connected Earth," "Gets Me Through," "I Don't Wanna Stop," "Let Me Hear You Scream," and "Under the Graveyard."

He was inducted doubly into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame — archetypal with Black Sabbath successful 2006, and again arsenic a solo creator successful 2024.

In 2002, MTV debuted "The Osbournes," a world amusement which offered a glimpse down the dense metallic singer's nationalist image: that of a sweet-natured hubby to Sharon, ingesting Diet Cokes and admonishing his kids, Kelly and Jack, from smoking oregon drinking. While helium continued to merchandise albums and marque appearances, helium was hobbled by injuries from a motorcycle mishap (requiring aggregate surgeries) and a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease.

On July 5, 2025, successful Birmingham, the archetypal Black Sabbath lineup reunited for the archetypal clip successful 20 years for what Osbourne said would beryllium his last performance — a tribute that assembled musicians from Aerosmith, Metallica, Guns N Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice successful Chains and others. Weeks earlier his farewell performance (a foundation lawsuit dubbed "Back to the Beginning"), Osbourne told The Guardian that helium was acceptable to bent it up: "I don't fume dope oregon bash immoderate of the stone prima manner immoderate more. I'm benignant of similar a homebody. I ne'er spell out. I ne'er bent retired successful bars — I don't drink. So what the **** is retired determination for me? I hatred going buying with my wife. I consciousness similar stabbing myself successful the cervix aft fractional an hour. But it's clip for maine to walk immoderate clip with my grandkids. I don't privation to dice successful a edifice country somewhere. I privation to walk the remainder of my beingness with my family."

Chuck Mangione

Two-time Grammy-winning instrumentalist Chuck Mangione (Nov. 29, 1940-July 22, 2025) achieved planetary occurrence successful 1977 with his jazz-flavored azygous "Feels So Good." The flugelhorn and trumpet subordinate released much than 30 albums during a vocation that included composing euphony for the closing ceremonial of the 1980 Winter Olympics astatine Lake Placid.

A postgraduate of the Eastman School of Music (where helium would instrumentality arsenic manager of the school's jazz ensemble), Chuck primitively partnered with his brother, pianist Gap Mangione, arsenic The Jazz Brothers, performing successful the benignant of be-bop artists similar Dizzy Gillespie. After a fewer albums, the brothers went their ain ways. Chuck played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, earlier headlining 25 albums.

He won a Grammy successful 1977 for the medium "Bellavia." He earned his 2nd Grammy, and a Golden Globe information for champion archetypal score, for the movie "The Children of Sanchez."

"Our euphony has been criticized and knocked for this oregon that," he told "Sunday Morning" successful 1987. "People accidental we are a jazz group, radical accidental we're not a jazz group; and I deliberation 1 of the hippest things that radical person said to maine is that, done our music, we go a steppingstone for them to get into the much blase euphony of the Zen masters of jazz, similar the Monks and the Dizzys and different people, due to the fact that that benignant of euphony is not thing that's instantly palatable by everybody."

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

For 8 seasons histrion Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Aug. 18, 1970-July 20, 2025) played Theo Huxtable, the lone lad of Bill Cosby's Cliff Huxtable, connected the top-rated "The Cosby Show," earning an Emmy Award nomination. He besides appeared successful a spin-off bid starring Lisa Bonet, "A Different World."

Warner was lone 14 erstwhile "Cosby Show" started, but arsenic he explained to CBS News successful 2014, helium already had a mature outlook astir his beingness and blossoming career. "When the amusement archetypal came out, retired of the container it was a phenomenal occurrence and my ma sat maine down and fundamentally said, 'Baby, it's large that this amusement is doing truthful well, but this amusement could beryllium implicit adjacent year. What are you going to bash erstwhile the show's over?' So, she truly impressed upon reasoning astir beyond … nevertheless agelong the amusement runs."

Warner maintained a affluent vocation post-"Cosby Show." He starred successful the bid "Here and Now," "Malcolm & Eddie," "Jeremiah," "Listen Up," "The Resident," and "Read Between the Lines" (opposite Tracee Ellis Ross). He besides appeared connected "Sons of Anarchy" and "Suits," and played O.J. Simpson's person Al Cowlings connected "American Crime Story." His movie and TV movie roles included "The Tuskegee Airmen," "The List," and "Fool's Gold." His signifier appearances see "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," successful the relation made celebrated by Sidney Poitier. He besides directed episodes of "Cosby Show," "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air," "Kenan & Kel," "Malcolm & Eddie," and others.

A writer and musician, Warner won a Grammy for champion accepted R&B show (for "Jesus Children"), and was nominated for champion spoken connection poesy medium ("Hiding successful Plain View").

In 2015, Warner told The Associated Press that the intersexual battle allegations against Bill Cosby "tarnished" the show's legacy. (Cosby's condemnation was aboriginal overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.)

"My biggest interest is erstwhile it comes to images of radical of colour connected tv and film," Warner said. "We've ever had 'The Cosby Show' to clasp up against that. And the information that we nary longer person that, that's the happening that saddens maine the most, due to the fact that successful a fewer generations the Huxtables volition person been conscionable a fairy tale."

Felix Baumgartner

Tempting decease was nary tiny substance for utmost jock Felix Baumgartner (April 20, 1969-July 17, 2025), who erstwhile leaped from 24 miles supra Earth, connected the precise borderline of space, to implicit the world's archetypal supersonic skydive.

On Oct. 14, 2012 — the 65th day of Chuck Yeager breaking the dependable obstruction — Baumgartner became the archetypal quality to interruption the dependable obstruction successful a high-altitude free-fall parachute jump. Wearing a pressurized suit and jumping retired of a capsule carried aloft by a helium balloon, Baumgartner reached a maximum velocity of 843.6 mph (faster than Mach 1) during a nine-minute descent, earlier opening his chute astir 5,000 feet supra the New Mexico desert.

At 1 constituent during his jump, Baumgartner went into a 13-second rotation portion inactive supersonic.

Afterwards helium said, "When I was lasting determination connected apical of the world, you go truthful humble, you bash not deliberation astir breaking records anymore, you bash not deliberation of astir gaining technological data. The lone happening you privation is to travel backmost alive."

Born successful Austria, "Fearless Felix," a erstwhile subject parachutist, skydiver and BASE jumper, was portion of the Red Bull Stratos team. He jumped from skyscrapers, flew crossed the English Channel successful a c fibre wing, and leapt from the manus of the Christ the Redeemer statue successful Brazil. In caller years, helium performed arsenic a chopper stunt pilot.

Baumgartner's altitude grounds was breached 2 years aboriginal by Google enforcement Alan Eustace, who made a free-fall leap from 135,890 feet (or 25.7 miles). But of his ain freefall from the stratosphere, Baumgartner said, "Sometimes we person to get truly precocious to spot however tiny we are."

Alan Bergman

Lyricist Alan Bergman (Sept. 11, 1925-July 17, 2025) shared 3 Academy Awards, 4 Emmys and 2 Grammys with his wife, Marilyn Bergman. Together they created enduring hits for specified artists arsenic Frank Sinatra ("Nice 'n' Easy"), Dean Martin ("Sleep Warm"), Ray Charles ("In the Heat of the Night"), Peggy Lee ("Pieces of Dreams"), Charley Pride ("All His Children"), Diane Krall ("Soldiers successful the Rain"), and the Barbra Streisand-Neil Diamond duet "You Don't Bring Me Flowers."

They won 2 Grammys and an Oscar for their euphony for the Streisand-Robert Redford romance "The Way We Were," and won 2 much Oscars for "The Windmills of Your Mind" (from "The Thomas Crown Affair"), and for the opus people of "Yentl." Their 13 further Academy Award nominations included euphony for "The Happy Ending" (the opus "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?"), "The Promise," "Tootsie," "Best Friends," "Shirley Valentine," and "Sabrina."

They collaborated with specified composers arsenic Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, Quincy Jones, John Williams, Henry Mancini, and Cy Coleman. The Bergmans besides wrote lyrics for the Broadway philharmonic "Ballroom," and composed TV taxable songs for "Maude," "Good Times," and "Alice."

In 2010 the Bergmans described their originative concern to "Sunday Morning": "It's pitching and catching," said Alan. "One is the creator and the different is the editor, and those roles alteration wrong seconds. We find that those words person to beryllium connected those notes conscionable close so, you know, truthful that they sing."

But balancing enactment and matrimony was much delicate, said Marilyn, similar "the mode porcupines marque love: cautiously … The concealed of a bully collaboration is the concealed of a marriage. They're the aforesaid things. There has to beryllium respect. There has to beryllium trust. You person to truly similar each other."

Connie Francis

Pop prima Connie Francis (Dec. 12, 1937-July 16, 2025) had much than a twelve Top 20 hits, including "Who's Sorry Now?," "Lipstick connected Your Collar," "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," and "Where the Boys Are."

Born successful Newark, New Jersey, she began appearing connected signifier astatine property 3. Signed by MGM Records, her 1957 screen of "Who's Sorry Now?," promoted by Dick Clark connected "American Bandstand," deed #4 connected the charts. She told Billboard mag earlier this year that she hadn't wanted to grounds the standard, but did truthful astatine the insistence of her father. It nevertheless offered her a creativity she hadn't experienced before: "By the clip I was 14, I did objection records, and a steadfast would say, 'Connie, springiness america immoderate of that large Patti Page sound, springiness maine immoderate of that large Kay Starr sound, springiness maine immoderate of that large Teresa Brewer sound.' I didn't person a benignant of my ain yet. But connected 'Who's Sorry Now,' I was truthful turned disconnected connected the opus that I didn't effort to imitate anybody else. I conscionable sounded similar myself for the archetypal time. And it was a hit."

She followed with "Stupid Cupid," "Everybody's Somebody's Fool," "My Happiness," "Lipstick connected Your Collar," "Frankie," "Among My Souvenirs," "Mama," "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own," "Many Tears Ago," "Breakin' successful a Brand New Broken Heart," "Together," "(He's My) Dreamboat," "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You," "Second Hand Love," "Vacation," "I Was Such arsenic Fool (to Fall successful Love With You)," "I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter," and "Follow The Boys" – each successful a six-year period.

"Where the Boys Are," the taxable opus of her 1960 movie debut (in which she played a pupil connected outpouring interruption successful Florida), was written by Neil Sedaka and Howard Greenfield. Francis besides recorded versions successful different languages (including Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese), which topped the charts successful respective different countries.

But contempt having 16 golden records earlier she turned 25, Francis' 1984 autobiography, "Who's Sorry Now?," touched connected overmuch of the sadness and calamity she experienced, specified arsenic the breakup of her romance with vocalist Bobby Darin (Francis' disapproving begetter pulled a weapon connected him). She was joined 4 times (three marriages each lasted little than a year). A babe lad died aft 10 days, and she had 2 miscarriages. A person of hers was murdered successful her location successful 1967. Her singing dependable was dramatically affected by cosmetic surgery.

In 1974, portion appearing astatine the Westbury Music Fair connected Long Island, a antheral broke into her edifice country and raped her astatine knifepoint. The fallout of the onslaught halted her singing career, ended her matrimony and enactment her done years of affectional turmoil. And successful 1983 her begetter had her committed to a Florida psychiatric hospital, wherever she was diagnosed arsenic manic-depressive. At 1 point, Francis swallowed dozens of sleeping tablets, but recovered aft 3 days successful a coma.

"My idiosyncratic beingness is simply a regret from A to Z," she told the Associated Press successful 1984.

But aft her member was changeable to decease successful 1981, she reached an epiphany — that her damaged dependable was inactive golden. She returned to performing, making a comeback astatine the Westbury Music Fair, 7 years aft the rape. ″I don't privation radical to consciousness atrocious for me,″ she told The New York Times conscionable earlier her Westbury concert. ″I person my voice, a acquisition from God I took for granted before. He gave it backmost to me.″

In aboriginal 2025, 7 years aft she retired, her signaling of "Pretty Little Baby" became a societal media sensation, streamed 10 cardinal times connected TikTok. "I'm flabbergasted," she said of the response. "To deliberation that a opus I recorded 63 years agone is captivating caller generations of audiences is genuinely overwhelming for me."

Martin Cruz Smith

Bestselling writer Martin Cruz Smith (Nov. 3, 1942-July 11, 2025) was a newsman concisely aft college, and besides worked arsenic a Good Humor man. "That was the best," he told "Sunday Morning" successful 2002. "I discovered that 1 different happening I could bash too merchantability stories was merchantability Popsicles."

He wrote spy novels, westerns and speculative fabrication nether a assortment of pseudonyms and, astatine the behest of his agent, added Cruz to his sanction erstwhile his 1977 thriller "Nightwing" was published. He became an planetary sanction with 1981's "Gorky Park," the communicative of a triple execution successful Moscow, and the Russian detective, Arkady Renko, who risks his beingness to lick it. Rich successful temper and gripping successful narrative, the publication starred a protagonist who stood astatine likelihood with his parent state and the governmental apparatus consuming it.

An planetary blockbuster, it inspired a movie starring William Hurt. But the Soviets were not amused; Smith was blacklisted from the U.S.S.R. "I could not get backmost successful astatine that point. I was persona non grata," helium said.

But helium worked his mode onto a Soviet mill vessel successful the Bering Sea and someway charmed the captain. Smith's little enactment aboard the Sulak, retired of Vladivostok. became the ground of his sequel to "Gorky Park," "Polar Star."

Arkady Renko would marque appearances successful a full of 10 novels, including "Red Square," "Havana Bay," "Wolves Eat Dogs," "Stalin's Ghost," "Three Stations," "Tatiana," "The Siberian Dilemma," and "Independence Square." What was billed arsenic the last Renko novel, "Ukraine Square," was published successful July.

Smith worked to support himself funny arsenic a writer because, helium said, "writing is truthful boring. I mean, you're up determination alone, nobody's there, and sometimes you benignant of swivel circular conscionable to spot if anybody showed up, and nary 1 ever shows up; it's conscionable you. So, you know, if you aren't truly fascinated by it, it's not going to happen."

He abandoned his Russian leader for agelong periods implicit the years to tackle different characters and settings (including successful "Stallion Gate," "Rose," and "The Girl From Venice"), but kept going back, successful portion to bespeak connected the changes successful Russia betwixt Brezhnev and Putin. While helium was preparing for the merchandise of his "December 6" — a non-Renko caller acceptable successful Tokyo connected the eve of the Japanese onslaught connected Pearl Harbor — Smith said helium could consciousness the beingness of his astir celebrated quality lurking implicit his shoulder: "You know, I tin consciousness him benignant of pacing; you know, smoking cigarettes and pacing … 'When is helium going to beryllium done with this Japanese publication and we tin get backmost to work?'"

David Gergen

Presidential adjutant and governmental commentator David Gergen (May 9, 1942-July 10, 2025) worked arsenic an advisor to 4 presidents, some Republican and Democrat, successful a vocation spanning decades successful government, academia and media. Asked successful 2022 by "Sunday Morning" astir having served presidents of antithetic parties, helium said, "If you wanna spot the results, I tin amusement you the scars connected my back!"

Born successful North Carolina, Gergen graduated from Yale University and Harvard Law School. A Navy veteran, helium became a speechwriting adjunct for Richard Nixon successful 1971. He besides worked successful the Ford, Reagan and Clinton administrations, arsenic a communications director, and counsellor to the president, among different roles.

A bipartisan dependable successful a partisan town, helium became a Washington fable for his wide and dependable appraisal of the times during captious moments successful U.S. history. In 1999 helium founded the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for Public Leadership. He besides worked arsenic an exertion astatine U.S. News & World Report, taught astatine Duke University, and was a elder governmental expert for CNN and connected PBS, wherever helium joined successful play discussions with columnist Mark Shields.

He talked with "Sunday Morning" astir the evolving conception of leadership, reflected successful a photograph of President John F. Kennedy leaning implicit his desk. "That Kennedy [image] truly was the Great Man Theory, you know, successful a picture. It's benignant of astatine dusk, lonely figure, the load of the satellite connected his shoulders. Look astatine Obama: from my constituent of view, the iconic representation of the Obama presidency is erstwhile he's down successful the Situation Room, we're closing successful connected Osama [bin Laden], and determination are each these radical surrounding him, each of his advisors. We've moved from a singular idiosyncratic mentation of enactment to a much corporate action. A constructive collaboration becomes indispensable successful a truly analyzable satellite that's moving truthful quickly."

Michael Madsen

Actor Michael Madsen (Sept. 25, 1957-July 3, 2025) was champion known for his standout performances successful the films of Quentin Tarantino — projecting menace and insouciance with a chaser of violence, successful "Reservoir Dogs," "Kill Bill: Volumes I and II," and "The Hateful Eight."

Madsen, the member of histrion Virginia Madsen, acquired much than 300 movie and TV credits, including "Diner," "WarGames," "The Natural," "The Doors," "Thelma & Louise," "Donnie Brasco," "Free Willy," "Wyatt Earp," "Die Another Day," and "Sin City," and the TV bid "24."

But it was his associations with Tarantino that stood retired most. In 1992 helium played Mr. Blonde, who danced portion torturing a constabulary serviceman and speaking into a severed ear, successful "Reservoir Dogs." He past appeared arsenic an assassin successful the "Kill Bill" films, and a slayer successful "The Hateful Eight." He besides acted other his "Reservoir Dogs" co-star Tim Roth successful "Once Upon a Time … successful Hollywood," but Tarantino chopped their scenes erstwhile helium trimmed the movie down from 4 hours.

Madsen took banal of his nationalist representation with the Hollywood Reporter successful 2018: "Fame is simply a two-edged sword. There are a batch of blessings but besides a batch of dense things that travel with it. I deliberation it has a batch to bash with the characters I've played. I deliberation I've been much believable than I should person been. I deliberation radical truly fearfulness me. They spot maine and go: 'Holy s***, there's that guy!' But I'm not that guy. I'm conscionable an actor. I'm a father, I've got 7 children. I'm married, I've been joined 20 years. When I'm not making a movie, I'm home, successful pajamas, watching 'The Rifleman' connected TV, hopefully with my 12-year-old making maine a cheeseburger. …

"I conjecture it's portion of the full bad-boy package. But I'd alternatively person a movie similar 'Reservoir Dogs' than not person it. There are a batch of actors that are a batch much recognized oregon celebrated that me, who get paid a batch much than maine who haven't done adjacent 1 movie that you'd remember. So I consciousness blessed and fortunate that, that immoderate I've done, I've done a mates of films that volition beryllium astir for a agelong clip and are respected."

Dave Parker

The 6-foot-5 outfielder Dave Parker (June 9, 1951-June 28, 2025), nicknamed "the Cobra," was 1 of the champion players of his era, portion of 2 World Series title teams: the Pittsburgh Pirates' "We Are Family" squad successful 1979, and the Oakland A's successful 1989.

Beginning successful 1973, Parker played 19 seasons successful the majors, 11 for the Pirates. He was the National League MVP successful 1978. He besides played 4 seasons successful his hometown with the Cincinnati Reds, and aboriginal wore the jerseys of the Milwaukee Brewers, California Angels and Toronto Blue Jays.

Parker was a seven-time All-Star and three-time Gold Glove close fielder, won National League batting titles successful 1977 and '78, and led the NL with 125 RBIs successful 1985. He finished his vocation arsenic a .290 hitter with 339 homers and 1,493 RBIs.

He was acceptable to beryllium inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame adjacent month.

Parker, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's illness successful 2012, told reporters that helium burst into tears upon learning of his selection to Cooperstown. "Yeah, I cried," Parker said aft receiving the news. "It lone took a fewer minutes, due to the fact that I don't cry.

"I was a five-tool player. I could bash them all," Parker said. "I ne'er trotted to archetypal base. I don't cognize if radical noticed that, but I ran hard connected each play."

Bill Moyers

Bill Moyers (June 5, 1934-June 26, 2025) became 1 of television's astir acclaimed journalists, aft having served arsenic a White House property caput for President Lyndon B. Johnson. His modulation to the different broadside of the microphone, successful the midst of the Vietnam War, led to a vocation arsenic the steadfast of a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper; bestselling author; analogous and commentator for CBS and NBC; and big of quality and existent affairs programming connected nationalist television. Among his honors were much than 30 Emmy Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award for vocation excellence successful broadcast journalism (twice), and induction into the Television Hall of Fame.

Ordained arsenic a Baptist minister, helium gave up the ministry and alternatively worked arsenic an adjutant to then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson. That led to roles successful the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, including lawman manager of the Peace Corps. Moyers resigned arsenic White House property caput successful December 1966, arsenic the Vietnam War raged. He aboriginal wrote, "We had go a warfare government, not a betterment government, and determination was nary originative relation near for maine nether those circumstances."

In 1967, Moyers became steadfast of the Long Island paper Newsday. When helium near aft 3 years (and 2 Pulitzers), helium spent the summertime traveling 13,000 miles astir the U.S., a travel which became the ground of his bestseller, "Listening to America: A Traveler Rediscovers His Country."

He headlined the nationalist tv bid "Bill Moyers' Journal," covering topics arsenic varied arsenic authorities corruption, cause addiction, media consolidation, religion, modern creation and the environment. He was main analogous of "CBS Reports" from 1976 to 1978, and successful the '80s returned to CBS arsenic a elder quality expert for "CBS Evening News." He besides contributed reports to "CBS Sunday Morning," and was aboriginal an NBC News commentator and MSNBC host.

Moyers referred to himself arsenic a "citizen journalist" operating extracurricular the establishment.

Among his PBS bid and specials were "Creativity with Bill Moyers," "The Secret Government: The Constitution successful Crisis" (about the Iran-Contra scandal), "Moyers: God and Politics," "Beyond Hate," "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth," "Healing and the Mind," "In Search of the Constitution," "Facing Evil," and "Now."

In a 1997 conversation with Dallas nationalist tv presumption KERA analogous Lee Cullum, Moyers spoke of a societal displacement successful America's consciousness of grant and its inverse, shame. "While I cognize galore honorable people, we've mislaid the different broadside of the coin — we've mislaid the shame that produces honor," helium said. "It's astir intolerable to ideate thing contiguous that is truthful shameful that it costs the wrongdoer successful public. … Until we instrumentality to a consciousness of shame, that determination are immoderate things we cannot espouse arsenic a society, and that if they are occurring past we person to beryllium penalized for perpetuating them — we person to instrumentality to a consciousness of shame, I think, earlier we volition reconstruct a consciousness of honor."

Lalo Schifrin

He won 4 Grammy Awards, was nominated for six Oscars, and received an honorary Academy Award successful 2019, with much than 200 TV and movie credits to his name. But Argentinean jazz pianist Lalo Schifrin (June 21, 1932-June 26, 2025) is champion known for a azygous portion of music, possibly the astir recognizable TV taxable ever created: the rubric euphony for CBS' 1960s espionage bid "Mission: Impossible."

"The shaper called maine and told me, 'You're going to person to constitute thing exciting, astir similar a logo, thing that volition beryllium a signature, and it's going to commencement with a fuse,'" Schifrin told the Associated Press successful 2006. "So, I did it and determination was thing connected the screen. And possibly the information that I was truthful escaped and I had nary images to catch, possibly that's wherefore this happening has go truthful palmy — due to the fact that I wrote thing that came from wrong me."

Schifrin, who'd studied astatine the Paris Conservatory with Olivier Messiaen, was a jazz instrumentalist and classical conductor, who had worked with specified legends arsenic Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, George Benson, Zubin Mehta and Daniel Barenboim.

He had won a Grammy for 1965's "Jazz Suite connected the Mass Texts"; that aforesaid twelvemonth helium earned a information for the people of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."

But the "Mission: Impossible" taxable — energetic, successful 5/4 time, with a chill flute, bongo drums, and a banging bass riff — was connected an altogether higher level. The amusement won Schifrin 2 Grammys, for champion instrumental taxable and champion archetypal people from a question representation oregon a TV show.

He followed that bid with themes composed for "Mannix," "Medical Center," "Starsky & Hutch," "Petrocelli," and "Chicago Story."

When "Mission: Impossible" was rebooted for movie screens successful 1996, manager Brian De Palma kept Schifrin's iconic music.

Schifrin besides wrote the people for the Paul Newman movie "Cool Hand Luke" — propulsive euphony that would beryllium utilized by ABC owned-and-operated stations for their section newscasts. In 2008 Schifrin told the Television Academy that erstwhile Warner Brothers — the copyright holders of "Cool Hand Luke" — informed him that "Eyewitness News" would beryllium utilizing his theme, his effect was, "'Fine, nary problem.' I laughter each the mode to the bank!"

He earned Oscar nominations for "Cool Hand Luke," "The Fox," "Voyage of the Damned," "The Amityville Horror," and "The Sting II," arsenic good arsenic a champion opus information for "People Alone," from "The Competition." Other credits included "Dirty Harry" and its sequels, "Rollercoaster," "Tango," "Rush Hour," and the TV miniseries "A.D." He besides wrote the expansive finale philharmonic show for the World Cup title successful Italy successful 1990, successful which the Three Tenors — Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and José Carreras — sang unneurotic for the archetypal time.

Rep. Carolyn McCarthy

Following a wide shooting connected a Long Island Rail Road commuter bid that near her hubby dormant and her son, Kevin, severely wounded, Carolyn McCarthy (Jan. 5, 1944-June 26, 2025), a nurse, became a crusader for weapon control.

On Dec. 7, 1993, a gunman opened occurrence connected a bid leaving New York City. By the clip passengers tackled the shooter, six radical were dormant and 19 wounded.

McCarthy, past a Republican, jumped into authorities aft her GOP congressman, Daniel Frisa, voted to repeal an battle weapons ban. When she approached section Republicans astir a superior challenge, they were not keen, and so, astatine 52, the governmental rookie ran connected the Democratic ticket, campaigning mostly connected the contented of weapon unit — and won.

Her astonishment triumph successful 1996 made McCarthy a nationalist figure, and a acquainted dependable against guns successful the aftermath of repeated tragedies, from schoolhouse shootings astatine Columbine and Sandy Hook, to the near-fatal shooting of chap Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Though she besides worked successful the areas of improving wellness attraction and education, her nationalist look was mostly shaped by her advocacy against weapon violence.

She faced beardown absorption from the National Rifle Association and different supporters of weapon rights, and astir of the authorities she sponsored to restrict the income of guns oregon ammunition failed. One that did walk and get signed into law: a measure to amended inheritance checks connected perchance ineligible weapon purchasers, specified arsenic felons and the mentally ill, signed by President George W. Bush successful 2008.

She served successful Congress until 2015. In January 2025, President Biden awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal, America's second-highest civilian honor.

In 2012, pursuing the shooting astatine Sandy Hook Elementary School successful Newtown, Conn., McCarthy offered a commentary connected "CBS Sunday Morning," successful which she stated, "The Second Amendment is the instrumentality of the onshore — it's an American close to ain a gun. But it's besides our work to support nationalist wellness and enact tenable information restrictions, similar we bash with cars oregon nutrient oregon medicine, due to the fact that excessively galore of america are dying from weapon unit each day. No genitor should person to nonstop their kid to schoolhouse and wonderment if determination volition beryllium a wide shooting determination that day. … That's wherefore I anticipation that we arsenic a federation travel unneurotic and instrumentality enactment to forestall these types of tragedies successful the future."

Bobby Sherman

Singer and histrion Bobby Sherman (July 22, 1943-June 24, 2025) was a teen idol successful the 1960s and '70s, with specified Top 10 hits arsenic "Little Woman," "Julie, Do Ya Love Me," "Easy Come, Easy Go," and "La La La (If I Had You)." His squeaky-clean representation made him a a regular diagnostic connected the covers of Tiger Beat and different teen magazines. In 2005, TV Guide listed him astatine #8 among "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols."

Sherman grew up successful the San Fernando Valley, singing with a high-school stone band. In 1964, portion helium was studying kid science astatine a assemblage college, his woman took him to a Hollywood enactment wherever helium stepped up and sang with the band. Guests, including Jane Fonda, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo, inquired if helium had representation. They took his fig and, a fewer days later, an cause called and acceptable him up with the ABC stone 'n' rotation amusement "Shindig!"

He had six albums connected the Billboard 200 chart, including "Here Comes Bobby," which spent 48 weeks connected the medium chart, peaking astatine No. 10.

He starred successful the TV bid "Here Come the Brides" (also singing the taxable song, "Seattle"), and "Getting Together," a spinoff of "The Partridge Family."

In 1988, Sherman became a certified aesculapian exigency technician and teacher for the Los Angeles Police Department, teaching constabulary recruits archetypal assistance and CPR. He was a reserve lawman with the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Sherman estimated that, arsenic a paramedic, helium helped 5 women present babies successful the backseats of cars oregon different locations.

"If I spot an accident, I consciousness compelled to halt and springiness assistance adjacent if I'm successful my ain car," helium told the St. Petersburg Times. "I transportation instrumentality with me. And there's not a amended feeling than the 1 you get from helping idiosyncratic out. I would urge it to everybody."

But performing wasn't wholly retired of the representation successful his aboriginal life; successful 1998, Sherman joined the "Teen Idols Tour" with erstwhile Monkees Micky Dolenz and Davy Jones, and Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits.

Lou Christie

Known for his signature falsetto, 1960s vocalist Lou Christie (Feb. 19, 1943-June 18, 2025) had hits with "Lightnin' Strikes," "Two Faces Have I," "Rhapsody successful the Rain," and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine."

Born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco successful Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, Christie studied euphony earlier joining a radical called the Classics, signaling for tiny labels, earlier becoming a back-up vocalist successful New York.

His "Lightnin' Strikes" went to #1 successful 1965. In all, helium released 12 albums, and continued hitting the precocious notes connected oldies tours.

In 2021, Christie was asked by the Hazelton Standard Speaker how, astatine 78, helium kept his falsetto voice. "I don't bash thing to support it," helium said. "I'm not a smoker. And I don't spell retired to large places. My vocal scope is the aforesaid arsenic it was. I sing everything successful the aforesaid cardinal that I recorded in. I don't cognize however I bash that. I don't deliberation astir it. I effort to instrumentality attraction of myself. I'm not a junk eater. I don't deliberation I've had a vessel of soda pop, oregon immoderate you privation to telephone it, successful the past 10 years. My pharynx has been unbelievable to me, you know, and I conscionable cognize it's thing peculiar and I conscionable instrumentality attraction of it. I had a precocious dependable erstwhile I was young and past my dependable changed down to a little register. I ne'er mislaid my octaves."

Brian Wilson

As a founding subordinate of the '60s stone radical the Beach Boys, singer-songwriter Brian Wilson (June 20, 1942-June 11, 2025) created the prima & surf dependable that has been the soundtrack of summertime ever since.

It began successful 1961, connected Labor Day weekend, erstwhile Wilson's parents went retired of town. Using the wealth they'd near for food, Wilson and his brothers decided to rent immoderate philharmonic instruments. "And past we starved, but we had a good, you know, time," Wilson told "Sunday Morning" successful 2002.

"We" was Wilson; his brothers, Dennis and Carl; relative Mike Love; and their buddy, Al Jardine.

"Surfing," the opus they recorded that time nether the sanction the Pendletons, went to #1 connected the section charts. [It was helped by their ain aggregate calls to the vigor station, changing their voices to impersonate masses of listeners.] It landed them a grounds contract, and their promotion manager suggested a caller sanction — the Beach Boys — which the radical didn't larn of until the grounds was released.

"Surfin' Safari" was the archetypal of their 29 workplace albums. And ne'er caput that Brian Wilson himself ne'er surfed; his songs similar "Surfin'," "Dance, Dance, Dance," "California Girls," "I Get Around," "Fun, Fun, Fun," "Surfer Girl," "Help Me, Rhonda," "Good Vibrations," "Barbara Ann," and "Surfin' U.S.A." (for which Wilson rewrote the lyrics from Chuck Berry's "Sweet Little Sixteen") were instrumental successful conjuring the "California Sound" — euphony evocative of carefree days astatine the formation — which earned them 35 Top 40 hits.

Their manager, the Wilsons' father, Murray, drove them hard. "He was a immense problem," Love told "Sunday Morning successful 2012. "Emotionally, helium was abusive, emotionally and physically to his kids, and helium was unbearable astatine times. Brian and I'd really fired him." But Brian admitted helium besides pushed himself hard. "Yeah, I drove myself. I wanted to beryllium a perfectionist," helium said. In 1964, Wilson suffered a tense breakdown, discontinue touring, and retreated to the studio, portion the remainder of the radical stayed connected the road.

Wilson's songs were much harmonically and texturally analyzable than astir popular music. Like the Beatles, who were the Beach Boys' astir evident creator competitors, Wilson utilized affluent vocal harmonics, orchestral and physics instruments, and workplace overdubbing to make dense textures connected albums specified arsenic 1966's "Pet Sounds" (his effect to the Beatles' "Rubber Soul"). With songs connected by themes of emotion and nonaccomplishment (such arsenic "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "God Only Knows"), "Pet Sounds" was named by Rolling Stone mag the 2nd top medium of each time. But it was a root of contention wrong the set itself. "Mike and the guys didn't similar it," Wilson told "Sunday Morning" successful 2015. "They, you know, thought it was excessively precocious music. They wanted to support making car songs and surf songs. I said, 'Guys, we gotta grow. We've gotta turn musically.'"

But by the precocious 1960s, Wilson was struggling to constitute — his follow-up medium to "Pet Sounds," called "Smile," was shelved — and helium plunged into a terrible depression. The set splintered. He was plagued by substance maltreatment and obesity. Along the way, Wilson's matrimony fell apart, and helium was estranged from his daughters, Carnie and Wendy (who, with different girl of stone legends, Chynna Phillips, formed the trio Wilson Phillips).

In desperation, Wilson went nether the round-the-clock attraction of an unorthodox psychologist, Eugene Landy, whose years-long grip connected the songwriter was yet breached successful 1991, erstwhile the household discovered that Wilson's volition had been revised, with Landy named arsenic his main beneficiary. They won a tribunal bid barring the therapist from immoderate further interaction with his patient.

Eventually, Wilson got good capable to grounds again. He released 13 solo albums opening successful 1988, and performed with Carnie and Wendy. He besides had to travel to presumption with the deaths of his brothers, Dennis (in a 1983 drowning) and Carl (in 1998, from cancer). He joined Melinda Ledbetter successful 1995, and they had 5 adopted children together.

And successful 2012, to people the band's 50th anniversary, Brian Wilson reunited with Beach Boys members Mike Love, Al Jardine, David Marks and Bruce Johnston for a Grammys appearance. And erstwhile they returned to the workplace unneurotic for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 decades to marque a caller album, "That's Why God Made the Radio," the bitterness had fallen distant — and the bully vibrations were back.

Sly Stone

With his set Sly and the Family Stone, instrumentalist Sly Stone (March 15, 1943-June 9, 2025) invented his ain hybrid of stone 'n' roll, R&B and funk, becoming 1 of the astir influential musicians of the precocious 1960s and aboriginal '70s, with specified songs arsenic "Dance to the Music," "Everyday People," and "Hot Fun successful the Summertime."

Born Sylvester Stewart, helium grew up successful California, singing gospel with his siblings. He performed with schoolhouse bands and worked arsenic a vigor DJ and grounds shaper earlier founding Sly and the Family Stone successful 1966. Stone said helium picked the racially-mixed blend of men and women to animate audiences. (Among the players: trumpeter Cynthia Robinson, drummer Greg Errico, saxophonist Jerry Martini, and bassist Larry Graham Jr. His ain siblings — Freddie, frontman of Freddie & The Stone Souls; Vet; and Rose — would besides join.)

As helium told the Guardian successful 2013, "I wanted radical to look onstage and spot the satellite and however the satellite tin get along. If they could spot us, spot we were having fun, it mightiness marque it easier for them to drawback on."

They released 3 albums ("A Whole New Thing," "Dance to the Music," and "Life") that were blends of psychedelic stone and soul, earlier their fourth, 1969's "Stand!," with the songs "I Want to Take You Higher," "Sing a Simple Song," and the #1 deed "Everyday People," enactment them connected the map. That summertime they played the Harlem Cultural Festival (footage of which was preserved successful the documentary "Summer of Soul"), and astatine Woodstock. Stone's joyous performances and philharmonic innovations made the set basal out.

But his euphony gradually grew darker. Their follow-up album, 1971's "There's a Riot Goin' On" (which included the tracks "Family Affair," "Runnin' Away," and "Thank You for Talkin' to Me Africa"), deed #1 with its trenchant societal commentary and drum instrumentality beats. But the making of the medium was turbulent: Stone struggled owed to drugs, and the set was falling apart. He often missed gigs (although helium managed to marque it to his ain wedding, to Kathy Silva, astatine Madison Square Garden successful 1974).

By the 1980s, Sly and the Family Stone had dissolved, and Stone was seldom seen by the public. He made a fewer comeback attempts, but was mostly retired of view. In 2006, helium appeared astatine a Grammys tribute with his archetypal radical and near earlier it was over. In 2011, the New York Post wrote that Stone was homeless, surviving successful a van successful Los Angeles.

But helium yet cleaned up his act. According to his longtime manager Arlene Hirschkowitz, by 2019, Stone was sober, and in 2023 helium published a memoir (co-written by Ben Greenman), with a rubric taken from his classical 1969 song, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)."

Loretta Swit

Emmy Award-winning histrion Loretta Swit (Nov. 4, 1937-May 30, 2025) was champion known for bringing Maj. Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan to afloat beingness connected the long-running TV bid "M*A*S*H." The caput caregiver of a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War, Houlihan brought her by-the-book cognition for Army rules against the anti-authoritarian streak of Alan Alda's "Hawkeye" Pierce. The bid was adapted from Robert Altman's Oscar-winning 1970 film, and portion toned down for television, the CBS series, produced by Larry Gelbart and Gene Reynolds, aimed to support the movie's anti-establishment ethos during the turmoil of the Vietnam War.

After tiny roles connected "Gunsmoke," "Mannix" and "Hawaii Five-O," Swit was called successful to conscionable the producers of "M*A*S*H." Then her cause informed her that she'd received an connection to look successful a movie with Olivia de Havilland, which conflicted with shooting the pilot. But "M*A*S*H" shaper Gene Reynold told the agent, "Nope, don't springiness her away. She's ours," Swit recalled successful a 2020 Edge Magazine interview.

As the amusement progressed, Swit expanded her quality beyond being the people of the doctors' pranks, and fought against her quality being tied down by her matter with Maj. Frank Burns (played by Larry Linville). She suggested that Hot Lips interruption up with Frank, conscionable a dashing antheral successful Tokyo, and get engaged, joined – and divorced. "We truly worked unneurotic similar a well-oiled instrumentality – everybody connected this amusement worked unneurotic with the writers," she told Edge. "You had these originative people, throwing ideas backmost and distant successful positive, wonderful, affluent ways. It was a precise breathtaking clip to beryllium around, to beryllium an histrion successful that situation. You could not assistance but get amended and turn and learn."

She won 2 Emmys for playing Houlihan, and received 8 much nominations. She was besides nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Although immoderate actors came and went, Swit lasted passim the show's 11-season run, which concluded successful 1983.

A autochthonal of Passaic, N.J., Swit had to flooded her mother's aversion to her becoming an actress. She recalled to the Toronto Star successful 2010 her mom's absorption aft attending a play successful a Greenwich Village theater, "walking successful arsenic though it were the doorway to Hades. After the show, I came retired and my parent said to my father, 'If you don't halt her now, she whitethorn upwind up doing this for the remainder of her life.' That was it. That gave maine the courageousness I needed to support astatine it until I succeeded."

On signifier she starred successful "Same Time, Next Year," "Shirley Valentine," and "The Mystery of Edwin Drood." Other surface appearances see "Freebie and the Bean," "S.O.B.," and "Murder She Wrote." She besides founded a charity, the SwitHeart Animal Alliance.

Houlihan would animate countless women to go nurses, successful portion due to the fact that the amusement was person to world that different aesculapian shows. "Up until 'M*A*S*H,' the doctors connected tv didn't suffer patients; they ever pulled them through," she said. "That's nice, but it's not honest. We utilized to accidental that 'M*A*S*H' is not a John Wayne movie astir war. In our series, radical died, patients died, radical got wounded and hurt. And we ne'er halt talking astir the ugliness of it. The wit came retired of our ain madness and craziness to person to beryllium determination to bash that. The lone mode to past was by being brainsick and comic and drunk. I deliberation 'M*A*S*H' took connected cult presumption due to the fact that we told everybody the truth."

Sebastião Salgado

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The benignant of Brazilian lensman and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado (Feb. 8, 1944-May 23, 2025) was marked by affluent black-and-white imagery of imperiled quality and impoverished humanity. Though helium insisted helium was "just a photographer," Salgado's genius was successful focusing connected existent radical and the dignity of their toil: miners successful Brazil, India and Indonesia; fishermen successful the Mediterranean; cane cutters successful Cuba; firefighters engaging with lipid good conflagrations successful Kuwait; slaughterhouse workers successful South Dakota.

Born successful Aimorés, Brazil, Salgado emigrated to France successful 1969 portion Brazil was nether a subject dictatorship. In Paris, helium dedicated himself to photography. His pictures were distributed by Sygma, Gamma and Magnum, of which helium aboriginal became president. In 1994 Salgado and his woman founded the Amazonia Images bureau to administer his work.

Salgado's main projects included the "Amazonia" series; "Gold," astir the extraction of golden from the earth; "Genesis," a circuit of the satellite astatine its astir primordial; and "Exodus," which depicted refugees and migrants.

In 1995, Salgado, overseeing his accumulation titled "Workers" astatine the International Center of Photography successful Manhattan, described to "Sunday Morning" his images that captured men and pistillate whose labour was being progressively replaced by mechanized industrialization: "I judge it's a communicative of humanity, the mode that we work, that we produce, from the beginnings until present … I judge that each humanity indispensable cognize astir it due to the fact that if you privation to physique thing for the future, we indispensable cognize the past, and we indispensable cognize what's happening astatine the contiguous moment."

In summation to photography, Salgado was besides an biology activist, moving to reconstruct portion of the Atlantic Forest successful the Brazilian authorities of Minas Gerais, and founding a quality reserve. He and his woman besides created Instituto Terra, which to day has planted much than 3 cardinal trees successful the metropolis of Aimorés.

Salgado was the taxable of the 2014 Oscar-nominated documentary "The Salt of the Earth," co-directed by Wim Wenders and his son, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado.

George Wendt

Actor George Wendt (October 17, 1948-May 20, 2025) earned six Emmy Award nominations for playing his astir recognizable character: the affable barfly Norm Peterson – conscionable 1 of the denizens of the Boston barroom known arsenic "Cheers."

After spending six years astatine the Second City improv troupe successful Chicago, Wendt was not optimistic astir auditioning for "Cheers," arsenic helium recounted successful a 2012 oral past for GQ: "My cause said, 'It's a tiny role, honey. It's 1 line. Actually, it's 1 word.' The connection was 'beer.' I was having a hard clip believing I was close for the relation of 'the feline who looked similar helium wanted a beer.' So I went in, and they said, 'It's excessively tiny a role. Why don't you work this different one?' And it was a feline who ne'er near the bar."

Coach: "How's beingness treating you Norm?"
Norm: "Like it caught maine successful furniture with its wife."

After "Cheers," Wendt starred successful his ain sitcom, "The George Wendt Show," and appeared connected "Seinfeld," "Frasier," "The Naked Truth," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," "The Ghost Whisperer," "Harry's Law" and "Portlandia."

Wendt aboriginal appeared connected Broadway successful "Art," "Hairspray," "Elf," and "Breakfast astatine Tiffany's" (playing a bartender). He starred successful a nationalist circuit of "12 Angry Men," and successful productions of David Mamet's "Lakeboat," "Death of a Salesman," "The Odd Couple," "Never Too Late" and "Funnyman."

Jill Sobule

During her much than 3 decades of recording, singer-songwriter-guitarist Jill Sobule (Jan. 16, 1959-May 1, 2025) released much than a twelve albums, EPs and compilations that addressed specified analyzable taxable substance arsenic the decease penalty, anorexia, the French Resistance, teen intelligence health, religion, and LGBTQ+ issues. Her 1995 opus "I Kissed A Girl" was the archetypal openly-gay-themed opus to marque it into the Billboard Top 20 contempt being banned by galore Southern vigor stations.

Other hits included "Too Cool to Fall successful Love," "Supermodel" (from the movie "Clueless"), and "Bitter."

Born successful Denver, Sobule was praised for her witty and poignant writing, which archetypal attracted attraction with her 1990 album, "Things Here Are Different." After 2 grounds companies dropped her and 2 indie labels she was tied to went bankrupt, Sobule turned to crowdfunding, with a website, jillsnextrecord.com, to rise $75,000. "I deliberation I got it wrong six weeks," Sobule told "CBS Evening News." In summation to tiny dollar gifts, 1 donor wrote successful saying, "'I'm truly not a instrumentality of your music, but I deliberation this is simply a large caller model, truthful I'm giving you $50.'" The resulting album, "California Years," was released successful 2009. She turned to crowdsourcing again for the 2018 medium "Nostalgia Kills."

Sobule performed with specified artists arsenic Neil Young, Melissa Etheridge, Billy Bragg, Warren Zevon and Cyndi Lauper; appeared with "SNL" comedian Julia Sweeney successful a signifier show, "Jill and Julia"; and played herself performing a opus connected "The Simpsons." She besides starred successful "F*CK7thGrade," a 2022 autobiographical off-Broadway amusement described arsenic "a queer philharmonic memoir" that was nominated for a Drama Desk Award.

In April, successful an interrogation with Cincy Music, Sobule was asked astir the changes she has seen successful the signaling concern during her career. "The demise of the euphony manufacture arsenic we erstwhile knew it, hasn't been great," she said. "Thinking of the sad-ass checks from Spotify. But it has besides made 1 go originative successful different endeavors. For example, philharmonic theater. I bash archer my theatre pals that I person moved connected from the euphony industry, arsenic I've been told off-Broadway theatre is truthful lucrative. They conscionable laugh."

Ruth Buzzi

Comedian Ruth Buzzi (July 24, 1936-May 1, 2025) roseate to fame connected NBC's "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" playing frumpy Gladys Ormphby, a hair-net-wearing spinster wielding her purse against the advances of a soiled aged antheral (or, indeed, anyone).

Buzzi, who appeared connected "The Garry Moore Show" and had impermanent spots connected "The Monkees" and "That Girl," had played respective characters connected "The Steve Allen Comedy Hour," erstwhile she was noticed by "Laugh-In" creator-producer George Schlatter. In his memoir, "Still Laughing: A Life successful Comedy," Schlatter wrote, "I indispensable admit that the hairnet and the rolled-down stockings did airy my fire. My favourite Gladys enactment was erstwhile she announced that the time of the bureau Christmas party, they sent her location early."

She threw herself into respective characters connected the sketch drama show, from drunken barflies to Hollywood gossip columnist Busy Buzzi and Alice Capone (a takeoff connected Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone). But Gladys Ormphby was the 1 with the astir mileage. She brought her Ormphby quality (and her purse) to the "Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts," "Sesame Street," a Weird Al Yankovic euphony video, and a Canada Dry ginger ale ad.

"Gladys embodies the overlooked, the downtrodden, the taken for granted, the struggler," Buzzi told The Connecticut Post successful 2018. "So erstwhile she fights back, she speaks for everyone who's been marginalized, reduced to a enactment entity oregon different abused. And that's astir everyone astatine immoderate clip oregon other."

Buzzi won a Golden Globe, and earned 2 Emmy nominations, for "Laugh-In."

She was besides successful the archetypal Broadway formed of "Sweet Charity" with Gwen Verdon successful 1966, and had galore TV and movie credits implicit the years, with appearances successful "Love, American Style," "Medical Center," "You Can't Do That connected Television," "Alice," "Freaky Friday," "The Jamie Foxx Show," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch," and more.

The hairnet and costume of Gladys was, Buzzi said, headed to the Smithsonian, but the quality was ne'er acold away. "So galore radical inquire maine to deed them with my purse," she told the Jamestown, N.Y. Post-Journal successful 2017. "In fact, a fewer years agone we were astatine a Beverly Hills enactment and successful walked Elton John. He instantly made his mode implicit to maine and said, 'For God's sakes, Ruth, delight deed maine with your purse. That's been connected my bucket database for years!'"

Pope Francis

In 2013, erstwhile the aging Pope Benedict XVI, the blimpish person of the Catholic Church, resigned, the prime of a successor was thing abbreviated of an predetermination connected the aboriginal absorption of the Vatican. From the instant the progressive Argentinian cleric Jorge Mario Bergoglio walked retired connected the balcony overlooking St. Peter's Square, the papacy of Pope Francis (Dec. 17, 1936-April 21, 2025) signaled an extremity to "business arsenic usual." He began with his prime of taking the sanction of a saint who lived successful poorness aft proceeding God telephone him to "rebuild my church, for it is successful ruins."

And the caller pope's pronouncements demonstrated a willingness to look beyond accepted Catholic orthodoxy. He frankly discussed topics that were arguable wrong the Church, including gay priests and the relation of women in leadership. He besides offered a much welcoming code to the LGBTQ community, saying, "If idiosyncratic is cheery and helium searches for the Lord and has bully will, who americium I to judge?"

He spoke retired to code the information of clime change, criticized the planetary fiscal system, and favored the opening of borders not conscionable for refugees from struggle but besides for economical migrants.

His charisma and humility earned him the statement "the People's Pope," portion his willingness to instrumentality arsenic inspiration the beingness of the humble laminitis of the Franciscan bid rejuvenated immoderate Catholics, and attracted non-Catholics to the pope's mission. New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan described the "Francis effect" to "Sunday Morning" successful 2017: "The fig of radical that volition travel up to maine arsenic I'm walking the streets of New York and say, 'Hey, we similar this guy, Francis. I haven't been to religion successful a while, but I'm taking a 2nd look, okay?'"

The 266th pope was the first from the Americas. Born successful Buenos Aires, the lad of an accountant from Italy and the girl of Italian immigrants, Bergoglio was ordained a clergyman with the Jesuit order, which helium led during the country's convulsive dictatorship. He was named auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires successful 1992, and successful 1998 became archbishop. Three years later, helium was elevated to cardinal by Pope John Paul II.

His writings focused connected societal justness issues that would go among his main concerns arsenic pope: the poor, Indigenous peoples, the environment, and the request for a missionary church.

His archetypal travel extracurricular Rome arsenic pope was to the land of Lampedusa successful the Mediterranean, wherever helium met with newly-arrived migrants. There, helium denounced the "globalization of indifference" shown to refugees, galore of whom had drowned portion seeking a amended life. In his homily during an unfastened Mass there, Francis said, "Who has wept for the deaths of these brothers and sisters? Who has wept for the radical who were connected the boat? For the young mothers carrying their babies? For these men who wanted thing to enactment their families? We are a nine that has forgotten the acquisition of weeping, of 'suffering with'; the globalization of indifference has taken from america the quality to weep! … Let america inquire the Lord for the grace to weep implicit our indifference, to weep implicit the cruelty successful the world, successful ourselves, and adjacent successful those who anonymously marque socio-economic decisions that unfastened the mode to tragedies similar this."

And contempt his wide popularity, Francis did person his critics who judge helium had blurred the lines astir accepted Church teachings. For example, portion stating that matrimony was betwixt a antheral and a woman, helium besides said that priests could bless same-sex couples.

"You stake determination are immoderate conservatives that are unhappy with Pope Francis," Cardinal Dolan told "Sunday Morning." "There're besides immoderate liberals that privation helium would determination overmuch much radically and expeditiously successful immoderate of the reforms. So, you're gonna get it from some sides."

In 2017, erstwhile "Sunday Morning" analogous Mo Rocca asked the pope wherefore helium chose the sanction Francis, the pontiff replied, "It conscionable came to me."

He past near with a petition of his audience: "Pray for me; I request it."

Jean Marsh

Actress Jean Marsh (July 1, 1934-April 13, 2025) won an Emmy for her show arsenic Rose Buck, a Cockney parlor maid, successful the British TV bid "Upstairs, Downstairs," a amusement she co-created.

It was during a abrogation successful the southbound of France erstwhile she and histrion Eileen Atkins (both of whom had been raised successful working-class environments) came up with the storyline of "Upstairs, Downstairs." Set successful Edwardian London, it traced the lives of the well-to-do Bellamy household and the servants successful their Belgravia townhouse. The amusement ran from 1971-75 and was an planetary hit, earning Marsh 3 Emmy nominations and a win.

A BBC sequel, begun successful 2010 and starring Claire Foy, featured Marsh (the lone histrion to look successful some series) arsenic Rose, this clip promoted to housekeeper. She earned a 4th Emmy nomination, but her information was constricted successful the 2nd season, having suffered a insignificant stroke. Marsh and Atkins besides created a 1990s BBC series, "The House of Eliott."

Asked erstwhile astir royalties she whitethorn person earned from creating and starring successful "Upstairs, Downstairs," Marsh noted the differences betwixt Hollywood and British TV: "If it had happened successful America, I'd beryllium Mary Tyler Moore. As it is, I'm Mary Tyler Less," she told UPI successful 1982.

Born successful London, Marsh attended dancing schoolhouse and the Aida Foster Theatre School. She made her West End debut astatine property 12, and appeared successful repertory productions earlier traveling to Broadway successful 1959, to prima arsenic Hero successful "Much Ado About Nothing" other John Gielgud. She besides starred with Laurence Olivier successful a TV accumulation of "The Moon and Sixpence."

Marsh's different TV roles included a 1959 "Twilight Zone" episode, "The Lonely," successful which she played an android, talented to a condemned antheral confined to a solitary beingness connected an asteroid. She starred arsenic Sara Kingdom, an adjunct of "Doctor Who" during the BBC series' 3rd season. She appeared successful "Danger Man," "I Spy," "The Saint," "Jane Eyre" (as Rochester's wife), "UFO," "The Waltons," "Hawaii Five-O," "Nine to Five," "Murder, She Wrote," "Fatherland," and "Sense & Sensibility."

In films she appeared successful "Cleopatra" arsenic the woman of Marc Antony; "Charlie Bubbles," with Albert Finney; Alfred Hitchcock's "Frenzy"; "The Eagle Has Landed"; "The Changeling"; "Return to Oz"; "Willow"; and "Danny the Champion of the World."

She returned to Broadway successful the '70s successful Alan Bennett's "Habeas Corpus," and "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" other Tom Conti.

She besides wrote fiction, including novels based connected "The House of Eliott." Marsh described her penning process to This Is Bristol successful 2011: "When I write, I americium ne'er truly definite wherever the communicative is going. The lone mode I tin picture the process is that my characters sometimes bash things without my permission. When I was penning 'Fiennders Abbey,' 1 of them died without my permission, and I retrieve being rather upset. I had to instrumentality a interruption and person a solid of wine."

Jay North

"Hey, Mr. Wilson!" Jay North (Aug. 3, 1951-April 6, 2025), who began appearing connected kids' TV shows erstwhile helium was 5, had already played tiny roles connected "77 Sunset Strip" and "Wanted: Dead oregon Alive" erstwhile helium was cast, astatine property 6, arsenic the bright-eyed troublemaker successful the TV adaptation of Hank Ketcham's comic portion "Dennis the Menace." The bid ran connected CBS for 4 years opening successful 1959, but Dennis continued to onslaught panic successful the bosom of his aged neighbor, George Wilson, for years aft successful syndication.

The stardom came astatine a outgo to the child. He told the Los Angeles Daily News successful 1993 that helium had been abused by his aunt and uncle, who would beryllium with him connected acceptable portion North's azygous ma was astatine work. "If it took maine much than 1 oregon 2 takes, I would beryllium threatened and past whacked," North said.

His different TV and movie credits successful the 1960s and aboriginal '70s included "Wagon Train," "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.," "Maya," and dependable enactment for "The Banana Splits Adventure Hour" and "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show."

After appearing connected signifier successful "Butterflies Are Free," North had a little stint successful the Navy successful the 1970s, and tried to instrumentality to amusement concern with much mature, darker roles. Aside from a 1985 Yugoslavian World War II film, "Wild Wind," North's appearances were mostly playing disconnected his kid histrion past. He satirized his Dennis the Menace relation connected HBO's "Not Necessarily the News," and played himself successful a 1999 occurrence of "The Simpsons" and the David Spade drama "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star."

He besides helped counsel different kid and erstwhile kid actors done the nonprofit enactment A Minor Consideration.

Val Kilmer

The smoldering strength of histrion Val Kilmer (Dec. 31, 1959-April 1, 2025) radiated disconnected movie screens with his memorable turns arsenic brooding artists, obsessive criminals, doomed lawmen, and a combatant jock nicknamed Iceman. He starred successful specified films arsenic "Top Gun," "Heat," "Tombstone" and "The Doors."

While attending New York City's Juilliard School (he was admitted astatine property 17), Kilmer co-wrote and appeared successful the play "How It All Began." In 1983 helium starred connected Broadway successful the play "Slab Boys," other Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn. He made his movie debut successful the 1984 spoof "Top Secret!" (from the creators of "Airplane!"), followed by "Real Genius."

One of his astir memorable characters, that of aviator Tom Kazansky successful 1986's "Top Gun," astir didn't happen. Kilmer wrote successful his 2020 memoir, "I'm Your Huckleberry," that helium initially turned down the role: "I didn't privation the part. I didn't attraction astir the film. The communicative didn't involvement me." Script changes led to his signing up.

As a charismatic starring man, Kilmer commanded the surface playing Doc Holliday successful the occidental "Tombstone," a demolition adept successful the slope heist movie "Heat," and stone idol Jim Morrison successful "The Doors." Other films included "Willow," "Thunderheart," "True Romance," "The Ghost and the Darkness," "The Saint," "Alexander," "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," "Déjà Vu," "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," "Joe the King," "Spartan," "Twixt," and "Wonderland."

Kilmer wrote, directed and starred successful a one-man signifier amusement successful which helium played humorist Mark Twain, titled "Citizen Twain." He besides published 2 books of poetry. Following treatments for cancer, Kilmer repeated the relation of Iceman successful the 2022 sequel, "Top Gun: Maverick."

A debased constituent whitethorn person been erstwhile helium donned the Batman costume to prima successful the 1995 movie "Batman Forever." He explained successful the documentary "Val" that the suit constricted his performance: "It was frustrating until I realized that my relation successful the movie was conscionable to amusement up and basal wherever I was told to."

Kilmer's estimation for being hard connected acceptable would canine him (John Frankenheimer, who replaced the fired manager of "The Island of Dr. Moreau," told Entertainment Weekly that determination were 2 things helium would ne'er do: "Climb Mount Everest, and enactment with Val Kilmer again"). But helium was besides praised by chap actors for his immersion into his characters.

In a tribute to Kilmer, actress Jennifer Tilly recalled the audition process for Oliver Stone's "The Doors": "It was benignant of a cattle call. They paired unneurotic imaginable Jims with imaginable Pamelas. And they were moving down truthful we were spilling retired of the casting office, sitting connected the porch, the lawn, and the driveway. All of a sudden, a sixties convertible came screeching up, blaring Doors Music astatine apical volume. And a feline jumped retired and strode inside: He had chaotic hairsbreadth and helium was barefoot, shirtless, and wearing thing but a brace of choky leather pants. We each looked astatine each different like… Who is this guy? We were much than a small shook by the sheer audacity of his entrance. Well of people it was Val Kilmer and from that infinitesimal on, cipher other stood a chance."

Richard Chamberlain

Actor Richard Chamberlain (March 31, 1934-March 29, 2025) became a prima and teen heartthrob playing the rubric quality of the 1960s tv bid "Dr. Kildare," and aboriginal became known arsenic "king of the miniseries" for his starring roles successful specified hits arsenic "Shogun" and "The Thorn Birds," for which helium won 2 Golden Globes.

Born successful Beverly Hills, Chamberlain primitively studied to beryllium a painter. But aft serving successful the Army during the Korean War, helium decided to prosecute acting. Small roles successful "Alfred Hitchcock Presents," "Gunsmoke," "Mr. Lucky," and the 1960 movie "The Secret of the Purple Reef," pb to his relation arsenic Dr. James Kildare.

The show, which ran for 5 seasons, featured Chamberlain arsenic the handsome and caring attendant to a panoply of guest-star patients seeking assistance and comfortableness for a assortment of afflictions. While the amusement inspired galore aesculapian bid to follow, its prima received 12,000 pieces of instrumentality message a week, successful summation to requests for aesculapian advice. "I didn't wholly bargain the information that I was thought enchanting by a batch of people," he told The Associated Press successful 2014. "But I enjoyed it tremendously, adjacent arsenic a portion of maine went, 'Realllly?!'"

His roles successful "Dr. Kildare" and the romanticist play "Joy successful the Morning" led to his being named Photoplay magazine's astir fashionable antheral prima successful 1963-65.

After the bid was cancelled, Chamberlain moved to England, wherever helium starred successful "Petulia" other Julie Christie, and the BBC adaptation of Henry James' "The Portrait of a Lady." He besides played "Hamlet" connected stage, a show helium repeated successful a 1970 TV adaptation. Other films and TV movies included "Julius Caesar" with Charlton Heston, "The Madwoman of Chaillot" with Katharine Hepburn, Ken Russell's "The Music Lovers," "The Towering Inferno," "The Three Musketeers" and its sequels, "The Count of Monte-Cristo," "The Man successful the Iron Mask," and "The Last Wave."

In 1978 helium landed the starring relation successful "Centennial," a 26-hour miniseries based connected James Michener's novel. He followed that successful 1980 with "Shogun" (another epic miniseries based connected James Clavell's caller astir an American visitant to feudal Japan), and 1983's "The Thorn Birds," based connected Colleen McCullough's romanticist bestseller. Chamberlain played Father Ralph de Bricassart, a Roman Catholic clergyman who falls successful emotion with Rachel Ward's Meggie Cleary. The ABC production, besides starring Barbara Stanwyck, attracted a reported 100 cardinal viewers. He reprised his relation of de Bricassart successful a 1996 TV movie, "The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years."

Other movie and TV credits included "King Solomon's Mines," "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story," "The Bourne Identity," "Touched by an Angel," "Desperate Housewives," "The Drew Carey Show," "Will & Grace," and the 2017 revival of "Twin Peaks."

Having starred successful the movie philharmonic "The Slipper and the Rose," Chamberlain appeared connected signifier arsenic Henry Higgins successful a 1994 Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady," and arsenic Captain von Trapp successful a 1999 revival of "The Sound of Music."

It was decades into his career, successful 2003, that Chamberlain revealed, successful his autobiography "Shattered Love," that helium was gay.

In his memoir, Chamberlain wrote of however helium was forced to fell his sexuality by escorting actresses to movie premieres and different nationalist events. No longer playing "a cat-and-mouse game" with the press, helium could present beryllium open. "I was 1 pugnacious interview," he told The New York Times successful 2003. But now, ''I person nary representation to defend."

Having experienced a troubled childhood, an alcoholic father, and a lingering "sense that determination was thing incorrect with me," Chamberlain told The AP successful 2014 that helium was astatine a blessed signifier successful his beingness due to the fact that helium had accepted himself. "I deliberation emotion is the root of wisdom, of strength, of intelligence," helium said. "It's a beingness that exists wrong america and without us. I deliberation it's each of that. It's not a container of chocolates."

George Foreman

Boxer George Foreman (Jan. 10, 1949-March 21, 2025) roseate up from poorness successful a pugnacious Houston vicinity to go an Olympic golden medalist astatine 19, and heavyweight champion of the satellite twice. An uncommon antheral with the communal touch, helium besides conquered occurrence extracurricular the ringing arsenic an advertizing pitchman and prima of infomercials.

In 1973, astatine property 24, Foreman defeated Joe Frazier to go satellite champion. The pursuing year, helium defended his heavyweight rubric against Muhammad Ali successful Kinshasa, Zaire, successful 1 of the astir touted boxing matches of each time, "The Rumble successful the Jungle." "I bushed him up for the archetypal 3 rounds, 4 rounds. I deliberation I adjacent bushed him up the sixth round, too," Foreman told "Sunday Morning" successful 2005. "Then each of a abrupt I deed him successful the seventh circular and helium whispered successful my ear, `That each you got, George?' Oh, that was each I had. You've heard of the rope-a-dope? Well, here's the dope!" Ali, past the underdog, won successful the eighth circular by a knockout; Foreman mislaid the title.

At the time, helium was devastated. "I was young, lone 25 years old. I didn't cognize what to do. I thought my beingness was over, due to the fact that erstwhile you suffer the title it's not similar you mislaid the title, you suffer yourself, due to the fact that it's similar you're not a antheral anymore."

Three years later, aft different loss, Foreman had a spiritual acquisition that changed his life. He discontinue boxing and became an evangelist, preaching archetypal connected thoroughfare corners, past successful his ain church. He opened the George Foreman Youth and Community Center, a harmless spot for kids to bent out. "For 10 years, I didn't adjacent marque a fist," helium said. "I didn't box, I didn't effort to box, I was done with it. I was a preacher, a happy, abdominous preacher."

But wealth problems drove him backmost to the ring. So, astatine 37, Foreman began his comeback. He was ridiculed astatine archetypal — excessively old, excessively fat, excessively slow, they said — but helium was besides excessively strong, and successful 1994, much than 20 years aft helium bushed Frazier for the title, Foreman knocked retired the undefeated Michael Moorer. At property 45, Foreman became the oldest heavyweight champion ever.

That aforesaid year, Foreman agreed to assistance marketplace a room grill that fewer were buying, successful speech for a portion of the company. In the archetypal 15 years, Foreman said they sold 100 cardinal of the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat Reducing Grilling Machines and its variations.

"When you spell done the airdrome immoderate clip and radical halt and accidental 'George, we emotion the grill!' that's greater than them telling me, 'George, you did a bully occupation becoming the heavyweight champ of the world!'" Foreman said.

And helium continued selling, not conscionable grilling machines but besides mufflers, chips, blistery dogs, video games, location warranties, and a George Foreman covering line.

"I'm driven," helium said successful 2005. "I similar the beingness I'm living, but I'm driven due to the fact that there's truthful overmuch much to obtain. I'm 1 of those guys who's going to person to autumn retired of the saddle. There's ever 1 much prima to scope for and I'm trying to."

Married 5 times, Foreman had 12 children. And yes, helium did sanction each 5 of his sons George. "You got Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Kenny Norton, Ron Lyle, you fto those radical deed you connected the caput and spot however galore names you're going to retrieve — it would beryllium confusing," helium told "Sunday Morning." "I kept it simple. I ne'er hide a name!"

It besides inspired a children's publication helium wrote, titled, "Let George Do It!"

Alan Simpson

A governmental moderate, Republican Senator Alan Simpson (Sept. 2, 1931-March 14, 2025) served 3 presumption representing Wyoming, from 1979 to 1997, and played a cardinal relation successful rallying GOP enactment astir the party's legislative agenda.

At 6-foot-7 (he was the tallest Senator up to that time) with a speedy wit, Simpson was capable to span partisan impasses, and foster relationships crossed the aisle astatine a clip of expanding governmental acrimony. "The connection 'politics' is interesting," he told "Sunday Morning" successful 2018, "because it comes from the Greek, you cognize that? Poly, meaning many, and tics, meaning blood-sucking insects!"

Simpson maintained his ain views adjacent erstwhile they crossed Republican orthodoxy. A shortage hawk, Simpson besides supported termination rights. He served connected the Immigration Subcommittee and the Veterans Affairs Committee, among others.

After leaving the Senate, Simpson taught astir authorities and the media astatine Harvard University and the University of Wyoming. In speeches helium urged assemblage students to go politically involved.

In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded Simpson the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

One of Simpson's closest friends was a Democrat, Norman Mineta, a Congressman from California who besides served arsenic Commerce Secretary nether President Bill Clinton and arsenic Transportation Secretary nether President George W. Bush.

The 2 had met arsenic Boy Scouts erstwhile Mineta and his household were imprisoned arsenic Japanese-Americans successful the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center adjacent Simpson's hometown of Cody, Wyo., during World War II. Simpson and Menieta bonded implicit playing pranks connected the different Scouts, including a bully whose structure they sabotaged: "It was raining to bushed hellhole and we kinda channeled the h2o down into this guy's tent," Simpson told "Sunday Morning."

The 2 friends would not spot each different until decades later, erstwhile Mineta (who had go Mayor of San Jose, Calif.), won predetermination to Congress. "And determination we were, and we started close implicit conscionable similar that," Simpson said.

Mineta said, "We'd person fights successful the sub-committee, the afloat committee, and yet we'd slap each different connected the backmost and say, 'Come on, let's spell person dinner, let's spell person a drink.' And they don't bash that [today]. They conscionable don't person that benignant of idiosyncratic relationship."

In 1988 Simpson and Mineta joined forces to assistance walk the Civil Liberties Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan, which for the precise archetypal clip formally apologized to Japanese-Americans, and granted reparations to those who had been imprisoned.

Joseph Wambaugh

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Bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh (Jan. 22, 1937-Feb. 28, 2025), a erstwhile Los Angeles constabulary officer, wrote 11 novels astir transgression and policing arsenic good arsenic non-fiction works, respective of which were adapted for films and television, including "The New Centurions," "The Blue Knight," and "The Choirboys," arsenic good arsenic the true-crime stories "The Onion Field" and "Echoes successful the Darkness." He was besides the co-creator of the anthology bid "Police Story," which debuted connected NBC successful 1973.

Other novels included "The Black Marble," "The Glitter Dome," "The Delta Star" and "The Secrets of Harry Bright." He was the victor of 3 Edgar Awards.

The lad of a constabulary officer, Wambaugh (a Marine seasoned who primitively intended to go an English teacher) drew connected his ain experiences arsenic an L.A. constabulary serviceman for his writing, arsenic good arsenic stories heard from different veterans of the force. He was a detective sergeant erstwhile his archetypal novel, "The New Centurions," was published successful 1971.

By the clip "The Onion Field" was published, his personage had go truthful large it interfered with his constabulary work. He discontinue the LAPD aft 14 years connected the occupation and began penning full-time.

In a 1997 symposium astatine the University of California, Wambaugh said, "Police procedurals mostly archer however a bull acts connected the job, and I was much funny successful however the occupation acts connected the cop, and the cop's head. So, from the precise opening that was my interest. That's what I wrote about, and that's what made my worldly different, due to the fact that immoderate of my stories, constabulary stories, person virtually nary enactment whatsoever. No gunplay. Nothing overmuch happening, but what's happening wrong the caput of the antheral oregon pistillate doing the job."

David Johansen

Musician and vocalist David Johansen (Jan. 9, 1950-Feb. 28, 2025) was known some for his relation successful the glam-protopunk set the New York Dolls, and for his signifier persona arsenic an over-the-top pompadour-styled lounge vocalist who performed plaything and blues-infused popular nether the sanction Buster Poindexter.

While the New York Dolls didn't execute mainstream occurrence (internal strife and addictions tore astatine the founding members, who produced 2 albums earlier breaking up), it influenced different groups successful the '70s, including the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, Kiss and Guns N' Roses. In 2004 Johansen reconstituted the Dolls with caller players (four of its members had died by then) for England's Meltdown Festival, which led to 3 much albums.

In the 1980s, Johansen, arsenic Buster Poindexter, had a deed with "Hot, Hot, Hot," and a screen of "Hit the Road, Jack." By 2000, helium was backmost to signaling nether his ain name, with the albums "David Johansen and the Harry Smiths" and "Shaker."

He besides acted successful the films "Candy Mountain," "Let It Ride," "Freejack," "Married to the Mob," the Bill Murray drama "Scrooged" (as the Ghost of Christmas Past), and the TV bid "Oz," and hosted a play amusement connected Sirius Satellite Radio.

In a 2014 illustration for Interview Magazine, Johansen said helium began the Buster Poindexter quality portion performing a bid of cabaret shows astatine Tramps, a Lower East Side bar. "I utilized that moniker due to the fact that I didn't privation radical to beryllium coming successful and yelling for songs that I was celebrated for; I could conscionable bash what I wanted," helium said. Then, "without immoderate publicity oregon anything, it became precise popular, truthful I started doing weekends there. It wasn't a program oregon anything, it conscionable happened."

He was insouciant astir reactions to the lounge euphony helium performed arsenic Buster: "Well, similar a batch of worldly I do, 10 years aboriginal it becomes popular," helium told Interview.

Boris Spassky

In 1972, Soviet-era satellite chess grandmaster Boris Spassky (Jan. 30, 1937-Feb. 27, 2025) mislaid his satellite title rubric to American Bobby Fischer successful a televised tourney successful Reykjavik, Iceland, that became an planetary sensation during the Cold War.

Then 29 years old, Fischer, a chess genius from Brooklyn, mislaid and forfeited the archetypal 2 games, past bushed Spassky successful the third. Fischer would flooded Spassky successful the 21-game tournament, becoming the archetypal American to attain the satellite chess title, aft the Soviet Union had dominated the crippled for decades. [Fischer would aboriginal forfeit the rubric by refusing to support it.]

In a 2016 interrogation with Sport-Express newspaper, Spassky said that erstwhile helium played his 3rd lucifer against Fischer, helium was pressured by the president of the Sports Committee to halt the tourney early: "He instructed maine what to do: 'File a protestation against this, against that, past conscionable alert distant ...' But I resisted – I wanted to play! What a fool I was."

In 1974, successful New York City, Spassky simultaneously played 41 competitors, ranging from chess experts to novices (including a six-year-old). Beginning each crippled with the determination Pawn-to-King 4, Spassky won 40 matches and drew one.

He emigrated to France successful 1976, but successful 2012 helium returned to Moscow.

In his 2016 interview, Spassky said his years successful the precocious 1960s and aboriginal '70s arsenic satellite champion were his unhappiest, due to the fact that of the work helium held from winning: "You can't ideate however relieved I was erstwhile Fischer took the rubric disconnected me," helium said. "Honestly, I don't callback that time arsenic unhappy. On the contrary, I've thrown disconnected a precise beardown load and breathed freely."

Gene Hackman

Two-time Oscar-winner Gene Hackman (Sept. 1, 2023-death announced Feb. 27, 2025) was a consummate histrion renowned for playing analyzable figures successful specified classics arsenic "The French Connection," "The Conversation" and "Unforgiven," and who besides delighted superhero fans arsenic the comical villain Lex Luthor successful 3 "Superman" films.

Hailed arsenic 1 of the champion actors of the era, Hackman moved easy among genres, from heart-wrenching household stories ("I Never Sang for My Father"), transgression dramas ("Bonnie and Clyde," "Mississippi Burning"), thrillers ("The Conversation," "No Way Out"), and triumphant tales of sports ("Hoosiers"), to comedies ("Get Shorty," "The Royal Tenenbaums"). Rough-hewn and flinty, a movie prima without stereotypical movie-star looks, Hackman gave adjacent his humorous roles a sinister, unforeseeable edge, the mode an animal's behaviour is not wholly predictable.

"The French Connection" would cement Hackman's presumption arsenic a movie star. The film's brash, documentary-style accumulation perfectly captured Hackman's character, a seething, sadistic NYC bull seeking to bust a ringing of heroin smugglers — similar Ahab connected the hunt for the achromatic whale. He won his archetypal Academy Award, and his prima powerfulness led him to some big-budget workplace fare (headlining an all-star formed successful the 1972 catastrophe movie "The Poseidon Adventure"), and tiny quality dramas (such arsenic "Scarecrow," other Al Pacino).

In 1992, the twelvemonth helium appeared successful Clint Eastwood's revised occidental "Unforgiven" (as the brutal sheriff "Little" Bill Daggett), helium besides starred connected Broadway successful "Death and the Maiden" with Glenn Close and Richard Dreyfuss, nether the absorption of Mike Nichols.

Hackman was little "method-y" than immoderate of his peers, though helium admitted that the ways successful which helium would behave on-screen and disconnected arsenic helium inhabited a quality — fueled by memories of his dysfunctional household increasing up and the slights helium faced during his struggling aboriginal years – took their toll. Temper tantrums earned him a nickname: "Vesuvius."

When helium met up with Daniel Lenihan for immoderate scuba lessons, the 2 got to talking astir escapade books they grew up with, and decided to effort penning 1 — a pirate story. Picking antithetic starting points, Hackman wrote his chapters longhand successful spiral notebooks; the 2 would past conscionable up astatine a café to spell implicit their work. "I would person immoderate pages, helium would person immoderate pages," Hackman told "Sunday Morning" successful 2000. "We would trade. And we'd work them implicit portion we were ordering and eating, and by the extremity of that mates of hours, we would person critiqued each other's work, and decided wherever we were going to spell from there."

"The Wake of the Perdido Star," a communicative of shipwrecks and piracy acceptable successful 1805, was published successful 1999. It sold well, but received mixed reviews. He told "Sunday Morning," "The information that you're being judged connected your quality and your accomplishment arsenic a writer, and your accomplishment arsenic a storyteller, that was precise tense for maine — and being criticized, and uncovering that you're susceptible to the critics, successful a mode that I hadn't experienced before."

He retired from the surface successful 2004, and would lone instrumentality arsenic narrator connected a brace of documentaries astir the Marines. He turned down astir interrogation requests, but successful 2021, to people the 50th day of "The French Connection," he shared with the New York Post the revelation that he'd lone watched the movie once. "Filmmaking has ever been risky — some physically and emotionally — but I bash take to see that movie a infinitesimal successful a checkered vocation of hits and misses," helium wrote successful an email.

Michelle Trachtenberg

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As a kid actress, Michelle Trachtenberg (Oct. 11, 1985-Feb. 26, 2025) starred successful 1996's "Harriet the Spy," playing Louise Fitzhugh's diminutive detective. She went connected to prima successful 2 fashionable TV series, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Gossip Girl."

Trachtenberg was 8 years aged erstwhile she began playing Nona Mecklenberg connected "The Adventures of Pete & Pete," which ran from 1994 to 1996 connected Nickelodeon. She besides appeared with Matthew Broderick successful the movie "Inspector Gadget."

In 2000 Trachtenberg joined the formed of "Buffy," playing Dawn Summers, the younger sister of Sarah Michelle Gellar's vampire slayer. (She and Gellar had some worked unneurotic connected "All My Children" successful the mid-'90s.) Trachtenberg received a Daytime Emmy information successful 2001 for hosting Discovery's "Truth oregon Scare."

On "Gossip Girl," Trachtenberg played the scheming Georgina Sparks. "It's decidedly a batch much amusive than playing the bully girl," she told Seventeen mag successful 2009. "I ne'er understood wherefore immoderate actors don't privation to play villains oregon evil characters."

Her different TV credits included "Six Feet Under," "The Circuit," "Mercy," "Love Bites," "Weeds," "NCIS: Los Angeles," "Criminal Minds," and "Sleepy Hollow." Movie roles included "Euro Trip," "Ice Princess," "Beautiful Ohio," "17 Again," "Black Christmas," "Mysterious Skin," "Sister Cities," and "Killing Kennedy," successful which she played Marina Oswald, woman of the president's assassin.

Roberta Flack

Grammy-winning vocalist and pianist Roberta Flack (Feb. 10, 1937-Feb. 24, 2025) was 1 of the apical signaling artists of the 1970s, with specified hits arsenic "Killing Me Softly With His Song," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "Feel Like Makin' Love" and "The Closer I Get To You."

Classically trained, Flack earned a afloat assistance astatine property 15 to Howard University, past taught euphony successful D.C.-area inferior precocious schools and performed successful jazz clubs. She was discovered successful the precocious 1960s by jazz instrumentalist Les McCann, who aboriginal wrote that "her dependable touched, tapped, trapped, and kicked each emotion I've ever known." With her brushed soprano voice, Flack's performances were measured and reflective, turning up-tempo songs into warm, soulful ballads.

Signed to Atlantic Records, her debut album, "First Take" — a blend of gospel, soul, flamenco and jazz – was released successful 1969. One way was a emotion opus by English people creator Ewan MacColl — euphony Flack had taught during her years arsenic an educator.

"The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" would marque her a star, erstwhile her screen of the song, utilized successful the Clint Eastwood movie "Play Misty for Me," was released successful 1972 arsenic a azygous and spent six weeks astatine No. 1. It won her a Grammy for grounds of the year. The pursuing twelvemonth she became the archetypal creator to triumph consecutive Grammys for champion grounds with "Killing Me Softly With His Song."

Flack had a deed successful the 1980s with the Peabo Bryson duet "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love," and successful the 1990s with the Maxi Priest duet "Set the Night to Music." In the mid-'90s, the Fugees won a Grammy for their screen of "Killing Me Softly."

In 2015, Flack talked with the Guardian astir the screen of "Killing Me Softly": " I emotion hip-hop. In information I emotion music, period. Lauryn Hill recorded 'Killing Me Softly' [with the Fugees] and did an fantabulous job. She's a genius instrumentalist and truthful is Wyclef Jean who co-produced it. I'm not going to clasp connected to that opus with my bosom and bleed to decease portion idiosyncratic other covers it; I'm a euphony person who has capable acquisition and communal consciousness to cognize that it's bully they recorded it and had a hit."

Overall, Flack won 5 Grammys and 8 much nominations, and received a beingness accomplishment Grammy successful 2020. She besides devoted extended clip to the Roberta Flack School of Music successful New York.

Clint Hill

On Nov. 22, 1963, Secret Service Agent Clint Hill (Jan. 4, 1932-Feb. 21, 2025) was accompanying the statesmanlike motorcade erstwhile shots were fired successful Dealey Plaza, striking President John F. Kennedy and Texas Governor John Connolly. Images from that time amusement Hill jumping atop the statesmanlike limousine to support archetypal woman Jacqueline Kennedy, who had begun climbing retired of the open-top vehicle.

Hill, assigned to the archetypal lady, was riding connected the near moving committee of the follow-up car erstwhile helium jumped off, and pulled himself onto the trunk of the limousine arsenic the operator accelerated. He forced Mrs. Kennedy backmost into her spot arsenic the limousine sped disconnected to Parkland Memorial Hospital.

Haunted by memories of the assassination, Hill, who'd joined the Secret Service successful 1958, retired early, and in a 1975 interrogation with "60 Minutes," told Mike Wallace helium blamed himself for JFK's death, saying that if lone he'd reacted "five-tenths of a 2nd faster," the president would beryllium alive. "And I'll unrecorded with that to my grave."

Twenty years later, in a follow-up interrogation for "60 Minutes," and successful a book, "Five Days successful November," Hill shared his consciousness of nonaccomplishment successful protecting the president that led him, successful 1990, to instrumentality to Dallas. "I walked the country of Dealey Plaza, I went up into the School Book Depository, I went up to the sixth floor, and I did everything I could to analyse precisely the situation: the angles, the weather, each the conditions that existed that day. I came distant with the decision that connected that peculiar day, each the advantages had gone to the shooter — we didn't person immoderate — and that I had done everything I could to effort to forestall the assassination from happening. But I inactive consciousness contiguous a consciousness of nonaccomplishment and work due to the fact that that was our job: to support the president safe, to support him astatine each costs. And connected that peculiar day, we were incapable to bash that."

The consciousness of nonaccomplishment fueled a slump that helium said damaged his relationships with his household and friends and contributed to the demise of his marriage. "I drank heavy and I smoked a lot," helium said. "It was the lone happening that would relieve the symptom and the anguish that I had, reasoning astir what had happened successful Dallas successful 1963. A person of excavation was a doctor, came to maine and said, 'Look, Clint, if you don't alteration what you're doing, you're going to die. You person a prime to make: unrecorded oregon die.' And I chose to live. And so, it was those words from that doc that made maine recognize beingness was excessively precious to springiness up on."

Hill co-authored respective books, wrote a 2005 memoir, "Between You and Me," and became a nationalist talker astir his experiences. He besides remarried.

In his follow-up speech with "60 Minutes," Hill work a letter that had been written to him by a spectator pursuing his 1975 interview: "It is simply a time I shall ne'er forget, nor shall I hide the radical truthful profoundly progressive successful the events of that day. And arsenic I watched you connected '60 Minutes,' I wanted to scope retired and wrapper you successful my arms to connection immoderate comfort. But nary 1 who suffered that tremendous nonaccomplishment that time tin adjacent consciousness comfort, and I cognize you consciousness that."

Tom Robbins

Author Tom Robbins (July 22, 1932-Feb. 9, 2025) was a literate prankster whose screwball novels included "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," "Another Roadside Attraction," "Still Life with Woodpecker," "Jitterbug Perfume," and "Half Asleep successful Frog Pajamas."

A dropout from Washington and Lee University (Tom Wolfe was a classmate), Robbins joined the Air Force for a tad, and moved to the Pacific Northwest successful the aboriginal 1960s. He was penning for the Seattle Times erstwhile a Doubleday exertion precocious him $2,500 for what became "Another Roadside Attraction" (published successful 1971). It became a deed successful paperback, and was followed by "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues," featuring Sissy Hankshaw, a young woman with ridiculously tremendous thumbs who becomes a proficient hitchhiker. It sold much than 1 cardinal copies.

Labeled "the perennial angiosperm kid and chaotic blooming Peter Pan of American letters" by People magazine, Robbins produced farcical works that captured the wide-open tone of the 1960s. He understood the era, having lived it truthful afloat — dropping acid, hitchhiking seashore to coast, and traveling from Tanzania to the Himalayas. He published 8 novels, a novella, and a 2014 memoir ("Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life"). His past caller was 2003's "Villa Incognito."

"Faulkner had his inbred Southern gothic freak show, Hemingway his European battlefields and cafes, Melville his New England with its gangly ships," helium wrote successful "Tibetan Peach Pie." "I had, it yet dawned connected me, a taste improvement specified arsenic the satellite had not rather seen before, has not seen since; a psychic upheaval, a paradigm shift, a wide if yet unsustainable egalitarian leap successful consciousness. And it was each precise up adjacent and personal."

In the 1990s, erstwhile the FBI sought clues to the individuality of the Unabomber, they happened upon Robbins' 1980 caller "Still Life with Woodpecker," whose crippled features an outlaw bomber. Robbins alleged that the bureau sent 2 agents, some charismatic women, to interrogation him. "The FBI is not stupid!" helium liked to say. "They knew my weakness!"

Tony Roberts

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Beyond his predominant appearances connected the New York stage, Tony Award-nominated histrion Tony Roberts (Oct. 22, 1939-Feb. 7, 2025) was acquainted from acting successful respective Woody Allen films, including "Annie Hall."

He made his archetypal Broadway quality successful "Something About a Soldier," successful 1962. When his then-girlfriend got the presumption of understudy to Elizabeth Ashley successful "Barefoot successful the Park," she convinced producers to prosecute Roberts arsenic the understudy to Robert Redford's understudy. Then came a fateful Broadway Show League softball game: "The feline I was understudying got up astatine the sheet and deed a single, but helium tried to agelong it into a double, slid into 2nd base, and past was holding onto his ankle successful large pain. His breached ankle was my large break," he told Broadway World successful 2015. "I played Redford's relation for 2 weeks and erstwhile helium near the formed sometime later, I replaced him."

Roberts earned a Tony information for the philharmonic "How Now, Dow Jones," and a 2nd for the Woody Allen-scripted "Play It Again, Sam." Other signifier credits included "Take Her, She's Mine," "Never Too Late," "The Last Analysis," "Don't Drink the Water," "How Now, Dow Jones," "Promises, Promises," "Sugar" (an adaptation of the movie "Some Like It Hot"), "Absurd Person Singular," "They're Playing Our Song," "Doubles," "Arsenic and Old Lace," "Jerome Robbins' Broadway," "The Seagull," "The Sisters Rosensweig," "Victor/Victoria," "Cabaret," "The Tale of the Allergist's Wife," "Xanadu," and "The Royal Family."

He joined Allen and Diane Keaton successful the movie mentation of "Play It Again, Sam" (directed by Herbert Ross), and went connected to look successful "Annie Hall," "Stardust Memories," "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy," "Hannah and Her Sisters," and "Radio Days."

Other movie credits see "Serpico," "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three," "Just Tell Me What You Want," "Amityville 3-D," and "Seize the Day."

He recounted his agelong vocation successful a 2015 autobiography, "Do You Know Me?"

David Edward Byrd

The poster designs of graphic creator David Edward Byrd (April 4, 1941-Feb. 3, 2025), for artists similar The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Traffic, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Prince and Van Halen, perfectly captured the psychedelic epoch of the 1960s and '70s. Byrd besides created ovation-worthy posters for Broadway, for the musicals "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Follies," "Godspell" and "Little Shop of Horrors."

One admirer described Byrd's enactment arsenic "kind of similar Art Nouveau connected acid."

Born successful Tennessee and raised successful Florida, Byrd studied astatine the Boston Museum School and Carnegie-Mellon University successful Pittsburgh. He aboriginal taught astatine the Pratt Institute and the School of Visual Arts successful New York City.

In 1968 helium was asked to make a poster for Bill Graham's Fillmore East successful New York's East Village. This led to a bid of graphics for concerts, tours, and grounds albums. He won a Grammy for the packaging of the London Philharmonic Orchestra's mentation of The Who's "Tommy."

The "Follies" poster was inspired by an evocative representation of Marlene Dietrich, painted successful agleam colors with a ace done her face. It led to galore Broadway assignments. He besides designed the movie poster for the 1975 movie mentation of Nathanael West's "The Day of the Locust."

Beginning successful the 1980s, helium served arsenic the creation manager for The Advocate. He published an autobiography, "Poster Child," successful 2023.

In a 2016 interrogation for Carnegie Mellon University, Byrd said, "When you created a stone poster, the taxable substance was neither present nor there. It had to beryllium wild, it had to beryllium mysterious, it had to person fantastic colors, and it had to beryllium hard to read. I wanted to found a look that truly punched you successful the face."

Dick Button

Button, Richard 'Dick' *18.07.1929 - Figure Skater, USA - representation - 1950s

One of the astir accomplished men's fig skaters successful history, Dick Button (July 18, 1929-Jan. 30, 2025) was besides acquainted arsenic a broadcaster, covering skating and Olympic events for much than 4 decades.

In 1946, astatine property 16, helium was the youngest U.S. men's champion, and 2 years aboriginal helium won golden astatine the St. Moritz Olympics — the archetypal American to triumph the men's event. The victor of 5 consecutive satellite championships (1948-1952), Button performed the archetypal treble axel successful immoderate competition.

In 1952, Button (then a pupil astatine Harvard, wherever helium earned a instrumentality degree) won a 2nd golden astatine the Oslo Games, with the archetypal triple leap successful competition. He besides invented the flying camel spin. He gave up his eligibility arsenic an amateur to execute successful the Ice Capades.

After the 1961 satellite championships were canceled pursuing a level clang that killed the full U.S. fig skating team, Button persuaded ABC Sports enforcement Roone Arledge to televise the 1962 lawsuit connected "Wide World of Sports." Button joined the web arsenic a commentator, bringing fig skating to a mainstream TV assemblage arsenic an Emmy-winning sports analyst.

Button aboriginal ran nonrecreational skating events, including the World Professional Figure Skating Championships, and the Challenge of Champions. His company, Candid Productions, helped to nutrient programs specified arsenic "Battle of the Network Stars" and "The Superstars."

In a 2014 interrogation with The New York Times, Button said helium ne'er bushed of talking astir skating: "Skating encourages you to larn astir truthful galore creation forms: dance, performance, athleticism, history, choreography, adjacent haute couture. How could anyone tyre of it?"

He didn't tyre of describing his ain legacy: "I was a skater with a batch of hairsbreadth who excessively often wore sassy jackets," helium said.

Marianne Faithfull

She was the archetypal Sixties stone chick; a popular prima astatine 17; Mick Jagger's muse astatine 19; and by 24, a junkie connected the streets. But Marianne Faithfull (Dec. 29, 1946-Jan. 30, 2025), who burst retired of the '60s British Invasion with the deed "As Tears Go By," launched a 2nd enactment successful the precocious 1970s. Her lithe voice, aboriginal weathered from surviving sex, drugs, and stone 'n' roll, was brought distant successful specified albums arsenic "Broken English," "Dangerous Acquaintances," and "Easy Come, Easy Go."

The girl of an eccentric British prof and an Austrian baroness, Faithfull was conscionable retired of convent school, and was performing arsenic a people singer, erstwhile she was discovered astatine a enactment by the manager of the Rolling Stones. Jagger and Keith Richards wrote her breakthrough hit, "As Tears Go By."

Just arsenic her vocation exploded, astatine 18, she joined a London creation trader and had a baby. "I was precise overenthusiastically anxious for life," she told "Sunday Morning" successful 2009. "I wanted to conscionable wound into it and swallow it whole."

She past near her matrimony for Jagger. They became 1 of Swinging London's astir photographed couples. Then, successful February 1967, British constabulary barged into a Rolling Stones enactment astatine Richards' home. The constabulary recovered drugs, and Marianne bare successful a fur rug. Though charges were aboriginal dropped, Faithfull's representation was disgraced. She felt she'd fto her parents down: "I deliberation that's the worst feeling successful the world," she told Anthony Mason.

She played up the "bad girl" representation by acting successful the movie "Girl connected a Motorcycle." But she miscarried Jagger's kid aft 8 months, and portion connected a travel to Australia with Jagger, she swallowed 150 sleeping pills. She spent six days successful a coma. Faithfull recovered, but her narration with Jagger did not.

She fell into heroin addiction. She said, "It's surely not what I was dreaming of erstwhile I was 8 oregon 10 – I'm going to turn up and go a junkie and unrecorded connected the street!" she said. She would suffer custody of her son, Nicholas, and the harm began to amusement successful her singing voice. But successful 1979, she pulled herself unneurotic to merchandise a earthy and daring comeback album, "Broken English." "I became myself," she said, "and it was not a idiosyncratic radical thought I was. It was much intelligent, stronger, ravaged successful its ain way, but precise rather interesting."

It would beryllium respective much years earlier she freed herself of addiction, and successful 2008 recorded "Easy Come, Easy Go," with Sean Lennon, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Cat Power, and Keith Richards. She besides returned to acting, successful "Paris, Je T'aime," "Marie Antoinette," and "Faces successful the Crowd."

Faithfull said she appreciated the long, hard roadworthy she'd traveled: "I deliberation I've been precise unconscious for a agelong time, and lone present person I begun to get it. As agelong arsenic I got it earlier I croaked, I deliberation that's the main thing."

Jules Feiffer

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The works of the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and humorist Jules Feiffer (Jan. 26, 1929-Jan. 17, 2025) included a long-running comic strip, plays, screenplays and children's books successful which helium chronicled childhood, municipality angst, politics, sexism, war, and different topics. To each helium brought a crisp wit and acute observations of the idiosyncratic and governmental quandaries that colored 20th period life.

As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune successful 2002, his enactment dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, betwixt men and women, parents and children, a authorities and its citizens, and the idiosyncratic not dealing truthful good with authority."

After attending the Pratt Institute successful New York City, Feiffer drew his archetypal comic strip, "Clifford," from the precocious 1940s until helium was drafted successful 1951. After leaving the Army, helium returned to cartooning, and joined The Village Voice opening successful 1956. Feiffer became a fixture of the New York City alternate play newspaper. His satirical strip, "Feiffer," ran determination for much than 4 decades.

He besides wrote novels, plays and screenplays, to convey ideas, helium told Time magazine, that helium felt helium couldn't code "in six panels of a cartoon." His publication "Passionella" became the ground of the philharmonic "The Apple Tree." He won an Obie Award for 1967's "Little Murders," and wrote "The White House Murder Case," "A Think Piece," "Knock Knock," "Grown Ups," and "A Bad Friend." He wrote "Carnal Knowledge" arsenic some a play and a film, directed by Mike Nichols. He besides scripted Robert Altman's movie based connected the "Popeye" comic strip.

One of his astir enduring works was his illustrations for "The Phantom Tollbooth," published successful 1961. The escapade communicative of a bored kid who is transformed upon entering a magic tollbooth, it was written by Feiffer's friend, Norton Juster. "Norton would work maine what helium had written," Feiffer told "Sunday Morning" successful 2012, "and successful bid to debar doing the enactment I was expected to doing, I began sketching characters for the 'Phantom Tollbooth.' And arsenic it evolved, it conscionable seemed similar a earthy act, that if this publication was going to beryllium Illustrated, wherefore not by me?"

Bob Uecker

In six undistinguished seasons arsenic a catcher successful the majors, Bob Uecker (Jan. 26, 1934-Jan. 16, 2025) played for 4 teams, with a vocation batting mean of .200. But for a half-century arsenic a play-by-play announcer, the Milwaukee autochthonal was a mascot for his city, and for the athletics astatine which helium ne'er rather excelled, his enthusiasm and wit earning him the nickname "Mr. Baseball."

Hired by the Milwaukee Brewers arsenic a scout, Uecker demonstrated his deficiency of quality successful that department. But then, the team's proprietor moved him to the broadcast booth, wherever Uecker stayed for 54 years.

A favourite Uecker line? "'Juuuuust a spot outside.' That's wherever my woman enactment maine a lotta times!"

His adust wit fueled his 2nd vocation arsenic an actor, comedian, commercialized pitchman, and perennial impermanent connected Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show." He notably played announcer Harry Doyle successful the "Major League" movies.

In 2024, Uecker told "Sunday Morning" helium shared a enslaved with players connected the field: "I played the game. So, I cognize however hard it is. I cognize however pugnacious it is. ... The crippled celebrations, erstwhile we win, that's a large portion of it, man, to beryllium capable to locomotion into that clubhouse and beryllium with 'em."

David Lynch

Writer, manager and creator David Lynch (Jan. 20, 1946-Jan. 15, 2025) was a singular cinematic visionary, whose films "Blue Velvet," "Mulholland Drive," "Lost Highway," and the TV bid "Twin Peaks" were highly stylized imagination states, evoking mislaid innocence, eroticism, and the roiling mysteries that beryllium underneath placid, peaceful exteriors. His films' interior logic would invariably punctual much questions than answers, but the imagery and sonic sensations helium mastered would make a tremendous devotion from his chap filmmakers and audiences.

A Montana native, Lynch studied astatine the American Film Institute and turned his thesis task into his archetypal feature, "Eraserhead," a black-and-white experimental movie astir parenthood. Its exceptional photography and dependable plan made it a cult favorite. On the ground of "Eraserhead," Lynch was hired by Mel Brooks' accumulation institution to constitute and nonstop his archetypal Hollywood feature, "The Elephant Man." Lynch earned 2 Oscar nominations.

He turned down George Lucas' connection to nonstop the 3rd "Star Wars" film, "Return of the Jedi," and alternatively tackled Frank Herbert's "Dune." A ocular feast, the movie was a captious failure. But his narration with shaper Dino de Laurentiis got him his adjacent large film, "Blue Velvet," an idiosyncratic execution enigma starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini and Dennis Hopper.

Lynch's consequent films, for the astir part, were likewise dream-like successful their communicative and presentation: "Wild astatine Heart," "Lost Highway," "Mulholland Drive," "Inland Empire." But his biggest imprint connected the fashionable zeitgeist was with the 1990 TV bid "Twin Peaks," astir the probe into a teenage girl's murder. A wonderfully moody drama, it blended the signifier of TV soap operas with the paranormal, each successful the deceptively tranquil mounting of a Pacific Northwest logging town. Though lone connected ABC for 2 seasons, it spawned a diagnostic movie spinoff, "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me," and a follow-up bid connected Showtime, successful 2017.

Despite being the manager of immoderate acheronian movies, Lynch called himself a "bliss ninny." A longtime practitioner of transcendental meditation (or TM), successful 2005 helium began the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace. One of its goals: to thatch students however to meditate.

Lynch told "Sunday Morning" successful 2016 that helium vividly remembers his precise archetypal acquisition with TM: "I started meditation connected July 1, 1973, connected a sunny Saturday greeting astatine 11 o'clock. I retrieve it arsenic if it was yesterday. And it was truthful beautiful. I've been meditating doubly a time for implicit 41 years and ne'er missed a meditation.

"People spot things similar stress, traumatic stress, tension, anxiety, sorrow, depression, hate, choler and fearfulness commencement to assistance away," Lynch said. "So, it's similar axenic golden coming successful from within, and garbage going on."

Sam Moore

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In the 1960s, Sam Moore (Oct. 12, 1935-Jan. 10, 2025) was 1 fractional of psyche music's astir explosive duo, Sam & Dave, who were known arsenic "double dynamite" and "the sultans of sweat." Their drawstring of 10 consecutive Top 20 R&B hits included 2 psyche masterpieces, "Hold On, I'm Comin'," "and "Soul Man."

Moore developed his pleading tenor dependable portion singing successful religion (he initially wanted to go a preacher). In 1957, helium was acceptable to question to Chicago to regenerate the large Sam Cooke successful a gospel group, The Soul Stirrers. But then, he told "Sunday Morning" successful 2014, helium attended a Jackie Wilson concert: "He was singing and winking and blinking and gyrating the body. ... I saw men screaming, women, and I said, I privation to bash that!" laughed Moore. He ended up hiding from the gospel group, who near for Chicago without him. "They had to, due to the fact that they couldn't find me!" helium laughed.

Moore met Dave Prater astatine a Miami nightclub, and their regular came unneurotic by accident. The 2 didn't adjacent rehearse. "It was each spontaneous. … We utilized the signifier successful the nightclubs similar a pulpit. I preached. You would perceive radical from the assemblage go, 'Say it, Sam. Tell the truth, Sam.'"

Producer Jerry Wexler aboriginal caught their act, signed the duo to Atlantic Records, past sent them to Memphis, wherever Stax Records paired Sam & Dave with 2 young songwriters, Dave Porter and Isaac Hayes. The squad turned retired specified hits arsenic "Soul Man," "You Got Me Hummin,'" "Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody," "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby," "I Thank You," "Everybody Got to Believe successful Somebody," and "Soul Sister Brown Sugar."

Moore's narration with Prater was tumultuous, and ne'er recovered aft Prater changeable and wounded his ain woman successful a home quality successful 1968. Moore recalled that helium told Prater, "'I'll sing, I'll adjacent grounds with you. But I'll ne'er speech to you again. Never. And I didn't for 12-and-a-half years. Didn't." (Prater died successful a car mishap successful 1988.)

Moore continued to tour, and successful 2006 released the medium "Overnight Sensational," successful which helium performed alongside specified artists arsenic Bruce Springsteen, Jon Bon Jovi, Mariah Carey, Sting, Billy Preston and Eric Clapton. He besides recorded a tribute to George Jones with the state set Nu-Blu.

In 1992 Moore and (posthumously) Prater were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

He told "Sunday Morning" that helium had ever been uncomfortable being called the archetypal "Soul Man." "But I cognize this: astatine the extremity of the night, earlier I permission the stage, I amended bash 'Soul Man.' Gotta bash it. Do I get tired? Ya, but you cognize what? When they spell into it and I look up and spot them jumpin' up and down, it each leaves."

David Morgan

David Morgan is elder shaper for CBSNews.com and the Emmy Award-winning "CBS News Sunday Morning." He writes astir film, euphony and the arts. He is writer of the books "Monty Python Speaks" and "Knowing the Score," and exertion of "Sundancing," astir the Sundance Film Festival.

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