昨天,《People》杂志出了一期特刊, 是65位早死名人的英仙榜。 列农名列第一。我慢慢把这些人的照片登到这里。
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约翰·列侬(John Lennon,1940年10月9日-1980年12月8日),生于英国利物浦,著名乐队披头士成员。
生平
1959年,列侬和四位当地青年保罗·麦卡特尼(Paul McCartney)、乔治·哈里森(George Harrison)、斯达特·苏特克里(Stuart Sutcliffe)、彼得·贝斯特(Peter Best)组成了一支摇滚乐队,他们先是在本地演出,后又到德国汉堡工作。乐队几经易名,最后定为“披头士”(The Beatles 、又译“甲壳虫”)。布莱恩·易普斯坦(Brian Epstein)在利物浦洞穴俱乐部看到乐队表演后,主动提出担任乐队经纪人。此时斯达特已经离队。易普斯坦四处向唱片公司宣传乐队,引起乔治·马丁(George Martin)的注意,后者同意为他们录制唱片。 1962年10月,由于马丁对贝斯特的技术提出异议,乐队吸收了林戈·斯塔尔(Ringo Starr)作代替贝斯特担任鼓手。
乐队在1962年10月5日发行了首张单曲《爱我吧》(Love Me Do),上升到排行榜17位。次年1月11日发行的第二首单曲《请取悦我》(Please Please Me)引起了巨大的轰动,首张专辑也名登英国排行榜首。 1963年3首单曲连续获得第一名《从我到你》(From Me to You)、《她爱你》(She Loves You)和《我想握往你的手》(I Want to Hold Your Hand)。同年在英国的巡回演出取得了空前的成功,接着他们开始向大洋彼岸的美国乐坛进军。1964年“披头士”以迅雷不及掩耳之势迅速征服美国。唱片及单曲洪水般占领排行榜,“披头士狂热”(Beatlemania)迅速在世界范围蔓延。
据统计,1964年第一季度,“披头士”的唱片销售量高达美国唱片总销售量的十分之四,《辛劳之夜》(一夜狂欢,A Hard Day's Night)和《救命!》(Help!)两张专辑在艺术和商业上取得的巨大成功,使列侬和麦卡持尼被公认为是摇滚时代最有才能的作曲伙伴。1965年的单曲《昨天》(Yesterday)深受世界各国歌迷的喜爱。1967年,“披头士”乐队发行了一张受到空前欢迎的专辑《胡椒军曹寂寞芳心俱乐部乐团》(Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band),这张在流行音乐史上占有重要地位的唱片不仅是“披头士”乐队的鼎盛之作,同时也是乐队的一个转折点,布莱恩·易普斯但之死,事业上的不顺利,乐队内部的争执,给“披头士”乐队带来了不祥的阴影,尽管如此,他们还是在1968年创作并发行了一套名为“披头四”的双唱片集,因封套是雪白的,故以“白色专辑”(White album)著称。同年成立“披头士”自己的苹果公司(Apple)。约翰·列侬认识了日本先锋艺术家小野洋子。并与她合作发行了一张名为《两个处子》(Two Virgins)的唱片,随后又组建了“塑胶小野乐团”(Plastic Ono Band)。
1969年,列侬的第一首个人热门歌曲《给和平一个机会》(Give Peace A Chance)是一首反战歌曲,同年与小野洋子结为夫妇。此时“披头士”内部矛盾重重,发行了两张专辑《艾比路》(Abbey Road)和《让它去》(Let it Be)之后,乐队于1970年宣布解散。1971年,列侬和小野洋子离开英国移居美国纽约。他们从1971年到1974年不断有唱片专辑问世,包括《想像》(Imagine)、《纽约城瞬间》(Sometime in New York)、《思想游戏》(Mind Games)、《墙与桥》(Walls and Bridges)。
1975年,列侬的儿子西恩列侬(Sean Lennon)出生,使他毅然放弃了一切音乐活动,和妻儿平静地生活在一起,流行乐坛有5年之久没有听到他的声音。1980年,约翰·列侬和小野洋子的新作双重幻想(Double Fantasy)的出版似乎预示着列侬在1980年代将有更多的佳作问世。
死亡
1980年12月8日晚10点49分,列侬在自己的寓所前被一名据称患有精神病的狂热男性歌迷、美国人马克·大卫·查普曼(Mark David Chapman)枪杀,得年40岁,引起举世震惊。摇滚乐坛也失去了有史以来最富传奇色彩的人物。
- Re: 红颜薄命,天妒英才(Gone Too Soon)posted on 12/17/2007
红颜? - posted on 12/17/2007
格雷斯·凯利
Grace Kelly
摩纳哥大公妃殿下
Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco
本名 Grace Patricia Kelly
出生 1929年11月12日
美国賓夕法尼亞州費城
逝世 1982年9月14日
摩納哥蒙地卡羅
配偶 摩纳哥大公兰尼埃三世
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最佳女主角
1954年 《乡下姑娘》
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最佳電影女主角:劇情類
1954年 《乡下姑娘》
最佳電影女配角:劇情類
1954年 《紅塵》
格雷斯·帕翠西亚·凱利(Grace Patricia Kelly,1929年11月12日-1982年9月14日),美国著名女演员,1956年与摩纳哥大公兰尼埃三世结婚,获得摩纳哥大公妃殿下(Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco)头衔。她短暫的電影生涯雖然只有不到6年,但是仍在1999年被美國電影學會選為百年來最偉大的女演員第13名。
格雷斯·凯利出生于费城的一个爱尔兰后裔天主教家庭,其父約翰·凯利(John B. Kelly, Sr.)是三枚奥运会赛艇金牌得主,後來又經商致富,是费城当地的名流,曾于1935年竞选过费城市长;其母瑪格麗特·梅耶(Margaret Katherine Majer)是德國移民,是賓州大學體育系第一位女性系主任。格雷斯·凯利从小热爱表演艺术,著名女演员英格丽·褒曼是其偶像。1947年,凯利由于数学成绩太差而未被Bennington College录取,之后她不顾家人反对决意投身演艺生涯。
凯利首先成功地通过了面试,进入纽约市的美国戏剧艺术学院学习,经过努力学习,很快她就开始在百老汇的舞台剧中开始作为配角演出。在参演了一系列的电视节目后,凯利在1951年开始电影表演生涯。1952年,凭借在《日正當中》一片中作为女主角的完美演出,凯利奠定了自己的巨星地位。此時她和男主角加里·古柏传出婚外情。
其后,凯利与米高梅签约,于1954年以《乡下姑娘》一片夺得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。她其他的著名作品还包括希区柯克的《电话谋杀案》、《后窗》、《捉儆洝返取
1955年,凯利在参加戛纳电影节期间结识了兰尼埃三世,两人迅速陷入热恋。不久,兰尼埃专程安排了一次对美国的官方访问,亲自赴费城与凯利的家人们会面,得到他们的同意后,向凯利求婚。两人在1956年4月19日正式举行婚礼。婚后,凯利宣布息影。1962年,当希区柯克邀请她出演新片时,虽然兰尼埃三世并不反对,但是凯利認為此举可能會对摩纳哥王室声誉造成影响,最终还是拒绝了邀请。
凯利和丈夫共育有三个孩子:
卡洛琳公主
阿尔贝二世(现任摩纳哥大公)
斯蒂芬妮公主
1982年9月13日,凯利与斯蒂芬妮公主驾车出游时心脏病突发,导致发生车祸,次日抢救无效去世。传闻她心脏病突发的原因是与斯蒂芬妮就其放荡的生活方式产生争吵所致。9月18日,凯利的遗体下葬于摩纳哥圣尼古拉大教堂。
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Jessica Savitch
Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was a well-known American television broadcaster and news reporter.
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1 Life and career
2 Death
3 Legacy
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links
Life and career
Savitch grew up in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, about thirty-five miles from Philadelphia. She attended Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where she worked at the campus radio and TV stations and at WBBF, an AM outlet in Rochester. After graduating in the spring of 1968, Savitch worked at various radio and TV stations, including WCBS in New York and KHOU in Houston. She then became a popular local television newscaster at KYW, the former NBC affiliate (now CBS) in Philadelphia, and a Washington correspondent for NBC News. Thanks to her screen presence and attractive style, she was eventually promoted to the news anchor of the weekend NBC Nightly News, and she also anchored Frontline on PBS. Her autobiography, Anchorwoman, was published in 1982. Savitch had a stormy ten year relationship with news director Ron Kershaw and was married twice. Her first marriage to advertising executive Mel Korn ended in divorce; her second husband, gynecologist Donald Payne, committed suicide only a few months after their wedding.
On October 3, 1983 Savitch anchored a mid-evening news update called NBC News Digest, during which she was possibly under the influence of drugs. She slurred some words and skipped others entirely. Savitch had been suspected of abusing drugs in the past, and this 43-second performance, broadcast live and seen by millions of viewers across the United States, seemed to confirm those suspicions.
Death
On Sunday, October 23, 1983, Savitch had dinner with Martin Fischbein, vice-president of the New York Post, in New Hope, Pennsylvania. After the meal at Odette's Restaurant, they began to drive home about 7:15 PM, with Fischbein behind the wheel and Savitch in the back seat with her dog, Chewy. Fischbein may have missed posted warning signs in a heavy rainfall, and he drove out of the wrong exit from the restaurant and up the towpath of the old Pennsylvania Canal (Delaware Division) on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. The car veered too far to the left and went over the edge into the shallow water of the canal. After falling approximately fifteen feet and landing upside down, the station wagon sank into deep mud which sealed the doors shut. Savitch and Fischbein were trapped inside as water poured in. A local resident found the wreck at about 11:30 that night. Fischbein's body was still strapped behind the wheel, with Savitch and her dog in the rear. After the subsequent autopsies, the Bucks County coroner ruled that both had died from asphyxiation (by drowning). He noted that Fischbein was apparently knocked unconscious in the wreck but Savitch had struggled to escape. There was no finding that drugs or alcohol had played any part in the crash.
Legacy
Savitch's estate was awarded over $8 million in a wrongful death action.Some of the money was used to set up college scholarships. The Jessica Savitch Distinguished Journalism lecture series is held at her alma mater, Ithaca College.
Jessica Savitch's life was the subject of a Lifetime Television made-for-TV movie starring Sela Ward. A theatrical movie starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Up Close & Personal, was originally intended as a biographical film about Savitch. However, the movie became an A Star is Born-style entertainment instead, possibly because of a belief that Savitch's life was too downbeat to be popular at the box office.
- posted on 12/17/2007
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. with his father, John F. Kennedy, at the White House in 1963.John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr. (November 25, 1960 – July 16, 1999), often referred to as John F. Kennedy, Jr., JFK Jr., John Jr., John Kennedy or John-John, was an American lawyer, journalist, socialite and publisher. He was the son of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and the younger brother of Caroline Kennedy (as well as the older brother of the deceased Patrick Bouvier Kennedy).
Early life
Born 17 days after his father was elected to the presidency, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was in the public spotlight from infancy. He had lived for most of the first three years of his life in the White House and under the eye of the media who adored his antics. The nickname "John-John" came from a reporter mishearing his father calling him ("John" spoken twice in quick succession), and the name stuck. His father was assassinated on November 22, 1963, three days before Kennedy, Jr.'s third birthday.
The funeral procession actually took place on his birthday, November 25, 1963. While his father's flag-draped casket was being carried out from St. Matthew's Cathedral, young JFK, Jr. stepped forward, and in one of the most heartbreaking and iconic images of the 1960s gave his father a final salute.[1]
John, Jr. grew up primarily on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Even as a boy, he was often photographed and still referred to publicly as "John-John", although Kennedy family members themselves did not use the nickname.[2] After his father's death, his mother was married to Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until the latter's death in 1975, when John was 14 years old.
Education
John F. Kennedy, Jr. attended The Collegiate School in New York City for the first through tenth grades, and later graduated from the Phillips Academy. Despite a less-than-average academic record, John F. Kennedy, Jr. was accepted into Harvard University, from where his father and sister graduated. John, Jr., however, turned down the offer, wanting to avoid that degree of special treatment, especially because it would have been regarded as undeserved by the public and his peers. Subsequently, Kennedy matriculated at Brown University, graduating in 1983 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Brown, Kennedy was a member of the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. In 1989, he earned a J.D. degree from the New York University School of Law. He failed the New York bar exam twice before passing on the third try.
Career
He spoke at the 1988 Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. He was an assistant district attorney in Manhattan from 1989 to 1993. In 1995, he founded George, a glossy politics-as-lifestyle monthly which sometimes took editorial aim even at members of his own family. After Kennedy's death, the magazine was bought out by Hachette Filipacchi Magazines[3] and continued for over a year. With falling advertising sales,[3] the magazine folded in early 2001.[4]
Marriage
Through the 1980s until his death, Kennedy was an often-seen and much-photographed personality in Manhattan. He married Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996 on Cumberland Island in Georgia, and had dated Madonna, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cindy Crawford and Daryl Hannah prior to his marriage. Furthermore, he was rumoured to have had an affair with Princess Diana, but this was unconfirmed.[citation needed]
Death
On July 16, 1999, at the age of 38, John F. Kennedy Jr. was killed along with his wife and his sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette, when the aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Kennedy was piloting a Piper Saratoga II HP from Essex County Airport in New Jersey to Martha's Vineyard where the Kennedy family has a vacation house. Kennedy and his wife were traveling to the wedding of cousin Rory Kennedy, which was then postponed. Lauren was to have been dropped off at Martha's Vineyard.
Kennedy was an experienced pilot; he'd flown for seventeen years and had 310 hours of flight experience (by contrast, the FAA requires 250 hours to qualify for a commercial pilot's license), including 55 hours of night flying and 36 hours in the high-performance Piper Saratoga. He had completed about half of an instrument training course. He was not yet rated for flying in low-visibility; but, at the time of his crash, he was flying in conditions that were covered by his license. The National Transportation Safety Board investigation found no evidence of mechanical malfunction and determined that the probable cause was "the pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation. Factors in the accident were haze, and the dark night." The report noted that spatial disorientation as a result of continued VFR flight into adverse weather conditions is a common cause of fatal airplane accidents.
According to literature found in most FAA-approved flight training books, a pilot's inability to see the horizon can lead to spatial disorientation. The inner ear may give the pilot the impression that the plane is turning when it isn't. It takes many hours of instrument training for a pilot to be able to fly in IFR conditions, conditions that most likely existed when Kennedy was flying on his route to Martha's Vineyard. Over the water at night there are few lights, and those lights that existed were most likely obscured by the haze, resulting in the boundary between sky and water on the horizon becoming difficult to determine.
Kyle Bailey, a pilot believed to have been the last person to see Kennedy alive at Essex County Airport, subsequently stated that he had canceled his own flight to Martha's Vineyard because the enroute weather was "a little too hazy." It also emerged that while Kennedy had flown from Essex County Airport to the Vineyard several times before, he had never done it without an instructor pilot aboard or at night.
Skeptics identify as evidence of foul play many irregularities in the investigation process and many inconsistencies in the official report. For example:
• The Pentagon assumed the role of central clearing house for information. Their reports to the media contained unsubstantiated information and many inaccuracies.
• The official report indicated that no flight log was found. However, many of Kennedy’s flight passengers said he routinely kept the log in a blue duffel bag. The bag washed ashore and was recovered intact but no flight book was in it, suggesting the possibility that it had been intercepted prior to coming ashore.
• The official report stated that JFK Jr. flew without a flight instructor on the fatal flight, though reports by family and friends suggested that an instructor had been on the flight. Kennedy's co-editor Richard Blow stated that Kennedy told him the afternoon of the fatal flight that he would be flying that evening with a flight instructor. These reports are consistent with the fact, as reported in the National Transportation Safety Board report, that Kennedy had always flown his new plane with a flight instructor. Kennedy had access to a dozen flight instructors whom he routinely called on short notice. Since he was working on an instrument rating, flying with an instructor would have helped him accumulate documented flight hours toward that goal. The co-pilot's seat was missing from the retrieved wreckage, further raising suspicions on this point.
• Visibility at Martha's Vineyard on the crash day was eight miles at 9 p.m. and ten miles at 10 p.m., despite the official report's description of "hazy" skies. This is well above the minimum required by Kennedy's visual flight license. Martha's Vineyard's airport was shining its new landing lights the night of Kennedy's crash. These were bright enough to be the subject of complaining letters to the editor in the local paper.
• The search-and-rescue operation was delayed and diverted for 15 hours, despite FAA computer reports and family phone calls indicating that Kennedy was missing. The plane's emergency beacon was transmitted upon the plane's impact and was received by satellite, pinpointing Kennedy's crash site as early as 3:40 a.m the next morning. By 5 a.m., radar records of Kennedy's flight were available that identified the downed plane's location, 19 miles southwest of Martha's Vineyard. Yet, for hours, the search continued along the entire flight path and the Pentagon denied that it possessed specific information about the crash site.
• JFK Jr. checked in with the Martha's Vineyard airport at 9:39 p.m., one minute before the plane went down, as reported the morning after the crash by U.S. Coast Guard Public Information Officer Todd Bergun. Bergun's report is consistent to the minute with the NTSB's radar report, which shows Kennedy's plane five minutes away from the airport and beginning its final approach; at that time, contact with the control tower would have been required. When the Pentagon assumed control of the news reporting, it denied that Kennedy contacted the tower.
• The fuel switch on Kennedy's wrecked plane had been turned off, an act that, under normal circumstances, requires intent and cannot be completed by accident.
• Kennedy's plane fell 2,500 feet in 45 seconds, ranging from twelve to fifty times the normal rate of descent. Such a rapid descent suggests a deliberate or uncontrolled nose dive. Speaking through the Pentagon, U.S. Air Force Search and Rescue School Director Lieutenant Colonel Steve Roark said of the plane's path, "It looked like it was on its descent. I didn't see anything unusual."
During the memorial service on July 23, 1999, Kennedy's uncle, Massachusetts Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy, said, "We dared to think that this John Kennedy would live to comb gray hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side. But, like his father, he had every gift but length of years." And of his nephew's marriage, he invoked what had been said of his brother's Presidency: both lasted 1,000 days. Then U.S. President Bill Clinton attended the service and ordered that the flag at the White House be lowered to half-staff in honor of John F. Kennedy, Jr.
At President Clinton's orders, warships of the United States Navy assisted in the search for the downed plane. With the permission of Secretary of Defense William Cohen, a memorial service for the three victims was held aboard the Navy ship USS Briscoe. The cremated remains of Kennedy, his wife and sister-in-law were then scattered from the ship off the coast of Martha's Vineyard.
A wrongful death lawsuit by the Bessette family against the Kennedy estate concluded with an out of court settlement.[5] This avoided the publicity of a public trial, as the accident was ultimately attributed to pilot error.
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戴安娜 (威爾斯王妃)
戴安娜·弗兰茜斯·蒙巴頓-溫莎(Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor),娘家姓為史賓沙(Spencer),被大眾稱為戴安娜王妃(Princess Diana),她是英国王储、威尔士亲王查理斯(Charles Philip Arthur George)的第一任妻子,亦是威廉王子和哈里王子的親生母親。
生平
1961年7月1日出生于英国诺福克,是爱德华·史賓沙伯爵的小女。
1981年7月29日与威尔斯亲王查理斯结婚。
1982年6月21日长子威廉王子出生。
1984年9月15日次子哈里王子出生。
1992年12月9日查理斯王储和戴安娜王妃正式分居。
1996年8月28日查理斯王储和戴安娜王妃正式離婚,戴安娜王妃获准保留“威爾斯王妃”头衔。
1997年8月31日因车祸死于法國巴黎。
1997年9月6日舉行葬礼,安葬在她父亲的家族墓地,北安普敦郡(Northamptonshire)的奥尔索普(Althorp)。
車禍報告
2006年12月14日,英国警方公布戴安娜王妃及其男友多迪的死因调查报告,认为这起车祸纯属事故,没有任何证据证明车祸与谋杀相干。车祸发生时开车的司机保罗确属酒后超速驾驶,车上的人也未繫安全带。而法國死因庭也在2005年5月裁定死於交通意外。
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Christopher & Dana Reeve
克里斯托弗·里夫
克里斯托弗·里夫扮演的超人形象克里斯多福·李维(Christopher Reeve,1952年9月25日—2004年10月10日),美国纽约州纽约市人,知名电影男演员,电影导演,作家,以电影形象超人的扮演者闻名。
1974年时毕业于康乃尔大学,拥有艺术学士的学位,之后又进入纽约茱莉亚表演艺术学院就读,与另一位知名男演员罗宾·威廉斯是同学。
1978年首次主演科幻影片《超人》的男主角“超人”,并由此而一举成名。1995年在参加一次马术比赛时发生意外,脊椎严重受伤,全身瘫痪。此后,投身于社会公益事业,致力于推动干细胞研究事务,并经常举办巡回演讲。
2004年10月9日时,因为心肌梗塞陷入昏迷,并于隔日逝世,享年52岁。
Dana Reeve (March 17, 1961 – March 6, 2006) was an American actress, singer, and activist for disability causes. She was also the wife of actor Christopher Reeve.
- posted on 12/17/2007
埃尔维斯·普雷斯利
埃尔维斯·普雷斯利埃尔维斯·普雷斯利(Elvis Presley),暱稱貓王(The Hillbilly Cat and King of the Western Bop,1935年1月8日-1977年8月16日),知名美国摇滚乐歌手與演員。普雷斯利出生於密西西比州圖珀洛(Tupelo, MS),曾經在德國美軍基地服役,與他同期的搖滾歌手還有Dean Martin、Bill Haley、Chuck Berry、Buddy Holly、Jerry Lee 和 Little Richard 等。美國南方歌迷為 Elvis 取的暱稱——The Hillbilly Cat,意為「來自南方的小貓」。
Elvis Presley by Bottelho1944年5月5日,9歲的貓王首次登台表演,他在密西西比州的亞拉巴馬博覽會上演唱了鄉村歌曲「老牧師」(Old Shep),不久搬到田納西州的孟菲斯,開始和一些職業樂手接觸,參加「黑森林兄弟 」(Black wood Brothers)的演出。高中畢業,隔天便立即到機械工廠工作。1956年貓王進軍影壇,拍下首部電影「LoveMeTender」,1957年拍攝自傳電影「Loving You」。1958年3月,貓王應召入伍。1960年,貓王退伍。服役期間他與空軍上尉Joseph Beaulieu的女兒普莉西拉·普雷斯利(Priscilla Beaulieu Presley)戀愛,Priscilla 搬進Graceland 與貓王同居,兩人於1966年結婚。1972年兩人宣布分手,並於隔年離婚,Priscilla擁有女兒的監護權。雖然生平曾與不少知名女性相恋,據悉與他有過性關係的女性超過3000人,包含性感女神瑪麗蓮·夢露(Marilyn Monroe)[1],但卻只曾與普莉西拉·普雷斯利結婚,生有一女麗莎·普雷斯利(Lisa Marie Presley)。
1977年8月16日被發現在浴室昏倒,經緊急送往醫院急救後,因心律嚴重失常導致心臟病突發過世(可能是吸毒、酗酒過量[2]),享年僅42歲。當晚,所有電視網絡播出數千人穿著黑衣聚集在格雷斯蘭大樓悼念貓王。普雷斯利經常被認為是摇滚乐历史上影响力最大的歌手,因此又有搖滾樂之王(The King of Rock 'n' Roll)的譽稱。
自猫王以后,具有鲜明的思想性和强烈的现实批判性的摇滚乐迅速流传。也因为他的魅力,摇滚乐成为美国的全民运动。猫王开辟了摇滚乐艰难的前进道路,之后摇滚开始成为对美国社会影响最深远的文化之一。
[编辑] 注釋
↑ 名人淫媒拜倫·拉菲爾(Byron Raphael)在接受《花花公子》雜誌、《纽约邮报》(New York Post)等媒體採訪時曾大揭貓王私生活秘史。
↑ 田納西州檢調當局透露,由貓王之體內檢出十種以上之管制藥品,推測可能是因濫用藥物過量致死。由於龐大的工作壓力,使得貓王不斷需要鎮定劑,貓王的私人醫生常開立大量第二級管制藥品予貓王。 - posted on 12/17/2007
ALEXANDER GODUNOV
November 29, 1949 - May 18, 1995
By Leslie Scott
Okay, so most people know that Alexander Godunov played "Karl," the semi-psychopathic terrorist in Die Hard; and "Max," the egoistical, self-absorbed ex-husband in the Money Pit; and "Daniel," Kelly McGillis' would-be suitor in Witness. What few people remember, though, is that when Godunov defected from The USSR, he not only left behind a wife who had apparently changed her mind about coming with him, but he also created a political situation between the Soviets and the US that was precarious, to say the least.
It was during the 1979 North American tour of the prestigious Russian Bolshoi. A premier ballet star, it had long been suspected that Godunov had become Americanized and wanted to defect. On the night of August 23rd, his chance came when he stayed out longer than allowed. Knowing that he had broken curfew and would probably never get another chance, he contacted authorities and asked for political asylum. At 29 years old, he had only seventy five cents in his pocket.
After discovering his absence, the KGB had Godunov's wife, Bolshoi soloist, Ludmila Vlasova, packed on a plane, heading back to Moscow. The flight was stopped, though, and the ballerina ended up sitting in the plane for three days on the Kennedy tarmac as the State Department argued with the KGB. Both US President, Jimmy Carter and Russian Premier, Leonid Brezhnev got involved while it was decided whether Vlasova had chosen to leave, or perhaps the KGB had made up her mind for her.
Godunov begged to speak to her, knowing that he could talk her into staying with him. And though the Russian's did present him the opportunity, if he did so on the plane, Godunov passed on the chance to get on a fully fueled airplane with the KGB.
After 73 hours, the State Department determined it was Vlasova’s choice to go. The plane was allowed to take off, returning Vlasova to her family Russia. Godunov spent a year trying to get her back, but in the end, there was just no way to get her out of the soviet block. The two of them divorced in 1982.
Godunov got on with his life, dancing briefly with the American Ballet Theater, travelling with his own troupe, acting in Hollywood and having a long-standing romance with actress, Jacqueline Bisset, which ended in 1988.
On May 18, 1995 his friends became concerned when he had been uncharacteristically quiet with his phone calls. Sending a nurse to his home in the Shoreham Towers, West Hollywood, Godunov was found dead at the age of forty-five of alcohol abuse with complications from hepatitis. Here is the building. He had been dead at least a couple days. In a statement issued shortly after his death, Godunov's publicist, Evelyn Shriver said "He did not have AIDS, or commit suicide ... This was a very happy time of his life ... "
Gates Kingsley and Gates Mortuary of Los Angeles were in charge of the memorial service where friends gathered amid classical music and flowers. Godunov's ashes were released into the Pacific. His mother, brother, niece and nephew, who still live in Latvia, did not attend.
Trivia: Alexander's liquor store is just to the right of the infamous Viper Room, on Sunset, where River Phoenix made his last appearance.
- Re: 红颜薄命,天妒英才(Gone Too Soon)posted on 12/18/2007
July wrote:
昨天,《People》杂志出了一期特刊, 是65位早死名人的英仙榜。 列农名列第一。我慢慢把这些人的照片登到这里。
七月,还是把“红颜薄命”留给水作骨肉的女儿们吧!臭男人们不配。:-) - Re: 红颜薄命,天妒英才(Gone Too Soon)posted on 12/18/2007
老管误读了,红颜是说水作骨肉的女儿们,臭男人们都是英才:-)
guanzhong wrote:
七月,还是把“红颜薄命”留给水作骨肉的女儿们吧!臭男人们不配。:-) - Re: 红颜薄命,天妒英才(Gone Too Soon)posted on 12/18/2007
People这种八卦杂志推选的,我就认第一位列农,不过他已经满了四十,不算薄命。
我曾经研究过早死名人的特征,可以大致分为这样的黑五类:作曲家,诗人,摇滚歌手,数学家,色情电影明星。先列出几位大家熟悉的作曲和诗人,都不满四十岁。
韦伯,肖邦,门德尔松,格什温,舒伯特
兰波,普希金,普拉斯,拜伦,叶赛宁,布鲁克,裴多菲,济慈,纳兰性德
也不要偏听一家之言,望各位踊跃补充名字(别人的:))
- Re: 红颜薄命,天妒英才(Gone Too Soon)posted on 12/20/2007
怎么能缺拉狄盖和莱蒙托夫这俩正宗的。
ppl"盛名之下 必有遗珠"啊。 - Re: 红颜薄命,天妒英才(Gone Too Soon)posted on 12/20/2007
这个榜只是美国近年来比较轰动的名人。
dropin wrote:
怎么能缺拉狄盖和莱蒙托夫这俩正宗的。
ppl"盛名之下 必有遗珠"啊。
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