Chuck Jackson, an American R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Bacharach and lyricist Hal David successfully, died just days after the composer, aged 85. Bacharach died at the age of 94, with tributes paid by artists of all ages. "RIP Maest...
Jones collected 28 Grammy award wins out of 80 nominations, and was named one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century by Time magazine. He also composed the soundtrack to the hit 1969 British film The Italian Job, starring Michael Caine, and overs...
Lesson Quiz Course 9.8Kviews History of the Bethlem Hospital Bethlem Royal Hospital was founded in 1247 by the Italian Bishop Goffredo de Prefetti and served as a priory, or a monastery, for the Order of the Star of Bethlehem, hence the name Bethlehem Hospital. It would eventually become the...
with composer Richard Rodgers; "Assassins," a revue telling the stories of successful or attempted presidential assassins; "Passion" a story of obsessive love adapted from an 1869 Italian novel; and "Road Show" (a.k.a. "Bounce"), which was workshopped beginning in 1999 but did not play ...
Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer known for his animal-print designs, died at 83. Terry Anderson, a U.S. journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants in Lebanon from 1985 to 1991, died at 76. MAY Roger Corman, American maestro of low-budget cinema, died at 98. James...
18 notable figures were successfully identified from the survey, and 24 from the literature review. These individuals came from the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, and were recognized primarily for their performances as actors, artists, musicians, ...
During the late 1960s and the ’70s, low-budget Italian- and Spanish-made western films achieved some commercial success. Sergio Leone was the chief director of such films, and Clint Eastwood, his principal actor in A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966...
Gastón Exequiel Ramírez Pereyra (locally [ɡahˈton raˈmiɾes]; born 2 December 1990) is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Italian club Sampdoria and the Uruguay national team. He had spells in Uruguay with Peñarol and in Italy with Bologna before movi...
A designer who never stopped challenging convention, the Italian-born Pierre Cardin (July 2, 1922-December 29, 2020) took on the titans of French couture. He entered the business at age 14, and would go on to work for Christian Dior, who helped Cardin establish his own house when he was...
died march 22 after a long battle with cancer at age 46. ford's reality tv persona made him the constant butt of opening monologues by david letterman, jon stewart, stephen colbert and other american talk show hosts. ford's alcohol and illicit drug abuse, which led to a stint in rehab,...