Archive: October 2008
Was Austrian Right Winger Gay?
On Oct. 11, Jorg Haider, the longtime leader of a far-right political movement in Austria, died in an auto accident in his native country. I wrote an obituary of Haider on deadline for the next day's Post. He was 58 and had regained a measure of power in Austrian parliamentary...
By Matt Schudel | October 24, 2008; 6:20 PM ET | Comments (2)
Edie and Ernie
Multi-talented entertainer Edie Adams died the other day. More than a great beauty, she was a highly talented vocalist, a Tony Award-winning stage actress and a gifted comic performer. She held her own on TV in the 1950s against her then-husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, a man who once mimicked the...
By Adam Bernstein | October 23, 2008; 12:01 PM ET | Comments (0)
Only in Washington
Today, we have the incredible story of Robert Furman. Robert who, you ask? Well, check out today's Metro section for the tale of a man who led an amazing life of derring-do as the leader of an international espionage operation in World War II, as he tried to learn if...
By Matt Schudel | October 19, 2008; 6:19 AM ET | Comments (1)
Four Tops Perform 'Baby I Need Your Loving'
Four Tops frontman Levi Stubbs, 72, died today at his home in Detroit. Here's a clip of the Motown quartet singing one of their biggest hits....
By Mike McPhate | October 17, 2008; 4:03 PM ET | Comments (6)
Pictures, Word and Music
Today is one of those rare days of obituary synchronicity, when two people in complementary fields have died at the time. The photographer William Claxton, who chronicled the West Coast jazz scene in beautifully evocative images, and composer-arranger Neal Hefti, whose swinging arrangements defined an insouciant, carefree style of music,...
By Matt Schudel | October 15, 2008; 1:02 PM ET | Comments (1)
Fleet Street Photographer Finch
Not to glamorize war, but it does provide moments that alert us to the joy of life. From the Times, the one in London: Terry Fincher, a Fleet Street photographer who died recently, remembered one episode in Vietnam when he was with the Life magazine photographer Larry Burrows on the...
By Patricia Sullivan | October 9, 2008; 5:43 PM ET | Comments (4)
Steve Jobs, Still Kicking
Not dead. Nope. Nada. You'd think people (and I'm talking you, stock traders) would check first. But still, one of those anonymous posters over at CNN put up a false report this morning of the Apple co-founder's demise, and the stock price dipped. It was just a bit over a...
By Patricia Sullivan | October 3, 2008; 4:59 PM ET | Comments (0)
Steve Fossett believed found
UPDATE: Searchers believe they have found the remainsof adventurer Steve Fossett, whose plane was discovered yesterday. A hiker in a rugged part of eastern California found a pilot's license and other items possibly belonging to Steve Fossett, the adventurer who vanished on a solo flight in a borrowed plane more...
By Patricia Sullivan | October 1, 2008; 5:17 PM ET | Comments (0)
