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- Robert D. Novak was born on 26 February 1931 in Joliet, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Contact (1997), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) and Dave (1993). He was married to Geraldine Williams Novak and Rosanna Hall. He died on 18 August 2009 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Valeria Sabel was born on 7 April 1928 in Filandari, Calabria, Italy. She was an actress, known for The Godfather Part III (1990), Villa Arzilla (1990) and They Call Me Renegade (1987). She died on 18 August 2009 in Rome, Italy.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Hildegard Behrens was born on 9 February 1937 in Varel, Lower Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977), Götterdämmerung (1990) and Die Walküre (1990). She was married to Seth Schneidmann. She died on 18 August 2009 in Tokyo, Japan.- Producer
- Production Manager
Dic Jones was born on 30 March 1934 in Tre'r-ddôl, Cardiganshire, Wales, UK. He was a producer and production manager, known for Rancid Aluminum (2000), It's My Shout (2005) and Bride of War (1997). He was married to Siân Jones. He died on 18 August 2009 in Blaenannerch, Ceredigion, Wales, UK.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Carl Bartholomew was born in 1932 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Cole Justice (1989) and The Prize Fighter (2003). He was married to Marilyn. He died on 18 August 2009 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.- Anthony J. "Huck" Finneral moved with his family to Lowell in 1936, and was educated in Lowell. Huck had many jobs throughout his lifetime, among them was working for Laganas Shoe and Trull Farm. He also played conga drum and sang in many of the nightclubs in the 1960s with the band "The 5 J's". Acting was Huck's passion, and as a member of the Screen Actor's Guild, he appeared in several movies under the stage name "Jerome Hawks", including the first independent movie made in Massachusetts "Sasqua" which was filmed in Lowell and the Dracut Forest, where he played a hunter. In Vermont, he appeared in the film "A Stranger In The Kingdom". He was a friend of the late Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the director of "Sasqua", Channon Scot.
- Writer
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Born in an upper class Victorian family and pupil of the writer Cesare Pavese, she brings in Italy four generations of American authors. In 1949 she marries the architect Ettore Sottsass with whom she lives in Milan (Italy). Since 1973, after the crisis of her childless marriage, Pivano starts living for thirty years also in Rome alongside Ottavio Rosati, the young director and psychoanalyst who in 2001 will dedicate to her the docufilm Generazioni d'amore: Le quattro Americhe di Fernanda Pivano (2001). Her translation of 'Spoon River Anthology' by Lee Masters is a best seller. With Ettore Sottsass Pivano published the review 'Pianeta Fresco' and other literary experiments. In 1956 she made with him the first trip to the United States which will be followed by numerous other to America, Japan and many other countries. After translating and studying the works of the major American classics, including Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, she promotes writers of the Beat Generation: Allen Ginsberg (who became her close friend), , William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Gregory Corso and authors such as Henry Miller and Charles Bukowski. She is a star of literary jet set and continues to report to the Italian public and critics the talented US writers who would soon be imposed on the international literary scene, including Erica Jong, Jay McInerney, Harold Brodkey and Bret Easton Ellis. With her participation to Giocare il sogno, filmare il gioco (1990) and to Da Storia Nasce Storia (1991) Pivano collaborated in introducing in Italy the Psycho Cinema project of Jacob Levi Moreno. Pivano was also one of the first promoters of an Italian Psychodrama Theater ('Il Teatro del Tempo') conceived as a version of the Beacon Theater (New York) that she described for 'Il Corriere della Sera'. She has published forty books of essays and hundreds of literary articles. In 2001 Pivano is also protagonist of Fernanda Pivano: A Farewell to Beat (2001) by Luca Facchini, a documentary about her journey to America to find friends and loved ones. In 1998 the businessman and patron Luciano Benetton opened an important structure destined to house Fernanda Pivano's book, letters, jewels and documents, that later will become part of 'Fondazione Corriere della Sera' with the Pivano Found directed by the publisher Michele Concina. She died in Milan in 2009. In March 2010, Bompiani publishes the second volume of the autobiography (Diari: 1974-2009) completely excluding her life in the old roman palace described by in her novels 'La mia kasbah' and 'Cos'e più la virtù' and by Ottavio Rosati in the hypertext 'Quattro Decenni di Plays con la Pivano e la Von Franz' (plays.it/ipod). On September 4, 2011, the documentary by Teresa Marchesi "Pivano blues" with Abel Ferrara and the singers Jovanotti and Vasco Rossi is presented at the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Pivano has received numerous public awards and honors including Premio Monselice for the translation (1975), Premio letterario Giovanni Comisso (1985), Premio Estense (1998), J. L. Moreno Medal for Psychodrama (1994), Premio Grinzane Cavour (2003), Premio Tenco (2005), Premio De Sica for literature (2006) and two of the highest Orders of the Italian Republic: 'Cavaliere di Gran Croce di Italia' (1997) and 'Medaglia d'Oro ai benemeriti della Cultura e dell'Arte' (2004).- Producer
- Cinematographer
- Special Effects
Steven Garfinkel was born in scenic Newark, New Jersey and grew up in the suburbs, the son of a prominent Radiologist father and concert-pianist mother. He "borrowed" the family movie 8mm camera at the age of nine, bought an ancient Bolex at 13 and has continued to work in film ever since. Steve spent years with NBC Television News, Showtime Network, both in Post-Production and Broadcast Engineering, 6 years on the TV crew of "Live From Lincoln Center, Movielab NY, and the last 14 at Eastman Kodak Co, working with Studio Feaure Productions and Film Students. His published photo credits include six record covers for pianist Vladimir Horowitz of RCA Records and a plethora of "author photos" for contemporary writers.- Hanna Bedrynska was born on 16 February 1924 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Skarb kapitana Martensa (1957), Zawilosci uczuc (1976) and Pokój z widokiem na morze (1978). She died on 18 August 2009 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Rose Friedman was born on 27 November 1910 in Stary Chertorysk, Volhynian Governorate, Russian Empire [now Staryi Chortoryisk, Ukraine]. She was a producer, known for Free to Choose (1980), The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman (2007) and In Depth (2000). She was married to Milton Friedman. She died on 18 August 2009 in Davis, California, USA.
- Hugo Loetscher was born on 22 December 1929 in Zurich, Switzerland. He died on 18 August 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.
- Kim Dae-jung was born on 6 January 1924 in Hauido, Sinan, Jeollanam-do, Korea. He was married to Lee Hee-ho. He died on 18 August 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.
- Mehmet Fistik was born on 13 July 1944 in Mugla, Turkey. He was an actor, known for The Country Doctor (1987). He died on 18 August 2009 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
- Additional Crew
Milan Slavický was born on 7 May 1947 in Prague. Milan is known for Great Performances (1971). Milan died on 18 August 2009 in Prague.