PARIS ûû Bernard Buffet, one of France's major contemporary painters,killed himself Monday at his home in southern France, police said. He was 71.
Buffet was found dead by his wife with a plastic bag over his head, police sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Gallery owner Maurice Garnier, who had worked with Buffet for 51 years, said the artist was suffering from Parkinson's disease and had been unable to work for some time.
Buffet, a millionaire who basked in fame since he was 20, was an outspoken advocate of figurative painting at a time when abstraction was the rage. He remained faithful to the distinctive, black vertical brushstroke he used to recreate emaciated faces, imperial Russian palaces and sad-faced clowns.
Buffet was roundly ignored by the French art establishment. The Georges Pompidou Center, France's most prestigious collection of modern and contemporary art, never purchased any of his work.
Still, Buffet was a superstar abroad, His work was the subject of two separate museums in Japan, one featuring more than 600 of his works.
Tony Miller
LOS ANGELES (AP) û Tony Miller, an actor and writer who began his career on Broadway and appeared in films including "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "Return to Peyton Place," died Sept 12 from complications of cancer and Parkinson's disease. He was 72.
Miller's stage debut came at age 14 in "Life with Father." After serving in World War II he returned to the theater, replacing Marlon Brando in "I Remember Mama," and appeared on live television programs including "Playhouse 90."
Later TV work included guest appearances on series including "Three's Company," "Dallas" and "General Hospital."
Miller's writing career stretched from radio ("Superman," "Henry Aldrich") to television ("Silent Majority" for CBS) to novels ("Starting Now" and "Night Calls").
In 1962, Miller and his then-wife, Patricia George, founded the Film Industry Workshops as a training center for actors and directors. The pair, who divorced, co-wrote "The Craft," a book on acting and directing.
Emil Schumacher
BERLIN (AP) û Emil Schumacher, one of postwar Germany's leading abstract expressionist artists, died Monday. He was 87.
Schumacher began drawing and sketching his surroundings and family members in his youth. In 1939 he became a technical draftsman at a nearby battery-works.
He resumed painting after World War II and in 1947, along with Gustav Deppe, Thomas Grochowiak, Ernst Hermanns, Heinrich Siepmann and Hans Werdehausen, he founded the group "The Young West."
In the early 1950s he broke with tradition and adopted a completely abstract style that became known as "informal art," where the workmanship and application of paint and other materials becomes the image.
His paintings hang in museums around the world, including the Guggenheim in New York and the Tate Gallery in London.
Doreen Valiente
LONDON (AP) û Doreen Valiente, self-styled witch and a central figure in the revival of paganism in Britain, died Sept. 1. She was 77.
Mrs. Valiente was the author of several books, including "The Rebirth of Witchcraft." Her verse and prose, such as "The Charge of the Goddess," is recited by pagans all over the world.
Born in London and brought up as a Christian, Mrs. Valiente claimed to have experienced psychic episodes in her youth and was a practicing clairvoyant in her teens.
In 1952, a year after Britain repealed its Witchcraft Act, Mrs. Valiente was introduced to Gerald Gardner, who ran a coven practicing what he called traditional witchcraft û a religion whose devotees worshipped the god and goddess of fertility. She was initiated as a witch in 1953 and became the coven's high priestess.
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Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 10:16:42 EDT
From: BasicHip@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mel Henke, Dynamic Adventures in Sound
<< OK, folks on the list were curious about this. I have not played it
because the record looks mint, (except for static lint and some spots of
what looks like glue that could be washed off). I want to lend it to an
Exoticat who will burn it on CD and get the best sound out of it. >>
I have this one and as many of you know do the CDr thing. I had no idea
somebody was asking about this, must have deleted if by mistake. :)
I was about to post an announcement that I'm putting Miriam Burton's
haunting, brilliant and beautiful (and quite rare) wordless vocal MASTERPIECE
"African Lament" on CD-R. Perhaps the Mel Henke above is the other LP to
pair it up with.
You tell me. I'll use the number of private email replies I receive as a
gauge of interest.
References on the quality of my work furnished upon request. :)
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