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Labeled the eternal romantic and with one of the best musical senses in the business, Yash Chopra is arguably India's most successful director of romantic films. Although he made action-oriented films like the ever-popular Deewaar (1975), it is in tackling love and its various aspects that he has been at his best. One of the few remaining commercial Indian directors who started their careers in the 1950s, he has successfully moved with the times from the socially significant Dhool Ka Phool (1959) to the young and cool Dil To Pagal Hai (1997).
Yash Chopra was born in Lahore in 1932, to an accountant in the PWD division of the British Punjab administration, the youngest of eight children. He began as an assistant director to I.S. Johar before working with his elder brother, the legendary B.R. Chopra; while another brother, Dharam Chopra, worked as his cameraman. He was given his first directorial opportunity with Dhool Ka Phool (1959), a melodrama about illegitimacy; it became a hit and even now remains popular today. Encouraged by this success, the Chopra brothers made a few more movies together, the most notable being Waqt (1965), India's first multi-starrer; and Ittefaq (1969), a thriller. On the personal front, Chopra married Pamela Chopra (née Singh) in 1970, and they had two children, Aditya Chopra and Uday Chopra, both working in the film industry today.
In 1973, the Chopra brothers separated, with Yash Chopra founded his studio, Yash Raj Films, and launched it with Daag: A Poem of Love (1973), a successful melodrama about a polygamous man. He then entered one of his best phases with two Amitabh Bachchan classics: Deewaar (1975) and Kabhi Kabhie (1976). These movies set the standard for the 1970s and 1980s, establishing Bachchan as the greatest and most beloved Indian film star of all time. His respective roles--a bitter criminal and a sensitive, brooding poet--are considered to be his greatest performances, although complete opposites of each other.
In the 1980s, Chopra went through a rough time. Two of his melodramas, Silsila (1981) and Faasle (1985); and two action-oriented films, Mashaal (1984) and Vijay (1988), flopped at the box office, although the latter became a critically acclaimed classic years later. However, he made a comeback with his musical love triangle Chandni (1989). The film was a huge success, with great performances by established heroine Sridevi and action hero Vinod Khanna. Then came what critics and Chopra himself considered his best film, Lamhe (1991), a beautiful film about cross-generational love. It couldn't survive the box office, however, due to its incestuous nature.
Parampara (1993), done for an outside producer, was a misfire, but then came the box-office hit and trend setter Darr (1993). Starring the then-débutant Shah Rukh Khan, it showed a sympathetic look at obsessive love and an emotion often overlooked in love--fear--and its success catapulted Khan to super-stardom. In 1995, Chopra turned to production and Aditya Chopra made his directorial debut with Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), which had the longest-running initial release in cinema history. He directed one more film, Dil To Pagal Hai (1997), a love story set against the theater, which became a huge success and a cult hit, before he retired from directing. However, in 2004, he made a grand comeback with Veer-Zaara (2004), a touching cross-border love story, which he said would be his last directorial effort.
The ages of the director and playback singer Lata Mangeshkar, his muse, proved you need to be young, as well as crazy, at heart, to be a true romantic....- A prolific stage and television actress Elizabeth Bell was born on 20th March 1941. Though born in Leeds she was brought up by her mother in Scarborough. In 1961,having graduated with honours from the Central School of Speech and Drama she began acting with the Royal Court Theatre in London and was also a founder member of the New Vic in Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire. In 1971 she met architect Henry Osbourne,who became her life-long partner and through whom she met playwright Alan Ayckbourn,in many of whose plays she appeared as well as joining Ayckbourn's company which performed at the National Theatre in London. Her last stage role was as teacher Mrs Lintott in 'The History Boys' in 2007 and her last television appearance in 2011 as a nun who gets bumped off in 'Midsomer Murders'. In 2011 she finally married Henry Osborne, becoming stepmother to his children Abigail and Ben. Elizabeth Bell died of cancer of the oesophagus on October 21st 2012.
- Karen Kim's family moved to United States back in the sixties from Seoul, Korea. Karen's father (who currently owns many car dealerships in Los Angeles area) and her mother, former Miss Korea (who owns a successful beauty salon) has always been supportive of her modeling and acting career. Although Karen has won the title of Miss Korea back in the late eighties, she claims that she is a tomboy and enjoys riding her Harley everyday.
- Ted Kazanoff was born on 30 August 1922 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for American Playhouse (1980), Law & Order (1990) and The Little Sister (1985). He was married to Shirlienne (Lee) Dame. He died on 21 October 2012 in Austin, Texas, USA.
- George McGovern, one of the leading liberals in U.S. politics, was born in a Republican household in a small South Dakota town. His family had some struggles during the Great Depression, but they were able to make ends meet. The young, idealistic man joined the Air Force during World War II and became a bomber pilot. He served with great bravery, flying missions over North Africa and Italy, bombing German military targets, and won citation for his duty. Upon returning home, he graduated from college and became a college teacher, teaching history. Up to that point, he had been relatively non-political, as had his parents. That changed in 1952, when he heard a speech by the Democratic nominee, Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson, and was so inspired by it that he volunteered for the Stevenson campaign. Stevenson lost to retired General Dwight D. Eisenhower, but McGovern remained active in politics, becoming Chairman of the South Dakota Democratic Party. Democrats were very much the minority in the state, but McGovern pursued his duties with great zeal, and in 1956 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in an upset, helped by growing dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower administration in the rural Midwest. He was reelected in 1958 and in 1960, was an enthusiastic backer of Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. That same year, McGovern took a gamble by running against Republican U.S. Senator Karl Mundt, who had first been elected in 1948. Although he ran well ahead of what Democrats usually did in the state, he fell short, as Mundt won by a 52% to 48% margin. In 1961, Kennedy appointed McGovern Director of the Food For Peace program, and McGovern was greatly affected by his service in this capacity.
In 1962, McGovern ran for the U.S. Senate again (each state has two U.S. Senators), this time in an open race. He was considered the underdog against Republican Governor Joe Bottum, but managed to win by 597 votes, one of the closest U.S. Senate races in state history. He immediately became one of the Senate's most liberal members, enthusiastically supporting the domestic policies of Kennedy and his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. His major accomplishment was creation of the Food Stamp program, which was to provide Federal food assistance to impoverished people. But he became increasingly focused on overseas and military affairs. He became an opponent of the growing American involvement in Vietnam and opposed maintaining a large military. In 1968, he was a leading supporter of Robert F. Kennedy and was horrified by the latter's assassination. He was also appalled by the Chicago Police Force's rough treatment of anti-war protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that same year. He was reelected easily that year, winning 57% of the vote. After Richard Nixon took office, McGovern quickly became a proponent of immediate withdraw of all military forces form Vietnam. In 1969, he chaired the commission which instituted reforming the way the Democratic Party nominated its Presidential candidates, dramatically reducing the role of party leaders and political insiders.
In 1972, McGovern launched a campaign for President. He was given little chance of winning his party's nomination, which seemed to be united around U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine. However, Muskie's campaign foundered and McGovern ran a close second to Muskie in the Presidential primary in New Hampshire. Helped by his campaign manager, Gary Hart (later a Senator and Presidential candidate himself), McGovern won several other primaries and the nomination. His campaign theme was "America, come home." His main platform, aside from withdraw from Vietnam, was a 37% reduction in defense spending and a guaranteed minimal income for all Americans. At the convention in Miami, he initially won praise for nominating U.S. Senator 'Thomas Eagleton' of Missouri as his running mate. But his campaign was rocked when it was revealed that Eagleston had been treated for depression in a psychiatric ward many years before. McGovern initially claimed that he was "1000 percent" behind Eagleston, but later his campaign staff persuaded Eagleston to drop out of contention. This made McGovern look bad to his most idealistic supporters and haunted him throughout the campaign. Ultimately, former Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver replaced Eagleston as his running mate, but the damage was done. Throughout the campaign, he was perceived by the public as a well-meaning but fuzzy minded radical leftist. Taking advantage of McGovern's support for amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers, decriminalizing abortion, and ending Federal drug laws (leaving them to the individual states), Vice President Spiro Agnew labeled McGovern the candidate of "amnesty, abortion, and acid," and the label stuck. The Nixon campaign successfully portrayed McGovern as a pacifist and socialist who would endanger national security, wreck the economy, and bankrupt the government. In the election, McGovern lost overwhelmingly. Nixon out-polled him by 61% to 37%, with a plurality of 18 million votes, a record that has yet to be broken. The only state McGovern won was Massachusetts. His only consolation was that a friend and political ally, Congressman James Abourezk, was elected to the South Dakota's other U.S. Senator.
Following the loss, McGovern returned to his Senate duties. Following Nixon's resignation in disgrace in the wake of the Watergate scandal in 1974, he seemed to have been vindicated in his attacks on Nixon's ethics. However, later that year, he had a surprisingly difficult reelection bid, winning by less than expected against a former Vietnam War prisoner, who felt that McGovern had prolonged his captivity. There were many Demcorats elected that year, and McGovern worked closely with them to cut defense spending and reign in intelligence agencies. He also worked to expand government benefits. He was encouraged when Democrats won the White House with the narrow election of former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. But his friend and ally Abourezk was forced to retire in the face of impending defeat in 1978 and polls indicated that McGovern was losing support there, as well. In 1980, McGovern was challenged for reelection by Republican Congressman James Abdnor. While campaigning that year, McGovern ran into two women who angrily complained about his support for defense cuts, then bought some groceries with food stamps. He later remarked that he knew he wouldn't be reelected at that moment. He was right. On election day, Abdnor defeated McGovern by a landslide.
Following his departure from elective office, he was a professor at the University of New Orleans. In 1984, he made a whimsical, late-entering candidacy for President, and narrowly won the primary in Massachusetts, but as expected, lost the nomination to former Vice President Walter Mondale. Also a candidate, and a more successful one, was his former campaign manager, Gary Hart, who won several primaries, although losing the nomination to Mondale. That year, however, then President Ronald Reagan, whose policies McGovern fervently opposed, was reelected by a landslide, nearly as large as Nixon's 1972 margin. For many years, he largely stayed out for the limelight. He went into the motel business, but the business ultimately foundered and he was forced to fold. McGovern later admitted in late 1990, "I wish I had had a better sense of what it took to [meet a payroll] when I was in Washington." In 1991, he surprised nearly everyone when he supported President George Bush's campaign to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait, which culminated in The Persian Gulf War. McGovern defended this by claiming that Hussein was a great threat to the entire region. In 1994, he was hit with personal tragedy when one of his daughters, Teresa, died of exposure while intoxicated. She had been an alcoholic for many years who had been unable to overcome the addiction. McGovern became involved in helping the relatives of alcoholics. In 1998, President Bill Clinton as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, a post he held until 2001.
In more recent years, he has become an advocate for the withdraw of U.S. troops from Iraq. - Jimmy Mirikitani was born on 15 June 1920 in Sacramento, California, USA. He died on 21 October 2012 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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Rodolfo Santana was born on 25 October 1944 in Guarenas, Miranda, Venezuela. He was a writer and composer, known for Fin de round (1992), Los criminales (1982) and La empresa perdona un momento de locura (1978). He died on 21 October 2012 in Caracas, Venezuela.- Director
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Run Wrake was born on 24 November 1963 in Yemen. He was a director and writer, known for Rabbit (2005), The Control Master (2008) and Liquid Television (1991). He was married to Lisa O'Neill. He died on 21 October 2012 in Ashford, Kent, England, UK.- Actress
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Betty grew up in the seaside gated community Seagate in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, NY to parents Samuel and Sarah, and lived with her parents until age 20 when she married. She attended PS 188, Mark Twain Junior High School, and Lincoln High School. As a child she studied classical piano. On October 15, 1944 she married classical violinist Julius Schulman, a marriage that lasted until his death on September 9, 2000. They lived together in Pittsburgh, PA, Forest Hills, NY, New Orleans, LA, Natick, MA, Manhattan, San Antonio, TX, and Culver City, CA. Betty and Julius had two children, Margaret, and J. Neil Schulman, whom they raised in Forest Hills, NY, New Orleans, LA, and Natick, MA. During her adult years, beginning in Forest Hills, Betty painted, mostly still life, landscapes and cityscapes, in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. She frequently threw parties and dinner parties for her husband that included musicians including Aaron Rosand, Eileen Flissler, Thomas Scherman, Bernard Herrmann, Joshua Bell, Lawrence Leighton Smith, and many others. In 2006 she financed, co-executive-produced, and acted the role of "Grandma" in her son's feature film, 'Lady Magdalene's'_.- Kazimierz Iwinski was born on 14 September 1918 in Kielce, Swietokrzyskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for The Quack (1982), Linia (1975) and Opowiesc Harleya (1988). He died on 21 October 2012 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Lami Ates was born on 8 October 1943 in Malatya, Turkey. He was an actor, known for Külhanbeyler krali (1967), Hürriyet Için (1969) and Kamalinin Intikami (1972). He died on 21 October 2012.
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Ludmila Goldschmidová was born on 2 June 1930 in Vysoká pri Morave, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]. Ludmila is known for Utekajme, uz ide! (1987). Ludmila died on 21 October 2012.- Alfred Kumalo was born on 5 September 1930 in Alexandra, South Africa. He was an actor, known for Elephant Gun (1958), The Bang Bang Club (2010) and South Africa in Pictures (2010). He died on 21 October 2012 in Johannesburg, South Africa.