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Fay Vincent, baseball commissioner during three years of turmoil, dies at 86
NEW YORK (AP) — Fay Vincent, who became an unexpected baseball commissioner in 1989 following the death of A. Bartlett Giamatti and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86. Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and developed complications that included bleeding, said his wife, Christina. He asked that treatment be stopped and died Saturday at a hospital in Vero Beach, Florida.
Obit Vincent
Fay Vincent, who became baseball commissioner in 1989 and then was forced out three years later by owners intent on a labor confrontation with players, has died. He was 86. Vincent had undergone radiation and chemotherapy for bladder cancer and developed complications, according to his wife, Christina. He asked that treatment be stopped and died Saturday at a hospital in Vero Beach, Florida.
Happy 50th 'SNL!' Here's a look back at the show's very first cast
NEW YORK (AP) — Live from New York! It's 50 seasons later for “SNL.” The landmark NBC sketch comedy show “Saturday Night Live” premiered Oct. 11, 1975, with drop-dead dark humor and pratfalls, George Carlin as host and not one but two musical guests: Billy Preston and Janis Ian. On Saturday nights, in those early years, young people gathered around TVs to watch the Lorne Michaels production that served up counterculture to the mass market via the Not Ready for Prime Time Players.
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The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him
NEW YORK (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy act, once again, with Martin Short. It’s such a confounding string of chapters that Martin has typically only approached his life piecemeal or schizophrenically.
The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him
This is an abridged version of ENT-Film-Steve Martin (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy act, once again, with Martin Short.
The irony of Steve Martin's life isn't lost on him
This is an abridged version of ENT-Film-Steve Martin (AP) — Steve Martin has long marveled at the many phases of his life. There’s his youth as a Disneyland performer, surrounded by vaudeville performers and magicians. A decade as a stand-up before the sudden onset of stadium-sized popularity. An abrupt shift to movies. Later, a new chapter as a banjo player, a father and, a comedy act, once again, with Martin Short.
Yusuf Hawkins Death
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Yusuf Hawkins Death
Joseph Serrano, left, one of the defendants in the Bensonhurst trials, arrives at the Brooklyn State Supreme Court in New York, before the sentencing of Keith Mondello, June 12, 1990. Mondello was sentenced to the maximum penalty of five and one-third to 16 years in prison for his role in the mob-inflamed killing of African-American teen Yusuf Hawkins. Serrano is scheduled to go to trial Nov. 5. Others in photo are unidentified.
Yusuf Hawkins Death
Keith Mondello leaves Brooklyn State Supreme Court in New York, May 15, 1990, following the seventh day of deliberations in which the jury has yet to reach a verdict in the Bensonhurst racial slaying case. Mondello is the alleged ringleader of a white mob that confronted Yusuf Hawkins last summer.
Yusuf Hawkins Death
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Yusuf Hawkins Death
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Tawana Brawley
...GALE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT... * WHAT...North winds 20 to 30 kt with gusts up to 40 kt and very rough waters. * WHERE...Pamlico, Pungo, Neuse, and Bay Rivers. * WHEN...Until midnight EDT tonight. * IMPACTS...Strong winds will cause hazardous seas which could capsize or damage vessels and reduce visibility. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... Mariners should alter plans to avoid these hazardous conditions.
Jackie Mason, comic who perfected amused outrage, dies at 93
FILE - In this Nov. 24, 1988, file photo, comedian Jackie Mason, right, hosts TV personality Morton Downey Jr. during a live radio broadcast from Golden's Restaurant on West 51st Street in New York. Mason was also hosting the traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner for theater people working on the holiday. Mason, a rabbi-turned-jokester whose feisty brand of standup comedy got laughs from nightclubs in the Catskills to West Coast talk shows and Broadway stages, has died. He was 93.
Cuomo Housing
New York's Mayor Edward I. Koch, left, Andrew Cuomo, the governor's son, shake hands at a news conference in New York, Oct. 30, 1988. Along with Gov. Mario Cuomo, they announced two transitional housing facilities with a total of 300 apartment units for the homeless will be built in the Bronx as part of the HELP program, which the younger Cuomo founded. At far right is Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer. (AP Photo/Frankie Ziths) Frankie Ziths You don't have any notifications.
Beat poet, publisher Lawrence Ferlinghetti dies at 101
FILE - Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti appears in Oct. 8, 1988. Ferlinghetti, a poet, publisher and bookseller has died in San Francisco at age 101. His son says Ferlinghetti died at home on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. Ferlinghetti helped launch and perpetuate the Beat movement. He was known for his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, an essential meeting place for the Beats and other bohemians in the 1950s and beyond.
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2020
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
NYC's first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, has died
FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 1, 1990, file photo, Mayor David Dinkins, left, gets a hug from South African Bishop Desmond Tutu after Dinkins was sworn-in as New York City's first Black mayor, at inaugural ceremonies at City Hall in New York. Dinkins, New York City’s first African-American mayor, died Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. He was 93.
NYC's first African-American mayor, David Dinkins, has died
NEW YORK (AP) — David Dinkins, who broke barriers as New York City’s first African-American mayor, but was doomed to a single term by a soaring murder rate, stubborn unemployment and his mishandling of a race riot in Brooklyn, has died. He was 93.
NYC protests throught the years, in photos
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Activist Chicago priest, George Clements, dead at age 87
FILE - In a Jan. 22, 1990 file photo, Dick Gregory, left, looks at a sign held by Father George Clements of Chicago during a press conference in New York, to introduce their campaign to combat drug use in Times Square. The Rev. George Clements, the Chicago priest whose civil rights and social justice activism prompted the making of a movie about his life died Monday, Nov. 25, 2019 in a Hammond, Indiana hospital according to the Archdiocese of Chicago. He was 87.
"Romeo and Juliet" director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
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Today in History
Today is Sunday, June 10, the 161st day of 2018. There are 204 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 10, 1978, Affirmed, ridden by Steve Cauthen, won the 110th Belmont Stakes to claim horse racing's 11th Triple Crown.
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