His body was discovered at his Paisley Park home in Minnesota early on 21 April.
Pop superstar PRINCE has died at the age of 57. Telegraph cricket correspondent Scyld Berry on Tony Crozier Read more Known to many as the voice of West Indies cricket, he began test cricket radio commentary in 1965 when the Caribbean lineup faced Australia and also handled television commentator duties for the BBC, Sky Sports and Australia's Channel Nine. Lucia, studied journalism at Canada's Carleton University before starting his career as a reporter in 1958, working with retired West Indies cricket legend Everton Weekes after becoming an editor at the Barbados Daily News.Ĭozier, a wicket keeper and field hockey goalkeeper in younger days, edited all 22 editions of the West Indies Cricket Annual and wrote "The West Indies: 50 Years of Test Cricket" in 1978. The son of Barbados journalist Jimmy Cozier, a newspaper founder in his homeland and managing editor in St. Cozier (seen here interviewing the great Clive Lloyd) was born in Bridgetown, where the press box at the Kensington Oval cricket grounds is named for him in tribute to his work as a journalist, radio and television analyst and historian. TONY COZIER, a brilliant West Indies cricket writer and commentator for more than a half century, died on May 11 in Barbados, aged 75. The internationally acclaimed director became a member of the Shakespeare Globe Council at London’s Globe Theatre and in 2002 was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Ninagawa’s productions have been performed regularly overseas since he brought his version of the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides to Greece and Italy in 1983. He adapted most of Shakespeare’s works for the stage – including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Richard III – and launched a project to perform the playwright’s entire canon of plays in Saitama prefecture, Ninagawa’s native region north of Tokyo. Ninagawa debuted as a director in 1969 and gained international fame at the 1985 Edinburgh festival when he directed a samurai-style Macbeth in which the actors performed in Japanese kimono on a stage with a giant Buddhist altar. YUKIO NINAGAWA, a Japanese stage director celebrated for his Shakespeare adaptations, died on May 12 in Tokyo, at the age of 80, from pneumonia.
Most of the lawsuit was dismissed in June. Heller told his side of the story in a book, Ruthless: A Memoir, published in 2006. Heller was unhappy with the film and filed suit against Dre, Ice Cube and NBCUniversal.
Heller’s profile rose once again in 2015 with the release of successful NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, in which he was played by actor Paul Giamatti. Heller was accused of ripping NWA off by Ice Cube and Dr Dre, and following the group’s break up in 1991, Ice Cube blasted Heller and the other members of NWA in his track “No Vaseline.” But in 1986, Heller and rapper Eazy-E co-founded Ruthless Records, the label which released NWA’s 1988 debut, Straight Outta Compton, as well as solo projects by Eazy-E and MC Ren and records by other artists like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Michel’le. JERRY HELLER, the music businessman best known for managing seminal West Coast rap group NWA, died September 2, aged 75.īorn in Cleveland in 1940, Heller launched his career in the Sixties and Seventies representing acts such as Elton John, The Who, Pink Floyd, and Marvin Gaye.
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