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Legendary Broadway actress Carol Channing died early Tuesday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., her publicist announced. She was 97.

“It is with extreme heartache, that I have to announce the passing of an original Industry Pioneer, Legend and Icon — Miss Carol Channing,” B Harlan Boll told Broadway World in a statement. Boll said the Broadway icon had twice suffered strokes in the last year.

“I admired her before I met her, and have loved her since the day she stepped … or fell rather … into my life,” she said. “It is so very hard to see the final curtain lower on a woman who has been a daily part of my life for more than a third of it. We supported each other, cried with each other, argued with each other, but always ended up laughing with each other.”

Channing, who was born Jan 31, 1921, in Seattle, got her start as gold digger Lorelei Lee in the 1949 Broadway play “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.” In 1964, she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of matchmaker Dolly Levi in “Hello, Dolly!” — a character she embodied in almost 5,000 performances.

“I’ll never forget it,” she told The Post of her signature song in 2009. “I’m still in love with the Broadway show of it.”

The role was so iconic she was often invited to perform at major events, including the 1964 Democratic convention where she sang “Hello, Lyndon,” for Lyndon B. Johnson’s campaign.

She once called the role of Dolly Levi, “as deep as Lady MacBeth,” but added: “The essence of the character was her unquenchable thirst for life.”

That sentence could have also been used to describe Channing, who credited her eternal ebullience and optimism to her lifelong faith in Christian Science.

Channing performed in other Broadway shows but none with the same type of magnetism and charisma. Still, she was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical three other times — in 1956 for “The Vamp,” 1961 for “Show Girl” and 1974 for “Lorelei.”

The warmly engaging performer revealed in a 1994 interview that she was first drawn to the stage after seeing Ethel Waters sing when she was in the fourth grade.

She credited her father, a newspaper editor, with encouraging her to pursue that dream.

“He told me you can dedicate yourself at 7 or 97. And the people who do that are happier people.”

Channing, who grew up in San Francisco, followed her dream to Bennington College in Vermont where she majored in drama and dance.

There, she was sent to get more experience in her field in New York and found a gig at a review that lasted only two weeks — though a New Yorker critic remarked: “You will hear more about a satiristic chanteuse named Carol Channing.”

Later, Channing commented of that experience: “That was it. I said goodbye to trigonometry, zoology and English literature.”

In 1995, she was the recipient of the 1995 Lifetime Achievement Tony Award.

Channing also appeared in several movies, including “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” in which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress,” and “The First Traveling Saleslady” and “Skidoo.”

She was often asked to perform on television and in nightclubs and partnered with George Burns in Las Vegas and on a national tour for a time.

Channing was less lucky in love, having two early marriages that ended in divorce and an unhappy relationship with her third husband.

The first nuptials were to writer Theodore Naidish when she was 20 in 1941. The couple lived near Naidish’s grandparents in Brighton Beach, and Channing recalled learning to speak fluent Yiddish from her husband’s grandfather.

Her second husband, Alexander Carson, played center for the Ottawa Rough Riders Canadian football team. They had one son together, editorial cartoonist Channing Lowe.

Then in 1956, Channing wed her manager and publicist Charles Lowe, whom she remained married to for 42 years.

She filed for divorce in 1998, alleging that he misappropriated her funds and humiliated her in public. She said they’d only had sex twice in their four decades of marriage. Lowe died before the divorce was finalized.

Years later, Channing rekindled a romance with her junior high school sweetheart Harry Kullijian. They married in 2003 — the same year her best-selling memoir “Just Lucky I Guess” was published — and lived in Rancho Mirage. He died in 2011 at 91.

Channing’s love affair with live performance never dwindled.

“Some people don’t realize what a delicate craft it is,” she told The Post in 2009. “It’s an art to reach the audience. They’ve saved their hard-earned money, gotten babysitters, driven in from everywhere — long distances, short distances, gotten on the subway.

“All you know is you’ve got to reach them. You’ve got to keep your mind on lifting their lives, not my life. I’m not there for my own pleasure.”

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The woman who created and sold what many recognise as the world's first word processor has died aged 93.

Evelyn Berezin called the device the Data Secretary when, in 1971, her company Redactron launched the product.

She grew Redactron from nine employees to close to 500 and was named one of the US's top leaders by BusinessWeek magazine in the year she sold it, 1976.

She had earlier built one of the original computerised airline reservation systems.

The innovation - which matched customers and available seats - was tested by United Airlines in 1962.

According to the Computer History Museum, it had a one-second response time and worked for 11 years without any central system failures.

The technology vied with the rival Sabre system, developed by American Airlines, for being the first of its kind.

In addition, Ms Berezin helped pioneer other types of special-purpose computing including:

an automated banking system
a weapons-targeting calculator for the US Defense Department
terminals for a horse-racing track that monitored how much money was being bet on each animal

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In an interview in 2015, Ms Berezin explained that she had decided to set up her own business in the mid-60s after coming to the conclusion that her prospects were limited so long as she was employed by someone else.

She said that she had initially considered developing an electronic cash register but ultimately opted to create what would become known as a word processor instead.

She said: "6% of all the people in the United States who worked were secretaries.

"At the time we started, which was in 1968 to 1969, nobody really had any desk-type computers on which you could write a word-processing program that a secretary would use.

"I know that desktop computers seem obvious now but it wasn't so then."

At the time, the nearest equivalent was a machine by IBM called the MT/ST - a typewriter with magnetic tape recording and playback facilities.

IBM's marketing referred to a "word processor", but the machine relied on relay switches rather than computer chips, had been targeted at military equipment makers rather than the wider business market, and in Ms Berezin's mind was "klutzy".

"We were committed to building a computer to run our system and we knew that we had to use integrated circuits because it was the only way we could make it small enough and cheap enough and reliable enough to sell," Ms Berezin said.

Her machine - which stood about 1m (3ft 3in) tall - featured a keyboard, cassette drives, control electronics and a printer.

It could record and play back what the user had typed, allowing it to be edited or reprinted.

The original model lacked a monitor, and soon faced competition from a rival, the Lexitron, which did.

But later versions of the Data Secretary did include a screen.
Sparks and water

The project nearly ended in disaster.

Ms Berezin had intended to buy the processors required from Intel, which had gone into business in 1968. But it said it was too busy dealing with orders for its memory chips.

The solution was that Redactron had to design some of the chips required itself and provide the schematics to two manufacturers.

There were further problems with a prototype when it was put on display in a New York hotel for reporters to see.

The issue was that in dry weather, it was prone to a build-up of static electricity, which caused sparks to fly between its circuits, preventing it from working.

"To our horror it was a dry day and the engineers were setting this non-working machine up for our big story," Ms Berezin said.

"Ed Wolf [our head of engineering brought] a full pail of water and without a word to anyone throws the pail of water over the whole thick carpet in the room.

"The water sank into the carpet, which stayed damp for three or four hours, and the machine worked perfectly."

The first production machine was delivered to a customer in September 1971. And over the following year, Redactron sold or rented more than 770 others, excluding demo units.

Over the following years, demand grew but the company's finances came under strain, in part because of high interest rates and a recession that meant clients wanted to rent rather than buy its products.

"We were told by the bank to sell the company and they had somebody they knew who was interested," said Ms Berezin.

"At the time, I was distraught about it."

She went to work for the purchaser, the business equipment-maker Burroughs Corporation. But it proved to be an ill match.

"I was not one of them - I told them what I thought - a loud woman they did not know how to deal with," she said.

"So, they disconnected and so did I."

Ms Berezin left the company around 1980, after which she became involved in venture capital and sat on other companies' boards before becoming involved with Stony Brook University.

The New York Times reported that a nephew had confirmed she had died on 8 December in Manhattan after turning down treatment for cancer.

One of the remaining Data Secretary word processors can be seen on display at the Computer History Museum in California.
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George H.W. Bush was the definition of establishment success: Yale graduate. Prosperous business career. Forty-first president of the United States.

But to one admittedly biased observer, the elder Bush has always been shortchanged.

"As a result of him being a one-term president, historians hadn't paid much attention to him," George W. Bush told NPR in a 2014 interview. He called his father "one of the greatest one-term presidents in the nation's history."

George Herbert Walker Bush died Friday at the age of 94. He had been hospitalized for low blood pressure and fatigue in May, a week after arriving in Maine to spend the summer.

There were fears that after his wife, Barbara, died in April, Bush might die, too. He was admitted to the hospital with a blood infection on April 23, one day after the funeral for the former first lady, and remained there for 13 days.

He was hospitalized again in May for low blood pressure and fatigue a week after arriving in Maine to spend the summer. He was released a few days later and celebrated his birthday on June 12 — making history by becoming the first former president to reach the age of 94.

Bush was the patriarch of a political dynasty that included one son who served as president, another as a governor and a grandson who currently holds statewide office in Texas

The senior Bush had a lifetime of public service before he became president — as a young Navy pilot in World War II, Texas congressman, CIA director and faithful vice president to Ronald Reagan.

"His loyalty to Ronald Reagan was legendary," said biographer Timothy Naftali. "He did not always agree with Ronald Reagan. And he was so secretive about those moments where he disagreed, we don't even have good documentation — at least not available yet — on when he disagreed."

Bush famously disagreed with Reagan when he ran against him in the Republican primary of 1980. Bush branded Reagan's supply-side faith that government could slash tax rates without losing revenue as "voodoo economic policy."

History would prove that assessment right. Reagan later had to reverse some of his tax cuts in the face of mounting deficits. But by the time Bush ran to succeed Reagan, he knew what it took to win the confidence of conservative Republicans.

"Read my lips," Bush pledged at the 1988 GOP convention. "No new taxes."

Bush trounced Democrat Michael Dukakis that year to win the White House. But he ultimately backtracked on his lip-reading promise. During 1990 budget negotiations with Democratic congressional leaders, Bush, like Reagan before him, agreed to a tax increase.

His press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, recalled a budget meeting where the deal was presented.

"The minute I saw it, I looked around the table and the Democrats looked like the cat who ate the canary," Fitzwater said. "They knew they had negotiated a winner."

The tax hike cut the deficit, but it cost Bush dearly with conservatives. Years later, he would receive a Profile in Courage award from John F. Kennedy's grandson, who said, "America's gain was President Bush's loss."

Bush's most notable accomplishments in the White House came in the area of foreign policy. While Reagan is often credited with winning the Cold War, it was Bush who successfully navigated the aftermath. His low-key approach avoided inflaming communist hard-liners and allowed for the peaceful breakup of the Soviet Union.

"The soft landing that occurred, which was not inevitable, is in large measure due to George H.W. Bush's diplomacy," said Naftali.

Bush, who served as U.S. envoy to China as well as a globe-trotting vice president, had a thick Rolodex and plenty of experience working the phones. His lifetime of foreign contacts also came in handy when Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait in 1990. Bush methodically assembled an international coalition to push them back.

A five-week bombing campaign was followed by a 100-hour ground assault that routed the Iraqis from Kuwait. Some wanted allied troops to push on to Baghdad and topple Saddam Hussein. But Bush said no.

"The president's decision was we are not going on to Baghdad," the late diplomat Lawrence Eagleburger recalled. "If we do, we will have violated the agreement we have with our allies, which was to bring Saddam out of Kuwait. It was not to bring Saddam down. And in addition, it will tie us into an area where we cannot be sure how soon we can withdraw."

Bush's son George W. would revisit that decision a dozen years later, with costly results.

The first Gulf War was a clear victory for U.S. forces. As commander in chief, George H.W. Bush saw his approval ratings soar to nearly 90 percent. His lock on a second term seemed so solid, many national Democrats opted to sit out the 1992 election, leaving it to the governor of a small Southern state to challenge him.

Bill Clinton had one big advantage, though: the economy, stupid. As the country sank into recession, Bush's popularity sank with it. There was no parachute or soft landing this time. He lost a three-way race in the November election, carrying just 38 percent of the vote.

More than two decades later, George W. Bush, who experienced his own roller coaster ride in the polls, wrote an affectionate portrait of his father, titled 41.

"I want people to better appreciate George Bush, as not only a great person but a very successful president," the younger Bush said.

Bush was also the linchpin of a political dynasty that now spans four generations — including a second son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ran for the White House and lost in the 2016 Republican primaries as Donald Trump became the dominant force in a GOP that had evolved far from where it was when the 41st president was in office.

Whatever the senior Bush's political shortcomings, hindsight has cast his presidency in a kinder, gentler light.
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Marvel legend Stan Lee, who revolutionized pop culture as the co-creator of iconic superheroes like Spider-Man and The Hulk who now dominate the world's movie screens, has died. He was 95 years old.

Lee, the face of comic book culture in the United States, died early Monday in Los Angeles, according to US entertainment outlets including The Hollywood Reporter. He had suffered a number of illnesses in recent years.

"My father loved all of his fans," his daughter told Hollywood monitor TMZ. "He was the greatest, most decent man."

The New Yorker, known for his distinctive tinted glasses and impish grin, frequently appeared at fan events where he was revered.

Lee ended up in the comics business by accident, thanks to an uncle who got him a job when he was a teenager filling artists' inkwells and fetching coffee.

"I felt someday I'd write the 'Great American Novel' and I didn't want to use my real name on these silly little comics," he once said, explaining why he had forsaken his given name, Stanley Lieber.

Lee rose through the ranks to become a comics writer, making millions of superhero fans dream of his fantastic universes and humans with extraordinary powers, and eventually led the Marvel empire for decades as its publisher.

From Spidey to Black Panther to the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, Lee collaborated with other authors and illustrators to put his lively imagination on the page.

Iron Man, Thor and Doctor Strange would follow -- and today, all three heroes have multi-film franchises that rake in hundreds of millions of dollars.

Lee has appeared in cameo roles in nearly every Marvel movie -- including as a bus driver in "Avengers: Infinity War," a film that united many of the indelible characters he brought to life.

"Awww man, heartbreaking. R.I.P. to a true pioneer and legend," tweeted Australian filmmaker James Wan, who directed many of the "Saw" and "Insidious" movies as well as helming "Aquaman," an upcoming superhero film based on the character by Marvel rival DC Comics.

"My youth wouldn't have been the same without him. So grateful to have met the guy, and told him how thankful I was for his work. #stanlee"
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Veteran Nigerian highlife musician, Emmanuel Ntia, has passed on at 94.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria,NAN, Ntia who was well known for his major hit, ‘The Fish Song’, which rocked dance halls in the late sixties and early seventies died on Monday in his hometown, Abak, Akwa Ibom.

Ntai bagged COSON Roll of Honour at the society’s 5th Anniversary in Lagos in 2015 for his outstanding contributions to the defence of the rights of creative people in Nigeria.

In his tribute, COSON Chairman, Tony Okoroji praised late Emmanuel Ntia for his “unsurpassed dedication” to the cause of musicians in Nigeria.

“Emmanuel Ntia was a truly great and ageless Nigerian performer who stood for what he believed in till the end.

“Despite our significant age difference, he treated me like his brother and was one of my great supporters both in my roles as President of PMAN and Chairman of COSON.

“There was nothing anyone could have given Ntia that would have made him abandon COSON.

“He was 100% committed to the COSON cause and will be remembered forever,” he said.
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Legendary Armenian-Turkish photographer Ara Guler, famed for his iconic pictures of Istanbul, which brought him the nickname "The Eye of Istanbul," has died aged 90, state media said.

Guler won fame with extraordinary black-and-white images that captured almost three-quarters of a century of the city's history.

Guler, one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers, died on October 17 of heart failure in an Istanbul clinic, state-run news agency Anadolu said.

Guler, an ethnic Armenian, became internationally known as a photographer after he was hired by U.S. magazine Time-Life in 1958.

His photos were published in such periodicals as Paris Match, Stern, Sunday Times, and others.

During his long career, Guler also took pictures of Winston Churchill, Indira Gandhi, Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Salvador Dali, Federico Fellini, Pablo Picasso, and many other celebrities.

Guler was a familiar face in Istanbul. Even during the last months of his life he could regularly be seen at the outside tables of the cafe he owned -- the Ara Cafe -- in central Istanbul, which is adorned with his pictures.

A photography museum bearing his name opened in Istanbul in August this year.
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Presenter of long-running children’s show and actor in Z Cars dies in hospital

Remembering the strong and silent star of Rainbow, writes Stuart Jeffries

Matthew Weaver

Geoffrey Hayes, the relentlessly cheery adult in the room in the long-running children’s TV show Rainbow, has died at the age of 76.

Hayes was known for maintaining a smiley order over the puppets on the popular ITV show while dressed in lurid outfits such as floral shirts or yellow dungarees for more than 1,000 episodes between 1974 and 1992.

Hayes was surrounded by his family when he died in hospital from pneumonia, according to his agent, Phil Dale. “Geoffrey passed away in hospital with his wife, Sarah, and son, Tom, by his side,” Dale said.

“The family would like to express their thanks to the many fans over the years, as it always gave Geoffrey so much pleasure to know that he and his Rainbow team had given so much fun to TV and theatre audiences over the years.

The pre-school show was seen as a British answer to the US children’s hit show Sesame Street, but on a much cheaper budget. It featured three other characters: Bungle, a boyish teddybear played by various actors in a bear suit, and two puppets – George, a slow-witted pink hippo, and Zippy, a know-it-all yellow felt robot with a grating voice.

Hayes presided with a gleeful enthusiasm and occasional flash of exasperation. Hayes’ threat to silence Zippy by fastening up his mouth was the one element of suspense on the show.

He said the secret to the programme’s popularity was that it was full of “magic, innocence and imagination”. He added: “Practically all the time people come up to me and it really breaks me up because they thank me for being part of their childhood. It makes me want to cry sometimes.”

Hayes did have other acting roles, including stint as DC Scatliff in the BBC series Z Cars. But after Rainbow he struggled to find work and complained of being typecast as the Rainbow presenter.

“Directors could only think of me as Rainbow’s Geoffrey”, he told the Daily Express. He even spent time stacking shelves at a Sainsbury supermarket.

Later he embraced his association with Rainbow by appearing in a nostalgic stage version of the programme at the Edinburgh festival.

He also appeared in pantomimes and TV gameshows including an episode of Never Mind the Buzzcocks in 2002 and Pointless Celebrities in 2015. He joked that the one good thing to come out of the cancellation of the Rainbow was earning “loads of money as an ironic postmodern icon”.

Ronnie Le Drew, the actor who played Zippy, said “We’ll all miss him terribly”. Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live he added: “He was really kind to everybody and always charming.”

Tributes to Hayes reflected the affection for the show from those who grew up in the 1970s and 80s. His death comes just four days after that of John Cunliffe, the creator of another children’s TV favourite Postman Pat.

“Another part of the 1980s childhood has gone,” tweeted the former Labour MP Tom Blenkinsop.

Broadcaster Tony Shepherd tweeted the same sentiments.
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The legendary French singer Charles Aznavour -- who said last week he wanted to breathe his last on stage -- has died aged 94, his spokeswoman told AFP Monday.

The songwriter, who had just returned from a concert tour of Japan, passed away at his home in Alpilles in southeastern France.

The veteran French actor Alain Delon said his old friend had "died in his sleep".

"I loved that man. I am in bits," he told AFP.

Aznavour had to cancel several shows after breaking his arm in a fall earlier this year.

But as late as Friday the diminutive singer told French television that though his Swedish-born wife wanted him to stop, he would happily die on stage.

"I always go forwards. I have no reverse gear," he said.

"All I can do is live, and I live on stage. I am happy up there."

The singer had planned to go back on tour later this month, starting with a concert in Brussels on October 26 and his hometown Paris a fortnight later.

His doctor Jean Abitbol said his voice had "practically never aged. He knew how to look after it and lived a rigorously healthy life, which was rare for his time.

"He wanted to die on stage like (the playwright) Moliere, and that is kind of what he did," he told French TV.

French President Emmanuel Macron led the tributes, praising his "unique brilliance".

"Proudly French, viscerally attached to his Armenian roots... Charles Aznavour accompanied three generations through their joys and pains," he said.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called him "a national hero".

British star Sting -- who recorded "Love is New Everyday" in 2009 with the man who he said "had inspired me for so many years" -- told AFP that Aznavour "may be gone but what he leaves is eternal".

- Dramatic delivery -

Multilingual and a tireless traveller, Aznavour pioneered a new, highly emotional way of performing, turning every song into "a one-act play".

In the English-speaking world he was often dubbed France's Frank Sinatra.

But unlike the American crooner, he wrote his own songs, often breaking taboos about marriage, homosexuality and men talking about their emotions.

He was born Shahnour Varinag Aznavourian in Paris on May 22, 1924, to parents who had fled the massacres in their homeland as the Ottoman empire collapsed.

Aznavour went on to sell more than 180 million records in a career spanning eight decades.

Ironically, his favourite song was one of the few in his repertoire he didn't write himself, "La Boheme".

- Family of Resistance heroes -

His family were heroes of the resistance against the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, regularly risking death to hide Jews and Communist partisans in their Paris apartment.

He began performing in their little restaurant with his sister when he was a child.

Aznavour got his big break after the war when he opened for the then rising French star Edith Piaf.

She took him to America as her manager and songwriter while he worked on his voice.

The two lived and drank together but Aznavour said they were never lovers.

"We loved each other but it was not sexual. She wasn't my type. It's very important to have a type," he said.

Aznavour had his first number one hit in 1956 with "Sur Ma Vie" (In My Life). That was followed by one of his biggest hits, "Je M'voyais Deja" (It Will Be My Day).

But it was his leading role in Francois Truffaut's film "Shoot the Piano Player" in 1960 that catapulted him to international fame.

- 'I learned tolerance' -

Buoyed by its success he took New York's Carnegie Hall by storm in 1963 before touring the world and seeing his songs recorded by stars from Ray Charles to Liza Minnelli and Fred Astaire.

His classic "For Me... Formidable" followed while the romantic ballad "She" was a huge international hit before going on to feature in the film "Notting Hill".

As he grew older, Aznavour loved nothing more than toying with his audiences over his advanced age, pretending to trip or to forget his lyrics.

"I'm very old you know," he liked to say, "Too old."

A campaigner for the massacres of up to 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1917 to be recognised as genocide, Aznavour pleaded for respect for difference and for other cultures in his last interview.

"Tolerance is the most important thing" for humanity, he said last week.

An early champion of gay rights, he also claimed to be "100 percent feminist. A man always should put himself in a woman's place," he said.

The poet of the lovelorn and broken-hearted, Aznavour married twice before meeting his wife of half a century, Swede Ulla Thorsel.

The best man at their wedding was Sammy Davis Junior.

"The first time (I married) I was too young, the second I was too stupid, and the third I married a woman from a different culture and I learned tolerance," said the father of six.

"I am from hot and she is from cold. We have managed for the best."

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