Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies at 84 in NYC

Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies at 84 in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — The trailblazing filmmaker who spent decades documenting the stories of Olympic athletes has died. Bud Greenspan was 84. Greenspan’s companion Nancy Beffa says he died Saturday from complications of Parkinson’s disease at his home in New York City. The award-winning filmmaker was known for documentaries chronicling athletes and their stories at both Winter and Summer Olympics. Beffa said his most recent work dealt with the rough cuts of films from the Vancouver ...

Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies at 84 in NYC
Bud Greenspan, the filmmaker whose documentaries often soared as triumphantly as the Olympic athletes he chronicled for more than six decades, died at his home in New York City. He was 84. He died Saturday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, companion Nancy Beffa said. Greenspan’s most recent work dealt with the rough cuts of films from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. The award-winning filmmaker unapologetically focused on both the large and small successes of the athletes i...

Olympic Filmmaker Bud Greenspan Dies At 84
Oh, to catch Bud Greenspan's eye and then turn up in one of his Olympic documentaries. For many athletes, from the famous to the obscure, the honor ranked just behind winning a medal. The filmmaker, whose riveting tales soared as triumphantly as the men and women he chronicled for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home in New York City of complications from Parkinson's disease, companion Nancy Beffa said. He was 84. "Bud was a storyteller first and foremost. He never lost his sense of ...

Bud Greenspan Dies: Olympic Filmmaker Dead At 84 In NYC
Oh, to catch Bud Greenspan's eye and then turn up in one of his Olympic documentaries. For many athletes, from the famous to the obscure, the honor ranked just behind winning a medal. The filmmaker, whose riveting tales soared as triumphantly as the men and women he chronicled for more than six decades, died Saturday at his home in New York City of complications from Parkinson's disease, companion Nancy Beffa said. He was 84. "Bud was a storyteller first and foremost. He never lost his sense o...

Olympics documentary filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies
Los Angeles | Sun Dec 26, 2010 3:44pm EST Los Angeles (Reuters) - Olympic Games documentarian Bud Greenspan, whose stirring portraits of athletic triumph helped define the modern games, died in New York on Saturday after a battle with Parkinson's disease, his film company said. He was 84. Greenspan uncovered the stories of hundreds of athletes, famous and obscure, ensuring that generations never forgot the perseverance that each of them displayed. Perhaps his most famous memorable story was o...

David Wallechinsky: Bud Greenspan, Olympic Filmmaker
Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan died in New York City, at age 84, on December 25, 2010, with his partner and business associate, Nancy Beffa, by his side. As the vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, I had the honor of presenting Bud, during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, one of our awards, the Vikelas Plaque, for his contributions to Olympic History. As I said that day in Vancouver, it was I who felt honored to have the opportunity to express my appreciation ...

Olympic Filmmaker Bud Greenspan Dies
Film Director Bud Greenspan died at home in New York City on December 25, 2010. Prolific sports filmmaker Bud Greenspan died of Parkinson's disease at his New York City home on Christmas Day. He was 84. The New York Times reflects on his work, including the massive 1976 production 'The Olympiad', which stretches 22 hours and required years of research to tell stories of famous athletes and the lesser known. On Greenspan's website, a former U.S. Olympic spokesman says the filmmaker 'did more than...

Three killed in suicide car bombing in Afghanistan
A Suicide car bombing in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them policemen, authorities said. South Afghanistan, a traditional Taliban stronghold, has seen some of the worst fighting this year between the Militants and foreign and Afghan Troops. President Hamid Karzai issued a statement condemning the attack. The car exploded at midday near a police compound and a branch of Kabul Bank in the crowded center of the city, said N...

Chinese road accident kills 14 school children
Beijing | Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:25am EST Beijing (Reuters) - A three-wheeled vehicle plunged into a creek in foggy conditions in central China on Monday killing at least 14 Children on their way to Primary School, state media reported. The accident happened close to Hengyang city in Hunan Province, state news agency Xinhua said. Nine Children died on the scene while another four died later in Hospital. One child who was initially reported as missing was later found dead and five were being treat...

Chavez bids critical farewell to adversary Perez
Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, whose popularity soared with his country's oil-based economy but who later faced riots, a severe economic downturn and Impeachment in his homeland, has died in Miami, his family said Saturday. The 88-year-old Perez's daughter, Maria Francia Perez, said her father had died in a Miami area Hospital. "He was happy and well when he awoke this morning. Suddenly he had difficulty breathing," she told The Associated Press by telephone...

Hospital Blunder Almost Buried Woman
(NewsCore) - Police in Brazil were investigating Monday after an 88-year-old woman was almost buried alive when a Hospital declared her prematurely dead, Brazilian newspaper G1 reported. A death certificate was issued Dec. 22 for Dona Maria das Dores da Conceicao, claiming high blood pressure and clogged arteries as the cause, and a Funeral was planned. From there, she was due to be taken to a cemetery, before workers preparing her for burial at a Funeral parlor in the eastern city of Ipatinga n...

Veteran Woburn officer killed during robbery
WOBURN - Authorities say a Veteran Woburn Police Officer responding to an armed Robbery at a Department Store has been killed in an exchange of gunfire with one of the suspects. Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone identified the officer as John Maguire. One suspect was also killed and two others were arrested. Leone said Maguire and other officers responded to a Kohl’s store just before 9 p.m. on Sunday to reports of a Robbery at the jewelry counter. Maguire chased two suspects and wa...

Multicultural Jerusalem
Jeffrey Goldberg is in town (Jerusalem, not Boston), and had this to say about our fair city. James Snyder, the director of the stunningly re-imagined and reinvigorated Israel Museum (which I will write about later) brought us to the service, and whispered to me -- when I took note of all the various incongruities -- that "the dirty little secret of Jerusalem is that it is a fully-functioning intercommunal city." I think this is true. Yes, there are terrifically difficult issues (not least of ...

2 Killed, 2 Hurt in Phoenix Strip Club Shooting...
PHOENIX - Phoenix police say a second man has died after a gunman opened fire in a Strip Club. Sgt. Tommy Thompson says the shooting occurred shortly before midnight Sunday at the Great Alaskan Bush Company. Police say a 28-year-old man walked into the club in the 2900 block of Grand Avenue and opened fire, hitting four people before running out of ammunition. "We had a man show up with a hand gun and shot the bouncer at the door and made his way inside and fired off several rounds," said Phoeni...

Suicide Car Bomb Kills 3 in South Afghan City
Like this Story? Share it: Some recent scenes from the War in Afghanistan as Obama's deadline to begin withdrawing Troops nears. (AP) Kandahar, Afghanistan - A Suicide car bombing in the heart of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Monday killed three and wounded 26 people, most of them policemen, authorities said. South Afghanistan, a traditional Taliban stronghold, has seen some of the worst fighting this year between the Militants and foreign and Afghan troops. President Hamid Karzai iss...

Doc Says Teen Unfit for Stabbing Trial
TYLER, Texas - A teenager accused of fatally stabbing his teacher in an East Texas classroom last year has a "low probability" of maintaining a level of competence required for trial, a forensic psychologist wrote to the juvenile judge considering the case. Dr. Emily Fallis observed that the 17-year-old boy remained delusional and dangerous and had few lucid moments in a 2 1/2-hour interview, according to a seven-page report submitted in November and obtained by The Dallas Morning News for a sto...

Suicide bombings kill 17 in Iraq
Twin Suicide bombings rocked a government compound in Iraq's western city of Ramadi on Monday, killing as many as 17 people, a police source said. Details of the attack, the second on the compound this month, remained sketchy with different sources giving varying figures for those killed and injured. "The death toll has risen to 17, most of them police officers, and 47 people have been wounded," said a police official at the site of the attack, speaking on condition of anonymity. He ...

Singer Teena Marie Dies at Age 54
Dec. 27, 2010 Singer Teena Marie died at her California home yesterday of an apparent grand mal or some type of seizure and was found by her daughter Alia Rose. She had lost consciousness and died en route to the Hospital.  Marie had been undergoing treatment for grand mal seizures she had last month. It is unknown whether she had taken medications while under the care of a doctor or what the cause of death was in her case. A famous artist with her great hits such as Lovergirl, Portuguese ...

Olympics filmmaker Greenspan dies at 84
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- Award-winning Olympics documentarian Bud Greenspan has died at age 84, his companion Nancy Beffa said Sunday. Beffa, described the by the Los Angeles Times as Greenspan's business partner and longtime friend, said the filmmaker died Christmas Day at his home in New York, of complications from Parkinson's disease. Greenspan, in addition to being a larger-than-life character and the winner of eight Emmys and a Peabody Award, was also arguably the Olympics' No. 1 fan and ...

Glimpse Of Horizon
Christmas is about family, it’s about being thankful for those you have around you and the life you live. For many it’s being thankful for their faith. The 17 year old daughter of a member in the Department I work in, Regina Nicholson, filmed a documentary about the pain and misery of Cancer she has endured and the faith that helped her get through it all. She has always loved films and her dream is to work in the film industry, behind the camera. The documentary was featured at the...

Remembering Benazir Bhutto: 'She Gave Her Life to Her People'
Monday marks the third anniversary of Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto's Assassination. Two US political Strategists began making a documentary shortly after her death which is being released in the US and Germany this month. The filmmakers talked to SPIEGEL ONLINE about Bhutto's legacy and why she risked everything to devote herself to politics. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Mr. Baughman, you are not a filmmaker by profession. You actually run a political consulting firm which has worked on campaigns for th...

Jeff Bridges Almost Told Coen Brothers No On 'The Big Lebowski' (VIDEO)
The Dude almost did not abide. One of the most memorable characters of the last two decades of film almost never came to be. In the new PBS documentary 'Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides,' the star talks about they hesitation and uncertainty he felt about accepting the role that spawned millions of cult followers. Meeting writers and directors the Coen brothers at a party, the pair told Bridges they had written a role for him. He was excited, but flabbergasted when he read the script. "I said, wha...

Body identified as missing woman
A woman who went missing from her Lincolnshire home earlier this month has been found dead at the coast. Halina Piwowarczyk was reported missing from Sunningdale Drive in Skegness on 18 December. The 56-year-old's body was discovered in the town's seafront area on Christmas Eve, according to Lincolnshire Police. Officers said they were not treating the death of Ms Piwowarczyk as suspicious. ...

Frozen waterfall climber killed
A man has been killed after falling 25 metres (80ft) at one of Cumbria's popular ice climbing spots. More than 30 mountain rescuers were called to the incident at the frozen Cautley Spout waterfall in the Eastern Howgills, south of Kirkby Stephen on Sunday. An air ambulance paramedic was unable to resuscitate the man and he was pronounced dead at the scene. His body was winched off the fell by an RAF Sea King. His climbing companion was unhurt. Cave and mountain rescue teams from Kirkby St...

US R&B singer Teena Marie dead at age 54
US R&B singer Teena Marie, whose hits in the 1980s included "I Need Your Lovin'" and "Lovergirl", has died at the age of 54, police said. Marie was found dead at her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena on Sunday afternoon, according to a police spokesman. The Paramedics were called after her daughter had found her unconscious. The cause of the death was not immediately known. Although she was white, Marie grew up in a predominantly black Los Angeles neighborhood and began singing p...