Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies at 84 in NYC

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 ...

Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies at 84 in NYC
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 2010 Winter Games. A native New Yo...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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London 2012 Olympics get 2 million request tickets
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Remembering Benazir Bhutto: 'She Gave Her Life to Her People'
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Glimpse Of Horizon
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Boxing turns to silver screen for silver lining
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Jeff Bridges Almost Told Coen Brothers No On 'The Big Lebowski' (VIDEO)
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Big-name sports follow the money to the Gulf
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It was hardly a marquee moment in the history of world sports. Curious crowds on a Middle Eastern beach watched events that included horse riders slicing a lemon with a sword and a cousin of croquet called woodball. Yet there was the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, looking on from the VIP seats and then coming down to present some medals at the Asian Beach Games in Oman earlier this month. If Rogge seemed out of place, he ...

Yiying Lu makes splash with Twitter's 'fail whale'
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Simon Deng: Christians Prepare for Independence in Sudan, the Frontline of the War on Terror
On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million - mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions - will vote on whether to become an independent nation. Since the 1950’s, war has raged between the Islamist government of Sudan based in the capital, Khartoum, and the Christian and animist South. Between 1955 and 1972, one and a half million Sudanese Christians and animists were killed by Sudan’s Islamist government. From the ...

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
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Janet Napolitano Unveils New TSA Public Relations Campaign
So do the rich and powerful. Many people who live oil rich nations are poor because their rich powerful leaders need palaces and foreign Zionists invade and steal their natural resources to fund their infliction of misery and exploitation of the "poor, innocent, and the weak". Your thoughts, korrect tho they be, are not sufficently korrect enough for the Cube. Here, we can cure your weak Liberalism with STRONG Communism . The reason they are so poor is because their glorious leaders ...

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Mexican soldiers on trial in death of U.S. citizen
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Mexican Soldiers Charged With Killing American, Planting Evidence
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Devoted single father grateful for new apartment
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Mexican troops killed US citizen, documents show
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