Among the top horses sired by Dixieland Band, whose progeny earned more than $75.7 million, were Drum Taps, a champion in England and Italy; grade I winner Dixie Union, who also stands at Lane’s End; champion Cotton Carnival; French Oaks (Fr-I) winner Egyptband; and grade/group I winners Spinning Round, Dixie Brass, Alwajeeha, and Sharp Lisa.
Among the top 10 leading North American broodmare sires for the last eight years, Dixieland Band has been represented by mares that have produced 134 stakes winners and $131 million in earnings. He was the leading broodmare sire in 2004 and is ranked seventh on the 2010 list. Two Kentucky Derby (gr. I) winners -- Monarchos in 2001 and Street Sense in 2007 – were produced from daughters of Dixieland Band.
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Actor and activist Corin Redgrave, 70, no cause given:
Mr. Redgrave was a less celebrated performer than his father, who was known for his Shakespearean eloquence, matinee idol good looks and turbulent personal life; or his sisters, who became internationally recognized figures, as glamorous as they were accomplished. But he was a forceful, impassioned actor who became a veteran of the British stage, both in comedies and tragedies, and was especially at home in enduring works by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Noël Coward and Harold Pinter.
He also appeared as a supporting character in many movies, including three for which he was probably best known to American audiences: “In the Name of the Father,” Jim Sheridan’s 1993 film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, about four people falsely accused in the I.R.A. bombing of a pub near London; “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” the popular 1994 comedy starring Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell; and “Persuasion” (1995), Roger Michell’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel.
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Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller, 64, of that horrible pancreatic cancer:
Ms. Mankiller was the Cherokee chief from 1985 to 1995, and during her tenure the nation’s membership more than doubled, to 170,000 from about 68,000.
While many Cherokees live in a 14-county area around the tribal capital of Tahlequah, in eastern Oklahoma, its members are spread throughout the 50 states. The current tribal membership is 290,000, making it the second-largest tribe in the country after the Navajo.
Ms. Mankiller was admired for her tenacity, having fought off two serious diseases, lymphoma and a neuromuscular disorder called myasthenia gravis; recovered from kidney failure that would have killed her had not an older brother given her one of his kidneys; and survived a head-on automobile collision in 1979 that forced her to endure 17 operations and years of physical therapy.
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One-time Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, 64, of cancer:
It was at SEX that McLaren met a green-haired Johnny "Rotten" Lydon, sporting an "I hate Pink Floyd" T-shirt and recruited him to front a group he was managing called the Strand, which he rechristnned the Sex Pistols. The group helped launch Britain's punk scene with its 1977 hit "God Save the Queen," and McLaren proved himself an able pitchman with a number of publicity stunts, including staging a boat trip down the Thames for the Pistols to play the song outside the House of Parliament. The ship was raided and McLaren was arrested, turning the prank into national headlines.
"Malcolm didn't have any say in the music" of the Sex Pistols, guitarist Steve Jones said in Lydon's 1994 memoir, "Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs." "Everyone and anyone can say they did everything, but it takes a team to make it happen."
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Wizard of Oz "Munchkin" Meinhart Raabe, 94:
His large hardcover autobiography "Memories of a Munchkin" (Backstage Books, 2005) was co-authored with Daniel Kinske.
Raabe was full of stories of old Hollywood. He worked with late legendary greats Johnny Weismuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in the "Tarzan" movies of the 1930s and 1940s as Cheetah the Chimp.
His book included a forward by Judy Garland's dear friend Mickey Rooney and kind acknowledgments by Garland's daughter Lorna Luft. The cover features a rare caricature of Rabbe in coroner's cape and Garland as Dorothy drawn years ago by the late, great Al Hirschfeld.
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