A few deaths to note over the past few days.
On May 11 of this year, actor Barry Newman, 92, died. He played in films like Vanishing Point and was noted for playing the title role in the 1970s television series, Petrocelli.\
He was a graduate of Brandeis University and was a childhood friend of Leonard Nimoy.
Snip from The Hollywood Reporter:
Barry Foster Newman was born on Nov. 7, 1930. His father, Carl, managed the local outpost of the nightclub The Latin Quarter. He graduated from Boston Latin School and Brandeis University, played saxophone and clarinet in the U.S. Army band and studied acting with Lee Strasberg after chucking the idea of becoming an anthropologist.
In 1957, he made his Broadway debut playing a jazz musician in the Herman Wouk comedy Nature’s Way and a year later appeared with Alice Ghostley in Maybe Tuesday, written by Mel Tolkin and Lucille Kallen of Your Show of Shows fame.
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Some good news as criminal Robert Hanssen, 79, died at Florence ADX, where he deserved to be. He was convicted of having sold state secrets to the then-Soviet Union and later Russia. He received some $1.4 million, which was way more than he was ever worth.
What made him worse than most is people died as a result of his treachery.
Snip:
In 2001, Hanssen pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and conspiracy in exchange for the government not seeking the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Investigators accused him of compromising dozens of Soviet personnel who were working for the United States, some of whom were executed. He shared details of several US technical operations such as eavesdropping, surveillance and interception of communications. And he gave the Soviets the US plans of how it would react to a Soviet nuclear attack, both in protecting top government officials and retaliating against such an attack.
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