Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer has died just days after he formally retired from the CBS news program, The New York Times reports. Details regarding Safer's death were not immediately available. He was 84.
Safer was with 60 Minutes for 46 seasons, during which time he covered an array of subjects: He interviewed Jackie Gleason in a bar, became one of the first to report on the health benefits of red wine and helped overturn the life sentence of Lenell Geter, an engineer wrongly convicted for a robbery. Over the course of his career,...
Safer was with 60 Minutes for 46 seasons, during which time he covered an array of subjects: He interviewed Jackie Gleason in a bar, became one of the first to report on the health benefits of red wine and helped overturn the life sentence of Lenell Geter, an engineer wrongly convicted for a robbery. Over the course of his career,...
- 5/19/2016
- Rollingstone.com
Former CBS News correspondent Bill McLaughlin died this morning. The diplomatic and foreign correspondent, who headed bureaus in Germany and Lebanon for CBS News in the late 1960s and ‘70s, died from cardiac arrest in a Waterbury, Ct hospital. McLaughlin lived in France and was visiting friends in the U.S. at the time of his death. He was 76. McLaughlin’s television news career spanned 27 years, nearly all of it with CBS News; he left for two years in late 1979 to report for NBC News as its United Nations correspondent. He spent a decade overseas on his CBS news assignments, including the Paris bureau, where he met his wife, the former Huguette Cord’homme, who survives him. He covered the gamut of overseas events, from the Vietnam War, to terrorism to the conflicts in the war-torn Middle East, appearing on the CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, CBS Radio News and other CBS News broadcasts,...
- 3/7/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
CBS News announced that it will air a special program next Sunday, April 15 dedicated to 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace, who passed away on Saturday, April 7, at the age of 93.
“It is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Wallace. His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he has been a force within the television industry throughout its existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS,” Leslie Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corporation, says in the statement.
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“It is with tremendous sadness that we mark the passing of Mike Wallace. His extraordinary contribution as a broadcaster is immeasurable and he has been a force within the television industry throughout its existence. His loss will be felt by all of us at CBS,” Leslie Moonves, president and CEO, CBS Corporation, says in the statement.
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“60 Minutes” Icon Mike Wallace Dies At 93
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- 4/8/2012
- by Nuzhat Naoreen
- EW - Inside TV
DVD Playhouse—April 2010
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
By
Allen Gardner
Ride With The Devil (Criterion) Ang Lee’s revisionist take on the Civil War is awash in moral ambiguity, along with some stunning cinematography, production design, and fine performances. Set during the Kansas-Missouri border war, Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich star as two friends who join up with the Confederate-sympathizing Bushwhackers, finding an odd ally in a former slave (Jeffrey Wright). While it’s fascinating to see America’s bloodiest conflict through the eyes of a foreigner, thereby allowing much of the previously mentioned ambiguity a certain latitude, the film never loses the bad taste it leaves for one simple reason: it asks us, the audience, to side with not just the Confederates, but some of the lowest trash that made up the dregs, and the fringes, of the movement. Big points for audacity, but snake eyes on the story itself. Singer Jewel is impressive in her film debut.
- 4/16/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Veteran U.S. news producer Bernard Birnbaum passed away on Thanksgiving Day after suffering a fatal heart attack. He was 89.
The longtime CBS network employee, who earned seven Emmy Awards for his work behind the scenes, died in New York after he fell ill while visiting relatives, according to a statement from the broadcaster.
Birnbaum produced the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and is believed to have helped shape the news coverage of high profile events including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
He is survived by two daughters and four grandchildren. His wife, Ronnie, passed away in 2005.
The longtime CBS network employee, who earned seven Emmy Awards for his work behind the scenes, died in New York after he fell ill while visiting relatives, according to a statement from the broadcaster.
Birnbaum produced the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and is believed to have helped shape the news coverage of high profile events including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.
He is survived by two daughters and four grandchildren. His wife, Ronnie, passed away in 2005.
- 11/29/2009
- WENN
Lou Dorfsman, the design director who helped mold the image of CBS for more than four decades, died Oct. 22 of congestive heart failure in Roslyn, N.Y. He was 90.
Dorfsman started as a staff designer for the CBS Radio Network in 1946 and rose through the ranks to become design director for the entire company, a job he held until 1987.
He designed the set of "The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite" as well as the floor set for CBS' political convention coverage. Dorfsman also implemented a custom-made typeface for all CBS graphic design called CBS Didot, which is still used today.
The son of a sign painter, Dorfsman was credited with CBS' most iconic designs, including print ads for CBS specials such as its report "Of Black America," which showcased a black-and-white image of a black man with half his face painted in stars and stripes of the U.S.
Dorfsman started as a staff designer for the CBS Radio Network in 1946 and rose through the ranks to become design director for the entire company, a job he held until 1987.
He designed the set of "The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite" as well as the floor set for CBS' political convention coverage. Dorfsman also implemented a custom-made typeface for all CBS graphic design called CBS Didot, which is still used today.
The son of a sign painter, Dorfsman was credited with CBS' most iconic designs, including print ads for CBS specials such as its report "Of Black America," which showcased a black-and-white image of a black man with half his face painted in stars and stripes of the U.S.
- 10/28/2008
- by By Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
NEW YORK -- Ernest Leiser, a pioneering foreign correspondent and producer for CBS News in the 1950s who helped expand the unit's documentary and news coverage in the 1960s, has died. He was 81. Leiser died Nov. 26 in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. He joined CBS News in 1953 as a correspondent for the science series Adventure and then became a part of the network's elite corps of foreign correspondents, which included Eric Sevareid and Charles Collingwood. Mainly, he reported from Europe, where the ruling Communists in Hungary jailed him briefly while he was covering the 1956 revolt. But Leiser gained most of his notoriety working behind the scenes. He started out co-producing such broadcasts as Eyewitness to History and coverage of the John F. Kennedy-Richard Nixon presidential campaign in 1960. Later, he made his mark helping to produce CBS News' continuous coverage of Kennedy's assassination in 1963. The network named him director of news in 1964 and then executive producer of CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, where he helped the show pass NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report in the ratings.
- 12/3/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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