RIP

homoe · 08-28-2021, 11:55 PM

Eloise Greenfield, Who Wrote to Enlighten Black Children, Dies at 92. In nearly 50 books, written in poetry and prose, she described the lives of ordinary people and heroes like Rosa Parks and Paul Robeson. “Eloise Greenfield brought joy and enlightenment into the world,” the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, which celebrates diversity in children’s literature, said in a message on Twitter after her death. “At the same time she broadened the path toward a more diverse American literature for children.”

Ms. Greenfield turned to children’s books after joining the D.C. Black Writers’ Workshop in 1971, receiving encouragement from the head of the workshop’s children’s book division to write a biography of Parks for young readers. That book was published in 1973, a year after she published “Bubbles” (later retitled “Good News”), about a boy learning to read. Ms. Greenfield began writing for children in her early 40s with a mission to “document our existence and depict African Americans living, as we do in real life,” she told the website Brown Bookshelf in 2008. In 48 books, she wrote about everyday subjects (the things a young girl loves, a boy rapping, a father’s death) and historical figures (biographies of Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks and Mary McLeod Bethune). For her book “The Great Migration: Journey to the North” (2010), Ms. Greenfield drew on family history — like her parents’ decision in 1929 to leave Parmele, N.C., where she was born, for Washington when she was three months old. And she plumbed Black history in the poetry collection “The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives” (2019)

Eloise was such a frequent reader of books from her local library that she got a part-time job there after graduating from high school. Early on, she wanted to teach, so she enrolled in Miner Teachers College (ultimately to be absorbed by the University of the District of Columbia), but left during her junior year because of her shyness and discomfort at being the center of students’ attention. For the next 20 years or so she held various jobs, including one as a clerk-typist at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In the 1960s, she wrote poems and short stories, but she met with a lot of rejection. One poem, “To a Violin,” was published in 1962 in The Hartford Times in Connecticut (it closed in 1976), and some of her stories were accepted by Negro Digest (later Black World).

Her work is the most illustrative I’ve ever worked with,” Ms. Gilchrist said by phone. “I could see the pictures through her word selection, and, together with her rhythm and rhyme, the words were easy to illustrate.”

Ms. Greenfield’s honors include the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1978 for “Africa Dream,” about a Black girl’s nocturnal vision of visiting her ancestral homeland, and the Education for Liberation Award in 2016 from Teaching for Change, an organization that gives parents and teachers tools to help students learn to “read, write and change the world. ”“When I write, I’m composing — combining meanings, the rhythms, the melody of language, in the hope that it can be a gift to others,” she said in 2018 when she accepted the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement, which the American Library Association gives to Black authors and illustrators.

Gemme · 09-04-2021, 09:16 PM

Y'all, Willard Scott passed away.

Willard Scott, the longtime weatherman for the “Today” show and the original Ronald McDonald, died on Saturday morning. He was 87.

“Today’s” Al Roker confirmed Scott’s passing on “Today” and in a heartfelt Instagram post. “We lost a beloved member of our @todayshow family this morning,” Roker wrote. “Willard Scott passed peacefully at the age of 87 surrounded by family, including his daughters Sally and Mary and his lovely wife, Paris. He was truly my second dad and am where I am today because of his generous spirit. Willard was a man of his times, the ultimate broadcaster. There will never be anyone quite like him.”

Scott got his start in broadcasting on WRC’s “Joy Boys” radio program alongside Ed Walker after graduating from American University. The show ran from 1955 to 1972, which was interrupted from 1956 to 1958 when Scott served in the U.S. Navy. During the ’60s, Scott also hosted several children’s television programs, playing characters like Bozo the Clown. Scott also originated the role of Ronald McDonald for McDonald’s in their TV spots, appearing as the character regular from 1963 to 1966.

In 1970, Scott began a stint at WRC-TV as a weatherman. He was then hired in 1980 by “Today,” replacing Bob Ryan. As the “Today” weatherman, Scott was known for wishing centenarians happy birthday and interviewing local characters during festivals and events. In 1996, Scott was succeeded by Roker, but continued to appear on the morning show several times a week to say happy birthday to centenarians. Scott fully retired from television in 2015, and the plaza outside of Rockefeller Center was renamed Willard Scott Way in his honor.

Katie Couric tweeted in remembrance of Scott on Saturday, writing: “I am heartbroken that the much loved Willard Scott has passed away. He played such an outsized role in my life & was as warm & loving & generous off camera as he was on. Willard, you didn’t make it to the front of the Smucker’s jar, but you changed so many lives for the better.”

Scott is survived by his wife, Paris Keena, and two daughters. He is predeceased by his first wife, Mary Dwyer Scott, who died in 2002.

Gemme · 11-10-2021, 07:11 AM

Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age in the sci-fi series "Quantum Leap" and in a string of indelible performances in film, including David Lynch's "Blue Velvet," Wim Wenders' "Paris, Texas" and Jonathan Demme's "Married to the Mob," has died. He was 85.

Agent Jay Schwartz said Stockwell died of natural causes at home Sunday.

Stockwell was Oscar-nominated for his comic mafia kingpin in "Married to the Mob" and was four times an Emmy-nominee for "Quantum Leap." But in a career that spanned seven decades, Stockwell was a supreme character actor whose performances — lip-syncing Roy Orbison in a nightmarish party scene in "Blue Velvet," a desperate agent in Robert Altman's "The Player," Howard Hughes in Francis Ford Coppola's "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" — didn't have to be lengthy to be mesmerizing.

The dark-haired Stockwell was a Hollywood veteran by the time he reached his teens. In his 20s, he starred on Broadway as a young killer in the play "Compulsion" and in prestigious films such as "Sons and Lovers." He was awarded best actor at the Cannes Film Festival twice, in 1959 for the big-screen version of "Compulsion" and in 1962 for Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night." While his career had some lean times, he reached his full stride in the 1980s.

"My way of working is still the same as it was in the beginning — totally intuitive and instinctive," he told The New York Times in 1987. "But as you live your life, you compile so many millions of experiences and bits of information that you become a richer vessel as a person. You draw on more experience."

His Oscar-nominated role as Tony "The Tiger" Russo, a flamboyant gangster, in the 1988 hit "Married to the Mob" led to his most notable TV role the following year, in NBC's science fiction series "Quantum Leap." Both roles had strong comic elements.

"It's the first time anyone's offered me a series and the first time I've ever wanted to do one," he said in 1989. "If people hadn't seen me in 'Married To the Mob' they wouldn't have realized I could do comedy."

Starring with Stockwell in "Quantum Leap" was Scott Bakula, playing a scientist who assumes different identities in different eras after a time-travel experiment goes awry. As his colleague, "The Observer," Stockwell lends his help but is seen only on a holographic computer image. The show lasted from 1989 to 1993.

He continued playing roles, big and small, in films and TV, into the 21st century, including a regular role in another science fiction series, "Battlestar Galactica."

Stockwell became an actor at an early age. His father, Harry Stockwell, voiced the role of Prince Charming in Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and appeared in several Broadway musicals.

At age 7, Dean made his show business debut in the 1943 Broadway show "The Innocent Voyage," the story of orphaned children entangled with pirates. His older brother, Guy, also was in the cast.

A producer at MGM was impressed by Dean and persuaded the studio to sign him. His first significant role was as Kathryn Grayson's nephew in the 1945 musical "Anchors Away," which starred Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra.

In the next few years, Stockwell appeared in such films as the Oscar-winning anti-Semitism drama "Gentlemen's Agreement," with Gregory Peck, as well as "Song of the Thin Man," the last of the William Powell-Myrna Loy mystery series, with Stockwell playing their son.

He had the title roles in the 1948 anti-war film "The Boy With Green Hair," about a war orphan whose hair changes color, and "Kim," the 1950 version of the Rudyard Kipling tale, which starred Errol Flynn. Films in his youth also included "Down to the Sea in Ships," with Lionel Barrymore; "The Secret Garden," with Margaret O'Brien; and "Stars in My Crown" with Joel McCrea.

I was very lucky to have a loving and caring and sympathetic mother and not a stage mother," he told The Associated Press in 1989.
Still, he stressed, it wasn't always easy, and he dropped out of the business when he reached 16.

"I never really wanted to be an actor," he said. "I found acting very difficult from the beginning. I worked long hours, six days a week. It wasn't fun." It wasn't the only time he dropped out. But, he said, "I came back each time because I had no other training."

Reviving his career after five years, Stockwell returned to New York where he co-starred with Roddy McDowall on Broadway in "Compulsion," a 1957 drama based on the notorious Leopold-Loeb murder case in which two college students killed a 14-year-old boy for the thrill of it. The film version starred Orson Welles.

Stockwell had two more prestigious film roles in the early 1960s. He was the struggling son in D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" — an Oscar nominee for best picture — and the sensitive younger brother in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" with Ralph Richardson and Katharine Hepburn.

He also tried his hand at theater directing, putting on a well-received program of Beckett and Ionesco plays in Los Angeles in 1961.

In 1960, Stockwell married Millie Perkins, best known for her starring turn as Anne in the 1959 film "The Diary of Anne Frank." The marriage ended in divorce after only two years.

In the mid-60s, Stockwell dropped out of Hollywood and became a regular presence at the hippie enclave of Topanga Canyon. After the encouragement of Dennis Hopper, Stockwell wrote a screenplay that never got produced but inspired Neil Young's 1970 album "After the Gold Rush," which took its name from Stockwell's script. Stockwell, longtime friends with Young, later co-directed and starred with Young on 1982's "Human Highway." Stockwell also designed the cover of Young's 1977 album "American Stars 'N Bars."

In 1981 he married Joy Marchenko, a textile expert. When his career hit a down period, Stockwell decided to take his family to New Mexico. As soon as he left Hollywood, filmmakers started calling again.

He was cast as Harry Dean Stanton's drifting brother in Wim Wenders' acclaimed 1984 film "Paris, Texas" and that same year as the evil Dr. Yueh in Lynch's "Dune."

He called his success from the 1980s onward his "third career." As for the Oscar nomination, he told the AP in 1989 that it was "something I've dreamed about for years. ... It's just one of the best feelings I've ever had."

Like his longtime friend Hopper, a noted photographer as well as an actor, Stockwell was active in the visual arts. He made photo collages and what he called "diceworks," sculptures made of dice. He often used his full name, Robert Dean Stockwell, in his art projects.

His brother, Guy Stockwell, also became a prolific film and television actor, even doing guest shot on "Quantum Leap." He died in 2002 at age 68.

Stockwell is survived by his wife, Joy, and their two children, Austin Stockwell and Sophie Stockwell.

He was a genius at comedy. I loved him so much in Married to the Mob and Quantum Leap was one of my favorite shows growing up.

cathexis · 11-10-2021, 05:24 PM

He was great in Blue Velvet, too.

Jedi · 11-28-2021, 02:33 PM

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/t...heim-dead.html
So sad to lose such talent.

Jedi · 12-12-2021, 06:17 AM

Beloved Interview with a Vampire Author has passed. https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/12/enter...bit/index.html

PlatinumPearl · 12-26-2021, 08:52 PM

South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90.

Tutu, a Nobel laureate and an anti-apartheid veteran, passed away in Cape Town at the age of 90,
the country’s presidency said in a statement on Sunday. The passing of Tutu is “another chapter
of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans
who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

08-28-2021, 11:55 PM	#1
homoe Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Butch Relationship Status: ..... Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: 30 minute ferry ride from Seattle Posts: 38,565 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 20,811 Thanked 33,548 Times in 14,914 Posts Rep Power: 21474889	Eloise Greenfield, late children's book author, inspired generations of Black writers and readers.. Eloise Greenfield, Who Wrote to Enlighten Black Children, Dies at 92. In nearly 50 books, written in poetry and prose, she described the lives of ordinary people and heroes like Rosa Parks and Paul Robeson. “Eloise Greenfield brought joy and enlightenment into the world,” the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation, which celebrates diversity in children’s literature, said in a message on Twitter after her death. “At the same time she broadened the path toward a more diverse American literature for children.” Ms. Greenfield turned to children’s books after joining the D.C. Black Writers’ Workshop in 1971, receiving encouragement from the head of the workshop’s children’s book division to write a biography of Parks for young readers. That book was published in 1973, a year after she published “Bubbles” (later retitled “Good News”), about a boy learning to read. Ms. Greenfield began writing for children in her early 40s with a mission to “document our existence and depict African Americans living, as we do in real life,” she told the website Brown Bookshelf in 2008. In 48 books, she wrote about everyday subjects (the things a young girl loves, a boy rapping, a father’s death) and historical figures (biographies of Paul Robeson, Rosa Parks and Mary McLeod Bethune). For her book “The Great Migration: Journey to the North” (2010), Ms. Greenfield drew on family history — like her parents’ decision in 1929 to leave Parmele, N.C., where she was born, for Washington when she was three months old. And she plumbed Black history in the poetry collection “The Women Who Caught the Babies: A Story of African American Midwives” (2019) Eloise was such a frequent reader of books from her local library that she got a part-time job there after graduating from high school. Early on, she wanted to teach, so she enrolled in Miner Teachers College (ultimately to be absorbed by the University of the District of Columbia), but left during her junior year because of her shyness and discomfort at being the center of students’ attention. For the next 20 years or so she held various jobs, including one as a clerk-typist at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. In the 1960s, she wrote poems and short stories, but she met with a lot of rejection. One poem, “To a Violin,” was published in 1962 in The Hartford Times in Connecticut (it closed in 1976), and some of her stories were accepted by Negro Digest (later Black World). Her work is the most illustrative I’ve ever worked with,” Ms. Gilchrist said by phone. “I could see the pictures through her word selection, and, together with her rhythm and rhyme, the words were easy to illustrate.” Ms. Greenfield’s honors include the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1978 for “Africa Dream,” about a Black girl’s nocturnal vision of visiting her ancestral homeland, and the Education for Liberation Award in 2016 from Teaching for Change, an organization that gives parents and teachers tools to help students learn to “read, write and change the world. ”“When I write, I’m composing — combining meanings, the rhythms, the melody of language, in the hope that it can be a gift to others,” she said in 2018 when she accepted the Coretta Scott King-Virginia Hamilton Award for lifetime achievement, which the American Library Association gives to Black authors and illustrators.

09-04-2021, 09:16 PM	#2
Gemme Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM' Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The roads are narrow here Posts: 36,631 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 182,498 Thanked 107,926 Times in 25,667 Posts Rep Power: 21474887	Y'all, Willard Scott passed away. Willard Scott, the longtime weatherman for the “Today” show and the original Ronald McDonald, died on Saturday morning. He was 87. “Today’s” Al Roker confirmed Scott’s passing on “Today” and in a heartfelt Instagram post. “We lost a beloved member of our @todayshow family this morning,” Roker wrote. “Willard Scott passed peacefully at the age of 87 surrounded by family, including his daughters Sally and Mary and his lovely wife, Paris. He was truly my second dad and am where I am today because of his generous spirit. Willard was a man of his times, the ultimate broadcaster. There will never be anyone quite like him.” Scott got his start in broadcasting on WRC’s “Joy Boys” radio program alongside Ed Walker after graduating from American University. The show ran from 1955 to 1972, which was interrupted from 1956 to 1958 when Scott served in the U.S. Navy. During the ’60s, Scott also hosted several children’s television programs, playing characters like Bozo the Clown. Scott also originated the role of Ronald McDonald for McDonald’s in their TV spots, appearing as the character regular from 1963 to 1966. In 1970, Scott began a stint at WRC-TV as a weatherman. He was then hired in 1980 by “Today,” replacing Bob Ryan. As the “Today” weatherman, Scott was known for wishing centenarians happy birthday and interviewing local characters during festivals and events. In 1996, Scott was succeeded by Roker, but continued to appear on the morning show several times a week to say happy birthday to centenarians. Scott fully retired from television in 2015, and the plaza outside of Rockefeller Center was renamed Willard Scott Way in his honor. Katie Couric tweeted in remembrance of Scott on Saturday, writing: “I am heartbroken that the much loved Willard Scott has passed away. He played such an outsized role in my life & was as warm & loving & generous off camera as he was on. Willard, you didn’t make it to the front of the Smucker’s jar, but you changed so many lives for the better.” Scott is survived by his wife, Paris Keena, and two daughters. He is predeceased by his first wife, Mary Dwyer Scott, who died in 2002. __________________ Gemme's Journal I'm misunderestimated.

11-10-2021, 07:11 AM	#3
Gemme Practically Lives Here How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Girl of the Unicorn Variety Preferred Pronoun?: She, as in 'She's a GEM' Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: The roads are narrow here Posts: 36,631 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 182,498 Thanked 107,926 Times in 25,667 Posts Rep Power: 21474887	Dean Stockwell Passes at 85 Dean Stockwell, a top Hollywood child actor who gained new success in middle age in the sci-fi series "Quantum Leap" and in a string of indelible performances in film, including David Lynch's "Blue Velvet," Wim Wenders' "Paris, Texas" and Jonathan Demme's "Married to the Mob," has died. He was 85. Agent Jay Schwartz said Stockwell died of natural causes at home Sunday. Stockwell was Oscar-nominated for his comic mafia kingpin in "Married to the Mob" and was four times an Emmy-nominee for "Quantum Leap." But in a career that spanned seven decades, Stockwell was a supreme character actor whose performances — lip-syncing Roy Orbison in a nightmarish party scene in "Blue Velvet," a desperate agent in Robert Altman's "The Player," Howard Hughes in Francis Ford Coppola's "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" — didn't have to be lengthy to be mesmerizing. The dark-haired Stockwell was a Hollywood veteran by the time he reached his teens. In his 20s, he starred on Broadway as a young killer in the play "Compulsion" and in prestigious films such as "Sons and Lovers." He was awarded best actor at the Cannes Film Festival twice, in 1959 for the big-screen version of "Compulsion" and in 1962 for Sidney Lumet's adaptation of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night." While his career had some lean times, he reached his full stride in the 1980s. "My way of working is still the same as it was in the beginning — totally intuitive and instinctive," he told The New York Times in 1987. "But as you live your life, you compile so many millions of experiences and bits of information that you become a richer vessel as a person. You draw on more experience." His Oscar-nominated role as Tony "The Tiger" Russo, a flamboyant gangster, in the 1988 hit "Married to the Mob" led to his most notable TV role the following year, in NBC's science fiction series "Quantum Leap." Both roles had strong comic elements. "It's the first time anyone's offered me a series and the first time I've ever wanted to do one," he said in 1989. "If people hadn't seen me in 'Married To the Mob' they wouldn't have realized I could do comedy." Starring with Stockwell in "Quantum Leap" was Scott Bakula, playing a scientist who assumes different identities in different eras after a time-travel experiment goes awry. As his colleague, "The Observer," Stockwell lends his help but is seen only on a holographic computer image. The show lasted from 1989 to 1993. He continued playing roles, big and small, in films and TV, into the 21st century, including a regular role in another science fiction series, "Battlestar Galactica." Stockwell became an actor at an early age. His father, Harry Stockwell, voiced the role of Prince Charming in Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and appeared in several Broadway musicals. At age 7, Dean made his show business debut in the 1943 Broadway show "The Innocent Voyage," the story of orphaned children entangled with pirates. His older brother, Guy, also was in the cast. A producer at MGM was impressed by Dean and persuaded the studio to sign him. His first significant role was as Kathryn Grayson's nephew in the 1945 musical "Anchors Away," which starred Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra. In the next few years, Stockwell appeared in such films as the Oscar-winning anti-Semitism drama "Gentlemen's Agreement," with Gregory Peck, as well as "Song of the Thin Man," the last of the William Powell-Myrna Loy mystery series, with Stockwell playing their son. He had the title roles in the 1948 anti-war film "The Boy With Green Hair," about a war orphan whose hair changes color, and "Kim," the 1950 version of the Rudyard Kipling tale, which starred Errol Flynn. Films in his youth also included "Down to the Sea in Ships," with Lionel Barrymore; "The Secret Garden," with Margaret O'Brien; and "Stars in My Crown" with Joel McCrea. I was very lucky to have a loving and caring and sympathetic mother and not a stage mother," he told The Associated Press in 1989. Still, he stressed, it wasn't always easy, and he dropped out of the business when he reached 16. "I never really wanted to be an actor," he said. "I found acting very difficult from the beginning. I worked long hours, six days a week. It wasn't fun." It wasn't the only time he dropped out. But, he said, "I came back each time because I had no other training." Reviving his career after five years, Stockwell returned to New York where he co-starred with Roddy McDowall on Broadway in "Compulsion," a 1957 drama based on the notorious Leopold-Loeb murder case in which two college students killed a 14-year-old boy for the thrill of it. The film version starred Orson Welles. Stockwell had two more prestigious film roles in the early 1960s. He was the struggling son in D.H. Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers" — an Oscar nominee for best picture — and the sensitive younger brother in "Long Day's Journey Into Night" with Ralph Richardson and Katharine Hepburn. He also tried his hand at theater directing, putting on a well-received program of Beckett and Ionesco plays in Los Angeles in 1961. In 1960, Stockwell married Millie Perkins, best known for her starring turn as Anne in the 1959 film "The Diary of Anne Frank." The marriage ended in divorce after only two years. In the mid-60s, Stockwell dropped out of Hollywood and became a regular presence at the hippie enclave of Topanga Canyon. After the encouragement of Dennis Hopper, Stockwell wrote a screenplay that never got produced but inspired Neil Young's 1970 album "After the Gold Rush," which took its name from Stockwell's script. Stockwell, longtime friends with Young, later co-directed and starred with Young on 1982's "Human Highway." Stockwell also designed the cover of Young's 1977 album "American Stars 'N Bars." In 1981 he married Joy Marchenko, a textile expert. When his career hit a down period, Stockwell decided to take his family to New Mexico. As soon as he left Hollywood, filmmakers started calling again. He was cast as Harry Dean Stanton's drifting brother in Wim Wenders' acclaimed 1984 film "Paris, Texas" and that same year as the evil Dr. Yueh in Lynch's "Dune." He called his success from the 1980s onward his "third career." As for the Oscar nomination, he told the AP in 1989 that it was "something I've dreamed about for years. ... It's just one of the best feelings I've ever had." Like his longtime friend Hopper, a noted photographer as well as an actor, Stockwell was active in the visual arts. He made photo collages and what he called "diceworks," sculptures made of dice. He often used his full name, Robert Dean Stockwell, in his art projects. His brother, Guy Stockwell, also became a prolific film and television actor, even doing guest shot on "Quantum Leap." He died in 2002 at age 68. Stockwell is survived by his wife, Joy, and their two children, Austin Stockwell and Sophie Stockwell. He was a genius at comedy. I loved him so much in Married to the Mob and Quantum Leap was one of my favorite shows growing up. __________________ Gemme's Journal I'm misunderestimated.

11-28-2021, 02:33 PM	#5
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12-12-2021, 06:17 AM	#6
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11-10-2021, 05:24 PM	#4
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12-26-2021, 08:52 PM	#7
PlatinumPearl Member How Do You Identify?: Femme, Human Preferred Pronoun?: She, Her Join Date: Jul 2017 Location: Canada Posts: 1,150 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 966 Thanked 2,419 Times in 890 Posts Rep Power: 21474846	RIP Desmond Tutu South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies aged 90. Tutu, a Nobel laureate and an anti-apartheid veteran, passed away in Cape Town at the age of 90, the country’s presidency said in a statement on Sunday. The passing of Tutu is “another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said.