MICHAEL CAINE IN THE NEWS

MICHAEL CAINE 

INTERVIEWED 

ON NPR TODAY 

MICHAEL CAINE 

Half a Lifetime Ago 

In Boston 

Doing Publicity for 

SLEUTH 

The NPR interview is here. 

Michael Caine on the second SLEUTH, here. 

BORIS YELTSIN BECOMES HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT, MAY 29, 1990

BORIS YELTSIN 

ELECTED CHAIR OF 

THE RUSSIAN CONGRESS 

OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES 

May 29, 1990 

BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN 

CHAIRING THE 

RUSSIAN CONGRESS OF 

PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES 

Elected President of Russia 

the following year 

"Mikhail Gorbachev was literally up in the air at the moment of the election, on a ten-hour flight to Canada for a first-ever visit by a top Soviet leader.  Back in Moscow, '[w]hen the final count was announced...to the tense and excited gathering at the Grand Kremlin Palace, deputies got to their feet to give [Yeltsin] a standing ovation.'  Or rather, half of them did.  Outside hundreds of his supporters were waiting, 'waving red-white-and-blue prerevolutionary Russian flags and carrying pictures' of Yeltsin."  -- from Chapter Six of SIC TRANSIT, by Gwendolyn Stewart 

AFTER THE CONGRESS IS OVER (THE PARTY GOES ON)

DELEGATES MAKING THEIR WAY 

OUT OF THE AUDITORIUM 

OF THE GREAT HALL OF THE PEOPLE 

AT THE END OF THE 18TH CONGRESS 

of the Chinese Communist Party 

Beijing, China, November 2012 

IN HONOR OF MEMORIAL DAY 2013

FLAGS 

OF THE HONOR GUARD 

WHIPPED 

IN THE WIND 

RLS FUNERAL 
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY 

LIMA STREET SCENE WITH ARROWS

DOWN A 

STREET 

AGAINST THE ARROWS 

LIMA, PERU 

VLADIVOSTOK MEMORIAL SUBMARINE

S-56 (C-56) 

SUBMARINE MUSEUM 

VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA  

Владивосток 

The Church of St. Andrew the Apostle (Right) 

Храм святого апостола Андрея Первозванного 

DAVID O. IVES GONE ALMOST A DECADE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

DAVID O. IVES 

April 21, 1919-May 16, 2003 

At WGBH-TV 

Channel 2, Boston 

From an editorial in the April 4, 2013, Barnstable Patriot: 

"Do you remember the wonderful old bow-tied Brahmin David O. Ives, who often popped up on Boston’s WGBH Channel 2 in the 1970s to flog donations from viewers? The station executive had a way about him, including a willingness to make a fool of himself by crooning, 'Help keep your station alive, folks/Help keep the wolf from our door/Please send your kind contribution/To Boston 02134.'" 

As the New York Times said in its obituary, David Otis Ives "as head of the public broadcasting station WGBH-Boston helped build it into a national powerhouse for the Public Broadcasting Service...." 

More from Variety here and WGBH here. 

ETHEL KENNEDY IS EIGHTY-FIVE

ETHEL KENNEDY 

b. April 11, 1928 

ETHEL'S GOT GAME 

Ethel Kennedy (on crutches) and her family depart Sunday 
mass and go sailing in Hyannisport, Massachusetts 

Published in Women's Wear Daily, July 11, 1972 (p. 1) 

An appreciation of Ethel Kennedy and her life with and without Robert F. Kennedy, published on the occasion of the HBO broadcast of her daughter Rory's film ETHEL, can be found here. 

THE IRON LADY, MARGARET THATCHER, FELLED BY A STROKE

MARGARET THATCHER 

October 13, 1925-April 8, 2013 

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER MARGARET THATCHER 

DOES THE POWER WALK WITH THE REST OF THE 

G7 LEADERS IN WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA, IN 1983 

Obituaries and Appreciations here and here 

BOBBY RAY INMAN IS EIGHTY-TWO

BOBBY RAY INMAN 

b. April 4, 1931 

ADMIRAL INMAN (Ret'd) 

in the early 'Eighties  
with interesting thoughts on 
Poland and Solidarity 

Bobby Ray Inman, who now holds the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the University of Texas, made a career in the Navy and Intelligence, becoming first Director of the National Security Agency (under President Carter) and then Deputy Director of the CIA (under President Reagan); nominated, but resigned before a vote in the Senate, to be Secretary of Defense (under President Clinton).  Details can be found here and here and here and here and here.