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. 

NIKITA MIKHALKOV WINS AN OSCAR NOMINATION AND TURNS SIXTY-SIX

NIKITA SERGEYEVICH

MIKHALKOV-KONCHALOVSKY

b. October 21, 1945

NIKITA MIKHALKOV

PHOTOGRAPHED IN MOSCOW IN 1999

WHEN THE BARBER OF SIBERIA

WAS BEING PREMIERED

AND MIKHALKOV WAS

SAID TO BE THINKING OF RUNNING

FOR PRESIDENT

(He did not.)

BURNT BY THE SUN won an Oscar for filmmaker Mikhalkov in 1994. The sequel, BURNT BY THE SUN: THE CITADEL, has been nominated for the 2012 foreign-language film Oscar, igniting, it is said by Variety, "a storm of controversy" in the Russian film industry (on the grounds the movie was a critical and commercial flop).

It was suggested that Mikhalkov should withdraw the movie from consideration.

He did not.