Karen Wynn Fonstad passed away Friday, March 11, 2005, from complications from breast cancer. Dragonlance fans will remember her cartography from such products as Dragonlance Adventures and Tales of the Lance, although she is perhaps best remembered for The Atlas of the Dragonlance World. Karen is also known for other atlases, including ones for the Forgotten Realms, Pern, and Middle-Earth. For more information, please see this article: (http://www.theonering.net/perl/newsview/8/1110669403). Our thoughts and prayers go out to Karen's family and loved ones.
Tom Dillon, Performer Who Served His Community as Actors' Fund President, Dead at 86
Tom Dillon, president emeritus of the entertainment industry charity The Actors' Fund of America and a veteran performer in many areas of show business, died March 14 of natural causes at The Actors' Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey.
Probably the most popular film genre in Japan is jidai-geki , or period pictures usually set in the Togukawa era (circa 1616-1868). However, although jidai-geki is also the most celebrated genre to come out of Japan, one of its leading exponents, Kihachi Okamoto, who has died of cancer of the oesophagus, aged 82*passed away on Feb. 18*, was among the least known of postwar directors in the west.
In 1947, diplomat George F. Kennan wrote an article that would guide America's postwar policy for decades. He proposed - in the piece signed "X" - that the United States stop the global spread of Communism through ideology and politics, not war.
The policy came to be known as "containment," and Kennan went on to become a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian.
Kennan, called a role model by his peers in the foreign service, died Thursday night at his Princeton home, said his son-in-law, Kevin Delany of Washington. He was 101.
Bobby Short, the suave, tuxedoed cabaret singer who epitomized Manhattan glamour and sophistication with renderings of the great American songbook, died of leukemia Monday at 80.
