Anita Cerquetti, Opera Fill-In Who Soared, Dies at 83
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Miss Cerquetti stepped in for Maria Callas in Rome in 1958, but her fame was relatively short-lived.
Dr. Ronan, chairman of the transit authority and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was one of the most powerful officials in the modern history of New York State.
Miss Cerquetti stepped in for Maria Callas in Rome in 1958, but her fame was relatively short-lived.
Ms. Peña played everything from love interest to comedic sidekick in movies and on television for 35 years.
As the first black superintendent of schools in Selma, Ala., Dr. Roussell aspired to equalize educational opportunity, only to be fired amid racial animosities, protests and a school boycott.
Mr. Greenglass, whose testimony against his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, in a 1951 spy trial helped send them to the electric chair, later admitted to lying.
A colleague of Vaclav Havel who went into exile, Mr. Landovsky appeared in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
Lewis, a player for Alabama, came off the sideline in the 1954 Cotton Bowl to tackle Dicky Moegle of Rice, interrupting his 95-yard touchdown run.
Mr. Chase went on to become a prolific producer of theater, film and television drama, with credits including a vast roster of popular series like “The Fugitive” and “Peyton Place.”
Ms. Snyder had three Newbery Honor Books in the early 1970s, but she was probably best known for the dystopian utopia in the Green Sky Trilogy.
Ms. Shane made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1973 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” a role she sang some 250 times in her career.
Mr. Cesaris, a Formula One driver who never won a Grand Prix event in 208 tries, was known for crashes early in his career.
Ms. Kizer was known for political and satirical works that, she said, came with “a sting in the tail.”
Mr. Metzker, who experimented with photographic forms for six decades, is perhaps best known for his cityscapes and landscapes.
Mr. Lenz, a best-selling writer whose stories examined his country’s role in the rise of Nazism, insisted that the past be recounted accurately.
Mr. Cottrell helped break color barriers in Dallas’s business community after his company found success with an inexpensive treatment that replicated the Jheri curl hairstyle.
Mr. Jones was probably best known as the floral designer for Elizabeth Taylor’s 1991 wedding and for Michael Jackson’s funeral in 2009.
Ms. Hooks joined “S.N.L.” in 1986 and was part of a cast that is widely regarded as one of the best in the show’s history. Most recently, she appeared on “30 Rock.”
Mr. Peyser rose from mayor of a Westchester County village to Congress, then defied the Republican leadership by challenging Senator James L. Buckley in a 1976 primary.
Mr. Mangum, who was New York City’s youngest deputy police commissioner, helped found One Hundred Black Men.
Ms. Withers made a career as a backup for actresses like Julie Harris and Carol Channing.
The actress started as an film extra and was noticed by a crew member.
Through instructional television, books, camps and clinics, Mr. Braden became “the patron saint of the weekend hacker.”
Ms. Seldes was seldom offstage in a career that spanned six decades, and she was especially known for her performances of Edward Albee’s work.
Father Groeschel was known in New York for his efforts on behalf of the poor, and worldwide as a television personality who denounced modernism and news reporting on sexual abuse by priests.
Mr. Holder used his manifold talents to infuse the arts with the flavor of his native West Indies — and in television ads for “the Uncola” in the 1970s and ’80s.
Mr. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after a 25-year exile and continued to defend what human rights workers called one of the most oppressive governments in the Western Hemisphere.
Inspiring people talk about their lives.
From the stage and the red carpet, Ms. Rivers reveled in skewering the rich and famous with cutting remarks and a caustic wit.
Mr. Williams imbued a lifetime of performances with a wild inventiveness and energy. The death was later ruled a suicide.
Ms. Bacall's provocative glamour elevated her to stardom in Hollywood’s golden age, and her lasting mystique put her on a plateau in American culture that few stars reach.
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