After playing a critical Broadway role in “A Chorus Line,” he helped start the vibrant Off Broadway MCC Theater. TV watchers knew him from “The Sopranos” and “Law and Order.” Source: New York Times
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Rick Reed, G.O.P. Adman of ‘Swift Boat’ Campaign, Dies at 69
By Gotham Rex on August 28, 2022
In helping to create a series of ads attacking the Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry’s military record, he added a new term to the political lexicon. Source: New York Times
Steven Hoffenberg, Debt Baron Who Ran a Vast Fraud, Dies at 77
By Gotham Rex on August 26, 2022
A onetime business associate of Jeffrey Epstein who briefly controlled The New York Post, he spent 18 years in prison for a $460 million Ponzi scheme. Source: New York Times
Howard Rosenthal, Who Quantified Partisanship in Congress, Dies at 83
By Gotham Rex on August 25, 2022
He took part in studies that found the widening ideological divide to be the largest since post-Civil War Reconstruction. Source: New York Times
Andrew J. Maloney, Prosecutor Who Took Down John Gotti, Dies at 90
By Gotham Rex on August 18, 2022
A street-smart U.S. attorney, he won a conviction against the Mafia boss after several previous efforts failed. Source: New York Times
Raymond Damadian, Creator of the First M.R.I. Scanner, Dies at 86
By Gotham Rex on August 17, 2022
Incensed when two others won the Nobel Prize for the science behind the invention, he took out a newspaper ad that called his exclusion a “shameful wrong that must be righted.” Source: New York Times
Georges Briguet, Who Presided Over Le Périgord, Dies at 85
By Gotham Rex on August 4, 2022
The owner of a classic French restaurant in Manhattan for a half-century, he welcomed his well-heeled guests by name, offering them a serene urban oasis on the far East Side. Source: New York Times
George Bartenieff, Fixture of Downtown Theater, Dies at 89
By Gotham Rex on August 3, 2022
A veteran actor, he was also a founder of Theater for the New City and Theater Three Collaborative, Manhattan groups known for experimental productions. Source: New York Times
Eli N. Evans, Who Wrote About Jews in the American South, Dies at 85
By Gotham Rex on August 2, 2022
His book “The Provincials” mixed memoir, travelogue and history to tell the story of a culture that many people never knew existed. Source: New York Times
Larry Josephson, Champion of Free-Form Radio, Dies at 83
By Gotham Rex on July 29, 2022
His dyspeptic morning show helped make WBAI-FM in New York a vibrant, eccentric, alternative radio haven. “I was the first angry man in morning radio,” he said. Source: New York Times
Werner Reich, Who Learned Magic in Auschwitz, Dies at 94
By Gotham Rex on July 21, 2022
He was 16 when a fellow inmate, a magician, taught him a card trick in the barracks of the extermination camp. He called it a “miracle.” Source: New York Times
Albert Vann, Who Built a Black Power Base in Brooklyn, Dies at 87
By Gotham Rex on July 20, 2022
As a legislator for four decades, he led voter registration drives and challenges to redistricting that rattled the political establishment. Source: New York Times
Gerald Shargel, Criminal Defense Lawyer for the Mob, Dies at 77
By Gotham Rex on July 17, 2022
He coupled legal scholarship with courtroom wit to decimate the prosecution’s cases against Mafia bosses. Source: New York Times
David Weiss Halivni, Controversial Talmudic Scholar, Dies at 94
By Gotham Rex on July 17, 2022
He was considered too radical by many Orthodox rabbis and too regressive by many Conservative Jewish leaders. But his work was widely praised. Source: New York Times
Joanne Koch, Who Led Lincoln Center’s Film Society, Dies at 92
A lifelong film lover, she stood up to protesters, and to federal and church authorities, to bring challenging movies to the masses. Source: New York Times