![]() ![]() Cozier (seen here interviewing the great Clive Lloyd) was born in Bridgetown, where the press box at the Kensington Oval cricket grounds is named for him in tribute to his work as a journalist, radio and television analyst and historian. ![]() TONY COZIER, a brilliant West Indies cricket writer and commentator for more than a half century, died on May 11 in Barbados, aged 75. The internationally acclaimed director became a member of the Shakespeare Globe Council at London’s Globe Theatre and in 2002 was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Ninagawa’s productions have been performed regularly overseas since he brought his version of the Greek tragedy Medea by Euripides to Greece and Italy in 1983. He adapted most of Shakespeare’s works for the stage – including Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Richard III – and launched a project to perform the playwright’s entire canon of plays in Saitama prefecture, Ninagawa’s native region north of Tokyo. Ninagawa debuted as a director in 1969 and gained international fame at the 1985 Edinburgh festival when he directed a samurai-style Macbeth in which the actors performed in Japanese kimono on a stage with a giant Buddhist altar. YUKIO NINAGAWA, a Japanese stage director celebrated for his Shakespeare adaptations, died on May 12 in Tokyo, at the age of 80, from pneumonia. Most of the lawsuit was dismissed in June. Heller told his side of the story in a book, Ruthless: A Memoir, published in 2006. Heller was unhappy with the film and filed suit against Dre, Ice Cube and NBCUniversal. Heller’s profile rose once again in 2015 with the release of successful NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton, in which he was played by actor Paul Giamatti. ![]() Heller was accused of ripping NWA off by Ice Cube and Dr Dre, and following the group’s break up in 1991, Ice Cube blasted Heller and the other members of NWA in his track “No Vaseline.” But in 1986, Heller and rapper Eazy-E co-founded Ruthless Records, the label which released NWA’s 1988 debut, Straight Outta Compton, as well as solo projects by Eazy-E and MC Ren and records by other artists like Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Michel’le. JERRY HELLER, the music businessman best known for managing seminal West Coast rap group NWA, died September 2, aged 75.īorn in Cleveland in 1940, Heller launched his career in the Sixties and Seventies representing acts such as Elton John, The Who, Pink Floyd, and Marvin Gaye. ![]()
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