Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, Janice M. Horowitz, Heather Won Tesoriero Sunday, June 08, 2003
    • MARRIED. Actor-director EDWARD BURNS, 35, and supermodel CHRISTY TURLINGTON, 34; in San Francisco. Burns, who arrived on the scene in 1995 with his film The Brothers McMullen, wed yoga entrepreneur and antismoking activist Turlington after a tabloid-chronicled courtship of 2 1/2 years.

    ELECTED. V. GENE ROBINSON, 56, as the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church; in a vote by clergy and lay members in Concord, N.H. The selection of Robinson, who was married and has two children but now lives with a male partner, still must be confirmed by the church's national convention next month. Said Robinson after his election: "We will show the world how to be a Christian community."

    DIED. MICKIE MOST, 64, successful music producer who helped mold the sound of the British Invasion; of cancer; in London. Famous for his sharp yet adventurous ear for pop songs, he discovered the Animals and Herman's Hermits, shaped the careers of such solo artists as Donovan and Lulu, and produced such hits as the Animals' House of the Rising Sun, Donovan's Mellow Yellow and the Hermits' I'm into Something Good.

    DIED. WALLACE TERRY, 65, pioneering black journalist whose coverage of the Vietnam War for the Washington Post and TIME led to the 1984 best seller Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, which became a 1986 PBS documentary; of Wegener's granulomatosis, an inflammation of the blood vessels; in Falls Church, Va.

    DIED. BURKE MARSHALL, 80, practical, level-headed legal strategist during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations who played a critical role in the desegregation of public facilities in the South; in Newtown, Conn. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of civil rights, the former antitrust lawyer crafted a truce in 1963 between business owners and civil rights activists in the embattled city of Birmingham, Ala.; helped engineer the admission of the University of Mississippi's first black student, James Meredith; and helped draft and push through the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    DIED. NATALYA RESHETOVSKAYA, 84, Russian pianist and scientist better known for her tumultuous two marriages to dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; in Moscow. In a 1974 memoir of their life together, she questioned some of the descriptions of Stalin's prison camps in Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago, calling them "camp folklore." She split from her husband in 1970 but as recently as last year said, "I love him right up to this moment."

    DIED. FREDDIE BLASSIE, 85, early villainous hero of professional wrestling during the 1950s and '60s; in Hartsdale, N.Y. He helped propel his TV celebrity by jeering the crowds, biting opponents in the ring and calling foes "pencil-neck geeks." In 1983 he appeared with the late comic Andy Kaufman in My Breakfast with Blassie, a film parody of My Dinner with Andre.