Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, Unmesh Kher And Kate Novack Sunday, Sept. 07, 2003
    • DIVORCING. LANCE ARMSTRONG, 31, five-time Tour de France champion; and his wife of five years, KRISTIN ARMSTRONG, 32; in Austin, Texas. The couple, who met shortly after the cyclist completed treatment for testicular cancer and who have three children, separated for the second time two weeks ago. They are in mediation to reach a divorce settlement.

    WITHDREW. MIGUEL ESTRADA, 41, conservative Washington lawyer and George W. Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals; from the pending nomination, following a bitter two-year battle in the Senate. Democrats had staged a filibuster to thwart the nomination, which they charged was another effort by Bush to pack the court with "out-of-the-mainstream" conservatives.


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    EXECUTED. PAUL HILL, 49, who in 1994 serenely gunned down a doctor who performed abortions and his volunteer escort in Pensacola, Fla.; by lethal injection; at Florida State Prison, in Starke, Fla. The unrepentant former Christian minister, the first killer of an abortion provider to be executed in the U.S., maintained until his death that abortion opponents should "do what you have to to stop it."

    DIED. GISELE MACKENZIE, 76, Canadian-born singer and 1950s TV star; of colon cancer; in Burbank, Calif. The daughter of a Winnipeg doctor, she was a regular on Your Hit Parade, where she and such co-stars as Snooky Lanson and Dorothy Collins would perform the top seven songs of each week. She was later a regular on The Sid Caesar Show and starred in her own short-lived variety series.

    DIED. ALAN DUGAN, 80, American poet who alternately endeared and offended readers with his language — with its liberal scatological references — and such prosaic themes as drinking, irksome jobs and masturbation; of pneumonia; in Hyannis, Mass. His first collection, Poems, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1962.

    DIED. CHARLES BRONSON, 81, roughhewn Hollywood B actor turned international movie hero; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. Born Charles Buchinsky (a name he worked under until he changed it during the communist-hunting McCarthy era), he brought his low-key macho swagger to such '50s films as Machine-Gun Kelly before becoming a sensation in Europe as the co-star of France's Adieu l'Ami (1968), in which he and Alain Delon played a pair of burglars. In the U.S. he remained a solid, if unheralded, ensemble player in films such as The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, before starring as a vigilante who avenges the murder of his wife and rape of his daughter in the 1974 blockbuster Death Wish. He later won over underwhelmed U.S. critics with gritty turns as a prizefighter in Hard Times and an outlaw in the satirical western From Noon Till Three.

    DIED. RAND BROOKS, 84, actor best known, to his dismay, for playing Charles Hamilton, the nerdy first husband of Scarlett O'Hara who goes off to war only to die of illness in Gone With the Wind; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Brooks, who also appeared in numerous westerns and played sidekick Lucky Jenkins in the Hopalong Cassidy movies, called his role in Wind "asinine," saying, "I wanted to be more macho."