Milestones

DIED With her 1980 work, The Aquarian Conspiracy, Marilyn Ferguson helped pull together various emerging countercultural strains–including alternative birthing centers and the exploration of altered states of consciousness–into what soon after became Known as the New Age movement. In her book, she remarked, “We are entering a millennium of love and light–in the words of the popular song ‘The Age of Aquarius,’ the time of ‘the mind’s true liberation.”‘ Before the book’s release, Ferguson published a monthly newsletter titled Brain/Mind Bulletin, reporting on new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience. She was 70.

• Producer of 13 Best Picture Oscar winners, including Platoon and The Last Emperor, John Daly helped boost the careers of directors such as Oliver Stone and Roberet Altman, as well as actors Denzel Washington, Keanu Reeves and Julia Roberts. Daly, who began his career in his hometown of London, created Hemdale, an independent film company, with Blow-Up star David Hemmings. Together they produced more than 100 films that earned upwards of $1.5 billion. Daly was 71.

• Meg Ryan has just faked a loud orgasm at a New York City deli. A waitress turns to an older woman, who remarks, “I’ll have what she’s having.” Thus Estelle Reiner, mother of When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and wife of The Dick Van Dyke Show creatoi Carl, entered Aim history with one of cinema’s most famous lines. Reiner, who spent her early life as a visual artist, became a cabaret singer at 60 and took lessons with legendary acting coach Lee Strasberg. She was 94.