Gilles Gilbert obit

Former Red Wings Goaltender Gilbert Dies at 74

 

He was not on the list.

Long-time NHL goaltender Gilles Gilbert played a role in one of the most memorable goals in league history and not in a way that made him happy.

Gilbert was in the net for the Boston Bruins when Guy Lafleur scored a dramatic Game 7 goal against him  to change the Montreal Canadiens’ fortunes in the 1979 playoffs. The tally came with 1:14 left in regulation. Most older hockey fans have seen video of Lafleur, on the rush, whistling a slap shot past Gilbert. The YouTube video of the goal embedded in this story has been seen by 414,000 people.

Lafleur died last year at age 70 and Gilbert, who spent his last three NHL seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, died Sunday at 74.

The Lafleur goal against Gilbert tied the game 4-4.  The power play occurred because the Bruins had too many men on the ice.  Yvon Lambert scored in overtime to finish off the Bruins and put the Habs in the Stanley Cup Final. They beat the New York Rangers for their fourth consecutive Stanley Cup championship.

“I think I ruined his career,” Lafleur told the Province in 2016. “When I scored that tying goal on him in 1979, and we ended up beating the Bruins in the semifinals, Gilles was a good goalie. Unfortunately for him, after that tying goal, he didn’t go too far.”

A year later, the Bruins traded Gilbert to the Detroit Red Wings for Rogie Vachon.

Gilbert played parts of 14 NHL seasons, including his last three (1980-81, 1981-82 and 1982-83) with the Red Wings. The Red Wings were a struggling franchise at the time.  The Quebec native owned a 192-143-60 record in his NHL career. Over a three year period (1973-76), he won 90 games with the Bruins. But he had 21-48-16 mark with the Red Wings. He never was able to push his save percentage above .865 with the Red Wings.

Gilbert was beset by injuries and a skin rash in 1982-83, but gave the Red Wings a shot at the playoffs with some strong play down the stretch.

The Red Wings had sent him to the minors and Gilbert found his game. He went 3-3-1 in one stretch and played well enough to win in two of the losses.

“It opened my eyes and changed my philosophy,” Gilbert told the Windsor Star during his surge. “I’ve put the first part of this year, and the past two or three years behind me and decided I would help as much as I could if I got another chance.”

The Red Wings missed the playoffs and released Gilbert on July 17, 1983.  He was 34 and never played another pro game.

 

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season             Playoffs

Season Team            League            GP            W            L            T            MIN            GA            SO            GAA            SV%            GP            W            L            MIN            GA            SO            GAA            SV%

1966–67            Trois-Rivières Reds            QJHL            43            23            18            2            2540            188            1            4.44            —            14            9            5            850            65            0            4.59            —

1966–67            Thetford Mines Canadiens            M-Cup            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            5            3            1            276            18            0            3.91            —

1967–68            Trois-Rivières Reds            QJHL            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1968–69            London Knights OHA-Jr.        37            —            —            —            2200            167            1            4.55            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1969–70            Iowa Stars    CHL            39            17            16            5            2340            127            2            3.26            —            4            2            2            245            14            0            3.43            —

1969–70            Minnesota North Stars            NHL            1            0            1            0            60            6            0            6.00            .846            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1970–71            Minnesota North Stars            NHL            17            5            9            2            931            59            0            3.80            .889            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1971–72            Minnesota North Stars            NHL            4            1            2            1            218            11            0            3.03            .891            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1971–72            Cleveland Barons            AHL            41            20            15            5            2319            140            2            3.62            —            4            1            2            187            18            0            5.78            —

1972–73            Minnesota North Stars            NHL            22            10            10            2            1320            67            2            3.05            .904            1            0            1            60            4            0            4.00            .900

1973–74            Boston Bruins   NHL            54            34            12            8            3210            158            6            2.95            .900            16            10            6            977            43            1            2.64            .912

1974–75            Boston Bruins   NHL            53            23            17            11            3029            158            3            3.13            .893            3            1            2            188            12            0            3.83            .859

1975–76            Boston Bruins   NHL            55            33            8            10            3123            151            3            2.90            .887            6            3            3            360            19            2            3.17            .868

1976–77            Boston Bruins   NHL            34            18            13            3            2040            97            1            2.85            .884            1            0            1            20            3            0            9.00            .571

1977–78            Boston Bruins   NHL            25            15            6            2            1326            56            2            2.53            .885            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1978–79            Boston Bruins   NHL            23            12            8            2            1254            74            0            3.54            .869            5            3            2            314            16            0            3.06            .901

1979–80            Boston Bruins   NHL            33            20            9            3            1933            88            1            2.73            .890            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1980–81            Detroit Red Wings            NHL            48            11            24            9            2618            175            0            4.01            .866            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1981–82            Detroit Red Wings            NHL            27            6            10            6            1478            105            0            4.26            .849            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1982–83            Detroit Red Wings            NHL            20            4            14            1            1137            85            0            4.49            .850            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

1982–83            Adirondack Red Wings   AHL            4            3            0            0            198            11            0            3.33            .890            —            —            —            —            —            —            —            —

NHL totals            416            192            143            60            23677            1290            18            3.27            .883            32            17            15            1919            97            3            3.03            .895

Arthur Schmidt obit

Arthur Schmidt, Oscar-Winning Film Editor on ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ Dies at 86

He cut 10 Robert Zemeckis movies, including the 'Back to the Future' trilogy and 'Cast Away,' as well as 'Coal Miner's Daughter.' 

He was not on the list.

Arthur Schmidt, the two-time Oscar-winning film editor who collaborated with director Robert Zemeckis on 10 films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and the Back to the Future trilogy, has died. He was 86.

Schmidt died Saturday of an unknown cause at his home in Santa Barbara, his brother Ron Schmidt told The Hollywood Reporter.

The second-generation film editor also cut three Mike Nichols features — The Fortune (1975), The Birdcage (1996) and Primary Colors (1998) — and two helmed by Michael Apted — Coal Miner’s Daughter (1980), for which he received his first Oscar nom, and Firstborn (1984).

His résumé over four decades included work on Marathon Man (1976), Jaws 2 (1978), Ruthless People (1986), Beaches (1988), The Rocketeer (1991), The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and Congo (1995), and he was brought in for three months to help tidy up the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie in 2003.

Schmidt received his Academy Awards in 1989 for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and in 1995 for Forrest Gump, and he also partnered with Zemeckis on Death Becomes Her (1992), Contact (1997), What Lies Beneath (2000), Cast Away (2000) and, after the filmmaker lured him out of retirement, Flight (2012).

In a 2014 interview, Schmidt said his collaboration with Zemeckis was a natural and effortless one. “He’s a brilliant writer and always very involved in the scripts of his films,” he said. “He’s wonderful directing actors and great in the editing room. We always seemed to be in sync.”

It was Zemeckis who presented Schmidt in 2009 with the American Cinema Editors’ Career Achievement Award.

Coal Miner’s Daughter, which starred Sissy Spacek in an Oscar-winning performance as country music superstar Loretta Lynn, marked Schmidt’s first solo effort as a film editor after 15 years in the business. He said he was determined not to overcut or overuse reaction shots: “In that movie, it was important to give the actors a moment when they needed it,” he recalled in 1990.

Schmidt thought he had peaked as a film editor after that experience. But on Who Framed Roger Rabbit — with a reported budget of $30 million, then the most expensive animated movie ever made — he seamlessly merged the mayhem of hand-drawn animation with live action in the most complex work of his career.

“That was all on film. And all without any animation in it. There was no animation in it when I cut it. There was just space for the animated character — Roger, or whoever the animated character was in the scene,” he remembered in 2021 during an Art of the Cut podcast.

To assist him in visualizing the final product, crewmembers stepped out the first take of each scene holding rubber dolls of the cartoon characters. To add the animation later, each frame that Schmidt cut was then photocopied as an 8×10 blow-up. Animators placed a cell over the frame so they could hand-draw the character with the correct proportions and positioning.

Born in Los Angeles on June 17, 1937, Arthur Robert Schmidt Schmidt didn’t have to look far for inspiration to become a film editor — his father, Arthur P. Schmidt, was a giant in the industry, a two-time Oscar nominee who cut such classics as Sunset Blvd. (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Sabrina (1954), Sayonara (1957) and Some Like It Hot (1959).

Schmidt remembered watching his dad toil in cramped editing rooms, with the nitrate process a “very mechanical and unpleasant” experience. It dissuaded him from following in his father’s footsteps until he saw “the sets for movies he was working on — like the mansion in Sunset Blvd. It was like magic.”

Still, his father discouraged him from working in Hollywood and urged him to seek something with more job security, like selling insurance.

Schmidt was in Spain teaching English in 1965 when he received news of his father’s death from a heart attack at age 52. Shortly after the funeral, two assistants from Paramount reached out and offered him an apprenticeship.

When celebrated film editor Dede Allen required a standby editor on Arthur Penn’s Little Big Man (1970), Schmidt found himself beside her in the cutting room.

“Dede worked very fast when she was working at the Moviola. The film literally would fly,” he recalled in 2014. “She would throw it all over the place and you’d have to catch it and hang the trim on the right hook and trim bin.”

He patiently waited for her to dispense advice or pearls of wisdom about the editing process. Finally, when she spotted him trying to find space to hang all the film, she told him, “Artie, just remember one thing … the floor is also a tool.”

On Marathon Man, Schmidt served as an associate editor under Oscar winner Jim Clark, and his assignment was to cut the running sequences used in that film. Director Michael Mann then asked him to do the same for the opening of his 1979 ABC telefilm The Jericho Mile, starring Peter Strauss.

So impressed with Schmidt’s work and his selection of The Rolling Stones’ “Sympathy for the Devil” as a temporary track, Mann fired the original editor and handed over the entire movie to Schmidt, who would receive an Emmy and the first of his three competitive Eddie awards for his efforts.

As Schmidt said in the 2015 behind-the-scenes book We Don’t Need Roads, Zemeckis was searching for a young actor to star in Back to the Future (1985) when he was given an early look at Firstborn, starring Christopher Collet and Robert Downey Jr.

“I don’t think either one of those boys is right for Marty McFly,” Zemeckis told him — Michael J. Fox would get the part, of course — “but I really like the way those scenes were edited.” Schmidt read the script and signed on.

With a tight timeline, he was joined by Harry Keramidas, and the two would edit the 1989 and ’91 Back to the Future sequels and Contact, too. “If either of us were stuck, we could pass scenes back and forth,” Keramidas once said. “And Bob is a strong director, he knows what he wants, and he tells you. He’d give us all the changes backward while the KEM [editing table] rewound!”

For Schmidt, the punishing schedule on the first Back to the Future forced him to take six months off to recuperate, and he vowed “never to do a schedule like that again.”

While working on Gump, Schmidt said, he realized “the editing had to be as simple, honest and as direct as Forrest’s character. Forrest edited that film.”

Schmidt would edit another Tom Hanks starrer with Cast Away (2000), masterfully building tension with just the one location and a script he called “a manual on desert island survival.”

A key component of the film was the relationship formed between Hanks and his Wilson Sporting Goods volleyball. When editing the sequence of their emotional separation, Schmidt didn’t use any temp music, fearing it would come across as manipulative. But the finished version did have Alan Silvestri’s score laid underneath, which Schmidt later admitted was “a really nice piece.”

After decades cutting actual film, Schmidt had to make “a big mental adjustment” when he edited The Birdcage on Avid. “I do miss handling film,” he said. “It gave me time to think about what the next cut was going to be.”

In addition to his brother, survivors include his wife, Susan; another brother, Greg; and four nieces and four nephews.

Despite his impressive body of work, Schmidt said he would feel insecure every time he started a new project. Yet “there was a moment halfway through Roger Rabbit when for the first time I consciously said to myself, ‘I think you finally know what you are doing,'” he told Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing in 1991.

“I couldn’t wait to get to work every day. I would go and turn on the KEM, and it would just energize me. The film had an energy that came off the screen. It just kept saying, ‘I’m really special.'”

 

Filmography (as editor)

 

Year     Title            Director           Notes

1977    The Last Remake of Beau Geste            Marty Feldman            co-edited with Jim Clark

1978    Jaws 2            Jeannot Szwarc

1979    The Jericho Mile            Michael Mann  

1980    Coal Miner's Daughter            Michael Apted            Nominated—Academy Award for Best Film Editing

The Idolmaker            Taylor Hackford         

1982    The Escape Artist            Caleb Deschanel        

1984    The Buddy System            Glenn Jordan 

Firstborn            Michael Apted  

1985            Fandango        Kevin Reynolds         

Back to the Future  Robert Zemeckis            Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing

1986            Ruthless People            David Zucker

Jim Abrahams  

Jerry Zucker    

1988    Who Framed Roger Rabbit  Robert Zemeckis            Academy Award for Best Film Editing

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing

1989    Back to the Future Part II         

1990    Back to the Future Part III       

1991    The Rocketeer            Joe Johnston          

1992    Death Becomes Her            Robert Zemeckis         

The Last of the Mohicans            Michael Mann  

1993            Addams Family Values            Barry Sonnenfeld      

1994    Forrest Gump   Robert Zemeckis            Academy Award for Best Film Editing

ACE Eddie

Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Editing

1996    The Birdcage            Mike Nichols

Chain Reaction            Andrew Davis           

1997    Contact            Robert Zemeckis         

1998    Primary Colors  Mike Nichols

2000    What Lies Beneath            Robert Zemeckis         

Cast Away      

2003    Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl            Gore Verbinski         

2005    The Chumscrubber            Arie Posin   

Adrienne Vaughan obit

Harry Potter publisher Adrienne Vaughan dies in tragic boat accident in Italy

 

She was not on the list.

The 45-year-old woman was visiting Italy with her husband and two children when she fell overboard during a boat accident off the Amalfi coast.

Adrienne Vaughan, the 45-year-old president of the Bloomsbury USA publishing house, was killed in a boat accident off the Amalfi coast in Italy, local media reports.

Vaughan became head of Bloomsbury USA, which publishes the Harry Potter books in America, in September 2021.

She was on holiday in Italy with her family - including her husband Mike White and their children Leanna and Mason, 12 and 8 - when she was involved in a boat crash in waters near Naples.

Vaughan and her family had rented out a nine-metre speedboat to explore the gulf when the vessel collided with a 45-metre sailboat named “Tortuga,” which was carrying some 80 people, including German and American tourists who were celebrating a wedding on board.

According to local media, Vaughan fell into the water and was hit by the boat’s propeller, receiving fatal injuries.

While rescuers immediately reached the scene and brought Vaughan to land for medical treatment, she was pronounced dead before she could be taken to a hospital by helicopter.

Her husband, who had also fallen into the water, reported an injury in an arm, according to Italian media, but survived after being taken to a local hospital.

The children were not injured in the accident, though they were reportedly panicked and distressed at seeing their mother in the water.

Prosecutors in Salerno, the area where the incident happened, have opened an investigation into the incident. A drugs test of the skipper who was driving the boat Vaughan hired proved positive for drugs and alcohol, according to Italian media.

In a joint statement sent to Publishing Perspectives this afternoon from The Association of American Publishers, WW Norton president Julia Reidhead, who is AAP’s board chair, and AAP president and CEO Maria A. Pallante, say, “Adrienne Vaughan was a leader of dazzling talent and infectious passion and had a deep commitment to authors and readers.

“She was elected to the AAP board of directors this year and made an immediate positive impact, speaking as a featured leader at our annual member meeting and participating with purpose on our diversity, equity, and inclusion committee.

“Most of all she was an extraordinary human being, and those of us who had the opportunity to work with her will be forever fortunate.

John Gosling obit

The Kinks’ former keyboardist John Gosling dies aged 75

Members pay tribute to ‘great man’ who played with band in 1970s 

He was not on the list.

The Kinks have paid tribute to their former bandmate John Gosling after his death at the age of 75.

Brothers Ray and Dave Davies formed the Kinks in the 1960s, with Gosling joining the band in 1970 as a keyboard player.

The Kinks announced the musician’s death in a statement posted to their social media page, which read: “We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of John Gosling. We are sending our condolences to John’s wife and family.”

Lead vocalist Ray Davies paid tribute to his friend and former bandmate and said: “Condolences to his wife, Theresa, and family. Rest in peace dearest John.”

The band’s lead guitarist, Dave Davies, also offered his condolences, saying: “I’m dismayed, deeply upset by John Gosling’s passing.

“He has been a friend and important contributor to the Kinks’ music during his time with us.

“Deepest sympathies to his wife and family.

“I will hold deep affection and love for him in my heart always. Great musician and a great man.”

The Kinks’ drummer, Mick Avory, said: “Today we lost a dear friend and colleague, he was a great musician and had a fantastic sense of humour … which made him a popular member of the band, he leaves us with some happy memories. God bless him …”

Gosling’s audition for the band was the recording session for Lola, a track which went to No 2 in the UK singles chart.

The musician joined the band five years on from the US tour which led the American Federation of Musicians to ban the Kinks from performing in the US for four years.

Gordon Edwards took over from Gosling on keyboards, before Ian Gibbons joined the band in 1979.

In 1994, Gosling became a founding member of the band the Kast Off Kinks, which includes former band members Avory, Jim Rodford and John Dalton.

Gosling stayed in the band until his retirement in 2008.

The Kinks achieved chart success with three No 1 singles in the UK: You Really Got Me, Sunny Afternoon and Tired of Waiting for You.

Walter Charles obit

Broadway Alum Walter Charles Dies at 78

Charles is known for appearing in Cats, A Christmas Carol, The Woman in White, and many more. 

He was not on the list.

BroadwayWorld is saddened to learn of the passing in Walter Charles, Broadway alum, and stage and screen actor. He was 78 years old.

Charles made his Broadway debut in Grease in 1972.

His other Broadway credits include 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (1976), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1979), Cats (1982), La Cage aux Folles (1983), Me and My Girl, Aspects of Love (1990), Kiss Me, Kate, The Boys from Syracuse (2002), Big River (2003), The Woman in White (2005), The Apple Tree (2006) and Anything Goes (2011).

He also originated the role of Ebeneezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in 1994.

Charles' screen credits include A Fine Mess, Fletch Lives, Weeds, and Prancer. On television he has appeared in Cagney and Lacey, Kate and Allie, Law & Order, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Actor

Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian, Julianne Nicholson, and Chris Noth in Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001)

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.5

TV Series

David Clayton

2004

1 episode

 

Adam Goldberg, Rick Hoffman, and Tom Everett Scott in The $treet (2000)

The $treet

7.3

TV Series

Executive

2000

1 episode

 

Ice-T, Sam Waterston, Mariska Hargitay, Camryn Manheim, Christopher Meloni, Jeffrey Donovan, Mehcad Brooks, Kelli Giddish, and Danielle Moné Truitt in Law & Order (1990)

Law & Order

7.8

TV Series

James McBride

1999

1 episode

 

Rebecca Harrell Tickell and Boo in Prancer (1989)

Prancer

6.4

Minister

1989

 

Chevy Chase in Fletch Lives (1989)

Fletch Lives

6.1

Tony

1989

 

Kate & Allie (1984)

Kate & Allie

6.9

TV Series

1989

1 episode

 

Nick Nolte in Weeds (1987)

Weeds

6.0

Godot Player

1987

 

A Fine Mess (1986)

A Fine Mess

4.7

Auctioneer

1986

 

Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless in Cagney & Lacey (1981)

Cagney & Lacey

6.8

TV Series

Nussbaum

1985

1 episode

 

Angela Lansbury and George Hearn in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1982)

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

8.4

TV Movie

Passerby

1982

Boniface Alexandre obit

Boniface Alexandre, former Haitian president and chief justice, dies at 87

 

He was not on the list.

Former Haitian President Boniface Alexandre, who led Haiti during one of country’s most challenging transitional periods, has died. He was 87.

Alexandre, a former Haitian Supreme Court Justice who led the transitional government in 2004-06, died Friday morning at his home in the Delmas 75 neighborhood of Haiti’s capital, his son-in-law, former Haiti justice minister Michel Brunache, confirmed to the Miami Herald. Brunache said his father-in-law’s death was due to natural causes after years of declining health.

“He was a fighter,” said Brunache, who is married to Alexandre’s only daughter, Marjorie, and served as chief of staff for Alexandre during his presidency.

Born on July 31, 1936 in Ganthier, a rural town just east of Port-au-Prince, Alexandre was head of Haiti’s highest court when then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide was ousted from power on Feb. 29, 2004, in a bloody revolt, and U.S. Marines landed in the country’s bullet-pocked capital as the vanguard of a Untied Nations peacekeeping force to calm the violence.

Though a provision in the Haiti Constitution at the time called for Alexandre to be approved by Parliament to fill the vacancy in the presidency, he did so without approval because the legislature had been disbanded two months earlier. He would be the last chief justice to fill a vacant presidency following changes in Haiti’s constitution.

During a news conference after his swearing-in, Alexandre said that he assumed the office “because the constitution indicates it.”

He then called on Haitians to unite and refrain from further violence. He acknowledged that taking charge of a chaotic Haiti would not be an easy task, warning that Haitians were collectively all in the same boat and “if it sinks, we all sink together.”

“Haiti is in crisis,” he said. “It needs all its sons and daughters. No one should take justice into their own hands.”

Alexandre went on to govern alongside Prime Minister Gérard Latortue, a former U.N. negotiator and South Florida TV host who was selected from a field of contenders by a seven-member council that included current Prime Minister Ariel Henry. The more boisterous and vocal of the two, Latortue preceded Alexandre in death by nearly four months. He died on March 7 at his home in Boca Raton.

The two governed during a chaotic period in Haiti where the rise of armed gangs, human rights abuses and prison deaths led the headlines. The two left office on May 14, 2006, when René Préval was sworn in as president for a second time after winning the February 2006 presidential election.

In a statement shared on social media, Henry said Alexandre’s death saddened him deeply. Haiti, he said, “is losing a great servant of the state, a brilliant lawyer and jurist, an eminent professor of civil law and civil procedure.”

“Boniface was a man of integrity, of great morality who made republican values his own. With rigor and modesty, he had devoted almost an entire life to serving the litigants and justice in his country,” said Henry.

Alexandre’s passing comes on the heels of several other high profile deaths in Haiti. Respected journalist and press freedom advocate Liliane Pierre-Paul died on Monday from a heart attack; former Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Jacques Honorat died on July 26 at the age of 92. An author, thinker and agronomist who had opposed Aristide’s policies during the latter’s first presidency, Honorat served as prime minister between October 1991-June 1992 after Aristide was overthrown by a military coup led by Gen. Raoul Cédras,

The passing of three highly respected figures in a short period serve as a reminder of Haiti’s troubled history and those who sought to make a difference in the country only to see history continue to repeat itself.

Brunache said despite the obstacles, Alexandre, a father of four, believed that Haitians had the ability to change the course of their nation.

“His dream for the country was one where everyone could get a good education, everyone could live normally. A dream where there would never again be a dictator because in his youth, he suffered as a result of the dictatorship,” Brunache said, noting that at one point Alexandre left Port-au-Prince for Ganthier to escape the secret police, the Tonton Macoute, of the Duvalier dictatorship.

Brunache said Alexandre’s demeanor could be attributed to his own personal philosophy as someone who didn’t like to put himself at the forefront. As provisional president, he believed he needed to stay true to the 1987 Haitian Constitution, which views the president as a minor and gives the responsibility of governance to the prime minister.

In recent years, Alexandre had begun to view the country’s constitution differently. In 2020, he agreed to head a constitution revision commission put in place by President Jovenel Moïse. On Sept. 8, 2021, two months after Moïse’s assassination, Alexandre, as chair of the Independent Advisory Committee, handed over the draft of a new Constitution to Henry.

Though the document was the result of consultations with various individuals ,the re-write of Haiti’s Constitution was controversial and opposed by people even in Moïse’s own political party.

“He iwas totally devoted in everything he did,” Brunache said of Alexandre. “Hee never wanted anyone to reproach him, whether it was in his personal undertakings or his professional life or in his short political career.

“As a lawyer, law professor, president of the Republic and as a father, he was carried himself the same way,” Brunahce added, describing Alexandre as someone who remained modest “regardless of what level he reached in society.”

A respected figure, Alexandre began working from an early age, taking on the responsibility of financially supporting his siblings and their children before starting his own family. While he didn’t too much believe in Haitians’ ability to organize themselves, he did believe in their individual responsibility, said his son-in-law.

“He believed if everyone did what they were supposed to do the country would advance,” Brunache said. “He believed in individual change and if we could create critical mass with this, we would have a different country.

Like most of Haiti’s nearly 12 million people, Brunache said his father-in-law was affected by the country’s deteriorating situation. The gang violence and rampant kidnappings that have caused the displacement of thousands of Haitians, had also made him a prisoner in his own home, keeping him teaching his law courses at universities around the country.

Bob Murdoch obit

 

Stanley Cup champion and Jack Adams Award winner Bob Murdoch passes away at 76

He was not on the list.

Bob Murdoch, a two-time Stanley Cup champion and a former NHL defenceman has died at the age of 76.

The NHL Alumni Association announced his passing on Friday.

Murdoch played for the Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Kings, and Atlanta/Calgary Flames over 12 seasons from 1970-82, scoring 60 goals and 218 assists.

He won the Stanley Cup with the Canadiens in 1971 and 1973, and had four goals and 18 assists in 72 post-season games, qualifying for the playoffs for all 12 of his NHL seasons.

Murdoch was an assistant coach with the Flames before coaching the Chicago Blackhawks (1987-88) and original Winnipeg Jets (1989-91).

The Jets improved by 11 wins and 21 points and Murdoch won the Jack Adams Award as NHL coach of the year in his first season with them in 1989-90.

Murdoch was as assistant with the San Jose Sharks (1991-93) before coaching in Europe.

He was diagnosed with Lewy Body Dementia, Parkinsonism, and Alzheimer's disease in 2019.

Position            Defence

Shot     Right

Played for            Montreal Canadiens

Los Angeles Kings

Atlanta Flames

Calgary Flames

 

Coached for    

Chicago Blackhawks

Winnipeg Jets

Maddogs München

Kölner Haie

Nürnberg Ice Tigers

National team   Canada

 

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season             Playoffs

Season Team            League            GP            G            A            Pts            PIM            GP            G            A            Pts            PIM

1968–69            Winnipeg Nationals            WCSHL          6            0            1            1            2            —            —            —            —            —

1969–70            Montreal Voyageurs            AHL            6            0            2            2            6            —            —            —            —            —

1970–71            Montreal Canadiens            NHL            1            0            2            2            2            2            0            0            0            0

1970–71            Montreal Voyageurs            AHL            66            8            20            28            69            3            1            2            3            4

1971–72            Montreal Canadiens            NHL            11            1            1            2            8            1            0            0            0            0

1971–72            Nova Scotia Voyageurs            AHL            53            7            32            39            53            —            —            —            —            —

1972–73            Montreal Canadiens            NHL            69            2            22            24            55            13            0            3            3            10

1973–74            Los Angeles Kings            NHL            76            8            20            28            85            5            0            0            0            2

1974–75            Los Angeles Kings            NHL            80            13            29            42            116            3            0            1            1            4

1975–76            Los Angeles Kings            NHL            80            6            29            35            103            9            0            5            5            15

1976–77            Los Angeles Kings            NHL            70            9            23            32            79            9            2            3            5            14

1977–78            Los Angeles Kings            NHL            76            2            17            19            68            2            0            1            1            5

1978–79            Los Angeles Kings            NHL            32            3            12            15            46            —            —            —            —            —

1978–79            Atlanta Flames NHL            35            5            11            16            24            2            0            0            0            4

1979–80            Atlanta Flames NHL            80            5            16            21            48            4            1            1            2            2

1980–81            Calgary Flames NHL            74            3            19            22            54            16            1            4            5            36

1981–82            Calgary Flames NHL            73            3            17            20            76            3            0            0            0            0

NHL totals            757            60            218            278            764            69            4            18            22            92