Rod Steiger (1925–2002) was an American actor, noted for his portrayal
of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters. He is closely
associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he
played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He
starred with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954), playing Charley,
the mobster brother of Brando's character. He played the title character
Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker (1964), and an opportunistic Russian
politician in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago (1965). Steiger won the
Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mississippi police
chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of
the Night (1967). During the 1970s, Steiger turned to European
productions in his search for more demanding roles. He portrayed
Napoleon in Waterloo (1970) and a Mexican bandit in Sergio Leone's Duck,
You Sucker! (1971). He ended the decade playing a disturbed priest in
The Amityville Horror (1979).
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Steiger>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1809:
The second Theatre Royal, Covent Garden (interior pictured),
opened in London after the original was destroyed by fire.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Opera_House>
1875:
The Indianola hurricane dissipated over Mississippi after
killing around eight hundred people in Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1875_Indianola_hurricane>
1961:
An aircraft crashed near Ndola in Northern Rhodesia, resulting
in the deaths of United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld and
15 others on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Ndola_Transair_Sweden_DC-6_crash>
1981:
While posing as an aristocrat, Belgian serial killer Nestor
Pirotte murdered an antiques dealer in Brussels, for which crime he was
sentenced to death.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Pirotte>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
greige:
1. (textiles) Of clothing, textiles, etc.: neither bleached nor dyed,
nor otherwise fully processed; unfinished.
2. Of a colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric, between grey
and beige.
3. A colour like that of unbleached or undyed fabric between grey and
beige, closely akin to taupe. greige:
4. (textiles, archaic) Clothing, textiles, etc., which have neither been
bleached nor dyed, nor otherwise fully processed; greige goods.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/greige>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
You can always tell an old battlefield where many men have lost
their lives. The next spring the grass comes up greener and more
luxuriant than on the surrounding countryside; the poppies are redder,
the corn-flowers more blue. They grow over the field and down the sides
of the shell holes and lean, almost touching, across the abandoned
trenches in a mass of color that ripples all day in the direction that
the wind blows. They take the pits and scars out of the torn land and
make it a sweet, sloping surface again. Take a wood, now, or a ravine:
In a year's time you could never guess the things which had taken place
there. … To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men,
and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places
where they have been as quickly as possible.
--William March
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_March>
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