Archive for November, 2006
PRIMAL FEAR AUTHOR WILLIAM DIEHL DEAD AT 81
Monday, November 27th, 2006William Diehl (December 4, 1924 – November 24, 2006) was an American novelist and journalist.
Diehl was fifty years old and already a successful photographer and journalist when he decided he had not heeded his life calling. Diehl, bored by the trial he was serving on as juror, started writing fiction on a notepad – the day after his 50th birthday he began his first novel, Sharky’s Machine, which was made into a movie directed by and starring Burt Reynolds. He later completed eight more novels, including Primal Fear, which became a movie starring Edward Norton and Richard Gere. Diehl died at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta on Nov. 24, 2006 of an aortic aneurism. He was a resident of Woodstock, Georgia at the time of his death, and was working on his 10th novel.
FRENCH ACTOR PHILIPPE NOIRET DEAD AT 76
Friday, November 24th, 2006Philippe Noiret (born October 1, 1930 in Lille, Nord, France, died November 23, 2006) was a French actor.
