Saturday May 17, 2008
Journalist roared through life 'like a movie star with charisma'
Paul King was a swashbuckling Canadian journalist, author, artist and consummate raconteur who roared through life with an unquenchable curiosity and joy of the moment. ''He was like a movie star - brimming with charisma; trailing cigarette smoke as he lunged ever forward; talking out of the corner of his mouth in a raspy commanding drawl - right out of a 1930s newspaper movie,'' said Ron Base, his long-time friend, fellow author and screenwriter. ''He was unique, wonderful, irreplaceable and a helluva fine writer.''
JESSIE JACOBS: 17
Actress Jessie Jacobs, who starred in the Canadian-Australian children's TV series The Saddle Club, was buried yesterday after being hit and killed by a train on May 10. She was 17.
ROBERT MONDAVI: 94
California winemaking patriarch Robert Mondavi died at home yesterday.He started his own winery in 1966, after being ousted from a family-run venture with a younger brother. He was 52. Using such innovations as cold fermentation and stainless-steel tanks, he built the business into a vast and thriving enterprise.
LAST WORDS
It has all been very interesting.Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1762
