DEATHS Former Washington Post publisher and Pulitzer Prize-winning memoirist Katharine Graham (Personal History), 84, of head injuries from a fall at a media conference, July 17, in Boise, Idaho. Graham, who presided over Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's famous Watergate reporting, turned the Post into a leading newspaper and oversaw its holdings, including Newsweek, after taking the helm from her late husband in 1963....Rapper Poetic (a.k.a. Anthony Berkeley), 35, who rhymed with the hardcore hip-hop group Gravediggaz, of colon cancer and kidney failure, July 15, in L.A....Animator and screenwriter Ted Berman, 81, who worked on such Disney classics as Bambi and Fantasia, of renal cell carcinoma, July 15, in L.A....Oscar-winning writer James Bernard (1950's Seven Days to Noon), 75, of undisclosed causes, July 12, in London. He also composed the scores for dozens of horror classics, including 1957's The Curse of Frankenstein and 1958's Dracula....Kabuki actor Uzaemon Ichimura, 84, regarded by the Japanese government as "a living national treasure," of complications from lung cancer, July 8, in Tokyo.... Arnold Peyser, 80, who cowrote with wife Lois scripts for TV's The Brady Bunch and My Three Sons, of colon cancer, July 1, in L.A....Emmy-winning writer Hal Goldman, 81, who penned jokes for Jack Benny, Carol Burnett, George Burns, and Flip Wilson, reportedly of lung cancer, June 27, in L.A.

Originally posted Jul 27, 2001 Published in issue #606 Jul 27, 2001 Order article reprints
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