{"id":21602,"date":"2020-11-26T09:25:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21602"},"modified":"2020-11-26T09:25:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T15:25:20","slug":"obit-watch-november-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=21602","title":{"rendered":"Obit watch: November 26, 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/25\/arts\/television\/dena-dietrich-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dena Dietrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She had a strong TV career, and an interesting theater one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/25\/arts\/television\/dena-dietrich-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What would have been her Broadway debut \u2014 \u201cThe Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake\u201d (1967), a generation-gap comedy \u2014 closed in previews, reportedly because its Hollywood star, Jean Arthur, was ill. Ms. Dietrich\u2019s first official Broadway appearance was also brief: \u201cHere\u2019s Where I Belong,\u201d a musical based on John Steinbeck\u2019s \u201cEast of Eden,\u201d opened and closed on March 3, 1968.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/25\/arts\/television\/dena-dietrich-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Then her luck changed. Ms. Dietrich played a sensible older sister in Mike Nichols\u2019s Broadway production of Neil Simon\u2019s \u201cThe Prisoner of Second Avenue\u201d (1971). The play, starring Peter Falk and Lee Grant as Manhattanites struggling through a bad economy, ran for almost two years and won two Tony Awards.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She was most famous, though, as &#8220;Mother Nature&#8221; in those 1970s commercials for a margarine company. (&#8220;It&#8217;s not nice to fool Mother Nature.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/25\/obituaries\/ian-finkel-dead-coronavirus.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Finkel<\/a>, the self-proclaimed &#8220;world\u2019s greatest xylophonist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/25\/obituaries\/ian-finkel-dead-coronavirus.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mr. Finkel\u2019s path took him from the borscht belt resorts in the Catskills to playing with the New York Philharmonic. He also worked as a composer and musical arranger for stars like Sid Caesar, Tito Puente and Ginger Rogers, his brother, Elliot Finkel, said.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/25\/obituaries\/ian-finkel-dead-coronavirus.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As a percussionist, he worked in orchestras that accompanied the likes of Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross and Tony Bennett.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dena Dietrich. She had a strong TV career, and an interesting theater one: What would have been her Broadway debut \u2014 \u201cThe Freaking Out of Stephanie Blake\u201d (1967), a generation-gap comedy \u2014 closed in previews, reportedly because its Hollywood star, Jean Arthur, was ill. Ms. Dietrich\u2019s first official Broadway appearance was also brief: \u201cHere\u2019s Where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150,40,16,49,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","category-music","category-obits","category-theatre","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21603,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21602\/revisions\/21603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}