LOS ANGELES (AP) – Hal David, who along with partner Burt Bacharach penned
dozens of timeless songs for movies, television and a variety of recording artists
in the 1960s and beyond, has died.

David died of complications from a stroke Saturday morning in Los Angeles,
according to Jim Steinblatt, spokesman for the American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers. David was a longtime member and former president of
ASCAP.

Bacharach and David wrote many top 40 hits including "Raindrops Keep Fallin’
On My Head," "Close to You" and "That’s What Friends Are For."

"Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head" is B. J. Thomas‘s #1
song, written by David and Bacharach for the 1969 film
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

From left: Burt Bacharach and Hal David

In 1997, "Days Like This" was featured on the soundtrack of the film, As Good as It Gets.

The Northern Irish singer-songwriter is 67 today

Richard Samuel Attenborough (Baron Attenborough) is an English actor,
director, producer and entrepreneur. He is the current President of the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).

As a film director and producer, he won two Academy Awards for Gandhi
in 1982. He has also won four BAFTA Awards and three Golden Globe
Awards. As an actor he is perhaps best known for his roles in Brighton
Rock (1947), The Great Escape (1963), 10 Rillington Place (1971),
Miracle on 34th Street (1994) and Jurassic Park (1993).

From left: James Stewart and Richard Attenborough from “Flight
of The Phoenix”

From “Miracle on 34th Street”

Singer Tommy Adrian Sands began playing the guitar at age
eight and within a year landed job performing twice weekly on
a local radio station. He was only 15 when Colonel Tom Parker
heard about him and signed him to RCA Records.

Sands performed in several films including Mardi Gras (1958),
The Longest Day (1962), Ensign Pulver (1964), and None But
the Brave (1965),

In 1960, Sands married Nancy Sinatra. They were divorced in 1965

1961

Weld began her acting career as a child, progressing to more mature roles
during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising
Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the following decade she established a
career playing dramatic roles in films.

Her work in supporting roles was acknowledged with nominations for a
Golden Globe Award for Play It As It Lays (1972), a nomination for
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Looking for Mr.
Goodbar (1978), an Emmy Award for The Winter of Our Discontent
(1983), and a BAFTA for Once Upon a Time in America (1984).

June 1961