Adolf Hitler

BERLIN (AP) – A watercolor of Munich’s old city hall painted by Adolf Hitler a
century ago has been sold for $162,000 at an auction in Germany.

Kathrin Weidler, director of the Weider auction house in Nuremberg, said the
work attracted bidders from four continents and went to a buyer from the Middle
East. She declined to elaborate.

The painting was sold by a pair of elderly sisters whose grandfather purchased
it in 1916.

Mike Nichols (born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky)

(November 6, 1931 – November 19, 2014)

Mike Nichols, the director of film, TV and stage hits such as
"The Graduate," "Working Girl" and ”Angels in America", died
Wednesday night of cardiac arrest at his home in New York. 

Jimmy Lee Ruffin (May 7, 1939 – November 17, 2014)

(AP) – Jimmy Ruffin, the Motown singer whose hits include
“What Becomes of the Brokenhearted" and "Hold on to My
Love," died Monday in a Las Vegas hospital.

Philicia Ruffin and Jimmy Lee Ruffin Jr., the late singer’s
children, confirmed Wednesday that Ruffin had died. No
details about the cause of death were available.

Ruffin was the older brother of Temptations lead singer
David Ruffin, who died in 1991 at age 50.

Richard Schaal (May 7, 1928 – November 4, 2014)

Actor and comedian Richard Schaal, a member of Chicago’s legendary
Second City improv group in the 1960s, died Tuesday, November 4, in
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California. The cause was not disclosed.

Schaal was best known for his work in many classic sitcoms including
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show," "Rhoda," "The Bob Newhart Show,"
"Phyllis" and "Just My Luck."

Actor and movie director Orson Welles during a press conference in Paris
on February 22, 1982.  

(AP) – Orson Welles’s last film may finally be nearing release after decades
as one of cinema’s most storied unfinished creations.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that a Los Angeles production
company, Royal Road Entertainment, has agreed to buy the rights to Welles’
largely unseen "The Other Side of the Wind." Producers are planning to unveil
the film in time for the centennial anniversary of Welles’ birth on May 6.

The semi-autobiographical film is about a movie director, played by John Huston,
feuding with Hollywood over an ambitious film. Welles shot the movie in 1971 and
spent the rest of his life editing it, before dying in 1985.

Director Peter Bogdanovich, who appears in the film, will help edit the footage,
which includes a roughly 45-minute edited print.