British director Ken Russell dies
British director Ken Russell, the visually baroque and often deliberately excessive and opulent helmer of such films as ``Women in Love,'' ``The Devils,'' ``Tommy'' and ``Altered States,'' died in a hospital on Sunday following a series of strokes, his son Alex Verney-Elliott said Monday.
Erudite art critic John Russell, whose tastes gained attention for many renowned postwar British artists, has died at 89 in New York, his wife says.