Former OEM Director Sheirer dies
Former Office of Emergency Management Director Richard Sheirer died on the morning of January 19 of an apparent heart attack.
Director Eric Rohmer, one of the giants of modern French cinema, has died at age 89, his production company Campagnie Eric Rohmer said Monday.With other groundbreaking filmmakers, such as Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut, Rohmer was one of the founders of French New Wave cinema that in the 1950s and 1960s transformed French and world cinema forever.