The death of Lynn Redgrave has had an impact on Broadway, the film world, and even Ten Chimneys in Genessee Depot.
Redgrave, 67, was scheduled to mentor a group of actors for the second summer in a row as part of the 2010 Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship program at the the estate of late theater legends Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.
She died Sunday of breast cancer.
Here's a statement from Sean Malone, president of the Ten Chimneys Foundation:
"In addition to her great talent as an actor of depth and honesty, Lynn Redgrave was deeply committed to mentoring the next generation of great stage actors. She was an astounding mentor - generous, sincere, perceptive, and passionate. The world-class actors she mentored at Ten Chimneys last summer (as she was slated to do again this summer) were forever changed by their week with Lynn.
"In my communcations with Lynn and her family last week, Lynn shared that it was her deep wish that this summer's Lunt-Fontanne Fellowship Program continue on.
"And it will.
"More than anything today, I am mourning the loss of my friend. Everyone who was touched by Lynn at Ten Chimneys joins me in celebrating the wonderful Lynn Redgrave."
Here's a video of Redgrave talking about the program at Ten Chimneys:
Tim Cuprisin is the media columnist for OnMilwaukee.com. He's been a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1979 as a police reporter at the old City News Bureau of Chicago, a legendary wire service that's the reputed source of the journalistic maxim "if your mother says she loves you, check it out." He spent a couple years in the mean streets of his native Chicago, and then moved on to the Green Bay Press-Gazette and USA Today, before coming to the Milwaukee Journal in 1986.
A general assignment reporter, Cuprisin traveled Eastern Europe on several projects, starting with a look at Poland after five years of martial law, and a tour of six countries in the region after the Berlin Wall opened and Communism fell. He spent six weeks traversing the lands of the former Yugoslavia in 1994, linking Milwaukee Serbs, Croats and Bosnians with their war-torn homeland.
In the fall of 1994, a lifetime of serious television viewing earned him a daily column in the Milwaukee Journal (and, later the Journal Sentinel) focusing on TV and radio. For 15 years, he has chronicled the changes rocking broadcasting, both nationally and in Milwaukee, an effort he continues at OnMilwaukee.com.
When he's not watching TV, Cuprisin enjoys tending to his vegetable garden in the backyard of his home in Whitefish Bay, cooking and traveling.
