Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Elizabeth L. Bland, Janice M. Horowitz, Victoria Rainert, Rebecca Winters

INDICTED. RICHARD REID, 28, who packed explosives in his shoes in an apparent attempt to blow up an American Airlines flight; on nine counts, including attempted murder and the use of a weapon of mass destruction; in Boston. Reid, who is accused of receiving training from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

CONVICTED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 66, defrocked priest; of indecent assault and battery for fondling a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in 1991; in Cambridge, Mass. Geoghan plans to appeal but still faces 84 civil lawsuits over the sexual abuse of children.

DIED. TED DEMME, 37, promising film director and Emmy award-winning television producer; of an apparent heart attack during a celebrity basketball game; in Los Angeles. Known for his gritty stories and edgy humor, the gregarious Demme, nephew of Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme, directed Blow (2001) and Beautiful Girls (1996).

DIED. CAMILO JOSE CELA, 85, Spanish writer, bon vivant and 1989 Nobel laureate in literature; in Madrid. The flamboyant author pioneered "tremendismo," a raw writing style that Spain would claim as its own, though Cela's first work, The Family of Pascal Duarte (1942), was considered so violent it was banned in his country and first published in Argentina. The novel eventually became one of the best-read works of Spanish fiction since Cervantes' Don Quixote.

DIED. FRANK SHUSTER, 85, the sunny, subtler half of the Canadian comedy team Wayne and Shuster, a favorite of TV host Ed Sullivan, on whose long-running variety show they appeared 67 times; in Toronto.

DIED. HARDING LAWRENCE, 81, airline innovator who in the mid-1960s led the radical makeover and growth of the now defunct Braniff International Airways; in Mustique, West Indies. He perked up the airline with brightly colored planes and Pucci-designed flight-attendant uniforms (with help from Mary Wells, an ad executive who later became his wife), before a recession and high fuel prices drove the airline out of business in 1982.

DIED. GREGORIO FUENTES, 104, fisherman, thought to have inspired Ernest Hemingway's 1952 novella The Old Man and the Sea; in Cojimar, Cuba. The hard-drinking raconteur became a legend in Cojimar, where, in exchange for cash or rum, he regaled tourists with embellished reminiscences of Papa H., whose fishing boat he skippered for some 20 years.