Milestones

By Elizabeth L. Bland; Unmesh Kher; Jonathan Rick; Carolina Miranda; Elizabeth Sampson; William Han

SENTENCED. MARTHA STEWART, queen of domestic advice and former ImClone shareholder; to five months in prison for lying to federal investigators over her sale of the company's stock; in New York City (see page 47).

DIED. CARLO DI PALMA, 79, cinematographer and maestro of movie lighting; in Rome. Working with director Michelangelo Antonioni, he obliterated the palette of realism by painting the grass yellow in The Red Desert and greener than green in Blow-Up, creating two of the most influential color films. In the mid-'80s, he ushered Woody Allen into a visually rich period with subtle lighting in such films as Radio Days and Hannah and Her Sisters.

DIED. WALTER WAGER, 79, prolific spy novelist, whose books often featured villains bent on apocalyptic destruction and were turned into such movies as Die Hard 2 and Telefon; of brain cancer; in New York City.

DIED. JOE GOLD, 82, California bodybuilder and founder of Gold's Gym; in Los Angeles. Gold, center, was an early popularizer of bodybuilding in the U.S. and mentor to a broke Austrian bodybuilder named Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he allowed to work out for free and nicknamed "Balloon Belly." His Venice Beach gym was the setting for the documentary Pumping Iron.

DIED. ALBERT CASEY, 84, former American Airlines CEO; in Dallas. After working in the railroad industry and as head of the Times Mirror media company, he took over American in 1974, when airlines faced deregulation, climbing debt and higher fuel prices. When he left the company 10 years later, annual profits stood at $228 million.

DIED. EDWARD KILLINGSWORTH, 86, pioneer modernist architect; in Long Beach, Calif. Along with Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra and others, he designed six of the important Case Study Houses, a seminal Los Angeles--based project promoting modern design and cost-effective materials for the postwar housing boom.

DIED. ISABEL SANFORD, 86, husky-voiced actress best known as Louise Jefferson on TV's The Jeffersons; in Los Angeles. After years in the theater, she made her movie debut as the loquacious Tillie in the 1967 interracial love story Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. But her defining role came in 1975, when she moved into a "dee-luxe apartment in the sky" in Norman Lear's groundbreaking comedy about an upwardly mobile black family. For 10 years she provided the steadying foil for Sherman Hemsley's peppery George and in 1981 became the first African-American actress to win an Emmy. Her acceptance speech began: "At last."

DIED. LAURANCE ROCKEFELLER, 94, one of five grandsons of oil baron John D. Rockefeller, who made his mark as a philanthropist, venture capitalist and conservationist; in New York City. Among his prominent siblings, he was a reserved visionary; a pioneer in the new field of venture capitalism, who helped Captain Eddie Rickenbacker start Eastern Airlines; and a lover of the outdoors, who helped establish or enlarge national parks from New York to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming. "We feel," he once said of his philanthropic clan, "you must give with the heart as well as the head."

DIED. PHOEBE BRAND, 96, stage actress and theater teacher; in New York City. A founder of the influential Group Theatre in the 1930s, she was later blacklisted with her husband, actor Morris Carnovsky, for involvement in the Communist Party. Robbed of a Hollywood career, she made her much belated film debut in 1994, at 86, in Louis Malle's Vanya on 42nd Street.