Legendary director Cimino dies

Michael Cimino, director of the Oscar-winning Vietnam War film “The Deer Hunter,” has died at the age of 77, several sources said.
Cimino will also be remembered for the budget-busting flop “Heaven’s Gate” released not long after his grim tale of the Vietnam war.
His death was reported by Cannes film festival director Thierry Fremaux and by the New York Times, which quoted the director’s friend and former lawyer Eric Weissmann. No cause of death was immediately given.
Weissmann was quoted as saying Cimino’s body was found at his Los Angeles home after friends were unable to reach him by telephone.
“The Deer Hunter,” released in 1978, was a gut-wrenching tale of a group of American friends in Pennsylvania whose lives were scarred by the Vietnam War.

Source : Arab News