Sadie

Sarah "Sadie" Delany, 109, the last of the storied Delany sisters, died peacefully in her sleep yesterday at her home in Mount Vernon, N.Y., spokesmen for her family said.She was the oldest survivor of one of America's most remarkable families, the daughter of a man who had been born a slave, and the first colored woman -- the term she preferred -- ever permitted to teach home economics in white New York City schools.Miss Delany and her younger sister, Dr. A. Elizabeth "Bessie" Delany, were always celebrated in Harlem, where they lived and flourished from 1916 to 1957, after leaving their native Raleigh, N.C.The sisters gained widespread fame after the publication in 1993 of a memoir they called "Having Our Say; The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years."

Sadie, Sadie, the Drug Lady is on patrol, the very image of grace under pressure as she rockets down Route 50 in a Maryland State Police cruiser with Trooper Christina Force at the wheel.Cool, calm and collected, not to mention well-balanced, Sadie measures up to Hemingway's definition of courage just fine -- even if she is only a mutt.A sweet mutt, Force points out. And a good cop. Sadie's got a casebook as thick as Frank Pembleton's. She's a great drug sniffer. She's got a great shnozzola.

"Child, I feel like I've known you all my life," centenarian Sadie Delany told playwright and director Emily Mann on the first afternoon they spent together.Mann was visiting Sadie and her sister Bessie while researching the play "Having Our Say," which went on to become one of the hits of the 1994-1995 Broadway season and is now on a national tour. (It arrives at the Mechanic Theatre tonight.)Adapted from the memoir written by Sarah ("Sadie") L. Delany and A. Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany with writer Amy Hill Hearth, "Having Our Say" is Mann's two-person drama, which quietly and movingly relates 100 years of American history.

"Some people grieve to remember, but we celebrate," says Bessie Delany in "Having Our Say," Emily Mann's play about the centenarian Delany sisters. And indeed, "Having Our Say" -- currently at the Mechanic Theatre -- is an endearing celebration from start to finish.Adapted from the book of the same name, written by Sarah ("Sadie") L. Delany and A. Elizabeth ("Bessie") Delany, with Amy Hill Hearth, this two-person play celebrates the lives of a pair of extraordinary women. Daughters of a former slave who became, in Bessie's words, "the first elected Negro bishop of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A," Bessie was the second African-American woman licensed to practice dentistry in New York and Sadie was the first African-American domestic science teacher in a New York City high school.

Sadie Fern Phillips, 93, played piano at theatersSadie Fern Crowe Phillips, who loved music and played piano for silent movies, died of respiratory failure Thursday at North Arundel Convalescent Center after a brief illness. She was 93.Mrs. Phillips enjoyed playing piano at nursing homes and in talent shows at Lake Shore Baptist Church, where she was a member. In her youth, she provided piano accompaniment for silent movies."Music was her heart," said her daughter, Gloria A. Kraus of Pasadena.

The Charles seems to be turning itself into a clinic this week devoted to the study of female self-destruction under the delusion of artistic expression. That's the theme of both the films it introduces today, the drama "Georgia" and the documentary "Nico Icon."Both watch as young women, one imagined, one real, come to the conclusion that there's a link between art and suffering and set about to improve their art by suffering. Alas it doesn't work -- it never does.But Sadie's case may be the saddest because right before her is an image of such cool perfection and artistic fulfilment it drives her nuts.

BOSTON -- Bessie Delany became famous at 100. One day in 1991, a reporter came to the house that Bessie shared with her elder sister Sadie in Mount Vernon, New York. ''Go on, sit down,'' Bessie told Amy Hill Hearth. ''Sit down as long as you like. We won't charge you rent.''The reporter sat and listened. Bessie and Sadie Delany sat and talked. And the country became the richer for it. The sisters' stories about their long life and their good hard times as ''Negro maiden ladies'' were told with such honesty and clarity that Americans also listened.

Sadie VinciConfectionary ownerSadie Vinci, the retired owner of a confectionary store and luncheonette that her father founded in the late 1890s in the Druid Hill Park area, died Thursday of Alzheimer's disease and cancer at Sinai Hospital. She was 80.She went to work for Vinci and Sons Confectionary in the 2300 block of N. Fulton Ave. after she graduated from the Institute of Notre Dame high school in the 1930s. For a while, she and her mother ran the business together.Ms. Vinci, who grew up near the family store, retired and closed it in 1987.

Sadie Dashew Ginsberg, an internationally recognized expert on child care and childhood education, died at the Chesapeake Manor Extended Care Center in Arnold on Thursday of heart failure. She was 92.Mrs. Ginsberg began her crusade to promote early childhood education and day care programs in 1924 as one of the founders of the Child Study Association of Baltimore, an organization devoted to helping parents do a better job of rearing their children."The point that Sadie was trying to make was that children learn from the time they are born and that you have to nurture both the brain and the body," said Sandy Skolnik, executive director of the Maryland Committee for Children.

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. -- Tony Fanelli, who operates a small coffee shop here, is one of those Democrats having a hard time coming to grips with the presidential election campaign."

On October 21, 2009, SADIE HENRIETTA DUDLEY. On Monday, friends may call VAUGHN C. GREENE FUNERAL SERVICES, 4101 Edmondson Avenue from 4 to 8 P.M. On Tuesday, Mrs. Dudley will lie in state at Central Baptist Church, 2035 W. Baltimore Street, where the family will receive friends from 10 to 10:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 233-

On April 16, 2009, SADIE PANKEY; beloved mother of Cheryl Pankey Griffin, Angela Lyons, Trina Garner, Sadie Garner-Clapp, Alan Garner, Jr. (Alex), Michael Garner, Sr., and Antoinette Garner. She is also survived by 12 grandchildren, one great grandson, two sisters, Kathleen Williams and Mildred Edward, two brothers, Hubert and Raymond Pankey. On Tuesday friends may visit the james a. morton & sons funeral homes, inc

On April 4, 2009, SADIE; beloved mother of Brigid Wallace, Roslyn Brown, Yul and Edward Ross. She is also survived by ten grandchildren, five great-grandchildren; one sister; mother, Willie Mae Kennedy and a host of other relatives. Friends may visit the JAMES A. MORTON & SONS FUNERAL HOMES. INC., 1701 Laurens Street, Friday 4 to 7 P.M. Funeral Mass Monday 9 A.M at Holy Family Catholic Church, 9531 Liberty Road.

On April 1, 2009, LIONEL ATKINS; devoted husband of the late Sadie Hylton; beloved father of Nancy Wilson, Lionel and Lamont Hylton and the late Lorie Hylton. He is also survived by eight grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother Rudolph Hylton and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may visit the family owned MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue on Friday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends from 5 to 7 P.M. The family will also receive friends at the above establishment on Saturday at 11:30 A.M with funeral service to follow at 12 P.M.

Kristin Sherman, 16, was driving her little brother and their dog Sadie to Chick-fil-A in the Harmans area on a wet Saturday when her Ford Escape skidded through an intersection, collided with a mail truck and spun into a fire hydrant. Remarkably, Kristin, her brother, Christopher, 11, and the occupants of the mail truck escaped injury. But Sadie was not so lucky. The six-pound toy fox terrier appeared to be unconscious. Blood trickled from her nose and her breath rattled in her chest.

On July 8, 2008, SADIE A. BRISCOE. Devoted mother of two daughters, one stepson, one son-in-law, two grandchildren, four great-grandchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends. Friends may call at the Carlton C. Douglass Funeral Service, P.A., 1701 McCulloh Street, on Sunday, 1 to 6 P.M. Family will receive friends Monday, 10:30 to 11 A.M. at the All Saints Catholic Church, 4408 Liberty Heights Avenue at Eldorado, with services following. Interment New Cathedral Cemetery.

On October 17, 2007, SADIE NELSON BROWN. On Monday, friends may call Vaughn C. Greene Funeral Services, 4905 York Road where the family will receive friends from 3-8 P.M. On Tuesday, services will be held at St. Paul Community Baptist Church, 1901 Federal Street, where the family will receive friends from 10:30-11 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to (410) 433-7500.

On August 2, 2007, SADIE MAE BUSHROD. Friends may call at the FAMILY OWNED MARCH FUNERAL HOME WEST, INC., 4300 Wabash Avenue, on Monday after 8:30 A.M., where the family will receive friends on Tuesday at 10:30 A.M. Funeral services will follow at 11 A.M.

To lose 30 pounds, Patti Lawson worked like a dog. And now, she's written a book to prove it. Lawson is author of The Dog Diet, a memoir stuffed with anecdotes about how her real-life pooch helped her lose the one around her tummy - and regain self-confidence, hope and a bit of wit in the process. The attorney-turned-writer's narrative was named "Dog Humor Book of the Year" by the Dog Writers Association of America in February. In the winter of 2002, heartbroken because of the end of a long-term romance and disillusioned with her career as a finance attorney, Lawson did what she said many people do when they're unhappy: She ate. She ate ice cream, pizza, fast food.

Robin Williams as a marriage counselor. Funny idea? If you think so, then License to Wed still isn't funny. But at least the idea appeals to you. The rest of us will be hard-pressed to find anything praiseworthy about a film that's an early favorite for worst comedy of the year. Williams, as a priest who forces his couples to pass an emotionally sadistic wedding-preparation course before exchanging their vows, completes his descent from innovative comic to cringe-inducing self-parody. Mandy Moore, as the female half of our couple-to-be, could not be more adorable or engaging, but is woefully unprepared to carry a film alone.