Two-Lane Blacktop and
Ride in the Whirlwind, died Tuesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, California, after a fall in his home. His daughter, Melissa Hellman, confirmed his death to
Hellman was well regarded for his genre films, such as his 1964 war drama
Back Door to Hell, 1966’s pair of Westerns
The Shooting and
Two-Lane Blacktop starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson.
Born in New York City in 1932, Hellman relocated to Los Angeles with his family when he was five years old, and later got his start in the film and television business as an editor’s apprentice at ABC. He made his directorial debut with the 1959 horror film
several killed, at least a dozen critically injured. several ejected. the bus rolling other on the highway. no one on board escaped this unharmed. at this hour, they ve airlifted victims from the remote scene. here s matt gutman. reporter: tonight, the ntsb is launching a team to investigate how that bus flipped on a gradual curve and rolling and ejected passengers. four were killed and as many as 5 critically injured when the bus filled with 30 people suddenly overturn on the road leading to picturesque bryce canyon. the force of the crash nearly shearing off the roof of the bus, causing catastrophic injuries. shortly after the crash, stunned passengers sprawled across the two-lane highway. medics and bystanders doing triage. trying to warm up the wounded with those space blankets. helicopters lifting the most seriously injured to hospitals. artifacts of what started out as a pleasant tour littering the
couple of hours. i noticed as we ve been talking to people today, they ve been watching the storm for days, first watching what hatched in the bahamas, then as it moved up the coast, watching what happened today in charleston as the storm sat there off the coast of charleston for hours, moving very slowly up here. people paying attention to what s happening in carteret county. a number of towns and cities bill mentioned a moment ago. the concern here is about water, about inundation of water. while we had high tide, we saw the tides come up the beach a little more. we haven t seen any spill over, at least not where i am in the northern part of the outer banks. earlier today i was down south of here, down highway 12 in hatteras, in buxton, and you re already seeing evidence of water getting on to that two-lane highway. and for folks who live in those parts of the outer banks, that s what is most worry some to them. they told me they deal with wind all the time. 50, 60-mile-per-hour wind
60-mile-per-hour gusts, so that s not new. but they re worried about what happens as the storm passes through that word. it s a two-lane highway. david gura, nags head, same advice you to and your crew, take cover if and wherever possible. staying on the north carolina coast, we go back to the south now, almost parallel to where the eye is. surf city, north carolina. we are thankful to be joined by the mayor there, doug medlin. please tell me no one has done anything stupid. please tell me everyone heatede the warnings. good evening, brian. yeah, all of our people are off the island at this time. we are watching the island with cameras from different points. our wind gusts have been up to about 54, so we re blessed.
see, the winds have really picked up. i want to say what stands out the most being here is the emptiness of this place. there is one beach chair sitting there as the wind picks up but by and large the beach is empty and so is the neighborhood. this is the northern part of the outer banks as you know and normally this would be entirely packed with vacationers. yes we re on the back side of the labor day holiday but still the outer banks an incredibly popular place in the off-season. we are here on the northern part of the outer banks. if you think of it kind of like the barrier islands crouching down going to the south highway 12 is the spinal cord that connects all of the islands. i spent the morning driving down the length of that two lane highway. it was eerily empty as well. i was heading south. most people were heading north, ali. you look, most of the shops are boarded up. most of the houses are boarded up as well. people taking this really seriously until you get to the very sout