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April 19, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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Guerra organizes concert for Haiti

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic

Dominican merengue star Juan Luis Guerra and Spanish singer Miguel Bose are among the artists who performed at a Haiti-relief concert in the neighboring Dominican Republic. Guerra organized the Sunday-night “Song of Hope for Haiti” concert at Santo Domingo’s Olympic Stadium.

Guerra says proceeds from the concert will be used to construct a children’s hospital in Haiti, which still is recovering from a devastating Jan. 12 quake. Organizers expect the site of the hospital to be announced in another month.

Guerra is one of the artists who recently participated in a Spanish-language adaptation of “We Are the World” that Gloria Estefan penned to raise money for Haiti earthquake relief.

Pioneering film editor Dede Allen dies at 86

LOS ANGELES

Dede Allen, the film editor whose pioneering work on movies such as “The Hustler” and “Bonnie and Clyde” brought a new approach to shaping the look and sound of American movies, has died. She was 86.

Allen died Saturday at her home in Los Angeles days after suffering a stroke, her son, Tom Fleischman, told The Los Angeles Times.

With “Bonnie and Clyde” in 1967, Allen became the first film editor to receive sole credit on a movie. She was nominated for Academy Awards for that movie, 1975’s “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Reds” in 1981 and “Wonder Boys” in 2000.

Allen was the first American to embrace European methods of editing by beginning sequences with close-ups or jump cuts and using the sound from the next shot while the previous scMany of her techniques are now standard in modern filmmaking. In “Dog Day Afternoon,” she used a staccato tempo, sometimes called shock cutting. Allen edited or co-edited 20 major films over four decades.

Dorothea Corothers Allen was born in Cincinnati on Dec. 3, 1923. She attended Scripps College in Claremont but left school to take a job as a messenger at Columbia Pictures. She started out working on television commercials before getting her first big break in the late 1950s editing Robert Wise’s “Odds Against Tomorrow.”

In 1994, Allen received a career achievement award given by American Cinema Editors. In November 2007 she received the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s Fellowship and Service Award.

In addition to her son, Tom, she is survived by her husband of 63 years, Stephen E. Fleischman; daughter, Ramey Ward; five grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.