LONDON -- Ken Russell, an iconoclastic British director whose daring films combined music, sex and violence in the potent brew apparently attracted directly from his subconscious, has died at 84. Russell died in the hospital on Sunday following numerous strokes, his boy Alex Verney-Elliott mentioned Monday. "My father died silently," Verney-Elliott mentioned. "He died getting a grin on his face." Russell will be a very original director whose vision every so often introduced mainstream success, but frequently examined the persistence of audiences...