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Robert Relyea dies at 82; film producer and MGM/UA executive
Robert E. Relyea, who began producing films with actor Steve McQueen in the 1960s and rose to president of production for MGM/UA in the late 1990s, has died. He was 82. The Hollywood veteran, who also worked with such actors as Elvis Presley and John...
Tags: MGM Inc., John Sturges, Steve McQueen, The Great Escape (movie), Peter Yates
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Milo O'Shea, Irish actor of stage and screen, dies at 86
Milo O’Shea, an Irish stage and screen actor known for his roles in films as varied as “Ulysses,” “Barbarella” and Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet,” has died. He was 86. O’Shea, who also had...Tags: James Joyce, Paul Williams, New York City, Franco Zeffirelli, Celebrities
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PASSINGS: Bebo Valdes, Harlon Hill
Bebo Valdes Pianist and bandleader who fled Cuba Bebo Valdes, 94, a renowned Cuban pianist who recorded with Nat King Cole, was bandleader of Havana's Tropicana nightclub during its glittering heyday and was considered the last luminary from the...
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Football, Chicago Bears, Pneumonia, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Bobbie Smith, Frank Thornton
Bobbie Smith Original member of Spinners R&B group Bobbie Smith, 76, a singer with the Spinners soul music group since the 1950s, died Saturday in Orlando, Fla., of complications from pneumonia and influenza. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer...
Tags: Lung Cancer, The Benny Hill Show (tv program) , Are You Being Served? (tv program), Flu, Pneumonia
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PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge
Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...
Tags: Christianity, Justice and Rights, Bad Boy (music group), Entertainment, Concerts
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Phil Ramone dies at 79; pop producer was star behind the stars
This post has been corrected. Please see below for details.Phil Ramone, the veteran record producer whose work with such top-tier talent as Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon made him one of the most revered figures in the music business, died Saturday. He was 79. He died of complications from pneumonia...Tags: Quincy Jones, John F. Kennedy, Pneumonia, Human Accomplishments, Aneurysm
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Milo O'Shea dies at 86; Dublin-born actor often 'played Irish'
Milo O'Shea, a versatile Dublin-born stage and screen actor known for his famously bristling, agile eyebrows and roles in such disparate films as "Ulysses," "Barbarella" and Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," has died. He was 86. O'Shea, who also...
Tags: Tony Awards, Cheers (tv program), Entertainment, The West Wing (tv program), Television
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A rocket scientist who did much more than cook beef stroganoff
At the risk of sounding like someone who "can't let it go" — a feminist's badge of honor if ever there were one — I'd like to offer a few tips on how to write obituaries about accomplished women in America. It's a short list really. 1)...
Tags: Barack Obama, Science and Technology, The New York Times, NASA, Twitter, Inc.
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Film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial “thumbs up, thumbs down” assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers...Tags: Music Industry, Chicago Tribune, Celebrity Surgery, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Gene Siskel
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Which comes first, husband or career?
Maybe it's spring fever or maybe it's the centrifugal force from all that Sheryl Sandberg-led "leaning in," but it's been a big week for outrage about women and their place. Last Friday, Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton published a letter...
Tags: Science and Technology, The Huffington Post, Family, The New York Times, Marriage
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Daum: Which comes first, husband or career?
Maybe it's spring fever or maybe it's the centrifugal force from all that Sheryl Sandberg-led "leaning in," but it's been a big week for outrage about women and their place. On Friday, Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton published a letter in...
Tags: Science and Technology, The Huffington Post, Family, The New York Times, Marriage
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Jane Henson, Muppets collaborator, dies at 78
Jane Nebel Henson, who collaborated with her husband, Jim Henson, in creating, designing and marketing the Muppets, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut after battling cancer. She was 78. Her death was announced by the Jim Henson Co. The couple met...Tags: The Muppet Show (tv program), Washington, DC, Jim Henson
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