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One of the best-known figures in American viticulture, he had little formal training in making wine. His exile from the family business became the stuff of legend.
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Will Elder, one of the original Mad magazine cartoonist-illustrators who helped set the irreverent visual style of the legendary satirical publication in the 1950s and later co-created the long-running "Little Annie Fanny" color cartoon strip in Playboy magazine, has died. He was 86. >>
Her books and lectures worked to dispel myths about lesbians and examined the history of discrimination. >>
Bob McCord, whose Sagebrush Cantina restaurant, open since 1974, became a popular destination that fueled the growth of Calabasas and its historic old town, has died. He was 69. >>
Warren Cowan, a legendary Hollywood publicist who co-founded the famed Rogers & Cowan public relations firm and was known as an innovative pioneer of independent entertainment publicity for many of the biggest names in show business, has died. He was 87. >>
Hall, a well regarded Western novelist, helped build UC Irvine's prestigious writing program and launch the careers of such writers as Michael Chabon, Richard Ford and Amy Tan. >>
Danton Burroughs, who spent his life marketing and protecting the work of his grandfather, Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs, died May 1 at his home in Tarzana, the San Fernando Valley community named after his ancestor's most famous fictional character. He was 63. >>
John Phillip Law, a tall, blond actor who cut a striking figure as the blind angel opposite Jane Fonda in 1968's "Barbarella" and in other film roles, has died. He was 70. >>
His ‘combines,’ which incorporated objects such as tires, newspaper clippings and stuffed animals, established new directions and prominence for American art. >>
Dr. Murray E. Jarvik, the UCLA pharmacologist who showed that nicotine was the addictive factor in tobacco and invented the nicotine patch for smokers trying to quit, died Thursday at his home in Santa Monica. >>
Paul HaeberlinFrench chef of 3-star restaurant >>Charles Meyer Goldstein, a dentist and USC faculty member who advocated community service and organized free dental clinics that treat thousands of poor people each year, died Sunday at his home in Brentwood from complications of multiple organ failure. He was 87. >>
Fate may have led Irena Sendler to the moment almost 70 years ago when she began to risk her life for the children of strangers. But for this humble Polish Catholic social worker, who was barely 30 when one of history's most nightmarish chapters unfolded before her, the pivotal influence was something her parents had drummed into her. >>
George P. Cressman, a former National Weather Service director who took the lead in applying computers to meteorology and helped change weather forecasting from a form of cloud-gazing guesswork to a codified science, has died. He was 88. >>
Larry Levine, the recording engineer who helped translate the grandiose sonic vision of record producer Phil Spector into some of the biggest-selling and most influential recordings of the rock era, died Thursday, on his 80th birthday, at his home in Encino. >>
Roy Snelling, an internationally renowned entomologist who turned his boyhood fascination with insects into a lifelong study of the secret world of ants, wasps and bees, has died. He was 73. >>
Joyce "Dottie" Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off a highway and struck an embankment. She was 74. >>
Joseph S. Miko, a former cameraman whose extensive footage of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was smuggled out of Budapest and is considered a significant piece of the documentary record of the historic national uprising against Soviet oppression, has died. He was 87. >>
Joseph Lodge, a Superior Court judge in Santa Barbara County who was elected to the bench in 1958 and became one of the longest-serving jurists in California history, died Monday at his home in Santa Barbara. He was 76. >>
Leyla GencerTurkish soprano thrived in Italy >>OBITUARY
The political science teacher, tired of missing meetings due to mobility barriers on campus, succeeded in getting USC to become 'a model' for accessibility, an advocate says. >>
Jerry WallaceSinger's biggest hit was 'Primrose Lane' >>Edward Den Lau, whose Space gallery in Los Angeles was a center for art shows as well as performances, poetry readings and musical events, has died. He was 80. >>
The elegant, pop-influenced singer, who once had 57 consecutive top 10 hits, helped transform country from 'hillbilly music' to mass appeal. >>
Robert w. Nudelman, a leading preservationist who helped spearhead Hollywood's rebirth as he campaigned over three decades to save and restore such landmarks as the El Capitan Theatre and the Cinerama Dome, has died. He was 52. >>
Peter HowardBroadway dance music arranger >>By the time Bill Hargrove was recognized last year as the nation's oldest league bowler, his eyesight had deteriorated so much that he could hardly see the pins. >>
Elaine Dundy, a novelist, biographer, journalist and memoirist who wrote about her turbulent marriage to legendary critic Kenneth Tynan and their life among the rich and famous, died May 1 at her Los Angeles home. She was 86. >>
From the beginning of Elaine Dundy's best-known book >>
For marrying the only man she ever loved, Mildred Loving paid a price: She was arrested, convicted and banished from her home state. >>
He and his brother-in-law each opened ice cream stores in the Los Angeles area after WWII, then combined them by 1948 to form what would become an empire. >>
The actress had long-running roles on 'Another World' and 'Guiding Light.' >>
Ted Key, the magazine cartoonist who created the bossy but lovable maid Hazel in the 1940s and later the time-traveling Mr. Peabody and Sherman of Rocky and Bullwinkle TV cartoon fame, has died. He was 95. >>
Robert Vesco, the American fugitive who cooked up moneymaking schemes that allegedly involved everyone from Colombian drug lords to the families of U.S. presidents, died in Cuba and was buried almost six months ago, according to an official document. >>
Alvin Colt, a Tony-winning costume designer whose work spanned more than 60 years of theater from "On the Town" to the "Forbidden Broadway" revues, has died at 92. >>
"Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay" was a national bestseller. >>
George AtiyehScholar and Mideast expert >>Timothy M. Smith had always been a daredevil, flying off homemade jumps in a wagon attached to his friend's bike or attacking the half-pipe on his snowboard. >>
Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghaffar, a USC professor of engineering whose pioneering work in the design and monitoring of bridges led to the development of more efficient and reliable ways to build them, has died. He was 60. >>
British transplant had lived in Los Angeles since the early 1960s. >>
When Army Sgt. Richard Vaughn came home on leave, he would visit Serra High School, where he had been a star wrestler. >>
DeVan ShumwayNixon defender, panel spokesman >>Sallie Wilson, a leading dancer with American Ballet Theatre best known as a protegee of master psychological- ballet choreographer Antony Tudor, died Sunday at her home in New York City. She was 76. >>
Philipp Freiherr von BoeselagerParticipant in plot to kill Hitler >>Frank Whiteley Jr., a trainer of some of horse racing's biggest stars and a member of the sport's hall of fame for 30 years, died Friday in Camden, S.C. He was 93. >>
Jim Hager, one of the Hager Twins who satirized country life with cornball one-liners as original cast members of the TV show "Hee Haw," has died, the show's producer said Friday. He was 66. >>
Humphrey Lyttelton, a jazz trumpeter and host of the surreal British Broadcasting Corp. radio game show "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue," died at a London hospital April 25 after surgery, according to an announcement on his website. He was 86. >>
The executive, who also worked for the Angels and San Diego Padres, helped build championship Dodgers teams in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. >>
Henry Brant -- an American maverick composer who added the dimension of space to music by placing musicians in nooks and crannies of concert halls, on boats floating down the Amstel River in Amsterdam or arrayed throughout sports arenas -- has died. He was 94. >>
Yossi HarelCommander of refugee ship >>Robert W. Battin, a maverick Democratic county supervisor during a rough-and-tumble era of Orange County politics in the 1960s and '70s, died Tuesday. He was 78. >>
His accidental experience of 'an extremely stimulated imagination' caused by the drug led to a lifetime of experiments and initiated the psychedelic generation. >>
OBITUARY
He wrote nearly 6,000 human-interest stories for the paper before retiring in 1992. The Beatles, desert hermits and the homeless were on his wide-ranging beat. >>
William H. Stewart, who as U.S. surgeon general from 1965 to 1969 led the federal anti-smoking crusade, called for warning labels on cigarette advertising and used the introduction of Medicare to desegregate hospitals throughout the country, died April 23 of kidney failure at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. He was 86. >>
Will Robinson, the first black basketball coach at a Division I school and a Detroit Pistons scout who discovered Joe Dumars and Dennis Rodman, died Monday in a Detroit hospital, team spokesman Matt Dobek said. He was 96. >>
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Artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s.
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Notable: 2007
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. A roll call of newsworthy figures who died in 2007. PHOTOS
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