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Michael Winner dies at 77; British director of 'Death Wish' films
Michael Winner, a British film director who specialized in thrillers and action movies, including three "Death Wish" movies, died Monday. He was 77. A bon vivant who became a restaurant critic after his film career wound down, Winner died at his...
Tags: University of Cambridge, Robert Mitchum, The Mechanic (movie), Newspaper and Magazine, Reviews
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PASSINGS: Ronald Dworkin, Alan Sharp
Ronald Dworkin Constitutional law expert and liberal scholar Ronald Dworkin, 81, an American philosopher, constitutional law expert and liberal scholar who argued that the law should be founded on moral integrity, died Thursday of leukemia in London,...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Leukemia, Liam Neeson, Margot Kidder, Crime, Law and Justice
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Burt Lancaster in hospital
FrameworkNurse Genevieve Grigoli with actor Burt Lancaster check on each other's pulse at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.... -
Burt Lancaster performs wearing peg leg
FrameworkBurt Lancaster shows how his peg leg is strapped for his role as Peter Stuyvesant in the musical "Knickerbocker Holiday."... -
Huell Howser: Highlights from 'California's Gold' online
Huell Howser, the public television host of "California's Gold," among other shows, died Sunday at age 67. Even though there will be no new episodes of his long-running adventures throughout the Golden State (he'd already retired from the show late last...
Tags: YouTube, Mike Wallace, Huell Howser
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More stylish reads
Perhaps nothing personifies Hollywood glamour quite like sunglasses, and "50 Shades" (Reel Art Press, $29.95) by Lauren Goldstein Crowe features 50 of the century's icons in the coolest of frames. Steve McQueen, Diana Ross, Bob Dylan, Audrey Hepburn and...
Tags: Humphrey Bogart, Bob Dylan, Carole Lombard, Diana Ross, Steve McQueen
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PASSINGS: Phyllis Thaxter, Ron Nelson
Phyllis Thaxter Veteran actress played Clark Kent's mother Phyllis Thaxter, 92, an actress who had an active film career in the 1940s and '50s and capped it with her portrayal of Clark Kent's mother in the 1978 version of "Superman," died Tuesday at...
Tags: Gary Cooper, Accidental Death, Superman (fictional character), Celebrities, James Dean
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Dale Olson dies at 78; publicity agent for Rock Hudson, other stars
Dale Olson, an elder statesman of the Hollywood publicity corps whose assignments over a four-decade career included representing Rock Hudson during the last months of the actor's struggle with AIDS, died Thursday of complications of liver cancer. He...
Tags: Rod Steiger, Celebrities, Movies, Diseases and Illnesses, Rocky (movie)
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Around Town: Snow White, Casablanca at Oscars Outdoors
24 FramesThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences introduces its new "Oscars Outdoors" screening series this Friday evening with the 1942 Oscar-winning romantic classic "Casablanca," followed by Walt Disney's seminal 1937 animated feature, "Snow White and... -
LACMA film series celebrates California noir
24 FramesStarting Friday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Bing Theater in conjunction will the museum’s “California Design, 1930-1965” exhibition, “California Noir” features a superb selection of 10 little-seen films... -
Mike Wallace dies at 93; '60 Minutes' pioneer
As the self-described "black hat" of television's premier newsmagazine "60 Minutes," Mike Wallace crafted a persona of a probing reporter known for his often caustic questioning of sometimes reluctant guests on the program.
Beginning in 1968, as one of...Tags: Documentary (genre), Celebrities, Television, New Canaan, 60 Minutes (tv program)
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PASSINGS: Geraldine Washington, Denise Darcel
Geraldine Washington
Former head of NAACP's L.A. chapter
Geraldine Washington, 81, an educator and civil rights activist who led the Los Angeles chapter of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People for 14 years, died of natural causes...Tags: Glenn Ford, Aneurysm, Los Angeles Police Department, Emergency Health Procedures, Celebrities
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