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PASSINGS: Snooky Young, Jeff Gralnick
Snooky Young
Jazz trumpeter in 'Tonight Show' band
Snooky Young, 92, a jazz trumpeter whose long career included working with big bands led by Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie as well as a lengthy stint with NBC's "Tonight Show" band, died Wednesday...Tags: Television Industry, Politics, Music, Count Basie, Weston (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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Patricia Neal dies at 84; Oscar-winning actress found triumphs in a life of tragedies
Her life was marked by professional triumphs, including a Tony Award-winning debut on Broadway in Lillian Hellman's 1946 drama "Another Part of the Forest" and a best actress Oscar for her role in the 1963 drama "Hud."
But for Patricia Neal, the husky-...Tags: Adultery, World War II (1939-1945), Arts and Culture, Charles Champlin, Elia Kazan
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Frank Pierson, former AMPAS prexy, dies
VarietyFrank Pierson, the Oscar-winning writer of "Dog Day Afternoon," former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences and a consulting producer on "Mad Men" as recently as this past season, died Monday after a short illness in Los Angeles. He...Tags: Politics, Unions, Cancer, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford
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This week: Hostage crisis on ‘Burn Notice’; Brenda’s crisis on ‘The Closer’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelTCM offers the original "Mildred Pierce" at 11 p.m. Monday on what is Joan Crawford day. The 1945 drama about a long-suffering mother brought Crawford the best actress Oscar. And it's quite different from the recent HBO remake with Kate Winslet. The... -
Academy-Award Actress Patricia Neal, Dead At 84
Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Academy Award for 1963's "Hud" and then survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday. She was 84.
Neal had lung cancer and died at her home in Edgartown, Mass., on Martha's...Tags: Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Stroke Rehabilitation, Internists, Arts and Culture
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