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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Journalism, Music, Awards and Prizes, Republic of Ireland
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Remembering Dr. Joyce Brothers: Movie and TV star
Psychologist and columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who died Monday at the age of 85, won the top prize in 1955 on the popular TV game show "The $64,000 Question" on the subject of boxing. Smart, attractive and fearless, Brothers' media career quickly...
Tags: Psychologists, Game Shows, Howard Stern , The Simpsons (tv program), Health and Medical Professionals
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...
Tags: Psychology, Joyce Brothers, Medical Specialization, Science and Technology, Philosophy
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Herbert Blau, theater director and former CalArts provost, dies at 87
Herbert Blau, a renowned and influential theater director who helped to shape the California Institute of the Arts during its early years, has died at 87. He died at his home in Seattle on Friday following a battle with cancer, according to reports....
Tags: Lincoln Center, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Artists
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PASSINGS: Dallas Willard, Jack Butler, Fredrick McKissack
Dallas Willard Influential Christian philosopher taught at USC for 47 years Dallas Willard, 77, an influential Christian philosopher who taught at USC for 47 years and chaired the philosophy department in the early 1980s, died Wednesday in Woodland...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pittsburgh Steelers, NFL Pro Bowl, Sports, Football
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PASSINGS: Jeanne Cooper, Mario Machado, Bryan Forbes
Jeanne Cooper Emmy winner starred in 'The Young and the Restless' Jeanne Cooper, 84, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on CBS' "The Young and the Restless," died Wednesday in her sleep,...
Tags: Tony Curtis, Consumers, Sports, Blue Thunder (tv program) , Robert Downey Jr.
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Jeanne Cooper of 'Young and the Restless' dies at 84
Jeanne Cooper, best known as matriarch Katherine Chancellor on CBS' daytime drama "The Young and the Restless," has died. She was 84. "My mother passed away this morning just a short time ago, peaceful with my sister by her side, in her sleep," son...
Tags: Social Media, Corbin Bernsen, Jeanne Cooper
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For the record
Prison plan: In the May 4 LATExtra section, an article about Gov. Jerry Brown's latest plan to reduce prison crowding said that the plan called for the early release of thousands of inmates. In fact, the plan proposes releasing hundreds, not thousands, of...Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Armed Forces, Jerry Brown
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Channa Horwitz dies at 80; artist known for geometric paintings, drawings
Channa Horwitz, an artist known for her dizzyingly intricate geometric drawings and paintings based on complex predetermined systems, died Monday of complications from Crohn's disease at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was 80. In 1968,...
Tags: Arts, California State University, Northridge, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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Matt Groening's mom dies; maiden name Wiggum, she inspired Marge Simpson
Fans of "The Simpsons" are in mourning over the death of a woman most of them never met: series co-creator Matt Groening's mother, Margaret Groening. For most, she will be forever linked with Marge Simpson, her animated namesake. A paid obituary...
Tags: The Simpsons (tv program), The Office (tv program)
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PASSINGS: Chris Kelly, Leopold Engleitner
Chris Kelly, 34, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross that had a chart-topping hit with "Jump," was pronounced dead Wednesday at an Atlanta hospital of an apparent drug overdose, authorities said. Police were called to Kelly's home in south...
Tags: Alopecia, Michael Jackson, Human Interest, Music, Music Industry
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PASSINGS: Frederic Franklin, David Morris Kern
Frederic Franklin Dancer helped popularize modern ballet in U.S. Frederic Franklin, 98, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States, died Saturday at a Manhattan, N.Y., hospital of complications from pneumonia,...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Brooklyn (New York City), Dance, Lincoln Center, Arts and Culture
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