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    Dec 22, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Larry L. King dies at 83; playwright wrote 'Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'

    Larry L. King, a writer and playwright whose magazine article about a campaign to close down a popular bordello became the hit Broadway musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and a 1982 movie starring Burt Reynolds, died Thursday. He was 83.
    Larry L. King, a writer and playwright whose magazine article about a campaign to close down a popular bordello became the hit Broadway musical "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" and a 1982 movie starring Burt Reynolds, died Thursday. He was 83....

    Tags: Dolly Parton, Racism, Entertainment Events, Tommy Tune, Broadway Theater

    2. Nov 25, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'

    Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy."
    Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...

    Tags: Lucille Ball, Movies, The Beverly Hillbillies (tv program), Newspaper and Magazine, The Pentagon

    3. Nov 29, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. PASSINGS: Martin Richards, Bryce Bayer

    <strong>Martin Richards</strong>
    Martin Richards Stage producer and philanthropist Martin Richards, 80, a prominent stage producer who won an Oscar for producing the 2002 film "Chicago" decades after bringing it to Broadway, died Monday after a battle with cancer, said his publicist,...

    Tags: AIDS, The Shining (movie), Science and Technology, Eastman Kodak Company, Entertainment Events

    4. Nov 30, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. PASSINGS: Zig Ziglar, Don Rhymer, David Courtney

    <strong>Zig Ziglar</strong>
    Zig Ziglar Speaker built motivational empire Zig Ziglar, 86, the consummate salesman who built a lucrative motivational empire, died Wednesday of pneumonia at his home in Plano, Texas, a family spokeswoman said. With an aim at helping people achieve...

    Tags: Rio (movie), Throat Cancer, Philosophy, Diseases and Illnesses, Human Interest

    5. Dec 19, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Letters: Deaf reality

    Re "A champion of cochlear implant," Obituary, Dec. 13 The Times closed its obituary on Dr. William F. House with his quote, "Deafness is such a horrible thing." Yet my life being deaf, like that of many others, has been normal and even extraordinary,...

    Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Politics

    6. Dec 11, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Ravi Shankar dies at 92; sitar master

    Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop-culture cachet.
    Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop-culture cachet. Suddenly the classically trained Shankar...

    Tags: Movies, John Coltrane, George Harrison, India, Philip Glass

    7. Nov 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Letters: Larry Hagman -- an actor and a character

    Re "Actor played villain J.R. Ewing on TV's 'Dallas,'" Obituary, Nov. 24 When I was 10 years old, Larry Hagman, Bill Cosby and others were filming "Mother, Jugs & Speed" down the street from my parents' house in Venice. The neighborhood kids would...

    Tags: Dallas (tv program), Larry Hagman, Bill Cosby

    8. Dec 10, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. PASSINGS: James D. Hodgson, Patrick Moore

    <strong>James D. Hodgson</strong>
    James D. Hodgson Former secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, 96, who as secretary of Labor in the early 1970s helped shepherd the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, died Nov. 28 at his Malibu home, his family announced. The cause was...

    Tags: Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Astronomy, BBC, Career and Workplace, Work Relations

    9. Jan 2, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Patti Page, 'Tennessee Waltz' singer, dies at 85

    Patti Page, the Oklahoma-born pop singer whose gossamer-gentle voice was heard on 1950s hits such as &ldquo;The Tennessee Waltz&rdquo; and &ldquo;(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?,&rdquo; died New Year&rsquo;s Day in Encinitas, Calif., where she&rsquo;d lived for several decades. She was 85.
    Patti Page, the Oklahoma-born pop singer whose gossamer-gentle voice was heard on 1950s hits such as “The Tennessee Waltz” and “(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?,” died New Year’s Day in Encinitas, Calif., where she&...

    Tags: Country and Western (genre), Dance, Vince Gill, Roger Waters, Bobby Womack

    10. Dec 27, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. PASSINGS: Gerry Anderson, Frank Calabrese Sr.

    <strong>Gerry Anderson</strong>
    Gerry Anderson Puppetry pioneer created 'Thunderbirds' TV show Gerry Anderson, 83, a puppetry pioneer and creator of the British sci-fi hit "Thunderbirds" TV show, died Wednesday at a nursing home near Oxfordshire, England, after being diagnosed...

    Tags: Movies, Trey Parker, Crime, Law and Justice, Organized Crime, Science and Technology

    11. Dec 12, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. PASSINGS: Galina Vishnevskaya, Lisa della Casa, Paul Rauch

    <strong>Galina Vishnevskaya</strong>
    Galina Vishnevskaya Russian opera singer, wife of Rostropovich Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, a world-renowned Russian opera diva who with her husband defied the Soviet regime to give shelter to writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn and suffered exile from her...

    Tags: Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Moscow (Russia), Opera (genre), World War II (1939-1945), Entertainment

    12. Jan 17, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  12. Manti Te'o hoax: Suspect's father says 'truth will take its course'

    L.A. NOW
    The bizarre hoax involving Notre Dame's star linebacker Manti Te'o and his supposedly dead girlfriend was playing out in part Thursday in the Antelope Valley. A deadspin.com report released Wednesday linked a Palmdale man to the hoax that fooled media.......
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