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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Literature, William Faulkner, University of Florida, Arts and Culture, Michael Connelly
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Robert A. Citron dies at 79; space visionary
Robert A. Citron, an aerospace engineer and intrepid entrepreneur, whose boyhood fantasy of traveling beyond Earth inspired pioneering ventures to commercialize space, died Jan. 31 at his home in Bellevue, Wash. He was 79.
The cause was complications...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Prostate Cancer, Manufacturing and Engineering, Conservation, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Marvin Saul dies at 82; longtime owner of Junior's deli in Westwood
Marvin Saul was a uranium miner who had gone bust when he flipped a coin in the late 1950s to decide where to strike out next from Utah. Heads meant Los Angeles; tails Dallas.
Heads, and generations of future deli-goers on the Westside, won out.
With 35...Tags: Neiman Marcus, Movies, IBM, Restaurants, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
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Bob Hare dies at 80; owner of Hermosa Beach coffeehouse that drew Beat artists
When Bob Hare opened his Hermosa Beach coffeehouse in 1958, he called it the Insomniac because it was open until 3 a.m.
He brewed his coffee in a 300-pound dry-cleaning boiler and served it to such high-profile members of the Beat Generation as Allen...Tags: Music, Blues (genre), Greenwich Village, Coffee, Entertainment Events
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PASSINGS: Julia Sampson Hayward, James Rizzi, Bob O'Rourke
Julia Sampson Hayward
Champion tennis player in 1950s
Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, a champion tennis player who won the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles at the 1953 Australian Open, died Tuesday at her home in Newport Beach of complications from a...Tags: Summer Olympics, Carol Channing, Human Body, Health and Safety at School, Heart Problems
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J. Lynn Helms dies at 86; FAA chief fired striking air controllers
J. Lynn Helms, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration who carried out President Reagan's order to fire more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers and oversaw efforts to keep airlines flying during the crisis, has died. He was 86.
He...Tags: Career and Workplace, Federal Aviation Administration, Manufacturing and Engineering, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Aerospace Manufacturing
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PASSINGS: Harry Kullijian, Joe Bodolai
Harry Kullijian
Husband of Carol Channing
Harry Kullijian, a junior high school classmate of Carol Channing who married the entertainer 70 years later, died at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage after suffering an aneurysm Monday, the night...Tags: Los Angeles Hotels, Aneurysm, Carol Channing, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Suicide
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Kim Jong Il dies at 69; North Korean leader
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, the mercurial strongman who styled himself as a "Dear Leader" while ruling over an impoverished police state, died at 69, according to North Korean state media.
Kim was believed to have suffered from multiple chronic...Tags: Literature, Kim Jong Un, Movies, Tokyo (Japan), North Korea
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Van Thomas Barfoot dies at 92; WWII hero fought to fly flag at Virginia home
Retired Army Col. Van Thomas Barfoot, a World War II Medal of Honor recipient who later made headlines for his efforts to fly an American flag in his Virginia frontyard, has died. He was 92.
Barfoot, who died March 2 of complications from a fall,...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Army National Guard, Human Interest, Firearms, Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes
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Ben Gazzara dies at 81; veteran actor of stage and screen
A New York native of Sicilian heritage, Ben Gazzara was a strongly masculine, subtly menacing screen presence with a gravelly voice that one writer described as "saloon-cured" and another said could strip paint at 50 paces.
The veteran actor, who died...Tags: Celebrities, Audrey Hepburn, Michael V. Gazzo, Entertainment Events, Spike Lee
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Black List 2011: The complete list of Hollywood's hottest scripts
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Obama: The peace president, clarified
Opinion L.A.Tom Hayden wrote in an Op-Ed Dec. 16 about the role of "determined peace activists" in ending the war in Iraq, including "one who embraced their cause and became president": Barack Obama. Hayden called Obama's opposition to the war --......
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