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PASSINGS: Arthur Bernard Lewis, Eugene S. Goodwin
ARTHUR BERNARD LEWIS Writer, editor and producer on 'Dallas' Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, a veteran TV writer who wrote 69 episodes of "Dallas" and also served as executive story editor and supervising producer for the long-running CBS prime-time soap...Tags: Rod Serling, Pneumonia, Gene Kelly, Television, Judaism
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PASSINGS: Stephen Barnett, Douglas Duitsman, Erich Lehmann
Stephen Barnett Vocal critic of California court system Stephen Barnett, 73, a 1st Amendment professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a prominent critic of the state court system, died Tuesday in Berkeley of complications from cardiac...Tags: Local Government, Television, Justice System, Social Issues, Entertainment
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Inept nurses free to work in new locales
The frantic knocking of home health nurse Orphia Wilson startled the boy's parents awake just after dawn.
Their 3-year-old son, who suffered from chronic respiratory failure and muscular dystrophy, had stopped breathing.
The boy's mother raced to his...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Justice System, Medical Services, Health and Medical Professionals
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Planted in the San Joaquin
In October 2002, a trim, white-haired poet named Don Thompson sat down in a farmhouse in the San Joaquin Valley and wrote a poem called "Turning Sixty." In it, he compared his birthday to the climb of "a few degrees on the thermometer" that "add up to the...Tags: Johnny Carson, Arts and Culture, Forestry and Timber, Mass Media, Poetry
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Ken Ober dies at 52; host of MTV's 'Remote Control' game show
Ken Ober, a comedian and actor who as host of MTV's "Remote Control" in the 1980s guided the raucous question-and-answer trivia contests on the irreverent cable TV game show, was found dead Sunday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 52.
Lee Kernis of...Tags: Game Shows, Television, The Brady Bunch (tv program), Social Issues, Comedy (genre)
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Off The Shelf: Mark Twain comes out to play
This year promises to be the year of Mark Twain. It marks the 175th anniversary of his birth, the 100th anniversary of his death and the 125th anniversary of the American publication of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn."
Because I have written about Twain...Tags: Civil Rights, Literature, Biography (genre), Arts and Culture, Lionel Trilling
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August Coppola dies at 75; professor was father of Nicolas Cage and brother of Francis Ford Coppola
August Coppola, a former literature professor who was the father of actor Nicolas Cage and brother of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and actress Talia Shire, has died. He was 75.
Coppola died Tuesday in Los Angeles after suffering a heart attack, Cage'...Tags: Literature, Hofstra University, Arts and Culture, Nicolas Cage, Apocalypse Now (movie)
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Tony-winner Alice Ripley to star in 'Next to Normal' tour [Updated]
Culture MonsterAlice Ripley is officially taking her Tony-winning performance as a mentally disturbed housewife in "Next to Normal" to theaters around the country. The actress will star in the national tour of "Next to Normal," which kicks off at the Ahmanson...... -
Ducks trade Steve Eminger for Aaron Voros, prospect Ryan Hillier
The Fabulous ForumThe Ducks made a low-impact trade Friday, sending defenseman Steve Eminger to the New York Rangers for left wings Aaron Voros and Ryan Hillier. Eminger, a 26-year-old former first-round pick by the Washington Capitals, had four goals, 16 points and...... -
Dominick Dunne dies at 83; author and former Hollywood producer
Dominick Dunne, the bestselling novelist and Vanity Fair writer who chronicled the misdeeds of the rich and famous with wicked glee -- most memorably in his highly personal accounts of the trials of Claus von Bulow, the Menendez brothers and O.J....Tags: Television, Truman Capote, Billy Wilder, Entertainment, Cancer
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Gertrude Noone dies at 110; world's oldest known living military veteran
Gertrude Noone was a 44-year-old insurance policy clerk for Travelers in Hartford, Conn., in 1943 when she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps. When she died peacefully Thursday morning at age 110 at an assisted-living facility in Milford, Conn., she...Tags: Stamford, Veterans Affairs, CNN (tv network), Elections, Defense
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Betty Allen dies at 82; mezzo-soprano and music teacher
Betty Allen, one of the first African American singers to reach prominence on the international opera stage, died June 22 of complications from kidney disease at a hospital in Valhalla, N.Y. She was 82.
If contralto Marian Anderson in the 1930s and 1940s...Tags: Virgil Thomson, Marian Anderson, Children, Family, Entertainment
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