Today’s Headlines
David Prowse, the British weightlifter-turned-actor who played Darth Vader in the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, has died.
Tony Hsieh recently retired from Zappos after 20 years leading the company. He had worked to revitalize the Las Vegas area.
Singer-actress Flor Silvestre, who shined on her own and as an equal to her partner, then became matriarch of an entertainment dynasty, dies at 90.
Diego Maradona, who led Argentina to victory in the 1986 World Cup but was tormented by drug abuse and illness in his later years, has died at 60.
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Boynton was arrested 60 years ago for entering the white part of a racially segregated bus station in Virginia
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Paolo Gabriele, who said he hoped to expose corruption at the highest level of the Catholic Church. died Tuesday at age 54.
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Dinkins served only one term before his defeat against Rudolph W. Giuliani, leaving behind a complicated legacy.
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The ALS Assn. says that Pat Quinn, a co-founder of the ice bucket challenge that became popular around the world, has died at the age of 37.
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Dolphins safety played in three straight Super Bowls, twice winning a championship ring
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Jan Morris, the celebrated journalist, historian, world traveler and fiction writer who became a pioneer of the transgender movement, has died at 94.
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Fred “Curly” Morrison, MVP of the 1950 Rose Bowl, an All-Pro NFL running back and former GM of the Los Angeles Express, has died at 94.
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Walter C. Miller earned five Emmys, a Peabody Award and the Grammy Trustees Award. He died Nov. 13 at his home in L.A. at age 94.
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With engines strapped to his back, Vincent Reffet had flown over the world’s tallest building and alongside a jumbo jet. He was 36.
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Swedien worked alongside producer Quincy Jones on Michael Jackson’s first three history-making solo albums: “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad.”
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Legendary actor had more than 200 movies to his name.
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James L. (Jim) Perzik, the longtime legal counsel of Dr. Jerry Buss and the Lakers, died on Wednesday from complications of COVID 19. He was 91.
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The comedian acquired a cult-like following among adults with a show ostensibly meant for children. His signature routine, which he elevated to an art form, was pie-throwing.
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Noel Ignatiev, a historian who wrote “How the Irish Became White” and co-edited the journal Race Traitor, dies at 78.
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Cary Grant was the personification of the self-made man: a one-time child acrobat who had transformed himself into the sophisticated and urbane ideal of men and women throughout the world.
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Jonathan Gold, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic who richly chronicled the city’s vast culinary landscape and made its food understandable and approachable to legions of fans, has died.
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David Nelson dies at 74; last surviving member of the TV sitcom family
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Alleged to be a prolific killer, Franzese was finally released from prison when he was 100
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Loretta Young, the elegant Academy Award-winning actress who charmed film and television audiences for half a century with her beauty, wholesome image and aura of unabashed romanticism, died early Saturday of ovarian cancer, her longtime friend and agent Norman Brokaw announced.
