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With wife Carol, Warner Henry gave millions of dollars to support classical music organizations large and small.
Novels such as “The Keepers of the House” explored the beauty and dark secrets of the Deep South
Armed with a secret recipe, her bubbling bowls of soondubu jjigae were all the rage in Koreatown and beyond.
Pete Hamill, the eloquent voice of his beloved hometown of New York as both newspaper columnist and bestselling author, died Wednesday morning.
Deaton ran the DWP for three years and was called the “16th council member” for his role as a behind the scenes player in L.A. city government.
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The family of politician John Hume, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for work to end violence in his native Northern Ireland, says he has died.
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The recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S. has died almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation.
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Tom Pollock’s tenure included blockbusters like ‘Jurassic Park,’ ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Do the Right Thing.’
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Wilford Brimley, who worked his way up from stunt performer to star of films such as “Cocoon” and “The Natural,” has died.
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Miss Mercy joined Pamela Des Barres in Frank Zappa’s all-girl rock band the GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously) before becoming a style icon of her own.
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Bill English, the unsung hero of the dawn of personal computing, has died at 91.
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Oscar-nominated English director Alan Parker, known for his work on ‘Evita,’ ‘Midnight Express’ and other memorable films, dies. He was 76.
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Cain had hoped to become the first Black politician to win the GOP presidential nomination
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Lee’s passion for self-rule molded the island state’s rocky relationship with China.
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Mike Gillespie, whose teams won more than 1,500 games over a 47-year career coaching college baseball, died Wednesday at 80.
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Malik B, a rapper and founding member of the Roots, has died
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Deaton ran the DWP for three years and was called the “16th council member” for his role as a behind the scenes player in L.A. city government.
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Nancy Sinatra Sr., the first of Frank Sinatra’s four wives and the mother of the legendary singer’s three children, died Friday.
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Ginger Rogers, the versatile Academy Award-winning actress, comedian, singer and dancer who lightened the hearts of Depression-era America through her classically romantic ballroom encounters with Fred Astaire, died Tuesday at her home in Rancho Mirage.
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An image of 2-year-old Yuki sitting on a suitcase at Union Station, waiting for a train to take her to the internment camp, resonated for decades.
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Comic actor John Belushi, the hugely talented star of television’s “Saturday Night Live” and such films as “Animal House,” was found dead Friday in a $200-a-day Hollywood suite, apparently of natural causes.
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When the pilot with the jet-black hair and movie-star smile asked if anyone would care to come up and see the cockpit, he wasn’t surprised that a couple of his 25 passengers readily agreed.
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Stephen Hawking, the British physicist whose body was chained to a wheelchair by the ravages of a degenerative neuromuscular disease, but whose mind soared to the boundaries of the universe and beyond, died Wednesday morning in Cambridge, England.
