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Bruce Jay Friedman was known for wry comedy and subtle pathos in his novels “Stern” and “About Harry Towns” and his scripts for “Splash” and “Stir Crazy.”
College Football Hall of Famer Johnny Majors, the coach of Pittsburgh’s 1976 national champion and a former coach and star at Tennessee, died Wednesday at 85.
Suárez celebrated the common man and satirized the rich, corrupt and arrogant
Basketball Hall of Famer Wes Unseld died at 74 after a series of health issues, most recently pneumonia.
Louis Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition was designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Denny Holt died on Feb. 8 in Hawaii at the age of 84; guided Monroe to two City titles. -
Former Auburn coach Pat Dye, who took over a downtrodden football program in 1981 and turned it into a Southeastern Conference power, died Monday.
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Herbert Stempel, a whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a ‘50s quiz show helped drive a national scandal, dies.
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Christo’s 1991 installations of more than 1,000 colorful umbrellas in Southern California and Japan resulted in tragedy. Christo created ephemeral projects across the globe
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Led CBS News’ Washington coverage during the civil rights movement, Vietnam War and Watergate
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A surfer inspired by the properties of water and light, Alexander was one of the Light and Space artists who imbued minimalism with SoCal buoyancy.
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Joseph Yamada and Elizabeth Kikuchi were born two days apart, but they didn’t meet until they were both were sent to the World War II incarceration camp in Poston, Ariz.
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Kramer, whose 1985 drama ‘The Normal Heart’ about the early years of the AIDS crisis was an angry indictment of inaction by officials, has died at 84.
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Stanley Ho, the Macao casino tycoon considered the father of modern gambling in China, has died at age 98.
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Cobb was the last surviving member of Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” a groundbreaking 1959 jazz album that transformed the genre.
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Orange County real estate magnate William Lyon, who built more than 100,000 homes nationwide and helped shape suburban America, has died at 97.
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The ‘CBS Evening News’ standard-bearer guided a nation through times of turmoil and great achievement. He was long considered ‘the most trusted man in America.’
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The comedian and actor was doing stand-up when he landed the job of guiding the 1980s game show, which featured raucous question-and-answer trivia contests about TV reruns.
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Phillips, writing as Abigail Van Buren, dispensed wry, no-nonsense advice to newspaper readers around the world for over 40 years. Her identical twin also wrote an advice column, as Ann Landers.
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Lia Lee dies at 30; figure in cultural dispute over epilepsy treatment
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Louis Sheldon’s Traditional Values Coalition was designated as an anti-LGBTQ hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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