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Broke barriers and later mentored Arthur Ashe and Serena and Venus Williams
A painter of striking images of the body and landscape, and known for her connection to 20th century greats, Hurtado didn’t gain recognition until 2016.
Terry Cannon’s Baseball Reliquary included a hot dog partially consumed by Babe Ruth and a tortilla bearing the face of former Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley.
Redstone’s lasting imprint will be accelerating media consolidation and hard-fought battles to build, then maintain his empire.
Trini Lopez, a singer and guitarist who gained fame for his versions of “Lemon Tree” and “If I Had a Hammer” in the 1960s, has died.
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Vicky Lindsey, 62, helped women whose children have been killed cope.
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The prolific artist designed work for George Harrison and Ravi Shankar and turned her L.A. home into a crossroads for world music stars.
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Luedtke, a former executive editor of the Detroit Free Press, left journalism for Hollywood. He also wrote the screenplay for ‘Absence of Malice.’
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Julio Gosdinski, dead age 49, had worked at the carousel since he was a teenager. He loved it so much, the owner made him co-owner.
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Lorenzo Soria, president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, died on Friday
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Brent Scowcroft, who died Thursday of natural causes at his home in Falls Church, Va., was a Republican voice against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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With wife Carol, Warner Henry gave millions of dollars to support classical music organizations large and small.
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Novels such as “The Keepers of the House” explored the beauty and dark secrets of the Deep South
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Armed with a secret recipe, her bubbling bowls of soondubu jjigae were all the rage in Koreatown and beyond.
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Pete Hamill, the eloquent voice of his beloved hometown of New York as both newspaper columnist and bestselling author, died Wednesday morning.
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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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Moody’s improvised solo on ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’ became a jazz classic. A version with lyrics added became a cross-genre hit and has been recorded by Van Morrison, Aretha Franklin, Amy Winehouse and others.
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Screenwriter Buck Henry, the comedy writer whose credits include “The Graduate,” “Get Smart” and “Catch-22,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles.
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Van Cliburn, a young Texan, won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 and was given a hero’s welcome back in the United States. He went on to a long and acclaimed career.
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He was a sports announcer for the Giants and the New York Knicks and called championship heavyweight fights with Howard Cosell. Later, he became the sports anchor for Honolulu television station KHON.
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Jim Henson, creator of Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and the other Muppets who entertained and educated millions of preschoolers and their parents around the world, died early Wednesday of pneumonia.
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Discovered by future husband David O. Selznick, Jones won the Academy Award for 1943’s ‘The Song of Bernadette.’ She also was married to industrialist and art collector Norton Simon.
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Vicky Lindsey, 62, helped women whose children have been killed cope.
