9th March 2009, 08:35 PM
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Country singer and Grand Ole Opry member Hank Locklin died yesterday. He was 91.
9th March 2009, 10:55 PM
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Oscar-nominated screenwriter Tullio Pinelli, best known for his collaborations with Fellini, died March 7. He was 100.
His son, Carlo Alberto Pinelli, is a director.
9th March 2009, 10:58 PM
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Schulyer Chapin, general manager of the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1972 to 1975, died March 7. He was 86.
10th March 2009, 04:59 AM
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South Korean actress and model Jang Ja Yun, best known for playing Sunny on the Korean series Boys Before Flowers, hung herself March 7. She was 27.
10th March 2009, 11:28 PM
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Tony award winning actress Anna Manahan, whose career in stage, film, and television spanned 60 years, died Sunday of multiple organ failure. She was 84.
11th March 2009, 04:40 PM
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Jimmy Boyd, a former child singer and actor, died last Saturday. He was 70.
Boyd had a #1 hit in 1952 with I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.
12th March 2009, 08:08 AM
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Charles Lewis Jr., better known to MMA fans as “Mask,” was killed in a hit-and-run accident early Wednesday morning in Newport Beach, Calif.
Lewis was the founder of Tapout Clothing, Inc., and the face of its popular reality show on cable channel Versus.
12th March 2009, 10:40 PM
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Hungarian film director and screenwriter Peter Basco, known for his satirical films about life in Hungary during the Stalin era, died yesterday. He was 81.
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13th March 2009, 10:51 PM
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Celebrated Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Flemming Flindt died March 3 after a short illness. He was 72.
Flindt was known for staging ballets with bizarre storylines. His first ballet, The Lesson (1963), is about a ballet teacher who murders his students. Two other ballets, The Triumph of Death and Salome, were known for their nude scenes.
13th March 2009, 10:54 PM
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Stephen Bernard, founder of the Cape Cod Potato Chips company and two other snack food brands, died last Saturday of pancreatic cancer. He was 61.
14th March 2009, 05:51 PM
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James Purdy, who wrote plays, poetry, and such underground classics as Cabot Wright Begins and Eustace Chisholm and the Works, died yesterday.
14th March 2009, 07:35 PM
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GrayLinnorm James Purdy, who wrote plays, poetry, and such underground classics as Cabot Wright Begins and Eustace Chisholm and the Works, died yesterday.
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14th March 2009, 08:06 PM
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Andrew "Test" Martin
The body of former WWE wrestler Andrew "Test" Martin was found in his Tampa, FL. apartment this morning. He was 3 days from turning 34.
Andrew "Test" Martin Found Dead at 33 (The Steel Cage) - Newsday.com
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14th March 2009, 11:23 PM
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Entertainment industry veteran Alan Livingston died yesterday. He was 91.
Livingston was president of Capitol Records and signed the Beatles to that label. He also created Bozo the Clown for children's read-along records in the 1940s.
15th March 2009, 03:06 AM
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Keith "Doc" Herber
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Call of Cthulhu author Keith "Doc" Herber died on Friday. Details at
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15th March 2009, 09:26 AM
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Bill Davidson, the Detroit Pistons’ Hall of Fame owner and noted philanthropist, died Friday. He was 86. He also owned other pro-sports franchises as well as other businesses.
Davidson was born Dec. 5, 1922, in Detroit. He ran track at Michigan, played football in the Navy during World War II and was an inaugural inductee into the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.
His philanthropic efforts, though often low profile, were numerous, international and lifelong, and got him honored in 1977 by the Council of Michigan Foundation.
16th March 2009, 02:13 AM
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Sammy Davis Jr.'s widow dies at age 65
Altovise Joanne Gore Davis , a dancer and actress and the widow of
Sammy Davis Jr ., has died. She was 65.
Davis died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after suffering a stroke, said Amy Malone, a publicist for her family.
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16th March 2009, 03:58 PM
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Actor Ron Silver, who played Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune and had a recurring role on The West Wing, died yesterday of cancer. He was 62.
Silver was a founding member of the liberal-leaning Creative Coalition but became more right-leaning after the September 11 attacks.
16th March 2009, 09:57 PM
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Thomas Goldsmith, who helped invent the cathode ray tube, died March 5. He was 99.
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