2010----In Remembrance.

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Fred Foy, the announcer for The Lone Ranger, The Green Hornet, and The Dick Cavett Show, died today. He was 89.

 

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Steve Landesberg, who played Arthur Dietrich on Barney Miller and was most recently seen in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, died yesterday of cancer. He was 65.

I loved Barney Miller as a kid, and Dietrich was my favorite character on the show.

Been watching reruns of Barney Miller on a localmTV station for the past few weeks...

At least Abe Vigoda is still alive!

 

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Bud Greenspan, who produced inspirational documentaries about Olympic athletes, died yesterday of Parkinson's disease. He was 84.

 

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Former president of Venezuela Carlos Andres Perez died on Christmas. He was 88.

 

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Singer-songwriter Teena Marie dies at 54 - CNN.com

 

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Denis Dutton, who created Atrs & Letters Daily and the Bad Writing Contest, died yesterday of prostate cancer. He was 66.

 

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Bernie Wilson, the baritone for Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, died Sunday following a stroke and a heart attack. He was 64.

Lloyd Parks is now the only surviving member of the Blue Notes.

 

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Billy Taylor, an acclaimed jazz pianist, composer, and promoter, died Tuesday of a heart attack. He was 89.

Taylor was the first black conducter of a television studio orchestra. He founded Jazzmobile, a mobile outdoor stage that brought free music to inner city neighborhoods and had his own show on NPR.

 

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Agathe von Trapp, the oldest daughter of the singing von Trapp family, died Tuesday. She was 97.

 

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Isabelle Caro, the model in an Italian anti-anorexia campaign, died November 17. She was 28.