In Remembrance---2009

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Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage punk band The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart condition. He was 62.

 

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Hans Beck, creator of the Playmobil toys, died January 30. He was 79.

 

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Clint Ritchie, who played Clint Buchanan on One Life to Live, died last Saturday. He was 70.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage punk band The Cramps, died yesterday from a heart condition. He was 62.

Dang.

(hums "Bikini Girls with Machine Guns", reverently)

 

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Versatile actor James Whitmore died today of lung cancer. He was 87.

Whitmore won Emmies and Tonys and was nominated for an Academy Award. He was also the longtime spokesman for Miracle-Gro.

 

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Dewey Martin, a member of Buffalo Springfield, died January 31. He was 68.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Orlando "Cachaito" Lopez, considered the "heartbeat" of Cuba's legendary Buena Vista Social Club for his internationally acclaimed bass playing, died Monday of complications from prostate surgery, fellow musicians said. He was 76.

Lopez, a founding member of the band brought together in the 1990s by American guitarist and producer Ry Cooder, died in a Havana hospital several days after surgery, said Manuel Galban, a Cuban musician who played with Lopez for decades.

Buena Vista Social Club bassist Lopez dead at 76 - Yahoo! News

 

[Mark]

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76

 

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Phil Carey, who played Asa Buchanan on One Life to Live, died last Friday (oddly, just a week after Clint Ritchie, who played his son) of lung cancer. He was 83.

 

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Playwright Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy and I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running, died yesterday of pneumonia. He was 91.