In Remembrance:2007

Japanese actress Miyoshi Umeki, the first Asian to win an Academy Award, died August 28. She was 78.

Umeki won Best Supporting Actress for playing Red Buttons' wife in Sayonara. She was nominated for a Tony for Flower Drum Song (she was also in the film) and played Mrs. Livingston in The Courtship of Eddie's Father.
 

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Actress Jane Wyman, who was Ronald Reagan's first wife, died today. She was 93.

Wyman got her big break when she appeared in The Lost Weekend. The following year, she got her first Oscar nomination for The Yearling. She actually won in 1948 for Johnny Belinda (a role in which she didn't talk). She had her own TV show, Jane Wyman Presents the Fireside Theater, and was a regular on Falcoln Crest. Her last appearance was on an episode of Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman in 1993.
 

Body Shop founder Anita Roddick dies

Anita Roddick, founder of beauty retailer The Body Shop and one of Britain's best known businesswomen, has died at the age of 64 after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, the BBC reported on Monday.

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Weather Report pianist dies at 75

Austrian jazz pianist Joe Zawinul, who founded influential 1970s jazz-rock group Weather Report, has died.

Zawinul, 75, passed away at his home in Vienna. Austrian media reports said he had been suffering from skin cancer.

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Real Indiana Jones dies

Douglas Eugene "Gene" Savoy, an explorer dubbed by People magazine as the "real Indiana Jones", died last Tuesday. He was 80.

Savoy discovered more than 40 lost cities in Peru, including four of the most important archaeological sites there, and led long-distance sailing adventures to learn more about ancient cultures.
 




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