In Remembrance...2008


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Angus Fairhurst, one of the "Young British Artists" who stormed the international arts scene in the 1990s, committed suicide last Saturday. He was 41.
 

Wayne "Frosty Freeze" Frost, whose acrobatic performance in the movie Flashdance helped set off a world breakdancing craze, died Thursday after a long illness. He was 44.
 


Cuban Mambo pioneer Cachao dead at 89

Legendary Cuban musician Israel Lopez, known to the world as Cachao and credited with being one of the originators of the mambo musical style, died on Saturday (in March) in Miami, his spokesman announced. He was 89.

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`Killing Fields' survivor Dith Pran dies

Dith Pran, the Cambodian-born journalist whose harrowing tale of enslavement and eventual escape from that country's murderous Khmer Rouge revolutionaries in 1979 became the subject of the award-winning film "The Killing Fields," died Sunday (last month). He was 65

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RIP: Raymond LeBlanc

Belgian comics publisher Raymond LeBlanc (above left, with Hergé) died on March 21 at age 92. Best known as the publisher who gave Tintin a home after World War II, he was also a real life hero, if such a phrase can have any meaning. A member of the Resistance during the war, he later persuaded the demoralized Hergé to begin publishing Tintin in the new Tintin Magazine. The move changed the history of comics. In later years, LeBlanc developed Lombard into a publishing powerhouse, and at 2003’s Angouleme won the first ever Honorary Alph Art award for an editor.

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Belgian author Hugo Claus dies at 78

Prolific Belgian writer Hugo Claus, whose Flemish novels, poetry and plays made him a frequently tipped candidate for the Nobel literature prize, has died at age 78 (last month), his publisher told the Belgian news agency Belga.

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Stanley Kamel, best known for playing Dr. Charles Kroger on the TV series Monk, was found dead in his home Tuesday. He was 65 and died of a heart attack.

Kamel appeared in numerous TV roles over the past 30 years, including The West Wing, The Golden Girls, and Beverly Hills 90210.
 

GrayLinnorm said:
Stanley Kamel, best known for playing Dr. Charles Kroger on the TV series Monk, was found dead in his home Tuesday. He was 65 and died of a heart attack.


This one hits me rather hard for some reason. Sad.
 

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