In Remembrance...Celebrities In 2006.

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[imagel]http://www.northernstars.ca/actorsghi/Media/hill_arthur_250.jpg[/imagel]Veteran character actor Arthur Hill, whose dozens of television and movie appearances included the title role in the series "Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law," has died. He was 84.

Hill died Sunday at a Pacific Palisades care facility after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease, his friend Walter Seltzer said Thursday.

In Remembrance.

 

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Brazil's Duprat, key Tropicalia figure, dies at 74

[imagel]http://www.itsalltrue.com.br/2003/fotos/iat2003_coisa_08.jpg[/imagel]Composer and arranger Rogerio Duprat, a key figure in the Tropicalia movement that revolutionized Brazilian music in the 1960s, has died in Sao Paulo at age 74, local media reported on Friday.

Duprat had suffered from bladder cancer and Alzheimer's disease and was in hospital for the past three months, his family said. He died on Thursday.

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Songwriter Marijohn Wilkin Dies at 86

[imagel]http://www.hsutx.edu/advancement/news/hol/i/04-wilkin.jpg[/imagel]Songwriter Marijohn Wilkin, who helped pen such classics as "The Long Black Veil" and "One Day at a Time," has died. She was 86.

Wilkin died Saturday, said S. Reese, director of Woodlawn Roesch-Patton Funeral Home.

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Pulitzer Prize Winning Author William Styron (1925-2006)

William Styron, the novelist from the American South whose explorations of difficult historical and moral questions earned him a place among the leading literary figures of the post-World War II generation, died today in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., where he had a home. He was 81.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/books/01cnd-styron.html?ref=books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Styron

 

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Veteran actor Franklyn dies at 81

[imagel]http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42259000/jpg/_42259542_franklyn_bbc_203.jpg[/imagel]Veteran actor William Franklyn, best-remembered as the voice of the "Schhh... You Know Who" Schweppes adverts, has died aged 81.

Franklyn died after a long battle with prostate cancer, his family said.

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Actress Adrienne Shelly, best known for her roles in Trust and The Unbelievable Truth, was found dead in her apartment Thursday. She was 40.
She worked steadily throughout her career in film, television, and theater, but later turned to writing and directing.

 

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Kiss of the Spider Woman screenwriter dead

Leonard Schrader, who adapted the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman into an Academy Award nominated film (and the brother of Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver) died Thursday of heart failure. He was 62.
Schrader wrote or co-wrote about a dozen movies, including Blue Collar and Mishima.

 

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Actress Adrienne Shelly, best known for her roles in Trust and The Unbelievable Truth, was found dead in her apartment Thursday. She was 40.
She worked steadily throughout her career in film, television, and theater, but later turned to writing and directing.

In Remembrance.

UPDATE:Justice has been served.

 

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Leonard Schrader, who adapted the novel Kiss of the Spider Woman into an Academy Award nominated film (and the brother of Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver) died Thursday of heart failure. He was 62.
Schrader wrote or co-wrote about a dozen movies, including Blue Collar and Mishima.

In Remembrance.

 

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Florence Klotz, Tony-Winning Costume Designer, Dead at 86

[imagel]http://www.playbill.com/images/photos/klotz1.jpg[/imagel]Florence Klotz, a six-time Tony Award-winning costume designer, died Nov. 1 in her Manhattan home of heart failure. She was 86.

Known as Flossie to her friends, Ms. Klotz was closely associated with the work of composer Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince. Three of the six Tony Awards she won for costume design were for landmark Sondheim-Prince projects: Follies, A Little Night Music and Pacific Overtures. She also did the costumes for two Sondheim revues: Sondheim: A Musical Tribute in 1973 and Side by Side by Sondheim in 1978.

In Remembrance.