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British director Bryan Forbes dies at age 86
British film director Bryan Forbes, whose work includes the original 1970s horror classic "The Stepford Wives," has died at age 86 after a long illness, a family spokesman said Wednesday. Matthew D'Ancona said Forbes died surrounded by his family at his home in Surrey. Forbes was born John Theobald Clarke ...
Special effects master Ray Harryhausen dies at 92
When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by "King Kong" that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrilling audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, and a six-armed dancing goddess. ...
Italy's ex-premier Giulio Andreotti dies at 94
Giulio Andreotti personified the nation he helped shape, the good and the bad. One of Italy's most important postwar figures, he helped draft the country's constitution after World War II, served seven times as premier and spent 60 years in Parliament. But the Christian Democrat who was friends with popes ...
Newsman and "Rocky III" and "Scarface" actor dies
A Los Angeles television news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s who also appeared in movies such as "Rocky III" has died. Mario Machado was 78. His daughter, Michelle, tells the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/13jwSEN ) that Machado died Saturday from complications of pneumonia at a Los Angeles convalescent facility. ...
Belgian Nobel Prize winner de Duve dies at 95
A Belgian university says that biochemist Christian de Duve, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1974, has died in an act of euthanasia. He was 95. His university, UCL in Louvain-la-Neuve, confirmed it was a case of euthanasia but did not disclose the method. De Duve ...
Ex-Ind. governor, HHS head Otis Bowen dies at 95
Otis R. Bowen, who overhauled Indiana's tax system as governor before helping oversee the federal response to the burgeoning AIDS epidemic during President Ronald Reagan's second term, has died. He was 95. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said in a statement Sunday that Bowen died Saturday at a nursing home in ...
Frederic Franklin, British-born dancer, dies at 98
Frederic Franklin, a British-born dancer who helped popularize modern ballet in the United States and performed until his mid-90s, has died. He was 98. Franklin succumbed to complications from pneumonia on Saturday at a Manhattan hospital, according to his lifelong partner, William Ausman. Franklin last appeared with the American Ballet ...
Spider called pivotal in Slayer guitarist death
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman thought he was on the mend after a spider bite followed by an infection. He'd been writing songs with the band in anticipation of recording a new album later this year. But in an unusual chain of events, a representative for the band said the bite ...
Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman dies at 49
Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49. Slayer spokeswoman Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald said Hanneman died Thursday morning of liver failure at a Los Angeles hospital with his wife, Kathy, by his side. The guitarist had recently begun ...
Sexual revolution pioneer John Williamson dies
John Williamson, a pioneer of the 1960s sexual revolution as co-founder of Topanga Canyon's Sandstone Retreat, where nudity and free love once took place with abandon, has died at age 80. Williamson died of cancer March 24 at a hospital in Reno, Nev., said his wife, Barbara Williamson. The pair ...
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