Honorary mayor of Hollywood dies at 84
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LOS ANGELES  Â Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than a half-century, has died. He was 84.
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Veteran Hollywood director Sidney Lumet is to receive an honorary Oscar at next February's ceremony.
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Shu Uemura, a beautician who parlayed  success as a Hollywood make-up artist into an international  cosmetics brand under his name, has died aged 79.
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Attorney Marvin Mitchelson, who represented Hollywood stars including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins and Sylvester Stallone, died on Saturday night, a hospital spokeswoman said on Sunday. He was 76.
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Actor and civil rights activist  Ossie Davis, whose career spanned more than half a century, has  died in Miami while working on a new movie, his office said on  Friday.
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Deborah Kerr, star of The King And I and From Here To Eternity, dies at the age of 86.
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Actor and civil rights activist Ossie Davis, whose career spanned more than half a century, has died in Miami while working on a new movie, his office said on Friday.
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US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the first two Jaws movies, dies at the age of 75.
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Mayor Bob O'Connor, who learned he had a rare form of brain cancer only seven months into his term, died Friday night, his spokesman said. He was 61.
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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home. He was 79.
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Veteran stage, movie and television actor and singer Howard Keel has died of colon cancer at his California home. He was 85. His most lucrative stint was on television&#39;s &quot;Dallas
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Laszlo Kovacs, one of  Hollywood&#39;s most influential and respected directors of  photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, who made a fortune first in the oil business and later in entertainment, died over the weekend at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at the age of 79, his publicist said late on Saturday.
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In a community where everyone is over 55, it's fitting that Mayor Dorothy Geeben's age has made her a celebrity of sorts. At 96, Geeben may be the nation's oldest mayor. She's so well- liked in her the retirement community of nearly 1,000 that no one is opposing her re-election this week, and her next two-year term will last through the end of 2006, or nine months past her 98th birthday.
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Billionaire Marvin Davis, a former oilman who sold his 20th Century Fox studios to Rupert Murdoch in the 1980s, died Saturday at his home in Beverly Hills. He was 79.
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CHICAGO  - Howard Keel, who sang and  danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of  colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.