Broadway lyricist Betty Comden dies
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Betty Comden, whose more than 60-year collaboration with Adolph Green produced the classic New York stage musical "On the Town," as well as "Singin' in the Rain," has died. She was 89.
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Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun" and later revived his career with television's "Dallas," died Sunday. He was 85.
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Veteran record producer Joel Dorn, who worked with such artists as Roberta Flack, Max Roach and the Neville Brothers, died of a heart attack on Monday in New York. He was 65.
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NEW YORK -- Fred Ebb, who lyricist for such hit Broadway musicals as &quot;Chicago&quot; and &quot;Cabaret&quot; and the big-city anthem &quot;New York, New York,&quot; has died of a heart attack.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.
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That cynical lyric from the 1968 musical Zorba sums up one side of the world view of its author, Fred Ebb, who died of a heart attack at his New York home on Saturday.
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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.
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Their 60-year collaboration was such that many believed Betty Comden and Adolph Green, whose musicals won five Tony Awards, were married.
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.
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Playbill - Cy Coleman, the Tony Award-winning Broadway composer who rose from child classical pianist to jazz player to master of the catchy show tune, died Nov. 18 of a heart attack, according to friends and colleagues in the theatre community.
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Singer and author died at his London home, aged 80.
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Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn-born opera diva who was a global icon of can-do American culture with her dazzling voice, bubbly personality and management moxie in the arts world, died Monday of cancer, her manager said. She was 78. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.
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Actor Robert Earl Jones, a fixture in Broadway shows and movies and the father of actor James Earl Jones, has died.
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Oscar-winning composer Elmer  Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood's most memorable music,  including scores for "The Magnificent Seven" and "Thoroughly  Modern Millie," has died at age 82, his publicist said on  Thursday.
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Social critic and author Susan  Sontag, one of America's leading intellectuals, died on Tuesday  at age 71 at New York's Sloan Kettering hospital after a battle  with leukemia, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site.
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Actress Betty Hutton, who found fame in the Hollywood musical Annie Get Your Gun, dies aged 86.
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Robert Merrill, whose powerful baritone voice was featured for decades at both New York's Metropolitan Opera and Yankees baseball games, and who helped spread an appreciation of opera to a broader U.S. audience, died at home on Saturday.