Sex Film Pioneer Meyer Dies at 82
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LOS ANGELES  - Russ Meyer, who pioneered &quot;sexploitation&quot; films, died on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the age of 82.
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LOS ANGELES - 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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Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, the televangelist who helped lead the PTL ministry before its collapse in a sex and corruption scandal, has died at age 65, her Web site reported on Saturday.
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Titillation kingpin Russ Meyer, the mastermind behind soft-core   classics like Vixen! and  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!   and the mainstream melodrama Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, died   Saturday at his Hollywood home. He was 82.
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In just a few moments on screen, Janet Leigh forever changed the hygiene habits of millions. The veteran actress, who died Sunday at 77, left moviegoers locking their bathroom
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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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Russ Meyer, who helped spawn the "skin flick" with such films as "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and "Vixen," has died. He was 82.
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US television evangelist Tammy Faye Messner has died aged 65 after a long battle with cancer.
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Harold Zinkin, the inventor of the widely used Universal Gym machines and a pioneer of modern bodybuilding, has died at age 82, his friends said on Thursday.
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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. He was 85.
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Menon, the 42-year-old founder and CEO of Ecstasyvision, one of the   biggest porn film production houses in the US, has a reputation to keep.
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Novelist and gay rights activist  Joseph Hansen, whose highly successful mystery series featured  one of the genre's first openly homosexual investigators, Dave  Brandstetter, has died at age 81 after a long illness, friends  said on Monday.
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Anna Nicole Smith, the former Playboy playmate whose bizarre life careened from marrying an octogenarian billionaire to the untimely death of her son, died Thursday after collapsing at a South Florida hotel, one of her lawyers said.
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Russ Meyer, with his movie star slicked hair and pencil thin moustache, made the movies he wanted to see, the way he wanted to make them -- and as it turned out, many others wanted to see them too.
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Russ Meyer, whose 1960s fantasy films about the antics of giant-breasted, often assertive women were among the first &quot;nudies&quot; to have a story line but who later flirted with respectability when his style of filmmaking became influential in the mainstream
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Susan Sontag, who died Tuesday at 71, brought to the world of ideas not just an Olympian rigor but a glamour and sexiness it had seldom seen before.
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Jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed  for his classic recordings of "Begin the Beguine" and "Lady Be  Good" as well as turbulent marriages to movie stars Lana Turner  and Ava Gardner, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will  Curtis said.