'A Raisin in the Sun' Director Petrie Dies in L.A.
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Emmy Award-winning director Daniel Petrie Sr., who helmed such critically acclaimed TV fare as "Sybil" and "Inherit the Wind," has died in Los Angeles, a spokesman for the Directors Guild of America said on Tuesday.
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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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Director Russ Meyer, whose soft  core porn films, "The Immoral Mr Teas," "Vixen" and "Beyond the  Valley of the Dolls" earned him millions of dollars and the  title of Hollywood's "King Leer," has died at age 82, his film  company said on Wednesday.
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair, who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier, has died aged 72.
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Singer and actress Barbara McNair,  who starred opposite Elvis Presley and Sidney Poitier and  became one of the first black women to host her own television  variety show, has died at 72, her husband said on Monday.
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Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who won acclaim in Hollywood and built an international cosmetics brand under his name, has died. He was 79.  Uemura, who gained acclaim working with actress Shirley MacLaine on the 1962 Hollywood film "My Geish...
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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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Actor Pat Corley, who served sage advice along with drinks as Phil the barkeep on "Murphy Brown," has died. He was 76.
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Russ Meyer, the notorious maverick director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Mondo Topless, Motor Psycho and Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens, has died at age 82 in his home in the Hollywood Hills.
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Barbara McNair, the pioneering black singer-actress who hosted her own TV variety show and starred with Sidney Poitier in the early 1970s, has died. She was 72. McNair died Sunday in Los Angeles after a battle with throat cancer, her sister, Jacqueline Gaither, said.
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TV producer and studio head Frank Capra Jr dies aged 73 after a battling prostate cancer.
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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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French film director Philippe de Broca, who made his name in the 1960s with comedies starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, has died at the age of 71 from cancer.
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"MASH" director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with a chaotic, irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema," has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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Pierre Salinger, who served as press secretary to two US presidents, has died of a heart attack near his home in southern France, and is to be buried in his native United States, his French wife said.
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LOS ANGELES The director who helped spawn the &quot;skin flick&quot; genre with such films as &quot;Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!&quot; and &quot;Vixen,&quot; has died.
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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.