French mime artist Marceau dies
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The French mime artist Marcel Marceau dies at the age of 84, the AFP news agency reports.
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Marcel Marceau, 84, the world's greatest mime, who single-handedly revived the ancient art with his eloquent but wordless interpretations of complex emotions, died quietly in Paris on Sept. 22. No cause of death was reported.
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Jacques Derrida, the influential French thinker and writer who inspired admiration, vilification and utter bewilderment as the founder of the intellectual movement known as deconstruction, has died.
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Julien Gracq, a celebrated French writer known for surrealism and solitude and for having turned down France's top literary prize, has died, hospital officials said Sunday. He was 97.
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New French actor Philippe Noiret, famous for his roles in 'Cinema Paradiso' and 'Il Postino', breathed his last in Paris on Thursday at the age of 76 years, the French culture ministry said.Comment
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Mime icon Marcel Marceau, the world's most honored and respected practitioner of what might be America's most ridiculed art form, has died.  He was 84.  In Marceau's native France, President Nicolas Sarkozy led a chorus of mourners by saying, "Fran...
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Hundreds of mourners pay tribute to Marcel Marceau at the French mime artist's funeral in Paris.
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Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson, and France&#39;s &quot;most French of Americans&quot;, has died of heart failure at 79.
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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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Writer Henri Troyat, who fled Russia's revolution as a child and went on to become one of France's most prolific, popular and respected authors, has died, the Academie Francaise said Monday. He was 95.
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The world's best-known mime artist, Marcel Marceau, has died aged 84, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon's office said on Sunday.
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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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Pulitzer Prize-winning  cartoonist Doug Marlette, the irreverent creator of the &quot;Kudzu&quot;  comic strip, died on Tuesday in a Mississippi car crash, his  newspaper said.
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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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French film star Philippe Noiret, whose trademark hangdog face delighted cinema audiences, has died, French authorities said on Thursday.Comment
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Newspapers in France bid a sad adieu to a literary icon.
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Henri Troyat, one of the great figures of modern French literature and one of France's most popular biographers, has died at the age of 95, the Academie Francaise said on Monday.