'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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Vincent Sherman, who directed &amp;#151; and romanced &amp;#151; Bette Davis, Rita Hayworth and Joan Crawford during his heyday as a leading Hollywood filmmaker in the 1940s and &#039;50s, has died. He would have been 100 on July 16.
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Singer Barbara McNair, who became a film and television star in an era when such opportunities were opening up for black women, has died, her sister said. She was 72.
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LOS ANGELES (Billboard) - Emiel N. Petrone, an integral  player in introducing the DVD and CD formats in the United  States, died here Aug. 23 after a brief illness. He was 61.
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Director of Bombay Dreams musical dies of lung cancer.
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George Clooney's beloved potbelly pig Max has died, Clooney's publicist said. He was 19.
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Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood, has died at 81. The director died Monday night at a Los Angeles Hospital, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press.
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John Stamos has joined  the cast of ABC's "A Raisin in the Sun," the TV movie  adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry's play.
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Ossie Davis, the actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life, has died, an aide said Friday. He was 87.
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US actor Glenn Ford, who starred in dozens of films in a 53-year career, dies at his home in Beverly Hills.
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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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NEW YORK  &#151; 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.
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Legendary adult film-maker Russ Meyer, director of cult hit Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, dies in Los Angeles.
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Cyrano de Bergerac producer Rene Cleitman dies of an undisclosed illness in a Paris hospital, aged 64.
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Advertising executive Philip B. Dusenberry, who oversaw the Pepsi television commercial in which Michael Jackson's hair caught fire and who helped coin some of the industry's best-known slogans, has died.
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Terry Melcher, a key architect of the California pop sound of the &#39;60s as a record producer, songwriter and artist, died Friday at age 62 after a long struggle with melanoma.
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Actor Ossie Davis, whose career included credits as a producer, director, actor and writer, dies aged 87.