Brett Somers, âMatch Gameâ Wit, Dies at 83
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Brett Somers was an actress and comedian who amused game show fans with her quips on âMatch Game,â one of the most popular quiz shows of the 1970s.
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Humourist and broadcaster Alan Coren, star of BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz, dies at the age of 69.
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TV and prankster Jeremy Beadle, who has died aged 59, is remembered by friends and colleagues.
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Controversial comedian Bernard Manning dies at the age of 76, his venue in Manchester confirms.
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Tributes flooded in Thursday for television star and veteran prankster Jeremy Beadle who died Wednesday from pneumonia at the age of 59.
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Larry Whiteside, a baseball writer in Boston, Kansas City and Milwaukee for almost half a century who was a pioneer for blacks in journalism and a mentor for reporters regardless of their race, died Friday after a long illness. He was 69.
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Let's get one thing straight right off the bat: Sally Dickerson turned 85 last week and is not retiring anytime soon.
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Billy Reay, who played on two Stanley Cup champions with Montreal and became the winningest coach in Chicago Blackhawks&#39; history, died at 86.
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Rex Bowen, the great baseball scout who signed Bill Mazeroski, Maury Wills and Dick Groat, died at 93.
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It&#39;s hard to believe that it&#39;s been 50 years since Willie Mays made The Catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series. I didn&#39;t see The Catch on television -- I was only 11 years old -- but I&#39;ve seen the highlights of it many times.
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Freddie Fields, who  reigned as the personification of the free-wheeling,  high-living Hollywood agent from the 1960s through the '70s,  has died. He was 84.
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Fifty years ago Wednesday, Willie Mays made one of the great catches in the history of the World Series.
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Director Gerard Oury, a cultural icon of France whose decades-old comedies remain hits today, has died, local officials at his Riviera home said Thursday. He was 87.
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Syd Thrift, a former general manger of the Pittsburgh Pirates who spent nearly a half century in baseball, died at 77.
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Rodney Dangerfield, the famously self-deprecating comedian, died Tuesday at the age of 82. He had been in a coma after undergoing heart valve replacement surgery in August.
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The dashing Keith Miller, aged 26, after making 188 for Victoria at the Adelaide Oval in 1946. Photo: File. Mere life was not enough to contain Keith Miller, who died yesterday, aged 84.
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Christopher Bowman, the former U.S. figure skating champion dubbed "Bowman the Showman" for his flair on the ice, died Thursday of a possible drug overdose, authorities said. He was 40.