Cult Filmmaker Russ Meyer, Of &#39;Faster Pussycat&#39; Fame, Dies
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Russ Meyer, the blue-movie maverick whose lusty images inspired a host of filmmakers and musicians, died Saturday at his home of complications of pneumonia, according to The Associated Press.
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Starring Britney Spears? Quentin Tarantino is reportedly "hot" to remake Russ Meyer's 1965 classic piece of silliness Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, in which "three wild women in three fast cars take time off from stripping in clubs to go on a murder rampage", as the IMDb summary explains.â¦
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LOS ANGELES  &#151; Herman Brix, the Olympic shot putter who played Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.
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Artie Shaw, the clarinetist, bandleader and composer who created a rich body of American music before he quit playing in his prime and walked away from show business, died Thursday in the Southern California city of Thousand Oaks.
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Actress Virginia Mayo, who starred in some of the biggest films of the 40s and 50s, dies aged 84.
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Director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with an irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema" has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood&#39;s most memorable music, including scores for &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie,&quot; has died at age 82, his publicist said on ...
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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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Janet Leigh, the demure but sexy blond movie star of the 1950s who will be remembered for the 45-second shower scene in which she was slashed to death in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s Psycho in 1960, died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.
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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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Pioneer soft porn filmmaker Russ Meyer, whose âskin flicksâ gained a cult following, has died at his home in the Hollywood Hills, aged 82.
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Pauline Gore, whose son Al became vice president and nearly captured the presidency and whose husband had a long and distinguished career in Congress, died Wednesday. She was 92.
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Hollywood composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote the scores for such movies as &quot;The Magnificent Seven&quot; and &quot;Thoroughly Modern Millie&quot; during a wide-ranging 50-year career, has died near Los Angeles according to news reports.
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WASHINGTON - Il regista Russ Meyer, considerato un pioniere del &#39;soft-core&#39; con film come &#39;Vixen&#39; e &#39;Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!&#39;, Ã¨ morto a Los Angeles per le complicazioni di una polmonite. Aveva 82 anni.
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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 management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81.
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The American comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who parlayed his self-deprecating humour and trademark catchphrase &quot;I don&#39;t get no respect&quot; into a movie career, has died aged 82.
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HOLLYWOOD - Janet Leigh, Hollywood&#39;s perfect &quot;nice girl&quot; ingenue who memorably changed her acting image and earned an Academy Award nomination in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s classic &quot;Psycho,&quot; has died.