'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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Carl Wayne, the lead singer of influential 1960s pop group the Move, dies at the age of 61 after battling cancer.
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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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Beloved French actor Philippe Noiret, whose neighbourly face was among the most familiar on the silver screen in France, died Thursday of cancer.Comment
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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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Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif.
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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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Cyrano de Bergerac producer Rene Cleitman dies of an undisclosed illness in a Paris hospital, aged 64.
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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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STOCKHOLM Christer Pettersson, who was convicted in the 1986 killing of Prime Minister Olof Palme but acquitted on appeal, died Wednesday, hospital officials said.
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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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Howard Keel, who sang and danced to stardom in the heyday of MGM musicals, died Sunday of colon cancer at his home in Palm Desert, Calif. He was 85.
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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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Christer Pettersson, who was tried, convicted and then acquitted on appeal for the 1986 murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, died Wednesday, hospital officials said.
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French director Philippe de Broca, best known for his work with Jean-Paul Belmondo, died Friday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine from cancer.
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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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Playbill - The British stage director Steven Pimlott, whose busy career included stays at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre and Opera North, and who had just begun rehearsals on a new production of The Rose Tattoo at the Royal National Theatre, died Feb. 14 at his home near Colchester, according to British news reports. He was 52 and had been battling lung cancer.