Hollywood director Sherman dies at 99
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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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Oscar-winning composer Elmer Bernstein, who wrote some of Hollywood's most memorable music, including scores for "The Magnificent Seven" and "Thoroughly Modern Millie," has died at age 82, his publicist said on Thursday.
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Susan Sontag, a leading intellectual and activist of the past half century who introduced the concept of &quot;camp&quot; to mainstream culture and also influenced the way many thought about art, illness and photography, died Tuesday.
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Oscar-winning motion picture composer Elmer Bernstein has died after a lengthy illness. He was 82. A spokesman says Mr. Bernstein died Wednesday at his Ojai, California home near Los Angeles.
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US actor Roy Scheider, best known for playing the police chief in the first two Jaws movies, dies at the age of 75.
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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Janet Leigh, whose notorious shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s &quot;Psycho&quot; shocked moviegoers in the 1960s and earned her an Oscar nomination, died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills.
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Virginia Mayo, a 1940s screen siren  who co-starred opposite such greats as Danny Kaye and James  Cagney, died near Los Angeles on Monday of pneumonia and heart  failure, the Los Angeles Times reported on its Web site. She  was 84.
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Sidney Lumet, the acclaimed American film-maker who directed 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon, is finally getting an Oscar. In almost 50 years the 80-year-old director
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Superman film star Christopher Reeve, who became a vocal advocate for spinal-cord research after a disabling horse-riding accident nine years ago, died Oct. 10 of complications from an infection caused by a bedsore, the Associated Press reported.
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Hollywood lost one of its music legends last night with the death of Elmer Bernstein, 82, an Oscar-winning composer who wrote the scores for more than 200 films over five decades, including such classics as The Magnificent ...
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LOS ANGELES  - Russ Meyer, who pioneered &quot;sexploitation&quot; films, died on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the age of 82.
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Bollywood veteran G.P. Sippy, who produced Indian cinema's biggest blockbuster "Sholay" (Flames), has died in Mumbai at the age of 93, a report said Wednesday.
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"MASH" director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with a chaotic, irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema," has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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US actor Glenn Ford, who made over 100 films, dies aged 90, at his home in Beverly Hills.
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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. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer. She died about 9 p.m. Monday, said her manager, Edgar Vincent.