Terry Melcher, Shaper of Calif. Surf Sound, Dies
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Terry Melcher, a producer, composer and songwriter who worked with the Beach Boys and helped shape the '60s era California surf music sound, has died, according to his publicist. He was 62.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By Nancy Luna, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Sep. 11--Orange County restaurateurs Tim and Liza Goodell have shut down  Troquet at South Coast Plaza, the third county restaurant the husband-and-wife  team have sold or closed since last year.
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Ernest Gallo, who parlayed $5,900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world's largest winemaking empire, died Tuesday at his home in Modesto. He was 97. "He passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by his family," said Susan Hensley, vice president of public relations for E.&amp;J. Gallo Winery.
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Janet Leigh, the actress best known for being hacked to death in a motel room shower in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s 1960 classic thriller &quot;Psycho,&quot; died Oct. 3 at her Beverly Hills home.
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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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BERKELEY, CA - Pete Cutino, a Cal coaching legend and one of the greatest figures in United States water polo history, died of apparent heart failure at his Monterey home yesterday afternoon.
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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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The founder of the legendary Bowery punk-rock club died on Tuesday from lung cancer. He was 75.
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Pete Cutino, who coached the University of California to eight water polo national championships, has died. He was 71.
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Terry Melcher, a record producer and songwriter who aided the careers of Ry Cooder, the Byrds and the Beach Boys, has died, his publicist announced Saturday. He was 62.
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As a child of 1970s California, Derek McGinnis felt that riding waves was like a birthright, and losing his left leg to a suicide bomber in Iraq wasn't going to stop him from surfing again.
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Dude, nothing will harsh your mellow faster than catching a few tasty waves and running into someone else's trash.  The First Coast Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation is teaming with the city's Clean it Up, Green it Up department Saturday to clean up the beaches.
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Steve Irwin, the Australian TV presenter known as the "Crocodile Hunter," has died after being stung in a marine accident off Australia's north coast.
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MIAMI -- Neal Fredericks, the cinematographer of the low-budget but successful horror film &quot;The Blair Witch Project,&quot; died in a plane crash while filming a movie over the Dry Tortugas, his agent said. He was 35.
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Renowned saxophonist Boots  Randolph died on Tuesday (July 3) after suffering a cerebral  hemorrhage June 25, according to publicist and family friend  Betty Hofer.
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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.