Bill Hart, Theater Director, Is Dead at 70
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Mr. Hart worked closely with Sam Shepard and other downtown theater artists like Joseph Chaikin and Nicky Paraiso.
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An inability to look at dead bodies killed off Mike Nichols' hopes of training as psychiatrist 50 years ago but did nothing to diminish his fascination with marriage, mating and the games people play.
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Playbill - Robert Lantz, the Berlin-born, New York-based talent agent whose clients included such theatre and film greats as Leonard Bernstein, Lillian Hellman, Al Hirschfeld, Alfred Drake and Mike Nichols, and who retained his status as an independent until the end, died on Oct. 18 in Manhattan. He was 93.
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Playbill - Edwin C. Owens, a veteran actor whose career spanned almost 50 years, died of heart failure Sept. 16 in Fort Worth, TX, while on the road in the national tour of On Golden Pond.
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Bill Nicholson, who coached Tottenham in its glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 85. Nicholson's death at a hospital in Hertfordshire, outside London, was announced on Tottenham's Web site on behalf of his family.
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Actor Robert Earl Jones, a fixture in Broadway shows and movies and the father of actor James Earl Jones, has died.
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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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"She came to the conclusion that the more she spoke the truth, the more she was disbelieved"  Actress Pat Kirkwood, once a star of British musical theater, has died, a close family friend said Wednesday. She was 86.Kirkwood's career of more than 60 years included leading roles in musicals written by Noel Coward and Cole Porter. But Kirkwood was dogged her whole life by rumors of a romantic liaison with Prince Philip _ which she always denied _ after the two were spotted dancing at a London nightclub.Kirkwood died on Christmas Day at a nursing home in Ilkley, northern England, author and royal biographer Michael Thornton, said in a statement. She had been suffering from Alzheimer's Disease and a chest infection, he said. Read more
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Director of Bombay Dreams musical dies of lung cancer.
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LOS ANGELES  - Howard Keel, star of numerous movie musicals and TV&#39;s &quot;Dallas,&quot; died on Sunday, Nov. 7 at age 85.
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Award-winning US choreographer Michael Kidd, best known for his work on Broadway musicals, dies.
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Attorney Marvin Mitchelson, who represented Hollywood stars including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins and Sylvester Stallone, died on Saturday night, a hospital spokeswoman said on Sunday. He was 76.
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Howard Keel, the barrel-chested baritone who starred in musicals from MGM&#39;s golden age, including Annie Get Your Gun and Kiss Me, Kate, and who revived his career on TV&#39;s Dallas, died Sunday at 85.
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Costume designer Bill Belew, who created Elvis Presley's jumpsuits and the tight black leather outfit he wore on his 1968 television special, has died. He was 76.
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William Wirtz, the longtime owner of the Chicago Blackhawks notorious for driving a hard bargain, died Wednesday at age 77.
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Comedian Johnny Carson, the king of U.S. late-night television as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" for nearly 30 years -- and the last face millions of Americans saw before drifting off to sleep -- died on Sunday at age 79.
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Veteran actor and union  official Patrick Quinn died Sunday of a massive coronary in at  his summer home in Pennsylvania. He was 56.