Pioneer Adult Filmmaker Russ Meyer Dies
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LOS ANGELES Sept. 22, 2004 - Russ Meyer, producer-director who helped spawn the &quot;skin flick&quot; with such films as &quot;Faster, Pussycat!
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Legendary adult film-maker Russ Meyer, director of cult hit Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, dies in Los Angeles.
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Jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed  for his classic recordings of "Begin the Beguine" and "Lady Be  Good" as well as turbulent marriages to movie stars Lana Turner  and Ava Gardner, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will  Curtis said.
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LOS ANGELES  - &quot;The Blair Witch Project&#39;s&quot; director of photography Neal Fredericks died while shooting his latest film on Saturday, Aug. 14 at the age of 35.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn.  - Pauline Gore, mother of former  Vice President Al Gore and widow of the late U.S. Sen. Albert  Gore, Sr., died at her home in Tennessee on Wednesday, a  funeral home said. She was 92.
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Roy Scheider, best known for his role as a small town police chief in the hit film thriller "Jaws" and his portrait of famed choreographer Bob Fosse in the biopic "All That Jazz," died on Sunday at age 75.
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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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Russ Meyer, the notorious maverick director of Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, Mondo Topless, Motor Psycho and Beneath The Valley Of The Ultravixens, has died at age 82 in his home in the Hollywood Hills.
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American actor, pictured with Robert Shaw in the shark terror blockbuster, has died at the age of 75
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Ossie Davis, whose rich baritone and elegant, unshakable bearing made him a giant of the stage, screen and the civil rights movement &#151; often in tandem with his wife, Ruby Dee &#151; has died. He was 87.
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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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Hilly Kristal, whose dank Bowery rock club CBGB served as the birthplace of the punk rock movement and a launching pad for bands like the Ramones, Blondie and the Talking Heads, has died. He was 75.
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Jazz clarinetist Artie Shaw, famed for his classic recordings of "Begin the Beguine" and "Lady Be Good" as well as turbulent marriages to movie stars Lana Turner and Ava Gardner, died on Thursday at age 94, his manager Will Curtis said.
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Aaron Spelling, a onetime movie bit player who created a massive number of hit series, from the vintage &quot;Charlie&#039;s Angels&quot; and &quot;Dynasty&quot; to &quot;Beverly Hills 90210&quot; and &quot;Melrose Place,&quot; died Friday, his publicist said. He was 83.
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Ernest Gallo, a pioneer and giant in the U.S. wine industry, died on Tuesday at age 97 of natural causes at his Modesto, California, home, family spokesman John Segale said.
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Composer Elmer Bernstein famed for film scores including The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Great Escape (1963) and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) has died aged 82.
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Mr. Meyer was a pioneering musicologist whose 1956 book, âEmotion and Meaning in Music,â remains one of the most significant scholarly works in the field of music cognition.