Playwright Arthur Miller Dies at 89
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U.S. playwright Arthur Miller, one of  the giants of American literature, has died, his assistant said  on Friday. He was 89.
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Arts & entertainment: Controversial comedian, whose jokes saw him banned around the country, dies aged 76.
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Nagib Mahfuz, Egypt's most celebrated author and the only Arab to win the Nobel prize for literature, has died at the age of 94, several weeks after his health suddenly deteriorated.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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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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Novelist Arthur Hailey, who has died at the age of 84, was known for his bestselling page-turners exploring the inner workings of various industries, from the hotels to high finance.
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South African playwright Gibson Kente, who announced last year he was HIV positive, dies aged 72.
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Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and former special White House assistant to President Kennedy who was an influential liberal voice in American politics for decades, died Wednesday. He was 89.
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US novelist Sidney Sheldon dies aged 89 of complications from pneumonia.
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Director Robert Altman, who revolutionized Hollywood filmmaking with an irreverent style that critics hailed as "American Art Cinema" has died at age 81, his production company said on Tuesday.
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Five newly discovered short plays by  Tennessee Williams are shedding light on the troubled life of  one of America's greatest playwrights more than 20 years after  he died in a hotel room surrounded by wine bottles and pills.
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In the summer of 1956, playwright Arthur Miller married screen idol Marilyn Monroe in a Jewish ceremony, an event of high-level gossip for much of the world and of high-level curiosity for the U.S. government.
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Sidney Sheldon, who won awards in three careers, Broadway theater, movies and television, and who at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels about stalwart women who triumph in a hostile world of ruthless men, has died. He was 89.
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SYDNEY : Australian cricketing legend Keith Miller will be given a state funeral next week after passing away at the age of 84, officials said.
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A new Arthur Miller play is an event, not only for theatergoers who see it but for the actors and director who have an opportunity to create something with the man who, at age 89, is considered America's greatest living playwright.
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[Sports India, Cricket]: Melbourne, Oct 11 : Legendary Australian Test cricketer and fighter pilot Keith Ross Miller Monday died in a nursing home here.
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Author Susan Sontag, widely regarded as one of America's leading intellectuals, dies aged 71.