Russ Meyer, skin-flick auteur, dies aged 82
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Russ Meyer, the self-styled &quot;king of the nudies&quot;, has died at his home in the Hollywood hills. He was 82 and had been suffering from dementia and complications following pneumonia.
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The Malayalam veteran actor passes away at 71.
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Howard Keel, the broad-shouldered baritone who romanced his way through a series of glittery MGM musicals such as "Kiss Me Kate" and "Annie Get Your Gun" and later revived his career with television's "Dallas," died Sunday. He was 85.
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Herman Brix, 100, an Olympic shot-put medalist who became a screen Tarzan in the mid-1930s and went on to act in more than 100 other films under the name Bruce Bennett, died Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He had complications from a broken hip.
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Freddie Fields, who  reigned as the personification of the free-wheeling,  high-living Hollywood agent from the 1960s through the '70s,  has died. He was 84.
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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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American jazz singer Anita O'Day, a star of the Big Band era, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 87.
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Laszlo Kovacs, one of  Hollywood&#39;s most influential and respected directors of  photography, died Saturday night in his sleep. He was 74.
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Rodney Dangerfield, the acid-tongued put-down comic whose chief comedic target was always himself, died Tuesday at the age of 82, according to Reuters.
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Russ Meyer, a master of sexploitation filmmaking who was called &quot;king of the nudies&quot; or &quot;King Leer&quot; for such soft-core pornography classics as &quot;Faster Pussycat, Kill!
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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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. (antiTainment) Screen legend Janet Leigh died Sunday at the age of 77. Leigh will always be remembered for the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock&#39;s &quot;Psycho&quot;.
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Pioneer soft porn filmmaker Russ Meyer, whose âskin flicksâ gained a cult following, has died at his home in the Hollywood Hills, aged 82.
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The American comedian Rodney Dangerfield, who parlayed his self-deprecating humour and trademark catchphrase &quot;I don&#39;t get no respect&quot; into a movie career, has died aged 82.
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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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Jerry Orbach, the Tony Award-winning star of Promises, Promises and other musicals, has died at the age of 69, according to a radio report citing his manager, Robert Malcolm.
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Actress Janet Leigh, best known for her role in classic thriller Psycho, dies at the age of 77.