Lusty genre filmmaker Russ Meyer dies at 82
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Russ Meyer, whose 1960s fantasy films about the antics of giant-breasted, often assertive women were among the first &quot;nudies&quot; to have a story line but who later flirted with respectability when his style of filmmaking became influential in the mainstream
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Ossie Davis, an actor distinguished for roles dealing with racial injustice on stage, screen and in real life &#151; and perhaps best known as the husband and partner of actress Ruby Dee &#151; has died at the age of 87.
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LOS ANGELES  - Elmer Bernstein, whose  eclectic film music ranged from the rousing theme of "The  Magnificent Seven" to the lighthearted score for "Thoroughly  Modern Millie," for which he won an Oscar, died Wednesday at  his home in Ojai, Calif. He was 82.
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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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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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Actress Janet Leigh, whose dozens  of starring roles were eclipsed by a single movie moment -- the  shower stabbing scene in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho," has died  at the age of 77, a family spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Russ Meyer, with his movie star slicked hair and pencil thin moustache, made the movies he wanted to see, the way he wanted to make them -- and as it turned out, many others wanted to see them too.
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Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind "M-A-S-H," "Nashville" and "The Player" who made a career out of bucking Hollywood, has died at 81. The director died Monday night at a Los Angeles Hospital, Joshua Astrachan, a producer at Altman's Sandcastle 5 Productions in New York City, told The Associated Press.
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E&#39; morto sabato scorso nella sua casa di Hollywood all&#39;etÃ  di 82 anni Russ Meyer, ribattezzato &quot;il re delle maggiorate in topless&#39;. Il regista era considerato il mito del cinema erotico &#39;soft core&#39;. La notizia
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Aaron Russo, who managed Bette Midler and went on to produce such films as "Trading Places," has died. He was 64.
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Writer and filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet, an "enfant terrible" of France's literary establishment who helped found the New Novel school in the 1950s, died on Monday aged 85, his publishers said.
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Sidney Sheldon, an Oscar-winning Hollywood screenwriter who went on to become one of the world's most prolific novelists, died in California on Tuesday at the age of 89, a publicist said.
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Polish actor Leon Niemczyk, who starred in Roman Polanski's "Knife in the Water" and hundreds of other films, has died at the age of 82.
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Some movies are big busts, some movies are about big busts. Filmmaker Russ Meyer was all about the ``about.&#39;&#39;. ``I love big-breasted women with wasp waists,&#39;&#39; he said in a 1999
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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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Actor Ossie Davis, whose career included credits as a producer, director, actor and writer, dies aged 87.
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Actress Janet Leigh, best known for the shower scene in classic thriller Psycho, dies at the age of 77.