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Michael Cuscuna, Grammy-Winning Producer and Titan of Jazz, Dies at 75
Michael Cuscuna, the three-time Grammy winner, Mosaic Records co-founder, historian and archivist who produced hundreds of jazz reissues and studio sessions during his career, has died. He was 75. Cuscuna died Saturday of cancer at his home in Stamford, Connecticut, Grammy-winning recording artist Billy Vera, a longtime friend, announced. Cuscuna produced the 1970 album Buddy […]
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Dusty Kay, Writer and Producer on ‘Entourage’ and ‘Roseanne,’ Dies at 69
Dusty Kay, a writer and Emmy-nominated producer with credits including Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Roseanne and Entourage, has died. He was 69. Kay died April 10 in Summerlin, Nevada, after an undescribed brief illness, Bill Nuss, his friend and longtime collaborator, announced. The pair authored the book for a musical based […]
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Meg Bennett, Soap Opera Actress and Writer, Dies at 75
Meg Bennett, the Daytime Emmy winner who did double duty as an actress and writer on the daytime soap operas The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Santa Barbara, has died. She was 75. Bennett died April 11 after a battle with cancer, her family announced. Bennett portrayed Marty Maraschino for more than two […]
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Barbara O. Jones, ‘Daughters of the Dust’ Actress, Dies at 82
Barbara O. Jones, the admired actress who emerged from the L.A. Rebellion movement of Black filmmakers at UCLA in the 1970s to star in Haile Gerima’s Bush Mama and Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust, has died. She was 82. Jones died Tuesday at her home in Dayton, Ohio, her brother Raymond Minor told The […]
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Roger Dicken, VFX Artist on ‘Alien’ and ‘When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth,’ Dies at 84
Roger Dicken, the Oscar-nominated British special effects artist, sculptor and model maker known for his work on Alien and When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, has died. He was 84. Dicken died Feb. 18 at his home in North Wales, Mick Cooper, a friend of more than five decades, told The Hollywood Reporter. On his first […]
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Director John Ford Is Focus of Next TCM ‘Plot Thickens’ Podcast
John Ford, the iconic director known for such films as Stagecoach, The Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine, The Searchers and much more, will be the subject of the next edition of the TCM podcast The Plot Thickens, it was announced Wednesday. “Decoding John Ford,” hosted by Ben Mankiewicz, premieres June 6. The fifth season […]
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Dan Goozee, Renowned Walt Disney Imagineering and Movie Poster Artist, Dies at 80
Dan Goozee, the acclaimed artist who created posters for such films as Clash of the Titans, Superman IV and the James Bond movies Moonraker, Octopussy and A View to a Kill, has died. He was 80. Goozee died April 7 at West Hills Hospital & Medical Center of an age-related condition he had battled for […]
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Ron Thompson, Actor in ‘No Place to Be Somebody’ and ‘American Pop,’ Dies at 83
Ron Thompson, the unheralded actor who starred on Broadway for Charles Gordone in the Pulitzer Prize-winning No Place to Be Somebody and played father and son musicians for Ralph Bakshi in the animated cult classic American Pop, has died. He was 83. Filmmaker Joe Black told The Hollywood Reporter that he found Thompson in his […]
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Eleanor Coppola, Emmy-Winning Director of ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,’ Dies at 87
Eleanor Coppola, the matriarch of a Hollywood dynasty who won an Emmy for directing the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse and helmed her first narrative feature at age 80, died Friday. She was 87. Coppola died at her home in Rutherford, California, her family said in a statement to the Associated Press. Survivors include […]
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Robert MacNeil, Longtime PBS Anchor, Dies at 93
Robert MacNeil, the trusted son of a Canadian naval officer who spent two decades alongside Jim Lehrer delivering the nightly news to PBS viewers, has died. He was xx.
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Edgar Burcksen, Emmy-Winning ‘Young Indiana Jones’ Film Editor, Dies at 76
Edgar Burcksen, who handled visual effects for The Hunt for Red October and Die Hard 2 and won an Emmy for editing the pilot for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, has died. He was 76. Burcksen died Sunday in Los Angeles of complications from a heart attack, Innovative Artists announced. Born in Holland in 1947, […]
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Richard Leibner, Influential Agent for News Anchors, Dies at 85
Richard Leibner, the prominent talent agent who transformed the TV news business by guiding the careers of such renowned broadcast journalists as Dan Rather, Diane Sawyer, Mike Wallace, Andy Rooney and Norah O’Donnell, has died. He was 85. Leibner died Tuesday at his home in New York, UTA vice chairman Jay Sures announced. The agent […]
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