Obituaries
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Producer, indie film champion Samuel Goldwyn Jr. dies at 88Jan 09, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Samuel Goldwyn Jr., a champion of the independent film movement and son to one of the founding fathers of Hollywood cinema, has died. He was 88. Goldw...
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Italian filmmaker Francesco Rosi dies at 92Jan 09, 2015 10:00 pm - MILAN (AP) - Italian director and screenwriter Francesco Rosi, whose films took on corruption in postwar Italy, winning top honors at the Venice and Cannes film festival...
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Actor Rod Taylor dies in Los Angeles at 84Jan 09, 2015 12:01 am - LOS ANGELES - Rod Taylor, the suave Australian actor whose brawny good looks made him a leading man for films ranging from Westerns to romantic comedies, has died. He wa...
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Actor Rod Taylor dies in Los Angeles at 84Jan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - LOS ANGELES (AP) - Rod Taylor, the suave Australian actor whose brawny good looks made him a leading man for films ranging from Westerns to romantic comedies, has died. ...
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Ben Bolton, former Vatican correspondent for AP, dies at 82Jan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - Ben Bolton, who covered the Second Vatican Council and two papacies for The Associated Press, has died, his family said Friday. He was 82. Metastatic cancer had been dis...
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Drummer, vocalist 'Popsy' Dixon of The Holmes Brothers diesJan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Willie "Popsy" Dixon, longtime drummer and vocalist for the soul and blues band The Holmes Brothers, has died in Virginia. Alligator Records said Di...
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Roy Tarpley, drug-plagued former Mavericks center, diesJan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - DALLAS (AP) - Roy Tarpley, the former Dallas Mavericks star center whose NBA career was cut short by drug abuse, died Friday. He was 50. According to a Tarrant County me...
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Ben Bolton, former Vatican correspondent for AP, dies at 82Jan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - Ben Bolton, who covered the Second Vatican Council and two papacies for The Associated Press, has died, his family said Friday. He was 82. Metastatic cancer had been dis...
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Polish ex-communist and former premier Jozef Oleksy diesJan 08, 2015 10:00 pm - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Jozef Oleksy, a communist-era party leader who in democratic Poland served as a left-wing prime minister until he was forced to resign over unprove...
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Former Cary mayor Bob Fuchs diesJan 08, 2015 12:01 am - Robert J. "Bob" Fuchs' life was one of service to others. The 85-year-old Army veteran and former Cary mayor and village trustee died Jan. 2 in Lisle. His vision and le...