Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented …
Remembrance
Dr. Joyce Brothers, TV’s Beautiful Mind, Dies at 85
The academic turned quiz-show boxing expert made a case for Americans to understand their own minds, one advice show and sitcom at a time.
Steven Spielberg, Others Pay Tribute to Ray Harryhausen
The special-effects pioneer influenced generations of filmmakers
Ray Harryhausen, Special-Effects Pioneer, Dead at 92
The genius who brought an army of skeletons to life in ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ influenced filmmakers like James Cameron and Peter Jackson
Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dies at 49
(LOS ANGELES) — Jeff Hanneman, a founding member of Slayer whose career was irrevocably changed after a spider bite, has died. He was 49.
Chris Kelly, of Rap Duo Kris Kross, Dies in Ga.
(ATLANTA) — Chris Kelly, half of the 1990s kid rap duo Kris Kross who made one of the decade’s most memorable songs with the frenetic “Jump,” has died, according to authorities. He was 34.
Investigator Betty Honey of the
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George Jones, Country Legend, Dead at 81
The country-music legend had more than 160 hits in a career that spanned five decades
‘M.A.S.H.’ Regular Allan Arbus Dies at 95
(LOS ANGELES) — Allan Arbus, who played the wise — and wisecracking — psychiatrist Dr. Sidney Freedman on TV’s “M.A.S.H.,” has died at age 95.
Arbus’ daughter Arin told the Los Angeles Times Tuesday (http://lat.ms/Y2FDo3 ) that her father died of congestive heart failure at his LA home Friday.
Arbus didn’t begin acting until …
Woodstock Singer Havens, 72, Dies of Heart Attack
Richie Havens, who sang and strummed for a sea of people at Woodstock, has died at 72.
Award-Winning Children’s Author Konigsburg Dies
(FALLS CHURCH, Va.) — E.L. Konigsburg, an author who twice won one of the top honors for children’s literature, has died. She was 83.
Her son Paul Konigsburg says the longtime Florida resident died Friday at a hospital in Falls Church, Va., where she’d been living for the past few years with another son. She had suffered a stroke
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Remembering Jonathan Winters (1925–2013)
The late comedian had a gift for slipping into different characters
RIP Jonathan Winters, 1925–2013
Winters was a certified shape-shifter; he helped establish the idea, now common to comedy fans, that being a humorist was not just about telling jokes but inhabiting characters.
A Tribute to Screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013)
Oscar-nominated director James Ivory share his memories of a friend and longtime collaborator
