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TV director, DGA president Jack Shea dies at 84
Jack Shea, who directed "The Jeffersons" and other TV hits and was a three-time president of the Directors Guild of America, has died at age 84. He died Sunday in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer's disease. During a four-decade career, Shea directed hundreds of episodes for shows such as ...
Grammy-winning cellist Janos Starker dead at 88
Grammy Award-winning cellist Janos Starker has died after months of declining health. He was 88. Alain Barker, a spokesman for the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, said Starker died Sunday at his Bloomington home in the presence of family members. Barker said a family representative confirmed the death. ...
Colorado music promoter Barry Fey dies at 73
Music promoter Barry Fey, who brought some of the biggest names in the business to Colorado, including the Doors, the Rolling Stones and U2, has died. He was 73. The Arapahoe County coroner's office says he died Sunday at his Cherry Hills Village home. An autopsy was planned Monday to ...
Opry to hold public funeral for George Jones
A public funeral will be held at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville for country music superstar George Jones, who died Friday at the age of 81. Publicist Kirt Webster said in a statement that the public funeral will be held Thursday starting at 10 a.m. Webster says Jones ...
Ex-Ms. magazine editor Mary Thom dies in NY crash
Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was killed, her nephew said Saturday. She was 68. Thom had a passion for riding motorcycles and died riding her 1996 Honda Magna 750 on ...
Country superstar George Jones dead at 81
When it comes to country music, George Jones was The Voice. Other great singers have come and gone, but this fact remained inviolate until Jones passed away Friday at 81 in a Nashville hospital after a year of ill health. "Today someone else has become the greatest living singer of ...
Jones called 'greatest country singer of all time'
The country music world reacted with deep emotion upon learning of the death of legendary singer George Jones. Here's a sampling of quotes and tweets about Jones: "The world has lost the greatest country singer of all time. Amen." — Merle Haggard ___ "He was a true innovator. Nobody could ...
'M.A.S.H.' regular Allan Arbus dies at 95
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 ...
Havens, 1st Woodstock singer, dies of heart attack
Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday at age 72. Havens died of a heart attack in New Jersey, his family said in a statement. He was born in Brooklyn. Havens was known for his crafty guitar work and cover songs, ...
Divinyls lead singer Chrissy Amphett dead at 53
Chrissy Amphlett, the raunchy lead singer of the Australian rock band Divinyls whose hit "I Touch Myself" brought her international fame in the early 1990s, died at her home in New York City on Sunday. She was 53 years old. "Christine Joy Amphlett succumbed to the effects of breast cancer ...
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