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Oscar-Winning Director of ‘Searching for Sugar Man’ Found Dead

Malik Bendjelloulhttp://variety.com/2014/film/news/oscar-winning-director-of-searching-for-sugar-man-found-dead-1201179913/

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The Beer Hunter Michael Jackson

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/03/world/europe/03jackson.html?_r=0

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Virginia Belmont

She must be one of the last of the Republic serial leading ladies (DANGERS OF THE CANADIAN MOUNTED). Also a lot of B-Westerns -- and then a bunch of Italian-made movies.

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Garou aka Magoo Gelehrter, 51

Very sad news.  Magoo Gelehrter, the husband of New England horror host Penny Dreadful, has lost his courageous fight against cancer and has passed away.For those who don't know him by that name,...

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Jerry Vale

50s pop crooner dead at 83. After listening to some of his stuff on YouTube, I don`t ever remember listening to him when I was a kid. Not my cup of tea.

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Gordon Willis

The great cinematographer, dead at 82.THE GODFATHER, GODFATHER II, ANNIE HALL, MANHATTAN, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, THE PARALLAX VIEW, STARDUST MEMORIES, BROADWAY DANNY ROSE, KLUTE, ZELIG, PENNIES FROM...

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Barbara Knudson

A TV actress of the 1950s (also lots of small movie parts) and, on stage, Lon Chaney Jr.'s leading lady in BORN YESTERDAY circa 1949 or '50. Talking to me about the latter, she made him sound very...

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Radu Florescu (In Search Of Dracula)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/19/radu-florescu-dead-romanian-historian_n_5355290.html The books "In Search Of Dracula" and In Search Of Frankenstein" were indispensable in my upbringing. I was...

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REVENGE OF THE CREATURE supporting player

Okay, I can't be certain she was in REVENGE OF THE CREATURE. But she was there at Marineland at the time and they shot a scene in her home, so I bet she...

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Matthew Cowles

Film & TV actor. Best known for soap opera roles. TV included CRAWLSPACE TV movie, LIFE ON MARS series, OZ series. Films included THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, THE HAPPY H@@KER, SLAP SHOT, THE COWBOY WAY,...

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Don Levine, G.I. JOE creator

You know the doll action figure, but you may never have heard of the man who created it. Alas, my mother wouldn't let us play with them, but a lot of children who did (and grew up to be perfectly...

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Bunny Yeager

Pin-up photographer (and sometime pin-up herself!) Bunny Yeager - noted for her association with Bettie Page, has died at the age of...

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Tony Palladino

Tony Palladino, the graphic designer who created the Psycho logo/typeface, has died at the age of...

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Herb Jeffries

Actor and jazz tenor who is best known to B-movie fans as the first black Western hero, starring in a popular series of films that played to segregated theaters in the 30s and 40. Passed away at the...

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The world lost Maya Angelou today.

1928–2014http://www.vogue.com/culture/article/maya-angelou-in-memoriam/?mbid=social_tumblr#1

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Oscar Dystel

Everyone who loves books should mourn the publisher's loss at the age of 101; as chair of Bantam Books, he not only saved the company from bankruptcy but helped make the mass-market paperback...

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Karlheinz Boehm

Karlheinz Boehm has died at the age of 86.http://bigstory.ap.org/article/austrian-actor-aid-leader-karlheinz-boehm-diesI saw "Peeping Tom" in a macheted version on television when I was about 17; I...

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Joan Lorring

CORN IS GREEN, THREE STRANGERS, THE VERDICT, etc., etc. -- and she lived right here in Sleepy Hollow NY with me, it turns out. Who knew??...

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Ann B Davis

Alice on THE BRADY BUNCH & all the shows & TV movies that followed. Also regular on THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW (LOVE THAT BOB), & THE JOHN FORSYTHE SHOW.

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Jay Lake

Sf writer Jay Lake passed away on June 1, five days short of his 50th birthday.

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