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Terry Carter, Killed

Awful and unbelievable; the story just broke.http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/29/suge-knight-hit-and-run-terry-carter

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Rod McKuen

I guess he was a popular poet. All I knew about him is he wrote this awful song which was all over the place in the sixties.

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Miss Marple star Geraldine McEwan

It has been reported that 82 year old actress Geraldine McEwan has died following a stroke she had suffered last year.   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31077192

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R & B singer Don Covay

Don Covay, leader of Don Covay & the Goodtimers, reportedly passed away Friday (January 30) at the age of 76. Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, his family moved to Washington, DC in the '50s...

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Than Wyenn

Than Wyenn, who appeared in numerous television episodes and some movies, died on January 30, aged 95. 

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HARLENE STEIN, WIDOW OF AIP COMPOSER RONALD STEIN

I just found out Harlene Stein has died, I don't have any particulars, only that the family is holding a remembrance in Ventura at the end of the month.I worked with her closely for several years to...

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Mike Luckman, UFO Enthusiast (NOT the Forbidden Planet Gentleman)

Too many of these views, for me personally, fall into the area of crankdom.But my old friend Marcus Boas always said that his friend, Mike, was also a good guy.(Marcus, you all know from his covers...

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Robert Blees Screenwriter, Producer

Robert Blees, 94, passed away on Jan. 31st. His Hollywood career encompassed a long series of film and TV credits as both a writer and producer. He wrote the screenplay to the Rock Hudson soaper...

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PHARAOH'S CURSE star Mark Dana

I liked him as a bad guy -- he was also in some genre TV episodes.

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Lizbeth Scott

It's just appeared on IMDB that Lizbeth Scott passed away.  They had a link to Los Angeles Papers."E"

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Bobbi Kristina Brown

Bobbi Kristina Brown is reportedly brain-dead, doctors tell Bobby Brown it's time to withdraw life support.

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Star Wars actor Richard Bonehill

He played quite a few rebels, Stormtroopers/Snowtroopers, and aliens in Empire and Return of the Jedi; also a stuntman and sword...

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Stewart Stern

Sorry to read moments ago that screenwriter Stewart Stern has died at 92. He wrote REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, THE RACK, THE UGLY AMERICAN, and RACHEL, RACHEL, among others. He also adapted HEART OF...

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Joe B. Maudlin

Buddy Holly and the Crickets bassist Joe B. Mauldin died Saturday (February 7) of cancer in Nashville at the age of 74.One of the greatest and most influential rock 'n' roll bands of all time. R.I.P.

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Tim Davis: Washington DC Makeup Artist and FANEX member

Yesterday Washington DC area Makeup Artist Tim Davis of Stafford, VA passed away from congestive heart failure. Tim was 56.  Inspired by the John Chambers makeup in the 1968 film, "Planet of the Apes"...

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Legendary basketball coach Dean Smith

Dean Smith, the coaching innovator who won two national championships at North Carolina, an Olympic gold medal in 1976 and induction into basketball's Hall of Fame more than a decade before he left...

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Layne Tom Jr. - appeared in Charlie Chan movies

Child actor Layne Tom Jr. passed away on Jan. 14th in Huntington Beach, California. Films include The Good Earth (1937), Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937), The Hurricane (1937), Charlie Chan in...

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Bob Simon 60 Minutes Corespondent

Long time CBS reporter Bob Simon, best known for his work on 60 Minutes died as result of injuries sustained in a car crash in NYC tonight (2/11/15). He was 73. Best known for his work covering...

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RIP Steve Strange

More sad news from the music world:  Steve Strange from the classic New Romantic band Visage has died.  As a lad, I loved his flamboyance, and I look back on that period of New Wave with much...

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David Carr

David Carr, the New York Times columnist who was one of the country's leading media critics, died Thursday night after collapsing at the newspaper's office, The Times reported. He was 58. The Times...

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