- 3/12/10 /
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Merlin Olsen Dead at 69
'Little House' actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2009.
Obits
- 3/10/10 /
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Corey Haim Dead
The 'Lost Boys' star was found dead of an apparent overdose, say the LAPD.
- 3/1/10 /
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R.I.P T-Bone Wolk
The Hall & Oates bassist has died at 58.
- 2/10/10 /
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R.I.P. Captain Phil Harris of Deadliest Catch
Harris succumbs to stroke at 53.
- 1/31/10 /
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Documentary Film Editor Karen Schmeer Is Dead at 39
She was hit by a car on the Upper West Side.
- 1/28/10 /
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Anderson: A Second Chance for J.D. Salinger
It always struck me as unfair that 'Catcher in the Rye' got ghetto-ized as a slightly embarrassing young adult novel.
- 1/28/10 /
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R.I.P. J.D. Salinger
'Catcher in the Rye'–authoring recluse J.D. Salinger is dead at 91.
- 1/27/10 /
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Remembering Louis Auchincloss, Conscience of the Elite
The author's lament was less for a vanished class than for a bygone sense of shame.
- 1/27/10 /
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R.I.P. Zelda Rubinstein, 1933–2010
The 'Poltergeist' star passed away at the age of 76.
- 1/23/10 /
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Actress Jean Simmons Dies at 80
The 'Guys and Dolls' actress succumbs to lung cancer.
- 1/19/10 /
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R.I.P. Erich Segal, 1937–2010
"Love means never having to say you're sorry."
- 1/19/10 /
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R.I.P. Robert B. Parker, 1932–2010
He was 77.
- 1/19/10 /
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R.I.P. Kate McGarrigle
The Canadian folk singer, and mother to Rufus and Martha Wainwright, has died from a rare form of cancer.
- 1/13/10 /
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R.I.P. Jay Reatard
Memphis paper 'The Commercial Appeal' reports that garage-rock libertine Jay Reatard was found dead in his home at 3:30 a.m. today.
- 1/11/10 /
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R.I.P. Éric Rohmer, 1920–2010
He rose to international fame in the fifties as a member of the French New Wave.
- 12/30/09 /
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Kaplan: Remembering David Levine, the Greatest Caricaturist of His Era
Best-known for his work at the 'New York Review of Books,' 'Time,' and 'New York' Magazine, Levine stood apart from other caricaturists.
- 12/27/09 /
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Vic Chesnutt Dead at 45
Click through his YouTube videos. You won't regret it.
- 12/20/09 /
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Famous People Weigh In on Brittany Murphy’s Death
Including those who've worked with her, those who've reviewed her, and those who've never met her.
- 12/11/09 /
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Remembering Thomas Hoving, Visionary (and Wonderfully Vulgar) Met Director
Hoving was a madman, and of a specific type: the utterly fearless, patrician vulgarian.
- 11/19/09 /
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R.I.P. Jeanne-Claude, 1935–2009
Along with her husband and artistic partner Christo, she was responsible for 2005's Central Park art installation, "The Gates."