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    Iconic British Singer and TV Star Cilla Black Dies at 72She played with the Beatles and was the highest-paid woman on TV.
    By Greg Cwik
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    Godfather Actor Alex Rocco Dead at 79Rocco is best known for portraying Moe Greene in Francis Ford Coppola’s classic film.
    By Greg Cwik
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    Nintendo President Satoru Iwata, 55, Passes AwayHe had been at the company since 1983.
    By Greg Cwik
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    That Face, Those Eyes: Omar Sharif’s Journey to International SuperstardomThe legendary actor had an ineffable presence, more so than any other actor of his generation.
    By Bilge Ebiri
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    Cheers Actor Roger Rees Dead at 71The actor was best known for his roles on Cheers, The West Wing, and in Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
    By Greg Cwik
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    Farewell to the Last Honorable Man in WesterosSadness may pierce us like shards of dragonglass.
    By Jada Yuan
  7. Ornette Coleman’s Uncompromising GeniusA tribute to the brilliant jazz musician, dead today at 85. 
    By Glenn Kenny
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    The Cynthia Lennon I KnewA story with a twist.
    By Steven Gaines
  9. Direction and Misdirection: An Appreciation of Mike Nichols, 1931–2014“Two countries, three names, four wives, innumerable lives.”
    By Jesse Green
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    Frank Rich Remembers Mike NicholsLooking back on a career like few others.
    By Frank Rich
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    The Lady in Room 309: Elaine Stritch, 1925–2014Vulnerability that comes from growing up in the sticks.
    By Jesse Green
  12. The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Artist: On Kawara, 1933–2014In memoriam.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    All Hail: Sid Caesar, 1922–2014Even in fragments, his greatness comes through.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    Jerry Saltz on Richard Artschwager, 1923-2013“An artist … preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd.”
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Jerry Saltz on the End of Artnet.com’s Magazine“In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn’t exist online, it didn’t exist at all.”
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Jerry Saltz: Why I Liked (and Even Respected) LeRoy NeimanThe art world ignored him. But he did what artists do: made something all his own.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    The Last Days of Disco: Abebe Remembers Donna Summer and Robin GibbDigging through the discographies of these two artists feels like a good corrective to the way disco’s been memorialized.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    Artist Lucian Freud Dead at 88He died last night.
    By Willa Paskin
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    Jerry Saltz on John McCracken, 1934–2011The minimalist sculptor was “a great space cowboy.”
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Nate Dogg Dies at 41Cause of death was unspecified.
    By Amos Barshad
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    Remembering Trish Keenan, the Extraordinary Singer for BroadcastSome of us will miss her a great deal, and be glad for what music we have.
    By Nitsuh Abebe
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    The Dazzler: Sigmar Polke, 1941–2010A daring visionary lord of the alchemical phantasmagoria of painting died this morning at 69.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Remembering Louis Auchincloss, Conscience of the EliteThe author’s lament was less for a vanished class than for a bygone sense of shame.
    By Boris Kachka
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    Remembering Thomas Hoving, Visionary (and Wonderfully Vulgar) Met DirectorHoving was a madman, and of a specific type: the utterly fearless, patrician vulgarian.
    By Christopher Bonanos
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    John Hughes Dead at 59TMZ is reporting that John Hughes died of a heart attack this morning in New York.
    By Lane Brown
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    Merce Cunningham Dead at 90He died in his home last night of natural causes.
    By Lane Brown
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    E. Lynn Harris Dead at 54The author whose protagonists were most often gay black men indulging their sexuality in secret died last night, according to his publicist.
    By Lane Brown
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    Frank McCourt Dead at 78Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer-winning author of Angela’s Ashes, died this afternoon in a New York hospice facility.
    By Lane Brown
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    Artist Dash Snow Dead From Drug OverdoseMultiple sources tell Gawker that hard-living, cop-dodging artist, photographer, and graffiti writer Dash Snow has died from a heroin overdose at 27.
    By Lane Brown
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    Bea Arthur Dies at 86Arthur passed away on Saturday after a battle with cancer.
    By Lane Brown
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    Anderson: John Updike, EssayistHe was one of the greatest belletrists of all time — a master of the short, casual, elegant, whimsical, roving piece about absolutely anything.
    By Sam Anderson
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    John Updike Dead at 76According to a statement from his publisher, John Updike died of lung cancer this morning.
    By Lane Brown
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    Frogurt, We Hardly Knew YaAaron Burr! Aaron Burr!
    By Mark Graham
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    Saltz: Andrew Wyeth, a Particular Kind of AmericanWyeth was as intellectually independent as he was stylistically conservative.
    By Jerry Saltz
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    Andrew Wyeth, R.I.P.He passed away this morning at the age of 91.
    By Mark Graham
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    The Last Laugh of the LaughterJoan Rivers will perform on the Cutting Room’s final evening.
    By Mark Graham
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    Edelstein Remembers LeonardOver at his blog, the Projectionist, David Edelstein has posted an appreciation.
    By Lane Brown
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    ‘New York’ Magazine TV Critic, John Leonard, Dies’New York’ magazine’s longtime TV critic, John Leonard, passed away last night at age 69.
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    Michael Crichton Dies at 66Crichton unexpectedly died in Los Angeles yesterday after a ‘courageous and private battle against cancer,’ according to a family spokesperson.
    By Lane Brown
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    Paul Newman Dead at 83The actor’s modesty — and charity — were legendary.
    By Jessica Coen
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    Sam Anderson Remembers David Foster WallaceLots of public figures organize their work around the demons that eventually take them down, but few of them ever do so with the apparent wisdom and self-awareness Wallace did.
    By Sam Anderson
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    David Foster Wallace Dies at 46The ‘Infinite Jest’ author took his own life over the weekend.
    By Lane Brown
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    ‘Peanuts’ Animator Bill Melendez Dies at 91The man who brought life to ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ worked for nearly seven decades as a professional animator.
    By Jessica Coen
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    Voice Actor Don LaFontaine Dies at 68The man responsible for narrating 5,000 movie trailers died yesterday from complications related to a collapsed lung.
    By Lane Brown
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    Russian Novelist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89The writer opened Western eyes to Communist oppression — and, in turn, got his own character on ‘Seinfeld.’ A life well lived, indeed.
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    Estelle Getty Dies at 84, But Sophia Is ImmortalThere’s just something about ‘Golden Girls’ — and Getty in particular — that gets a girl all worked up.
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    Unsung Science Fiction Master Thomas Disch Dies at 68The author committed suicide in his Union Square West apartment.
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    George Carlin Dies at 71What was the real story of Carlin’s infamous 1972 arrest in Milwaukee?
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    Bo Diddley Dies at 79Rock-and-roll pioneer Bo Diddley died this morning of heart failure at his home in Archer, Florida.
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    Sydney Pollack Dies at 73Remembering a director, sometime actor, and prolific producer with excellent taste.
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