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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...as-102-1182735-C.Y-Lee, whose novel The Flower Drum Song became a best seller and the basis for a popular stage musical and Oscar-nominated film despite mixed critical reactions and concerns about stereotypes, has died at age 102.
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http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/2...er-dies-833:23
Frank Robinson, the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball and the only player to win MVP in both leagues, has died at age 83, MLB said Thursday.
An outfielder and first baseman, Robinson was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1982 in his first year of eligibility.Comment
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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/ne...es/2789108002/ Michigan Democrat John Dingell, the longest-serving member ever of Congress who helped write most of the nation's major environmental and energy laws, died Thursday, his wife said. He was 92.
The Dearborn statesman was a champion of the auto industry and was credited with increasing access to health care, among other accomplishments. Dingell helped write most of America's major environmental and energy laws.Comment
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/837870...ead-stroke-94/
Writer of romance novels Rosamunde Pilcher passed away this week. While she was a big deal in Germany thanks to a metric ton of tv movies based on her work, I absolutely wasn't her target audience. Nevertheless, even I am impressed by a bibliography of over 110 novels that she wrote in her lifetime, which had combined sales of over 60 million copies.Comment
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That guy has been around forever.
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^Always liked Finney. His Scrooge is a regular holiday watch for my family and I thought he was great as an aged John Newton in Amazing Grace.
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Ron Miller, RIP. His importance to Disney has been much underrated. He led the company through the difficult period following the death of Walt's brother Roy O. Disney in 1971.
Miller and Walt's daughter Diane were forced out of the company in 1984 by Roy O.'s son, Roy E. Disney, who brought in Michael Eisner and Frank Wells to run it. Wells was killed in a helicopter crash, and in one of Roy E.'s last major acts with the company, he forced Eisner out in 2005.
This uncaptioned photo show Miller with Roy E.
https://deadline.com/2019/02/ron-mil...eo-1202553818/Comment
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BTW, Ron and Diane received a big financial settlement when they were forced out, so they were never hurting for money.Comment
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https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...ar-critic-dies. Rep Walter Jones, R-N.C., an initial Iraq War supporter who became one of its most outspoken critics and who went on to decry U.S. military intervention abroad, died Sunday, his 76th birthday, following a series of health complications.Comment
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Very few of the politicians and others who adamantly pushed us into the asinine invasion of Iraq have admitted they were wrong and apologized for it. Jones deserves respect for doing so.Originally posted by Mister.Weirdo View PostComment
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https://theviolinchannel.com/russian...hood-obituary/ Russian composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov has passed away – aged 82.
A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, he composed a number of notable symphonies, symphonic poems and film scores – including the music to War and Peace and Ivan’s Childhood.Comment
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Pedro Morales passed away at 76.Comment
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Yo.
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/saluteNASA rover finally bites the dust on Mars after 15 years
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/o...uche-dead.html-Lyndon LaRouche, the quixotic, apocalyptic leader of a cultlike political organization who ran for president eight times, once from a prison cell, died on Tuesday. He was 96.
His death was announced on the website of his organization, La Rouche/Pac. The statement did not specify a cause or say where he died.Comment
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