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James Avery, best known for playing "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" patriarch and Will Smith uncle, Philip Banks, has died at the age of 65. Reports indicate that the actor passed away at a Los Angeles hospital on the night of New Year's Eve (Dec. 31).

The first confirmation of the news came from Avery's "Fresh Prince" co-star, Alfonso Ribeiro, who posted a sad tweet on the morning of Jan. 1.

RIP Shredder.

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Uncle Phil, the original Shredder... damn, man, what a loss. R.I.P. James Avery.

...Oh, WHO WILL THROW JAZZ OUT THE FRONT DOOR NOW?!

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This is hitting me hard.

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I'm so sad.....

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Juanita Moore, who broke barriers for African-American actors and was Oscar-nommed for 1959′s “Imitation of Life,” died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. Her grandson, actor Kirk Kahn, said she was 99.

Moore received a supporting actress nomination for Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life,” playing the housekeeper whose daughter passes for white, in the racially themed film that was based on the Fannie Hurst novel. She was the fifth African-American to be Oscar-nommed.

Kahn said she was still running lines with him recently, and had planned to participate in a reading at the Saban Theater in a few weeks. “She didn’t candy-coat it for you,” he said. “She said, ‘If you’re no good, the play’s no good.’”

“She gave back to the community in so many ways,” he said. “Wherever we went she stopped and told black boys and girls they could do anything with their lives.”

Moore, who was a founding member of the Cambridge Players along with thesps such as Esther Rolle, was honored at the Black Theater Festival in North Carolina, her grandson said.

Born in Los Angeles, Moore was a chorus girl at the Cotton Club who started out as a film extra, then worked in theater at the Ebony Showcase Theater. She made her film debut in 1949′s “Pinky,” and often played a maid in 1950s films such as “The Girl Can’t Help It.” In the 1960s and ’70s, she played a nun in “The Singing Nun” and appeared in films including “Uptight,” “The Mack” and “Abby.” Though she didn’t work often through the 1980s, she began appearing onscreen again in later years on TV shows such as “E.R.” and “Judging Amy” and in films such as Disney’s “The Kid.”

In addition to her grandson, she is survived by two nephews.

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d@mn................ R.I.P. Uncle Philip

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This is hitting me hard.

I'm so sad.....

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You just made it worse.......

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James Avery, best known for playing "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" patriarch and Will Smith uncle, Philip Banks, has died at the age of 65. Reports indicate that the actor passed away at a Los Angeles hospital on the night of New Year's Eve (Dec. 31).

The first confirmation of the news came from Avery's "Fresh Prince" co-star, Alfonso Ribeiro, who posted a sad tweet on the morning of Jan. 1.

RIP Shredder.

I knew he was Shredder and War Machine, but I just learned that his voice also brought the JYD to life in animation:

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One of Hollywood's great movie producers has died. The winner of three Best Picture Oscars and the Academy's coveted Irving Thalberg Award, Saul Zaentz fought for quality and boasted extraordinary taste which he never compromised. His son Paul Zaentz wrote in an email that his father, who was 92, died Friday. He lived in the Bay Area most of his life.

Zaentz, born of immigrant Jewish parents in Passaic, New Jersey, defined the creative producer. He painstakingly developed material for years, was willing to mortgage his Zaentz Film Center for financing if need be, and saw every movie through to completion and release. His first film, Darryl Duke's "Payday" (1972), was a gritty indie starring Rip Torn as a tough country singer. Next the producer backed "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the surprise United Artists drama that took home five Oscars in 1976 including Best Picture, Best Director (Milos Forman) and Best Actor (Jack Nicholson). Originally acquired for the screen by Kirk Douglas, his son Michael Douglas brought in Zaentz, who nurtured and willed it into existence.

Starting out in the record business, and eventually founding Fantasy Records, Zaentz defined the independent producer, based outside the Hollywood mainstream in Berkeley. Unusually enough he believed in making high quality films, mostly literary adaptations. An astute businessman, he banked on making them successful.

Forman's thrilling 1984 film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's hit play "Amadeus" was another unlikely global success, starring Thomas Hultz as Mozart and F. Murray Abraham as Salieri, winning another round of eight Oscars. He also backed Bay Area filmmaker Philip Kaufman's and Jean-Claude Carriere's 1988 adaptation of Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Juliette Binoche, which earned two Oscar nominations.

Long fascinated with the theme of the clash between civilized man and the primitive, Zaentz hired Carriere to adapt Peter Matthiessen's 1965 thriller "At Play in the Fields of the Lord," about missionaries and their wives tangling with tribal headhunters in the Amazon, which was shot by Hector Babenco on location, followed by Peter Weir's film version of Paul Theroux's 1986 "The Mosquito Coast," starring Harrison Ford in perhaps his finest performance, which ultimately lost money. Although Zaentz long wanted to produce South African novelist J.M. Coetzee's 1980 novel "Waiting for the Barbarians," he was never able to raise the financing.

Zaentz was willing to go to court to redress any wrongs, memorably tangling with Credence Clearwater lead singer John Fogerty over his "defamatory" lyric "Zanz Can't Dance, but he'll steal your money," as well as distributor Harvey Weinstein, who released Anthony Minghella's 1996 adaptation of Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient," which earned Zaentz his third Best Picture Oscar.

The producer's last film, released worldwide in 2006, was period fiction "Goya's Ghosts," directed by Forman and starring Javier Bardem, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgard.

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Tracey Ullman's husband Allan McKeown died Tuesday, Dec. 24 at age 67, Variety reported Thursday, Dec. 26.

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If it was not for Jerome Fine, we may never have had Superman.

Family members said this morning that Fine, 97, of Cleveland Heights, died Dec. 25.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/ju...99-1201018950/

Juanita Moore, who broke barriers for African-American actors and was Oscar-nommed for 1959′s “Imitation of Life,” died Wednesday at her home in Los Angeles. Her grandson, actor Kirk Kahn, said she was 99.

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One of Hollywood's great movie producers has died. The winner of three Best Picture Oscars and the Academy's coveted Irving Thalberg Award, Saul Zaentz fought for quality and boasted extraordinary taste which he never compromised. His son Paul Zaentz wrote in an email that his father, who was 92, died Friday. He lived in the Bay Area most of his life.

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Al Goldstein, a Publisher Who Took the Romance Out of Sex, Dies at 77

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US musician Phil Everly dies aged

Phil (left) and Don's hits included Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Suzie and All I Have To Do Is Dream
US musician Phil Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers, has died, aged 74, in California, his family says.

Everly died in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank of complications from lung disease, his wife, Patti, told the Los Angeles Times.

"We are absolutely heartbroken," she said, adding that the disease was the result of a lifetime of smoking.

Phil Everly and his brother Don made up the Everly Brothers, one of the biggest pop acts of the 1950s and early 1960s.

They had a string of close-harmony hits including Wake Up Little Suzie, Cathy's Clown, Bye Bye Love, and All I Have To Do Is Dream.

"It's a terrible, terrible loss - for me, for everybody," US rock pioneer Duane Eddy, a friend of Everly, told BBC Radio 5live. ...

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One of the oldest surviving cast members of “Gone with the Wind” has died in South Carolina. She was 98.

Alicia Rhett played India Wilkes in the 1939 film starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable.

Kimberly Farfone Borts is spokeswoman for the Bishop Gadsden Episcopal Retirement Community in Charleston, S.C. She told the Associated Press that Rhett died about 5 p.m. Friday at Gadsden, where she had lived since August 2002.

In the movie, India Wilkes is a sister of Ashley Wilkes, with whom Scarlett O’Hara is deeply in love before Ashley marries his cousin and Scarlett becomes involved with Rhett Butler.

The news release says Alicia Rhett was born Feb. 1, 1915, in Savannah, Ga.

Farfone said Rhett also was a portrait painter who sketched her fellow actors on the set.