Jim Flick dies of cancer at 82
Jim Flick, a golf instructor for more than 50 years whose clients included Tom Lehman and Jack Nicklaus upon joining the Champions Tour, died Monday of pancreatic cancer, his family said. He was 82.
View ArticleComposer, Pulitzer winner Carter dies in NY at 103
Classical composer Elliott Carter, whose challenging, rhythmically complex works earned him widespread admiration and two Pulitzer Prizes, died Monday at age 103.
View ArticleTeri Shields, Brooke's mom and manager, dead at 79
Teri Shields raised eyebrows when she allowed her 11-year-old daughter, Brooke, to be cast as a prostitute in 1978's "Pretty Baby." A few years later, she permitted a teenage Brooke Shields to famously...
View ArticleFormer Texas coach Royal dies at age 88
A son of Depression-era Oklahoma, Darrell Royal came to Texas to take over a sleeping giant of a football program. Over 20 years, his folksy approach to sports and life, his inventive wishbone offense...
View ArticleMochi ice cream producer Frances Hashimoto dies
Frances Hashimoto, a Little Tokyo business and civic leader whose Los Angeles company popularized the Japanese-style treat known as mochi ice cream, has died. She was 69.
View ArticleMississippi author Ellen Douglas dies at 91
Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi native whose novel "Apostles of Light" was a 1973 National Book Award nominee, died Wednesday in Jackson. She was 91.
View ArticleLegendary Texas coach Darrell Royal dies at 88
Darrell K Royal, who coached the Longhorns to three national titles and became the biggest college football icon in a state that worships the sport, died early Wednesday morning at age 88.
View ArticleFrank J. Prial, 82, guide to generations of wine-lovers
Frank J. Prial, whose Wine Talk column in The New York Times introduced many Americans to the world of wine in the 1970s, when a new passion for fine food and drink was taking hold in the country, died...
View ArticleTeri Shields, 79, controversial stage mother of actress Brooke Shields
Teri Shields, who began promoting and managing the career of her daughter, actress Brooke Shields, when she was an infant and later earned criticism for allowing her to be cast as a preteen prostitute...
View Article'Coronation Street' actor Bill Tarmey dies at 71
Actor Bill Tarmey, who for 30 years played loveable rogue Jack Duckworth on the British soap opera "Coronation Street," died Friday at the age of 71, the show's producers said.
View ArticleEx-US Rep. Joseph Early Sr. of Mass. dies at 79
Massachusetts congressman Joseph Early Sr. wasn't known as the most vocal of U.S. representatives during nearly two decades in Washington.
View ArticleLee MacPhail, oldest Hall of Famer, dies at 95
Lee MacPhail, the longtime baseball executive who ruled in the celebrated Pine Tar case and later became part of the only father-son Hall of Fame pairing, has died. He was 95.
View Article'Philly sound' R&B singer Major Harris dies at 65
Major Harris, a former member of the "Philadelphia sound" soul group the Delfonics and singer of the 1975 hit "Love Won't Let Me Wait," has died in Richmond. He was 65.
View ArticleOriginal member of the Tuskegee Airmen dies at 95
Retired Lt. Col. Herbert Eugene Carter, one of the original Tuskegee Airmen who broke color barriers in World War II, has died.
View ArticleDanny’s story: a proud Marine to the end
On Veteran’s Day this Sunday, Patricia Kenner will bury her son, U.S. Marine Sgt. Kenneth Daniel Reich Jr., a beloved member of a Homestead family that has served in the military for three...
View ArticleRobert Schechter, third generation Floridian and member of longtime...
Roy Robert “Rob” Schechter Jr., a Miami realtor and member of an established philanthropic South Florida family, died last week of a rare form of thyroid cancer. He was 60.
View ArticleT.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86
Valerie Eliot, the widow of T.S. Eliot and zealous guardian of the poet's literary legacy for almost half a century, has died. She was 86.
View Article'Love Boat' producer Henry Colman dies at 89
Television producer and executive Henry Colman - whose credits include "The Love Boat," "Hawaii Five-O" and "Green Acres" - has died at age 89.
View ArticlePeter Gettinger, film financier and producer, dies
Peter Gettinger, who helped finance some of the most successful movies of the 20th Century, including “Around the World in 80 Days’’ and the 1962 version of...
View ArticleEllen Douglas, novelist of southern life, dies at 91
Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi-born writer whose novels explored the uneasy, sometimes surprisingly tender alliances between black and white women in the American South, died Wednesday at her home in...
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