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ABC Photographer Dies En Route To Omaha.

Ralph Binder was driving with soundman Dan Johnson from Denver to Omaha to cover the mall shooting on Thursday when Binder was killed. - ABC said they were in a crash on Interstate 80 near Grand Island.

According to police, their vehicle swerved to avoid a car that had lost control in front of them. Binder was killed. - Johnson was treated and released from a hospital.

Binder started at ABC News in 1974. Last month, he was Charlie Gibson's cameraman during the California wildfires.
ABC desribed him as "a first-class cameraman but much more; he was a wonderful man."

He was married to Joy Wolf -- a freelance producer for ABC News. He was the father of two sons, ages 12 and 9.
 
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CBS Executive Roger M. King Dies at 63
Dec 8, 9:52 PM (ET)
By JOHN ROGERS

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Roger M. King, the CBS and King World Productions executive who helped bring stars including Oprah Winfrey, Alex Trebek and "Dr. Phil" McGraw to television, died Saturday of a stroke, a CBS spokesman said. He was 63.

King was stricken at his home in Boca Raton, Fla., on Friday and died Saturday at a hospital, CBS spokesman Chris Ender told The Associated Press.

At the time of his death King was chief executive officer of CBS Television Distribution. He joined the network in 2000 when his groundbreaking company, King World Productions, merged with CBS.

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CBS said King was responsible for the syndicated sale of reruns of several network prime-time shows, including "Everybody Loves Raymond,""CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," and reality shows including "Survivor,""The Amazing Race," and "America's Top Model."

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Quiet Riot singer died of overdose

LAS VEGAS - The death last month of Kevin Dubrow, lead singer for the 1980s heavy metal band Quiet Riot, has been ruled an accidental cocaine overdose. Clark County coroner spokeswoman Samantha Charles confirmed the cause Monday after toxicology results were received Monday.

Dubrow was found dead Nov. 25 at his Las Vegas home. He was 52.

Quiet Riot was perhaps best known for its 1983 cover of "Cum on Feel the Noize." The song, featuring Dubrow's powerful, gravelly voice, appeared on the band's album "Metal Health" — which was the first by a metal band to reach No. 1 on the Billboard chart.

DuBrow recorded a solo album in 2004, "In for the Kill," and the band's last studio CD, "Rehab," came out in October 2006.
 
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That's a shame about Kevin Dubrow. Last I'd heard he was clean. Such a waste. :(

As for Ike, there are no words. May he RIP.
 
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Singer Dan Fogelberg, 56, Dies of Cancer
Dec 16, 10:45 PM (ET)
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY

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NEW YORK (AP) - Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.

His death was announced in a statement released by his family through the firm Scoop Marketing, and it was also posted on the singer's Web site.

"Dan left us this morning at 6:00 a.m. He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at home in Maine with his wife Jean at his side," it read. "His strength, dignity and grace in the face of the daunting challenges of this disease were an inspiration to all who knew him."
 
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Oscar Peterson dies at 82
Jazz legend Oscar Peterson, widely counted among the most accomplished pianists in the world for his seemingly magical hands, reportedly died Sunday night in Mississauga.

CBC said Peterson died at his home of kidney failure, at the age of 82.

His storied 50-year career took Peterson from the jazz clubs of 1950s Montreal to the bright lights of New York's Carnegie Hall and beyond.

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I was sadden to see that Oscar Peterson had died. It's ashame when anyone dies but he over came the colour barrier to become a great in the jazz world. He will be missed :(
 
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Michael Kidd, Choreographer, Dies
Michael Kidd, the award-winning choreographer of exuberant dance numbers for Broadway shows like “Finian’s Rainbow,” “Guys and Dolls”‘ and “Can-Can” and Hollywood musicals like “The Band Wagon” and “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” died Sunday night at his home in Los Angeles.

The cause was cancer, said his nephew, Robert Greenwald. Biographical sources generally give Mr. Kidd’s age as 88, but Mr. Greenwald said his uncle was actually 92.

On Broadway, Mr. Kidd won five Tony Awards: for “Finian’s Rainbow” in 1947, “Guys and Dolls” in 1951, “Can-Can” in 1954, “Li’l Abner” in 1957 and “Destry Rides Again” in 1960.

In 1996 he received a special Academy Award “in recognition of his services to the art of dance in the art of the screen.”

Perhaps his best-known film work was in 1954 in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” a musical of the American frontier whose dances were created by Mr. Kidd for ballet dancers who were not supposed to appear balletic. Instead, he had them perform what he called “work movements,” like wielding axes.

Mr. Kidd defined his choreography as ”human behavior and people’s manners, stylized into musical rhythmic forms.”

He added, ”I always use real-life gestures, and most of my dancing is based on real life.”

Anna Kisselgoff, the former chief dance critic of The New York Times, wrote that Mr. Kidd’s signature was ”characterization through energy, epitomized by a lovesick male clan going courting with an acrobatic challenge dance” in “Seven Brides.”

Michael Kidd was born Michael Greenwald in Brooklyn, the son of an immigrant barber, Abraham Greenwald, and his wife Lillian. While still at New Utrecht High School, he attended a modern dance performance, was hooked and began to study with Blanche Evan.

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R.I.P. :(
 
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From TV Guide online:

Cable TV exec Fred Dressler, a founder of E! Entertainment and a proponent of VOD programming and PVR usage, died Dec. 24 of pancreatic cancer. He was 66.

Stu Nahan, a longtime sportscaster also known for his cameos in the Rocky movies, died Wednesday after a battle with lymphoma. He was 81.
 
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Dynamo1 said:
From TV Guide online:

Stu Nahan, a longtime sportscaster also known for his cameos in the Rocky movies, died Wednesday after a battle with lymphoma. He was 81.
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Stu was a fixture in LA sports broadcasting. I grew up watching him at KABC, KNBC and KTLA. He was also part of the Dodgers pregame show. He made sports interesting and fun, and I found an appreciation for LA's sports teams while watching his reports with my Dad. Stu will be missed.
 
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Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Dies at 84
Jan 10, 2:52 AM (ET)
By JEFF WILSON

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Johnny Grant, the avuncular honorary mayor of Hollywood who traveled the world as Tinseltown's No. 1 cheerleader for more than a half-century, has died. He was 84.

Grant died just before 7 p.m. Wednesday, apparently of natural causes, said Officer Jason Lee. Grant was found dead on a bed in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Lee said.

Grant was perhaps best known as the jolly host alongside more than 500 celebrities he inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
 
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