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Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter dies at 78
Dec 25, 9:32 AM (ET)

LONDON (AP) - Harold Pinter, praised as the most influential British playwright of his generation and a longtime voice of political protest, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 78.

Pinter, whose distinctive contribution to the stage was recognized with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005, died on Wednesday, according to his second wife, Lady Antonia Fraser.

Pinter wrote 32 plays; one novel, "The Dwarfs," in 1990; and put his hand to 22 screenplays including "The Quiller Memorandum" (1965) and "The French Lieutenant's Woman" (1980).

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Jazz pianist-singer Page Cavanaugh dies at 86
Dec 24, 1:53 PM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jazz pianist and singer Page Cavanaugh, whose popular trio in the 1940s and 1950s played in motion pictures and on Frank Sinatra's radio show, has died at 86.

Cavanaugh died of kidney failure Dec. 19 at a nursing home in San Fernando Valley, said Phil Mallory, his bass player of 18 years.

The Page Cavanaugh Trio was one of Southern California's most popular nightclub acts from the 1940s to the 1990s, performing at Ciro's, the Trocadero, the Captain's Table, the Money Tree and the Balboa Bay Club.

The group played in the film "Romance on the High Seas" with Jack Carson and Doris Day. The trio showed up in movies such as "A Song Is Born,""Big City" and "Lullaby of Broadway."
 
I just saw that about Eartha Kitt :( I think I'll always remember her for playing Catwoman in Batman. She was good in that. RIP Eartha
 
'Sopranos' actor 'Johnny Cakes' dead in suicide
Dec 25, 1:54 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - Police say the actor who portrayed the gay lover of a closeted mobster on "The Sopranos" has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in New York.

Police spokesman Lt. John Grimpel says John Costelloe was found dead in an apparent suicide at his Brooklyn home on Dec. 18.

Police were called to his residence after family members were unable to reach him.

The 47-year-old actor gained fame in 2006 when he was cast as short-order cook Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski opposite Joseph Gannascoli, who played gay mobster Vito Spatafore on the hit HBO show.
 
Fight Star Eilers Shot Dead

27 December 2008 5:59 AM, PST
Ultimate fighting veteran Justin Eilers has died after he was shot during an argument at a family Christmas party.

Eilers was gunned down at a house in Canyon County, Idaho on Thursday, after a row reportedly broke out between the martial arts expert and his ex-girlfriend.

Emergency crews raced to the scene but were unable to save the 30-year-old's life. He died from a single gunshot wound to the chest.

James Robert Malec, believed to be the boyfriend of Eilers' mother, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.
 
American Actress Savage Dies
29 December 2008 4:12 AM, PST

Actress Ann Savage has died in her sleep aged 87.

The star, who earned a cult following as a femme fatale in 1945 movie Detour, passed away on Christmas Day at a nursing home from complications following a series of strokes, according to her manager, Kent Adamson.

Savage's acting debut came in 1943 crime story One Dangerous Night, and she made more than 30 films in the 1950s.

Her Hollywood career faded in the mid-1950s, but she had a resurrection after starring in Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin's 2008 movie My Winnipeg.

Savage married three times, and her last husband and long-time manager, Bert D'Armand, passed away in 1969. She has reportedly been buried next to him at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles.
 
Jazz great Freddie Hubbard dead at 70
Dec. 29, 2008, 4:19 PM EST

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Freddie Hubbard, the Grammy-winning jazz musician whose style influenced a generation of trumpet players and who collaborated with such greats as Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins, died Monday, a month after suffering a heart attack. He was 70.

Hubbard died at Sherman Oaks Hospital, said his manager, fellow trumpeter David Weiss of the New Jazz Composers Octet. He had been hospitalized since suffering the heart attack a day before Thanksgiving.

A towering figure in jazz circles, Hubbard played on hundreds of recordings in a career dating to 1958, the year he arrived in New York from his hometown Indianapolis, where he had studied at the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music and with the Indianapolis Symphony.
 
Lark Previn, daughter of Mia Farrow, dies at 35

NEW YORK – Lark Previn, a daughter of actress Mia Farrow whose sister Soon-Yi Previn was at the center of Farrow's messy breakup with Woody Allen, has died. She was 35.

Lark Previn died Christmas Day at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn, the medical examiner's office said. No cause of death was given. A cremation was held Tuesday at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery.

Lark Previn was born in Vietnam in 1973. She was one of three children adopted by Farrow and her then-husband, conductor Andre Previn. The couple also had three biological children.

Representatives for Farrow and Previn didn't immediately return calls seeking comment.

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Bernie Hamilton, 'Starsky and Hutch' captain, dies
Jan 1, 5:40 PM (ET)

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Bernie Hamilton, who played the no-nonsense police captain on the 1970s TV series "Starsky and Hutch," has died. He was 80. Hamilton died of cardiac arrest Tuesday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, said his son, Raoul Hamilton.

Born in Los Angeles in 1928, Hamilton ran away from home as a teenager and wound up staying in someone's garage and attending Oakland Technical High School, where he played football and got involved in acting.

Hamilton appeared in more than 20 films, including "The Young One,""The Devil at 4 O'Clock,""Synanon,""The Swimmer,""Walk the Walk" and "The Organization."

He also had guest appearances on television series before becoming a regular on "Starsky and Hutch," the ABC police drama starring Paul Michael Glaser and David Soul. Hamilton played the brusque, by-the-book Capt. Harold Dobey, a role that gave him wide recognition to this day, his son said.

After "Starsky and Hutch," Hamilton spent the next 20 years in the music business producing R&B and gospel records under the record label Chocolate Snowman.

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Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake dead at 75
Jan 1, 6:29 PM (ET)

NEW YORK (AP) - Prolific mystery writer Donald Westlake has died at the age of 75.

Westlake's wife, Abigail, tells The New York Times the author collapsed as he headed to a New Year's Eve dinner while on vacation in Mexico. His wife says he apparently had a heart attack.

Westlake is considered one of the most successful mystery writers in the United States. He won three Edgar Awards and was nominated for an Academy Award for screenplay writing for "The Grifters."

Westlake wrote more than 100 books. He used his own name and several pseudonyms, including Richard Stark, Tucker Coe, Samuel Holt and Edwin West.

Westlake continued to write. His next novel, "Get Real," is scheduled to be released in April 2009.
 
Former Sen. Pell, creator of Pell Grants, dies
Rhode Island lawmaker remembered for helping millions go to college

updated 5:05 p.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 1, 2009
NEWPORT, R.I. - Claiborne Pell, the quirky blueblood who represented blue-collar Rhode Island in the U.S. Senate for 36 years and was the force behind a grant program that has helped tens of millions of Americans attend college, died Thursday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 90.

Pell, a Democrat, died at his Newport home just after midnight, according to his former assistant, Jan Demers.

Pell was first elected to the Senate in 1960. The skinny son of a New York congressman, Pell spoke with an aristocratic tone but was an unabashed liberal who spent his political career championing causes to help the less fortunate.

He disclosed he had Parkinson's in 1995 and left office in January 1997 after his sixth term.

"Rhode Island has lost one of its greatest statesmen, one who embodied the highest ideals of public service," Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said in a statement Thursday. "Senator Pell was a gentleman and champion for those who needed their voices heard, and his work truly made a difference for our state and the nation."

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, also a Rhode Island Democrat, called Pell "a mentor, example and friend" and "a uniquely beloved Rhode Island politician."

"We will all miss him deeply, and long benefit from the works of his farseeing soul," he said.
 
John Travolta's son dies in Bahamas.

NASSAU (Reuters) - The teenage son of actor John Travolta died suddenly on Friday during a family vacation in the Bahamas, according to the family's lawyer.
Jett Travolta, 16, suffered a seizure at his family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island, attorney Michael Ossi said.
Attempts were made to revive him, but he died at the scene, Ossi said.
Jett, who had a history of seizures, was the eldest child of Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston. They also have a daughter, Ella Blue, who was born in 2000.
 
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John Travolta's son dies in Bahamas.

NASSAU (Reuters) - The teenage son of actor John Travolta died suddenly on Friday during a family vacation in the Bahamas, according to the family's lawyer.
Jett Travolta, 16, suffered a seizure at his family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island, attorney Michael Ossi said.
Attempts were made to revive him, but he died at the scene, Ossi said.
Jett, who had a history of seizures, was the eldest child of Travolta and his wife, actress Kelly Preston. They also have a daughter, Ella Blue, who was born in 2000.
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Here is a little more on it from the AP John Travolta's 16-year-old son dies in Bahamas Here is a snip..
Jett, died in the Bahamas after falling ill and hitting his head at his family's vacation home, police said Friday.
 
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