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Avant-garde composer Elliott Carter, who won the Pulitzer Prize twice in a career spanning nearly eight decades, has died in New York at the age of 103, a music publisher said on Nov 6. Carter had composed 158 works, from early pieces like Symphony No. 1 (1942) and Holiday Overture (1944) to this year’s Dialogues […]
Fans and the music industry mourn the death of young, bright star; Natina Reed Fatality Natina Reed, a member of the R&B singing trio Blaque, was fatally hit by a car as she walked on a Georgia state highway in an Atlanta suburb Friday night, police tell Reuters. Young Girl, Life was […]
Sioux activist Russell Means, who helped bring the grievances of Native Americans to national and global attention in the 1970’s before becoming a Hollywood actor, died Oct. 22 at the age of 72. A strikingly handsome man with a troubled personal life and a penchant for publicity, Means was an early leader of the American Indian […]
At the time, Sylvia Kristel was worried about starring in the 1974 erotic movie Emmanuelle, but consoled herself with the thought that few people would see her sexually charged performance. That turned out to be wrong. “I thought, ‘oh my goodness, this is not easy stuff,’” the Dutch actress once said in an interview. “I was […]
Due to an Injury, OJ Murdock had never played in the NFL. When he failed to report to Tennessee Titans training camp last week, Titans head coach said “He had some personal things come up.” last Saturday. Then Tampa police released a report saying O.J. Murdock had killed himself Monday morning in front of the Tampa, Florida, high school where he […]
A Salt Lake City man who wrote his own obituary took the opportunity to confess to theft, vandalism and lying about earning a Ph.D. When Val Patterson learned that he has throat cancer in the fall he started writing his own obituary and took the opportunity to confess to vandalism, theft and lying about earning […]