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https://variety.com/2019/music/news/...71-1203230465/

Roky Erickson — lead vocalist and principal songwriter for the psychedelic band the 13th Floor Elevators and one of the leading lights of Texas rock — died Friday in Austin. He was 71.

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Carmine Caridi, who played the traitorous Carmine Rosato in The Godfather, Part II (1974) and returned to the Francis Ford Coppola franchise to portray Albert Volpe in The Godfather Part III (1990), died Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, where he had been in a coma. He was 85.

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One of the co-founders of Friendly's, which started as a small Springfield ice cream shop and grew to a chain of restaurants along the East Coast, has passed away at the age of 102.

Curtis Blake died Friday at his home in Hobe Sound, Florida.

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Leah Chase, New Orleans’ matriarch of Creole cuisine, who fed civil rights leaders, musicians and presidents in a career spanning seven decades, died Saturday (June 1) surrounded by family. She was 96.

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Former ESPN ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber died Friday at 73.

The pioneer journalist became the first female sports editor at a major American daily newspaper for The New York Timesin 1978, and she remains the only woman in the paper's history to hold that title.

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/06/enter...rnd/index.html

Dr. John, a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and a six-time Grammy winner, died Thursday morning from a heart attack, said publicist and social media manager Karen Beninato.

Dr. John, whose real name was Malcolm John Rebennack Jr, was 77.

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Brian Doherty — Big Wreck co-founder and guitarist — has died. Today the band revealed he lost his battle with cancer last night (June 5). Doherty was 51.

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Johnnie Planco, the longtime New York-based WMA agent who partnered with Gene Parseghian in the management/production company Parseghian Planco, has died. Planco passed away on Sunday, June 2 in New York City, after struggling with an infection that quickly affected both his brain and respiratory system. He was 68.

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André Matos, former lead singer of the Brazilian metal bands ANGRA and VIPER, has died at the age of 47. His death was confirmed by ex-ANGRA drummer Ricardo Confessori, who wrote on his Facebook page: "It is with deep pain in our hearts that we say goodbye to André once again, this time definitively."

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Houston rapper Bushwick Bill, a founding member of the pioneering rap crew Geto Boys, died on Sunday evening in Colorado, his publicist, Dawn P., confirmed with NPR. A cause was not given pending a medical examination; the rapper was diagnosed earlier this year with pancreatic cancer. He was 52 years old.

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Lafayette's own legendary blues guitarist Paul Sinegal — who is far better known as "Lil' Buck" — died Monday morning at the age of 75.

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Sylvia Miles, an actress and Manhattan socialite whose brief, scene-stealing appearances in the films "Midnight Cowboy" and "Farewell, My Lovely" earned her two Academy Award nominations, died Wednesday.

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Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director and designer who reigned in theater, film and opera as the unrivaled master of grandeur, orchestrating the youthful 1968 movie version of “Romeo and Juliet” and transporting operagoers to Parisian rooftops and the pyramids of Egypt in productions widely regarded as classics, died June 15 at his home in Rome. He was 96.

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Franco Zeffirelli, the Italian director and designer who reigned in theater, film and opera as the unrivaled master of grandeur, orchestrating the youthful 1968 movie version of “Romeo and Juliet” and transporting operagoers to Parisian rooftops and the pyramids of Egypt in productions widely regarded as classics, died June 15 at his home in Rome. He was 96.

His Hamlet (1990) was underrated just because Gibson was an action star. It's not the best movie version, but it was a lot better than its rep. I don't think I have anything of his in my collection to watch in his honor though there's a few I'd like.

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Gloria Vanderbilt, the intrepid heiress, artist and romantic who began her extraordinary life as the “poor little rich girl” of the Great Depression, survived family tragedy and multiple marriages and reigned during the 1970s and ’80s as a designer jeans pioneer, died Monday at the age of 95.