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https://deadline.com/2021/12/vicente...ry-1234889609/

Vicente Fernandez, whose five-decade career in ranchera music and film made him an essential part of Mexican pop culture, died Sunday at the age of 81, according to a message posted on his official Instagram account.

Fernandez had been suffering medical complications after a fall at his home this summer that injured his cervical spine and required an operation.

Nicknamed “El Charro de Huentitan” for the town where he was born in the western state of Jalisco, he was best known for his songs “Volver, Volver,” “Por Tu Maldito Amor,” and “El Rey.”

Fernandez also appeared in countless Spanish language films from 1969 to 1991, acting in many and credited as a producer or assistant producer on a long slate. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was named Person of the Year by the Latin Recording Academy in 2002.

Fernández recorded more than 50 albums, sold more than 50 million records and appeared in more than 30 films. He was nominated for 13 Grammys and won three.
In 2016, Fernandez retired from the stage with a final concert of nearly 50 songs at Mexico City’s Azteca stadium.

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Leonard Soloway, whose six-decade career as a stage general manager and producer included 59 Broadway shows that won more than 40 Tony Awards, died Saturday in Palm Springs, California. He was 93.

His death was announced on Facebook by his nephew Jeffrey Lesser. “He was a huge presence in my life and so many others,” Lesser wrote. “With him goes an era of old Broadway that is dying out. He lived an amazing and full life and brought so many of us along for the ride.”

Soloway, whose life and career was chronicled in the 2019 documentary Leonard Soloway’s Broadway, had a hand in dozens of Broadway’s most notable productions since the 1960s, from his job as house or general manager for 1961’s How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 1967’s one-woman show Marlene Dietrich, the 1976 revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara and up through his production of 2011’s High starring Kathleen Turner.

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Cara Williams, the actress known for her Oscar-nominated turn in The Defiant Ones, her Emmy-nominated performance in CBS’ sitcom Pete and Gladys and more, died on December 9. She was 96.

Williams’ passing was confirmed in a Twitter post published on Saturday by her great-nephew, Richard Potter. “My Great Aunt, who might have been the last surviving Golden Age of Hollywood actress died on Thursday at 96,” he wrote. “#Oscar & #Emmy Nominated. #CaraWilliams. RIP Cara.”

The actress was born in Brooklyn, NY on June 29, 1925 as Bernice Kamiat, finding her first film role in Lesley Selander’s 1941 Western, Wide Open Town. She starred in Stanley Kramer’s drama The Defiant Ones opposite Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis, appearing in December Bride spinoff Pete and Gladys opposite Harry Morgan.

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Anne Rice, the American writer whose Interview with the Vampire sold more than 150 million copies, has died. She was 80...

I was sorry to see this. I don't know how many 40-something straight, male fans she has, but I've read more than a dozen of her books and was looking forward to more. Ironically, I was probably finishing reading another of her Vampire Chronicles/Lives of the Mayfair Witches crossovers (Blackwood Farm) as she was passing. I'm fortunate enough to have one book signed by her even though I never met her just because Barnes and Noble offered members the opportunity to get signed copies of her return of Lestat book.

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Man, Rice is a big one. I read all of her Vampire Chronicles books through the Vanpire Armand one, and really enjoyed that reading phase when I went through it back in the day. I'm sorry to hear she passed.

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Cara Williams was a real talent. It's odd that her career fizzled in the mid-60s. I read a piece once where someone claimed she was difficult to work with.

If you haven't seen The Defiant Ones (1958), I highly recommend it. It has a great script and a great cast.

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Man, Rice is a big one. I read all of her Vampire Chronicles books through the Vanpire Armand one, and really enjoyed that reading phase when I went through it back in the day. I'm sorry to hear she passed.

I could see you wanting to stop after Armand. He is one of my favorite characters of hers, but when she finally gave him a book of his own, it was a letdown.

Also, three out of four of the books that followed it were crossovers with the Mayfair Witches and if you didn't read that trilogy, you could still follow those, but would get much less from them.

I've read 9 of the 13 proper Vampire Chronicles, 2 of the 2 New Chronicles, 3 of the 3 witch books, and 2 of the 2 werewolf books. I intend to finish the vampire books (I already have them) and try the Mummy books (Jeff basically recommended the first one).

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Celebrated author, feminist and activist bell hooks has died, aged 69.

The author – whose real name Gloria Jean Watkins – published her books and scholarly articles under the pen name “bell hooks”.

The namewas picked to honour her maternal great-grandmother, whose name was Bell Blair Hooks.

Watkins was surrounded by her close friends and family when she died, a press release from her niece, Ebony Motley, said.

The author was best known for writing about race, gender and class – and the connection between all three.

She published more than 30 books, starting with 1994’s “Ain’t I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism” when she was 29.

Watkins taught at Berea College in Kentucky, which is a liberal arts college that does not charge students for tuition.

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Leonard “Hub” Hubbard, the Roots’ former bassist who spent 15 years in the Philadelphia collective, has died at the age of 62.

Philadelphia’s ABC 6 first reported Hubbard’s death Thursday; with the Philadelphia Inquirer adding that the cause was multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer; “Hub” had been battling cancer since 2007, the same year he left the Roots. “It happened quickly,” his wife, Stephanie Hubbard, told ABC 6. “He didn’t suffer a lot.”

Stephanie Hubbard told ABC 6 that Hubbard was hospitalized Wednesday night, adding that he was “energetic and mobile” before suddenly not being able to move.

The Philadelphia-born Hubbard joined the Roots in 1992 just as the group — then the Square Roots and led by founding members Tarik “Black Thought” Trotter, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and rapper Malik B, who died in 2020 — was on the cusp of recording their debut LP, 1993’s Organix.

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Lucía Hiriart, the widow of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, has died at her home at the age of 99.

Hiriart – an intensely divisive figure in Chile – had rarely been seen in public in recent years and her health has been kept a closely guarded secret.

Cristián Labbé, a former government secretary who was an agent of Pinochet’s feared secret police and remains close to the family, confirmed Hiriart’s death to Chilean daily La Tercera on Thursday.

The news came three days before the second round of Chile’s most divisive presidential election since the country returned to democracy in 1990.

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I could see you wanting to stop after Armand. He is one of my favorite characters of hers, but when she finally gave him a book of his own, it was a letdown.

Also, three out of four of the books that followed it were crossovers with the Mayfair Witches and if you didn't read that trilogy, you could still follow those, but would get much less from them.

I've read 9 of the 13 proper Vampire Chronicles, 2 of the 2 New Chronicles, 3 of the 3 witch books, and 2 of the 2 werewolf books. I intend to finish the vampire books (I already have them) and try the Mummy books (Jeff basically recommended the first one).

I bought the next couple of books after Armand, but never got around to reading them. Looking back, as much as I enjoyed Tale of The Body Thief and Menmoch the Devil, they were just popcorn entertainment. The real story was always Interview, Lestat and Queen of the Damned. That was a fantastic trilogy and for me it should have ended there.

I've got to hand it to Rice though, she created her own mythology and multiple series that entertained a lot of people for decades. That's a pretty damn good legacy to leave behind.

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https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/18/polit...tor/index.html

A Washington state senator has died a month after confirming with a local radio station he was in El Salvador and sick with Covid-19.

State Sen. Doug Ericksen's family announced his death through a statement issued Saturday by the Washington State Senate Republican Caucus, but they did not state the cause of his death.

"We are heartbroken to share that our husband and father passed away on Friday, Dec. 17. Please keep our family in your prayers and thank you for continuing to respect our privacy in this extremely difficult time," the statement said.

Ericksen represented Whatcom County's 42nd District, from Bellingham to the Canadian border, according to his website. He was elected to the Senate in 2010 after serving six terms in the state house, it says.

Ericksen told KIRO Radio in November he was sick with the virus while in El Salvador. The station's news director said in a tweet Ericksen told them he was unable to leave the country and there were no available monoclonal antibody treatments.

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Johnny Isakson, an affable Georgia Republican politician who rose from the ranks of the state Legislature to become a U.S. senator known as an effective, behind-the-scenes consensus builder, died Sunday. He was 76.

Isakson’s son John Isakson told The Associated Press his father died in his sleep before dawn Sunday at his home in Atlanta. John Isakson said that although his father had Parkinson’s disease, the cause of death was not immediately apparent.

Isakson, whose real estate business made him a millionaire, spent more than four decades in Georgia political life. In the Senate, he was the architect of a popular tax credit for first-time home buyers that he said would help invigorate the struggling housing market. As chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, he worked to expand programs offering more private health care choices for veterans.

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Steve Restivo, an actor seen in Pretty Woman, The Princess Diaries and more, who also formerly co-owned Vitello’s Italian Restaurant in L.A.’s Studio City, has died. He was 81.

Vitello's was Robert Blake's favorite restaurant. It's where he and his wife ate the night she was murdered. It's in a different location in Studio City now than it was then.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=90816&page=1

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Re Robert Blake: That happened right before security cameras went up everywhere. If it happened now, there would be enough images for a conviction.

Rolling Stone asked one of the the detectives what he thought happened. He said, "That woman just fucked with the wrong person."

Blake is seriously crazy.