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https://deadline.com/2020/09/jiri-me...ry-1234571912/

Czech director Jiri Menzel, who helmed the Oscar-winning feature Closely Watched Trains, died on Saturday after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He was 82.

His wife, Olga confirmed his death on Instagram and Facebook. “It was our utmost honor and privilege that we could be with you on your last pilgrimage to eternity,” she wrote, translated to English. “Your love for me, and for our girls was the kind of love that never lays down conditions.”

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https://people.com/music/temptations...dead-covid-19/

The Temptations' former lead singer Bruce Williamson has died.

Williamson died Sunday night at his Las Vegas home after battling coronavirus, TMZ reported. He was 49.

"There's no words in the world that can express how I feel right now," his son Bruce wrote on Facebook. "I love you Daddy thank you for being awesome thank you for being loving thank you for being Who You Are I pray to God and we will meet again. I love you Daddy R.I.H KING WILLIAMSON."

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https://www.thewrap.com/kevin-dobson...ar-dies-at-77/

Actor Kevin Dobson, a star on beloved CBS dramas, “Kojak” and “Knots Landing,” died yesterday of a heart attack. He was 77.

Dobson’s death was announced via a Facebook post by the United Veterans Council of San Joaquin County, of which the actor once served as Chairman.

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https://people.com/music/temptations...dead-covid-19/

The Temptations' former lead singer Bruce Williamson has died.

Williamson died Sunday night at his Las Vegas home after battling coronavirus, TMZ reported. He was 49.

"There's no words in the world that can express how I feel right now," his son Bruce wrote on Facebook. "I love you Daddy thank you for being awesome thank you for being loving thank you for being Who You Are I pray to God and we will meet again. I love you Daddy R.I.H KING WILLIAMSON."

No disparagement intended to someone who just died, but when he was born the Temptations were already on the downside as a recording act, weren't they? That's not unusual though. People are performing as the Allman Brothers, the Beach Boys and many other acts who have very little to do with the originals.

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https://www.kansan.com/news/former-k...80e43c2ba.html

Gene Budig, the University of Kansas’s 14th chancellor and namesake of Budig Hall, died at 81 years old, Chancellor Douglas Girod confirmed in a news release Tuesday.

Budig was named KU’s chancellor in 1981 and spent 13 years in the position. Throughout his time at KU, the university reached a record enrollment number at 29,161. He led KU through Campaign Kansas, which brought the institution $265 million in gifts and commitments over five years.

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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...vze-story.html

Singer and composer Ronald Bell, who, along with his brother, founded the iconic R&B group Kool & the Gang, died Tuesday. He was 68.

A publicist for the group, Angelo Ellerbee, confirmed Bell’s death.

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https://variety.com/2020/film/news/d...es-1234765209/

Diana Rigg, the Tony and Emmy winner who splashed into the world of television with her commanding turn as intelligence agent Emma Peel on “The Avengers” in the 1960s and played Lady Olenna Tyrell on “Game of Thrones” decades later, died Thursday at her home in England. She was 82.

Rigg was a venerable figure in Britain’s entertainment industry who worked incessantly on stage, TV and film. She famously thumbed her nose at convention in her private life and in later years seemed to enjoy her status as a grande dame. Having a key role in the biggest TV series of the past decade was a fitting career capper for Rigg.

RIP to a great dame and actress.

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R.I.P. GoT messes everything up. She should be listed as the one Bond girl he married.

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I've been watching some old episodes of The Avengers. Diana Rigg's coolness and sauciness were something that had never been seen. Linda Thorson replaced her on the show, and I liked her a lot, but people who had the hots for Diana Rigg judged Thorson unfairly.

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https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/12/enter...ntl/index.html

Jamaican reggae legend Frederick Nathaniel "Toots" Hibbert has died aged 77, his band Toots and The Maytals said in a statement early Saturday.

Hibbert "passed away peacefully" in Jamaica "surrounded by his family" at the University Hospital of the West Indies late Friday, the Twitter statement said.
While the cause of his death has not been announced, the band said on September 3 that Hibbert had been taken to intensive care and was waiting to receive the results of a coronavirus test.

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https://dcist.com/story/20/09/14/dc-...-senator-dies/

One of D.C.’s first senators and the first African American woman elected to the Senate, Florence Pendleton, has died at the age of 94.

Pendleton passed away peacefully at her home in Columbus, Ga., on Thursday.

Pendleton was born to John Milton and Elease Brooks Howard in Columbus in 1926. She graduated from Howard University with a bachelors and a master’s degree and spent the next 55 years living in the District.

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https://variety.com/2020/music/obitu...re-1234770001/

Al Kasha, the songwriter who won Academy Awards in the 1970s for co-writing hit ballads for “The Poseidon Adventure” and “The Towering Inferno,” died Monday in Los Angeles. He was 83. No cause of death was immediately given.

As part of a songwriting team with Joel Hirschhorn, Kasha received two Tony nominations, four Golden Globe nods and a People’s Choice award, plus a pair of additional Oscar nominations for “Pete’s Dragon” in addition to the duo’s two wins for the Irwin Allen disaster movies.

“Write in Power,” tweeted Diane Warren, who succeeded Kasha as movie-theme royalty. “A great songwriter and lovely man,” she said, adding a broken-heart emoji.

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https://www.npr.org/2020/09/16/91361...tic-dead-at-74

Stanley Crouch, the lauded and fiery jazz critic, has died. According to an announcement by his wife, Gloria Nixon-Crouch, Stanley Crouch died at the Calvary Hospital in New York on Wednesday, following nearly a decade of serious health issues.

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https://screencrush.com/winstom-groo...p-author-dies/

The creator of Forrest Gump has died. Winston Groom wrote 22 books in his lifetime, including one, Conversations with the Enemy, that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The most famous was Forrest Gump, which was first published in 1986 and then became a best-seller after it was turned into an Oscar-winning film by director Robert Zemeckis. According to the Tuscaloosa Thread, Groom died on “Wednesday night at his home in Point Clear, Alabama.” He was 77 years old.

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Speaking of asses in Hoilywood, Groom had a contract that he would receive a percentage of the profits from the movie. Then the producers had the audacity to claim that the movie didn't make a profit!

BTW, that's one of the oldest tricks in the book. Never sign an agreement like that. Instead demand a percentage of the gross, which they can't lie about.