Nat Hentoff Nat Hentoff – beloved civil libertarian, Constitution expert, author, columnist and jazz writer – whose work spanned seven decades – has died. He was 91. Hentoff, a WND weekly columnist since 2008, offered in his writing a compelling but unique mix of Americanism, undying reverence for the Bill of Rights and an uncompromising […]
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Obituaries & memorials, USALos Angeles (dpa) – Hollywood actresses Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher were buried in a Los Angeles cemetery on Friday in a private service. The ceremony at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in the Hollywood Hills was attended by family and friends including Fisher’s brother Todd and her daughter Billie Lourd, according to US media reports.
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USANew Delhi (dpa) – Indian actor Om Puri who starred in acclaimed Indian and foreign productions, died early Friday aged 66. Puri suffered a heart attack at his residence in Mumbai, his estranged wife, Nandita, told the News18 network. The veteran actor played many memorable roles in arthouse and mainstream films in a career spanning
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International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBuenos Aires (dpa) – Argentine novelist and short story writer Ricardo Piglia died on Friday at the age of 75, his publisher Anagrama confirmed. Piglia, one of the most important Argentine writers of the past 50 years, had been suffering for several years from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. He published his first
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, International, Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastFormer Justice Minister Yaakov Neeman, who twice served in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu”s cabinet, passed away on Sunday at the age of 77. He is survived by his wife and their six children. Though he never served as an MK, Neeman served as a senior official in Likud governments going back to Menachem Begin”s first
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Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsHilarion Capucci, who spent four years in Israeli prison, participated in Gaza flotillas, called a ‘martyr’ by PA By Times of Israel staff Archbishop Hilarion Capucci (photo credit: CC BY-SA, Piotr Zygulski/Wikimedia Commons) A Syrian Catholic bishop famous for his support of Palestinians, who was once imprisoned by Israel for smuggling weapons to West Bank
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International, Middle East, Obituaries & memorialsPASADENA, Calif. — William Christopher, best known as the calm-voiced Father Francis Mulcahy on “M.A.S.H.,” has died. He was 84. His son, John Christopher, told KABC his father died of non-lung small cell carcinoma. RELATED: On New Year’s Eve, someone from Mariah Carey’s team asked an embarrassingly obvious question William Christopher played the role of
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLondon (dpa) – The Beatles’ first manager, Allan Williams, has died at the age of 86, the club he once owned in Liverpool confirmed late Friday. “Today our founder and the man who discovered the Beatles passed away at the age of 86. Allan Williams, you will be missed,” the Jacaranda Club wrote on Twitter.
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International, Obituaries & memorialsDebbie Reynolds and her daughter Carrie Fisher will have a joint funeral and are to be buried together in Hollywood, according to Reynolds’ son. Todd Fisher said no date had been set for the funeral, which will be private. Carrie Fisher’s body was released to her family on Friday. The actress and writer who starred
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLOS ANGELES—In the late 1930s, when few doors were open to the son of a poor Chinese immigrant, Tyrus Wong landed a job at Walt Disney’s studio as a lowly “in-betweener,” whose artwork filled the gaps between the animator’s key drawings. But he arrived at an opportune moment. Disney’s animators were struggling to bring “Bambi”
Barbara Tarbuck, a stage and screen actress who played Jane Jacks on “General Hospital” and Mother Superior Claudia on “American Horror Story: Asylum,” has died. She was 74. Tarbuck died Monday at her Los Angeles home, said her daughter, producer Jennifer Lane Connolly. Tarbuck suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disorder, a rare, degenerative brain disease, Connolly said
By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — Marion Pritchard passed away in Washington DC on December 11th. Although she might not be as well-known as many of the luminaries who died in 2016, her rescue of 150 Jews during the Holocaust merits our gratitude and recognition. When I served as the historian for Sam and Pearl
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Jewish History, Lawrence Baron, Obituaries & memorialsNew York (dpa) – Hungarian-born actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is to be buried in a cemetery in Budapest after a funeral in Los Angeles, her widower told dpa Wednesday. Gabor, who died last week of a heart attack in Los Angeles aged 99, had wanted to travel to the city of her birth before she
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International, Obituaries & memorials, USALOS ANGELES — Debbie Reynolds, an actress who sang and danced her way into film history opposite Gene Kelly in the classic 1952 musical “Singin’ in the Rain,” a movie that helped turn her into a sweetheart of American film, has died. She was 84. Reynolds, who was a major collector of Hollywood memorabilia and
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