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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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastNot many authors can claim to have reinvented an entire genre but Richard Adams, who has died aged 96, did just that with “Watership Down”, which became one of the biggest-selling childrens’ books of all time. He took the ancient theme of talking animals, but instead of cutesy, this was cruel and savage, like nature
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Obituaries & memorialsLOS ANGELES — Ricky Harris, a comedian known for both his racy stand-up act and his appearances in family-friendly fare such as the TV series “Everybody Hates Chris,” died Monday, his manager said. He was 54. The cause was not immediately known. But Harris’ manager, Cindy Ambers of Art/Work Entertainment, said Harris had suffered a
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastLOS ANGELES — Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who rose to global fame as the trail-blazing intergalactic heroine Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise and later went on to establish herself as an author and screenwriter with an acerbic comic flair, has died. Fisher suffered a heart attack on Friday during a flight to
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastAs a woman, astrophysicist Vera Rubin had to fight just to get access to a telescope. What she saw when she did further rattled conventions: galaxies that were rotating more quickly than predicted by the laws of physics. This movement, she concluded, could be explained if the universe was filled with a type of mass
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Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAYou may not know his name, but you’ve probably laughed at his skits on “Hee Haw” over the years. Canadian comedian Gordie Tapp, best known as “Cousin Clem,” passed away Sunday, Dec. 18 in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. He was 94. According to “The Hollywood Reporter,” Tapp conceived the character “Cousin Clem” in the mid-’50s before
Benjamin Gilman, an American Jewish attorney with a prolific political career, passed away on Saturday at the age of 94. Gilman, a lifelong Republican from the Hudson Valley, served roughly 40 years in various government positions. Beginning as Assistant Attorney General of New York in 1953, Gilman opened a private law practice in the 1950s,
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Obituaries & memorials, USALOS ANGELES — The best known of three glamorous sisters from Hungary, actress Zsa Zsa Gabor pioneered a modern version of celebrity — she was famous for being famous. With the advent of television talk shows, Gabor became a frequent guest as early as the 1950s, charming audiences with her fractured English and slightly risque
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USADr. Henry Heimlich, the inventor of the namesake maneuver credited with saving thousands of choking victims during the last several decades, died Saturday at the age of 96. The legendary physician passed away early Saturday morning at a Cincinnati hospital where he had been admitted earlier this week after suffering from a massive heart attack,
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Obituaries & memorials, Science, Medicine, & Education, USAAnnie Glenn was married to her husband and American hero John Glenn for more than seven decades of her life. On Friday, she said goodbye for the final time as he was lying in state at Ohio’s capitol building. Glenn, 95, died a week ago surrounded by family and friends at the Ohio State University
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Obituaries & memorials, USALOS ANGELES — Bernard Fox, known to a generation of TV viewers as Dr. Bombay on “Bewitched” and the fumbling, forever naive Col. Crittendon on “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 89. Fox died Wednesday of heart failure while hospitalized in Van Nuys, family spokesman Harlan Boll said. Though his role as the womanizing, wisecracking
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Obituaries & memorials, Theatre, Film & BroadcastEsma Redžepova, the prominent and versatile Roma singer dubbed the “Romany music queen,” has died at the age of 73, hospital sources and her family said Sunday. The singer from Macedonia was one of the first vocalists in the Balkans to sing in the Romany language. She performed in some of the world’s greatest music
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