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Milo O'Shea dies at 86; Dublin-born actor often 'played Irish'
Milo O'Shea, a versatile Dublin-born stage and screen actor known for his famously bristling, agile eyebrows and roles in such disparate films as "Ulysses," "Barbarella" and Franco Zeffirelli's "Romeo and Juliet," has died. He was 86. O'Shea, who also...
Tags: BBC, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Eli Wallach, Television
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A rocket scientist who did much more than cook beef stroganoff
At the risk of sounding like someone who "can't let it go" — a feminist's badge of honor if ever there were one — I'd like to offer a few tips on how to write obituaries about accomplished women in America. It's a short list really. 1)...
Tags: Beef Stroganoff, The New York Times, Awards and Prizes, Science and Technology, Human Interest
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Film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial “thumbs up, thumbs down” assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers...Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Reviews, Awards and Prizes, Celebrity Surgery, Chicago Tribune
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Which comes first, husband or career?
Maybe it's spring fever or maybe it's the centrifugal force from all that Sheryl Sandberg-led "leaning in," but it's been a big week for outrage about women and their place. Last Friday, Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton published a letter...
Tags: Beef Stroganoff, The New York Times, Marriage, Science and Technology, Family
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Daum: Which comes first, husband or career?
Maybe it's spring fever or maybe it's the centrifugal force from all that Sheryl Sandberg-led "leaning in," but it's been a big week for outrage about women and their place. On Friday, Princeton alumna and parent Susan A. Patton published a letter in...
Tags: Beef Stroganoff, The New York Times, Marriage, Science and Technology, Family
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Jane Henson, Muppets collaborator, dies at 78
Jane Nebel Henson, who collaborated with her husband, Jim Henson, in creating, designing and marketing the Muppets, died Tuesday at her home in Connecticut after battling cancer. She was 78. Her death was announced by the Jim Henson Co. The couple met...Tags: Washington, DC, The Muppet Show (tv program), Jim Henson
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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, award-winning author and screenwriter, dies at 85
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, a novelist and screenwriter whose long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions yielded two Academy Awards for her work on the films “A Room With a View” and “Howards End,” has died. She was 85....
Tags: Paul Williams, Academy Awards, James Ivory, Awards and Prizes, Ismail Merchant
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PASSINGS: Donald A. Glaser, Jewel Akens
Donald A. Glaser Nobel Prize-winning physicist Donald A. Glaser, 86, a Nobel Prize-winning UC Berkeley physicist who invented a device called the bubble chamber, which allowed researchers to track the paths of high-energy atomic particles after...
Tags: Human Accomplishments, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan, Science, Science and Technology
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On Easter, Google's doodle celebrates ... Cesar Chavez
He was the leader of a movement that inspired the downtrodden all across the land, but not the one whom some expected to grace Easter Sunday's Google doodle. On Sunday, Google's doodle over its search bar featured a beatific portrait of Mexican American...
Tags: Employees, Google Inc., The Happiest News!, Human Interest, Easter
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Soraya Jimenez, Mexico's first female Olympic champion, dies at 35
Soraya Jimenez, who won the 58-kilogram weightlifting competition at the 2000 Sydney Games to become Mexico's first female Olympic champion, died of a heart attack Thursday at her home in Mexico City. She was 35. Jimenez, who retired after numerous...Tags: World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Mexico, Univision (tv network), Awards and Prizes, Mexico City
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Death notices for March 28, 2013
* Essie Hatchel Bastin, 88, of the New Salem community in Lincoln County, died Wednesday. Arrangements are pending at Fox Funeral Home, Stanford. -
PASSINGS: Deke Richards
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Deke Richards, 68, who as part of the songwriting and producing team known as the Corporation was responsible for many of the Jackson 5's early hit songs for Motown Records, died Sunday at a hospice in Bellingham, Wash., of esophageal cancer, according to...Tags: Motown Records, Berry Gordy, Music, Entertainment, Bobby Darin
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