The man whose parents’ battle to save him from a nerve disease was told in the movie “Lorenzo’s Oil” died Friday at his home in Virginia, having lived more than 20 years longer than doctors had predicted.
Lorenzo Odone, who doctors had predicted would die in childhood, died one day after his 30th birthday…
Alexander “Sandy” Courage, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated arranger, orchestrator and composer who created the otherworldly theme for the classic “Star Trek” TV show … died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades…
Over a decades-long career, Courage collaborated on dozens of movies and orchestrated some of the greatest musicals of the 1950s and 1960s, including “My Fair Lady,” “Hello, Dolly!” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Gigi,” “Porgy and Bess” and “Fiddler on the Roof.” …
Harvey Korman, the tall, versatile comedian who won four Emmys for his outrageously funny contributions to “The Carol Burnett Show” and played a conniving politician to hilarious effect in “Blazing Saddles,” died Thursday. He was 81. …
No Internet news links yet; just announced on KGO-AM radio at approximately 4:02 p.m. PDT.
Joseph Pevney, who directed some of the best-loved episodes of the original “Star Trek” television series, has died. He was 96.
Pevney died May 18 at his home in Palm Desert, said his wife, Margo.
Pevney directed 14 episodes of the 1960s series, including “The City on the Edge of Forever,” in which Capt. Kirk and Spock travel back in time to the Depression, and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” in which the starship Enterprise is infested with cute, furry creatures. …
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of “Out of Africa” who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including “The Way We Were” and “Tootsie,” died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor, died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to Leslee Dart, his publicist and friend. …
A former player for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was found dead inside a home in Wesley Chapel Sunday morning.
A friend found 46 year old Thomas McHale dead just after 9 am this morning inside the friend’s home on Ambrose Court. Detectives do not suspect foul play, but are investigating his death. …
Dick Martin, the zany half of the comedy team whose “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” took television by storm in the 1960s, making stars of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin and creating such national catch-phrases as “Sock it to me!” has died. He was 86. …
A teenage actor who appears in the next Harry Potter film was stabbed to death trying to protect his younger brother from a knifeman yesterday.
Robert Knox, 18, who acted alongside Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, became the 28th teenager killed in Britain this year, and the 10th in London to die from stab wounds. …
A former [Colorado] state senator who had failed to return her friends’ phone calls was found dead in her Adams County house Thursday after the sheriff’s office was asked to do a check.
Friends of Joan Johnson, both Democrat and Republican, are mourning her her death. She was 64. …
197? - May 1, 2008
Aden Hashi Ayro was one of the most feared and notorious figures in Somalia whose powerful influence in the country showed most starkly the depths of anarchy and brutality to which it has sunk. …
June 1, 1923 - May 8, 2008
The invention of the nicotine patch was partly the work of Murray Jarvik, who first become known in medical circles for his studies in psychopharmacology — in particular, the effect of LSD on memory and addiction. Always pragmatic, he was, in the Eighties, to follow up what was literally field research to create the patch. …
November 5, 1915 - May 5, 2008
Physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and invented the neoprene wetsuit
Neither time nor tide has eroded the debate around who invented the wetsuit — since the mid-1950s, when the neoprene outfits became common among divers, argument has raged over who was the originator. However, Hugh Bradner, a physicist who worked on atomic bomb testing in the Pacific, has the strongest claim to the title. …
April 18, 1911 - May 19, 2008
Sybaritic heir to a grocery business fortune who squandered millions on doomed projects and was rescued from squalor
Huntington Hartford began life as one of the richest men in America but he wanted to be remembered for more than his money. …
She smuggled out the children in suitcases, ambulances, coffins, sewer pipes, rucksacks and, on one occasion, even a tool box. Those old enough to ask knew their saviour only by her codename “Jolanta”. …
Pilar López, dancer and choreographer, was born on June 4, 1912. She died on March 25, 2008, aged 95
When the critic and exhibition organiser Richard Buckle presented his charity gala The Greatest Show on Earth at the London Coliseum in June 1971, he included the Spanish dancer Pilar López, who at 49 was approaching retirement and known to most of the audience only by repute. …
Nuala O’Faolain, journalist and writer, was born on March 1, 1940. She died of cancer on May 9, 2008, aged 68
Nuala O’Faolain, then 55, had been writing a current affairs column on The Irish Times for almost ten years and was rather feeling that life had passed her by when, in 1995, a publisher offered to make a book out of the best of her articles. To show where she was coming from, she decided to write a short introduction about her own life. …
The creator of the popular religious children’s television show “Davey and Goliath” has died. …
Along with Gumby creators Art Clokey and Ruth Clokey Goodell, Sutcliffe created the Sunday-morning series to spread a religious message without losing younger viewers with overly complicated concepts …
Hamilton Jordan, a political strategist from south Georgia who helped propel Jimmy Carter to the White House and served as his chief of staff, died Tuesday after a long battle with cancer. …
… In 1950, Henderson and 12 other black parents in Topeka challenged the city’s segregated school system. The 1954 Supreme Court decision in the case overturned segregation in the country’s public schools. …
A plastic surgeon to the stars has been found dead in the doorway of his London home.
It’s believed Martin Kelly — dubbed the “king of rhinoplasty” by his celebrity clients — suffered a heart attack.
Mr Kelly, who was married to Californication actress Natascha McElhone who is pregnant with the couple’s third child, was found by a friend at his West London home. …
Former NFL center Curtis Whitley was found dead in his trailer home in West Texas on Sunday night. …
Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who put California wine country on the global map, has died. He was 94. …
John Phillip Law, the strikingly handsome 1960s movie actor who portrayed an angel in the futuristic “Barbarella” and a lovesick Russian seaman in “The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming,” died Tuesday. He was 70. …
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg’s mediums knew few bounds.
One of his most famous works or “combines” was “Bed,” created when he woke up in the mood to paint but had no money for a canvas. His solution was to take the quilt off his bed and use paint, toothpaste and fingernail polish for his creation. He was also a sculptor and a choreographer. …
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