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CASEY KEY, FLA–Avuncular NBC newsman and TV personality Jack Perkins died here Aug. 19. He was 85. Television viewers across the country remember Perkins from his work on “NBC Nightly News” and “The Today Show,” along with his hosting duties for the “Biography” program on the A&E Network. But MSTies will always […]
LOS ANGELES–producer Samuel Gelfman, best known at the producer of low-budget films “Caged Heat,” “Cockfighter” and “Cannonball!” for Roger Corman’s New World Pictures in the 1970s, died Aug. 15 at a hospital here of complications from heart and respiratory disease. He was 88.
But MSTies know him for his role as the […] Toni Morrison, the Nobel laureate in literature whose best-selling work explored black identity in America — and in particular the often crushing experience of black women — through luminous, incantatory prose resembling that of no other writer in English, died on Aug. 8 at a hospital in the Bronx. She was 88.
[…] FRANCE–Henri Belolo, co-creator of Village People, died on Saturday, Aug. 3. He was 82. The French music producer helped shape disco music, penning hits that were featured in several films, Broadway, commercials, and more. Of course, their monster hits “Y.M.C.A.,” “Macho Man” and “In The Navy” are also still played at every […]
GENEVA, Ill.–Sometimes we miss it when somebody in our MSTory files passes quietly. There were some stories in the media, but they didn’t get on our radar. But back in March, magician Marshall Brodien passed away here and we thought we would mention it. He was a target for gentle humor from […]
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