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Anthropologist Levi-Strauss dies
Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 2:59 PM EST (BBC News)
Renowned French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss has died, aged 100. One of the most influential French intellectuals of the 20th Century, he founded the structuralist school of anthropology in the 1950s.
Lou Jacobi, Critically Acclaimed Actor of Film and Stage, Dies at 95
Seeded on Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:22 PM EDT (The New York Times)
"As you make your way through life, sometimes you happen upon people who know how to be happy," the film critic Roger Ebert wrote in The Chicago Sun-Times in 1999. He was interviewing Mr. Jacobi on the occasion of the dedication of his star on Canada's Walk of Fame.
Clergyman complains of 'feeling like a lemon at pithy funerals which blare out songs like My Way'
Seeded on Mon Oct 19, 2009 4:38 PM EDT (the Mail online)
Having a loved one laid to rest to the blaring strains of Simply The Best might seem a fitting tribute to assembled mourners. But whenever the Tina Turner hit - or any other pop song now popular at funerals - booms out, it leaves one vicar feeling 'like a lemon'.
Writer Edgar Allan Poe gets proper funeral - 160 years on
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 3:42 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
By the standards of any age, it was a miserable way to go. Edgar Allan Poe, dark romantic writer and poet credited with inventing the genre of detective fiction, enjoyed a death far more Gothic and gloomy than any of his stories.
Musician Benny Mahan dies
Seeded on Mon Sep 28, 2009 5:28 PM EDT ()
Springfield Missouri musician Benny Mahan died Saturday morning, said friend Julie Cozort, who owns Harlow's, where Mahan frequently played and celebrated with other musicians.
Crystal Lee Sutton: Thunder in North Carolina
Seeded on Thu Sep 17, 2009 9:41 PM EDT (People's Weekly World)
"Mourn for the dead, but fight like hell for the living."
Memories of Poet-Rocker Jim Carroll
Seeded on Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:35 PM EDT (The Hartford Courant)
Jim Carroll, poet, writer, rocker, died last week at the age of 60. He was the author of "The Basketball Diaries" and "The Book of Nod" and also a dynamic rocker. I interviewed him nearly 30 years ago when he was just starting out on the rock scene.
'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze dies at 57
Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:05 PM EDT
Patrick Swayze personified a particular kind of masculine grace both on and off screen, from his roles in films like "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost" to the way he carried himself in his long fight with pancreatic cancer. Swayze died from the illness on Monday in Los Angeles, his publicist said. He was 57.
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Punk Rock Musician and Poet Jim Carroll Dies
Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:35 AM EDT (Reuters)
NEW YORK, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Punk-rock poet and musician Jim Carroll, who chronicled his wild teen years in "The Basketball Diaries," has died of a heart attack, his ex-wife told The New York Times.
Cuban revolutionary Almeida dies
Seeded on Sat Sep 12, 2009 2:14 PM EDT (BBC News)
One of the original protagonists of the Cuban revolution, Juan Almeida Bosque, has died of heart failure at the age of 82, according to state media. Almeida was one of several vice-presidents in the Council of State under Raul Castro.
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