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"I can think of nothing more fitting than for the four of you to spend a year removed from society." Anderson also played Drew Carey's father on The Drew Carey Show.
Stanley Anderson, Spider-Man and Seinfeld actor, dies at 78
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...-at-78-1123838
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Stern directed 51 films, the majority of which were made-for-tv movies. He also directed episodes of Serpico, McCloud, Logan's Run, Hawaii Five-0 and other tv series.
Steven Hilliard Stern, director of Miracle On Ice and The Devil & Max Devlin, dies at 80
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-80-1124122
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Eugene Pitt founded the Jive Five in 1958. Their biggest hit was My True Story, which reached #3 in 1961. Pitt also sang backup on Gloria Gaynor's 1974-75 hit Never Can Say Goodbye and in 1985 he and the Jive Five recorded the a cappella jingle for the Nickelodeon channel ("Nick-ni-ni-ni-ni-ni-nick-nick-nick, Nickel-o-de-onnn").
Jive Five lead singer Eugene Pitt dies at 80
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...ne-pitt-passes
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Smoke Dawg, who toured with Drake in 2017, is the third rapper to be shot and killed in the past two weeks.
Canadian rapper Smoke Dawg dies in Toronto shooting
https://etcanada.com/news/343120/can...ional-tribute/
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Lynne began as a ballerina, then became a stage actress and dancer. She did the choreography for dozens of Broadway and West End plays including Cats, Cabaret, My Fair Lady and Phantom Of The Opera, several movies incuding Man Of La Mancha and European Vacation and most of the song-and-dance numbers on the 1976-81 tv series The Muppet Show. (Kermit says "Yaaaaaay!")
Choreographer and director Gillian Lynne dies at 92
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2018...-dies-aged-92/
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One of the Bay City Rollers died on M-O-N-D-A-Y morning.
Alan Longmuir, Bay City Rollers co-founder and bassist, dies at 70
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-44679446
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She appeared in The Sad Sack with Jerry Lewis, King Creole with Elvis Presley and Me & The Colonel with Danny Kaye and for nine years was a dancer with the Folies-Bergère.
Liliane Montevecchi, cabaret singer and Tony Award winner for Nine, dies at 85
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/01/o...cchi-dead.html
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Butler was blinded in infancy by glaucoma and learned to play trombone, drums and piano as a child. He began performing professionally at age 12 and released 12 albums.
Henry Butler, New Orleans R&B/jazz piano virtuoso, dies at 68
https://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf...ans_piano.html
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Watrous released 23 albums as a bandleader and played on 18 others as a sideman.
Jazz trombonist Bill Watrous dies at 79
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/...P-Bill-Watrous
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Watrous
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Swift released seven albums and 14 EPs and singles. He toured with the Black Keys in 2014-15 as bassist and backup singer.
Richard Swift, singer-songwriter and former member of the Shins and the Arcs, dies at 41
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/...41-1202864543/
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Schultz used to be a strong critic of Vladimir Putin but then somehow decided that Putin could not possibly have meddled in our 2016 election. Schultz also became a newscaster on Russia Today's US channel. Go figure!
Ed Schultz, veteran broadcaster and former MSNBC host, dies at 64
https://www.wsls.com/news/national/e...ost-dies-at-64
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Malloy engineered more than 1,000 albums. Among the many artists he worked with: Frank Sinatra, Eddy Arnold, Dolly Parton, Henry Mancini, Duane Eddy, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Mahalia Jackson, Charley Pride, Al Hirt, Benny Goodman, Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins, Neil Diamond, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Bing Crosby, Duke Ellington, Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Ronstadt, Louis Armstrong, Ricky Nelson, Doris Day, Perry Como, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Hank Williams Jr., Ike & Tina Turner, the Beach Boys and the Statler Brothers. Whew!
Grammy-winning recording engineer Jim Malloy has died
https://www.tennessean.com/story/ent...ies/760375002/
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Cindy Oh Cindy, recorded with the Tarriers, reached #9 in November 1956. It was Martin's only chart hit. (The Tarriers also sang on Harry Belafonte's Banana Boat, popularly known as Day-O.)
Vince Martin, Cindy Oh Cindy singer, early folk-rock pioneer, dead at 81
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...-at-81-696767/
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Ditko co-created Spider-Man, designed Spidey's costume and came up with the idea of web-shooters. He -- Ditko, not Spider-Man -- also co-created Doctor Strange, Doctor Octopus, Captain Atom, Electro, the Creeper, the Lizard, the Sandman and the Green Goblin.
Steve Ditko, Spider-Man co-creator and legendary comic-book artist, dies at 90
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/new...GXTX?ocid=AMZN
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Death-metal band Malevolent Creation formed in 1987 in Buffalo. They've released 12 studio albums, three live albums and six compilations.
Former Malevolent Creation singer Bret Hoffmann dead at 51
http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/for...nn-dead-at-51/
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Johnson, a three-time Emmy award winner, did the choreography for many stage productions, musical revues and movies, including three Mel Brooks films. Who could ever forget the Monster singing Puttin' On The Ritz or the stormtroopers dancing to Springtime For Hitler?
Choreographer Alan Johnson passes away
https://www.broadwayworld.com/articl...-Away-20180708
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Ric Cartey co-wrote and recorded Young Love in 1956. His version never made the charts but in 1957 the song became a number-one hit for two different artists: Sonny James.....and Tab Hunter.
Tab Hunter, star of The Burning Hills and Damn Yankees!, dies at 86
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entert...709-story.html
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I'm disillusioned. Animal wasn't real and he didn't really become 50 feet tall after ingesting Insta-Grow Pills.
Robbie Knott, special effects guru on The Muppet Movie, Field Of Dreams, Repo Man and Dances With Wolves, dies at 73
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/cel...RvpE?ocid=AMZN
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Among his many movie and tv roles, Perry co-starred on Arrest & Trial and Harrigan & Son. Who could ever forget the silly theme song that assumed we couldn't spell? "H-A, Double-R-I, G-A-N spells Harrigan....."
Roger Perry, actor on Star Trek, The Munsters and The Facts Of Life, dies at 85
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-85-1127047
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Born in the Netherlands, Wolders had roles in Beau Geste and several 1960s-70s tv shows but he was best known for co-starring as Erik Hunter, a rookie member of the Texas Rangers, in the second (and final) season of the Western series Laredo, 1966-67. (That's the original Texas Rangers, not the baseball team!)
Robert Wolders, Laredo star and longtime companion of Audrey Hepburn, dies at 81
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/ro...85iX?ocid=AMZN