Entertainment industry obituaries

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"I wish I could switch places with her for just one day!" Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster starred in Freaky Friday in 1976. A 1995 made-for-television remake starred Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman. Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan starred in a theatrical remake in 2003. On August 10, 2018, a new version starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Heidi Blickenstaff premiered on the Disney Channel.

Barbara Harris, actress in Nashville, Family Plot and Freaky Friday, dies at 83

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-83-1034053

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Zadan co-produced three Academy Awards telecasts, several live musicals broadcast on NBC and several movies including Footloose, Sing, Chicago, Hairspray, Brian's Song and The Bucket List.

Craig Zadan, prolific stage, TV and film producer, dies at 69

https://variety.com/2018/biz/news/cr...im-1202913206/

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Ronnie Van Zant wrote the lyrics of Sweet Home Alabama and Ed King and Gary Rossington composed the music. The "one, two, three" count at the beginning of the recording is King's voice. King also wrote the distinctive guitar intro.

Ed King, guitarist in Strawberry Alarm Clock and Lynyrd Skynyrd, dies at 68

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/le...ses-away-at-68

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Lazy Lester -- no, that wasn't his real name -- released 22 albums and 16 singles. His best-known songs are Sugar Coated Love, They Call Me Lazy, You're Gonna Ruin Me Baby, I Hear You Knockin' and I'm A Lover Not A Fighter. He was inducted into the Louisiana Blues Hall Of Fame in 1998 and the Memphis Blues Hall Of Fame in 2012.

Blues singer/songwriter/multi-insrumentalist Lazy Lester dead at 85

https://www.americanbluesscene.com/b...er-dead-at-85/

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No more "champagne wishes and caviar dreams." Robin Leach hosted Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous from 1984 to 1995. He and Matt Lauer co-hosted a spinoff, Fame Fortune & Romance, in 1986-87. Leach had never fully recovered from a massive stroke he suffered nine months ago while vacationing in Cabo San Lucas. He had another stroke four days ago.

Robin Leach, host of Lifestyles Of The Rich & Famous, dead at 76

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/robin-l...us-dead-at-76/

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In a seven-decade career as an actress, dancer and choreographer, Nelson staged elaborate dance numbers for dozens of movies and tv shows -- and in several films that featured tap dancing, it was the dubbed-in sound of Nelson's tap-dancing that audiences heard.

Hollywood choreographer Miriam Nelson dies at 98

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/m...nd-1202910676/V

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Among the Houston hip-hop group's hits in the 1990s: Six Feet Deep, Crooked Officer, The World Is A Ghetto and Mind Playing Tricks On Me

Collins 'DJ Ready Red' Leysath, Geto Boys member and producer, dies at 53

https://www.vibe.com/2018/08/get-boy...-heart-attack/

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The metalcore band We Came As Romans, originally known as This Emergency, formed in 2005 in Michigan and has released five albums and two EPs. Pavone joined the group in 2008.

We Came As Romans vocalist Kyle Pavone dead at 28

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment...ad-28-57402403

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Marvin Neil Simon -- he never used his first name -- worked as a comedy writer on five different tv series in the 1950s. He wrote 33 plays including Sweet Charity, Brighton Beach Memoirs and The Goodbye Girl. He wrote 25 screenplays for movies, the majority of which were adaptations of his plays.

Legendary playwright Neil Simon, known for The Odd Couple and Barefoot In The Park, dies at 91

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...826-story.html

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Stage/movie/tv actor Fredd Wayne -- he wisely changed his name from Fred Wiener -- died this morning at age 93. He appeared in 13 films and 141 tv shows including several westerns and several episodes of Perry Mason but was best known for portraying Benjamin Franklin in a one-man stage show and on television. On a 1966 episode of Bewitched, Clara conjured up an electrician to fix a broken lamp and Ben Franklin appeared! Here is that episode featuring Fredd Wayne:

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6ebk4f

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredd_Wayne