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Items by By BRUCE WEBER
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Richard Seaver, Publisher, Dies at 82
Posted: January 7th, 2009, 5:45am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Seaver defied censorship and conventional literary standards to bring works by rabble-rousing authors like Samuel Beckett, Henry Miller and William Burroughs to American readers.
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Delaney Bramlett, Pop Singer and Guitarist, Dies at 69
Posted: December 31st, 2008, 4:28am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Bramlett’s songs were covered by popular musicians ranging from Ray Charles to Sonic Youth.
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Irving Brecher, 94, Comedy-Script Writer, Is Dead
Posted: November 19th, 2008, 8:12am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Brecher wrote vaudeville sketches, jokes, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series and screenplays for movie musicals including “Meet Me in St. Louis” and “Bye Bye Birdie.”
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Nadia Nerina, Royal Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 80
Posted: October 11th, 2008, 5:08am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Ms. Nerina was a principal ballerina for the Royal Ballet known for her technical virtuosity, lightness afoot, effortless-seeming jumps and joyful charm onstage, especially in comedic roles.
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Charles Wright, Novelist, Dies at 76
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 4:07am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Wright wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent, then vanished into alcoholism and despair.
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Ruedi Rymann, Swiss Yodeling Star, Dies at 75
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 4:54am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Rymann was a Swiss farmer and cheesemaker renowned in his home country as a yodeler and the man who recorded what came to be known as “Switzerland’s greatest hit.”
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If Only the Cool Kids Could See Him Now (at Least Hear His Songs)
Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 6:29am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Adolescent anxiety is the subject of “13,” Jason Robert Brown’s new Broadway musical.
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Don Ultang, Pioneer in Aerial Photography, Dies at 91
Posted: September 25th, 2008, 6:52am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Ultang won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize for photography for documenting an egregious, seemingly racially motivated assault on the field during a football game.
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Richard Monette, Artistic Director for Shakespeare Festival, Dies at 64
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 5:36am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Monette led the the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and led it into the most robust artistic and financial period in its history.
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Tad Mosel, TV Dramatist, Dies at 86
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:38am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Mosel’s dramatic scripts for live television were regularly featured in prime-time programming in the 1950s, and his play “All the Way Home” won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1961.
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Laurence Urdang, Language Expert Who Edited Dictionaries, Dies at 81
Posted: August 26th, 2008, 5:33am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Urdang was a prolific lexicographer who had a hand in more than 100 dictionaries and other reference books.
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Leroy Sievers, 53, Journalist Who Wrote of Cancer Battle, Dies
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 6:06am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Sievers was a television news producer who covered more than a dozen wars but became best known to the public as he chronicled his illness for NPR in a blog called “My Cancer.”
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Bertrand Castelli, Bon Vivant and an Early Producer of ‘Hair,’ Dies at 78
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 6:38am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Castelli was a painter, a screenwriter, a balletomane and a choreographer as well as a producer.
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Alexander Slobodyanik, Pianist, Is Dead at 65
Posted: August 13th, 2008, 4:48am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Slobodyanik was a Ukrainian-born pianist who earned stardom in the former Soviet Union with his virtuosity and emotional interpretations of Romantic composers.
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George Furth, an Actor and Playwright, Dies at 75
Posted: August 12th, 2008, 7:50am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Furth was a playwright who collaborated on the Tony Award-winning musical “Company” and a character actor whose distinct profile enlivened dozens of popular television series.
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Simon Gray, Playwright, Dies at 71; Aimed Wit at Intellectuals, and Himself
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 9:45am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Gray wrote bitingly comic plays like “Butley” and “Otherwise Engaged” about the educated British middle class and manically confessional late-in-life memoirs.
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Peter Kass, 85, Bold Teacher of Acting, Is Dead
Posted: August 8th, 2008, 9:36am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Kass was a theater actor and director whose influence as a teacher was felt in several generations of performers.
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Roger Hall, a Spy With a Sense of Humor, Is Dead at 89
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 5:55am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Hall is best known for a memoir of his experience in the Office of Strategic Services, the World War II precursor of the Central Intelligence Agency.
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Bruce Adler, Actor With Yiddish Roots, Is Dead at 63
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 5:55am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Adler was an actor and song-and-dance man with roots in the Yiddish theater who hoofed successfully onto Broadway and was nominated for two Tony Awards.
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Barbara Ann Teer, 71, Dies; Promoted Black Arts
Posted: July 25th, 2008, 7:56am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Ms. Teer, who founded the National Black Theater, gave up a promising career in commercial entertainment to concentrate on developing African-American culture in Harlem.
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David Gahr, Photographer of Musicians, Dies at 85
Posted: May 29th, 2008, 7:46am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Gahr turned his back on a promising career as a scholar and landed among the pre-eminent photographers of American folk, blues, jazz and rock musicians.
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Earle Hagen, Who Composed Noted TV Tunes, Dies at 88
Posted: May 28th, 2008, 5:02am GMT by By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Hagen was a onetime big-band trombonist who wrote some of the most famous theme songs in television history.