Ryan O’Neal, star of ‘Love Story’ and ‘Paper Moon,’ dies at 82
He emerged as a heartthrob on television's "Peyton Place" in the 1960s and arrived as a movie star in the sentimental 1970 box-office hit "Love Story." Yet Ryan O'Neal achieved...
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Comedy Store owner Mitzi Shore dead at 87
In the 1970s, David Letterman baby-sat her children and Jay Leno slept on the back stairs of her Sunset Strip club, where Jim Carrey later tended the door. Mitzi Shore...
Agnes Nixon, creator of ‘One Life to Live’ and ‘All My Children,’ dies at 93
The grand dame of daytime television drama, Agnes Nixon liked to say that "everyone's life is a soap opera." For proof, she offered up her own. She had an "abandonment...
Farrah Fawcett dies after battling cancer for 3 years
Farrah Fawcett, who starred in the 1970s television hit "Charlie's Angels" and became a generation's favorite pinup after posing for a hot-selling swimsuit poster, has died. She was 62. Fawcett,...
Dr. Frank Jobe, best-known for Tommy John surgery, dies at 88
In the fall of 1974, Dodger pitcher Tommy John heard his arm snap like a guitar string after delivering a pitch. The torn ligament was the type of injury that...
Dr. Frank Jobe, best-known for Tommy John surgery, dies at 88
In the fall of 1974, Dodger pitcher Tommy John heard his arm snap like a guitar string after delivering a pitch. The torn ligament was the type of injury that...
Maurice Sendak, author of ‘Where the Wild Things Are,’ dies at 83
Maurice Sendak, the children's book illustrator and author whose unsentimental approach to storytelling revolutionized the genre and whose best-known tale was the dark fantasy "Where the Wild Things Are," has...
Wagner fan led ‘Ringheads’
LOS ANGELES — Sherwin Sloan retired early as an ophthalmologist to pursue an obsession that bestowed another title — leader of the "Ringheads," a nickname for fans of Richard Wagner's...
PATRICK SWAYZE: 1952-2009
Patrick Swayze, the actor and classically trained dancer whose role in the enduringly popular "Dirty Dancing" made him a movie star, one who struggled with the alienation of fame and...
‘Dirty Dancing’ star Patrick Swayze dies at 57
Patrick Swayze, the actor and classically trained dancer whose role in the enduringly popular "Dirty Dancing" made him a movie star, one who struggled with the alienation of fame and...