With another Hollywood Bowl season careening to a close this week, it is a sadly appropriate time to take note of the passing of a man who symbolized the summer and light music to many. Erich Kunzel, the true inheritor of Arthur Fiedler’s mantle as America’s King of Symphonic Pops, died Sept. 1 of pancreatic, colon and liver cancer in Maine, aged only 74.
The news hit Cincinnati – where he had been conductor of the Cincinnati...
DETROIT — Ernie Harwell, the 91-year-old Baseball Hall of Fame honoree and longtime broadcaster for the Detroit Tigers, said Friday that he has inoperable cancer.
Harwell told The Associated Press he knows he'll go through some painful days, but is in good spirits and appreciates the good wishes he's received from hundreds of fans.
"I guess they (listeners) got used to me, good or bad," Harwell said in a telephone...
LONDON (Reuters) - British television chat show host and radio disc jockey Simon Dee has died of bone cancer at the age of 74, his daughter told the BBC.
His Saturday evening "Dee Time" program was one of the most popular television shows of the late 1960s with a peak audience of 15 million.
Dee was one of the first disc jockeys to join the BBC's new Radio One after starting his career on the pirate station Radio Caroline...
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By Ann O'Neill and Beth Karas
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Dominick Dunne, the former Hollywood producer and best-selling author known for his Vanity Fair essays on the courtroom travails of the rich and famous, died Wednesday in New York city after a long battle with cancer.
Dominick Dunne wrote five best selling books and covered high society crimes for Vanity Fair. Dunne, who described himself as "a high-class Zelig," was 83. Called "Nick" by his friends,...
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