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Gena Rowlands, hailed as one of the greatest actors to ever practice the craft and a guiding light in independent cinema as a star in groundbreaking movies by her director husband, John Cassavetes, and who later charmed audiences in her son's tear-jerker The Notebook, has died. She was 94. Rowlands' death was confirmed by representatives for her son, filmmaker Nick Cassavetes. He revealed earlier this year that his mother had Alzheimer’s disease. TMZ reported that Rowlands died Wednesday at her home in Indian Wells, California. Rowlands was born in Wisconsin in June 1930. After college she mov...
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Rachael Lillis, the original voice performer behind Pokémon characters Jessie and Misty, has died aged 46 after a battle with breast cancer. Veronica Taylor, fellow Pokémon performer and friend of Lillis, announced the news on X. In her message, Taylor revealed that her friend had died on 10 August. “It is with a very heavy heart that I share the news of the passing of Rachael Lillis on Saturday evening, 10 August 2024,” Taylor wrote. “Rachael was an extraordinary talent, a bright light that shone through her voice whether speaking or singing. She will be forever remembered for the many animat...
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John Mayall, the British blues musician whose influential band the Bluesbreakers was a training ground for Eric Clapton, Mick Fleetwood and many other music stars, has died aged 90. Mayall’s passing was announced via his family on Facebook: “It is with heavy hearts that we bear the news that John Mayall passed away peacefully in his California home yesterday, July 22, 2024, surrounded by loving family. Health issues that forced John to end his epic touring career have finally led to peace for one of this world’s greatest road warriors. John Mayall gave us ninety years of tireless efforts to ed...
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Abdul “Duke” Fakir, the last surviving original member of the beloved Motown group the Four Tops, known for such hits as 'Reach Out, I’ll Be There' and 'Standing in the Shadows of Love', has died at age 88. Fakir died Monday (22 July) of heart failure at his home in Detroit, according to a family spokesperson, with his wife and other loved ones by his side. “Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of a trailblazer, icon and music legend who, through his 70-year music career, touched the lives of so many as he continued to tour until the end of 2023, and officially retired this year,” his fam...
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Shelley Duvall, who famously starred as Wendy Torrance in Stanley Kubrick’s horror classic The Shining, among many other iconic roles, has died at the age of 75. Duvall died in her sleep Thursday (11 July) in Blanco, Texas, due to complications from diabetes, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Her partner, Breakfast Club musician Dan Gilroy, confirmed the news to THR. “My dear, sweet, wonderful life partner and friend left us. Too much suffering lately, now she’s free. Fly away, beautiful Shelley,” Gilroy said. The actress, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, on 7 July 1949, was directed on several oc...
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Robert Towne, who's career spanned some of the biggest classics of the New Hollywood era of filmmaking, has died at the age of 89. His publicist Carri McClure says he died on Monday surrounded by family at his home in Los Angeles. No cause of death has yet been revealed. Roger Corman, the independent filmmaker who was known as the “Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood” took Towne under his wing after he took Corman’s acting class, along with other future greats like Jack Nicholson. Towne wrote films for Corman before becoming a script doctor. Warren Beatty had Towne restructure the script ...
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Seth Binzer, who went by his stage name Shifty Shellshock, was found in his Los Angeles home earlier this week. He died on Monday (24 June), according to the examiner's website. At the time of writing, no cause of death has been revealed. He founded the rap-rock band in Los Angeles in 1995 alongside Brett Mazur. Crazy Town’s 1999 single ‘Butterfly’ reached number one in the US singles chart and number three in the UK singles chart, and became an early 2000s anthem. The band also had hits including 'Drowning' and 'Revolving Door'. However, when commercial success alluded them in 2002 for their ...
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I had the pleasure of meeting Donald Sutherland at the Venice Film Festival in 2019. He was attending the event for the closing film of the 76th edition, Giuseppe Capotondi’s underrated crime thriller The Burnt Orange Heresy. It was one of the last films to screen to the press that year, and the starry cast had made their way to the Lido for one of the final press conferences. Obviously, the focus of attention was Mick Jagger, who starred in the film and put on a bit of a show when he entered the press room. He was followed by the director and co-stars Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and the gre...
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Kazuko Shiraishi, a leading name in modern Japanese “beat” poetry, known for her dramatic readings, at times with jazz music, has died. She was 93. Shiraishi, whom American poet and translator Kenneth Rexroth dubbed “the Allen Ginsberg of Japan,” died of heart failure on June 14, Shichosha, a Tokyo publisher of her works, said today. Shiraishi shot to fame when she was just 20, freshly graduated from Waseda University in Tokyo, with her “Tamago no Furu Machi,” translated as “The Town that Rains Eggs” — a surrealist portrayal of Japan’s wartime destruction. With her trademark long black hair an...
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French singer-songwriter, model and actress Françoise Hardy has died at the age of 80. Her death was announced by her son and musician Thomas Dutronc on social media. Dutronc wrote, captioning a photo of himself as a baby with his mother: “Maman est partie” (“Mum is gone”). Hardy revealed in June 2021 that she had been diagnosed with laryngeal cancer in 2018, following a lymphoma diagnosis in 2004. Born in 1944 in Paris, Hardy signed a contract with a record label as a teenager. Hardy had her first music hit with 'Tous les Garçons et les Filles' ('All the Boys and Girls') in 1962, when she was...
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