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Former Mayor Riordan OK After Hospital Stay for Chest Pain
Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES -- Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan, back in the spotlight with a plan to scale back city employee pensions, was hospitalized briefly earlier this week with chest pain, a local news blog reported Saturday. Riordan, 82, who previously had a...Tags: Chest, Heart Attack, Los Angeles Times, Symptoms, Richard Riordan
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Geoff Ammer dies at 62; veteran Hollywood marketing executive
Geoff Ammer, a veteran Hollywood marketing executive whose three-decade career spanned multiple studios, died Sunday morning of a heart attack. He was 62. Ammer collapsed at his home in Brentwood and was rushed to St. John's Health Center in Santa...
Tags: Movies, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., Spider-Man (fictional character), Sony Corp., Relativity Media
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Dick Clark dies at 82; he introduced America to rock 'n' roll
Dick Clark, the youthful-looking television personality who literally introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the nation on "American Bandstand" and for four decades was the first and last voice many Americans heard each year with his New Year's Eve...Tags: Syracuse University, Ed Sullivan, Rock and Roll (genre), CNN (tv network), Television
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Eleanor LaVove dies at 94; co-founder of dollhouse museum
Eleanor LaVove, a former fashion editor who co-founded Angels Attic, a museum devoted to antique and contemporary dollhouses, toys and miniatures, died Aug. 24 at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. She was 94. The cause was ovarian cancer, said...
Tags: United Air Lines, Arts and Culture, Cary Grant, Ovarian Cancer, Los Angeles Times
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Peter Bergman dies at 72; comedian in Firesign Theatre troupe
Peter Bergman, a founder of Firesign Theatre, the comic quartet that channeled the absurdist sensibility and chaotic impulses of the countercultural 1960s and '70s into a popular radio show and a series of cult-classic albums, has died at 72.
A...Tags: Obituaries, Leukemia, Cults and Sects, Radio Industry, Talk Shows (genre)
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Burton S. Sperber dies at 82; landscape company founder
He was the founder and chairman of the board of Calabasas-based ValleyCrest Landscape Cos., the nation's largest landscape services company, whose projects have included the gardens at the Getty Center and the rooftop community garden at Walt Disney...Tags: Obituaries, Management Change, Sociology, California Department of Transportation, Rick Caruso
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Joanne Siegel dies at 93; model for Superman character Lois Lane
Joanne Siegel, who played a role in the creation of the Superman saga in the 1930s as Joe Shuster's teenage artist's model for Lois Lane and later married the Man of Steel's co-creator, writer Jerry Siegel, has died. She was 93.
Siegel, a longtime...Tags: New York City, New York, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Hysterectomy risk
Tribune NewspapersWomen who have their healthy ovaries removed when they have a hysterectomy face a higher risk of death, including death from coronary heart disease and lung cancer, than women who keep their ovaries, according to new research. The finding, from a study...Tags: Santa Monica, Gynecology, Physical Conditions, Drugs and Medicines, Demographics
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Jose H. Rodriguez dies at 76; chef and owner of La Serenata de Garibaldi
The name that Jose H. Rodriguez chose for his Boyle Heights restaurant was steeped in tradition, much like the Mexican seafood he had served to acclaim since 1985, the year he opened La Serenata de Garibaldi.
Inspired by a mariachi plaza in the...Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Dining and Drinking, Santa Monica, Career and Workplace, Mexico City
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'Pink Panther' Director Blake Edwards Dies at 88
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- Blake Edwards, the director and writer known for clever dialogue, poignance and occasional belly-laugh sight gags in "Breakfast at Tiffany's," "10" and the "Pink Panther" farces, is dead at age 88. Edwards died from complications of...Tags: Blake Edwards, Diseases and Illnesses, KTLA, Health, Pneumonia
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Blake Edwards dies at 88; 'Pink Panther' director was master of slapstick comedy
Blake Edwards, a writer-director who battled depression in his personal life yet was known as a modern master of slapstick and sophisticated wit with hit films such as the "Pink Panther" comedies, "10" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's," has died. He was 88....Tags: Billy Wilder, Broadway Theater, Henry Mancini, Hospitals and Clinics, Internists
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