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Opinion: Remembering the marvel, Maggie Smith

8:00am September 28, 2024

Jean Brodie, Minerva McGonagall, Violet Crawley: Maggie Smith embodied these memorable roles on stage and screen. NPR's Scott Simon has a remembrance of the actor, who died yesterday at the age of 89.

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Opinion: Bob Newhart showed us the extraordinary in the ordinary

8:00am July 20, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers understated comedian and actor Bob Newhart, who died this week at the age of 94.

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Sports

Joe 'Jellybean' Bryant, former NBA player and father of Kobe Bryant, dies at 69

3:29am July 17, 2024

by Ayana Archie

Bryant played in the NBA for eight seasons, before taking his playing career overseas. He later coached at a his alma mater, La Salle University, as well as the WNBA's Los Angeles Sparks.

Opinion: Remembering the star screenwriter Robert Towne

8:00am July 06, 2024

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers screenwriter Robert Towne, who died this week. Towne won an Oscar for Chinatown, which is considered one of the best screenplays in American cinema.

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Guillermo Frestan, 51, with his wife, Ana Maria Castro Ortez, and daughters Melanie, Jazmin and Fabiana.

National

A Family Mourns The Husband And Father Who Died Alone, 3,000 Miles Away

3:34pm May 01, 2020

by Gwynne Hogan

Guillermo Frestan had hoped to bring his wife and children from Nicaragua to live with him in the Bronx this year. He is one of more than 1,400 New Yorkers who have died at home during the pandemic.

One of the pioneers of London's acid house scene, Andrew Weatherall had an influential career as an electronic music artist, DJ and producer.

Music & Culture

Andrew Weatherall, Champion Of Underground Music, Dies At 56

6:53pm February 18, 2020

by Noah Caldwell

DJ and artist Andrew Weatherall died Monday at 56. He was widely heralded in the electronic music world and was a hero of underground dance music.

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Dr. Mathilde Krim at the World AIDS Day Symposium presented by the Foundation For AIDS Research and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in 2002. Krim had a knack for helping people talk about HIV/AIDS rationally, colleagues say.

Pioneering HIV Researcher Mathilde Krim Remembered For Her Activism

7:26pm January 17, 2018

by Patti Neighmond

Mathilde Krim, who died this week, was a vocal pioneer in HIV treatment and research at a time when discrimination against people with AIDS in the U.S. was rampant, even in medical care.

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Actor Robert Guillaume in 2005. He died Tuesday at 89.

Robert Guillaume, Groundbreaking Emmy Winner In 'Soap,' 'Benson,' Dies

6:47pm October 24, 2017

by Christopher Dean Hopkins

Guillaume started as a stage actor, but playing refined butler — and later lieutenant governor — Benson DuBois for nine years starting in 1977 made him a TV star and a symbol of hard-won success.

National

Magazine Mogul S.I. Newhouse Dies At 89

5:09pm October 01, 2017

by Amy Held

Under the billionaire's leadership, magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker flourished into major cultural influences.