obituaries

'Fresh Air' Remembers Marvel Comics Writer And Editor Stan Lee

4:08pm November 13, 2018

by Terry Gross

The Spider-Man and Hulk creator spoke to Fresh Air in 1991 about coming up with Spider-Man, inventing new sound effects for his comics and why superheroes have colorful costumes.

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Stan Lee, American comic book writer, editor, publisher and former President of Marvel Comics, attends the premiere of Doctor Strange in 2016. Lee died Monday at the age of 95.

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A True Believer Remembers Stan Lee

6:25pm November 12, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Stan Lee — born Stanley Martin Lieber — co-created many beloved Marvel Comics characters, but he became the company's tireless, beloved figurehead. NPR's Glen Weldon offers a remembrance.

Actor Douglas Rain, Voice Of HAL In '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies At 90

4:27pm November 12, 2018

Actor Douglas Rain died on Sunday from natural causes in Ontario. He was 90 and is best known for the voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which came out 50 years ago this year.

Lee at Comic-Con in San Diego on July 19, 2013.

A Marvel Of A Man: Stan Lee Dead At 95

4:27pm November 12, 2018

by Beth Accomando

Lee gave us over six decades' worth of superheroes we could identify with, characters like Spider-Man and The Incredible Hulk, who reacted to superpowered crises in believably flawed, human ways.

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Douglas Rain in Canada, July of this year.

R.I.P. HAL: Douglas Rain, Voice Of Computer In '2001,' Dies At 90

9:16am November 12, 2018

by Emily Sullivan

Rain was best known for the eerie, sonorous voice he lent to HAL 9000 in the 1968 Stanley Kubrick film. However, he was also celebrated for his decades of performances on the Shakespearean stage.

This undated photo provided by former Fox News correspondent Adam Housley and his wife, actress Tamera Mowry-Housley, shows their niece, Alaina Housley, a Pepperdine University freshman who was among those killed in the Wednesday shooting at the Borderlin

National

'This Is Going To Be Absolutely Heart-wrenching': The Thousand Oaks Shooting Victims

9:46pm November 08, 2018

by Vanessa Romo

Not all the victims' names have not been released but among those confirmed are three men and a woman. They range from 18 to 33 — a reflection of the crowd drawn to the bar's "College Country Night."

A member of The Residents waves to the crowd after a performance in Moscow on September 8, 2001.

Music & Culture

Behind The Eye Of Hardy Fox, Composer For America's Weirdest Band

3:07pm November 07, 2018

by Jason Roth

Emerging from the soup of groovy San Francisco, The Residents went on to outweird them all. Last week, one of the group's co-founders and its central composer died at 73 — but not anonymously.

Utah Town Honors Its Mayor, A National Guardsman, Who Was Killed In Kabul

6:28am November 06, 2018

North Ogden is mourning the death of Brent Taylor, the father of seven was killed in action in Afghanistan. Rachel Martin talks to Brent Chugg, the town's interim mayor, about the loss of his friend.

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A Utah Town Remembers Its Mayor, Killed In Action In Afghanistan

6:19pm November 04, 2018

by Laurel Wamsley

Major Brent Taylor was hailed as a true "citizen soldier," serving both the community of North Ogden and deploying with the Utah National Guard.

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Trumpeter Roy Hargrove, performs at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on May 1, 2013. Hargrove died at age 49 Friday in New York.

Music & Culture

Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49

5:22pm November 03, 2018

by Nate Chinen

Hargrove first emerged in the late 1980s, at a cultural moment when his precocity and poise amounted to a form of currency in jazz, quickly earning the approval of the genre's elders.