Remembrances

Colombia Mourns Death Of Favorite Son: Gabriel Garcia Marquez

11:10am April 18, 2014

by Juan Forero

Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 87, died on Thursday. He made Colombia synonymous with literature, particularly the dreamlike, whimsical story-telling known as magical realism.

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Admirers ask Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- seated alongside his wife, Mercedes Barcha -- to sign books in Santa Marta, Colombia, in 2007.

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Writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Who Gave Voice To Latin America, Dies

8:06pm April 17, 2014

by Mandalit del Barco

The master of magic realism was the region's best-known writer. His novels were filled with miraculous events and characters; love and madness; wars, dreams and death. He died Thursday at 87.

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Mickey Rooney, All-American Boy For More Than 90 Years, Dies

7:29pm April 07, 2014

by Bob Mondello

Bob Mondello offers an appreciation of the career of Mickey Rooney, who died at 93.

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Peter Matthiessen On Writing And Zen Buddhism

2:57pm April 07, 2014

Fresh Air listens back to our 1989 interview with Snow Leopard author and Paris Review co-founder Peter Matthiessen, who died Saturday at age 86. His new novel In Paradise comes out Tuesday.

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Rooney and Judy Garland look over the program at the Ice Follies. The two starred together on screen and developed a friendship.

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The Inimitable Mickey Rooney Dies At 93

12:48pm April 07, 2014

by Becky Vlamis

The 5-foot-3 dynamo poured his uncanny energy into a lifetime of roles alongside Hollywood's biggest stars. Rooney, whose sunny portrayals of youth earned him an honorary Oscar, died Sunday.

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Rwandan genocide-hunter Dafroza Gauthier on February 4, 2014 at the opening of the trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, Rwanda's former intelligence chief, charged with complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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Fighting For Rwanda's Justice In France

8:00pm April 06, 2014

by NPR Staff

The first Rwandan genocide trial to take place in France sent a man to prison for 25 years last month. Dafroza Gauthier and her organization helped make that conviction possible.

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Music & Culture

Dance Music Legend Frankie Knuckles Dies At 59

10:45am April 02, 2014

by Neda Ulaby

The iconic DJ is credited with helping popularize the style of mixes and remixes known as house music. The cause of death is still unknown, but he suffered from diabetes.

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Remembering Cory Monteith — Not Finn Hudson In 'Glee'

4:29pm March 18, 2014

by Nathan Rott

Cory Monteith was known to most Americans as the star of TV's Glee. But Monteith, who died at age 31, was a former high school dropout who used an unorthodox audition tape to get noticed.

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'Fresh Air' Remembers Comedian David Brenner

1:52pm March 17, 2014

Brenner appeared on The Tonight Show more than 150 times, often as the substitute host. The comic died Saturday at 78. He spoke to Fresh Air in 1990.

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A Fond Farewell For The Voice That Welcomed Viewers To Theaters

6:33pm March 14, 2014

Voiceover artist Hal Douglas died recently at age 89. Filmmaker Casimir Nozkowski discusses the life and work of the prolific speaker, who narrated thousands of movie trailers in a gravelly baritone.

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