Remembrances

Remembering Patty Duke, Hollywood's 'Miracle Worker'

6:01pm March 29, 2016

by Bob Mondello

Actress Patty Duke, who played an adolescent Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker, and starred in her own TV sitcom — The Patty Duke Show — while still in her teens, has died. She was 69.

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Anne Bancroft holds Patty Duke's hand to teach her a new word in a scene from the 1962 film The Miracle Worker.

National

Oscar-Winning Actress Patty Duke Dies At 69

2:58pm March 29, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Duke, whose real name was Anna Pearce, died early Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine, her agent said.

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Writer Jim Harrison set his stories in the American wilderness. "I like outside better than inside," he said.

Books
Arts

Jim Harrison, 'Legends Of The Fall' Author, Dies At 78

8:37am March 28, 2016

by Tom Vitale

The author — who wrote more than three dozen books, including the novels Dalva and True North and many collections of poetry — found freedom in the outdoors. He died Saturday in Patagonia, Ariz.

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Arts

How Heartbreak Helped Garry Shandling Find His Comedic Voice

4:39pm March 25, 2016

The comic, who died Thursday, told Fresh Air that it took him years to develop a style — and then he got dumped. "That was really the beginning of the Garry Shandling dating years in stand-up."

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The cast of the TV show The Waltons, created by Earl Hamner Jr.

National

Earl Hamner, Creator Of 'The Waltons,' Dies At 92

9:20am March 25, 2016

by Barbara Campbell

The long-running television show set in the Depression-era Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia told a story based on Hamner's youth through the characters of John Boy Walton and his loving family.

Actor Garry Shandling arrives at the world premiere of Paramount Pictures and Marvel Entertainment's Iron Man 2 in Hollywood in 2010.

Actor And Comedian Garry Shandling Dies At 66

8:34pm March 24, 2016

by Laura Wagner

Best known for his work on the pioneering cable television comedy series The Larry Sanders Show, Shandling died following a "medical emergency," the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Arts

Comedian Garry Shandling Dies At 66

8:13pm March 24, 2016

Garry Shandling, the comedian and actor who starred in The Larry Sanders Show, died on Thursday at age 66.

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Rapper Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest performs at H2O Music Festival at Los Angeles Historical Park on August 17, 2013.

Music & Culture

Phife Dawg, A Founding Member of A Tribe Called Quest, Dies At 45

11:45pm March 23, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

His family said in a statement that Malik I. Taylor's death was the result of complications from diabetes.

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A photo from the personal Facebook page of Adelma Tapia Ruiz and provided by her brother Fernando Tapia Ruiz shows Ruiz and her Belgian husband, Christophe Delcambe.

World News

'You Can't Help But Notice Her': What We Know About 3 Brussels Victims

8:21pm March 23, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Belgian authorities aren't releasing names of the victims, but some information has trickled out. Here's what we know about three of the deceased.

World News

Remembering The Victims Of Airport, Metro Attacks In Brussels

5:50pm March 23, 2016

At least 30 people died in the attacks at an airport and metro station in Brussels Tuesday. The identities of some of the victims are slowly being made public.

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