Excerpted from:
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/obituaries/A42517-2001Nov30.html

John Knowles; Author Of 'A Separate Peace'

John Knowles, 75, author of the classic 1959 novel "A Separate
Peace," which explored the adolescent relationship and rivalry
between two friends as well as the atmospherics of their fictitious
East Coast prep school, died Nov. 29 at a nursing home in Fort
Lauderdale, Fla. The cause of death was not reported.

We knew this was coming, but it's still an awfully hard one to
swallow.

Here are the first few links (I'll have more, as well as a photo or
two, up at http://www.amuseyourself.com/obituaries.html later today):

http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/Music/11/30/harrison.obit/
http://www.csmonitor.com/earlyed/earlyWorld1.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,39778,00.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/665318.asp
http://www.npr.org/news/specials/harrison/011130.harrison.html
http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/harrison.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/30/obituaries/30CND-HARR.html
http://www.time.com/time/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.cbc.ca/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2001/11/30/cultura/1007108097.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000094513nov27.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2D\
obituaries

Melanie Thornton, 34; Singer With La Bouche Pop Duo Dies in Crash

Melanie Thornton, 34, an American pop singer who established a career
in Germany, died Saturday in an airplane crash in Switzerland.

Thornton was traveling from Berlin to Zurich for a live performance
when her plane went down in a wooded area near Zurich's airport,
killing her and 23 others, officials said.

A native of Charleston, S.C., and resident of Atlanta, Thornton
attracted a following in Germany in the 1990s as part of the duo La
Bouche, with Lane McCray. She had her first hit album as a solo act
there last year, when "Ready to Fly" reached No. 18 on German pop
charts. Other hits for La Bouche included "Sweet Dreams" and "Be My
Lover."

Gardner McKay, 69; Left Acting Career to Be a Writer

Excerpt from LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000093314nov22.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2D\
obituaries

Gardner McKay, whose dashing good looks landed him a starring role in
television's "Adventures in Paradise" in the early 1960s but who
abandoned acting to pursue a writing career, died Wednesday of
prostate cancer at his home in Oahu, Hawaii. He was 69.

As Capt. Adam Troy, a freelance skipper plying the South Seas, McKay
had a three-season run on the ABC series. When it debuted in 1959,
Life magazine predicted that "this is the face that will launch a
million sighs and burn its romantic image into the hearts of hordes
of American females."

. . .

McKay wrote dozens of plays, the most notable being "Sea Marks,"
which won a writing award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle
and was shown on PBS; "Masters of the Sea" and "This Fortunate
Island." Of "Sea Marks," presented in 1974 at the Hollywood Center
Theater, then-Times theater critic Dan Sullivan wrote that though
flawed, "where it counts, 'Sea Marks' does come through. We meet two
people we haven't known before, and we end up caring about them."

McKay served as drama critic and theater editor for the Los Angeles
Herald Examiner from 1977 to 1982, and had stints teaching play
writing through extension programs at UCLA, the University of Alaska
and the University of Hawaii.

Since 1995, McKay had been writing and reading short stories for a
weekly program called "Stories on the Wind" on public radio in
Hawaii, where he moved in 1987.

His first novel, "Toyers," a thriller--published by Little, Brown in
1999--was well received by critics. At his death, his family said, he
was nearing completion of his autobiography.

Living in a house on a hill in Koko Head about five miles from
Honolulu, with a sweeping view of the mountains and ocean, McKay had
found his slice of paradise.

"It was a very tranquil place for him," said Madeleine Madigan McKay,
his wife of 19 years. "It's very close to the water, and every day
he'd go out in his kayak. He just enjoyed the serenity of the place."

In addition to his wife, McKay is survived by his son, Tristan
Gardner Lebaile McKay of Paris; his daughter Liza McKay of Petree,
Calif.; his brother Hugh McKay of Los Angeles; and a granddaughter.

The death of Mary Kay Ash, she of the cosmetics empire whose reps
drove those ubiquitous trademark pink cars, was just announced on the
local news.  No obit on the 'Net yet.

JR
http://www.amuseyourself.com

Two deaths and a heads-up to report:


First, I just caught a quick mention on the early news that One Flew
Over the Cuckoo's Nest author Ken Kesey died in Seattle.  No official
printed obit yet, but here's the latest piece I could find:

http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/46117_kesey10.shtml


Second: Eunice Simpson, mother of O.J.

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/314/obituaries/Eunice_Simpson_+.shtml



Finally, as much as it pains me to mention it, it doesn't bode well
for George Harrison:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134364765_george10.html


JR
http://www.amuseyourself.com/obituaries.html

Excerpts from
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000085807oct28.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2D\
obituaries

Eugene Jackson, 84; Child Actor Starred in 'Our Gang'

...

Eugene "Pineapple" Jackson, veteran of half a dozen of the silent
"Our Gang" comedies of the 1920s and a song and dance man who
appeared in dozens of films and ground-breaking African American
television series, including "Julia" and "Sanford and Son," died
Friday at 84.

He had a heart attack at his home in Compton, said Robert B.
Satterfield, head of a local fan club that tracks stars of Hal Roach
Studios and a friend of Jackson's for the last 21 years. The actor's
last public appearance was Oct. 6, Satterfield said, at Burbank's
Pickwick Center, where he joined other surviving "Our Gang" cast
members to accept an award from the fan club.

After Jackson's 1923 film debut as the extra who got dunked in May
McAvoy's "Her Reputation," the little boy gained quick fame as
Farina's older brother "Pineapple" in six of Roach's "Our Gang"
silent two-reelers--"The Mysterious Mystery," "The Big Town," "Circus
Fever," "Dog Days," "The Love Bug" and "Shootin' Injuns."

The classic shorts are better known to many as "The Little Rascals,"
a name they were given in the 1950s when they were recycled for
television.

When his "Our Gang" contract ended in 1926, Jackson went to work for
Mack Sennett as the only black child in the similar Buster Brown
comedies, and he was also in Mary Pickford's silent feature film
"Little Annie Rooney."

Charismatic, but later modestly attributing his popularity to "taking
good directions," Jackson was so busy as a child actor that he worked
in two studios a day, shuttling between them by limousine. He was in
"Penrod and Sam" with then-child actor Ben Alexander, "Thief of
Baghdad" with Douglas Fairbanks and "Uncle Tom's Cabin" with Gertrude
Howard.

Talkies didn't stop him either. His first one was the 1928 "Hearts in
Dixie" for Fox, billed as "the first all-singing, all-dancing,
all-Negro musical."

Jackson experienced early Hollywood's stereotype casting and pay
differentials for minorities firsthand. For "Our Gang," he earned a
top of $55 a week compared with the white children's $75, he told The
Times in 1992. And, he added, "black kids had to look the part. They
would put stuff on my hair to make it look kinkier."

When he hit the awkward age--too old for child roles and too young to
portray adults--he went on the vaudeville circuit singing and
dancing, billed as "Hollywood's most famous colored kid star." On
tour, he found few hotels to accommodate him, and often roomed with a
black family.

Over the years, Jackson was cast in bit parts selling watermelon,
shining shoes, lugging suitcases, waiting tables or cleaning up after
horses, and often went uncredited.

...

Jackson's roles on television were also small, but he was
nevertheless proud to be in series that broke ground for blacks. He
was Diahann Carroll's Uncle Lou on the 1960s "Julia," which starred a
black woman in a prestigious leading role--as a young professional
and widowed mother--for the first time. He was Redd Foxx's friend on
occasional episodes of the high-profile 1970s comedy "Sanford and
Son" and played the faithful driver for an American veterinarian on
the African veldt in the adventure series "Daktari."

The actor, who published his autobiography, "Eugene Pineapple
Jackson: His Own Story," in 1998, perhaps found his greatest success
in music and dance.

...

The durable entertainer is survived by his wife of 55 years, Sue; two
daughters, Hazel Clark and Sue Black, who have taught at his dance
studios; and a son, Eugene III, who became a television cameraman.
Services are being planned by the Simon & McGee Mortuary in Lynwood
for Oct. 31.

MIAMI - Gregory Hemingway, whose troubled relationship with his late
father, writer Ernest Hemingway, led him to a tormented life of drink
and depression, has died in Miami, officials said yesterday.

Mr. Hemingway, 69, died of natural causes in a Miami jail after being
arrested last week for indecent exposure.

He was picked up after walking naked down the street in Key Biscayne,
a Miami island community, carrying a pair of black high heels and
wearing jewelry, police said.

''He had a difficult life. It's not easy to be the son of a great
man,'' Scott Donaldson, president of the Hemingway Society, told
Reuters.

Mr. Hemingway, younger brother to Jack and Patrick, struggled to cope
with the burden. A transvestite who later had a sex-change operation,
he suffered bouts of drinking and depression, according to
acquaintances.

''I don't know how it was done, the destruction,'' he said in a 1987
interview with the Washington Post. ''What is it about a loving,
dominating, basically well-intentioned father that makes you end up
going nuts?''

Gregory Hemingway was born in Kansas City. His mother was Hemingway's
second wife, Pauline. He lived his early years in Key West and spoke
fondly of war games played with his father in their yard. Known to
the family as Gigi, he attended University of Miami medical school.
He practiced medicine in Montana, but lost his license as he battled
alcoholism.

Mr. Hemingway wrote about his relationship with his father in an
acclaimed book ''Papa: A Personal Memoir.'' The book opened: ''I
never got over the sense of responsibility for my father's death and
the recollection of it sometimes made me act in strange ways.''
(Reuters)


This story ran on page B9 of the Boston Globe on 10/5/2001.

URL:
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/278/obituaries/G_Hemingway_P.shtml

Yep -- if you're a member of Dead Celebrity Alert, you can reply to
posts.  I set up DCA so that you'd all be able to post the first news
of a celebrity death, on your own, without my intervention (hey,
sometimes I'm actually *off* the 'Net, and/or not watching the news -
LOL).

Still, the focus of DCA is celebrity-death announcements -- we don't
want to drive away anyone who's here solely for that reason (i.e., I
know a lot of subscribers are dead-pool participants), so please
stick to announcement posts... although it's A-OK with me if you want
to editorialize *within* a celebrity-death announcement -- and of
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If you all would like a "chat"-style list where you can discuss
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feeling the idea would appeal to a good number of us, for a number of
reasons -- but if you'd like me to set it up, you need to let me
know.)

Back to checking the obituaries...

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http://interestalert.com/brand/siteia.shtml?
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'Heathcliff' cartoon creator dies at age 72
Copyright APonline

The Associated Press

RIDGEWOOD, N.J.
(October 3, 2001 02:04 a.m. EDT ) - The creator of the "Heathcliff"
newspaper comic about the antics of a rotund cat has died. He was 72.

George Gately died Sunday of a heart attack at Valley Hospital in
Ridgewood, his brother John Gallagher said. Gately's real name was
George Gately Gallagher.

Gately created his "Heathcliff" cartoon in 1973, predating "Garfield"
by five years. It featured the stylish cat, who often wore a black
leather jacket and sunglasses. The comic was later turned into an
animated TV show.

U.S. Violinist Isaac Stern Dies at Age 81

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Isaac Stern, considered the supreme violin
virtuoso of the 20th century, died in New York on Saturday, aged 81,
a hospital official said.

Stern, one of the most recorded violinists in history with more than
100 recordings to his credit, helped save New York's famed Carnegie
Hall from demolition in the 1960s. He is believed to have died from
heart failure.

New York Weill Cornell Medical Center night administrator Maria Dolce
confirmed Stern died on Saturday evening at the hospital.

Stern, a small, plump, modest and witty man, was soloist on the
Oscar-winning soundtrack of the movie 'Fiddler on the Roof' and
performed with the New York Philharmonic more than any other
violinist in history.

Born in Russia in 1920, Stern was brought to the United States as an
infant. He began violin lessons at 8, studied at the San Francisco
Conservatory and made his orchestral debut with the San Francisco
Symphony Orchestra at age 16 in a concert broadcast on national
radio, according to his music label Sony Classical.

Stern debuted at Carnegie Hall In 1943 and a year later performed
with the New York Philharmonic.

Among his most famous appearances was a 1991 concert in Jerusalem
during the Gulf War. Sirens sounded and the audience fearing a Scud
missile attack donned gas masks. Stern did not and got down to the
business of playing a Bach solo.

Besides his highly acclaimed interpretations of the standard
repertoire, Stern was a champion of contemporary music and often
recorded new works for violin by many of the 20th century's finest
composers.

Stern once said: "You can describe music, but you can't explain it.
There is a wondrous mystery about just what makes the logic of music
so simple and so inevitable when it comes together in the right way."

Full story:
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Entertainment/reuters20010923_43.html#

Excerpt from LA Times:

Samuel Z. Arkoff, 83; Produced Many Teen Movies

Horror. Beach bunnies. Youth. Sex. Drugs. Exploitation. Action,
action and more action.

It all added up to big box office and bigger profits, and later
evolved into cult classics spun from an innovative, trend-setting
vision.

Samuel Z. Arkoff, the offbeat producer responsible for all of that,
as exemplified in his hundreds of films from "I Was a Teen-Age
Werewolf" to "The Amityville Horror," has died. He was 83. Arkoff
died Sunday in Providence St. Joseph's Medical Center in Burbank of
natural causes, his family said.

His motto was, "Thou shalt not put too much money into one picture.
And with the money you do spend, put it on the screen. Don't waste it
on the egos of actors or nonsense that might appeal to highbrow
critics."

The man who specialized in quickie B movies with quirky titles lived
to see himself become a legend, with a retrospective of his work at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and such awards as Producer
of the Year, Master Showman of the Decade and Pioneer of the Year
from motion picture associations and a Commendatore of the Order of
Merit from Italy.

American Movie Classics interviewed Arkoff earlier this year and
saluted him and his studio in a documentary narrated by AIP alumnus
Peter Bogdanovich, "It Conquered Hollywood: The Story of American
International Pictures."

"I suppose time can dignify anything," Arkoff told The Times in 1982,
amused by his newfound respectability.

The cigar-chomping Iowa farm boy was an Army cryptographer during
World War II who went on to earn a law degree from Los Angeles'
Loyola University. He loved movies and naturally drifted into
entertainment law, then producing.

In 1954 he joined with the late James H. Nicholson to create American
International Pictures with a $3,000 loan. Art and creativity were
not in his sights, though vision and innovation innately were.

"We went into business to make money--for ourselves, for distributors
and exhibitors," he said over and over again.

He saw a teenage and youth culture being ignored by the big studios,
and set out to serve it, dishing up action, horror and sex, all
tinged with comic effects--whatever the free-spending kids wanted.

"We went by the headlines," Arkoff told The Times in 1998. "If
teenagers were involved in something new, we made a movie about it."

Unlike bigger studios, Arkoff's speedy AIP movie machine could skip
from fad to fad as fast as teenagers' tastes.

First up was newcomer Roger Corman's gritty racing movie "The Fast
and the Furious." Made for $60,000, it grossed $250,000.

Arkoff and his company were off and running.

Soon came "I Was a Teen-Age Werewolf" in 1957 starring Michael
Landon. It cost $100,000, took six days to make and grossed $2
million. A typical AIP film cost $300,000 and was shot in a week's
time.

With "The Amityville Horror" in 1979, the company grossed $65
million, and for the next 10 years held the record for the largest
grossing independent film.

"I think both Jim Nicholson and Sam Arkoff understood the young
market," Corman told The Times earlier this year. "They had children
who were young at the time, and I think that kept them in touch with
it."

One of Arkoff's most popular series was his uncharacteristically
wholesome beach movies, many of them featuring popular singing
heartthrob Frankie Avalon and "Mickey Mouse Club" favorite Annette
Funicello. Arkoff made 13 of them in the mid-1960s when the Beach
Boys' "Surfin' USA" and Jan and Dean's "Surf City" topped the charts.

Arkoff, who said he got the idea from an Italian bohemian film of
beach activity, shot each picture in less than two weeks for less
than $500,000, and grossed millions.

The mogul's ability to cater to the ever-changing appetites of the
youth market that he moved into Hollywood's Klieg lights is reflected
in the titles of the films that spun off his assembly line:

In the 1950s: "Reform School Girl," "How to Make a Monster," "Machine
Gun Kelly," "A Bucket of Blood," "Diary of a High School Bride," "The
Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow."

In the 1960s: "The Pit and the Pendulum," "Panic in Year
Zero," "Bikini Beach," "Pajama Party," "The Comedy of
Terrors," "Beach Blanket Bingo," "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini
Machine," "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini," "The Ghost in the Invisible
Bikini."

In the 1970s: "Angel Unchained," "Bloody Mama," "The Dunwich
Horror," "Wuthering Heights," "The Abominable Doctor
Phibes," "Dillinger," "Madhouse," "Cooley High," "Return to Macon
County," "The Island of Dr. Moreau," "The People that Time Forgot."

In the 1980s: Brian De Palma's chilling "Dressed to Kill," "How to
Beat the High Cost of Living" and "The Final Terror."

"We often would get the title first," Arkoff said. "Then we would
work up a poster for the picture. If it looked good, we'd go ahead
with a script."

Along the way, he provided early opportunities for talented young
directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Woody
Allen. He also provided early vehicles for major actors including
Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Bruce
Dern, Cher, Richard Pryor and Nick Nolte.

His strict low-budget edict caused a few problems that might appall
today's well-financed special effects creators.

Arkoff recalled one example for a Times interviewer earlier this
year. He said he gave a dubious Corman $29,000 to make the 1955
horror movie "The Beast With a Million Eyes"--only to have Corman
omit the beast. When the finished film was turned in, posters had
already been distributed publicizing a multi-eyed title character.

"I said, 'Where is the beast?' " Arkoff recalled. "Roger said, 'I
didn't have any money. You put in the monster.'

"So what we finally did," the resourceful Arkoff said, "is we got a
teakettle and we put about 50 holes in it and got steam going through
it. That became our beast with a million eyes."

In recent years, he was working with his son, Louis, to remake some
of his earliest films such as "Teenage Caveman" for HBO.

Arkoff's career largely wound down in the early 1980s after his
meteoric independent studio gradually crumbled. His partner,
Nicholson, left the company in 1969 and died in 1972.

Arkoff merged AIP with Filmways International in 1979, and sold his
interests to Filmways in 1982. The combined company was sold to Orion
Pictures, which went under a few years later.

Arkoff founded a new production company, Arkoff International
Pictures, in 1981 but, in an evolving Hollywood, never matched the
success he had had with AIP.

In 1992, he published his memoirs, "Flying Through Hollywood by the
Seat of My Pants," written with Richard Trubo.

A former trustee of Loyola Marymount University, Arkoff sponsored the
annual Arkoff Awards for best original screenplays and telefilms by
Loyola Marymount students. He had also served as vice president of
Variety Clubs.

Arkoff's wife of 55 years, Hilda, died July 26.

He is survived by his children who are also involved in motion
picture production: son, Louis; and daughter, Donna Arkoff Roth, wife
of Revolution Studios founder Joe Roth; five grandchildren; and one
great-grandchild.

Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000075045sep18.story?
coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries

Excerpt from LA Times:

Fred de Cordova, a longtime producer of NBC's "Tonight Show" when it
was hosted by Johnny Carson, has died. He was 90.

De Cordova died Saturday of natural causes at the Motion Picture and
Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, said Carla White, a
hospital spokeswoman.

Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000074852sep17.story?
coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries

Excerpt from LA Times:

Dorothy McGuire, a gifted actress whose soft voice and gentle
femininity made her a favorite leading lady in films such
as "Gentleman's Agreement" opposite Gregory Peck and "Friendly
Persuasion" opposite Gary Cooper, has died. She was 85.

McGuire, a Beverly Hills resident, died Thursday night at St. John's
Medical Center in Santa Monica. Her family said she developed heart
failure after breaking her leg three weeks ago.

Brought to Hollywood in 1943 by producer David O. Selznick, McGuire
made her film debut in "Claudia," in which she reprised her star-
making Broadway role as an immature young wife. Her performance on
Broadway earned her a New York Drama Critics Circle Award. McGuire
went on to win critical acclaim in Hollywood, playing the mother
in "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," the mute servant in "The Spiral
Staircase" and the liberal fiancee of the crusading journalist,
played by Peck, in "Gentleman's Agreement," the first film to deal
with anti-Semitism on screen.

Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000074249sep15.story?
coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries

Excerpt from LA Times:

Alice Trillin, a writer, educator and television producer who was
known to many fans of her humorist husband, Calvin, as a character in
his books, died Tuesday in New York. She was 63.

Her death was caused by a weakened heart, damaged during radiation
treatments for the lung cancer she battled in 1976.

After recovering from the disease, she became a producer of
children's educational television and author of articles and a book
about being a cancer patient. She appeared frequently as a voice of
reason in her husband's writings about food, particularly the
books "American Fried," "Third Helpings" and "Alice, Let's Eat:
Further Adventures of a Happy Eater," which was a 1980 nominee for a
National Book Award. She was also a presence in two of his other
books, "Travels With Alice" and "Family Man."

Full story:
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000074252sep15.story?
coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries

According to the New York Times
(http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/12PASS.html):

> At the home of Osgood Perkins in Los Angeles,
> a woman sobbed when a reporter called asking
> about Mr. Perkins's mother, Berry Berenson
> Perkins, a photographer, who is the widow of
> the actor Anthony Perkins and the sister of
> the actress Marisa Berenson. Ms. Berenson
> Perkins was thought to have been on one of
> the flights. The woman said the family knew
> nothing and hung up.

You've probably also heard about the following, but for the record:

- Conservative commentator Barbara Olson, wife of U.S. Solicitor
General Ted Olson;

- David Angell, 54, executive producer of "Frasier";

- Daniel Lewin, 31, co-founder and CTO of Akamai Technologies;

- Edmund Glazer, 41, CFO of MRV Communications;

- Garnet (Ace) Bailey, 53, and Mark Bavis, scouts for the Los Angeles
Kings.

In the meantime, I pray that you and yours escaped this tragedy, and
offer my deepest condolences to you who have not.

I'm delighted and relieved to report that my sister and a number of
our friends in Manhattan are all safe, if understandably shell-
shocked.

My best to you all,

JR
List Owner
Dead Celebrity Alert

> Julie Bishop, 87; Actress Was in 84 Movies
>
> By MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
>
> Julie Bishop, titian-haired actress who appeared in 84 movies
> opposite such stars as Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne from 1923
> to 1957 and in the television series "My Hero" with Bob Cummings
> in the early 1950s, has died.
>
> Bishop, who also acted under her birth name of Jacqueline Wells,
> died of pneumonia Aug. 30, her 87th birthday, in Mendocino,
> Calif., said her daughter, actress Pamela Shoop Sweeney of
> Sherman Oaks.
>
> The long-retired actress began her career as a child in silents,
> first in the 1923 "Children of Jazz," and worked with such
> luminaries as Clara Bow and Mary Pickford. Segueing easily into
> talkies, she made 49 films and four serials from 1925 to 1940,
> her daughter said. Among them were "Tarzan the Fearless" with
> Buster Crabbe, "Tillie and Gus" with W.C. Fields, "Any Old Port"
> and "The Bohemian Girl" with Laurel and Hardy and the 1934 "The
> Black Cat" with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
>
> Briefly acting under the name Diane Duval, Bishop starred in the
> 1940 serial titled "Heroes of the West."
>
> Born in Denver, the daughter of a wealthy banker and oilman, the
> actress was reared in Wichita Falls, Texas, and, after her
> parents divorced, in Los Angeles where she began her movie
> career. She retained her name through child roles and several
> credits as an ingenue, but changed it to Julie Bishop at the
> studio's request in 1940 when she won a contract with Warner
> Bros.
>
> The renamed star flourished, working opposite Errol Flynn in
> "Northern Pursuit," Bogart in "Action in the North Atlantic,"
> Wayne in "Sands of Iwo Jima" and "The High and the Mighty,"
> Robert Taylor in "Westward the Women," Roy Rogers in "The Ranger
> and the Lady," Gene Autry in "Back in the Saddle" and Alan Ladd
> in "Her First Romance" and "The Big Land," her final picture in 1957.
>
> The actress appeared infrequently but memorably on stage, in such
> demanding roles as Ophelia in Shakespeare's "Hamlet" at the
> Pasadena Playhouse.
>
> A licensed private pilot, Bishop painted still lifes, staging
> several exhibitions and decorating her homes with her art. She
> also was active in charitable work, beginning with entertaining
> soldiers at the Hollywood Canteen during World War II.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000072925sep09.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2D\
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Hi, folks,

Looks like one of those deaths-in-threes has prompted the "official"
opening of Dead Celebrity Alert:

Troy Donahue, 65; Teen Movie Idol, TV Star
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-000071400sep03.story?
coll=la%2Dnews%2Dobituaries

Dr. Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon performed the world's
first human heart transplant
http://chicagotribune.com/news/obituaries/chi-0109030154sep03.story?
coll=chi%2Dnewsobituaries%2Dhed

Pauline Kael, film critic, dies at 82
http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,7495,546636,00.htm
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When you receive notification of a celebrity death, would you rather
see 1) a full or excerpted obituary for the deceased, with a link to
the published source, or 2) just the headline (i.e., "Joe Blow,
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