MSTies will recall that she was mentioned in a […]
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Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk, aka Melanie, the witty, gentle-voiced folk singer-songwriter, who rose to fame with her performance at Woodstock in 1969 and had two major hit singles, “Brand New Key” and “Lay Down (Candles in the Rain)”, died January 23. She was 76.
Quebec cinematographer René Verzier died on Jan. 1. He was 89. During his career, spanning more than 35 years, he worked on more than 50 full-length films.
One of those films was a smokey little production for which he was a camera operator. It was featured in the movie in episode K16- CITY […] Fairfax County, Virginia — Tom Shales, the Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The Washington Post and spent nearly 40 years at the paper, died Jan. 13 at a hospital here. He was 79.
He died from complications due to COVID-19 and renal failure. His decades-long career as the chief TV critic for […] Conrad Palmisano, a veteran Hollywood stuntman, stunt coordinator and director, died on Jan. 10. He was 75.
Palmisano’s stunt credits include over 200 projects across several decades. He worked on a wide range of film and television titles across a myriad of genres, from “The Jerk” (1979) to “Set It Off” (1996) […] MEXICO CITY — Mexican actor Miguel Ángel Fuentes died here Dec. 28. He was 70.
He worked on Mexican films in the ’70s and early ’80s, and ventured into Hollywood in 1981 when he appeared alongside Ringo Starr in ‘Caveman,” Charles Bronson in “Savage Justice, Peter Coyote in “The Art of […] |
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