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Marvin Hamlisch obituary
Oscar-winning composer who found success on Broadway with A Chorus LineThe American musician Marvin Hamlisch, who has died aged 68 after a short illness, won three Oscars, four Emmys, four Grammys and...
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Stanley Dent obituary
My father, Stanley Dent, who has died aged 95, swapped the world of accountancy for running Adelphi Films, which produced British feature films throughout the 1950s – comedies, romances, dramas and...
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Charles Alton obituary
My friend Charles Alton, who has died aged 69, was a development worker, and devoted most of his life to Laos.He was born in Fort Madison, Iowa, and first travelled to south-east Asia as a US Peace...
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Jane Leighton and the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Gallery
Though Jane Leighton helped with the writing of A Savage Enquiry, she did not want to have her name on the cover. I was grateful for her encouragement, and we became lifelong friends.When she retired...
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Brian Crozier obituary
Intelligence expert who formed his own organisation to counter communist propagandaThe intelligence expert Brian Crozier, who has died aged 94 after a long illness, was the ultimate cold-war warrior: a...
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Joan Fry obituary
I suspect I am not the only man of my generation who, whenever he hears The Beatles sing She's Leaving Home, thinks fondly of his mother. My mother, Joan Fry, who has died aged 83, was one of those...
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Sheryle Geen obituary
The early years of my friend Sheryle Geen, who has died aged 70 after a brief illness, had a Dickensian toughness. Born in New Zealand, the youngest of four, she was deserted by her father when she was...
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Lyn Gambles obituary
My friend Lyn Gambles, who has died aged 68, had a blazing career in television, beginning in 1968 as a researcher on Thames TV's weekday magazine show Today and subsequently the weekly current affairs...
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Judith Crist obituary
Film reviewer and broadcaster with the common touch, she was feared by directors and dismissed by auteurist criticsJudith Crist, who has died aged 90, was, at one stage, probably the most widely read,...
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Richard Cragun obituary
Virtuoso dancer who formed an unforgettable partnership with Marcia HaydéeWhen Richard Cragun travelled to Germany in the summer of 1962 for his first job as a professional dancer, the Stuttgart...
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Anna Piaggi obituary
Astute fashion journalist celebrated for her creative partnership with Karl LagerfeldHad the fashion editor Anna Piaggi been British, instead of merely discovering her lifetime style in London, she...
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Sid Waddell obituary
BBC and Sky TV commentator known as 'the voice of darts' who played a key role in the promotion of the sport's modern eraSid Waddell was renowned as a darts commentator at the BBC and then Sky TV, and...
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Davy Guy obituary
My friend Davy Guy was born in Seaham, in the Durham coalfield, and worked as a miner from the age of 15. He became treasurer of the Dawdon trade union lodge and in 1985 he was elected president of the...
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Chavela Vargas obituary
Hard-drinking, pistol-packing, taboo-breaking singer of Mexican rancheras, revolutionary ballads and tangosGut-wrenching renditions of Mexican popular classics combined with a taboo-breaking...
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Carlo Rambaldi obituary
Special effects artist known for ET and the monster in AlienIf one asked filmgoers what they immediately visualise at the mention of Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) and Steven Spielberg's ET: The...
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Mel Stuart obituary
Film director known for Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and WattstaxMel Stuart, who has died aged 83, became widely known for directing two radically dissimilar films, Willy Wonka & the...
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Eileen Sibson obituary
My mother, Eileen Sibson, who has died of cancer aged 84, was a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend, nurse, midwife, health visitor and plantswoman.She was born Eileen Gould, the second of four...
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Peter Chui obituary
My father, Chee Keung Chui, known to many as Peter, who has died aged 76, came from his native Hong Kong to study economics at Manchester University in 1955. Once his studies were completed, he decided...
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'Robert Hughes was brutally honest about art and himself,' writes Nicolas Kent
Generous, irreverent, politically incorrect, erudite, clear-sighted and very funny, with an irrepressible appetite for the good things in life, Robert Hughes was also sensitive, sometimes vulnerable...
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Lawrence Goldie obituary
Our father, Lawrence Goldie, who has died aged 88, was a psychiatrist and psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He brought psychoanalytic principles to the treatment of cancer patients and his book...
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