ALEX WILLIAMS
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Teresa Taylor, Butthole Surfers Drummer and Face of Generation X, Dies at 60
In addition to playing with the audacious Texas band, she helped define the image of an aimless generation with her role in the 1990 film...
Cynthia Weil, Who Put Words to That ‘Lovin’ Feeling,’ Dies at 82
With her husband and songwriting partner, Barry Mann, she wrote lyrics for timeless hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Animals and Dolly Parton.
Heather Armstrong, ‘Queen of the Mommy Bloggers,’ Is Dead at 47
Fired from a dot-com job for making indiscreet comments about her company online, she introduced Dooce.com, a blog about parenthood and marriage that became a...
Grace Bumbry, Barrier-Shattering Opera Diva, Is Dead at 86
A flamboyant mezzo-soprano (who could also sing meaty soprano roles), she overcame racial prejudice to become one of opera’s first, and biggest, Black stars.
Kwame Brathwaite, 85, Photographer With a Lens on Black Pride, Is Dead
Part of the ‘Black is beautiful’ movement during the civil rights era, he trained his camera on athletes, musicians and models as well as everyday...
Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91
Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought a fine-art sensibility to a...
Marisol Malaret, First Puerto Rican Miss Universe, Dies at 73
Edging out Miss USA, Ms. Malaret — who was also the first winner from the Caribbean — brokered her fame to become a television host...
Bobby Caldwell, Silky-Voiced R&B Crooner, Dies at 71
His much-covered 1978 hit “What You Won’t Do for Love” launched him on a prolific career that spanned decades and genres.
Jesse Treviño, Chicano Artist Whose Muse Was San Antonio, Dies at 76
After losing his dominant right hand from a Vietnam War injury, he began chronicling Mexican American culture with his left.
Walter Mirisch, Pioneering Producer of Canonical Films, Dies at 101
Admired for his creative instincts, he oversaw films that won 28 Oscars, including “West Side Story,” “The Apartment” and “In the Heat of the Night.”
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