Wide acclaim for the role of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel’s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.”
Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)
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Topol, Star of ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on the Screen and the Stage, Dies at 87
Wide acclaim for the role of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel’s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.”
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Ian Falconer, Creator of Olivia, the Energetic Piglet, Dies at 63
He was a stage designer noted for his work in opera when he hit the best-seller list in 2000 with the first in a series of books for children.
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Duong Tuong, Who Opened Western Works to Vietnamese Readers, Dies at 90
He translated works by Proust, Nabokov, Tolstoy and Emily Brontë into Vietnamese, and a classic Vietnamese poem, ‘The Tale of Kieu,’ into English.
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Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist, Dies at 71
The last surviving original member of the classic Southern rock group, he played the soaring slide guitar solo on “Free Bird” and co-wrote “Sweet Home Alabama.”