Mel Lane, who helped define Western living as co-owner of Sunset magazine and Sunset books, and later helped preserve some of the region’s most spectacular scenery as the first chairman of the California Coastal Commission, has died. He was 85.
Mr. Lane, for almost a half-century one of Northern California’s [...]
[Read more...]Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish film director whose visionary work in early masterpieces such as “The Seventh Seal” and “Wild Strawberries” and later films such as “Persona” and “Cries and Whispers” probed the human psyche in existential dramas that redefined cinema and shaped the sensibilities of other major filmmakers, died Monday. He was 89.
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[Read more...]Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style and his robust, trademark laugh, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.
Mr. Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco, his longtime producer and friend Mike Horowicz told the Associated Press on Monday.
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[Read more...]NEW YORK (AP) - Hank Medress, whose vocals with the doo-wop group the Tokens helped propel their irrepressible single “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” to the top of the charts and who produced hits with other groups, has died of lung cancer. He was 68.
Mr. Medress died Monday at his Manhattan [...]
[Read more...]Serena Wilson, a noted dancer, teacher and choreographer who was widely credited with helping to popularize belly dancing in the United States, died last Sunday in New York. She was 73. The cause was a pulmonary embolism, said her son, Scott.
For four decades, Mrs. Wilson ran Serena Studios, one of the [...]
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