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Louis Gossett Jr. won an Oscar for ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ and an Emmy for ‘Roots.’ The 87-year-old actor died Thursday night in Santa Monica.
Writer Cormac McCarthy has died. His novels took violence to a nearly hallucinogenic level as he spooled out stories of murderous bounty hunters, drug deals gone fatally wrong and life in a post-apocalyptic netherworld.
Gina Lollobrigida, the high-spirited actor who had dual careers in Hollywood and Europe and who for many embodied sultry glamour, has died at 95.
Starting with a 10-acre plot, Don Christopher’s ranch became the largest garlic grower in the nation and the offbeat Garlic Festival its signature promoter.
Robert Toth, L.A. Times reporter who in 1977 was arrested by KGB on trumped-up spying charges and questioned for days in a Moscow prison, dies at 93.
Producer Michael Butler brought the counterculture musical ‘Hair” to Broadway, where it ran for years.
An auto workers union leader who introduced Robert F. Kennedy to Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, Schrade was injured when Kennedy was assassinated.
Synanon leader Charles Dederich and two of his followers were sentenced for the snake attack, which came after Morantz prevailed against the group in court.
Sylvia Wu, restaurateur who served L.A.’s stars from Frank Sinatra to Robert Redford at her famed Madame Wu’s Garden, dies.
Tim Rutten dies; widely admired Times columnist and editor
