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Steven Bach, Producer, Biographer, Final Cut Passes
Steven Bach, who as a studio executive at United Artists took the fall for the colossal failure of the western epic Heavens Gate. Bach went on to write Final Cut, a gripping insider account of the debacle, died on Wednesday at his home in Arlington, Vt. He was 70 and also had a home in Munich. ...
Dan Seals Part of Pop Duo Dies
Dan Seals, who was England Dan in the pop duo England Dan and John Ford Coley and later had a successful country career, has died of complications from cancer. He was 61. Longtime manager Tony Gottlieb said Seals, diagnosed with lymphoma two years ago, died Wednesday night at his daughter's home in Nashville. With England ...
Uriel Jones Motown Drummer Dies
Uriel Jones, a drummer with the Funk Brothers, the studio musicians at Motown Records who played without credit on virtually every hit during that label’s heyday in the 1960s, died on Tuesday in Dearborn, Mich. He was 74. The cause was complications of a recent heart attack, his sister-in- law Leslie Coleman said. Drawn from the ...
New Orleans Bluesman Eddie Bo Dies
New Orleans blues singer-pianist Eddie Bo, who worked with musicians such as Irma Thomas and Art Neville, has died of a heart attack. He was 79. His death was confirmed Friday by his close friend and booking agent, Karen Hamilton. Hamilton said Eddie Bo, whose real name was Edwin Joseph Bocage, had a “sudden, massive heart ...
Home Invasion in Van Nuys; Pricey Studio Equipment Stolen
Your 16 Track or Your Life! Robbers broke into a Van Nuys home early this morning and stole thousands of dollars' worth of studio recording equipment, Los Angeles police said. The home-invasion robbery was reported about 2:30 a.m. after four or five men armed with handguns broke into the home in the 15200 block ...
Dorothea Holt Redmond Designer Helped Create the Look of Several Hitchcock Films Passes
Dorothea Holt Redmond broke ground in 1938 as the first woman to invade the “heretofore exclusively male field” of motion-picture production design, at David O. Selznick’s studio, The Times reported that year. She came to be regarded as one of the most talented illustrators in the industry. Redmond worked on seven Hitchcock films, as well as ...
Remembering John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa, Band Leader, Dies in Hotel at Reading READING, Pa., Sunday, March 6. 1932 John Philip Sousa, famous American band conductor and march king of a generation ago, died unexpectedly early this morning in his room in the Abraham Lincoln Hotel from an attack of heart disease. He came to Reading to ...
Eddie Bo Blues Singer, Pianist and Songwriter Passes
Bo penned the 1960 Etta James hit 'My Dearest Darling' and 'I'm Wise,' which was made famous by Little Richard when he renamed and released it in 1956 as 'Slippin' and Slidin'.' Eddie Bo, a New Orleans blues singer-pianist who worked with musicians such as Irma Thomas and Art Neville, died Wednesday of a heart attack, ...
Kalman Bloch Clarinetist for L.A. Philharmonic
Kalman Bloch, 95, principal clarinetist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic for nearly 45 years, died March 12 at his home in Los Angeles, according to his daughter, Michele Zukovsky, who is now one of the orchestra's co-principal clarinetists. Bloch was born in New York on May 30, 1913, and attended Columbia College. He studied clarinet with ...
Actress Natasha Richardson Dies After Skiing Accident
The wife of actor Liam Neeson and member of the Redgrave theatrical family was 45. Natasha Richardson, the luminous British actress from one of the world's great acting families, whose performances ranged from the highbrow drama “The Handmaid's Tale" to the lightweight comedy “The Parent Trap" and the Tony-winning Broadway production of “Cabaret," died Wednesday. She ...
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