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  • 'Jeffersons' Neighbor Paul Benedict Dies at 70

    ...Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" in 1987, closely followed by "The Kathy & Mo Show: Parallel Lives" in 1989, both two-person sleepers that became off-Broadway hits. news.obits@latimes.com...

  • 'Dolemite' Star Dies at 81

    ...characters who cursed. I don't want to be referred to as a dirty old man, rather a ghetto expressionist." Stewart is a former Times staff writer. news.obits@latimes.com...

  • Disney's Final 'Nine Old Men' Animator Dies

    ...CalArts, the World Wildlife Fund or Natural Resources Defense Council. Walt Disney Studiosis planning a life celebration with details to be announced. news.obits@latimes.com...

  • Tammy Faye Messner Dies at 65

    , the charismatic TV preacher with the choir-boy face with whom she appeared on their popular Christian talk-variety show until his downfall amid scandal in the late 1980s, has died. She was 65....

  • 'Laugh-In' Producer Ed Friendly Dies

    to produce specials through an independent company he formed with George Schlatter. Friendly once called the move the biggest gamble of his career, but one of the first shows his company produced was "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In....

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