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Buffy the Vampire Slayer star found dead in luxury unit
Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in the 1996 Harriet the Spy hit movie and went on to co-star in...
Docu-maker Spurlock, who skewered fast food, dies at 53
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who famously ate only McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet,...
Carl Weathers, Rocky movies’ Apollo Creed, dead at 76
Carl Weathers, a former American footballer who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star, playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the Rocky...
Lord of the loafers, singer and songwriter Jimmy Buffett dead at 76
Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, who popularised beach bum soft rock with the escapist Caribbean-flavoured song Margaritaville and turned that celebration of loafing into...
Guitar legend Jeff Beck dies aged 78
Jeff Beck, a guitar virtuoso who pushed the boundaries of blues, jazz and rock ‘n’ roll, influencing generations of shredders along the...
Julie & Julia US food writer Julie Powell dies at 49
Food writer Julie Powell, who became an internet darling after blogging for a year about making every recipe in Julia Child’s Mastering...
‘Astronomically high number’: US COVID deaths hit an ‘unthinkable’ 900,000
The US death toll from COVID-19 has hit 900,000, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000 – propelled in part by the...
Ronettes singer Ronnie Spector dies
Ronnie Spector, the cat-eyed, bee-hived rock’n’roll siren who sang such 1960s hits as Be My Baby, Baby I Love You and Walking...
Moulin Rouge scoops pool at Tony Awards
Moulin Rouge! The Musical, a jukebox adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s hyperactive 2001 movie, has waltzed off with 10 Tony Awards in a...
Groundbreaking jazz pianist Chick Corea dies at 79
Chick Corea, a towering jazz pianist with a staggering 23 Grammy Awards who pushed the boundaries of the genre and worked alongside...