Caroll Spinney, the longtime Sesame Street puppeteer who voiced the characters of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for nearly 50 years, died Sunday at…
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Dorothy Seymour Mills, Uncredited Baseball Historian, Dies at 91
Dorothy Seymour Mills, who collaborated for more than 30 years on a landmark three-volume history of baseball with her first husband, Harold Seymour — although…
William Loren Katz, Historian of African-Americans, Dies at 92
The fountainhead of the historian Bill Katz’s immersion in African-American culture was his father’s passion for jazz. Ben Katz had derived more pleasure from the…
Annette Kolodny, Feminist Critic and Scholar, Dies at 78
Annette Kolodny, a literary and cultural critic who was a pioneer in the field of ecofeminism, drawing parallels between the subjugation of the environment and…
Mardik Martin, Collaborator With Scorsese, Is Dead at 84
Mardik Martin, a screenwriter who collaborated with Martin Scorsese on films like “Raging Bull,” “New York, New York” and particularly Mr. Scorsese’s breakthrough in gritty…
Eddie Money, ‘Two Tickets to Paradise’ Hitmaker, Dead at 70
Eddie Money, the singer-saxophonist whose string of hits include “Baby Hold On,” “Two Tickets to Paradise” and “Take Me Home Tonight,” died Friday at the…
Ningali Lawford-Wolf, Indigenous Australian Actress, Dies
Ningali Lawford-Wolf, an Indigenous Australian actress who brought the world of her people to the stage and, most notably, to the screen in the film…
Paule Marshall, Influential Black Novelist, Dies at 90
Paule Marshall, an influential writer whose novels and short stories about ethnic identity, race and colonialism reflected her upbringing in Brooklyn as a daughter of…
Jean-Pierre Mocky, Iconoclastic French Film Director, Dies at 90
Jean-Pierre Mocky, a fiercely independent French filmmaker whose dozens of movies gleefully skewered what he saw as society’s vices and hypocrisies, died on Aug. 8…
Ben Barenholtz, Midnight-Movie Innovator, Is Dead at 83
Ben Barenholtz, who began the midnight-movie phenomenon at his Manhattan theater in the 1970s and nurtured the movie careers of David Lynch and the Coen…