Herbert Kretzmer Dies: ‘Les Miserables’ Lyricist Was 95

Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticJeremy Stevens, a three-time Emmy Award winner – including two as a writer and executive producer on Everybody Loves Raymond – died of renal failure on October 27 at his home in Northridge, California, surrounded by his family. He was 83,A Brooklyn native, Stevens earned a degree in theater at Brooklyn College before studying at New York’s HB Studio under Uta Hagen and Herbert Berghof.

coronavirus patient known to have contracted the disease in Britain has told how she nearly died as her illness mystified medics.Joanne Rogers, 51, fell ill with what she thought was flu in late January, before the first cases had been confirmed in the UK.She was rushed to hospital two weeks later, when the authorities still insisted Covid-19 was restricted to a small number of people recently arrived from abroad.But the virus was already spreading and just over a month later so many were being

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Spencer Davis, a British guitarist and bandleader whose eponymous rock group had 1960s hits including "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man," has died. He was 81.

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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticSpencer Davis, the Welsh rhythm guitarist and songwriter who lent his name to one of the most popular and influential British Invasion groups of the 1960s with hits including “Gimme Some Lovin’” and “I’m a Man”, died Monday of pneumonia in Los Angeles.

BBC.Also Read: Eddie Van Halen, Legendary Guitarist, Dies at 65Davis and his band, including Winwood on organ, Peter York on drums and his brother Muff Davis on bass, toured with The Rolling Stones and The Who throughout the ’60s. They formed in 1963 and changed their name from The Rhythm & Blues Quartet in 1964 and made Davis the frontman.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentCéline Petit, a revered French publicist who worked at the Public Systeme Cinema on a number of festivals, died on Friday due to illness. She was 45.Petit’s death was confirmed by Bruno Barde, the managing director of the Public Systeme Cinema, where she worked for 18 years.

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in films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound, has died at 97.Fleming's assistant confirmed to The New York Times the classic film star died this week at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

LOS ANGELES -- Actress Rhonda Fleming, the fiery redhead who appeared with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan and other film stars of the 1940s and 1950s, has died. She was 97.Fleming’s assistant Carla Sapon told The New York Times that Fleming died Wednesday in Santa Monica, California.From her first film in color, “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ” (1949) with Bing Crosby, Fleming became immensely popular with producers because of her vivid hues.

Dee Cannon, the British acting teacher who schooled the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Ben Whishaw, Colin Firth, Tom Hiddleston and Andrea Riseborough, died Sept. 28 of myeloma, her rep announced.

Herbert Kretzmer, who has died aged 95, was at various times an influential theatre and television critic on Britain’s two rival mid-market newspapers, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, before finding greater fame and infinitely greater fortune with the English libretto for the West End hit musical Les Misérables, widely reckoned the greatest show in musical history.With Alain Boublil (original French lyrics) and Claude-Michel Schönberg (music), Kretzmer was the third of the triumvirate who

Leo Barraclough Senior International CorrespondentHerbert Kretzmer, best known as the lyricist on the English version of the musical “Les Miserables,” and writer of songs such as “Goodness Gracious Me” and Charles Aznavour’s hit “She,” has died at 95.Tributes came in Wednesday from some of the leading lights of the British stage world.