Isidore Mankofsky, Cinematographer on 'The Muppet Movie,' Dies at 89

DALLAS -- Larry McMurtry, the prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American West in his Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapes in works such as his emotional tale of a mother-daughter relationship in “Terms of Endearment,” has died. He was 84.His death was confirmed Friday by a spokesman for his publisher, Liveright.

Richard Gilliland has sadly passed away.

Doctor Who's David Tennant and Steven Moffat have got back together to return for a new BBC One project. Doctor Who writer and producer Steven and his wife Sue Vertue created and wrote Inside Man, a four part mini series, which follows a prisoner on death row in the US, a Vicar in a quiet English town, and a maths teacher trapped in a cellar, as they cross paths in the most unexpected way.

Jessica Walter, the Emmy Award-winning actress known for playing Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development, has died at her home in New York. The American actress died in her sleep on Wednesday, aged 80, a representative confirmed on Thursday.

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Actor George Segal, best known for starring in US sitcom The Goldbergs, has died at the age of 87. Segal, who was Oscar-nominated for 1966 black comedy-drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, died on Tuesday in Santa Rosa, California.

Taylor Swift has come to the aid of another family affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, donating £36,400 (US$50,000) to a woman who lost her husband to coronavirus.On Tuesday (March 23), Swift and her mother, Andrea, jointly donated the total goal amount of a GoFundMe appeal for Vickie Quarles, a mother of five daughters who was widowed after her husband, Theodis Ray Quarles, died of coronavirus just one week before Christmas.Thanks to the lump sum donation from the Swifts, DeQuanda Smith, a close

Taylor Dee, a rising country music star from Texas tragically died following a car crash.

WARSAW, Poland -- Adam Zagajewski, one of Poland’s greatest poets who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, has died in Krakow.

Royal protocols may not apply for an American interview, but we DO have common decency over here, thank you very much.

Tributes are being paid to actor Yaphet Kotto, the actor best known for his turn as a James Bond villain in Live And Let Die, who has died aged 81. Kotto was the Bond franchise's first black antagonist, playing Dr Kananga and his alter-ego Mr Big in the 1973 film opposite the late Sir Roger Moore as 007.

Yaphet Kotto, the American actor known for being the first major Black James Bond villain, has died at the age of 81.