UTFO frontman Kangol Kid has died, aged 55

NEW YORK -- Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, became the first Black actor to win an Academy Award for best lead performance and the first to be a top box-office draw, has died. He was 94.Poitier, winner of the best actor Oscar in 1964 for “Lilies of the Field,” died Thursday in the Bahamas, according to Eugene Torchon-Newry, acting director general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Bahamas.Few movie stars, Black or white, had such an influence both on and off the screen.

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Richard Citron, aka “Rusty,” who was a marketing key to the revival of film interest in Marvel Comics properties and a personal manager for many big names, died Dec. 16 at age 68 from complications of Lewy Body Dementia.

NEW YORK -- Harvey Evans, an actor, singer and dancer who had a knack for landing roles in the original Broadway productions of such classics as “West Side Story,” “Follies” “Hello, Dolly!” and “Gypsy,” has died. He was 80.Evans died Christmas Eve at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, said Lawrence Leritz, a friend and Broadway actor, dancer, singer, producer and director.

told the New York Times that she died from complications of chronic obstructed pulmonary disease.Born on Aug.

NEW YORK -- Harvey Evans, an actor, singer and dancer who had a knack for landing roles in the original Broadway productions of such classics as “West Side Story,” “Follies” “Hello, Dolly!” and “Gypsy,” has died. He was 80.Evans died Christmas Eve at the Actors Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey, said Lawrence Leritz, a friend and Broadway actor, dancer, singer, producer and director.

DETROIT -- Wanda Young, a member of Motown's chart-topping The Marvelettes, has died in suburban Detroit. She was 78.Meta Ventress told The New York Times in a story published Saturday that her mother died Dec.

Grace Mirabella has sadly passed away.

NEW YORK -- Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87.Didion's publisher Penguin Random House announced the author's death on Thursday.

Joan Didion, the author of five novels including the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking who also excelled in essays and has screenwriting credits including the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, died Thursday of complications of Parkinson’s disease in Manhattan. She was 87.

Carmel Dagan Staff WriterJoan Didion, the author revered for her coolly dispassionate essays and novels such as “Play It as It Lays,” has died, her publisher confirmed to The New York Times on Wednesday. She was 87.

according to the New York Times.The Pulitzer Prize nominee was 87 at the time of her death.Representatives for Didion’s publisher Knopf did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Thursday.More to come…

Joan Didion has sadly died.

Sally Ann Howes has sadly passed away.