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Pinder also released two solo albums, 1976’s The Promise and 1994’s Among the Stars, as well as a 1995 spoken word album, A Planet With One Mind. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with his bandmates in 2018. Albini was a longtime critic of the corporate music industry and the ways record labels exploited musicians. His personal philosophy around „engineering“ (a term he preferred over „producing“) was to bring out the band’s sound rather than impose his own aesthetic on them. Janis Paige, the actress known for starring in big-screen and Broadway musicals and comedies like Silk Stockings and The Pajama Game, died June 2 at 101. A multitalented and enduring performer, she was a star of Hollywood’s Golden Age who continued her craft into her 90s.

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Gustafson’s career in animation began in the ’80s, taking a variety of forms in addition to the claymation work he would become known for. His early work included the TV special Claymation Christmas Celebration and the Emmy-nominated Meet the Raisins special, which starred the California Raisins. Later, he would direct episodes of the Eddie Murphy-led series, The PJs. Gustafson would go on to work as the animation director for Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox and lead the claymation sequences in A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas.

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• Tommy DeVito, a founding member of the 60s group the Four Seasons, died from COVID-19 on Sept. 21.
• He befriended Mick Jones a year later and, together, the duo created the Clash alongside vocalist Joe Strummer, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Terry Chimes in 1976.
• Johnny Solinger, former lead vocalist for the band Skid Row, died at age 55.
• A Philadelphia native, Siegel is best known for having had a hand in a number of significant entertainment industry deals.
• While in the house, she became well known for her tantrums, including the infamous „who is she?!“ rant in the diary room chair.

A Glasgow native, Zonfrillo started his culinary journey as a dishwasher at 13, began working dead female celebrities for British chef Marco Pierre White at 17, and by 22 was head chef at Cornwall’s Hotel Tresanton. He became the head chef at Sydney’s Forty One in 2000 and moved on to open several renowned restaurants in Adelaide, like Restaurant Orana and Nonna Mallozzi. His TV career flourished in 2019 when he joined MasterChef Australia as a judge alongside Melissa Leong and Andy Allen, replacing the show’s original hosts.

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He also played a semi-autobiographical role as the radio disc jockey in Cameron Crowe’s Say Anything. „While her legacy will live on through her body of work, she will also be remembered by many for her wit, class and overall joie de vivre.“ The New York City native began his career as a part of the critically acclaimed Nuyorican Poetry Slam Team. He went on to star in a number of shows, including Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, Chapelle’s Show, The Sopranos, Luke Cage, Nurse Jackie and High Maintenance. On the big screen, his film credits include the Safdie brothers’ Good Time, Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects. Country music superstar Toby Keith died Feb. 5 at age 62 following a two-year battle with stomach cancer.

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Roos worked as a casting director on a litany of famous films, like George Lucas’ American Graffiti. He also worked as a producer, frequently with Coppola, getting producer or co-producer credits on The Godfather Part II and III, Apocalypse Now, and 10 other Coppola films, including the long-awaited Megalopolis. Those weren’t his only connections with the Coppola family, however. He not only babysat Sofia Coppola; he produced her films The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, The Bling Ring, and Marie Antoinette, and served as an executive producer on Priscilla. He also produced Eleanor Coppola’s iconic documentary, Hearts of Darkness. Having already cast Harrison Ford in American Graffiti, he pushed Lucas to give Ford the Han Solo role.

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• Lipton was the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2007 Daytime Emmys, and won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series or Special in 2013 for Inside the Actor’s Studio.
• Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Duvall was discovered by Robert Altman, who cast her in his 1970 film, Brewster McCloud.
• He later left the hospital March 16 and reunited with Elizabeth at Windsor Castle to recover.
• Stephen began writing music in middle school and released his first song, „My Girl,“ in 2010.
• Robertson worked as a songwriter, producer, performer, actor, and film composer for over six decades.
• The actor joined the Norman Lear–produced show in 1975, midway through its second season, playing the oft-ridiculed superintendent Bookman.

Moore’s death shortly after he was hospitalized with pneumonia in Bedford, England on Jan. 31, one week after testing positive for COVID-19, according to his daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore. „I want to thank all of those along my journey who have helped keep the music fires burning bright. It is my hope that those who have an inkling to play, write, perform or otherwise, do so,“ wrote the composer. „If not for yourself then for the rest of us. It’s not only that the world needs more artists, it’s also just a lot of fun.“ The legendary jazz pianist died on Feb. 9 from a „rare form of cancer which was only discovered recently,“ according to a post from his official Facebook account and website.