LA's 'Romper Room' Host Mary Ann King Dies At 82
Each episode ended with Mary Ann King holding up a mirror-like frame and looking through it to name child viewers.
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Each episode ended with Mary Ann King holding up a mirror-like frame and looking through it to name child viewers.
Helen Chavez, widow of civil rights and labor leader Cesar Chavez, has died at age 88.
Thousands of fans are expected to congregate Saturday to pay tribute to Muhammad Ali.
Ozzie Silna, who turned a fading American Basketball Association franchise into a four-decade windfall of nearly $800 million from the NBA in what's commonly called the greatest deal in sports history, has died at age 83.
Fred Hayman, the dapper entrepreneur whose vision transformed a nondescript Southern California street called Rodeo Drive into one of the world's pre-eminent fashion districts, has died at age 91.
David Gest, a music producer and former husband of Liza Minnelli, has died aged 62 in a London hotel.
Steven Browning Sample, who served as USC's president from 1991 to 2010 and is credited with raising the university's national and international academic standing and guiding a massive fundraising campaign, died Tuesday at age 75.
"This book was written at a time that was very signifigant during our history. The Civil Rights movement was going on, and this book really embodies the feel of the Sixties and the Deep South, and those racial tensions and discrimination," Isiuwa Omolgui said.
The comedic character actor Richard Libertini has died. He was 82.
The legendary cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, best known for "The Deer Hunter" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," has died.
Longtime soap opera actor David Canary, best known for his role as twin brothers on "All My Children" has died at age 77.
Kerry Simon, a former "Iron Chef" champ who served up dishes to rock bands such as Led Zeppelin and Mötley Crüe, has died.
Frank D. Gilroy, whose play about a veteran's fraught return home, "The Subject Was Roses," won him a Pulitzer Prize, died Saturday in Monroe, New York. He was 89.
Frederick R. "Fritz" Payne, a World War II fighter ace who left his mark on aviation and wartime history by shooting down six Japanese warplanes during the Battle of Guadalcanal, a bloody, months-long confrontation that helped change the course of the war, has died at age 104.
Actress Yvonne Craig, best known for her role as Batgirl on the 1960s TV series "Batman," has passed away from cancer at the age of 78.
James L. White, who wrote the screenplay for "Ray," the 2004 movie about singer Ray Charles, has died in California. He was 67.
Writer E.L. Doctorow, who wryly reimagined the American experience in such novels as "Ragtime" and "The March" and applied its lessons to the past and the future in fiction and nonfiction, has died. He was 84.
Composer Michael Masser, who wrote and produced of some of Whitney Houston's biggest hits, has died. He was 74.
Robert Chartoff, the Oscar-winning movie producer behind the boxing classics "Rocky" and "Raging Bull," has died. He was 81.
Reynaldo Rey, the actor-comedian who appeared in such films as "Friday" and "White Men Can't Jump," has died. He was 75.
The youngest daughter on hit 1970s television show "The Partridge Family" has died.
Texas-born Sawyer Sweeten would have turned 20 next month.
Richard Dysart, a veteran stage and screen actor who played senior partner Leland McKenzie in the long-running TV courtroom drama "L.A. Law," has died after a long illness. He was 86.
Geoffrey Lewis, a prolific television actor and frequent co-star of Clint Eastwood, died Tuesday at the age of 79.
