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Popular singer Eydie Gorme dies at 84

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Swimmer, movie star Williams dead at 91

LOS ANGELES - As a teenager, Esther Williams dreamed of Olympic glory on the U.S. swim team.

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Taylor was prolific as a bride

LOS ANGELES - Jokers liked to call her Mrs. Hilton Wilding Todd Fisher Burton Burton Warner Fortensky. Indeed, Elizabeth Taylor was prolific as a bride.

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Bosley of 'Happy Days' dies

LOS ANGELES - It was a constant in American television for more than a decade: Viewers could turn on their TVs and find Howard Cunningham in his armchair, reading the newspaper and providing a fatherly voice of reason to young Richie Cunningham and his friends on "Happy Days."

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Bob Newhart celebrates 50 years in show business Entertainment

LOS ANGELES - "Fifty years!" Bob Newhart marveled. "It's like where the hell did the time go?"

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'Dynasty' actor John Forsythe dies

LOS ANGELES - John Forsythe, the handsome, smooth-voiced actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in TV's "Dynasty" and the voice of the leader of "Charlie's Angels," has died after a yearlong battle with cancer. He was 92.

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Robert Culp, who starred in 'I Spy,' dead at 79

LOS ANGELES - Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series "I Spy" and was Bob in the critically acclaimed sex comedy "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice," died Wednesday after collapsing outside his Hollywood home, his agent said. Culp was 79.

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