Louise Bourgeois

Louise Bourgeois DEAD: Sculptor, Artist Dies, Aged 98

NEW YORK — Artist Louise Bourgeois, whose sculptures exploring women's deepest feelings on birth, sexuality and death were highly influential on younger artists, died Monday, her studio's managing director said. She was 98.

Bourgeois had continued creating artwork – her latest pieces were finished just last week – before suffering a heart attack Saturday night, said the studio director, Wendy Williams. The artist died at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan, where she lived.

Working in a wide variety of materials, she tackled themes relating to male and female bodies and emotions of anger, betrayal, even murder. Her work reflected influences of surrealism, primitivism and the early modernist sculptors such as Alberto Giacometti and Constantin Brancusi.

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Louise Bourgeois - Summary: A documentary attempting to shed light on what makes fascinatingly fractious Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s greatest living artists, tick.

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Dennis Hopper asked me: 'If you could not create, would you die?'

Dennis Lee Hopper May 17, 1936 – May 29, 2010 < RIP: Dennis Hopper

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Iconoclastic Hollywood icon Dennis Hopper dies

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Dennis Hopper was the most visionary of all Hollywood bad boys‎ - In a world of fake bad boys, he was the true article — a natural-born rule breaker, a Hollywood rebel who took midnight rides on the wild side with James Dean, a scraggly-haired hippie too hip (and too dark) to let the sunshine in. Dennis Hopper, who died today at 74, was an actor and a filmmaker who tore through boundaries not just because he didn’t like them; most often, he didn’t even see them. I’ll never forget the one time I got to be in a room with him

GAWKER: Actor Dennis Hopper Dead at 74

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Lena Mary Calhoun Horne ~June 30, 1917 — May 9, 2010~
an American singer, actress and dancer.

Washington Post..Remembering Lena Horne: 1917 - 2010
The iconic singer and actress's career spanned six decades, helping to break down racial barriers for women of color in Hollywood.
Born on June 30, 1917, Lena Horne was considered one of the most beautiful women in the world. She came to the attention of Hollywood in 1942 and was the first black woman to sign a meaningful long-term contract with a major studio, a contract that said she would never have to play a maid.
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Lena Horne 1917-2010

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Lynn Redgrave, 67, Is Dead

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Lynn Rachel Redgrave, 8 March 1943 – 2 May 2010

J.D. Salinger Dead at 91

J.D. Salinger Dead at 91

Jerome David Salinger died at his home on January 27, 2010 in Cornish, New Hampshire. His literary agent announced his death, saying it was of natural causes.

Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones, Postwar Actress, Dies at 90
Actress Jennifer Jones was nominated for Academy Awards five times in her 35-year film career. December 17, 2009 JenniferJones
Jennifer Jones (March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009) Early life - Career - Personal life -Marriages and children

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Photo: Jennifer Jones, in a file photo dating from 1997.

National Post Five things you didn't know about Jennifer Jones

Telegraph.co.uk Her forte, which she seldom had a chance to reveal, was actually comedy.

CBC.ca Born Phylis Lee Isley in Tulsa, Okla., the actress grew up predisposed to show business, as her family owned a travelling tent show and later a chain of cinemas. She studied at New York's Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she met her first husband, Robert Walker.

Washington Post. In her prime, Ms. Jones was among the screen's great beauties, a striking brunette with a husky voice and ethereal stare. But there was also a sensitive, at times vulnerable, quality that broadened her appeal across genres.

Examiner.com Controversial Oscar-winning actress

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Born to vaudeville performers with whom she performed as a child, the dark-haired, soulful Phylis Isley always wanted to be an actress.
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Award Winning Actor Karl Malden Dies
Karl Malden: an appreciation

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Karl Malden Dead At 97 (Photos)

Karl Malden: an appreciation

Karl Malden, who died today at 97, enjoyed a lengthy, varied and distinguished career as a character actor. On film he is best remembered for roles that required restrained passion, grit, wisdom and integrity.