Mentor Williams, a music producer and songwriter who penned the hit “Drift Away,” died Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in Taos, New Mexico, according to multiple news sources. He was 70. …
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When “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” was released in 1971, few of its stars were familiar to audiences. And even with the movie’s moderate success at the box office …
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Gene Wilder, the comic actor known for movies including “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” and “Young Frankenstein,” has died at the age of 83.
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His most famous skits included diving into a sewage tank.
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He won a Pulitzer Prize for “The Confessions of Nat Turner.”
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