Thomas’ band helped shape 1980s college rock and the alternative boom to come.
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Harris was part of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black parachute infantry battalion.
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Novak played Stick the Assassin in Bruce Lee’s “Game of Death.”
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He played Salmoneus on Xena: Warrior Princess as well.
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Seals played for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1995 Super Bowl.
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He built the flying police cars for “Blade Runner.”
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Fugard’s celebrated works explored the oppression of apartheid and its lingering effects.
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He was the band’s guitarist during their hitmaking years.
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He was also a star of the Cloris Leachman sitcom, “Phyllis.”
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Turski co-founded the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw.