His most famous skits included diving into a sewage tank.
Died 2011
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Their single “Yakety Yak” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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His life story became the subject of the 2010 HBO movie, “You Don’t Know Jack.”
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His popular singles included “Thank You for Being a Friend.”
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He played swaggering Kenickie in the movie musical “Grease.”
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She was best known for her role as Becky Driscoll in director Don Siegel’s paranoid film about townspeople being replaced by emotionless duplicates grown from plant-like pods.
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His passion and pride revived European golf and made the Ryder Cup one of the game’s most compelling events.
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Snow put her stamp on soul classics such as “Shakey Ground,” ”Love Makes a Woman” and “Mercy, Mercy Mercy” on over a half dozen albums.
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Their aggressively catchy single “Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” became an enduring punk anthem.
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Saks wrote the pilot script for “Bewitched,” but he never wrote another episode of the ABC series about a witch married to a mortal.