Posted on December 26, 2007 by balev
From “Tabloid Baby”
Irv, we hardly knew ye.
We found out yesterday that Irv Letofsky died this week at 76.
(In My Heart Editor: Hollywood Reporter says Letofsky died of liver cancer)
Irv was a television critic for The Hollywood Reporter, former editor of the Los Angeles Times Calendar section and an important collector of film lobby and title [...]
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Posted on December 3, 2007 by balev
Moses M. Weinstein, 95, who got his start in New York electoral politics in his 40s, spent 10 days as acting governor, and then became a judge, died Friday in Florida.
Weinstein was born in New York on July 8, 1912. According to the New York Times, his first name was originally Morris and he had [...]
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Posted on November 23, 2007 by balev
Jewish obituaries roundup 2
Paul Wasserman, 73, U.S., celebrity publicist, Nov. 18
Ido Zoldan, 29, Israel, contractor, terror victim, Nov. 19
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Posted on November 18, 2007 by balev
Peter Zinner, film editor on the first two “Godfather” films, and an Oscar winner for 1978’s “The Deer Hunter,” died Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2007 at 88.
Zinner died of complications from an almost five-year battle with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Zinner was born in 1919 in Vienna, and fled the Nazis with his family and moved to the Philippines [...]
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