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Earth Day 2012

2012-04-22 13:37:06 (читать в оригинале)

This June, in Rio de Janeiro, more than 120 presidents and prime ministers will get together for a meeting with much at stake for every person on our planet – and future generations. It’s the so-called Rio+20 Earth Summit and so far it’s gotten very little attention. But there’s still time to change that. In [...]

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A tribute to Dick Clark

2012-04-21 14:15:57 (читать в оригинале)

After more than half a century on national television, ushering music acts into the public eye and ringing in the new year for millions, Dick Clark was eulogized last week as a cultural giant first, a shrewd businessman second. Clark (who died of a heart attack at age 82) would not have objected. But there [...]

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Actor Jonathan Frid dead at 87‎

2012-04-20 14:51:05 (читать в оригинале)

Jonathan Frid (a Canadian actor best known for playing Barnabas Collins in the 1960s original vampire soap opera “Dark Shadows”) has died. He was 87. Frid died Friday of natural causes in a hospital in his home town of Hamilton, Ontario, said Jim Pierson, a friend and spokesman for Dan Curtis Productions, the creator of [...]

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Dick Clark dead at 82‎ of heart attack‎

2012-04-19 15:07:30 (читать в оригинале)

Dick Clark (whose “American Bandstand” made him rich, famous, influential and sometimes controversial by marrying rock ‘n’ roll with television) died Wednesday morning at the age of 82. His agent (Paul Shefrin) said he suffered a massive heart attack. He had struggled with health issues since suffering a a serious stroke in 2004. Before then [...]

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Levon Helm faces final stages of cancer‎

2012-04-18 14:01:35 (читать в оригинале)

Levon Helm, who rose to fame as drummer and vocalist for the iconic group The Band, was “in the final stages of his battle with cancer” – his family said in a brief announcement Tuesday afternoon on Facebook. The 71-year-old musician’s beginnings could hardly have been more humbly or colourfully penned by a Hollywood screenwriter. [...]