Lynn Hamilton dies at 95 renowned for Sanford and Son and The Waltons
Lynn Hamilton, known for cantankerous landlady roles on Sanford and Son and Verdie Grant Foster on The Waltons, died at her Chicago home at 95. Her career spanned Broadway, television, and film with early stage work in Chicago and New York, including The Miracle Worker and The Skin of Our Teeth.
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Lynn Hamilton
Sanford and Son
The
Waltons
Hamilton
Chicago
Calvin Carson
Yazoo City
Miss
Goodman School of Drama Theater
South Side
New York
New York Shakespeare Festival
John Cassavetes
Cantankerous
Com
Fred Sanford
Hollywood Reporter
Donna Harris
Redd Foxx
Verdie Grant Foster
Walton
the Practice
Carson
William Cran Frontline documentary producer dies at 79
Australian-born William Cran known for Frontline and The Story of English died June 4 in Isleworth England at age 79 from Parkinsons disease complications. He created and directed PBS BBC partnerships including 88 Seconds in Greensboro and Jihad The Men and Ideas Behind al Qaida.
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William Cran
Jesus
Frontline
Isleworth
England
Vicki Barker-Cran
Cran
BBC
London
PBS
Robert McCrum
PBS News
Robert MacNeil
Nicaragua
Nation
Jim Quinn
WGBH
Boston
David Fanning
World
Fanning
NFL
Greensboro
Ku Klux Klan
American Nazi Party
North Carolina
David Bianculli
Akron Beacon Journal
Hobart
Australia
Tasmania
William
University of Oxford
Magdalen College
Royal Shakespeare Company
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Fifth Estate
Rupert Murdoch
Pablo Escobar
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Araminta Wordsworth
Stephanie Tepper
Polly Bide
Vicki Barker
CBS Radio
NPR
Center
Marcela Gaviria
Christopher Buchanan
Marcia Resnick dies at 74, famed punk era photographer
Marcia Resnick, a sharp shooter of New York downtown art, died June 18 in Manhattan at 74 from lung cancer. She captured the city’s 1970s 80s punk scene, photographed John Belushi before his death, and published Punks Poets Provocateurs. Her work linked figures like Joey Ramone Iggy Pop Basquiat Byrne Mailer Rubell and Jagger.
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Marcia Resnick
Manhattan
John Belushi
Janice Hahn
Resnick
Greenwich Village
New York
Brooklyn
California
Whitehot
William S. Burroughs
Andy Warhol
SoHo Weekly News
The
New Yorker
Joey Ramone
Iggy Pop
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Talking Heads
David Byrne
Norman Mailer
Studio 54 Disco
Steve Rubell
Bad Boys
Rolling Stone Magazine
Victor Bockris
Warhol
Velvet Underground
Burroughs
Mick Jagger
Rolling Stones
Keith Richards
Jagger
Bockris
Punks, Poets & Provocateurs
Saturday Night Live
Belushi
Tribeca
AM/ PM
Canal Street
Asbury Park
Los Angeles
Detroit
MC5
Laurie Anderson
West Village
Punks
Poets & Provocateurs
SoHo
Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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