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Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead Rafer Johnson, Winner of a Memorable Decathlon, Is Dead Rafer Johnson, who carried the American flag into Rome’s Olympic Stadium in August 1960 as the first Black captain of a United States Olympic team and went on to win gold in a memorable decathlon duel, bringing him acclaim as the world’s …

Conchata Ferrell, Memorable Maid on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ Dies at 77 Conchata Ferrell, Memorable Maid on ‘Two and a Half Men,’ Dies at 77 Conchata Ferrell, the award-winning theater actress who became a television star as the gruff housekeeper of a toxic Malibu bachelor on the sitcom “Two and a Half Men,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. …

Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles With his light comedic touch, Fred Willard, who died Friday at 86, made getting laughs seem effortless. His string of now-familiar characters — a daffy late-night sidekick, a blundering dog show announcer — were exaggerated extensions of himself. They were obviously goofier …

Jon Pessah’s biography of Yogi Berra covers the quotes and the career as well as the sensitive person often obscured by his public image. Source link

Honor Blackman, an actress who achieved fame as a beautiful pilot with judo skills and a highly suggestive name in the 1964 James Bond movie “Goldfinger,” then went on to a long screen career in her native England and abroad, has died at her home in Lewes, in southeastern England. She was 94. Her family announced her death in a …