Gore Vidal, the elegant, acerbic all-around man of letters who presided with a certain relish over what he declared to be the end of American civilization, died on Tuesday at his home in the Hollywood Hills section of Los Angeles, where he moved in 2003, after years of living in Ravello, Italy. He was 86.
Japanese actress Keiko Tsushima who was in Akira Kurosawa's " Seven Samurai " (1952) died 1 August. She was 86.And Isuzu Yamada who worked with Kurosawa died on July 9 in Tokyo. She was 95. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/16/movies/isuzu-yamada-actress-who-worked-with-kurosawa-dies-at-95.html R.I.P. Mme Keiko Tsushima. R.I.P. Mme Isuzu Yamada.
Marvin Hamlisch, Film and Stage Maestro, Dies at 68 Marvin Hamlisch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who imbued his movie and Broadway scores with pizazz and panache and often found his songs in the upper reaches of the pop charts, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 68 and lived in New York.
I was also saddened to read Robert Hughes had died. He was an art critic who wrote in many papers and magazines. He also wrote the best selling book The Fatal Shore.Born in Australia Robert finally moved to New York.RIP Robert. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184861/Robert-Hughes-Australian-art-critic-author-The-Fatal-Shore-dies-aged-74-long-illness.html
Renowned Italian special effects artist Carlo Rambaldi, who created ET the Extra Terrestrial, has died aged 86 after a long illness.