The veteran stage and screen actor whose flair for maternal roles helped her win an Oscar as Cher’s motherinthe romantic comedy “Moonstruck.” May 1.ĭick Kay, 84. From 1970 to 1991, the longtime CBS-Channel 2 reporter/storyteller/anchor’s stories took him all over Chicago and the world. Corticobasal degeneration.īob Wallace, 80.
An award-winning spy novelist who drew upon his long careerinespionage and his admiration for John le Carre among othersincrafting his popular “Red Sparrow” thrillers.
The mezzo-soprano was a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades. He blended whimsical wordplay with reverence for ’70s funk as leader of the off-kilter Bay Area hip-hop group Digital Underground. A founding member of the country rock band Poco who wrote its hit song “Crazy Love.” April 14. The Grammy-winning composer who wrote Meat Loaf’s best-selling “Bat Out of Hell” debut album as well as hits for Celine Dion, Air Supply and Bonnie Tyler. The iconic hip-hop artist behind the songs “Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” and “Party Up (UpinHere)” whose distinctively gruff voice and thoughtful messagesinhis rhymes made him one of rap’s biggest stars. The irascible and tough-minded husband of Queen Elizabeth II who spent more than seven decades supporting his wifeina role that both defined and constricted his life. The author whose 1982 bestselling book “Megatrends” was publishedindozens of countries. A groundbreaking comedy writer with a taste for sweetness and the macabre who was on the original staff of “Saturday Night Live” and later created the cult sitcom “Square Pegs.” April 7.
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She was a renowned Japanese scriptwriter best known for the internationally popular TV drama series “Oshin.” April 4.Īnne Beatts, 74. The prolific and popular author who took readers back to the old American Westinhis Pulitzer Prize-winning “Lonesome Dove” and returned them to modern-day landscapesinworks such as his emotional “Terms of Endearment.” March 25.
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