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Actor Peter Falk poses as he arrives for the premiere of his new film "Lakeboat" September 24, 2001 in Los Angeles. [The film is an adaptation of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winning comic play about a grad student who takes a summer job on a Great Lakes freighter and sees life through the eyes of his low-brow crew members.The film opens in limited release in Los Angeles September 28. ] (Â© Rose Prouser / Reuters)

The amazing legacy of Peter Falk

ANTHONY McCARTNEY

Chris Hondros in Sierra Leone, 2001

How my best friend died in a combat zone

The late Iranian-American designer Bijan with President Bush, left, and one of Bijan's jewelry designs.

Porochista Khakpour

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Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's 1975 classic "Dog Day Afternoon"

Sidney Lumet made movies for grownups

Matt Zoller Seitz

Disturbing footage of Knut's death.

Jezebel removes Knut's death video

Jane Russell

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FILE -A Wednesday, June 9, 2004 photo from files showing British actor Peter Postlethwaite displaying his Order of the British Empire or OBE, shortly after the presentation at Buckingham Palace in London. Britain's Press Association is reporting Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 that decorated film actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64. It quotes longtime friend Andrew Richardson as saying Monday that Postlethwaite died in hospital in Shropshire, central England, after a long illness. Richardson said Postlethwaite died Sunday. He had been receiving treatment for cancer. (AP Photo /Kirsty Wigglesworth/ Pool) (AP)

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Teena Marie in 2009.

Nekesa Mumbi Moody

FILE - This Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 picture shows copies of J.D. Salinger's classic novel "The Catcher in the Rye" as well as his volume of short stories called "Nine Stories" at the Orange Public Library in Orange Village, Ohio. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, died Wednesday at the age of 91. At left is a 1951 photo of the author. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File) (AP)

Bob Feller in the Navy during World War II.

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FILE - This June 24, 1969, file photo, shows Chicago Cubs third baseman Ron Santo (10) clicking his heels on the way to the locker room after his ninth-inning sacrifice fly allowed the winning run to score for a 5-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, in Chicago. Santo died Thursday, Dec. 2, 2010, in an Arizona hospital from complications of bladder cancer. He was 70. (AP Photo) (Anonymous)

Michael G. Glab

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Detail from poster for "Naked Gun"

Matt Zoller Seitz

FILE - Actor Tony Curtis is shown in this 1965 file photo. Curtis, whose real name was Bernard Schwartz, was perhaps most known for his comedic turn in Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot' with co-stars Marilyn Monroe and Jack Lemmon has died at 85 according to the Clark County, Nev. coroner. (AP Photo, File) (AP)

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A nurse at Medina hospital treats a wounded civilian,at Medina hospital, Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2010. after he was wounded by mortar shrapnel during fighting between Somali insurgents and African Union troops. A suicide bomber and gunmen stormed a hotel in Somalia's capital on Tuesday, killing at least 15 people including members of parliament in an attack that set off an hour-long gun battle, a military spokesman and a witness said. (AP Photo/ Mohamed Sheikh Nor) (AP)

Mohamed Olad Hassan, Malkhadir M. Muhumed

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Maryclaire Dale

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FILE - This June 29, 1978, file photo shows New York Yankees principle owner George Steinbrenner laughing as Billy Martin answers reporters questions at a news conference after the Old Timers Day game, at Yankee Stadium in New York. A person close to George Steinbrenner says the Yankees owner died Tuesday morning, July 13, 2010 . (AP Photo/Harris, File) (AP)

FILE - This feb. 17, 2003, file photo shows New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner waving to fans in Tampa, Fla. Steinbrenner, who rebuilt the New York Yankees into a sports empire with a mix of bluster and big bucks that polarized fans all across America, died Tuesday, July 13, 2010, in Tampa, Fla. He had just celebrated his 80th birthday July 4. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File) (AP)

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