Andrew Breitbart
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Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!
Born on February 1, 1969 in Los Angeles, California.
Andrew Breitbart was an American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author, and occasional guest commentator on various news programs, who served as an editor for the Drudge Report web site. He was a researcher for Arianna Huffington, and helped launch her web publication The Huffington Post.
Andrew Breitbart died on March 1, 2012 (aged 43) in Los Angeles, California, U.S
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Born on 13 April 1949 in Portsmouth, England.
Christopher Hitchens nicknamed “Hitch”, (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist whose books, essays, and journalistic career spanned more than four decades. He was a columnist and literary critic for The Atlantic, Free Inquiry, The Nation, Salon, Slate, Vanity Fair, World Affairs, and became a media fellow at the Hoover Institution in September 2008. He was a staple of talk shows and lecture circuits and in 2005 was voted the world’s fifth top public intellectual in a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll.
Hitchens died on 15 December 2011 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He was 62.
Joe Simon
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JOE SIMON COMIC BOOK MAKERS HC
Born on October 11, 1913 in Rochester, New York.
Joe Simon was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s-1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the first editor of Timely Comics, the company that would evolve into Marvel Comics.
Joe Simon died in New York City on December 14, 2011, after a brief illness.
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Make Room for Daddy: Season 6
Born on April 21, 1922.
Jack Elinson co-wrote 34 episodes of The Andy Griffith Show (mostly in collaboration with Charles Stewart) and 16 episodes of Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. He also wrote episodes of the TV series “The Real McCoys”, “Make Room for Daddy” (for which he received an Emmy nomination), “Hogan’s Heroes”, “The Doris Day Show”, “Good Times”, “One Day at a Time”, “The Facts of Life” and “227″.
Elinson died on November 17, 2011.
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Born on December 18, 1918 in Savannah, Georgia.
Hal Kanter was a writer, producer and director, principally for comedy actors such as Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and Elvis Presley (in Loving You and Blue Hawaii), for both feature films and television. Kanter helped Tennessee Williams turn the play by Williams into the film version of The Rose Tattoo. Since 1991, he was regularly credited as a writer for the Academy Award broadcasts.
Kanter died at his home in Encino, California on November 6, 2011, aged 92.
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Born on May 3, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Norman Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing. His earliest and biggest successes were in the writing and directing of radio drama during the 1930s and 1940s.
Corwin died at the age of 101 on October 18, 2011.
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Born on September 7, 1922 in Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset, England.
David Croft was an English writer, producer and director. He is particularly noted for producing and co-writing a string of popular BBC sitcoms including You Rang, M’Lord?, Dad’s Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and ‘Allo ‘Allo!.
Croft died in his sleep on 27 September 2011, at his home in Portugal. He was 89.
David Zelag Goodman
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Born January 15, 1930 in New York City, United States.
David Zelag Goodman was a playwright and screenwriter for both TV and film. His most prolific period was from the 1960s to the early 1980s. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Lovers and Other Strangers, though he did not win. He helped Sam Peckinpah write the screenplay for 1971’s controversial Straw Dogs. He passed away less than two weeks after the remake was released.
Goodman died on September 26, 2011 in Oakland, California.
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Born on February 20, 1962 in Detroit, Michigan.
Dwayne McDuffie died on February 21, 2011 in Burbank, California due to complications from a heart surgery. He was 49 years old.
McDuffie was an African-American writer of comic books and television, known for creating the animated television series Static Shock, writing and producing the animated series Justice League Unlimited, and co-founding the pioneering minority-owned-and-operated comic-book company Milestone Media.
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Born April 13, 1924,
Del Reisman died of a heart attack in Toluca Lake, Los Angles on January 8, 2011, at the age of 86.
Del Reisman began his career in television on the 1950s shows, Playhouse 90 and Matinee Theater, which were both live anthology series. He collaborated closely with Rod Serling on The Twilight Zone, which aired from 1959 until 1964, as the series’ story editor.
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