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Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik With Sid Krofft, he produced children's shows, like 'H.R. Pufnstuf,' and prime time programs, including 'Donny & Marie.' Marty Krofft, who, with his brother Sid, created [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik In a peripatetic life, beginning with a flight from the Nazis, she found a kind of stability in making pictures for more than seven decades. For [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik He expanded a family steel and jeep business into an international leviathan, but his career was stained by a conviction in the 1984 Bhopal disaster. Keshub [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik You might call him the Boston mangler. 'I was doing everybody's material,' he said, before discovering his own shtick and becoming the master of the malaprop. [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik In handling publicity for George Lucas's 1977 blockbuster, he helped create a playbook for future science fiction movies. Without Charles Lippincott's groundbreaking approach to publicity, there [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik After his 1965 single 'You Turn Me On' became a Top 10 hit, he renounced rock stardom for older musical idioms like ragtime. Ian Whitcomb, who [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik With works like Barcelona's Olympic Stadium, he combined a respect for older traditions with bold expressions of the new. He had contracted the coronavirus in his [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik She is widely believed to have been the first African-American female meteorologist to forecast weather on television. June Bacon-Bercey, who by many accounts became the first [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik In 1921 Coleman became the first black woman in the United States to earn a pilot's license, then barnstormed around the country thrilling audiences and inspiring [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik In 1958 he and two others became the first to scale a 2,900-foot granite wall in Yosemite National Park in California that many considered practically unclimbable. [...]

Byline: Daniel E. Slotnik He found a following making unapologetically raw films that challenged what he saw as hypocrisies in society. Jean-Pierre Mocky, a fiercely independent French filmmaker whose dozens [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK It was February 1991, and for nine days Jeff Lowe had been climbing alone up the punishing, nearly 6,000-foot north face of the Eiger, a notoriously [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Tom Frost, a renowned rock climber who made daring first ascents up the towering El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and designed climbing hardware to protect [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Marie Severin, a multifaceted comic book artist whose confident hand drew most of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Comics pantheon at a time when women [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Carole Shelley, who played one of the bubbly Pigeon sisters in the stage, screen and television versions of Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple' and won a [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Ted Achilles, a retired businessman who helped found an innovative boarding school for girls in Kabul, a potentially dangerous undertaking in a country still rife with [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Many wayfarers blanch at the hardships of a lengthy solo sailing trip, but to Hilary Lister they were nothing compared with the torment of her living [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Correction Appended Fakir Musafar first found pleasure in pain as a teenager named Roland Loomis in his family's basement in the mid-1940s. It was the beginning [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Eugene Pitt, the lead singer of the Jive Five, a doo-wop group that reached the Top 10 in 1961 with 'My True Story' and endured long [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Donald Ritchie, one of the world's top ultrarunners, who set more than a dozen records traversing distances better suited to an automobile than a human being, [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Correction Appended Joe Jackson, the domineering father and manager who molded his sons into the immensely popular Jackson 5 and helped launch his son Michael and [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Correction Appended Jhoon Rhee, a grandmaster of the Korean martial art taekwondo, who helped popularize it in America, taught hundreds of congressmen how to spar and [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Fran Bera's fascination with flight began when she took an airplane-themed carnival ride as a young girl in Michigan in the 1930s. As a teenager she [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Isao Takahata, a film director who founded Japan's premier animation studio, Studio Ghibli, with Hayao Miyazaki in 1985 and made sophisticated animated films like the elegiac [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Hip-hop was a rarity on most Top 40 radio stations when the Los Angeles nightclub D.J.s Matt Dike and Mike Ross created a record label, Delicious [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Dennis Edwards, who became a lead singer of the Motown hitmakers the Temptations in 1968 as they embraced psychedelic funk and won Grammy Awards for the [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Dr. Michel Jouvet, a neurophysiologist who discovered the region of the brain that controls rapid eye movement, and who helped define REM sleep as a unique [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Correction Appended Richard Anderson, a character actor known for playing sturdy authority figures in films and on television, most notably the government agent who doled out [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Richard Wagamese was just a toddler in 1958 when his parents left him and his three young siblings in a bush camp in northwestern Ontario for [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Early on Feb. 19, Brian C. Vigneault was nearing the end of a 24-hour marathon of live streaming himself playing the tank warfare video game World [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Peter Vaughan, a British character actor who often played rogues early in his career but was more familiar to recent audiences as a wise, blind mentor [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Correction Appended Brock Yates, an automotive journalist who founded an anarchic, cross-country road race in the 1970s, then fictionalized it in the script for the 1981 [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Bing Thom, a Hong Kong-born Canadian architect whose swooping, playful design for the Arena Stage company's Mead Center for American Theater enlivened Washington's dreary southwestern waterfront [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Alison Bernstein, who expanded opportunities for learning and tackled challenging social problems as an educator and as an official of the Ford Foundation, died on June [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Goro Hasegawa, who is widely credited with creating the board game Othello, which has sold tens of million of copies around the world since its introduction [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Janice Crouch, who founded the Trinity Broadcasting Network with her husband, Paul, and preached a 'gospel of prosperity' with him on TBN programs, reaching millions of [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK The news website The Intercept has said that a former reporter fabricated quotations in some of his articles and impersonated other people by using email accounts [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Patricia Canning Todd, who won four Grand Slam tennis tournaments in 1947 and 1948 but lost the chance for another when she refused to play on [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Fred D. Thompson, a former United States senator, actor and Republican presidential candidate, died on Sunday in Nashville. He was 73. The cause was a recurrence [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Fred Otnes, a prominent illustrator, painter and collage artist who embraced abstraction well before most commercial illustrators did, died on July 28 in Westport, Conn. He [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Bobbi Kristina Brown, the only child of the pop stars Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, who set off a media frenzy after she was found unconscious [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Joan Sebastian, a Mexican singer and songwriter whose sultry ballads won a total of 11 Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards and made him one of the [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of the Beatles' John Lennon, who chronicled their troubled marriage in two memoirs, has died at her home in Mallorca, Spain. [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Bob Hall, a key showman for the Harlem Globetrotters, basketball's barnstorming comedy troupe, from the late 1940s until the mid-1970s, died on Dec. 24 near his [...]

Byline: DANIEL E. SLOTNIK Bob Hall, a key showman for the Harlem Globetrotters, basketball's barnstorming comedy troupe, from the late 1940s until the mid-1970s, died on Dec. 24 near his [...]