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Webby Awards: Steve Jobs Tribute, Best of the Five-Word Acceptance Speeches

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The Webby Awards honored the best of the web (Indiewire included!), and shared a tribute video for Steve Jobs. Keeping with their acceptance-speech rule, the video features thanks from the likes of President Obama, President Clinton, Al Gore, George Lucas, Jon Stewart and Bono - all in five words or less.

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May 22, 2012 5:30 PM
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Oscilloscope Founder and Beastie Boy Adam Yauch Dies of Cancer: David Fenkel to Stay On UPDATE

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Adam Yauch, best-known as a member of the hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at age 47, reports Rolling Stone. Yauch, also a founder of indie distribution label Oscilloscope Laboratories ("Wendy and Lucy," "We Need to Talk About Kevin") was diagnosed with cancer after discovering a salivary gland tumor in 2009.

By Anne Thompson
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May 4, 2012 4:01 PM
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Jonathan Frid, Barnabas Collins in TV series 'Dark Shadows', Has Died

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What timing. On the verge of the opening of the Tim Burton 'Dark Shadows' movie--which looks like an all-out campy take led by Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins, the actor who originated the role in the long-running afternoon soap opera, Jonathan Frid, has died. He was 87. He had been active in various promo activities for the new movie; his cameo (along with Kathryn Leigh Scott, David Selby and Lara Parker), will be his last film appearance.

By Anne Thompson
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April 19, 2012 2:09 PM
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Mike Wallace Obits (Video)

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When someone like Mike Wallace dies, you feel the loss. That's because the CBS "60 Minutes" newsman, who died at 93 after a long illness, fearlessly practiced a level of rigorous stand-up journalism that rarely exists anymore.

By Anne Thompson
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April 8, 2012 11:58 AM
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Obit: Screenwriter Tonino Guerra, Three-Time Oscar-Nominee, Has Died

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One of cinema's greatest writers, three-time Oscar nominee Tonino Guerra, has died. The poet/screenwriter from Northern Italy had just turned 92 on March 16. Guerra wrote over 100 screenplays, including "L'avventura," "La notte," "L'eclisse," "Red Desert," "Blow-Up," and "Zabriskie Point" for Antonioni;

By Anne Thompson
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March 21, 2012 1:43 PM
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Bingham Ray Memorial, UPDATED Clips: Jarmusch, Turturro, Clarkson, Platt

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The Bingham Ray memorial in New York last Friday was an extraordinary event. Sure, the Paris Theatre was packed with a generation of people who care deeply about independent film, but it was more than that.

By Anne Thompson
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February 16, 2012 4:23 PM
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'Waiting to Exhale' Moves Ahead Sans Whitney Houston: 'In Her Honor'

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The "Waiting to Exhale" sequel is going forward, despite Whitney Houston's sudden death. "I don’t think she would want it to [perish]," said Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler (who just renewed her deal). Soldiering on with the project is "almost in her honor," she adds.

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February 14, 2012 4:27 PM
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Obit: Indie Veteran Bingham Ray Was a Champion of Indie Cinema UPDATED

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The news that indie veteran Bingham Ray, recently appointed executive director of the San Francisco Film Society and Festival, had suffered a stroke hit the Sundance Film Festival Saturday morning. Sadly, Ray died from complications of the massive stroke on Monday.