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Ryan O’Neal, the leading man who started a remarkable 1970s run in Hollywood with his Oscar-nominated role as Oliver in “Love Story,” died at 82 years old, according to his son, Patrick O’Neal, a sportscaster with Bally Sports West. He was diagnosed with chronic leukemia in 2001 and prostate cancer in 2012. In an Instagram…

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Norman Lear, the influential television writer, producer, and developer who dominated the American prime-time comedy lineup in the 1970s and destroyed barriers with sitcoms that wrung humor out of the country’s culture wars, has died, according to his family. He was 101 years old. Lear’s family said in a statement, “Thank you for the moving…

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It’s been a decade since the tragic death of “Fast and the Furious” star Paul Walker, but his presence remains strong in the lives of his friends, family, and co-stars. Walker died at 40 years old after a car crash in 2013, when a Porsche Carrera GT driven by his friend, Roger Rodas, crashed and…

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Matt Ulrich, a former Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman who was on the team’s Super Bowl championship team during the 2006 season, died at 41. A cause of death wasn’t given. Colts team owner Jim Irsay announced his death on X. He wrote, “I am heartbroken to hear of the passing of Matt Ulrich. Matt was…

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