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Toby Keith, a sometimes polarizing figure in country music who created an identity around his macho, pro-American swagger, died at 62 years old. According to a statement on the country singer’s website, Keith, who was battling stomach cancer, died peacefully surrounded by his family. The statement said, “He fought his fight with grace and courage.”…

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Glynis Johns, the Tony Award-winning screen and stage star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died at 100 years old. Her manager, Mitch Clem, said she died of natural causes at an assisted living home…

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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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