Singer Peggy Hayama, best known for performing the Japanese version of "Do-Re-Mi" from the Broadway musical "The Sound of Music," died of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital on Wednesday. She was 83. After starting her career as a jazz singer at a U.S. military camp ...
Toru Funamura, celebrated composer of "Yagiri no Watashi" ("Ferry at Yagiri,") "Osho" ("Shogi King") and other popular Japanese songs, has died, his office said Friday. He was 84. The Tochigi Prefecture native, whose real name was Hiroo Fukuda, died Thursday at a hospital in Fujisawa, ...
Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who paired with Imogene Coca in sketches that became classics and who inspired a generation of famous writers, died Wednesday. He was 91. Family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said Caesar, who also played Coach Calhoun in the ...
Dr. Joyce Brothers, 85, who held a Ph.D. in psychology and was one of the most prominent and widely known of those who provided the American public with personal counseling through the mass media, died Monday in New York City. Her longtime publicist reported ...
