Esophageal cancer

Letters: Dying but not wanting to know

2013-05-19 00:00:00

Re "Prescribing silence," Opinion, May 16 That Dr. Susan Partovi asked a patient if he wanted to know the details of his terminal illness is commendable. But relying on the old standby, "Do you want everything done?" — not so much. The medical...

For a dying patient, a prescription of silence

2013-05-16 00:00:00

His wife was a patient at the clinic where I worked in my early days as a doctor. I saw her regularly for hypertension. But on one visit, she was more concerned about her husband — let's call him Pedro. He was having stomach pains and difficulty...

PASSINGS: Ben Pleasants, Kenneth Appel

2013-04-30 00:00:00

Ben Pleasants L.A. poet and playwright Ben Pleasants, 72, a Los Angeles poet and playwright who also championed the work of Charles Bukowski and John Fante in literary critiques, died of a heart attack April 18 in Crescent City, his wife, Paula, said....

Dave Alvin headlines Juke Logan cancer benefit Sunday in L.A.

2013-04-12 13:01:00

Dave Alvin and a slew of other veterans of the Southern California blues and roots music communities, including Junior Watson, James Harman and the Mike Eldred Trio, will gather Sunday at Caf� Fais Do Do in Los Angeles to salute harmonica ace John “...

PASSINGS: Deke Richards

2013-03-26 19:11:00

Deke Richards, 68, who as part of the songwriting and producing team known as the Corporation was responsible for many of the Jackson 5's early hit songs for Motown Records, died Sunday at a hospice in Bellingham, Wash., of esophageal cancer, according to...

Motown producer-songwriter Deke Richards dies

2013-03-26 09:34:00

Deke Richards, who as part of the songwriting and production team known as the Corporation was responsible for many of Motown Records' signature songs, died Sunday at a hospice in Bellingham, Wash., of esophageal cancer, according to a statement from...

Emily Rapp writes her way through grief in 'Still Point of the Turning World''

2013-03-15 06:00:00

Emily Rapp is not one to sugarcoat hard truths, including the brutal diagnosis she and her husband received in January 2011 when they took their then-9-month-old son to a pediatric ophthalmologist because of concerns about developmental delays. Ronan,...

Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist, actor

2012-10-23 00:00:00

Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in...

Richard Dawson dies at 79; host of TV's 'Family Feud'

2012-06-03 19:58:00

Richard Dawson, the British actor who went from comedy co-star in the popular TV series "Hogan's Heroes" to his best-known role as the charming host of the TV game show "Family Feud" with his trademark of kissing the female contestants on the lips, has...

Yuri Rasovsky dies at 67; big name in radio dramas, audio books

2012-02-06 00:00:00

Radio drama was thought to be nearly extinct when Yuri Rasovsky launched the National Radio Theater of Chicago in the early 1970s, and he emerged as a major voice in its revival. One of his first productions was a radio adaptation of the 1920 silent...

Nicol Williamson dies at 75; legendary British actor

2012-01-26 00:00:00

Once heralded as the greatest British actor of his generation, Nicol Williamson was also a legend for stormy onstage behavior that included calling off a performance of "Hamlet" mid-speech because he was too tired to go on. "I'll pay for the seats," he...

Christopher Hitchens dies at 62; engaging, enraging author and essayist

2011-12-15 21:57:00

Christopher Hitchens, the engaging and enraging British-American author and essayist whose polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other provocations established him as one of his generation's most robust public intellectuals, has died. He was...

Blues musician John "Juke" Logan will be the guest of honor at a concert Sunday benefiting esophageal cancer research.

2013-04-12 11:56:00

The screen legend died of esophageal cancer in 1957. He was 57.

2012-09-05 09:08:08

The author and journalist died of esophageal cancer in 2011. He was 62.

2012-09-05 08:12:19