Obituaries

He was a show-business neophyte when he stammered his way to fame in 1960. He went on to star in two

J. Michael Cline was the co-founder of an online ticketing company that changed how Americans went to the movies.

A Public Health Service employee, he turned whistle-blower after learning of decades-long research involving hundreds of poor, infected Black men who

His photograph of five young people lounging on the Brooklyn waterfront as smoke engulfed Manhattan mesmerized viewers and stirred controversy.

She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent

A Dutch painter, sculptor and engraver, she worked in experimental mediums, founded an influential multidisciplinary journal and enjoyed a late-career resurgence.

As an influential committee leader and the majority leader in the New York Assembly, he led efforts, later embraced in Washington,

A branding expert, he deployed the “I’m lovin’ it” campaign globally in 2003 to bring customers and sales back to the

His natural rectitude landed him roles on hundreds of TV dramas and comedies, including the beloved “Car Pool Lane” episode of

He provided the research and drafts that helped bring about the Supreme Court’s landmark Gideon v. Wainwright decision in 1963.