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In Passing

Photographer Bill Jones and Mariah Carey attend the 12th Annual BMI Urban Awards in 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.

Hollywood photographer Bill Jones, one of the first black photographers working the celebrity beat, has died in his home in Los Angeles at age 81; neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin, who published more than 100 research papers on Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, has died aged 79; Squadron Leader Percy Beake​, who flew Spitfires in the latter stages of the Battle of Britain has died aged 99; the last fugitive wanted over war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, Goran Hadzic​, has died aged 57; French Resistance fighter who assassinated Philippe Henriot as part of the Paris Resistance has died aged 94.

Michael Cimino, acclaimed director of The Deer Hunter, dies at 77

Director Michael Cimino in 2015.

Michael Cimino, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker who earned a reputation as one of Hollywood's boldest directors with the haunting 1978 Vietnam War drama The Deer Hunter, and then all but squandered it two years later with Heaven's Gate, died on Saturday. He was 77.

David Johnson: the man who ate Arnott's

David Johnson the former chief executive of Campbells Soup whose lessons for work came from the sheep station where he ...

One reporter called him "The Man Who Ate Arnott's", referring to the acrimonious corporate takeover of the 1990s. David Johnson, the famed chief executive of Campbell Soup Company, led it. His illustrious corporate career started with an MBA from the University of Chicago.