Mr. Pinelli’s prolific screenwriting career included a long partnership with the director Federico Fellini, with whom he wrote “I Vitelloni,� “La Strada,� “La Dolce Vita� and “8 ½.�...

Mr. Carr, a Scottish-born trumpeter, was an early practitioner of jazz-rock fusion and wrote Miles Davis’s biography....

Mr. Mercado took his passion for Latin music and built an empire around it, staging concerts, creating a recording and publishing label, a film and video company, and nightclubs and restaurants....

Mrs. Warburg, the widow of Edward M.M. Warburg, was a board member of many charitable organizations including the Henry Street Settlement and the United Negro College Fund....

Hedges died Tuesday morning at home in South Pasadena of melanoma. He was 57. He was a leading Hollywood lawyer and also made a name for himself as an archaeologist.......

I haven't gotten to all the Jim Bellows appreciatons that have been posted or published, but today's by columnist Jon Carroll in the San Francisco Chronicle is a bit different......

[Image: a black-and-white portrait of Nancy Eiesland, from her faculty webpage]Sad news: Nancy Eiesland of Emory University has died this week, from cancer. If you're interested in how disability studies scholarship might inform the sociology of religion, you won't get far without running into some ...

Dr. Alger, a New York psychiatrist, pioneered the use of video recordings in therapy and was an early proponent of therapy through videoconferencing....

Mr. Lieber upset scientific dogma by showing that alcohol in excess can cause cirrhosis despite an adequate diet....

Mr. Cole doggedly covered major mergers and acquisitions in the 1970s and ’80s....