Gail Lumet Buckley, the daughter of the late Lena Horne and a journalist and writer, who wrote two books concerning the historical past of her Black middle-class household, died on July 18. She was 86.

Her daughter Jenny Lumet, a screenwriter and producer, instructed The New York Instances she died at her house in Santa Monica, California, as a consequence of coronary heart failure.

Born on Dec. 21, 1937, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Buckley grew up in Brooklyn and Los Angeles. Relatively than observe her in her mom’s footsteps in Hollywood, she went on to earn a bachelor’s diploma from Radcliffe Faculty in Massachusetts in 1959.

She spent a while working in Paris as an intern at Marie Claire journal earlier than returning to america, serving as a counselor with the Nationwide Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro College students.

Buckley was then employed at Life journal in 1962. Later in her journalism profession, she additionally wrote contributing articles for The New York Instances, The Los Angeles Instances, The Each day Information of New York and Vogue.

It was in 1986 when she wrote her first e book, The Hornes: An American Household, after discovering tons of of artifacts in an outdated trunk that belonged to her relations relationship again six generations.

“All of it unfolded like a detective story — here’s what was taking place in 1875, there’s what went on in 1895,” she instructed the Los Angeles Instances when The Hornes was printed. “After which to learn Black American historical past, as I did extensively, and put that on prime of it; that’s an thrilling expertise.”

Three many years later, she revisited her household’s historical past with The Black Calhouns: From Civil Battle to Civil Rights With One African American Household. The e book centered on historic occasions and political actions that impacted two sides of her household: one which lived via Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow in Atlanta, and the opposite that skilled the Harlem Renaissance in New York Metropolis.

She additionally printed American Patriots: The Story of Blacks within the Navy From the Revolution to Desert Storm in 2001, for which she acquired the Robert F. Kennedy Guide Award the 12 months after.

Her most up-to-date e book, Radical Sanctity: Race and Radical Ladies within the American Catholic Church, was printed in 2023. It targeted on Katharine Drexel, Dorothy Day, Catherine de Hueck Doherty and Sister Thea Bowman.

Buckley was married to director Sidney Lumet (who died in 2011) for 14 years after they met in 1963. They share two daughters, Jenny and Amy Lumet.

Further survivors embody her two grandchildren. She was additionally married to journalist Kevin Buckley for 38 years however he died in 2021.

Jerry Fuller, the songwriter and producer whose stellar profession included such hits as “Travelin’ Man” for Ricky Nelson, “Younger Lady” for Gary Puckett and the Union Hole, “Present and Inform” for Al Wilson and “Little Inexperienced Apples” for O.C. Smith, has died. He was 85.

Fuller died Thursday at his residence in Sherman Oaks of problems from lung most cancers, publicist Bobbi Marcus instructed The Hollywood Reporter.

Fuller’s first manufacturing for Puckett was the million-selling “Lady, Lady,” which was launched in 1967 and peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Sizzling 100. He then wrote and produced the band’s subsequent three multimillion sellers, “Younger Lady,” “Woman Willpower” and “Over You” — all prime 10 songs, too — because the band outsold The Beatles in 1968.

“What can I say a couple of man whose imaginative and prescient outlined my musical identification and future,” Puckett wrote in a press release. “What can ANYONE say a couple of man who gave SO a lot to SO many via his abilities and efforts on this planet of music. Thanks, Jerry! The world was a greater place with you in it.”

Earlier, whereas touring with The Champs — finest identified for the celebration music “Tequila” — Fuller found Glen Campbell in 1960 and satisfied the singer-guitarist to maneuver to Los Angeles.

Campbell helped Fuller demo “Travelin’ Man,” which he had written for Sam Cooke. Nelson, nevertheless, wound up with it, and the music reached No. 1 on the Sizzling 100 in 1961.

Nelson would report 19 Fuller songs, together with “Younger World,” “It’s As much as You,” “A Surprise Like You” and “Congratulations,” in all.

Fuller additionally produced O.C. Smith’s rendition of “Little Inexperienced Apples,” which made it to No. 2 in 1968, and wrote and produced Wilson’s model of “Present and Inform,” which hit the highest spot in 1974.

One among 4 children, Fuller was born in Fort Value, Texas, on Nov. 19, 1938. When he was 11, he and his brother Invoice turned The Fuller Bros., and their mother, Lola, had them singing a cappella at minstrel exhibits and jamborees.

After highschool in 1957, Fuller recorded “I Discovered a New Love” for Lin Information and by 1958 completed his first album, Teenage Love.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1959 and labored as a demo singer, which led to a recording-songwriting contract with Gene Autry’s 4 Star Music and Problem Information. His first launch for the label was “Betty My Angel,” adopted by “Tennessee Waltz,” “The Place The place I Cry,” “Responsible of Loving You,” “I Get Carried Away” and “Shy Away.”

Simply as his profession was taking off with “Travelin’ Man,” Fuller was drafted into the U.S. Military. He spent two years stationed in upstate New York, writing songs and entertaining the troops, then joined 4 Star after the service to go its Manhattan workplace.

Whereas at a nightclub in Albany, New York, Fuller was impressed with the home band, The Knickerbockers. He obtained them signed to a contract at Problem, and his first report manufacturing can be their top-20 hit “Lies.”

After frontman Mark Lindsay left Paul Revere and the Raiders to go solo, Fuller produced his million-selling music “Arizona” in 1969 in addition to his follow-ups “Miss America” and “Silver Chook.”

Within the ‘70s, he fashioned firms with Moonchild Productions and the Fullness Music Co., working with such artists as Johnny Mathis and Mac Davis. He additionally embraced his Texas roots and started writing nation songs with Ray Worth, Reba McEntire and others.

Worth recorded a lot of Fuller’s tunes, together with “That’s All She Wrote,” “To Make a Lengthy Story Quick” and “Ft.” The songwriter’s different nation hits embrace McEntire’s “I Nonetheless Lengthy to Maintain You Now and Then” and “That Makes Two of Us,” one among her duets with Jacky Ward.

Wilson’s “Present and Inform” made it to No. 1 on three style lists and bought 3 million copies.

In 1982, Fuller produced Campbell’s Previous Residence City album, which featured “I Love How You Love Me” and the Fuller-penned “A Lady’s Contact,” additionally a success for Tom Jones that yr.

Fuller wrote greater than 1,100 songs, and artists who recorded his work included Gene Vincent, Bobby Vee, James Darren, Lawrence Welk, Lou Rawls, The Ventures, The Kingston Trio, Roy Clark, Cher, Ray Charles, Don McLean, Frankie Laine, Lynn Anderson, Barbara Mandrell, Vanessa Williams, Pat Boone, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Lettermen, Al Hirt, Percy Sledge and lots of extra.

Along with his spouse, Annette — Campbell launched them and was the perfect man at their 1965 marriage ceremony — survivors embrace their kids, Adam and Anna.

Esta TerBlanche, the cleaning soap opera star finest identified for taking part in Gillian Andrassy on All My Youngsters, has died. She was 51.

TerBlanche died Thursday of pure causes, her good friend and agent Lisa Rodrigo wrote on Fb. An post-mortem report is pending. “I’m nonetheless processing and in shock,” Rodrigo wrote. “Esta was a wonderful soul out and in. I used to be proud to know her and work along with her.”

Born in Rustenberg, South Africa in 1973, TerBlanche got here to prominence in her residence nation when she received Miss Teen South Africa in 1991. She segued into tv work and made her small display debut on the South African cleaning soap Egoli: Place of Gold, starring within the M-Web present from 1992 to 1995.

Within the late Nineties, she left for the U.S. and scored her largest position when she was solid as Gillian on ABC’s daytime drama All My Youngsters in 1997. The character of Gillian noticed TerBlanche play a Hungarian princess who was despatched to reside along with her cousin Dimitri (performed by Michael Nader). On All My Youngsters, TerBlanche had a preferred storyline with actor Cameron Mathison, together with his character Ryan Lavery having an enemies to lovers story arc with Gillian.

Regardless of her recognition on All My Youngsters, TerBlanche left the present in 2001 after her character was killed off, although Gillian made sporadic appearances in later years, as soon as notably as a ghost and likewise made appearances within the present’s closing weeks on ABC. She revealed to Cleaning soap Opera Digest earlier this month that she exited the present at her personal request, as she wished to return to South Africa.

Again residence, she opened a spa and likewise appeared in South African documentaries and tv. Lately she was spending extra time within the U.S. and when requested if she was eager to get again into soaps, she advised Cleaning soap Opera Digest, “it’s positively one thing I wish to get again into.”

She is survived by her father and her sister.

Donna Berwick, who labored as a dressing up designer on Da 5 Bloods, Hemlock Grove and Recreation of Thrones, has died. She was 66.

Her brother, Stephan Berwick, introduced on Fb that she died Wednesday following a battle with breast most cancers.

“At the moment we misplaced the best, most magnetic, pleasure of life lady I’ve recognized, my incomparable older sister, Donna Berwick, to a return of breast most cancers. She met the battle with an unequalled powerful cheer that was so ‘Donna’, those that knew her will know what I imply,” he wrote. “Being round her was a lesson in pleasure. Being near her was a sense of acceptance and embrace with out judgment. She lived with a fearless celebration of life with out boundaries.”

Earlier than beginning her profession in costuming, Donna earned a BFA from the Faculty of Visible Arts in New York Metropolis in addition to an affiliate’s diploma in style design from the Style Institute of Expertise. She additionally labored in NYC’s garment district for greater than a decade, designing for singer-songwriter Grace Jones.

Donna was additionally a member of the Rodeo Caldonia inventive collective of feminine creatives, which produced seminal artwork throughout a variety of media. After, she started working as a movie costume designer on initiatives together with Malcolm X, Mo’ Higher Blues, U-571, Frailty, The Field, Peeples, If Beale Avenue May Discuss, Da 5 Bloods and, most not too long ago, Ezra. Donna additionally labored on TV exhibits comparable to Hemlock Grove seasons two and three and Recreation of Thrones season six.

Stephan concluded his tribute, “Donna embodied the beliefs of the artist she was since highschool, by way of her profession as a movie costume designer. Because the eldest baby of our equally wonderful mother and father, Hermine and Norman Berwick, she embodied all that was nice about them and our household. My brother, Jeffrey, and I, and our first siblings from our mom, Beverly and Jimmy, can solely dream to uphold the place we come from and who’re, as Donna did with ease.”

J. Michael Cline, a finance govt who based the ticketing firm Fandango, died Tuesday after falling from a high-rise lodge in New York Metropolis. He was 64.

The New York Police Division informed The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that officers responded to The Kimberly Resort on East fiftieth Avenue at 10:19 a.m. Tuesday following 911 calls. “Upon arrival, officers discovered an unconscious and unresponsive male with accidents indicative of a fall from an elevated place,” the NYPD assertion continued. “The investigation stays ongoing.”

EMS pronounced the person, later recognized as Cline, useless. His reason behind dying wasn’t instantly out there, although there are a number of studies that he died by suicide.

Cline, who accomplished his undergraduate at Cornell College and acquired an MBA from Harvard Enterprise College, based Fandango, a film ticketing service, in 2000. He stayed with the corporate, which was acquired by Comcast in 2007, for greater than a decade earlier than leaving in 2011. Fandango is now owned by NBCUniversal and Warner Bros.

He additionally based a number of different firms together with R1 RCM, Accolade, Insureon, Everspring and Accumen, amongst others, and was a founding managing associate of Accretive, LLC. Earlier than Accretive, Cline was a common associate at Basic Atlantic, and previous to that, an affiliate at McKinsey & Firm.

Cline was presently serving as govt chairman of funding agency Juxtapose, in response to this
LinkedIn, in addition to chairman of the Nationwide Fish and Wildlife Basis.

He’s survived by his spouse Pamela B. Cline and their six youngsters.

THR has reached out to Fandango for remark.