obituary Writer aided spread of reggae, culture 09/20/2009 Trevor Rhone, a leading Caribbean playwright and screenwriter who co-wrote the 1972 film "The Harder They Come," which helped introduce reggae music and urban Jamaican culture to international audiences, died Tuesday in a hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. Rhone, 69, had a heart attack.
Other Deaths 9/21/09 09/20/2009 - Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, founder of Sazon Goya Food Co., a major Latino food company, died Saturday at his South Florida home of lung cancer, said his wife of 55 years, Lucila.
Editor, author came to reject communism 09/18/2009 - Irving Kristol, the political writer and publisher known as the godfather of neo-conservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a rejection of communism and the counterculture, died Friday. He was 89.
Political writer Irving Kristol dead at 89 09/18/2009 - WASHINGTON—Irving Kristol, the writer, editor and publisher known as the godfather of neoconservatism whose youthful radicalism evolved into a historic rejection of communism, liberalism and the counterculture, died Friday.
Comic actor Gibson, 73, "Laugh-In's" offbeat poet 09/16/2009 - Henry Gibson, the veteran comic character actor best known for his role reciting offbeat poetry while holding a flower on "Row an & Martin's Laugh- In," has died. He was 73.
Swayze danced into fans hearts 09/15/2009 - Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers' hearts with "Dirty Dancing" and then broke them with "Ghost," died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
Poet Carroll wrote "Basketball Diaries" 09/13/2009 - Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker in the outlaw tradition of Rimbaud and Burroughs who chronicled his wild youth in "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 60.
Wolman, 90, publisher of Wis. paper 09/14/2009 - Martin Wolman, who worked his way up from copy boy to publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, died Saturday in a Boulder nursing home. He was 90.
Newspaper veteran dies in Boulder 09/14/2009 - Martin Wolman, who worked his way from copy boy to publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, died Saturday in a Boulder nursing home.
