Deaths elsewhere

  • Updated: May 7, 2009 - 8:30 PM
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Sam Cohn, 79, a powerful talent agent for some of Hollywood's and Broadway's biggest stars as well as a pantheon of directors, writers and playwrights, died Wednesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital after a brief illness. Cohn's clients at International Creative Management were a who's who of show business, most prominently in the 1970s and '80s. They included Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Woody Allen, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Turner, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Miller, Mike Nichols, Nora Ephron, Robert Altman, Bob Fosse, Sigourney Weaver, E.L. Doctorow and Jackie Gleason. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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