By Meredith Blake | Los Angeles Times
| 3:16PM
When the news broke in 1987 that Liberace, the famously flamboyant pianist, was dead at age 67 with what his manager had claimed was anemia brought on by a watermelon diet but was, in fact, AIDS, it made front-page headlines around the country.
By Mark Washburn
| May 23, 2013
He’s been described by The Wall Street Journal as the “Oprah Winfrey of college football” and by the Huntsville (Ala.) Times as “the most influential sports-talk personality in the Southeast.”
By Sagit Maier-Schwartz | Slate
| May 17, 2013
Another example of Hollywood’s insane ageism, particularly directed toward women.
