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                                                      Vincent  Price was  considered  the  master of horror
                                                       ftlms,  making  movies  that  were  terrifying  without
                                                      being tasteless. Price died in October at the age of 82.

                                                       Television's  top  lawyer,
                                                       Perry Mason, never lost a
                                                       case, but Raymond Burr,
                                                       the actor who portrayed
                                                       him, lost his battle with
                                                       kidney cancer this year.

                                      River  Phoenix died on  Halloween  night  after col·
                                      lapsing outside the L.A. nightclub, The Viper Room.
                                      The actor, who was  23,  overdosed on cocaine and
                                      morphine.  Phoenix was  a promising young  actor
                                      who first won acclaim when he was 15 for the movie,
                                      Stand By Me.  He later received an Oscar nomination
                                      for his performance in Running on Empty.

                                      Musician Frank Zappa,
                                      who  was  known  for
                                      blending  rock,  jazz,
                                      blues  and  classical
                                      music  died  Dec.  4 of
                                      prostate cancer. Zappa,
                                      who  was  52,  released
                                      over  60  albums  in  a
                                      career  that  spanned
                                      three decades.





                                                                                                        J. Huba/SYGMA
                                     "X-rated" is how some   :  Year-end college football polls  :  Zealot Baruch Goldstein
                                     describe his radio talk show,  :  put Florida State at No. 1,   opened fire inside a Muslim
                                     but shock jock Howard Stem  :  but the quirky season had   mosque in Hebron, in the
                                     made it onto the best ·seller   :  some calling for a playoff sys-  occupied West Bank of Israel.  :
                                     list with his tell-all book,   ~  tern to decide the champion   Dozens of people were killed,
                                     Private Parts. The autobiogra- :  rather than traditional bowl   and Goldstein himself was
                                     phy sold over a million co pie .  :  games.   beaten to death.






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