Most were. However, there are a couple of them worthy of note:
Actor David Groh, 68, died of kidney cancer.
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Dorothy Podber, assassin of the Marilyn Monroe silk-screen paintings by Andy Warhol, and who bragged about playing dirty tricks on people, died at the age of 75.
I have to include this:
Certainly the most outrageous was her unsolicited contribution to a few of Warhol’s “Marilyn” silk-screen paintings. In the fall of 1964 Ms. Podber, a friend of the photographer and Warhol regular Billy Name, visited Warhol’s Factory on East 47th Street in Manhattan with her Great Dane (named Carmen Miranda or Yvonne De Carlo, depending on the account). Ms. Podber asked Warhol if she could shoot a stack of the “Marilyn” paintings; he apparently thought that she wanted to take pictures of them and consented.
But she produced a pistol and fired at them, penetrating three or four. One of them, “Shot Red Marilyn,” with a repaired bullet hole over the left eyebrow, sold for $4 million in 1989, at the time setting a record at auction for a Warhol work.
Valerie Solanas she wasn't.
