http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/03/07/parks.obit.ap/index.html wrote:
NEW YORK (AP) -- Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93.
Parks, who also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer, died in New York, his nephew, Charles Parks, said in a telephone interview from Lawrence, Kansas.
Parks, who also wrote fiction and was an accomplished composer, died in New York, his nephew, Charles Parks, said in a telephone interview from Lawrence, Kansas.
People just seem to be dropping like flies all of a sudden. 2 other famous people deaths in the past couple of days [:sad:] doesn't it seem like they keep dying in trios?